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polcomms guy, post-doc also researching the politicisation of antisemitism scholarship primarily in context of German Memory Culture. Safety Through Solidarity! Leave this earth better than you found it.

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I don't want to diminish the atrocity of murdering innocents which we all should be and are outraged about, but we should save some rage for the wanton destruction of monuments to our shared eons of cultural and physical history. This is awful.

11.03.2026 21:52 ๐Ÿ‘ 26 ๐Ÿ” 10 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

"we kill random people because it's fun!" is one of those go-to statements you can use to make it crystal clear that we are, in fact, the baddies. our enemies do not talk like this. only we talk like this

11.03.2026 21:51 ๐Ÿ‘ 226 ๐Ÿ” 57 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 6 ๐Ÿ“Œ 2
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11.03.2026 21:57 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Western governments have been saying this every year for the last quarter of a century.

They never did anything about it because they donโ€™t care and would rather Israel get on with it.

11.03.2026 21:56 ๐Ÿ‘ 7 ๐Ÿ” 2 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Iโ€™ll say it again. If I had to choose between a guy who dabbled in hypnotherapy and a guy who surrounds himself with the worst people this country has to offer and supported a genocide I choose the titty-hypno guy.

11.03.2026 21:50 ๐Ÿ‘ 16 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Pedro Sanchez

โ€ขCalls for end of veto power in UNSC, integration of Brazil, India, and African countries into the permanent membership

โ€ขDowngrades relations with Israel

โ€ขCalls Germany a "vassal" of the US

11.03.2026 16:47 ๐Ÿ‘ 553 ๐Ÿ” 102 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 21 ๐Ÿ“Œ 24

I know it confuses people but there's no such thing as an Israeli ethnicity and the law in Israel explicitly disclaims this concept

11.03.2026 20:56 ๐Ÿ‘ 191 ๐Ÿ” 25 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

โ€œMr Sanders, Sir! I am shocked you are not condemning the petard I hoisted myself with!โ€

11.03.2026 21:41 ๐Ÿ‘ 10 ๐Ÿ” 2 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Yair Zivan
@YairZivan
Senator, I work for the Leader of the Opposition in Israel and Iโ€™m writing this from a bomb shelter with my children.

Israel is under attack by fanatical terrorists who want to murder us. 

It never ceases to amaze that your humanity never seems to extend to Israeli lives.
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Itโ€™s not just Iran.  

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In less than 2 weeks, Israel has killed 570 people and displaced 750,000 โ€” over 10% of the entire country. Residential buildings are be

Yair Zivan @YairZivan Senator, I work for the Leader of the Opposition in Israel and Iโ€™m writing this from a bomb shelter with my children. Israel is under attack by fanatical terrorists who want to murder us. It never ceases to amaze that your humanity never seems to extend to Israeli lives. Quote Bernie Sanders @BernieSanders ยท 56m Itโ€™s not just Iran. Itโ€™s Lebanon. In less than 2 weeks, Israel has killed 570 people and displaced 750,000 โ€” over 10% of the entire country. Residential buildings are be

This guy works for Yair Lapid and is complaining that Bernie Sanders isn't sufficiently supportive of Israel during a time of war that most Israeli Jewish politicians, including Yair Lapid, wanted and started.

If you think post-Netanyahu relations between US Dems and Israel will improve...

11.03.2026 19:57 ๐Ÿ‘ 433 ๐Ÿ” 72 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 12 ๐Ÿ“Œ 5

Honestly it's reassuring that the intellectual vanguard of Jewish fascism produces unintelligible, pop-historical, Facebook-boomer-level slop laced with Nazi messaging

11.03.2026 20:05 ๐Ÿ‘ 166 ๐Ÿ” 31 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2 ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

Wer sich mit der โ€˜akademischenโ€™ Literatur dieser Kritik beschรคftigt wird merken, dass man in 10.000 Wort starken Artikeln komischerweise nie Platz findet Zitate von @dirkmoses.bsky.social & Co anzufรผhren die das beweisen. Immer nur Gerรผchte die mit seriรถser akademischer Arbeit nichts zu tun haben.

07.03.2026 11:18 ๐Ÿ‘ 20 ๐Ÿ” 6 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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The Bombing of Iranโ€™s Azadi Stadium Is Straight Out of Israelโ€™s Gaza Script Israel has long targeted sport facilities and athletes in Gaza. Now with US help, itโ€™s doing the same thing in Iran.

ESPN isn't covering the bombing of one the most famous stadiums on earth so.... my latest piece @thenation.com "The Razing of Iranโ€™s Azadi Stadium Is Straight Out of Israelโ€™s Gaza Script" www.thenation.com/article/soci...

11.03.2026 15:37 ๐Ÿ‘ 327 ๐Ÿ” 160 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3 ๐Ÿ“Œ 8
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Iโ€™m all for beavers on the new bank notes, but whose exactly?

11.03.2026 19:52 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

No one has claimed my collages recently (๐Ÿ’”) but I gotta keep trying!
So today I am offering one of my favorites as a thank you to the first person who sends at least ยฃ35 for Mahmoud's urgent surgery and reply here.
This is an emergency. Calling all help in amplifying!
chuffed.org/project/omsham

11.03.2026 19:24 ๐Ÿ‘ 92 ๐Ÿ” 145 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 8 ๐Ÿ“Œ 32

It is also telling that an article about promoting and praising zionism didn't go down the route of promoting cultural zionism.

