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chargrille

@chargrille@progressives.social

M.A. Intellectual History, Duke U.
B.A. History, Reed College
Yale Law School '04

History: interwar fascism & political anti-semitism; French colonization of North Africa; legal history

Litigation: appellate, environmental justice, civil rights

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Among Kahane’s other visions were an ethnically-segregated education system [&] dismantling…democracy, calling for a state based on Jewish religious law…Israel outlawed Kach as a terror organization in 1994 (the U.S. followed a year later) [but] the core members of Jewish Power—Baruch Marzel, Itamar Ben-Gvir, Michael Ben-Ari, & Benzi Gopstein—are all disciples of Kahane…they have variously persecuted Palestinians, leftists, African asylum seekers, & the LGBTQ community"
https://www.972mag.com/as-kahanists-return-israels-fascist-sideshow-takes-center-stage/

Rabbi Meir Kahane, who founded the Jewish Defense League and for whom the Kahanists are named, was a fascist. He wanted to remake Israeli society by expelling Palestinians and making Jewish law the law of the land. He believed in Jewish supremacy, was fixated on ethnic purity, and declared antisemitism in the diaspora necessary in order to prevent assimilation. Violence and militarism were, for Kahane, instruments through which to ensure national rebirth. The JDL manifestos Kahane wrote in the 1960s and '70s in New York contained seeds of this fascist ideology. The policy platform his party, Kach, ran on in the 1984 Israeli elections, and which got him elected, was explicitly fascist. It's important to state this unequivocally. Referring to 'Kahanism’ without naming its ideological pedigree makes it impossible to have an honest discussion about this latest evolution in Israeli politics. From fringe to mainstream Kahane undoubtedly shifted the parameters of Israeli discourse during his turbulent parliamentary career. Among Kach'’s principles and policies were those calling for mass expulsions of Palestinians; the annexation of the West Bank, Gaza, the Golan Heights, and the Sinai; and a ban on marriage, and all sexual contact, between Jews and non-Jews — punishable by prison sentences ranging from five to 50 years. This last
Kahane undoubtedly shifted the parameters of Israeli discourse during his turbulent parliamentary career. Among Kach'’s principles and policies were those calling for mass expulsions of Palestinians; the annexation of the West Bank, Gaza, the Golan Heights, and the Sinai; and a ban on marriage, and all sexual contact, between Jews and non-Jews — punishable by prison sentences ranging from five to 50 years. This last point was a particular obsession for Kahane: his political rallies in Israel regularly featured histrionic, concocted tales of scores of Jewish girls kidnapped and taken to Palestinian villages; and during a Kach election broadcast in the 1980s (delivered, curiously enough, in English), he warned of “the destruction of Israel not through bullets but through Arab babies.” His party’s security principles, meanwhile, continued the theme of righteous Jewish violence that informed his writings for the JDL — violence that he invested with both a biblical lineage (Bar Kokhba, Judah Maccabee) and a redemptive potential (an end to Jewish oppression). His Second Amendment-style JDL slogan, “Every Jew a .22," made aliyah in the form of a call to give the Israel Defense Forces a “free hand” when dealing with Arabs — in other words, a shoot-to-kill policy with no questions asked.

chargrille, to Palestine
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Immediately in the wake of Biden's call to , raising the scary specter of the US actually complying with its own aid conditions meant to avoid arming war criminals, as many have begged for months, Israel announces it will open the Erez crossing for 1st time in 6 mos.

I predict it'll help some, but won't shift in Netanyahu's genocidal aims or plans to starve . His govt will still do everything it's doing at other points, to thwart entry of food, water, & medicine to .

chargrille,
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I hope I'm wrong and it helps a lot.

I hope it averts starvation for every man, woman & child in .

I hope it averts the deaths of the dozens of children under 5 who are presently dying every week in Gaza.

And I hope everyone who celebrates this step, thinks about the reasons it wasn't taken earlier, even though it could have easily been done by picking up the phone.

chargrille,
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So the question is, what will it take to rein in Netanyahu's that is being carried out by the IDF?

Because this phone call isn't going to be enough. The genocide has been underway for months. Genocide's soldiers, primed with Bibi's speech & sent into the ground invasion, will not turn on a dime.

US citizens still want a , an end to war crimes, an end to starvation. The US will need to stop sending them weapons. So call your reps & tell them that.

chargrille, to random
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"israel has killed more aid workers in the tiny strip than have died in all of the countries in the rest of the world combined in any of the last 30 years"

Graph of Aid worker deaths showing more than 70% of all the aid worker deaths in 2023 were in . Even more in 2024 - roughly 75-80%

All 161 deaths of Palestinian aid workers in 2023 were after Oct. 7

Data is as of April 1, 2024. The data from 2024 & some incidents from 2023 are provisional

Source: Aid Worker Security Database

chargrille, to Israel
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Since POTUS loves tailoring policy & elections to listening to Republicans and MORNING JOE:

"Former Condoleezza Rice advisor & NSC spokesperson Elise Jordan erupts at President Biden’s unwillingness to condition weapons aid to #israel"

"Morning Joe guest Richard Haass calls for sanctions on Israel, criticizes Biden: "At some point, the words become empty...there has to be trade sanctions.”

