Notices by Estelle Platini (estelle@techhub.social), page 2

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

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

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

"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

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

Colonial Convergence

Benjamin Beit-Hallahmi, who teaches at the University of #Haifa, #israelPalestine, explained the paradox: “One can detest Jews and love Israelis, because Israelis somehow are not Jews. Israelis are colonial fighters and settlers, just like Afrikaners. They are tough and resilient. They know how to dominate. Jews are different. They are, among other qualities, gentle, non-physical, often passive, intellectual. So one can go on disliking Jews while admiring the Israelis.”

Benjamin Beit-Hallahmi, "The Israeli Connection. Who Israel Arms and Why", Pantheon Books, New York, 1987; cited by Alain Gresh: https://africasacountry.com/2009/08/south-africa-and-israel/ @israel

#history #support #antisemitism #judeophobia #raceMaking #politics #manipulation #coloniality #proZionism #StandWithIsrael #Apartheid #israelApartheid #quotes #SouthAfrica #ZA #Zionism #colonialism #armsTrade #solidarity #allyship #allies

"As conflation and confusion abound after 7 October, we need clear thinking about antisemitism"
by:
David Feldman, director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Study of Antisemitism,
Brendan McGeever, senior lecturer at the Birkbeck Institute for the Study of Antisemitism.

https://vashtimedia.com/2023/11/09/issues/antisemitism/hamas-israel-pogrom-antisemitism/

#pogrom #solidarity #conflation #confusion #antisemitism #antiZionism #politics #proZionism #Strunsky #DuBois #Birkbeck

"Palestine, as George Orwell pointed out in 1945, is a ‘colour issue’, and this is the way it was inevitably seen by Gandhi, who pleaded with Zionist leaders not to resort to terrorism against Arabs using Western arms".

Pankaj Mishra in #LRB: https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/n06/pankaj-mishra/the-shoah-after-gaza

#rightToExist #nationalism #trauma #raceMaking #proZionism #Zionism #coloniality #JewishSupremacy #israel #colorLine #Modi #manliness #armsTrade #brutalization #violence #genocide #genocideJoe #Germany #Shoah #colonialism #terrorism

"The Campaign Against Antisemitism #CAA was formed in 2014, after a previous Israeli bombardment of Gaza. Its explicit founding purpose was to counter the antisemitism that arises in Britain when Israel pummels Palestinians and, implicitly, to defend Israel’s right to pummel. Chief executive Gideon Falter is also vice chairman of the Jewish National Fund #JNF UK, which is reported to have provided funding to the CAA in the past. The JNF enjoys charitable status and its existence predates the Balfour Declaration. For over a century, it has bought up land in historic Palestine, helped plan the Nakba, furthered exclusive Jewish settlement and transformed colonised land into parks and forests to erase what had been before."

On respectability politics and #philosemitism: https://vashtimedia.com/2023/12/01/formats/opinion/a-long-way-from-cable-street-antisemitism-march-palestine/ @history @histodons

#Diaspora #Zionism #conflation #confusion #StandWithIsrael #terrorism #coloniality #proZionism #antisemitism

In Our Palestine Question, Geoffrey Levin shows how American Jewish critics of Israel were dislodged from Jewish institutions in the decades following the state’s formation. ‘The question of the Arab refugees is a moral issue which rises above diplomacy,’ William Zukerman, the editor of the Jewish Newsletter, wrote in 1950. ‘The land now called Israel belongs to the Arab Refugees no less than to any Israeli. They have lived on that soil and worked on it… for twelve hundred years… The fact that they fled in panic is no excuse for depriving them of their homes.’ Under Israeli pressure, Zukerman lost his job as a New York correspondent for the London-based Jewish Chronicle. Arthur Lourie, the Israeli consul general in New York, exulted in his firing: ‘a real MITZVAH’.

https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/n12/adam-shatz/israel-s-descent

#conflation #rightToExist #nationalism #trauma #nyc #Zionism #coloniality #JewishSupremacy #israel #manliness #genocide #LRB #colonialism #Jewish #proZionism #StandWithIsrael #israelism #diaspora

"At a talk in Brooklyn [in 1985, Primo] Levi, asked for his opinion on Middle East politics, started to say that ‘Israel was a mistake in historical terms.’ An uproar ensued, and the moderator had to halt the meeting."

