Biden can just force a ceasefire any time he wants by just telling Israel he'll cut off funding and arms and intel.
And if they don't listen and try to do their thing (genocide) anyways while being completely cut off for months and months, well that will be when it might be okay to say "genocide Joe did eventually try to rein it in a little".
The bear respects hog out or log out
EXPONENTIAL GROWTH bi folks will be 300% of the population in ten years
We're about 6 months from seeing things like this posted unironically on hexbear dot net so prepare yourselves, nerds.
Reeks of an incompetent 38-year-old Dem staffer
Both of those are very active projects that require an embedding in community, particularly a community that is going to be around for a while.
Most left groups in the US make no attempt whatsoever to build within and among a community. Many of the seeming exceptions get rerouted into a charity pipeline. They might call it mutual aid but it tends to be structured as charity with the money and labor coming from outside the community to simply provide a service for the most destitute inside the community, plus other little telltale signs. There is little work done to radicalize, incorporate, learn from the community itself, including the whole community, not just those deemed worthy of charity.
The other challenge is that communities are in transition. You try to set up shop somewhere and maybe 10 years later it's an entirely new set of people due to increased property values + increased cost of living + stagnant paychecks. To me this means you can't half-ass it, as you're going to need to create a resilient network that can move and connect across the new places people need to live and work.
But to me the main issue is that groups don't even really try in the first place. Sometimes this is even for ideological reasons.
Wow blahaj is a pretty transphobic space if they tolerate that shit.
The President is always conveniently powerless when he's doing terrible things. His hand is forced! What a shame. Alas. Shucks.
October 2024 rolls around: MOST IMPORTANT ELECTION OF YOUR LIFETIME DEFEAT THE RIGHT WING.
Anyways electoral reform ain't gonna do shit, only revolution will solve the problem, which is capitalism. You can attempt (and usually fail) to fiddle with the technocratic dials all you'd like, just like most constitutional amendments did, just like little state level voting reforms did, and guess what: the country will still be dictated by crises of capitalism and its imposed necessities to produce and reproduce the system. Very few of the problems are new. At their core is the dictatorship we put up with for over 1/3 of our days and that creates harsh guard rails on what is possible.
Biden is a particularly cruel captain of the team, but you're not gonna fix the ship. It needs to be destroyed and utterly changed.
The Western urge to have strong opinions about something you've never even tried to understand.
But! Israel is also a safe haven for Jews. This is seperable from the colonial nature of the state.
It absolutely is not. As an explicit settler-colonial project with racial supremacist justifications everywhere, you cannot distinguish some kind of "pure" Zionist just looking for safety (who? Be specific) from those who vote for the ethnic cleansing fascists and live on recently stolen land. The people who can be separated are children, those working against the Zionist entity, and possibly those who are simply propagandized and are on their way there.
I will also point out that there are other countries that are just as safe for Jewish people. This is not because those countries lack antisemitism (such as the US), but because the ethnostate in which Israeli occupiers live is not a safe place because the people they displaced and are displacing still live and still resist. You cannot be a safe occupier. Occupation is war.
Many of us had ancestors in Germany or Poland during the holocaust who did not stick around after the war. They saw Israel as their best shot at safety in the wake of the holocaust.
The implicit line here is always that this explains, even justifies occupation, disposession, genocide. Fleeing fascist genocide by settler-colonists does not mean you get to do your own. It was not acceptable then and it is not acceptable now. "Never again" includes everyone.
I know that you don't mean it like this. But what I say is still true because the ideas are incoherent. Not because you explicitly want to justify the Nakba.
Many Israelis are liberals, hoping to vote out Likud, stop supporting settlements, and negotiate palestinian statehood. These people are advocating half measures, sure, but they are not our enemies.
Yes they are, just like liberals here in the US are our enemy. Liberals are constantly our enemies, they make themselves that by supporting fascism so long as it doesn't have the name. They can be used by us, but they are the people who call the cops on their black neighbor and putting in a tip that their neighbor was at the protest last night. Liberals will sell you out and people will die by their hand if you're not more cautious than this.
The question is not whether those settlers are the enemy, it is in how they should be approached.
Conflating Jews in Israel with Zionists.
I agree that nobody should do this. I haven't seen it but it's a common enough thing that I wouldn't be surprised to see some examples.
As an aside, I've seen this conflation done by anti-Zionist Jewish liberals many times.
erasing the ambivalent position of jews within colonialism / conflating jewishness with whiteness
Eurocentrism does actually exist in the Zionist entity and Europeans invented the project and largely populated it. They have brought their biases with them and are the dominant culture there. This is the context in which I tend to see Jewish people brought up as being white - when people are talking about Israelis. That's just an instance of conflating being Jewish and being Israeli.
Blood Libel
I simply have not seen this on hexbear dot net. I would hope that it's because if it has happened, they were wreckers that are quickly banned.
calling for ethnic cleansing
This one requires citations. Show receipts.
Jewish control of America / protocols of the elders of zion
Same as above.
They can just turn off all federation yeah. It's pretty easy.
Beehaw admins loooove lying.
Edit: I didn't realize I'd receive pushback on ideas I can't defend. Better find a way to be condescending to save face during my cowardly exit.