xapienist @sapienist

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Mike @Fleabag2016

2 weeks ago

@MerseyPolice @MerseyPolice If you think I opposed you before, you have just threw petrol on a fire you wont be able to control. See you in court.

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I told @MerseyPolice when I get access to my phone it will have loads of videos of what they did to me for being cheeky with them. Thank you to the people who tried to help against thugs in uniform. #ACAB

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Tiberius @ecomarxi

2 days ago

I don’t care if you sneak out into the dead of night and shakily scratch ‘Free Palestine’ into an old rusted lamppost, I don’t care if you have careful conversations with apolitical friends and family members about the horrors happening with full support of western governments,…

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Hend Amry @LibyaLiberty

2 days ago

At this point, one has to believe that Biden understands he’s going to lose in November and it’s part of the party’s plan. Trump can pick up where he leaves off, helping Netanyahu establish Israeli ethnosupremacy from the river to the sea, and the Democratic Party can reemerge in…

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Robyn Barnard @robynyakira

2 days ago

Polling reviewed by the Hill "found that voters overwhelmingly support a softer approach to asylum if it is framed as a choice between humane and punitive approaches." thehill.com/latino/4618409…

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Ori Goldberg @ori_goldberg

2 days ago

14/ We grow smaller every day, hoisted with our own petard. The more righteous our indigniation the more removed we are from morality. The more we feel entitled to dehumanize the Palestinians the less human we remain. Death and destruction are but one aspect of our disappearance.

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Ori Goldberg @ori_goldberg

2 days ago

13/ "Hamas did this to us --> Hamas must be destroyed --> All Gazans support Hamas --> Gazans are collateral damage --> If they don't die they can at least have the decency to suffer --> We can only validate our humanity by stripping theirs away". That is the progression. --->

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Ori Goldberg @ori_goldberg

2 days ago

12/ Israelis, on the other hand, are gradually shedding their humanity precisely when it comes to those same little things. We are not interested in empathy, walking even one step in Palestinian shoes. All we have is a murky illusion of clarity that begins with victimhood. --->

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Ori Goldberg @ori_goldberg

2 days ago

9/ They started. They are at fault. They could have chosen no to do it. Once they did, they deserve it. The few who argue with this inevitability offer factual counterarguments. "What if the water sprayed from a hose was not potable, as is most Gazan water?" --->

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Ori Goldberg @ori_goldberg

2 days ago

11/ Palestinians can even, heaven forfend, try to cool off even at the expense of drinking water. Palestinians are human beings, capable of excess and whim, not chained to an inner calculator powered by Israeli pettiness. The little things are the most dehumanizing. --->

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Ori Goldberg @ori_goldberg

2 days ago

10/ These arguments are correct but they also serve the smallminded obssession with drawing lines in the sand separating the "proper" from the "improper". Israel has no right to tell Palestinians what to do with the insufficient water and food allowed into the strip. --->

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Ori Goldberg @ori_goldberg

2 days ago

8/ We are obssessed with the integrity of categorical distinctions. "Gazans deserve to die because they were happy on October 7th!" is a good example. This amounts to support for genocide (all Gazans? Apparently. We don't really care). But why? Because of what they did! --->

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Ori Goldberg @ori_goldberg

2 days ago

7/ "All I'm saying is that if I had no water I wouldn't waste it like that", says an average tweet. Others will suggest that images of Palestinians at the beach mean there is no genocide, because genocide means we "kill them all". Sanctimony and ignorance are all that's left. -->

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Ori Goldberg @ori_goldberg

2 days ago

6/ Take the righteous indignation at a clip of Palestinian teens spraying themselves with water from a garden hose on a day of record breaking heat. While there are those who talk about the need to "deny the enemy everything", most take a different tack. --->

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Ori Goldberg @ori_goldberg

2 days ago

5/ Here, on social media, we are also contracting. The smug pretense that everybody "gets us", that we've got carte blanche to do whatever we decide is right, they are still there but they ring hollow. Israelis have become hairsplitters and nitpickers. We are small. --->

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Ori Goldberg @ori_goldberg

2 days ago

4/ Where true internationalism counts Israel is being edged out of the "big picture". We scream "discrimination" till we're blue in the face (consider the maddening tantrums of Shai Davidai at Columbia). It does no good. Our presence in the world grows ever smaller. --->

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Ori Goldberg @ori_goldberg

2 days ago

3/ Academics are boycotting Israel. Before anyone assumes academics are trail blazers, the opposite is true. Academics depend on so many ulterior forces for their livelihood and sing so constantly for they supper that they best reflect the minds of the truly powerful. --->

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Ori Goldberg @ori_goldberg

2 days ago

2/ This is true even outside twitter. Israel is disappearing from the global map. It is more and more difficult, for example, to find flights from and to Israel. The flights you can find are long, arduous and expensive. Israel is no longer a destination or a point of origin. --->

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Ori Goldberg @ori_goldberg

2 days ago

1/ A day of engaging with my countrymen on this platform has left a powerful impression. My mental image of Israel has for some time been one of implosion. I saw noise and drama and horrendous timelines unfold. But Israel is not imploding. Israel is contracting. --->

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Alon Mizrahi I without equality there's no freedom @alon_mizrahi

2 days ago

I heard about Norman Finkelstein's speech and advice to Palestinian activists, namely to be less divisive, and with all the love and respect I feel for Norman, I have to say I profoundly disagree. I am not giving advice to anyone, but my approach to protest in general can be…