Pankaj Mishra in #LRB: https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/n06/pankaj-mishra/the-shoah-after-gaza

#rightToExist #nationalism #trauma #Brooklyn #Zionism #coloniality #JewishSupremacy #israel #colorLine #ElieWiesel #Holocaust #PrimoLevi #manliness #armsTrade #brutalization #violence #genocide #genocideJoe #Germany #Shoah #colonialism #terrorism #proZionism #StandWithIsrael #philoSemitism

Watch a conversation with Diana Buttu (a Palestinian-Canadian lawyer and a former spokesperson for the Palestine Liberation Organization) about the support of the United States to the israeli escalations: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asETBWThM0g

(with Spanish subtitles)

#supremacy #dehumanization #USWars #war #nationalism #genocide #ethnicCleansing #racism #coloniality #politics #propaganda #rightToExist #JewishSupremacy #whiteSupremacy #colonialism #proZionism #StandWithIsrael #MiddleEast #imperialism #ideology #USA #USPol #DianaButtu #GenocideJoe #Zionism #stateViolence #islamophobia #ongoingNakba #USIsrael #escalations

• #Antisemitism must be vigorously challenged as a pillar of Eurocentric white supremacy.
• #Zionism is a specific political ideology and form of ethnonationalism that drove the establishment of the state of Israel and maintains the illegal occupation of Palestine.

"The primary goal of the IHRA definition is not to fight antisemitism or to protect Jewish communities from racist attacks, predominantly carried out by white supremacists; it is a mechanism to suppress advocacy for Palestinian rights. Of the definition’s 11 examples, seven deem criticism of Israel or Zionism to be antisemitic."

Harsha Walia wrote an excellent primer on deliberate #conflation: https://monitormag.ca/articles/colonialism-racism-and-the-ihra/ via @KarenWyld

#IHRA #philoSemitism #nationalism #ethnicCleansing #racism #coloniality #politics #recycling #manipulation #coOpting #fragility #censorship #NeverAgain #reputation #rightToExist #trauma #JewishSupremacy #whiteSupremacy #CanadaIsrael #colonialism #proZionism #StandWithIsrael #Canada #Toronto #schools #HarshaWalia

"Dear members of the University community,

"The University administration respects all student protests, just not this one. Students have fought for many important causes over the years, and their right to protest is sacrosanct. In this case, however, we must arrest and slander them.

“We will not look back and regret this decision. Although we were wrong about not admitting women, abolitioning racial quotas, US involvement in Vietnam, and divesting from apartheid South Africa, we are confident that this time is different."

https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/a-message-from-the-chancellor-on-the-recent-student-protest

#students #studentStrike #studentProtests #academicChatter #faculty #universities #antisemitism #conflation #StandWithIsrael #funding #Deans #University #College #HigherEd #coloniality #institutionsDeceive #humor #humour #adultDomination #fragility #whiteFragility

Read below a discussion about the convergence of market and technology. Follow #technocriticism

"The authorities say they have no choice but to move forward and keep up. Produce more and more, faster and faster. In reality, technological #progress has got out of hand. It's out of our control. And we should be the ones adapting to its frenetic pace. The ecological crisis has become a pretext for increasing global competition, the technological race and social and environmental dumping".

"What green growth offers us as a 'solution' is ever more markets and technology, […] a frantic quest for efficiency and rationalisation, with no regard for sensitivity or the quest for harmonious relations with others and with nature."

"With green industry, new tax credits and guarantees will be granted. Not 12 billion euros for workers and pensions, but hundreds of billions for big business."

Hélène Tordjman (in fr) : https://reporterre.net/Helene-Tordjman-M-Macron-est-enferme-dans-son-delire-productiviste

#neoliberalism #acceleration #accelerate #agriculture #greenGrowth #sustainableDevelopment #technocriticism #convergence

“The idea of effecting decentralization while maintaining technical progress is purely utopian.”
~ Jacques Ellul

#productivity #efficiency #criticalTheory #Ellul #acceleration #accelerate #sustainability #sustainableDevelopment #technocriticism #convergence #quotes #degrowth #governance #agriculture