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How can the UK be a liberal ‘democracy’, when the govt seeks to remove people’s rights and is mostly unaccountable? When it represents the few, over the needs and interests of the many.

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It would be an outrage if Israel’s “assurances” are treated as credible, and their obstruction of supplies and various glaring atrocities are ignored.

But if they are “cleared”, and only then attack Rafah, Biden will be humiliated.

— ‘the state department is also due Wednesday to deliver a formal assessment to Congress … assessing whether the IDF are conducting its campaign in accordance with humanitarian law – in other words, whether the IDF is committing war crimes.’

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/07/biden-israel-palestine-policy

jmeosbn,
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Finally. Biden has done the very least he could have done, at the very latest.

A “pause” that is a “policy decision” and (ostensibly) isn’t due to any legal determination.

— ‘There is nervousness in the administration about making legal judgments in case they are used against Israel in legal disputes before the international [courts].

… conversations in recent months have focused on how the Israeli military’s use of certain munitions diverges from the Pentagon’s …’

https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/08/us-signals-to-israel-more-arms-shipments-could-be-paused-rafah-offensive-gaza

jmeosbn,
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They already have supplied the weapons – Israel hasn’t run out of US bombs – they already have triggered a humanitarian disaster – is he not watching the fucking news?! – and they already have “gone into Rafah”, closing the border and purposefully making that situation worse.

— ‘The US president … made clear his administration would not provide the weapons for an offensive on Rafah, which the US, the UN and other aid agencies warn would trigger a humanitarian disaster.’

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/08/biden-israel-weapons-shipment-rafah-invasion

jmeosbn,
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The UK and allies need to show more courage – and less craven hypocrisy – by holding allies to the same standards as adversaries.

What has the UK done to fulfil its obligations to the ICJ regarding Israel’s noncompliance?

This could be one small point of leverage.

— ‘Cameron’s claim … could be challenged on the basis that the scale or supplier of the arms is immaterial …

Cameron [also] argued the UK and its allies had to show more courage in facing down adversaries.’

https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/09/david-cameron-says-uk-will-not-follow-us-in-withholding-arms-sales-to-israel

jmeosbn,
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Cruder than these weapons is Israel’s warfare – it says it needs them to eliminate Hamas; by flattening every block in Gaza?

— ‘A surprise was that the US was even considering supplying the 1,700 500lb bombs and in particular the 1,800 2,000lb bombs … powerful enough to blow up a small apartment block and leave behind a crater 12 metres wide.
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CNN, using satellite imagery, concluded that 500 large impact craters had appeared in Gaza during the first month of the war …’

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/09/does-israel-need-more-us-arms-for-a-rafah-offensive

jmeosbn,
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The US confirms its complicity in Israeli war crimes.

— ‘Van Hollen … called it “contradictory”, pointing out that it found evidence of violations while it accepted Israeli assurances of compliance to be “credible and reliable”
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“While the administration reaches this general conclusion, it fails to do the hard work of making an assessment and ducks the ultimate questions that the report was designed to determine with respect to compliance with international law.”’

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/10/us-weapons-israel-human-rights-law

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Governments and businesses suspend democracy when their own private interests differ.

— ‘“It didn’t seem like any kind of measures were taken to de-escalate,” Khawaja said. “It also just seems completely unnecessary. This was by all accounts, a non-violent protest … camping out on the lawn … It’s not any different from everyday life on campus.”

As Columbia announced it would be holding classes remotely, students on campuses across the US launched their own protests.’

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/apr/22/columbia-university-protests-shutdown

jmeosbn,
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— ‘… he has watched with amazement as the media and political figures have attempted to characterise the protests as antisemitic and dangerous, despite Jewish student organisations playing a central role in them.

“… this discourse that Columbia is this hotbed of antisemitism, but it’s just a bunch of nerds sitting on the ground playing games, chanting and doing homework. There was a Passover Seder held on Monday … It’s crazy how bad faith that discourse has become.”’

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/columbia-protests-jewish-students-antisemitism-b2534307.html

jmeosbn,
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It’s certainly unhelpful. It’s as naive as it is abhorrent – Israel is going nowhere.

A few dozen fools being used to justify police violence though, when Israel is actually implementing the “we want all of it” ideology – not with chants, but with military and settler aggression – seems… disproportionate.

