The Cross and the Lynching Tree by James Cone is a good read in regards to the US.
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Israel blames the high civilian death toll on Hamas because the militants fight from dense, residential areas. The military says it has killed over 12,000 militants, without providing evidence.
The war has driven around 80% of Gaza’s population of 2.3 million from their homes and pushed northern Gaza to the brink of famine.
AP is telling its reader, such as they are, that Israel is indeed doing a genocide.
Is the tide finally turning?
Resentment of the young and their optimism, I guess. Envy of having the freedom to express principles - including freedom from entrenched poverty, debt, and responsibilities within that moment of their lives - and malleability of youth to adapt careers, overcome setbacks easily, and readjust their lives from the blowback of having principles.
It is not a coincidence that Reagan in California and the neoliberal project went on to undermine and strip higher education of government financial support and turn them into vocational centers and degree mills. Binding the future leaders of the country to debt makes for compliant workers and docile minds who will not upset the status quo.
I also suspect that since college students' lives have not been tempered or defeated by the demands of life, of working, of being berated and humiliated as such, their elders resent their courage as naïve or are bitter about their defeat and domestication at the hands of capital.
A mentality of "I've got mine" and "We could change things for the better, but there is too much to risk and too much to lose. And the state always wins. "
I think it is to prevent solidarity fermenting between the future administrators of capital and empire and the oppressed; the administrators maintain and manage the operations of capital and empire.
In other words, If college students from an Ivy League - future leaders of industry and state -have solidarity with marginalized and oppressed groups beyond liberal handwringing sympathy, then their concerns echo with their contemporaries, middle aged elders, et cetera. Solidarity forms solidarity, and unrest threatens to create a mass movement. And unlike BLM or Occupy, this genocide in Palestine is impossible to coopt, diffuse, or deescalate from. It's obvious to people what this genocide is, even those that sympathize with Israel.
Alternatively, the focus on these students comes from a desire to deflect from the discovery of mass graves under hospitals in the Gaza strip.
Revolutions that overthrew communist states in Eastern Europe were still genuine revolutions, just a politically regressive one.
Those that could leave already because they were dual nationals, have left. During the first few weeks following October 7th. 500k of em' left to their metropoles.
I'm kind of curious as to how the Jewish diaspora views Israel now.
Live in delusions or ask what is to be done?
The former. Israel is a proxy to control the ME, contain China and Russia, and ensure supply of oil, it's prices, and control over the resource. I think the value of the USD is that oil is traded in dollars; Israel ensures that dominance.
It is a vassal, but like a march vassal. You need them even if you don't like them. They are subordinate but they can tell you off.
If you're voting between two genocidaires, and acknowledge it as such, then your political system is illegitimate and deeply evil.
And if it has gotten to that point, where you acknowledge the reality of genocidal parties and candidates but just handwring about voting, then the real sentiment here is:
I care about Ukrainians in my vicarious crusade against Russia (and because Ukrainians are European and white), and I don't care about Palestinians. Just let me go back to Brunch.
This is tell you all that those posters and propagandists are white supremacists. They just want a baptism that absolves their complicity in empire, because they also depend on it for cheap treats and good wages/credit. Life is materially good for them but also incredibly emotionally and spiritually vapid, which is why liberals obsess about politics in this manner.
Though Biden may not survive to see justice, I certainly hope the rest of the administration will be held to account one day.
" I take solace in the fact your life is probably so terrible you have to hurdle insults at refugees to make your pitiful friendless life slightly more tolerable and that you will die alone. Eat shit" is insanely toxic. https://lemmy.world/modlog/1381
If you come back to do an "I told you so", you shouldn't. This isn't a game. Genocide isn't a contest of who is more correct or virtuous.
Just go back to your instance and jerk off with sandpaper, asshole.
What is the Israeli defense of their operations in Gaza?
Is it really just denial and indignant offense , e.g: "how dare you, asking that question in of itself is anti-Semitic"?