Strange how they never managed this back when all the neo-nazis was marching for Trump back in 2016...
This is pretty much the only thing "peaceful protest" will ever get you.
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Some of those that work forces are the same that burn crosses
Strange how they never managed this back when all the neo-nazis was marching for Trump back in 2016…
I might note that both Israel and the neo-nazis support the republicans almost exclusively over democrats. I'm sure there's no connection there.
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Republicans are often armed when they’re protesting.
Right-wingers don't protest - they congregate to terrorize.
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But right wing protestors chanting "Jews will not replace us!"? That, apparently, is fine.
To be fair, those protestors are in that picture too, they're the ones wearing armor
Crosses and forces.
That's a vile accuracy!
But that's not antisemitism. They're clearly stating that Jews are not going to replace them, acknowledging that they aren't to be feared. Like if you told someone immigrants aren't going to take their job. /s
According to my boss yes because they got a permit. I try argue we shouldn't allow nazi to get fucking permit to protest he disagrees. It's fucking serial.
It's fucking ~~serial~~ cereal
FTFY
No, you see, it's only antisemitism when you oppose genocide.
The US is more concerned about antisemitism on college campuses than being complicit in the 670,000+ individuals starving in Gaza.
By US I assume you mean the media, powerful business leaders and politicians behind the scenes that are making the decision to release police on what is clearly a peaceful protest. Because as a person who is American and against what is happening to Palestinians right now, this is not condoned by many folks over here. It is the 1% with the loudest voices that are making this a persistent problem for protests.
Look up who runs the police for the city shown and make the local politicians scared of public backlash. They do this because no one knows who they are and so they will not be held responsible.
Accountability wilts fascism.
I can add my voice to this. The very topic we're all commenting on here supports this. The are protests and millions of dissenting voices to the disgusting atrocities taking place against the Palestinian people.
This isn't new, either. Countless Americans have opposed Israel for many, many years. They've been openly killing civilians for a very long time now.
It needs to stop, but the United States government is in an open state of distress right now. We're fighting over here to keep an actual tyrant from gaining power, and unilaterally destabilizing the entire world. Trump has threatened to pull us out of NATO, abandon support for Ukraine, and send even more aid to Israel. He's also a big reason Iran as a country is pissed off, since he pulled us out of the Iran Nuclear deal.
There are layers of bullshit and politics to navigate, and without money and agency most of us are struggling just to pay our rent, and buy groceries.
Meanwhile, we get people all the time conflating the US government with the US people. They are not the same thing. We are in many ways captives of our society. Those not from the US: look into what happens when we come down with a severe illness. Spoiler: we can easily lose fucking everything.
Things aren't good, everyone. Things aren't good. We can fix them, but holy shit is it not a good time for the world.
This isn’t new, either. Countless Americans have opposed Israel for many, many years.
Unfortunately, a very countable amount. The number of Americans who have been more than vaguely aware of Israel's existence was dominated by Doomsday-craving fundies until very recently, not foreign policy nerds. This is probably the first time in my lifetime that public opinion has turned anti-Israel in any appreciable amount.
What's that Churchill said? Americans will always do the right thing, after having tried everything else?
God, let this year be the turning point. Let it be the last, shameful time we've been complicit in Israel's crimes. We have enough of our own to deal with.
I hate it when people say "America did this" or "Russia is doing that" or "China" or any country. I doubt the average Russian or Chinese citizen has any more influence over what their governments do than we do in the US... I wish people would start naming names and perhaps even labeling them with their major sponsors/donors. Like "today president Biden, with more than $3m in donations from defense contractors, signs another $90b over to Israel for 'military aid'"
But the US government is voted by the US people in overall democratic elections. The people in Russia and China do not get this freedom and responsibility.
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I remember after a student at my college was run over and killed by an Israeli bulldozer for protesting on behalf of Palestinians the zionist backlash on campus for talking about it was immense and even got the school newspaper shut down for a while for, you guessed it: antisemitism.
*edit: I should add this was nearly 20 years ago.
Was it Rachel Corrie?
Edit: there's a foundation in her name
https://rachelcorriefoundation.org/event/movies-that-matter-occupation-101
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And yet when an Israeli student threatened to "krav maga" me "into next week" for simply pointing out I was Palestinian while she was on some rant about how palestinians are all terrorists, that's just free speech and we need to think about a slippery slope into tyranny if we do anything about it less permissive than asking nicely for an apology.
that's just free speech and we need to think about a slippery slope into tyranny if we do anything about it less permissive than asking nicely for an apology.
That's terrible. Was it said by the same authority that did this?
Hasbara is on overtime with their sophisticated and useful job of calling everyone anti-Semite for calling out genocide on Palestinians!
What the fuck man. Is this a real photograph?
Looks more like semi-anti-ism
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