— ‘demonstrators were filmed chanting … “Ya Hamas, we love you / We support your rockets too”. Another one runs: “We don’t want no two states, we want all of it.”’

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/apr/26/jews-palestinians-peace-gaza-narcissist-allies

jmeosbn,
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This law (that many states have enacted versions of) was presumably intended so hateful white supremacist types can’t be “cancelled” by other students or the university.

But protest against Israel’s actions: send in the troopers.

— ‘a policy at the school that builds off of a Texas law that Abbott signed … in 2019 that designates outdoor spaces at all Texas public universities as traditional public forums, … public spaces with the highest level of speech protections.’

https://eu.statesman.com/story/news/politics/state/2024/04/25/austin-protest-texts-reveal-why-ut-president-called-in-for-dps-help/73454193007/

jmeosbn,
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American police are world famous for shooting and choking people to death without any need for them to commit a crime.

Here’s a state representative crowing over a video that starts with a black man held on the ground while being repeatedly tasered.

Y’all down south must be wanting to start another movement against police violence. 🤷🏻‍♂️

— “Not sure what y’all are doing up north, but we don’t give them the time to encamp. Tazers set to stun!”

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/apr/27/emory-university-georgia-police-campus-protests

https://x.com/RepMikeCollins/status/1783580352331608540

jmeosbn,
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Students falsely smeared as antisemitic, terrorist supporters, should sue the people and orgs identifying them as such.

I’m surprised this story didn’t use the Reuters image attached (from yesterday’s “Clash at UCLA”, in alt text).

— ‘Several other pro-Israel organizations, such as StopAntisemitism, have similarly dedicated websites and social media accounts posting the personal information of protesters. People have described receiving death threats, harassment …’

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/apr/30/why-are-pro-palestinian-students-wearing-masks-campus

jmeosbn,
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Alt headline: First credible reports of (Jewish) students being attacked on campus.

That is, excluding state and university sponsored violence – no arrests attempted as yet of those attacking anti-genocide protesters. 🙄

— ‘Aerial footage showed people wielding sticks or poles to attack wooden boards being held up as a makeshift barricade to protect pro-Palestinian protesters at UCLA, some holding placards or umbrellas. At least one firework was thrown into the camp.’

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/may/01/violence-erupts-ucla-university-campus-clashes-rival-gaza-protest-groups

jmeosbn,
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Students have, for months, worked successfully to use their democratic processes to secure acknowledgment of, and divestment from, Israel and its atrocities.

After that was ignored by administrators, after escalations inc police violence, after a large political operation intended to smear and discredit them and ruin their careers, students from Israel’s allies are calling bullshit on this gaslighting, outraged at the hypocrisy of their own governments and universities.

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2024/may/01/uk-students-begin-new-wave-of-protests-against-gaza-war-after-us-arrests

jmeosbn,
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UCLA Palestine Solidarity Encampment:

— ‘For all the school's pretense of student safety, we have experienced an unprecedented amount of violence and hatred while they stood by. The university's hypocrisy all too apparent, …

The zionist attacks, their use of chemical weaponry, their hatred, their destruction, are but a microcosm of the genocide in Gaza. The university would rather see us dead than divest.

Media portrayal of neutrality … only obfuscates the truth …’

https://www.instagram.com/p/C6bDyoiL_AA/

jmeosbn,
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While I’d agree, the only reports of violence I’ve seen are when the protesters have been attacked – first by police forces across the country, then by pro-Israel thugs.

The President, who’s been quick to condemn vague accusations of antisemitism, remains quiet about the cause of the violence and why students have escalated to occupying buildings etc.

— ‘Biden admonished protests on campuses that use “violent” methods, including vandalism, trespassing, …’

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/02/joe-biden-protests-speech

jmeosbn,
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— ‘While some notable violent clashes have recently taken place, such as on the University of California (UCLA) campus, where demonstrators and counter-demonstrators fought at a student encampment overnight on 30 April, the overwhelming majority — 99% — have remained peaceful …

… in cases where student demonstrators have gathered unopposed, police have intervened against pro-Palestine demonstrations more than four times as often as pro-Israel demonstrations.’

https://acleddata.com/2024/05/02/pro-palestine-us-student-protests-nearly-triple-in-april-acled-brief/

jmeosbn,
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Except that, as the person that first called in police to violently break up a protest, she not only sparked off many more protests but set the trend for riot police being called on to campuses across the US.

