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Leitartikel zum katastrophalen inneren Zustand Israels von Gad Lerner (ein jüdischer Italiener) in "Manifesto". Der erste Text, der alles zusammenfasst & zuspitzt, aus jüdischer Perspektive.
(Ital. Long Tweet von @paolomossetti, maschinenübersetzt)
«La società israeliana è malata nel profondo. Magari bastasse sanzionare il ministro Ben-Gvir... la trasfigurazione fascista d’Israele è un processo avvertibile prima dal basso che dal vertice delle istituzioni. Lo cogli nello scherno diffuso per gli aravim (pochi chiamano i palestinesi col loro nome); nella tracotanza dei coloni che ormai inquina l’operato dei giovani militari; nello sfoggio impunito della crudeltà vissuta come manifestazione di potenza, nel disprezzo misogino per l’Europa femmina sottomessa; nel gusto di offendere le religioni altrui.
Sono comportamenti di una minoranza soltanto degli israeliani? È vero. Quasi certamente il prossimo settembre si svolgeranno elezioni democratiche che potrebbero spedire a casa Netanyahu? È vero. Sono falliti i tentativi di minare per legge le funzioni di garanzia della Corte suprema? È vero. Ma la dissennatezza con cui il governo ha concepito una sequenza di guerre senza fine nel tentativo di saziare il bisogno di sicurezza degli israeliani angosciati dalla minaccia esistenziale del 7 ottobre, lascia presagire quel che i regimi fascismi hanno sempre fatto quando restano isolati e sfiduciati: rivolgere le armi contro il nemico interno. Una guerra civile scatenata dai coloni e dalle milizie di Ben-Gvir non sarebbe eventualità remota allorquando una nuova leadership israeliana -a ciò costretta da Usa e Ue- decretasse concessioni territoriali in favore di un nascituro Stato palestinese.
Se e come la fascistizzazione sia reversibile, è dunque l’interrogativo del momento. Di fronte al quale non possiamo rimanere solo spettatori. Sono necessarie pressioni efficaci dall’esterno -stop a rifornimenti militari e accordi commerciali- da parte dei governi alleati la cui benevolenza ha indotto fin qui Israele a concepire un progetto di egemonia regionale al tempo stesso delinquenziale e irrealizzabile...
Ma è dentro al mondo ebraico che si gioca la partita determinante sul futuro di uno Stato che -persistendo nell’espansionismo suprematista e nella persecuzione dei palestinesi- altra scelta non avrebbe che trasformarsi definitivamente in regime autoritario.
Mi ha colpito verificare, durante una visita recente, quanto sia diffuso anche fra gli oppositori di Netanyahu (che sono la maggioranza) e fra gli illuminati cercatori di pace con i palestinesi (che oggi sono una minoranza) l’istinto di negazione dei crimini perpetrati dalle forze armate israeliane.
Assumere consapevolezza di quanto Israele sia caduto in basso significherebbe veder crollare l’idea che ti eri fatto del luogo a te più caro, spesso l’approdo cui la tua famiglia era giunta dopo immani sofferenze. Dal quale andarsene per molti è impossibile e, per chi può, equivale comunque a un fallimento.
Per quanto faticoso, il superamento dell’istinto di negazione della realtà è indispensabile a rafforzare le difese immunitarie, di fronte al degrado di civiltà.
Non è un problema nuovo quello del fascismo e del fanatismo in Israele. Nuovo semmai è il pericolo di risultare sprovvisti di anticorpi».
(Gad Lerner sul Manifesto ieri)
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Das beste Wort zum 7. 10.
Mamdani hat eine staunenswerte Begabung für Worte, Nuancen, Stimmungen, und er klingt nie künstlich.
This day is profoundly painful for so many New Yorkers. It marks three years since the horrific war crimes of October 7. On that day, Hamas killed more than 1,100 Israelis and abducted 251 others. We grieve alongside our many friends and neighbors who still carry that unthinkable loss.
