“I do not think Israel can be ‘disbanded’.”

Israeli warplanes bombed the southern Lebanese city of Tyre

I think where we actually agree is substantial, Susan. The occupation is brutal. U.S. complicity is documented and ongoing. AIPAC's political influence is real and worth examining critically. None of that requires "Jewish supremacy" as a framework. And the moment that language enters the conversation, every news cycle stops being about Gaza and starts being about antisemitism in the movement. That's not a coincidence. It's a mechanism. And it works every single time.

Holy shit. @globeandmail editorial board: “The fact of the crimes committed against Indigenous children at residential schools over many decades does not automatically validate claims that hundreds of students were dumped into unmarked graves in Kamloops and other residential schools. That is an extraordinary assertion, one that requires proof. That should have been the starting point for the media in May, 2021, when the Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc First Nation first issued a press release announcing the “confirmation of the remains of 215 children of the Kamloops Indian Residential School” through the use of ground-penetrating radar that identified subterranean anomalies. The media, including The Globe and Mail, did not initially scrutinize, much less challenge, that assertion. The initial headlines and stories in the media simply stated as fact that the remains of 215 children had been found. Many of those early stories, including in this newspaper, made reference to “mass graves” (a historically fraught phrase that does not appear in the Tk’emlúps 2021 press release). Perhaps it will be proven, some day, that there are hundreds of unmarked graves at Kamloops. But it was not proven to be true in May, 2021. It is not proven to be true today. …That evolution in language does not erase the initial failure of journalism. The lesson of 2021 should be: assertions about residential schools should be listened to carefully, and then, just as carefully, held up to scrutiny.”

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Here is the test. If "Jewish power" were removed from the equation tomorrow, if every Jewish person in American public life, finance, media, and government were replaced overnight with non-Jewish people of identical class position and institutional affiliation, would the American empire change its fundamental behaviour? Would it stop supporting authoritarian governments that serve American strategic interests? Would it stop using sanctions as a weapon against countries that refuse to cooperate? Would it close its overseas bases? Would it restructure the dollar's reserve currency status? Would it stop arming the governments it needs and destabilizing the ones it doesn't? The answer is no. Because the behavior is not produced by the ethnicity of the participants. It is produced by the institutional logic of the system, which recruits its participants and then shapes them, regardless of what they believed before they entered. That is what a system is. That is how it works. That is why it is so durable. And that is why the people who benefit from it never having to answer for itself are very comfortable with a movement that has decided the problem is the Jews. Because that movement has aimed at a shadow. And the machine runs on, undisturbed, in the daylight, with its name on the door.

We are sanctioning additional members of Hamas. The sanctioned individuals influence Hamas’ military wing. They bear responsibility for its violent actions. Hamas’ disarmament is essential to set Gaza on a path towards peace. Read More: link.europa.eu/n77rnB