Paul Cantrell
1. Antisemitism is rising. Not just phony “ooo you can't criticize Israel” BS; real yes-actual antisemitism, from centrists to fascists to leftists.
2. Israel is committing yes-actual genocide in Gaza.
3. People are fighting to weaken, discredit, and undermine the institutions like the ICC, HRW, and Amnesty International that exist to fight genocide.
Do you all not see how completely non-contradictory these three truths are? Do you not see how •dangerous• (3) is in the context of (1)?
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Paul Cantrell
These groups like Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch are basically the only international tools we have against genocide. Their only power is soft power: they live or die solely by respect, buy-in, a shared global belief in their moral authority.
It is hard for me to imagine that dismantling our meager international capacity to fight genocide won’t open the doors to the targeting of Jewish people. This is such a dangerous game defenders of Israeli right-wingers are playing.
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Kim Spence-Jones 🇬🇧😷
@inthehands (2) (the genocide) is enabling (1) (the antisemitism). But Netanyahu likes that, because the more vulnerable Jews feel, the more they will look for a ‘tough’ leader. It’s hard to imagine a more irresponsible strategy to maintain personal power.
Franceska Mann
Naomi Klein has written quite a bit about this. She says the education Jewish children receive is more of a holocaust re-trauma than an education. Klein believes that Jewish folks are being kept in their wounds and that this empowers the far right.
your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦
@inthehands especially since christian zionism is peak antisemitism. their whole purpose of supporting Israel is to entrench it as a theocracy, then turn it into a WHITE CHRISTIAN THEOCRACY.
Netanyahu is playing a very dangerous game of chicken. he’s still breathing because his genocide will benefit the christozionist gringos who will continue it in Israel once he is done in Gaza.
it’s obvious Israelis do not understand how violent and genocidal gringo christofascism is prepared to be.
Paul Cantrell
@justcare
This whole reply is a prime example of (3) in the OP.
justcare
@inthehands The problem here is that the ICC and Amnesty adjust their processes and words to fit the accusation, not the other way around.
For instance, Amnesty quite literally changed the definition of genocide to fit the accusation. Additionally, they champion people like Walid Daqqa.
Meanwhile, the ICC both lacks jurisdiction in the Israel / Hamas war (due to both the status of the territory and conditions of the Oslo Accords), and ignores far more open and flagrant violations of human rights by countries such as North Korea, Iran, and Syria.
These double-standards and shifting definitions to fit accusations, rather than accusations to fit definitions, is in itself antisemitic.
Paul Cantrell
In case you were needing an example of what (3) in the OP looks like in practice, this burner account helpfully provides an example.
Paul Cantrell
@donaldball
Not just lies. Propaganda.
justcare
@inthehands So the ICC and Amnesty are immune from criticism? Not only that but it's pretty pointed and specific criticism, not just blanket dismissal.
Donald Ball
@justcare The critiques you made are lies.
Paul Cantrell
@donaldball (And P.S. I don't recommend engaging with this account. It's a burner account: at best a troll, at worst part of a state-sponsored propaganda effort.)
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