The suffering did not begin nor end that day. It instead continued through the Israeli government’s devastating, ongoing genocide in Gaza, in which it has killed more than 74,000 Palestinians—including more than 21,000 children. Even since the so-called ceasefire, more than 1,400 Palestinians have been killed. That suffering has intensified with every Israeli bomb dropped on ambulances waiting outside hospitals, every drone strike targeting a residential building or journalist, and every shipment of food aid turned away at a border crossing. Many New Yorkers are reckoning with this unbearable grief, and we mourn alongside them – all while knowing that our tax dollars fund these war crimes.
Three years later, we must refuse to accept a world in which occupation and apartheid continue, where war crimes are met with impunity, and our federal government continues its complicity with every arms shipment.
To honor the dead, we must fight for a world in which every person can live with freedom, safety, and dignity.
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Tom Steyer is the only billionaire who supports the California billionaire tax. He makes SO many powerful observations in the recent @NewYorker article about the selfish, decadent and morally corrupt elites running Silicon Valley right now.
From the piece:
"I suggested to several super-rich Californians, ‘Look, if you don’t like this, why don’t we sit down and come up with something that works from your standpoint and actually addresses the issues?’ And they had no interest in doing it."
He lamented the passing of what he saw as tech’s originating spirit, entrepreneurial but also patriotic, which was exemplified by the Hewlett-Packard founders’ heavy involvement in philanthropy and public service."
Can you imagine David Packard or Bill Hewlett doing the kind of self-promotion that Elon Musk does?” he said. “There’s obviously been just a really dramatic change. I don’t want to turn them into gods, but Dave Packard and Bill Hewlett felt a deep connection with the country and with the state and with the land. It doesn’t exist today.”
I asked him how he explains this change. “The people who are making the big money in California are technology people,” he said, and many of them “are incredibly focussed on that and quite dismissive of the other kinds of learning. That is not something they respect. English literature is not something they respect.”
It may be pertinent that we were speaking at the decidedly old-school Yale Club, in New York City—Steyer is an alum. “When you get too reductive in terms of focussing just on money, or just focussing on technology, there are a lot of things that you’re cutting away from that world view,” he went on. “And a lot of those things are what we would think of as human values, like compassion, some sense of honor, all the things that you read about in the soft courses. And, if you don’t have that, then O.K., good night. You have a different frame of reference and a different value system.”
Californians will vote on whether to impose a one-time, five-per-cent wealth tax on billionaires. “If it passes, it will be a revolution,” an economist at the University of California, Berkeley, said. newyorker.com/magazine/2026/…
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New article, Genocide, War and International Humanitarian Law: From Lemkin on the Nazi Genocide to Israel’s Genocide in Gaza
academic.oup.com/jicj/advanc…
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Zionismus-Diskussion, 1905.
In 1905, after it had become obvious that the only way Zionists were able to acquire land in Palestine was to displace Palestinians, a delegate to the 1905 Zionist congress, Yitzhak Epstein, warned:
"Can it be that the dispossessed will keep silent and calmly accept what is being done to them? Will they not ultimately arise to regain, with physical force, that which they were deprived of through the power of gold? Will they not seek justice from the strangers that placed themselves over their land?"
source: dukeupress.edu/palestine-and… p.5
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"I don’t know how Israel could have sat on Hamas’s 40-page battle plan for over a year -- and still called October 7 an unforeseeable surprise.
"I don’t know why IOF border surveillance operators who repeatedly raised red flags about Hamas training for an attack were ignored -- and in some cases threatened with court-martial.
"I don’t know why Netanyahu never briefed Israel's security chiefs about the explicit warnings he got from both the UAE and Egypt about a major Hamas operation before October 7.
"I don’t know why we were told Hamas targeted Nova -- when Israeli investigations concluded that Hamas had no prior intelligence about the festival and had not planned to attack it . . . "
-- The Anti-Zionist
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@jmlotman 🇺🇳 selbstgespräch retweeted
We don’t consider Israel a “Jewish state.” That very claim is a colossal act of identity theft.
Find one other country that goes by the name of an entire religion. A country can be a theocracy, but for a political entity to nationalize a religion and claim to be the nation-state of that entire religious group is a phenomenon virtually without parallel.
