Palestine
A community for everything related to Palestine and the occupation currently underway by the occupying force known as Israel.
Anti-Zionism is not anti-Semitism. Existence is resistance for Palestinians.
Please refer to Israel as Occupied Palestine, or occupied territories. The IDF is a fascist and ethnonationalist occupying force. Israelis are settlers. We understand however that the imperial narrative (which tries to legitimise Israel) is internalised in the imperial core and slip-ups are naturally expected.
We always take the sides of Palestine and Palestinians and are unapologetic about it. Israel is an occupying power whose "defence force"'s (note the contradiction) sole purpose for existing is to push Palestinians out so they can resettle their rightful land. If you have anything positive to say about Israel we do not care.
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It’s a good thing that I’ve never watched Hasan Piker, because that clip of him doing the mental gymnastics meme was so much worse than I imagined: The reason it's antisemitic to oppose Jews for holding [Zionist] opinions is because those opinions are […] inextricably linked to their Jewishness.
That wasn't Hasan in the clip. Idk who that was cause i don't follow any of this streamer shit. Hasan shills for AOC and Bernie though who are both in the "Israel has a right to defend itself from the barbaric Hamas terrorists" camp. He also did a podcast together with the now very vocally Zionist Ethan Klein who is married to an IDF war criminal.
This is kind of an unfair "bad by association" thing. I'm not sure why Hasan would carry water for AOC or Bernie at this point, but from things I have heard, he is very clear on it being a genocide and had a very public falling out with Ethan Klein as a result of them differing so strongly on that issue after the October 7th stuff happened. Actually, falling out is an understatement, as it has become this whole thing where Ethan is spiraling in a victim complex, lashing out at anyone and everyone, and behaving like a pathological liar, as zionists tend to do.
At a distance, it probably looks like internet spat nonsense (and to a large extent, I think it is, in the sense that it doesn't materially matter much other than hearts and minds of some impressionable podcast and streamer viewership). But Ethan and Hasan are two pretty different people. Ethan has turned into a raging black hole of zionism and dishonesty. And my impression of Hasan is that he's at worst an anti-imperialist whose left tendencies can sometimes sound a bit hazy in that realm of anti-state / anarchist / ultra-left something or other. But I'm not sure it'd be possible for him to be a principled marxist-leninist, for example, and have the streaming size that he does in the west. So these things go hand in hand to an extent. I could also be misunderstanding how he navigates it and underestimating the extent to which he supports AES states. I mainly learned more recently due to the drama spiral going on, I am not a "fan" of any of these people.
Oh, you’re right, that was Ethan Klein in the clip. He has two passports. You’ll never guess which 😐 Supposedly he and his wife are sitting on USD ~20M.
It's not Ethan Klein, it's lonerbox, a "leftist" streamer that's just a frothing zionist and sex pest who BE has previously challenged to debates on the issue but he'd been too afraid to take him up on it.
I'd love to be able to scam Ethan Kkklein out of his and his zionist wife's money, and maybe then I could afford to retire early in China.