Aral Balkan
You can support the Palestinian people without supporting Hamas. You can support the Ukrainian people, oppose Russia, and oppose American imperialism at the same time.
Do you see the common thread? You can support the everyday people being oppressed without taking the side of any oppressor.
Aral Balkan
@HNumberger The latter must be especially hard given you’re in Germany. Lots of love and solidarity 💕
Helga Numberger 🐧
@aral My words for the last two years. I might add: You can oppose Israel's policies without being antisemitic. I just don't understand why so many people - even academics - are uncapable of differentiating 🙈🤷♀️
Aral Balkan
An important note to my Palestinian friends in Gaza: please do not favourite, boost, share, or otherwise show support publicly for any of my posts wherein I criticise Hamas. I would urge you to avoid the topic entirely in public discourse here. This is for your own safety.
Also, to any keyboard warriors who want to have philosophical conversations about Hamas with people from Gaza (or worse, want them to denounce them) as you sit in your comfy armchair enjoying the safety of your gilded Western abode: don’t. They don’t owe you anything and you could be putting their lives at risk.
Onslow Poly
Those terms being often conflated in a widely accepted but fundamentally unfit definition of anti-semitism as proposed, ratified and used as a guiding principle—IHRA definition of antisemitism.
The definition started badly, has been heavily criticised, including various Jewish groups, but was broadly accepted in the countries you might expect.
This, of course, led to issues in academia and journalism as certain lobby groups will then cite the definition against any perceived criticism.
It's easier and cheaper to simply retract.
The definition is, IMHO, junk, not fit for purpose and a means to chill speech, particularly against Israel, this enforcing the status quo.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IHRA_definition_of_antisemitism
Vinnie (any)
@HNumberger that's because some very powerful Zionists have an interest in conflating the terms. @aral
Aral Balkan
@shantini Thanks, Shantini. I’ll let my Turkish parents know I’m a white man now.
Do fuck off.
Shantini
@aral oh look another white man giving patronizing advice to marginalized people. Check your privilege. And when multiple brown people call you out, don’t write an essay. Check your privilege again. Sit with it. Or you are no better than any other oppressor we encounter.
Dumu
@gimulnautti @aral @Heavenly_Possum @NoahLoren13 so can you support Syrian people and minorities without being an Erdogan apologist or Ahmed Al-Sharaa apologist or a Sunni Jihad/Sharia/Islamism apologist?
And yeah, NATO is pretty Authoritarian, the US, the UK, and most the West are pretty Authoritarian for sure.
Aral Balkan
@VoidDumu @gimulnautti @Heavenly_Possum @NoahLoren13 If you can’t, the problem is with you.
Toni Aittoniemi
@aral Yes. It’s actually the authoritarians who try to convince us of the opposite.
Because they are:
1) Stupid and boring simpletons who can’t be helped
2) When not so stupid, fearful zero-sum-games types whose first instinct is to lie
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