David Benfell, Ph.D. (he/him/his) on Nostr: Oh, and the additions to my pinned post keep coming. Zionists are committing genocide ...
Oh, and the additions to my pinned post keep coming.
Zionists are committing genocide in Gaza and ethnically cleansing the West Bank. Israel has been an ethnic cleansing project from the beginning.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/11/03/colonial-history-britain-israel/
If you’re invoking a charge of anti-Semitism in response to this, your priorities are completely backwards. I believe the term for it is “red herring.” This is a blocking offense.
If you’re defending politicians who fund and arm this genocide, you are defending war criminals. This is a blocking offense.
War crimes are on par with fascism. If you vote for one to avoid the other, you will get both.
There are still a few people left who meant it when we said, “Never Again!” to the Holocaust. There are many more who will invoke the Holocaust, itself a genocide, to rationalize the genocide they commit against others.
The aggressor is pretty reliably wrong. Using aggression to rationalize aggression is still pretty reliably wrong. War is inherently a crime, indeed “collective punishment” against civilians, particularly where “economic targets” or any other targets in populated areas are involved.
I am not a lawyer, let alone one with expertise in international law. I interpret the term “war crimes” broadly. If you support war crimes or war criminals in any way, that’s a blocking offense.
Zionists are committing genocide in Gaza and ethnically cleansing the West Bank. Israel has been an ethnic cleansing project from the beginning.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/11/03/colonial-history-britain-israel/
If you’re invoking a charge of anti-Semitism in response to this, your priorities are completely backwards. I believe the term for it is “red herring.” This is a blocking offense.
If you’re defending politicians who fund and arm this genocide, you are defending war criminals. This is a blocking offense.
War crimes are on par with fascism. If you vote for one to avoid the other, you will get both.
There are still a few people left who meant it when we said, “Never Again!” to the Holocaust. There are many more who will invoke the Holocaust, itself a genocide, to rationalize the genocide they commit against others.
The aggressor is pretty reliably wrong. Using aggression to rationalize aggression is still pretty reliably wrong. War is inherently a crime, indeed “collective punishment” against civilians, particularly where “economic targets” or any other targets in populated areas are involved.
I am not a lawyer, let alone one with expertise in international law. I interpret the term “war crimes” broadly. If you support war crimes or war criminals in any way, that’s a blocking offense.