Western news media is pushing the angle of “anti-Semitic attacks” in Amsterdam, leaving out the actual truth.

This narrative in this situation is so dangerous for fomenting actual anti-semitism. Long before this match, soccer fans in Europe knew that one Tel Aviv club and their supporters are total fascists, they have an infamous reputation. Anyone with a phone can see the videos of them disrespecting the Spanish flood victims and all the violence they initiated. The fact that the Israeli fans are in no way “victims” is obvious to everyone, including those who haven’t really followed what’s happening in Gaza and the West Bank over the last year.

So, what happens to your average European soccer fan who’s disinterested in politics and world events, when they see what happened last night and then see how the media in their country is covering it? They can see who the actual perpetrators are and who the actual victims are, and then see that their news media and governments are spinning it the other way. All it takes then is for these same people to get exposed to the actually anti-Semitic “Jews control the media and Western governments” ideas and down the neo-Nazi pipeline they go…

Trump’s whole thing is to never actually fulfill any commitments. He would insist that Cuba do all that and then afterward, he will lift the blockade. Only when the time comes he’ll find a reason not to do it.

I was finally able to get a keffiyeh from Hirbawi the other day! I was hoping for a standard black and white one but that was sold out. But they did have one that was basically the same except some of the designs were red and green instead of black (like the Palestinian flag) which was pretty cool

Overall, I think ballot measures regarding abortion did… ok. I mean, 7 of 10 states voted to protect abortion access. Two states that were close but not layups (MO and AZ) went in favor of protections, which is good. The others were never really in doubt.

But tbh given how popular access to abortion seems to be, I can’t help but think it should have gone 10 for 10. Mitigating circumstances in FL and NE (Florida requires 60% to pass and it was never polling that high, NE is a basket case where there are competing ballot measures so now no one knows what’s gonna happen). But SD was a surprise to me. A conservative state for sure, but I’m personally convinced abortion rights should do better than 50% in all 50 states, so idk.

Just to add, the idea that western countries do not subsidize their exports is laughable. I don’t doubt that in many sectors, western governments - both now and in the past - have subsidized their industries to far greater degree than China ever has with theirs.

The JDPON cannot come fast enough.

Its leaders are dead

Yes, some are; and new leaders have stepped in, as what always happens

Its ranks are depleted

There is zero evidence this is the case, but because the Israeli genocide has been so brutal westerners and their media just assume it’s true. Over the course of the last year, the Resistance in Gaza has shown absolutely NO reduction in its ability to fight. I would say the Resistance’s ability to fight has either held or even possibly increased over the last year.

I think this is a reasonable take.

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You might want to sit down for this but… Donald Trump is a big talker, and will usually bloviate well beyond what he’s actually capable of doing. Yeah of course, he uses more genocidal language but so what, how does that translate into action?

Biden has given Bibi everything he’s asked for. The administration has provided diplomatic cover for every single genocidal action that taken place. Weapons are sent to Israel without delay, to the point that supplies are getting stretched there’s talk about how Ukraine and Israel can’t both be supported (guess who’s losing out there btw). Every time Biden draws a red line, Bibi crosses it with zero consequences.

But as you correctly point out, there is really only one way a president could be MORE genocidal than Biden, and that’s by committing ground troops. I should point out that Biden has already done this with the recent THAAD deployment, but that’s not a massive commitment of personnel. But no, neither Harris nor Trump will be committing troops because not only would that end up being a disaster, but because doing so defeats the purpose of Israel. Israel exists in order to do America’s wetwork in the region. For reasons of both domestic and foreign policy, America can’t be seen as directly causing so much blood to spill in the region, so it gets outsourced to Israel. The CIA and State Dept know all this too well and neither Trump nor Harris are gonna cross them.

We know Trump supports …let’s call it “Genocide+”

We do know that? Biden and Harris are currently ok with the IOF sealing off an area with 400k+ people in it, hoping to starve them to death. No, if you’re going to claim Trump will do something more, be specific. Because outside of dropping a nuke on Gaza there isn’t much more that can be done, we’re at what essentially is maximum genocide that is reasonably possible.

I believe most people think Harris will make getting a permanent ceasefire and supporting a two state solution central tenets of her administration.

Oh wait, you’re serious. Oh you sweet summer child. I can even be mad at you. But not only do most people not believe this, most people know this is patently false because it IS false. Btw the reason people like Blinken and Harris bring up a 2 state solution is because Israel has made it functionally impossible.

This post is a good reminder why I need to sort by Local and not All.

I mean, they’re not exactly chanting “from the river to the sea” at rallies but they think the Israelis and Palestinians should each have their own state because “that’s fair”. They understand the Palestinian state has been under military occupation since they were little kids and that’s about as far as I’ve gotten.

I saw recently that the total number of deaths due to the “war on terror” is up to 4.5 million.

I had this realization yesterday, and not like this is some big insight but it was a new thought to me:

Most Americans have zero conception of “anti-imperialism” or “anti-colonialism”.

It’s not that most Americans knowingly approve of imperialism or colonialism. Or that they have a warped idea of what these terms mean. It’s that they have no idea what these concepts are or how they exist in history up to the present.

I like to think my parents are pretty good examples of the “median” (white) American. If you asked them what “colonies” were, they would say something like “well, in the past countries like Britain and France owned parts of Africa and Asia, but now they don’t anymore”. That’s it, that’s all they would able to explain. They have no idea that there was an anti-colonial struggle across many countries. They think Vietnam was just “the communists were trying to take over the world”, where “the communists” are not even specifically Vietnamese or Russian or Chinese, just a sort of blob of anthropomorphized ideology.

This bleeds into their present-day understanding of what’s happening in Gaza. Palestinians or really any brown people are just naturally violent for reasons unknown, so they get branded with the “terrorist” label and they don’t think any deeper than that. The conflict then becomes not an anti-colonial struggle or a people striving for liberation, but the bad “terrorists” who just want to do violence to the white people who look like they do and have democracy and capitalism and speak English so they must be good. This gets reinforced by the media which has now spent over 20 years pushing hard stories of Muslim or Arab “terrorists” who want to set off a nuke in an American shopping mall or whatever crap they watch of NCIS / CSI / JAG / Homeland / FBI (yes, there’s now a show that’s just called “FBI”).

The struggles that Mexico has had to endure are completely unknown to most Americans, so when AMLO or Sheinbaum get labeled as “autocrats”, (white) Americans will just accept it because of their own lack of knowledge plus inherent racism.

(Just to clarify, I’ve worked on my parents so they no longer think the above

In the US I have never seen so much actual anti-semitism in my life, and it is 100% because of western governments appearing to move heaven and earth to support Israel. While we know Israel is not the one calling the shots (that’s the US), because of how it looks on the surface actual anti-semites are capitalizing on this to say “see look, the Jews DO control the world”. And there are people who are listening and internalizing that.

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I mean…