Ivor Middleton
@iwasid
Bookish. Amateur philosopher of the worst kind. Political animal who still believes we can build a better world for all. Banner is the Red Sand sea bell, tolling. Assuming people are fundamentally good. Standing up for Palestinians.
Good article, BUT the links could be improved. My first question was "what are the other 75% then?". The links _look_ as though they are going to answervthat question, but all they is puff for other inews pieces, in rhe form of the answer to a search on "terror". This could mislead readers.
Finally got around to Daniel Hannan's reflections (as told to @ottoenglish.bsky.social ), and oh what a joy they are. "I knew England had stood alone ..." "When I landed at customs... " @bylinetimes.bsky.social
Chris wasn't happy with this or perhaps found a neat way to draw attention away from the four points and not address them. "Conveniently ignoring the part after the comma", he said. Having expanded forward from his abbreviation, I expanded back. Readers, note Lemkin's meaning vs Chris's.
Hence my response, expanding out Lemkin's definition and noting Israel ticks each of the four boxes.
Chris began here, with an accurate enough quote of Lemkin. However the sharp eyed among you will note that this is rather too abbreviated to constitute " the bar". Hence my response, link follows ...
Ok, let's have some fun. Apologies readers, I have been drinking Texel island brews, but I'm sure things will be clear 🍻 We merely need to refer back to the thread. It'll be 🌟🎉🤸♀️🕺💃🎉🌟
"formed by Iran" "Nice try at rewriting history, though" I'm here for these LOLs. Though it's pretty serious for those on the receiving end in Lebanon - from the Israeli car bomb campaign, from Sabra and Shatila, and from the crimes and ethnic cleansing Israel is committing today.
"the Iranian regime is not the good guy" By implication BSG is saying there is a "good guy" here, but Israel is a nationalist supremacist state engaged in genocide and the USA overthrew a democratic Iranian government to install a brutal puppet shah dictator, so perhaps that needs rephrasing.
"It was genuinely eye-opening and horrifying to me how many on the left abandoned "Believe women when it comes to sexual violence" when it was Israeli Jewish women reporting it" That might be because Israel lies and lies and lies and gets caught lying and still lies, because ... that's genocide.
"What's the relevance of that?" It's a direct and relevant response to your post denying my user experience. You are trolling. Goodbye.
The across the board levels of support for a Two State solution are more concerning. In the 21C we should be more aware that a 2SS is a segregated solution - apartheid. We know how bantustans work. It's a racist solution.
To be fair to HR, this is one of her better arguments. Also, good to know the classier hasbara have moved over here from X, I suppose. #Zionism, got to love it.
Ike deleted and blocked. Shame. He had so many interesting things to say. "More than a quarter of Israel's population is not Jewish" So they're not equal citizens. Yet somehow this is supposed to be an argument in favour of Israel 👀
Should I block @hrryan.bsky.social? I prefer not to. I like people to be able to see the kind of person this is.
"Now that is wanting a genocide" Readers may have noted that one party to this conversation is defending a state that is driving people off the land with extreme violence and erasing all evidence of their existence - committing genocide just as Raphael Lemkin described it. #Zionism
Can't recall who this was or how I came across them (other than it was people discussing the definition of Zionism somewhere). Interesting though, how pulling back the veil and showing them the reality from Herzl onwards is too much reality. Rather than engage, query, learn, ... they block.
Excellent. I took the US rellies on the 2 power station tour last week.
"go ahead and kick him, he just stabbed some people" Assistant Professor of Political Science, apparently.
@cjayanetti.bsky.social Religion is not the driver here. Israel is constituted as a state 'for Jews' - in other words as a nationalist supremacist ethnostate. If nationalist supremacism is the problem then we aren't going to solve it by banning discussion of it. #Gaza2026 #Zionism
Unimpressed with these Remaindered prices ... 😀 @timcrane.bsky.social @jowolff.bsky.social
Well that's an interesting response to a request to clarify your argument with some evidence. Bye Steve.
Curiously I'm in the middle of this, Lucy Atkins, The Missing One. Atkins is toying with the reader, dropping clues about where the truth lies, but without clues to who might be a reliable narrator. You're left guessing, second guessing, flailing about for hard ground to provide a foundation.
"Lemkin reserved a place for architecture in his conception of the crime of genocide ... Genocide has two phases .. the destruction of the national pattern of the oppressed group ... [and] the imposition of a design by the oppressor" Weizman shows how genocide is being promoted in plain sight.