I'm excited that @theintercept's website now lets authors specify their Signal phone number and their Mastodon and Bluesky account at the bottom of every article!
The Intercept authors can also now verify themselves on Mastodon by linking to their author bio in their metadata.
One day after Elon Musk agrees with a great replacement Jews "hatred against whites" tweet, the CEO of the Anti-Defamation League thanks Elon for his "leadership in fighting hate" because he's suspending X users who post the phrases "decolonization" or "from the river to the sea"
@chybnej uh, it says nothing about Hamas because they're not suing Hamas. This is specifically a lawsuit about the US failing in its legal obligation to prevent genocide
@chybnej Also, you "don't see Palestinians are distinguishing themselves from Hamas"? What?
I'm not sure if you're aware, but if one person from an ethnic group commits a crime, others from that same group aren't responsible for it. So if a white person murders a black person, other white people aren't responsible for that crime.
It sounds like you're referring to members of Hamas, as opposed to "Palestinians" in general.
I absolutely agree that members of Hamas, especially leadership, should be sued or otherwise face charges for their crimes. But not "Palestinians", as that is an ethnic group
“Under international law, the United States has a duty to take all measures available to it to prevent a genocide. Yet, Defendants have repeatedly refused to use their obvious and considerable influence to set conditions or place limits on Israel’s massive bombing and total siege of Gaza,” the lawsuit reads.
“Despite escalating evidence of Israeli policies directed at inflicting mass harm to the Palestinian population in Gaza,” the Biden administration has opposed “a life-saving cease-fire and lifting of the siege, even vetoing United Nations measures calling for a ceasefire,” the lawsuit continues. “Instead, their actions to fund, arm, and endorse Israel’s mass and devastating bombing campaign and total siege of the Palestinians in Gaza constitutes a failure to prevent an unfolding genocide and complicity in its development.”
ADL publishes a map of "Antisemitic Incidents and Anti-Israel Rallies in the U.S. Since Hamas’s Attack on Israel." 46% of the points are antisemitic vandalism, harassment, and assault, much of it from neo-Nazis. The other 54% are anti-war protests which ADL calls "anti-Israel rallies"
Here are some examples of "Anti-Israel Rallies" from ADL's map, all organized by Jews:
- Oct 16, blockading entrances to the White House - Oct 19, marching on Capitol Hill, hundreds arrested at sit-in in Capitol - Oct 27, Grand Central Station, largest sit-in in NYC in over two decades
"We’re seeing a genuine rise in antisemitic attacks and white nationalist, white supremacist, antisemitic hate and violence. When white nationalism is on the rise, to cheapen the accusation of antisemitism by applying it to Palestinian rights advocates, including Jews, is incredibly irresponsible and dangerous." - Eva Borgwardt, IfNotNow
For all those doubting the Gaza Health Ministry numbers (which right now is 7,326 dead, including 3,038 children, and another 18,967 injured), here's a good summary of how the numbers are counted:
> The Gaza casualty numbers come mostly from doctors who diligently count every body brought into struggling hospitals, then send the numbers on to the Health Ministry for tabulation, The Associated Press explained regarding the accuracy of the death count. And while Hamas exerts control over the ministry, it's partly funded and run by the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank — a key Hamas rival — and many of its civil servants predate Gaza's Hamas takeover. The United Nations and other international institutions and experts "say the Gaza ministry has long made a good-faith effort to account for the dead under the most difficult conditions," AP reported, and "in previous wars, the ministry's counts have held up to U.N. scrutiny, independent investigations and even Israel's tallies."
I just did the math. With the death toll in Gaza over 7,300 from Israeli bombardment, that's equivalent to *295* September 11ths, proportional to the population of Gaza
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