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Nov 12, 2023Liked by Damian Counsell

Helen Fry's book is (also) called π‘‡β„Žπ‘’ π‘Šπ‘Žπ‘™π‘™π‘  π»π‘Žπ‘£π‘’ πΈπ‘Žπ‘Ÿπ‘ . Just started it. Pretty good so far.

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https://beeley.substack.com/p/israels-ai-assassination-factory

If you uncritically report to the world the lurid, unverified claims of racist Israeli officials as they cynically try to generate support for/distract from the genocide they are perpetrating in front of our eyes, you’re not a journalist –you’re an accomplice to their crimes.

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way to go making this about placards, otherwise you'd have to talk about a massacre

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yes how dare they want to expel European settler 'Israelis' from 'Israel' and get their homes back, return to where their families were born and stop being oppressed? do you have ANY idea about the history of US backed European colonists expelling and terrorising people in Palestine? Being anti-Zionist is not anti-Jewish. https://normanfinkelstein.substack.com/p/missing-links-in-ben-shapiros-facts

You seem to want protesters against child killing to be arrested and are supporting terrorists who openly state they are performing a new Nakba on Gaza and wish for a complete genocide. Even US hawkish neocon are now feeling squeamish. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=etXje5eGuL0

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Your reference to the Eustonite tendency is interesting. In retrospect it seems like the kind of unprincipled grouping that gets floated before collapsing at the first challenge. It is always the actual wars that separate the wheat from the chaff. These groupings only work by ignoring the hard problems. Sure some people use anti Zionism as a cover for their antisemitism, but so also do some Israelis use Zionism as a cover for anti Arab bigotry. It seems kind of symmetrical to me.

More importantly if people are going to have a theory of peace in the world without suggesting a real solution for Palestinians then it is hard take them very seriously. The Eustonites of the world (and many Zionists) basically think that the Palestinians should just go away.

Actually β€œthink” is not the right word. β€œWish” is probably better. And on the West Bank, the settlers and some parts of the current government are more of the β€œdoing” than β€œwishing” sort of people.

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