And yes, that is discriminatory, anti-democratic, and a threat to Jews everywhere.
Some numbers tell a dispositive story.
1939: 40 million Arabs in the world.
2026: 450 million Arabs in the world
1939: 17 million Jews in the world.
2026: 16 million Jews in the world
1939: 4 sovereign Arab states
2026: 22 sovereign Arab states
1939: 0 sovereign Jewish states.
2026: 1 sovereign Jewish state
Tell me again what the argument is about.
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Actually, Foxx came first. He started this around 1978, when he did quit Ultravox (which btw also has been a brilliant band, when Foxx was singer and lyricist).
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In an interview with Italian media, Kenneth Stern, the lead drafter of the IHRA Working Definition of Antisemitism, warns against incorporating the definition into law. Stern explains that he helped draft it as a non-legally binding working tool, originally intended to identify data on antisemitic incidents, not to serve as a legal standard. Now he warns that if Meloni's government formally adopts the definition, it could be used to restrict legitimate political debate and contribute to a new form of McCarthyism, particularly under pressure from pro-Israel lobbying groups:
"In Australia, they are applying that definition within a healthcare workers' association, and the fear is that if someone posts something about Gaza that others deem violent according to that definition, they could have their medical license revoked.
In Germany, where the IHRA definition has been adopted by the government, they have applied it to Jewish people protesting against the war in Gaza, labeling them as antisemitic. In the United Kingdom, they use it to suppress demonstrations where Israel is defined as an apartheid state. In the United States, it was used in one of the agreements by the Trump administration, or rather in many of those orchestrated by the Trump administration. This led a Holocaust survivor and genocide expert to state: 'I don't know if I can continue teaching, because if I quote Hannah Arendt or other sources that are interpreted as contrary to the definition, this will become a problem.'...
And what is happening at a legislative level is that a faction of the Jewish community is essentially telling the state: 'Adopt our view of the issue, according to which anti-Zionism is antisemitism.' To me, this is a problem. I do not want states deciding the meaning of a specific set of religious values...
It means asserting that anyone who is anti-Zionist does not have a legitimate point of view. There are Palestinians who say: 'Zionism has impacted my life.' And that is not because Jewish people specifically did it, but because of the effect it had. There is a whole range of intermediate situations that are not clear-cut, depending on whether you look at intent or what people perceive. Yet we are trying to force everything onto one side of the line...
I do not believe any definition of antisemitism should be used by a state to dictate what is permissible to say on political matters. This is McCarthyism, and it is deeply problematic."
(via @kritica_news)
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»A rational billionaire would see the merits of buying social peace. An enlightened one would acknowledge his debts to federal science, public education and chance. Alas, there are few such super-rich to be found«
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RT @Celik_Chn: @SerapGueler @OomenBerlin Frau Güler, es wurde gerade der erste rechtsextreme Landtagspräsident seit 1945 gewählt und das hi…
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That substantial portions of the European and US Left struggle with the idea that it is possible to condemn criminal actions by the Israeli government while also condemning the vicious brutality of Hamas, Hezbollah and the Iranian regime continues to baffle me.
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The WELT & Telegraph columnist Ulf Poschardt says that without Israel Jews would be “hunted by barbarians like the Greens and Ferat Koçak”
Ferat Koçak’s partner is Jewish, while Poschardt spends his days attacking Jews online (if they’re antizionist)
Torsten Dittkuhn
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"Augustus Intelligence", der erste deutsche Versuch, ein #KI-Großunternehmen zu gründen: von August #Finck, Drahtzieher der Wirtschafts-AfD. Damals, vor ChatGPT, stellte man sich wohl sowas vor wie ein europäisches #Palantir.
Zur Erinnerung: #Hanning (und Maaßen) tauchten auch bei dem rätselhaften KI-Start-up #AugustusIntelligence auf – bei dem #Amthor zeitweise als Director fungierte. Es braucht mehr Kontrolle für die geschäftlichen Aktivitäten früherer Top-Geheimnisträger capital.de/wirtschaft-politi…
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Falsch @larsklingbeil Nur Menschen mit mittleren Einkommen und darunter, vor allem Ärmere, werden es spüren. Keine Reichen, keine Grosserben und im Übrigen auch keine Minister und Abgeordnete.
