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   Estelle Platini (estelle@techhub.social)'s status on Saturday, 16-Nov-2024 14:33:32 JST Estelle Platini

   In this article Sonia Boulos and Tamir Sorek discuss the policing of the use of the "Genocide" word.

   "Abstract: Both societies, Israeli and Palestinian, harbor a collective trauma of annihilation and a national ethos of victimhood. While it is understandable that both sides see themselves as victims of genocidal acts in the current unprecedented wave of violence, when the term “genocide” is used in Western academia and public debates to describe the Israeli attack on Gaza, it is highly policed and is quickly associated with antisemitism. Considering that the Gaza Strip has lost almost one percent of its inhabitants while Israeli leaders use explicit annihilatory language, language policing surrounding genocide has become fatal for Palestinians."

   https://www.securityincontext.org/posts/can-we-talk-about-genocide

   #humanRights #genocide #Israeli #Palestinians #conflation #antisemitism #politics #guilt #manipulation #fragility #language #policing #israel #israelGazaWar #Gaza #warCrimes #proZionism #StandWithIsrael #media

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     Estelle Platini (estelle@techhub.social)'s status on Saturday, 16-Nov-2024 14:33:29 JST Estelle Platini

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     Hisham Matar: "Acrobatics […] so as not to name the crimes for what they are, but name some of them, so as to have named something"

     Kate Greenberg: https://vashtimedia.com/translation-of-solidarity-amsterdam/ 🧶

     #discrimination #moralBeauty #liberals #policing #respectability #Zionism #JewishState #israelism #Maccabi #TelAviv #MaccabiTelAviv #NL #Netherlands #Amsterdam #UK #silencing #PalestinianLivesMatter #fragility #warOnGaza #GazaWar #IsraelHamas #genocide #ethnicCleansing #October7 #JewishSupremacy #supremacy #VashtiMedia #Vashti #hasbara #hasbarah #grievability #racism #islamophobia #community #solidarity #conflation #confusion #antisemitism #antiZionism #politics #recycling #manipulation #coOpting #coloniality #proZionism #StandWithIsrael #lineOfColor #raceMaking

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     Estelle Platini (estelle@techhub.social)'s status on Saturday, 16-Nov-2024 14:33:30 JST Estelle Platini

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     "The trips I joined seemed intended to reassure participants that they could support @israel while retaining the moral clarity of the victim."

     "The trips not only blur past and present Jewish trauma, but encourage visiting Americans to assume an Israeli identity—and the sense of embattlement that comes with it."

     Maya Rosen: https://jewishcurrents.org/the-rise-of-october-7th-tourism

     #liberals #victimhood #tourism #darkTourism #separatism #communautarism #policing #respectability #Zionism #JewishState #israelism #fragility #warOnGaza #October7 #JewishSupremacy #supremacy #hasbara #hasbarah #grievability #racism #islamophobia #community #solidarity #conflation #confusion #antisemitism #politics #recycling #manipulation #coOpting #coloniality #StandWithIsrael

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     Estelle Platini (estelle@techhub.social)'s status on Saturday, 16-Nov-2024 14:33:31 JST Estelle Platini

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     As Rita Jabri Markwell put it:
     • trauma is a genuine wound;
     • fragility serves as an exercise of power over oppressed peoples.
     In the Zionist case, fragility depends on genuine wounds (collective Jewish historical trauma) to leverage its power and silence dissenters.

     Randa Abdel-Fattah: https://https://mondoweiss.net/2023/12/on-zionist-feelings/ @supremacy

     #freeSpeech #StandWithIsrael #policing #respectability #coloniality #proZionism #JewishState #israelism #USPol #campuses #philoSemitism #silencing #JudithButler #PalestinianLivesMatter #warCrimes #genocide #diversion #smokeScreen #fragility #warOnGaza #JewishSupremacy #supremacy

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     Estelle Platini (estelle@techhub.social)'s status on Saturday, 16-Nov-2024 14:33:31 JST Estelle Platini

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     After youth movements:
     “To not tell those stories out of shame only serves to cement the destiny and ideology of those educated within Zionist institutions"

     https://vashtimedia.com/zionist-youth-movements/ @supremacy 🧶

     #shame #StandWithIsrael #policing #respectability #coloniality #Zionism #JewishState #israelism #UK #silencing #PalestinianLivesMatter #fragility #warOnGaza #JewishSupremacy #supremacy #VashtiMedia #Vashti

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     Estelle Platini (estelle@techhub.social)'s status on Saturday, 16-Nov-2024 14:33:32 JST Estelle Platini

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     On #entitlement, #presumption, #fragility:
     "For Jewish Zionists, the shock induced by Hamas’ breakout and attack is compounded by a sense of rage and indignation that Palestinian fighters momentarily turned the tables, piercing through Israel’s years of military siege and occupation. This [is] “the loss of the prerogative, only and always, to be the one who transgresses the sovereign boundaries of other states, but never to be in the position of having one’s own boundaries transgressed” — arguably explains why Israelis were so quick to describe Hamas’ attack as Israel’s 9/11. It explains why the reflexive response, like the U.S. after 9/11, was to exact revenge not only for the Israelis killed or held hostage but for the colonized and the occupied to dare to fight back against the oppression; to dare to transgress the besieged boundaries of Gaza and claim freedom and life."

     Randa Abdel-Fattah: https://mondoweiss.net/2023/12/on-zionist-feelings/ @israel

     #WarOnTerror #coloniality #StandWithIsrael #JudithButler