No, that’s not exactly right, although it serves a certain narrative to make it seem so. Religious conflict is an element, yes, but the central tension is one of a settler-colonial ethnostate founded along 1800s/1900s European nationalist lines (Israel) dispossessing the inhabitants of a land (Palestinians), hemming…

Also lol “business as usual” dating back uhhhh not that long actually!

I’m not sure how you can argue that the Israelis are worse in that regard.

Also, if Gal Gadot as an Israeli is accountable for the actions of her government, does this standard apply to Americans as well?

I appreciate your own response, and I’m not trying to come off as abrasive (I’m just a rando in the comments section too!), but really...I’m not incredibly surprised Zionists/settlers/colonizers find an anti-Zionist/anti-settler-colonial demand offensive; most Afrikaners found anti-apartheid movements offensive as…

Not really sure what you’re getting at here — “pro-life” was never code for anything other than antichoice/misogynistic drives so there was nothing to co-opt there, and the fact that “Black Lives Matter” has been turned into “wHiTe GeNoCiDe” by reactionary chuds (which would the the case with literally any phrase…

Respectfully, as an entire wing of my family and literally every other Jew in their village was murdered by Nazis and the Iron Guard, I reserve the right to use whatever language I find appropriate regarding the Palestinian right to national liberation from the brutality of the settler-colonial Israeli state.

Despite the efforts of colonizer rhetoric to identify a call for one unified Palestine with the “genocide of Jews/Israelis,” it most certainly does not, and I am happy to use it with full awareness of its anticolonial roots. Colonizing powers — whether they be in Israel, the US, or anywhere similarly occupied — always…

While there are undoubtedly anti-semitic Jews out there (like those who’d conflate the modern settler-colonial state of Israel with the Jewish people) no I’m not one of them. Thank you for asking.

Sure, but they do do what we tell them (unless you believe we somehow really mean it when we make an occasional bleat of objection to whatever cruelties they’re carrying out against Palestinians, in which case I can’t say I agree!), represent our interests in the region, and exercise force on our behalf, so that…

If a dog occasionally bites its owner, that still doesn’t really alter the power dynamic between them. Isreal was founded along explicitly European settler-colonialist/ethnonationalist lines (Herzl didn’t exactly shy away from announcing as much!), much like the US, and is very much of the same stripe ideologically,…

If any of you think this sort of brutality is somehow anomalous, attributable solely to the influence of Bibi & co., or a recent development, gang it’s gonna blow your minds when you read about how literally the entire state of Israel was established in the first place.

50% right, I think — while Israel is, like SA used to be, an apartheid state, and it’s very true that they’re not good citizens of Earth, they are most definitely our friends and allies. Israel is functionally a US client/puppet state and our primary regional hub to exercise dominance/hegemony over MENA; the crimes…

It’s somewhere between brazen, (depressingly) hilarious, and infuriating that we in the US could literally ever castigate other countries as “authoritarian” when this is the result of “democratic” processes here at home. What a repulsive man, what a repulsive decision, what a repulsive institution.

The Latina experience is being a Republican who’s still furious that Castro took away your family’s slaves. It’s universal, really.

Good. Is this still a white supremacist nation? Yes. Is US policing still an inherently and unreformably white supremacist institution within that white supremacist nation? Yes. Does this represent real justice? No. Can the legal structures of the US provide real justice? No, of course not. Does this country still…

Conned a bunch of politically ignorant dorks into thinking he’s some sort of forward-thinking trailblazer instead of a dude who knows less than nothing regarding anything relevant to the positions he seeks?

The royal apologists are out here in full force

You don’t have to be sympathetic when horrible ancient racists die even if they loved and were loved by their families.

Crossfit is a cult. It’s not that all their workouts are inherently bad or useless (though some are; stuff like kipping is helpful in teaching you how to...well, do kipping pull-ups, and that’s about it), but the culture surrounding it gives me the fucking creeps — that “push yourself no matter what the risk to your…