Notices by micchiato (micchiato@mastodon.social)

@aral

I just watched an Al Jazeera reporter ask the Amsterdam mayor why she wasn’t providing the full context to the attack on Israeli soccer fans, including earlier mayhem caused by those fans. The mayor responded that she had provided the context in talking about the protests the day before, but that what happened to the soccer fans was not protest. The mayor would not acknowledge any violence by Israeli soccer fans.

“#Israel has sent 'rescue planes' to Amsterdam after locals came after and attacked numerous Israeli 'Maccabi Tel Aviv' fans for tearing down Palestinian flags, chanting "F*ck Palestine," and mocking dead children in #Gaza ….

Israeli 'Maccabi Tel Aviv' fans did not only tear down Palestinian flags and chant violent slogans against Arabs – they also reportedly refused to respect the moment of silence held for the #Valencia flood victims and intentionally interrupted it”

https://x.com/thecradlemedia/status/1854723413014675920?s=46&t=521hINbbUzSBIUxrCF_rbg

The #unitedkingdom military won’t have to be the commandants of Israel’s new concentration camps for #Gaza because private #UK military contractors — who will be accountable to no one but their shareholders — will run the private prisons.

“From a purely legal point of view, a myriad of academic and legal experts have long since confirmed the charge of #genocide. As far back as October, Holocaust and genocide scholar Raz Segal has called #Israel’s actions in #Gaza ‘a textbook case of genocide’ ….

Omer Bartov, a respected historian of Holocaust and genocide studies at Brown University, accused Israel of ‘systematic #warcrimes, #crimes against humanity and genocidal actions.’”

https://truthout.org/articles/we-charge-genocide-the-shofar-calls-us-to-account-on-rosh-hashanah/

“An Israeli settler group is promoting new properties for sale in southern #Lebanon, as the Israeli army wages a bombing campaign in the country that has killed over 1000 people ….

the Movement for Settlement in Southern Lebanon’s website boasts spacious, light-filled apartments overlooking a swimming pool …

‘After the elimination of the Hezbollah leadership…do you also dream of a big house, a view of snowy mountains and a warm community in the land of our ancestors?’”
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israeli-settler-group-advertises-new-properties-southern-lebanon

“In recent weeks, #police across #California have threatened journalists with arrests for covering evictions of homeless encampments. It’s unclear why — the journalists aren’t interfering with the evictions. But they are documenting them, and clearly officers don’t want that.”
#news #media #press

https://freedom.press/news/california-officials-must-let-journalists-cover-encampment-sweeps/

David Frum is the fuckityfuckface who helped push us into Dubya’s snipe hunt for Iraq WMD and who compared Black Lives Matter to MAGA. So no surprise that he’s a big fan of #Israel’s terrorism #pagers.

14 pages of babies. All dead.

“The Ministry of Health in #Gaza has just published a 649-page document with the the name, age, gender, ID number of every Palestinian killed in Gaza from October 7 to August 31 that it has info for (over 34k out of 40k). The 1st 14 pages the age is listed as 0 (under 1 year old)”

https://x.com/sharifkouddous/status/1835292186818056667?s=46&t=521hINbbUzSBIUxrCF_rbg

Mastodon social moderators removed another one of my posts overnight saying that it promoted violence. It contained 2 pictures with eerily similar composition: the first was a selfie photo of IDF soldiers surrounding a blindfolded Palestinian prisoner while laughing and flipping him off. The second photo was of soldiers of Germany’s Wehrmacht surrounding a Jewish prisoner making similar expressions of mirth and laughter. Masto hasn’t explained how I promoted violence in exposing similarities.

“When over 40,000 Palestinians have been steadily exterminated for almost a year, after an entire people have been ethnically cleansed for 76 years, we are still expected to be silent. We are told that their lives, their deaths, even their literature does not necessarily fall within the purview of our intellectual interests. We are expected to be good academics, which means hypocrites and opportunists.”

https://lithub.com/intifada-on-being-an-arabic-literature-professor-in-a-time-of-genocide/

“Both the Uncommitted National Movement representing 740,000 uncommitted voters and unions representing nearly half of all #union members in the #US are calling for a stop to arms shipments to #Israel.

Now, thousands of protesters gathered in #Chicago are uniting behind the demand to cut off all aid to Israel and end the #genocide in #Gaza. These demands go beyond the call for an arms embargo, but share the emphasis on stopping material support.”

#DNC #Democrats #uspol

https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/dnc-protest-chicago-gaza-israel/

“Group of protesters with their backs turned to #Biden and hands over their mouths. They’re quiet. So far unmolested by officials or security”

#dnc #Chicago
https://x.com/aseitzwald/status/1825747424276836703?s=46&t=521hINbbUzSBIUxrCF_rbg

“Despite efforts by #Biden and Congressional leaders to assert that the #ICC has some kind of anti-#Israel bias, nearly every leader ever prosecuted by the ICC prior to 2023 has been African, including presidents of Liberia, Libya and Sudan. #Netanyahu and Gallant would be the first US-allied leaders ever indicted by the ICC.

It appears, then, that in Washington’s view, international humanitarian law should only apply to leaders not supported by the #UnitedStates”

https://truthout.org/articles/bidens-response-to-israels-icc-prosecution-is-an-attack-on-international-law/

“Since the beginning of #Israel’s war on #Gaza, academics in fields including #politics, #sociology, Japanese #literature, public #health, Latin American and Caribbean studies, Middle East and African studies, #mathematics, #education, and more have been fired, suspended, or removed from the classroom for pro-#Palestine, anti-Israel speech.”

https://theintercept.com/2024/05/16/university-college-professors-israel-palestine-firing/

In the most Democrat state of all. Don’t tell me blue states in a fascist nation are refuge. #studentprotests #freepalestine #california #police #Democrats #news

“BREAKING: The confederation of Spanish universities will cut ties with Israeli universities and research centers.”

https://bsky.app/profile/jairofunez.bsky.social/post/3ks327gu6xl2v

#History is a great teacher.

“Cops raided Berkeley's occupation for South African divestment in April 1985, arresting 156. #Students reoccupied and declared a strike. 10,000 joined. Occupations started again in the fall. The camp was raided and rebuilt again until they won. This isn't over. It's barely begun.” #police

https://x.com/leftinthebay/status/1786118846308569301?s=46&t=521hINbbUzSBIUxrCF_rbg

“Look, I was planning on supporting [minority group/ idea/ student protestors] but then somebody broke a window and I realized they should all be beaten by the cops.” https://bsky.app/profile/kashana.bsky.social/post/3krjefyk54226

He’s right you know:

@Adam_Cadmon1

Shit is getting serious then.