— ‘This week’s eviction of students resulted in more than 200 students being arrested. It will be difficult to build bridges after such a rupture.

Maybe the troubles now erupting at the UCLA will distract from Columbia’s travails. Shafik must be praying they do.’

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/03/minouche-shafik-uk-peer-columbia-university-president-gaza-protests

jmeosbn,
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When individuals use speech interpreted as antisemitic (both real or perceived), it’s used by politicians to call out the whole “pro-Palestine” protest movement, nationwide, as “hateful, antisemitic, terrorist supporting”.

When an entire group is blatantly hateful, racist, and/or violent, towards those protesters, it’s “protests must be lawful” – if mentioned at all.

Then there’s the violence dished out by police for the former, and the lack of arrests for the latter.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/04/university-of-mississippi-counter-protesters

jmeosbn,
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It’s Israel that’s being protected.

— “There were many Jews involved in this protest, and none of us saw any signs of antisemitism.”

… she wanted to push back on political claims that the campus crackdowns were related to making sure that students and faculty are safe, or effective in protecting them from antisemitism. Her son showed her a tweet … that noted the irony: “A great way to fight antisemitism is by beating up the former head of Jewish studies on campus.”

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/04/police-tactics-us-campus-protest-crackdowns

jmeosbn,
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— this protest ‘is centered on one thing: moral outrage at the slaughter of tens of thousands of innocent people – most of them women and children.

To interpret these protests as anything else – as antisemitic or anti-Zionist or anti-American or pro-Palestinian – is to miss the essence of what’s going on and why.

Most of the students and faculty I’ve spoken with found Hamas’s attack on October 7 odious. They also find Israel’s current government morally bankrupt …’

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/may/05/police-crackdowns-war-protesters

jmeosbn,
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— ‘Like the press and the police, the president performed several sleights of rhetoric. He mixed violent acts with non-violent acts. He conflated school policy with law and illegality with lawlessness, a word connoting anarchy …

Biden also declined to specify who committed any of the acts he condemned, letting the impression float that the culprits are the anti-war protesters.
…
Vigilantes staged an assault on unarmed civilians and the state let it happen.’

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/commentisfree/article/2024/may/06/ucla-protester-mob-attack

jmeosbn,
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Ignoring the support of Jewish students for Palestinians and the harassment they’ve received for not being unconditionally supportive of Israel – implying obligatory allegiance – is in itself antisemitic.

These students haven’t forgotten anything – they are the ones protesting a genocide today.

— ‘The narrative that the Gaza solidarity encampments are inherently antisemitic is part of a decades-long effort to blur the lines between criticism of Israel and antisemitism’

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/07/biden-israel-commitment-pro-palestine-protests

jmeosbn,
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They’re not “counter-protesters”, they’re bigoted thugs.

— ‘about a dozen men carrying Israeli and Australian flags entered the campsite, smashing a marquee, …

Four days later, they claim, many of the same people – reportedly, mostly, allegedly middle-aged men from outside the university – again attended the camp, leading Monash to call the police.
…
Downey claimed that the same man entered the camp on Tuesday with the support of a few dozen counter-protesters …’

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/article/2024/may/08/monash-university-pro-palestine-camp-police-investigation-gaza-solidarity-ntwnfb

jmeosbn,
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Clearly the admin care only about the business and the faculty and staff actually care about the students.

— ‘“We are outraged at the university’s failure to protect its students from vigilante and police violence and its refusal to uphold its stated values” …

Susan Slyomovics, an anthropology professor, read a statement on behalf of 75 Jewish faculty and staff, saying Block had “misused Jews” by suggesting the encampment had to be dismantled to prevent antisemitism …’

https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/09/ucla-faculty-chancellors-resignation-campus-protests

jmeosbn,
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— ‘An analysis [found] fewer than 20 demonstrations with any serious interpersonal violence or property damage [and] at least 70 instances of forceful police intervention …

Nearly half … categorized as violent involved protesters fighting with law enforcement during a police intervention, …

Acled … found two instances of property damage serious enough [such as broken windows and furniture] to disqualify the demonstration as peaceful [at Portland State and Columbia] …’

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/10/peaceful-pro-palestinian-campus-protests

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