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@raph@social.coop

I post about Palestine-Israel and write about Zionism at https://OneSmallDetail.blog

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thisismissem, to random
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There's so much fear in the fediverse about bad admins/mods, and honestly it's no different to the days where we had forums with bad admins/mods.

The problem is that largely for the past decade people have been in walled gardens either never thinking of moderation, or actively needing to work against moderation to exist.

And you didn't have a choice, because you were locked into that provider & their moderation policies.

raph,
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@thisismissem 100%.

In addition to the fact that we're not used to thinking about moderation, I think a big barrier to entry it usability/accessibility, as currently much of the moderation discussions happen on chat rooms outside of Mastodon.

But hopefully the release of groups in the next few months will help there, so each instance can have a group with only instance members to discuss moderation!

raph,
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@thisismissem there is not ETA but groups have been "in progress" for a while: https://joinmastodon.org/roadmap

raph, to Israel
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I double-checked the subtitles with a native Hebrew speaker. They are accurate.

I'm coming to occupy Gaza
And beat Hezbollah
I stick by one mitzvah [good deed]
To wipe out the seed of Amalek [biblical enemy]
I left home behind me
Won't come back until victory
We know our slogan
There are no uninvolved civilians
There are no uninvolved civilians

Soldiers dancing and chanting in Hebrew. The English subtitles say the text from the post

raph, to Israel
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Good news for American democracy and the fight for Palestinian freedom: 12 democrats have pledged to reject any contributions from AIPAC.

raph, to Jewish
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Is there a Mastodon instance for Jewish folks that isn't pro-Israel (ie. babka.social)?

raph, to random
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Me: I really care about the hostages but the horrors unfolding in Gaza require all our attention

Rando: you're a pick-me Jew pandering to global antisemites and the Arab Islamist Imperial expansionist project of Pan-Arab hegemonic domination

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raph, to Israel
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Huge victory for the solidarity movement: France bans Israeli companies from a defense trade show.

This is very little, very late, but it is still very significant and hopefully the beginning of larger sanctions against Israeli industry.

raph, to Israel
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Aryeh Neier (who escaped Nazi Germany and later cofounding Human Rights Watch) on why he believes Israel is committing a genocide in Gaza.

I personally don't use the word genocide, but I respect those who do and I believe what they are saying is critical. Please watch and share widely.

Interview by CNN's Fareed Zakaria of Aryeh Neier (who escaped Nazi Germany and later cofounding Human Rights Watch) on why he believes Israel is committing genocide in Gaza.

raph, to Israel
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On October 7th, my cousin was camping in the south of Israel, close to areas attacked by Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad. To this day, the thought of her being kidnapped, or worse, haunts me. An acquaintance from my Israeli college days lives in one of the kibbutzim attacked on October 7th and lost family in the attacks.

But despite such close proximity to the victims of Oct 7th, I don’t write much about them.

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raph,
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The full version of this thread is available on my blog for easier reading: https://www.onesmalldetail.blog/why-i-dont-talk-about-the-israeli-hostages/

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raph,
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I do have empathy for both Israelis & Palestinians. My heart breaks when I see videos of Oct 7th, or think about Ariel and Kfir Bibas, the 4 year-old and 1 year-old brothers still held hostage in Gaza. Israel is such a small place, I feel like I know the Israeli victims & hostages personally.

My mother is right that I should be able to call, loud and clear, for the safeguarding of lives on both sides of the war—not just Palestinians. But there is something that prevents me from doing it.

4/12

raph,
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The scale of death and devastation in Gaza makes it hard to talk about anything else. But it goes further than that. It's about history.

This war is not happening in a vacuum. 80% of Palestinians living in Gaza were already, before Oct 7th, refugees expelled during the 1948 Nakba. They have faced never-ending cycles of violence--the current war is the fifteenth war they face since 1948: https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2024/03/18/israel-s-15-wars-on-gaza_6630789_4.html

Israel & Egypt's blockade since 2007 turned Gaza into an open-air prison.

9/12

raph,
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After a century of erasing Palestinian culture and history, insisting on talking about the hostages diverts our eyes and full attention yet again from the suffering of Palestinians at the hands of Israeli militarism. It continues to create a false equivalency between the violence faced by Israelis and Palestinians—the idea that this is a 'conflict' between two equal sides.

11/12

raph,
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My mother often asks me: Why can’t you show empathy to both Palestinian and Israeli victims? Why can’t you call for a ceasefire and a return of the hostages?

And she isn't the only one asking this: critics of the student protests claim that the exclusive focus on Palestinian victims shows that the movement is not interested in human rights or in safety for all; that calling for a ceasefire without calling for a release of the hostages is at best a double standard, at worst antisemitic.