11.03.2026 19:34 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

If I were a defender and promoter of Zionism I wouldn't make the argument that Zionism is good because like Nazism it was inspired by the same vรถlkische logic.

11.03.2026 19:33 ๐Ÿ‘ 5 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
"People were not invented in the 1800s. What did emerge at that moment, and what dramatically influenced the creation of countries, was the conceptual framework of โ€œpeoplesโ€ or โ€œpeoplehoods.โ€ This idea derived from 19th-century German Romantic philosophy and in particular the work of Johann Gottfried Herder. In tracing the development of human civilization, Herder noted that shared language, literature, traditions, and history forge a unique spirit, or Volksgeist, that he argued should serve as the basis for nation-states.

When Herder went looking for an example of a group of people whose attributesโ€”common language, history, religionโ€”he could use as a foundation for this theory, he chose the ancient Jews, who, he argued, were the supreme example of the authentic folk expression of a people. If modern Jews had a problem, Herder continued, it was that they had been flung from their land, turning them into a โ€œnation within a nation.โ€ Still, that only added to their mystique: Their specific set of characteristics enabled them to maintain a unique cultureโ€”fitting in while keeping apartโ€”and successfully adapt to successive waves of modernity, from the Roman Empire to the great religious empires of the Catholic Church and various Islamic caliphates, to the multiethnic empires of the Habsburgs and Ottomans, to the Westphalian state order born in 17th-century Europe."

"People were not invented in the 1800s. What did emerge at that moment, and what dramatically influenced the creation of countries, was the conceptual framework of โ€œpeoplesโ€ or โ€œpeoplehoods.โ€ This idea derived from 19th-century German Romantic philosophy and in particular the work of Johann Gottfried Herder. In tracing the development of human civilization, Herder noted that shared language, literature, traditions, and history forge a unique spirit, or Volksgeist, that he argued should serve as the basis for nation-states. When Herder went looking for an example of a group of people whose attributesโ€”common language, history, religionโ€”he could use as a foundation for this theory, he chose the ancient Jews, who, he argued, were the supreme example of the authentic folk expression of a people. If modern Jews had a problem, Herder continued, it was that they had been flung from their land, turning them into a โ€œnation within a nation.โ€ Still, that only added to their mystique: Their specific set of characteristics enabled them to maintain a unique cultureโ€”fitting in while keeping apartโ€”and successfully adapt to successive waves of modernity, from the Roman Empire to the great religious empires of the Catholic Church and various Islamic caliphates, to the multiethnic empires of the Habsburgs and Ottomans, to the Westphalian state order born in 17th-century Europe."

There's something remarkably telling about the fact that, in their case for Zionism, Tablet is approvingly citing the same German nationalists that directly influenced German fascism. (www.tabletmag.com/feature/zion...)

11.03.2026 19:16 ๐Ÿ‘ 38 ๐Ÿ” 8 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2 ๐Ÿ“Œ 5
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1946: Imperialism: Road to Suicide. www.commentary.org/articles/mor...

11.03.2026 18:55 ๐Ÿ‘ 3 ๐Ÿ” 3 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

The temperature in Gaza has plunged today, leaving Sama'a and her family shivering in the cold. Please give what you can.

chuffed.org/project/157569

11.03.2026 14:40 ๐Ÿ‘ 100 ๐Ÿ” 207 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 18 ๐Ÿ“Œ 7
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Zionism for Everyone The real reason weโ€™re all fighting about Israel

This piece if quite delusional but also unintentionally honest when it says "Zionism, having fulfilled its promise for the Jews, is now a technology for national renewal that could, conceivably, be used by anyone.".

This is the exact reason why fascists see Israel as a blueprint for the West.

11.03.2026 18:52 ๐Ÿ‘ 7 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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Antisemitism, Israel, and Jewish Identity - The American Prospect A tangled tale of Wikipedia and the perversion of the mission of the Anti-Defamation League

โ€œThere is no comparison between white supremacists and insurrectionists and those who espouse anti-Israel rhetoric, and to suggest otherwise is both intellectually dishonest and damaging to our reputation as experts in extremism.โ€ prospect.org/2026/03/10/a...

11.03.2026 18:46 ๐Ÿ‘ 15 ๐Ÿ” 4 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Das nimmt doch keine normale Person ernst.

11.03.2026 18:47 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Israeli military bulldozers demolished and flattened residential neighborhoods east of Gaza City earlier today.

11.03.2026 16:48 ๐Ÿ‘ 18 ๐Ÿ” 19 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 2

This went out as a public consultation. The majority wanted wildlife. Given the rapid decline of many of our native species & habitats, maybe a reminder of what is being lost on our money is a good thing? And since the majority of the public *wanted* wildlife maybe this indicates something else? 1/

11.03.2026 18:06 ๐Ÿ‘ 14 ๐Ÿ” 6 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

"Winston Churchill saved this country and all of Europe from fascism."???

Didn't know Churchill was in the Red Army.

11.03.2026 18:23 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Very good that there is a medium size economy in the EU willing to take a confrontational stance against Germany.

11.03.2026 18:21 ๐Ÿ‘ 11 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Ach, lass die arme Frau doch machen. Wer das ernst nimmt hat eh schon Hirnwรผrmer.

11.03.2026 18:16 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Wo liegt hier der Schaden fรผr die Buchhandlungen? Wenn dann war das doch eine gute PR fรผr unabhรคngige Buchhandlungen?

11.03.2026 17:32 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

What in the black mamba is this nonsense?

11.03.2026 15:59 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0