"[Biden] looks weak and impotent."

#Gaza #IsraelPalestine #CWK #Genocide

chargrille, to random
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the Palestinian American doctor who walked out of the WH meeting last night:

  1. He understood "it would be the first time that the President would hear from people who were actually on the ground in Gaza, since Oct 7. [WOW].

  2. "It was a few members from the Muslim American community, people who had also been on the ground in Gaza, ready to give their firsthand, eyewitness testimony. [I was] the only Palestinian-American." [DOUBLE F*CKING WOW]

https://twitter.com/brikeilarcnn/status/1775608996759580815

chargrille,
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"[I understood] that it was going to be some sort of working dinner" re "the humanitarian catastrophe in "

"The President walks in…he just says: 'This is a listening session, we're here to hear you guys out…we're working very hard on it.' There's no mention of Gaza, or Palestine, or , people who have been killed, the starvation or the famine in the north, or the looming invasion in Rafah, which we're all very concerned about & trying to communicate a sense of urgency"

chargrille,
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[Contrast this to Biden's famous empathy for & personalized outreach to grieving people.

There is none of that here. None of it.

He knew the ER doctor was Palestinian American and had just been serving in a hospital in Khan Yunis & must have seen absolute horrors. He didn't ask if he'd lost anyone.

The reception sounds cold AF.

I think you can compare it yourself to other receptions Biden has given to other Americans - or even his embrace in the Oval Office of an Italian fascist.]

chargrille,
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Back to the start, however.

How can you possibly take seriously or sincerely an Administration that has so visibly given the cold shoulder to Palestinian Americans.

How is it possible they found it wise to only find one Palestinian American to hear from at this meeting.

chargrille, to random
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Center for International Policy NEW MEMO on

5 recommended steps for Admin

  1. Use U.S. leverage to press for a full

  2. Fully enforce U.S. law & arms policy to ensure accountability & adequate humanitarian aid delivery

  3. Focus diplomacy toward a multilateral, just resolution

  4. Take meaningful anti-occupation, anti-annexation steps

  5. Substantially expand support for the Palestinian people & Palestinian leaders who seek peace with Israel

https://t.co/q1eeJWs4bH

chargrille,
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The only thing missing is

  1. Substantially expand support for leaders who seek peace with
chargrille, to random
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Heartbreaking post from Chef Andrès this morning addressed to his friend Zomi, a aid worker assassinated by the Israeli government while in to feed starving .

"I’m sorry my friend…I wish I never founded @WCKitchen
..you would be alive somewhere today, smiling & making somebody somewhere feel like they were the most beloved person in the world…That how I always felt with you…"

chargrille,
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How heartbroken & guilt-ridden do you think this man has to be to feel such regret, when he and the vast team that has built have fed billions of meals all across the globe to people in need?

How much good are you willing to destroy, to satisfy the Amalek genocide revenge fantasies of the Israeli right-wing @potus?

You are treating these aid workers like their lives mean nothing. After you've spent 6 months treating Palestinians like their suffering & deaths mean nothing.

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so this Guardian article:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/03/israel-gaza-ai-database-hamas-airstrikes

is based on a +972Mag report:
https://www.972mag.com/lavender-ai-israeli-army-gaza/

WHICH EXPLAINS THE HYPE OF THE PAST 7 MONTHS

are not only hyping AI in their war against & USA's working classes; they do so while profiting from

BTW:
how can AI identify 37,000 HAMAS combatants if they supposedly only had 30-40,0000 by Oct 7?
https://www.axios.com/2023/10/21/palestine-hamas-military-power

and as the CIA has always low-balled them at 20-25,000?
https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/countries/gaza-strip/#military-and-security

chargrille,
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@blogdiva

"Lavender" - that is so fucking creepy. The Masters of War do this shit on purpose.

inquiline, (edited ) to random
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USians who might need some masks 😷

MASKC is apparently shuttering for good (again) and doing a final closeout, 80% off all remaining inventory with code FAREWELL

https://www.shopmaskc.com

ETA: Yes, this company is chaotic; yes, I've ordered from them fine in the past; yes, caveat emptor

chargrille,
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@inquiline

Thank you so much! Just ordered a bunch. Less than $1 per mask; amazing. I hate when mask sellers go out of business, though; makes me anxious. We're going to need these for a long time. I hope not for avian flu.

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chargrille,
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Again, we owe it to these 7 volunteers to watch The , a documentary by an Israeli filmmaker who managed to interview 6 former directors of .

It opens with a frank discussion about the type of drone strike that used yesterday to assassinate 7 volunteers who were in to provide food to whom has been starving for 6 months under its official policy of a , imposed as for ' actions.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLYAjLgpKMQ

chargrille,
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@vinomadic

It is overwhelming. Everyone has to take care of themselves & calibrate how much is safe to do.

