Israel trying to pass the hospital bombing off as Palestine doing it is utterly disgusting and guarantees Netanyahu a spot in the deepest pit of Hell for all eternity, obviously, but do not forget that
a) the only reason why Westerners will believe it is because they want to believe it - they are not being brainwashed and this is not some masterful propaganda being weaved around us to turn kind-hearted people into monsters,
b) no Westerner opinions matter at all. In most Western countries there is no real anti-Israel option to vote for even if they did realize that Israel was a giant factory for crimes against humanity, and Westerners protesting against things in general almost never achieves anything (tens of millions protested for BLM in 2020 and not only did the situation not change, it got worse), and
c) the people whose opinions do matter (both the people in the region, and the leaders who aren't already Zionist compradors) already know that Israel is full of shit and that they just murdered nearly a thousand civilians in a single bomb attack.
It is despair-inducing to think that the genocidal Zionist entity is so brazenly, so smugly getting away with bullshitting this away into a cloud of confusion, as they release their metaphorical squid ink just like they did with the stupid babies story, but the propaganda and the media narrative that they are creating isn't what matters. It cannot address the fundamental contradictions ripping the country, the region, and the world apart any more than masterfully-applied makeup can fix a stab wound. It can merely obfuscate.
Sources on the fighting in Palestine against Israel. In general, CW for footage of battles, explosions, dead people, and so on:
UNRWA daily-ish reports on Israel's destruction and siege of Gaza and the West Bank.
English-language Palestinian Marxist-Leninist twitter account. Alt here.
English-language twitter account that collates news (and has automated posting when the person running it goes to sleep).
Arab-language twitter account with videos and images of fighting.
English-language (with some Arab retweets) Twitter account based in Lebanon.
English-language Palestinian Twitter account which reports on news from the Resistance Axis.
English-language PalestineResist telegram channel.
Various sources that are covering the Ukraine conflict are also covering the one in Palestine, like Rybar.
The Country of the Week is still Palestine! Feel free to chime in with books, essays, longform articles, even stories and anecdotes or rants.
Here is the map of the Ukraine conflict, courtesy of Wikipedia.
The weekly update isn't coming because I'm sick and too focussed on the collapse of the Zionist entity.
Links and Stuff
The bulletins site is down.
Examples of Ukrainian Nazis and fascists
Examples of racism/euro-centrism during the Russia-Ukraine conflict
Add to the above list if you can.
Resources For Understanding The War
Defense Politics Asia's youtube channel and their map. Their youtube channel has substantially diminished in quality but the map is still useful.
Moon of Alabama, which tends to have interesting analysis. Avoid the comment section.
Understanding War and the Saker: reactionary sources that have occasional insights on the war.
Alexander Mercouris, who does daily videos on the conflict. While he is a reactionary and surrounds himself with likeminded people, his daily update videos are relatively brainworm-free and good if you don't want to follow Russian telegram channels to get news. He also co-hosts The Duran, which is more explicitly conservative, racist, sexist, transphobic, anti-communist, etc when guests are invited on, but is just about tolerable when it's just the two of them if you want a little more analysis.
On the ground: Patrick Lancaster, an independent and very good journalist reporting in the warzone on the separatists' side.
Unedited videos of Russian/Ukrainian press conferences and speeches.
Telegram Channels
Again, CW for anti-LGBT and racist, sexist, etc speech, as well as combat footage.
Pro-Russian
https://t.me/aleksandr_skif ~ DPR's former Defense Minister and Colonel in the DPR's forces. Russian language.
https://t.me/Slavyangrad ~ A few different pro-Russian people gather frequent content for this channel (~100 posts per day), some socialist, but all socially reactionary. If you can only tolerate using one Russian telegram channel, I would recommend this one.
https://t.me/s/levigodman ~ Does daily update posts.
https://t.me/patricklancasternewstoday ~ Patrick Lancaster's telegram channel.
https://t.me/gonzowarr ~ A big Russian commentator.
https://t.me/rybar ~ One of, if not the, biggest Russian telegram channels focussing on the war out there. Actually quite balanced, maybe even pessimistic about Russia. Produces interesting and useful maps.
https://t.me/epoddubny ~ Russian language.
https://t.me/boris_rozhin ~ Russian language.
https://t.me/mod_russia_en ~ Russian Ministry of Defense. Does daily, if rather bland updates on the number of Ukrainians killed, etc. The figures appear to be approximately accurate; if you want, reduce all numbers by 25% as a 'propaganda tax', if you don't believe them. Does not cover everything, for obvious reasons, and virtually never details Russian losses.
https://t.me/UkraineHumanRightsAbuses ~ Pro-Russian, documents abuses that Ukraine commits.
