Israel/Palestine post 10/7 - follow-on events/thoughts as relate to other countries

New German citizens must declare Israel’s right to exist https://t.co/jhGAIt5Im5

— Financial Times (@FT) June 25, 2024

Man when the Germans get into something, they really go whole hog: Antisemitism, Philosemitism, etc.

I wonder if it's reciprocal

So is Germany leaving the United Nations and Europe? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_thought

Maybe Germany and Israel can make their own union. Sort of like the Odd Couple.

They didn't agree on very much with the League of Nations either iirc.

So ... our local pride organization just pulled out of a Pride Month event about Stonewall that was cosponsored by them and a local group called the Jewish Alliance (basically our local Jewish cultural organization). The Jewish Alliance is pretty much what you'd expect, a fairly squishy-liberal group that mostly organizes events around Jewish holidays and does various kinds of cultural awareness events that are useful in a place with a quite small Jewish population. A local leftist magazine/cooperative took to social media demanding that the pride group pull out of collaborating with the "genocidal" Jewish Alliance, an allegation based on what they said were their past interactions with the group (but I don't know the details of those, they didn't spell them out, and I'm not going to spend hours sorting through their social media posts to see if I can find anything more specific).

The Jewish Alliance issued a press release basically saying their feelings are hurt, they're sorry the pride group pulled out, they've always supported LGBTQ causes (true), and they have publicly decried the suffering in Gaza (true, although as far as I know they haven't called for a ceasefire). Anyway. I'm not taking sides on any of this, I know people involved with both the pride group and the alliance — very fine people on both sides, as they say — and it mostly strikes me as sad in a place where both groups are marginalized and vulnerable.

That’s pretty much anti-Semitism

Yeah. It feels ugly.

On the Iranian election and the gradual collapse..

https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/n13/azadeh-moaveni/election-in-iran

I don't really know how to find this balance, but it seems like there needs to be some recognition of the fact that many Jewish organizations have historical ties to Israel and that there are real even if deeply flawed reasons that many Jews feel an affinity for Israel, and that a system that places Jews into two buckets of "zionist" (bad) or "anti-zionist" (good) is going to alienate much of the Jewish community and prevent them from participating in other social justice activities. I don't know where you draw the line, but I don't think it should be you're either 100% against the existence of Israel or you are banned.

It’s disturbing when random
Muslims are demanded out of the blue to “denounce terrorism/Hamas” as a prerequisite to anything and it’s equally wrong when American Jews are supposed to answer for the actions of Israel.

There is a deep, catastrophic, intentional stupidity in the Biden White House that is going to tear the entire Middle East apart. pic.twitter.com/jyuun0pi0J

— Séamus Malekafzali (@Seamus_Malek) June 27, 2024

"we reject this logic". oh, ok.

Painful reading, ofc lots that we do know, tracked to one family's story.

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/ayelet-waldman-my-father-and-liberal-zionisms-downfall.html?

OK

this is genuinely incredible https://t.co/lY0U80Gzrj

— jeff computers (@allahliker) June 29, 2024

He did that in the debate, calling Biden a Palestinian. It’s a slur now.

One of the legit weirdest things I have heard a presidential candidate say.

today we are all Palestinians

Yeah, I don’t know how it happened.

Would love to have shakshouka for breakfast in the regular

nb: Shakshouka is not a Palestinian food. It was brought there by Yemeni Jews.

Brace Belden went on the Bad Hasbara podcast to talk about the weird propaganda exhibit that is the Scooter Braun Nova Festival Immersive Experience aka the Israeli psy-trance music festival thing in NYC right now, that will be coming to LA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mIRpWS4hH-k

nb: Shakshouka is not a Palestinian food. It was brought there by Yemeni Jews.

Maghrebi Jews brought it to Israel/the Levant/Palestine but it’s an Ottoman thing, an unscrambled menemen.

I just had menemen at a friend's Turkish breakfast yesterday, was like "Oh, this is a variation of shakshouka."