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Three years have passed since October 7th, 2023.
Three years of death and destruction.
For those living between the river and the sea, much has changed in these three painful years. What hasn't changed is the system that brought this catastrophe into our lives.
The morning of October 7th we woke up to the sound of sirens and the feeling of fear in our stomachs. More than 1,200 Israelis were killed on that horrific day, 251 were kidnapped. We lost friends and partners that day.
More than 74,000 Palestinians have been killed since. The system of military control over millions of Palestinians has always been violent, and it has also bred violence. These three years have been tragic proof of this.
Three years, and counting. More than 1,100 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza since the so-called “ceasefire” began, including two killed just yesterday. Almost the entire population of Gaza has been forced into less than a third of the Strip’s territory, where most people live in overcrowded tent camps without functioning public health or education systems.
For Palestinians in the West Bank, IDF-backed settler terror has long become a daily reality. Since October 2023, 65 Palestinian communities have been ethnically cleansed, while more than 250 settler outposts and over 100 settlements have been established under this government.
The occupation is the system that produces this violence and perpetuates it. The only way to break the cycle is to dismantle the system.
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Du 7 octobre 2023 au 7 octobre 2026
Israël a tué :
✅ Plus de 74 245 Palestiniens
✅ Environ 22 000 enfants
✅ Plus de 12 400 femmes
✅ Plus de 4 813 personnes âgées
✅ Environ 36 000 hommes
✅ Plus de 175 267 blessés
✅ Environ 588 travailleurs humanitaires (dont 396 employés de l’ONU)
✅ Environ 300 journalistes
Des milliers de personnes restent ensevelies sous les décombres.
Appelez cela par son nom :
✅ Une attaque du 7 octobre 2023 connue, prévue à l'avance et sciemment ignorée par le gouvernement sioniste suprémaciste d'Israël, qui a fait 1 200 morts israéliens, dont une partie a été massacrée par les chars et les hélicoptères Apache israéliens.
Un GÉNOCIDE, vraisemblablement planifié avant le 7 octobre 2023 pour reprendre la bande de Gaza.
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Six days after 7 October 2023, I warned in Byline Times that Israel was beginning to commit genocide. Three years later, denial continues—but it is mutating.
In the face of a strong consensus about Israel’s genocide, Zionists are doubling down on a dishonest, repressive denial, supposedly of definitional technicalities but actually of the whole reality of Israel’s crimes.
Meanwhile, centrists are bringing forced to recognise its atrocities, but in a different kind of denial continue to resist their full implication—the need for a total break with Israel. My new piece for Byline.
🔴 NEW
Gaza Three Years On: The Changing Politics of Genocide Denial
Martin Shaw, who argued that Israel was beginning to commit genocide in October 2023, examines the tensions between recognition and denial as the Burnham Government tries to reset its Palestine policy.
Subscribe to support fearless independent journalism.
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Ich sehe auch einen Tag später keine Reaktion bei der CDU die auf diesen Absturz aus dem demokrat. Konsens richtig reagiert. SPD, GRÜ, LINKE sollten MP-Wahl fernbleiben. Wenn dann rechtsextreme LandesReg mit CDU-Stimmen kann man eigentlich in Berlin nicht weiter zusammenarbeiten
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Today, for the first time since the Nazi era, a right wing extremist has been elected president of a state parliament in Germany. He relied not only on votes of the AfD but also the BSW, a party that once pretended it set out to stop the AfD by combining anti-migrant with pro-worker policies, and likely of members of the CDU.
This time there is no excuse. This time no one can say, they didn’t know what was at stake. Being anti-fascist is the only choice for democrats who mean it. And yes, this has to include economic policy in the service of universal dignity.
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RT @der_neukoellner: Seit Tagen versuchen Springer-Journalisten, meine Eltern zu erreichen, und bedrängen sie vor ihrem eigenen Zuhause.
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