3/12

raph,
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The scale of the destruction of Gaza is horrifying. And for every day that passes, more people die, more children go hungry, more homes get destroyed. The suffering and the devastation is on a scale unseen in a generation.

Whether or not you think Israel is committing a genocide in Gaza, the very fact that this is a subject of debate shows how brutal and relentless Israeli violence has been.

8/12

raph,
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245 Palestinian children have died every week since Oct 7th. As I write these words, Israeli bombs are falling on Rafah, Jabalia, Beit Hanoon, and Gaza city. We do not ignore Israeli hostages because their lives don't matter. They do. We center the call for a ceasefire because Gaza is where the relentless, unbearable violence is happening. This is what the global movement of solidarity for Gaza is screaming about. This is what we all should be screaming about.

12/12

raph,
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On average, 245 Palestinian children have died every week since the beginning of the war. This doesn't even include 1000s who have not been identified & 1000s still under the rubble. 245 dead children every week.

1000s more are dead—elderly, women, and men who don't deserve to live any less than children. 1.7m people have been displaced from their homes and facing desperate living conditions. 1.1m people are on the verge of famine—an Israeli-engineered famine: https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2024/02/israel-defying-icj-ruling-to-prevent-genocide-by-failing-to-allow-adequate-humanitarian-aid-to-reach-gaza/

7/12

raph,
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It turns out, what holds me back from talking about October 7th and Israeli hostages is something that is obvious to the entire world, and that was probably at first hard for me to grasp because of my bond to Israel: what we are seeing in Gaza is not war; it's something far more sinister.

6/12

raph,
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Initially, I thought it might be because Israel has used Oct 7th & the hostages to justify the extreme violence unleashed against Gaza. Perhaps I was afraid to contribute to the narrative that Hamas' war crimes justify Israel's own war crimes? https://jewishcurrents.org/weaponization-and-denial?ref=onesmalldetail.blog

But that wasn't it. My writing condemning Zionism is at times used by some as justification to call for violence against Israelis or Jews. It doesn't prevent me from continuing to write, because that's the right thing to do.

5/12

raph,
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In Gaza, the West Bank, and beyond, Palestinians have faced dispossession, ethnic cleansing, apartheid, brutal restrictions on their movement, blockades, and violence. And not just physical violence: they have faced claims that "there is no such thing as a Palestinian people", seen emblems of Palestinian culture depicted as symbols of hate, calls for Palestinian freedom are painted as genocidal. It's been a century that Palestinians have had to continuously justify their very existence.

10/12

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Palestinian erasure everywhere

inthehands, to random
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The author’s direct observations at USC, backed up by national study: “With few exceptions, the encampments have been overwhelmingly peaceful, well-organized microsocieties.” “The image of a lawless, violent, antisemitic pro-Palestinian mob stands completely at odds with the reality.”

But people •were• violence at USC. Who?

raph,
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@inquiline @mfessler @inthehands @lisamelton I didn't post to Mastodon sadly, as it was a response to an X thread

raph, to Israel
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Normal life under military occupation.

Video by human rights group Btselem, from the village of Deir Abu Mash'al (دير ابو مشعل) in the West Bank.

#Israel #Palestine #WestBank #Gaza

Soldiers burst into a bakery and physically abuse workers

raph, to Israel
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Ethnic cleansing continues in the the West Bank: dozens of Jewish settlers stoned vehicles at the Zaatara (Tapuah) intersection. Then, they entered the village of Yatma (يتما) in the Nablus district and set fire to vehicles.

Video by Israeli human rights group Looking the Occupation in the Eyes (Mistaklim).

#Israel #Palestine #Gaza #WestBank

Cars and trees burning with some voices speaking in Arabic in the background

raph, to Israel
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Once again, the issue is portrayed as a bunch of extremists who took over Israel. This is not untrue, but it hides the fact that before these extremists were anywhere near power, Israel was already systematically dispossessing, colonizing, and brutalizing Palestinians.

Every Israeli I know hates Netanyahu, Israel's messianic far right, settlements, and settlers. And I mean HATES them.

But Israeli society is still overwhelmingly supportive of the war.

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#Israel #Palestine #Gaza #WestBank

raph,
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A poll by Tel Aviv University between Oct 23-28 asked Israelis whether the IDF was using too much or too little firepower in Gaza.

Only 2% of Jews said the IDF used too much firepower. 58% said Israel used too little firepower in Gaza.

https://social-sciences.tau.ac.il/sites/socsci.tau.ac.il/files/media_server/social/2023/Findings-November-2023-EN.pdf

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