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Bolstered by a momentous ICJ ruling, Palestinians, including Americans, gave three hours of testimony against the Biden administration.

Lawyers involved with the lawsuit playing out in federal court said that the ICJ ruling bolsters their case. Their lawsuit argues that Biden, Blinken, and Austin are liable under U.S. law for failing to uphold their obligation to prevent genocide in Gaza.

Barry Trachtenberg, a professor of Jewish history and author of two books about the Holocaust, testified as an expert witness in the case – over repeated objections from Justice Department attorneys. When he filed his declaration in the case in November, he said, some 11,000 Palestinians had been killed. Today, that number is far greater.

“Everything that we feared and more is unfolding,” he said, noting that often, legal actions about genocide happen long after the fact. “What makes this situation so unique is that we’re watching the genocide unfold as we speak. And we’re in this incredibly unique position where we can actually intervene to stop it using the mechanisms of international law that are available to us.”

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

a kibbutz on occupied land is not idealized socialism at all. if you need to conscript children to enforce your occupation, you are not doing leftism.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 8 months ago (3 children)

The children were born there. They weren't "conscripted". They were living in the place they were born. They were murdered for because for living in the place they were born and being of an ethnicity that was hated by some evil people.

When you think people don't have a right to live in the place they were born because of their ethnicity, you aren't doing leftism.

When you think in terms of a restoring maps to have the ethnic makeup they've had in the past, you aren't doing leftism.

That's the kind of thing fascists are all about. River to the Sea = Blood and Soil.

Fascism is just about emotional manipulation. Socialists think they're immune to this kind of manipulation. but socialists have a weakness about Jews. That old Wealthy Capitalist Jew stereotype, you know what I'm talking about? That emotional association between Jews and Wealth and Capitalism makes socialists predisposed to disliking Jews and open to narratives about the Jews being the enemy. Socialists have been convinced to join antisemitic fascist movements in the past, right?

You feel that a fascist can't manipulate you because you're a socialist, but unfortunately no one is immune to emotional manipulation. Ideology is only a social construct. It's not a real thing. You're not really at the opposite end of a spectrum from a fascist. That's just made up thing used as a shorthand to describe moderate politics in a democracy. Extremists don't conform to a spectrum. They will say and do anything to get power. They won't avoid you because you say you're a socialist. They will even call themselves socialist if that gains them power. When power is the goal, ideology, and political spectrums, left / right, none of that matters. The only thing that matters to a fascist is using emotional manipulation to get control over you.

The Jews aren't your enemies, try to be a little more wary of the people that try to convince you they are.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

you're conflating resisting an occupation with genocide, but as I've been told many times, there are all emojis living in Israel, so attacking Israel cannot, itself, be antisemitic. qed.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

> River to the Sea = Blood and Soil.

this is a lie.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 8 months ago

Explain how it's different.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 8 months ago (1 children)