Pro-Ukraine
Almost every Western media outlet.
https://discord.gg/projectowl ~ Pro-Ukrainian OSINT Discord.
https://t.me/ice_inii ~ Alleged Ukrainian account with a rather cynical take on the entire thing.
Last week's discussion post.
how do anti-BDS laws even work? Like, is the police gonna force you to buy SodaStream carbonators?
It's more that you can't promote the boycott of Israeli made products as far as I understand it.
Isn't this against "ThE FiRsT AmEnDmEnT" or nobody actually gives a shit about that?
You expected libs to be consistent?
Yeah it is, but nobody gives a shit because they agree with it, or it comes from a political party/politician they'd sell their soul to because they like them so much.
Kind of how Trump was the president that went against the second amendment the most (he banned bump stocks, said he wanted to take away guns) and no one cared because most gun nuts are Republican and adore Trump.
At least that's the impression I get as a foreigner
Unfortunately, it isn't.
The first amendment concerns only the ability of the government to establish laws curtailing speech (not that it's applied consistently at all either). Private individuals and corporations can prevent others from speaking as much as they want.
But there are still instances of state run government institutions, like schools, who have anti BDS clauses. At least one teacher in Texas was fired over it, but I think she won in court later.
It is not.
so the loophole here is that these laws are passed by state goverments insted of congress? I thought first amendment also applied to local governments
I don't think there is a loophole, it's just illegal and hasn't been challenged in high courts
No, it applies to all levels of government.
The 1st Amendment (and much of the Bill of Rights) was originally interpreted to only apply to the federal government but the 14th Amendment and its Equal Protection Clause lead to the incorporation of the Bill of Rights over time.
You WILL drink the genocide water. You WILL live in the pod.
It usually takes the form of forbidding state or local (for practical purposes, really just local) governments from boycotting Israel. I think they can also extend to, for example, not working with contractors who boycott Israel.
I don’t want to minimize how much anti-BDS laws suck, but I think it’s really important to understand what they can and can’t do. There is no law, for example, that prevents you from trying to organize a campaign to get people to stop buying SodaStreams or whatever.
I really think there is potential here to use boycotts in the long run. I think it’s more effective as a global movement than as Americans just not buying things, but every drop in the bucket counts.
a lot of people work directly for the government or else for organizations that receive state funding through contracts or grants. that makes their jobs contingent on not publicly supporting BDS
In 2016 NJ passed an anti BDS law. Remember when Ben and Jerry's stopped selling to occupied Palestine? Well their parent company at the time Unilever is based in NJ and the state had invested over $180 million in Unilever with the state pension fund.
They divested that $180 million in response to Ben and Jerry's, and then eventually Unilever sold Ben and Jerry's rights in Israel to an Israeli company in order to comply.
I think this kinda highlights my point above. The law there affected the state pension fund. It didn’t mean that, say, some private investment firm couldn’t divest. These anti-BDS laws only target government action. Of course, the governments tendrils extend everywhere. But I’m focusing on this so we can all get a better understanding of what anti-BDS can and can’t do, so we can beat strategize because BDS is probably the best long-term strategy we have, IMO.
Yeah it's like an indirect enforcement of sorts.
I do believe to even work in government in Texas (and probably other states) you have to sign a contract confirming you will not participate in BDS. https://theintercept.com/2018/12/17/israel-texas-anti-bds-law/ Im pretty sure this applies to teachers as well.
So will the pigs come for you and make you buy a soda stream? No, but if you ever want to work in the public sector or something even just public facing then you better keep your mouth shut.
SodaStream is zionist?
Sifones Drago keeps on winning
SodaStream is an Israeli company and is on BDS' official list of companies to boycott
Sifones Drago keeps on winning
It’s just another form you have to sign when starting employment. Just mark an x and move on (or don’t, these laws get struck down almost every time somebody goes through the effort to make a challenge).