In general there's so much commonality in foods across the Levant that it seems hard to isolate things as belonging to one culture or country.

not to mention that all the recipes I looked at online (a bit dubious tbf) have tomatoes in them

Yeah I always have to remind myself that any "traditional foods" with potatoes or tomatoes anywhere in the world outside the Americas can't be more than 500 years old. But a few centuries is long enough for a tradition, I guess.

In general there's so much commonality in foods across the Levant that it seems hard to isolate things as belonging to one culture or country.

― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Sunday, 30 June 2024 13:29 (three hours ago) link

Even hummus was part of the culture of the mizrahi Jews who came to Israel as well as the culture of Palestine, and Israelis eat hummus as much because of the former as the latter.

I long for the day when Israelis and Palestinians only ever beef one another about hummus.

BREAKING: Yesterday, the Presbyterian Church (USA) voted to divest from Israel bonds and denounce Christian Zionism, citing human rights abuses against Palestinians.https://t.co/2g4wtEMqor

— IMEU (@theIMEU) July 2, 2024

Allright!

An unsurprising if trenchant essay on PEN America’s imperialist fantasia.

https://www.communitymausoleum.org/coma-journal/pen-america-cultural-imperialism-avant-garde

This is excellent https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4m1aDlglA-k

These are just claims but it seems totally plausible and totally fucked up!!

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cger582weplo

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/7/19/adidas-drops-bella-hadid-from-campaign-referencing-1972-munich-olympics

"In 2020, Instagram was forced to apologise to Hadid after she criticised the social media platform for removing a post she shared that showed a picture of her father’s passport with his birthplace listed as Palestine."

adidas dropping her is unbelievably stupid

Six national unions with a combined membership comprising nearly half of all union members in the US have made public a letter sent to President Biden calling for an embargo on delivery of all military aid to Israel because of its continued violation of international law pic.twitter.com/xFTuK3ZOHp

— Jamie Partridge (@jamiep72061) July 23, 2024

love to see it

AFL-CIO needs to be on that letter imo but not bad

this is p trivial but also super enraging: https://hyperallergic.com/936751/tv-show-fbi-most-wanted-bizarre-mock-gaza-encampment-draws-protests-in-nyc/

(the url is slightly misleading in that the for-TV staged protest is about climate change; even the copaganda tv series won't say Palestine lol)

lol at the "Make Earth Great Again" banner

tbh I would join the MEGA movement

Joining me in the chamber today is Hani Almadhoun, who has lost over 150 members of his extended family in Netanyahu’s genocide. After witnessing his sister forced to eat animal feed, he and his family were determined to start a soup kitchen to feed their starving neighbors. pic.twitter.com/H5Wtj2N1Ql

— Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib (@RepRashida) July 24, 2024

https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/uk-says-they-wont-object-icc-arrest-warrant-netanyahu

"British Prime Minister Keir Starmer will drop the UK's objection to an arrest warrant being issued by the International Criminal Court (ICC) for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, saying it was a matter for the court."

https://nationalpost.com/news/cra-jewish-national-fund-charitable-status

The Canada Revenue Agency has notified the century-old Jewish National Fund that it plans to revoke the group’s charitable status in Canada over support for military infrastructure in Israel, a decision the JNF says it will challenge in the courts.

The JNF claims the CRA changed the rules for charitable donations, long after the organization’s work had been approved.

I was reading about Harris's statement about the anti-Netanyahu protests in DC here: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/kamala-harris-american-flag-burning-union-station-dc-hamas-israel/

That article says "Vice President Kamala Harris condemned demonstrators who voiced support for Hamas and burned an American flag near the U.S. Capitol to protest Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's address to Congress." The bolded part is a link to this article, which contains zero references to anyone voicing support for Hamas. A Reuters piece mentions pro-Hamas "graffiti" but has no photos -- is there a credible source for this somewhere?

Not that it particularly matters given what was happening inside the Capitol tbh, but I'm curious how disingenuous her statement was and, beyond KH, how much effort is going into whitewashing Bibi's repugnant speech and Congress hosting a baldly dishonest justification and grotesque celebration of genocide normal

missed the link to the second article: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/netanyahu-address-congress-police-deploy-pepper-spray-washington-dc/