This Penn State poll on israeli sentiment was posted to a few subs on reddit, but I haven't seen it here.

Highlights include:

The survey was conducted by one of the HMs at the request of Penn State University, among 1,005 respondents who constitute a representative sample of the Jewish population in Israel.

To the question "Do you support the claim that the IDF, when conquering an enemy city, should act in a manner similar to the way the Israelites acted when they conquered Jericho under the leadership of Joshua, that is,* kill all its inhabitants*?" 47% of all respondents responded in the affirmative.

...82% of those surveyed expressed support for the forced expulsion of residents of the Gaza Strip, and 56% supported the forced expulsion of Arab citizens of Israel. In the 2003 survey, the positive answers to these questions were “only” 45% and 31%, respectively.

...69% of secularists support the forcible expulsion of Gaza residents, and 31% of them see the extermination of Jericho residents as a precedent that the IDF should adopt.

...66% of those aged 40 and under support the deportation of Arab citizens of Israel, and 58% want to see the IDF do what Joshua did in Jericho.

...It is difficult to find anyone who would refuse clearly illegal orders, such as starving hundreds of thousands, creating extermination zones, or bombing densely populated residential neighborhoods. Only 9% of men under 40, the main group from which regular and reserve servicemen in Gaza come, rejected all the ideas of deportation and extermination that were presented to them.

I wasn't sure what "Joshua did to Jericho", and I was unsurprised to find out that the story ends like this: "Following God's law, the Israelites killed every man and woman, the young and the old, as well as the oxen, sheep, and donkeys. Only Rahab, her parents, brothers and all "those who belonged to her" were spared. They were incorporated into Israel."

What a repulsive society. Completely irredeemable. A stain on humanity and history.

The pain behind his words is making me feel all kinds of things.

Fanon was right about violence.

Statement from President Joe Biden on Warrants Issued by the International Criminal Court

"The ICC issuance of arrest warrants against Israeli leaders is outrageous. Let me be clear once again: whatever the ICC might imply, there is no equivalence — none — between Israel and Hamas. We will always stand with Israel against threats to its security."

This shit is beyond parody.

I'm not familiar with this author/speaker, but there's a blurb from Sarah Kendzior that i've seen circling on instagram that I thought was interesting. It's about liberals accepting atrocities under Biden that they would not under Trump:

The full text is here. I think what I find interesting is that I've never really connected the psychological/social effects of COVID-19 to the on-going genocides in Gaza and Lebanon. Sarah raises an interesting parallel (one that echos Aime Cesaire's takedown of colonialism, imo) between the disregard for our shared humanity required to accept the '911 a day' COVID-related death rate to a similar disregard for humanity that allows them to accept today's genocides. It's an undoing of "civilized" values.

We're at a point now where Lebanon is being subjected to israel's Gaza Doctrine, and it seems like most people don't know or don't care.

If not a complete disregard for humanity, is it boredom? It must be more than race-hatred. Does the death and suffering become too much for our brains to make sense of it, so we stop caring?

Had millions of people not been killed by COVID, would the world be less tolerant to genocide?

The Cradle: Netanyahu gave the orders to wipe out an entire neighborhood in southern Beirut from the UN headquarters in New York.

fucking die satanyahu

it is so enraging that the dominant narrative surrounding israel poisoning supply chains with explosive-stuffed tech, then remotely and blindly detonating these explosives and injuring thousands of civilians would immediately be paraded around by Westerners as "israel's targeted attacks against Hezbollah"

But it's not even surprising, because these are the same rotten souls who claim israel is "fighting Hamas", even though israel has killed tens of innocent thousands of Palestinians, in addition to maiming and debilitating tens of thousands more, and leaving 2 million Palestinians with no safe place to go, little food or water to consume, and little to no access to necessary healthcare.

I fucking hate it all.

i've seen headline saying he "died a hero"

he was a retired hog that got clapped at a trump rally, lmfao.

the whole ruling class crying about "political violence" after months of manufacturing consent for the ongoing genocide of Palestine is entirely about the state reclaiming their monopoly on violence, right?

Not sure if it's been shared in this thread, but some far-right coward drove up to the protest at Portland State University like they were about to do another Charlottesvillle, but opted to run away as they pepper-sprayed nearby protestors when they got scared.

Their car (featuring a custom "we the people" plate) got fucked and they've been ID'd though mashallah

Dems already condemning Iran and reasserting “israel”’s right to “self-defense”

I can only hope that one day they too get they deserve

Peak mental health culture is mayo libs being well enough to spend the first half of the week posting a ton of Zionist propaganda and vapid calls for peace and love in Israel and Palestine on Instagram, then “taking a break from social media to do self care” when Israel turns the dial up on their war crimes

Middle class between what

Lmao, this is such a good one