@raphmim.bsky.social
I write on Israel/Palestine as an anti-Zionist Jew at OneSmallDetail.blog • member of decolonial Jewish collective @tsdkcollectif.bsky.social • I paint X-walks with @crosswalksla.bsky.social • public interest technologist at https://wearehorizontal.org
In @gabrielzucman.bsky.social's excellent historical background of Trump's overthrow of Maduro: "in 1957, US oil companies generated as much profit in Venezuela as all US companies across all industries in all Latin American & European countries combined"
gabrielzucman.substack.com/p/comprendre...
The Bush admin took 2 years to go from "Saddam has weapons of mass destructions" to "he supports Al-Qaeda" to "Iraq needs democracy" & never admitted it was about oil
Within 2 months, Trump went from "Maduro sends fethanyl to the US" to "Venezuela needs democracy" to "we're taking over for the oil"
"Gaza is also ours. We’re just letting them stay there as guests until a certain point, but Gaza is ours.”
Not surprising from an overt Jewish supremacist, but it's better for them to say these things openly and explicitly so we can't pretend we didn't know.
www.timesofisrael.com/culture-mini...
Anyone who truly and sincerely opposes this unfolding tragedy, and who fears the devastation it will bring upon both the Israeli-Jewish and Palestinian-Arab peoples, must recognize this: the only way to avert disaster is through the complete and unconditional end of the occupation.
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Some may even be driven to acts of terrorism. I cannot bring myself to moral outrage over this fact, because such resistance is a natural consequence of colonial rule. Occupation breeds rebellion; rebellion breeds terrorism; terrorism provokes counter-terrorism; and the cycle continues.
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Yeshayahu Leibowitz, the Israeli public intellectual, said in a speech in 1980:
The corruption of occupation does not stop with the occupiers - it also deforms the lives of the occupied [...].
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screenshot of a Haaretz op-ed with the headline "How Peter Beinart's Capitulation to the Israel Boycott Movement Harms the Palestinian Cause" and the subheading "Peter Beinart declared he wanted to 'challenge Jewish supremacy' by speaking at Tel Aviv University. Twelve hours later, he executed a whiplash-inducing apology, conceding to the BDS movement's purity tests. His reversal only benefits the most absolutist pro-Palestine voices that dismiss Israelis wholesale as monsters"
Disagreeing with the logic or strategy of BDS is fine, but it's always too obvious these critics have no understanding of the boycott: we don't claim that all Israelis as monsters, we simply know that Israeli academia is actively complicit in apartheid, and therefore should not be engaged with.
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screenshot of a Haaretz article with the headline "German parliament approves $3.5b expansion of Arrow 3 deal with Israel" and the subheading "Follow-up contract to include interceptors for Israeli-made system, recently delivered to Germany as part of earlier €4b sale "
Germany keeps its spot on the podium of the states who are most responsible in the destruction of the Palestinian people
18.12.2025 23:57 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0The massacre at Bondi Beach cannot cover all the massacres in the Gaza Strip. The Palestinians can only watch with tearful eyes from their collapsing tents that do not protect their occupants from the whipping winds, as the world is shocked by Bondi, and forgets them at alarming haste.
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There were many other massacres like that one, including during the "cease-fire" in which hundreds of innocent Gazans have already been killed.
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There were two murderers at Bondi Beach. In Gaza, an entire country and army are behind the massacres. At least 36 people, 18 of them children, died in May's strike on a school in Beit Hanoun.
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Above all is the cloud of the double standard: The massacre of 15 people on a Sydney beach is able to blur the horrifically large massacres in Gaza.
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An imaginary same fate of an Australian rabbi and an Israeli soldier in the Gaza Strip is used as a weapon against Israel's bitter critics: Look at us, how pitiful we are, the whole world is against us and slaughtering us.
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Nonetheless, terrorist attacks of this kind serve Israeli propaganda: They put the Jews and Israelis on the same cart of disasters: How good it is to come together when the whole world is against us.
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Even the usual blaming of Iran encountered a regrettable factual difficulty: ISIS and Iran are enemies. What a shame the terrorists weren't Palestinians. That would facilitate the propaganda and increase the profit line.
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The debates about antisemitism immediately took over the debate again, even when it was clear that the murderers were ISIS, fighting not just Jews but the entire West.
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all the claims that all Muslims and Arabs in the world are guilty of innate murder were silenced.
Is it possible that there is an Arab who shows humanity and courage? Another house of cards has collapsed, but only for a moment, of course.
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The comic relief came in the form of the Australian-Syrian hero who saved the Jews. Netanyahu even tried to talk about the "Jewish heroism," until the embarrassing information came in about the identity of Ahmed al-Ahmed, and for a moment,
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"How come the Australian government didn't send representatives to the funerals of the Jews?" they grumbled in Israel. The chutzpah crossed every boundary.
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A minister went to the funerals in Sydney, crossing the Jerusalem-Sydney distance far faster than any minister crossed the distance from Jerusalem to Nir Oz, the representative of a government that attended no funeral of its citizens from the Gaza war.
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The Australians do not know how and do not want to fight terrorism. Just look at us; there are no terrorist attacks here at all.
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Israel never misses an opportunity to generate political and propaganda capital from every terrorist attack. Hints about Mossad warnings that Australia allegedly ignored were also immediately circulated.
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Netanyahu knows a thing or two about taking personal responsibility, which is why he rushed to accuse his peer of daring to recognize a Palestinian state; ostensibly, there is a link between the empty recognition of an imaginary state and the massacre.
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But the shock was accompanied by hypocrisy, cynical use and double standards. First and foremost was, of course, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who was quick to blame the massacre on Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese.
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In the days that followed, the world expressed shock at the heinous crime of murdering 15 Jews. Everyone was horrified by what had happened. The Bondi massacre deserved this global shock.
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She stood and shouted, showing her shivering children their worn-out, ragged and water-soaked clothes, but no one listened to her. The world had switched to the massacre in Sydney.
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When the two murderers stood at Bondi Beach, massacring the innocents, a woman stood at the Khan Yunis beach trying to push out water that had flooded the tent she calls home with a broom.
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Gideon Levy, once again, has the correct take on Bondi. Full text of his Haaretz column here:
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#Israel #Palestine #Gaza #Bondi
A white paint pen
It would be unfortunate if someone walking by with a white paint pen (with extra broad chisel tip) finished up the memorial, now that the outline is done
17.12.2025 21:33 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0When the city scraped off our crosswalks, they also removed our memorial to Nadir. Today we went to put it back and the cops made us stop. But no matter how hard they try, the city can’t erase the memory of Nadir or their own negligence that contributed to his death.
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