Israel

[ad hoc]

Fixed the link https://www.parapraxismagazine.com/a...what-they-know

Great piece

[Nefertiti2]

A very difficult but important read about the dead children of Palestine

“The Israeli army is not killing children because they refuse to be careful, or out of some uncontainable vengeance. They are killing so many children because, as explicitly stated by past and present officials, and as demonstrated by the facts on ground, they intend to.[2] We need to think about why…



Children force the future on you. In caring for them you are compelled to think about tomorrow’s administration of life, or next week’s, next month’s. If you are among the lucky of the world, you can consider next year. They force you, too, to consider the future of the world beyond your own lifetime, so that your efforts can extend into theirs—into their natural lifespan. This futurity can be a force for both conservatism and radicalism.

Israel has bent this world into one in which it can wage a war on children because they represent the future and contain the past, and those are two elements it denies Palestinians. For Israel, Palestinians can only exist in the present, the tense and temporality of domination.

[ursus arctos]

It has never been established that control over a social media app is as central to the governmental function as limits on the ownership of a critical mass of broadcast licences under a system where those licences have effectively always been subject to governmental control.

Nor has it been decided that something this targeted satisfies Constitutional Due Process or guarantees limiting Takings by the Federal government.

And I'm sure that they will at least argue it is also a Bill of Attainder.

Note that some broad bans enacted under state law have already been invalidated.

[San Bernardhinault]

Biden signed a bill passed with large majorities in both houses that requires ByteDance to divest within none months to a year in order to avoid a ban.

It is unclear if a ban would be held to be constitutional.

Doesn't the US ban, or at least control, foreign ownership of some media? If so, why would this be unconstitutional?

[Nefertiti2]

cops on campus to confront student pro Palestine actionds in Austin,Texas

https://twitter.com/JoshuaPHilll/status/1783212867296374896

https://twitter.com/rulajebreal/status/1783212808160575934

Demonstrations across the US
[tweet]https://twitter.com/NationalSJP/status/1783212110282952878[/twitter]
New York
Massachusetts

https://twitter.com/taliaotg/status/1783186615826837768?s=46&t=8oLqNHLiemnJFQZY2zDdMw
Minnesota

[ursus arctos]

Biden signed a bill passed with large majorities in both houses that requires ByteDance to divest within none months to a year in order to avoid a ban.

It is unclear if a ban would be held to be constitutional.

[Nefertiti2]

The Us has responded to the constant flow of horrendous images of death from Gaza including the deaths of thousands of children

They've banned TikTiok

[Nefertiti2]

the great Eyal Weizman

https://twitter.com/abierkhatib/status/1782999844203671897

[Nefertiti2]

Whatever has happened to the ICJ case?

David Cameron has been helping the Netanyahu government

https://twitter.com/declassifiedUK/status/1782397845913338025

[G-Man]

Whatever has happened to the ICJ case?

[Nefertiti2]

Incredible essay on the images from Gaza

As a child in the 1960s, every month Life magazinewould arrive in our household, and I would see photographs of murdered Vietnamese, burned civilians, screaming children, overwhelmed chaos, piles of bodies slaughtered by Americans .¹These images return to me daily, now, as I go to Al Jazeera and twitter and find screaming burning Palestinians, starving children in Gaza, parents caressing their children’s corpses, targeted journalists, and poets like Refaat Alareer, purposefully destroyed. And it does not escape me that when it comes to Palestine, these images are not in our contemporary versions of Life magazine. That American journalists were fired for merely signing letters of protest against these war crimes, not even for showing them. And that, as of this writing, over 100 Palestinian and Lebanese journalists were targeted and murdered by Israeli forces, often with their entire families.

The implication here is not that mainstream circulation of images from Gaza would translate into an immediate ceasefire and termination of aid to Israel; Schulman is well aware that images do not necessarily incite antiwar action, and that antiwar action does not trigger immediate change. (“The Terror of War,” Nick Ut’s 1972 photo of 9-year-old Phan Thi Kim Phuc running naked down the street after a napalm attack, turned the tide of American public sentiment against the Vietnam War, but did not end it.) What she is implying is that not showing them is guaranteed to keep the horror out of view, where it can be more easily ignored or denied. For all the reasons images of Gaza are not appearing in our contemporary versions of Life magazine — because they’re too graphic; because Israel is targeting and killing photojournalists; because Israel has denied foreign journalists access to Gaza, with the exception of a few IDF-guided tours; because a contemporary version of Life magazine doesn’t exist — the consequences are fatal for thousands of Palestinians. Social media may feel ubiquitous, but it is no substitute for the better-resourced newspapers, magazines, and broadcasters that are our prestige media institutions, which for all their restraints will still determine the historical record.

[Nefertiti2]

Incredible essay on the images from Gaza

[ursus arctos]

There is a practical reason that could support that.

The force just doesn't have many Hebrew speakers.

The better example in that regard would be Turkish.

[Satchmo Distel]

Odd that they don't allow Hebrew. Perhaps an oversight.

[ursus arctos]

Irish protesters were told they are not allowed to speak or sing in Irish at the pro-Palestine protest camp near the Reichstag in Berlin.

About 40 activists were attending the ‘ciorcal comhrá’ (conversation circle) event as Gaeilge when large numbers of police arrived and told them to stop and move on.

They also sang songs in English and Irish, including traditional favourite Óró Sé Do Bheatha Abhaile.

Police broke up the Irish language event attended by about 40 Irish people living in the German capital, under rules that only allow English and German, and in some cases Arabic, to be used during protests.

[Antepli Ejderha]

https://twitter.com/Haggis_UK/status/1782325571445240051?t=kHvJDDrP9jWEZnlHgqrKBg&s=19

Yet she's still platformed.

[Nefertiti2]

THe Killing... the death...

https://twitter.com/_TomSix/status/1782394683240456479

[Antepli Ejderha]

https://twitter.com/DrHananAshrawi/status/1782028435025445034?t=g5mkGzxakKgEto1uW9lTQw&s=19

But of course Israel doesn't attack hospitals.

[Nefertiti2]

https://twitter.com/ireallyhateyou/status/1781999892866445473?s=46&t=8oLqNHLiemnJFQZY2zDdMw

[Nefertiti2]

Also worth reading

https://twitter.com/Louis_Allday/status/1781812637749141720

[Nefertiti2]

Jon Stewart

https://twitter.com/abierkhatib/status/1781775313485103115

[delicatemoth]

A few days ago I saw a thing about the Israeli military making what is basically the drone weapon out of a Philip K Dick total war dystopia story, a drone that pretends to be an imperilled child to attract people before killing them. This is haunting me.

There look to be multiple instances of mob violence shading into pogrom shit going on in the West Bank.

[Nefertiti2]

https://twitter.com/MacaesBruno/status/1781676491308150929

Germany and the US won't let Dr Ghassan Abu Sitta speak

[Nefertiti2]

How many Brits are serving in the IDF or living on settlements?

https://twiiter.com/declassifiedUK/status/1781352060635455770

[Antepli Ejderha]

https://twitter.com/AmiDar/status/1781523646214750251?t=bY_4lS7gZxPdKS-KMsOBiA&s=19

Which many have been saying all along.