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1. Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Thursday, 21-Mar-2024 22:47:53 JST Aral Balkan

   So according to this guy, I’m antisemitic and a Holocaust denier.

   - Am I antisemitic? No.
   - Do I deny the Holocaust? No.

   So what do I do that’s so terrible that I’m apparently blocked from whatever it is this guy runs?

   Oh, yes, I oppose Israel’s ongoing genocide of the Palestinian people.

   https://tldr.nettime.org/@tante/112133132677580974

   (By the way, if you’re looking for people to block who support Israel’s genocide of the Palestinian people, that’s a good thread to browse.)

   #israel #palestine #gaza #genocide

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Thursday, 21-Mar-2024 22:53:50 JST Aral Balkan

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     • Alessandro Corazza

     @alessandro Likely this one: https://mastodon.ar.al/@aral/112132808080953318 – which I stand by 100%.

   • Alessandro Corazza (alessandro@mstdn.ca)'s status on Thursday, 21-Mar-2024 22:53:51 JST Alessandro Corazza

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     @aral what was the toot in question?

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Thursday, 21-Mar-2024 23:09:23 JST Aral Balkan

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     • Benjamin Balder Bach

     @benjaoming I don’t even know what Fusion Festival is. Is it something I should look up?

   • Benjamin Balder Bach (benjaoming@social.data.coop)'s status on Thursday, 21-Mar-2024 23:09:25 JST Benjamin Balder Bach

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     @aral seeing you and tante have a fight is not unlike seeing Celtic fans vs. St Pauli fans 😵💫️ (nb - I follow both of you for your tech content). The German left has an issue understanding and criticizing Israel. Similar weirdness going on with the Fusion Festival, if that means anything to you.

     I don't wanna say more about this, I think that toots are not the right format to have a discussion about the topic. But I wanted to say this, in case it's something you haven't been made aware of.

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Friday, 22-Mar-2024 00:31:09 JST Aral Balkan

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     • Benjamin Balder Bach

     @benjaoming Just read their February newsletter and it doesn’t look like they’re avoiding the subject or criticism of Israel. Also, I agree with their point about not tolerating glorification of Hamas.

     https://www.fusion-festival.de/en/x/news/news-detail/newsletter-februar-2024

   • Benjamin Balder Bach (benjaoming@social.data.coop)'s status on Friday, 22-Mar-2024 00:31:11 JST Benjamin Balder Bach

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     @aral it's a huge political music festival where the otherwise most progressive German left and anarchists gather every year. They have no idea what to do with the divide in the German left, and as a result they are basically discouraging showing solidarity with Palestine and suppressing any notion of Israeli brutalities and history of occupation and apartheid in their communication.

     There's a whole term for this btw:

     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressive_except_Palestine