I do feel incredibly burnt out. It's hard to dredge up enough energy. I think of what the children, moms, dads, sisters & brothers of Palestine are being put through right now & let that move me.

The inhumanity sometimes knocks me flat. I try to keep coming back. If we don't protect them, it's our own backs we're stabbing. The more we allow this inhumanity, the more it will be inflicted

chargrille,
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@vinomadic abrazos & take care of yourself: eres preciosa/o

potus, to random

I am outraged and heartbroken by the deaths of seven humanitarian workers from World Central Kitchen, including one American, in Gaza yesterday.

Incidents like yesterday’s simply should not happen.

Here is my full statement.

chargrille,
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@potus

This was retribution by Israel against for daring to file a complaint with the IDF over one of their snipers targeting their aid workers SATURDAY when they were going to a food warehouse in area:

"The immediately filed a complaint with the IDF after the incident, & demanded the army stop the fire toward its staff, & guarantee their safety when distributing food in the Gaza Strip, which is carried out with full coordination"

-Haaretz
https://archive.is/pqWZ8

chargrille,
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@potus

Your statement is a bunch of carefully worded untruths.

This was so obviously a response from to World Central Kitchen humanitarian agency filing a complaint about the IDF shooting at their aid workers on Saturday.

This is the IDF immediately turning around & assassinating 7 of their volunteers - saying "shut up, don't complain, or we'll kill all of you"

Look at their deeds.

As we've seen today from you & Netanyahu & your spokesmen like Kirby & Miller - lies come cheap.

chargrille,
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@potus

Sure you are.

Lies are cheap.

Your deeds, & your use of OUR money, show your sympathies lie with the worst genocidaires in the Israeli government, like Smotrich & Netanyahu & Ben-Gvir - not Palestinians.

Americans oppose this genocide of . Only 34% backed it BEFORE this atrocity. 18% of Dems

Your ego is going to lose us this election & deliver America to the GOP fascists Netanyahu is in bed with, all because you won't listen to Americans. You're wrong & you can't admit it.

And at the end - Aaron David Miller says out loud what countless Muslim and Arab-Americans have told me, including some who’ve met with the President and his senior staff behind closed doors. [Q:] Yes, that’s very moving, but there is another kind of loss going on now which he apparently can’t conflate with his own experience. [A:] Oh, if you're asking me: Do I think that Joe Biden has the same depth of feeling and empathy for the Palestinians of Gaza as he does for the Israelis? No, he doesn't, nor does he convey it. I dont think there’s any doubt about that.
Isaac Chotiner @IChotiner - 11h New Interview: I talked to former Middle East peace negotiator Aaron David Miller about the contradictions of Biden’s Israel policy, and why American leaders are so reluctant to cause conflict with Israel. newyorker.com/news/q- and-a/b... Q.& A BIDEN'S INCREASINGLY CONTRADICTORY ISRAEL POLICY A former State Department official explains the Administration’s sharpening public critique of Israel’s war and simultaneous refusal to “impose a single cost or consequence.” By Isaac Chotiner April 2,2024
New Gallup data released today shows that 55% of Americans disapprove of Israel’s military action in Gaza, while 36% approve. Only 18% of Democrats approve (down from 36% in November) along with 29% of independents (down from 47%) and 64% of Republicans (down from 71%).

chargrille, to Israel
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Report today that 's military () just murdered 5 volunteers who were providing nourishing meals in .

's humanitarian organization feeds starving people in crisis all around the world.

The larger point is critical: What she (@seachanger) said >>>

@ World Central Kitchen @WCKitchen We are aware of reports that members of the World Central Kitchen team have been killed in an IDF attack while working to support our humanitarian food delivery efforts in Gaza. This is a tragedy. Humanitarian aid workers and civilians should NEVER be a target. EVER. 418 PM - Apr 1,2024 - 1.8M Views
reminder that if Netanyahu & the US gets away with this in — targeting journalists, targeting hospitals and schools and refugee camps, starving millions of children, mass murder on the scale of tens of thousands, shutting down press, internet and information, killing humanitarian workers, preventing crucial aid convoy, firing on people receiving aid, and planning resettlement of regions based on ethnic identity — these methods will be normalized & advanced by other western nations & govts

chargrille,
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This was retribution:
"The strike is not the first incident in which staff were wounded in . On Saturday, an IDF sniper fired at a car headed to a food warehouse in the Khan Yunis area…

The immediately filed a complaint with the IDF after the incident, & demanded the army stop the fire toward its staff, & guarantee their safety when distributing food in the Gaza Strip, which is carried out with full coordination"

(From the Haaretz piece I shared before: https://archive.is/pqWZ8)

chargrille,
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This was so obviously a response from to World Central Kitchen humanitarian agency filing a complaint about the IDF shooting at their aid workers on Saturday.

This is the IDF immediately turning around & assassinating 7 of their volunteers - saying "shut up, don't complain, or we'll kill all of you"

Look at their deeds, not words.

As we've seen today from Netanyahu & Biden, & spokesmen like Kirby & Miller - lies come cheap. Deeds, not words.

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