It is bigoted to speculate that the victim of a crime was a bad person based on their religion, ethnicity, or nationality.

It is misinformation to theorize that there is a coverup or someone is a patsy in the absence of any evidence to support it.

Misinformation is reviewed by the mod team and may be removed. Bigotry is always removed. Couching bigotry in sanitizing language does not excuse it (just joking, just asking questions, tempting to think, etc.).

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Jewish people are ethnically and culturally linked to one another and to the land of Israel. There has never been a time in the last 3000 years when there was not a significant native Jewish presence in and around Jerusalem.

I’m sorry that your history teachers have failed you in this regard, but I urge you to learn more about this history.

I’m surprised that the article doesn’t mention Misskey. It’s a Federated platform that connects with Mastodon and the like, and has close to a million users. After Mastodon it’s the most active platform in the Fediverse, and owes most of its popularity to Japanese users.

The shamelessness of the far left, who continued to double down after sabotaging the American electorate and the future, quite possibly, of global stability… Quite frankly, is astonishing to me.

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Modern day Palestinians are not the coastal Philistines of the middle bronze age. They’re the descendants of the Arab colonizers of the 7th and 12th centuries.

Which, for clarity’s sake, does not deny them of a right to their land.

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As I said, I am happy to provide any information you would like. The idea that Israel only exists because of the Holocaust is a historical misnomer. It’s true that some historians believe it accelerated the development, while others speculate that the huge decrease in world Jewish population inhibited the growth of the State.

The truth is that the forces of decolonization post-WW2 led to the creation of many newly independent states, including India and Pakistan, etc. The end of the British protectorate in Palestine-Eretz Israel (as it was called at the time) led to the international recognition of a state of Israel and a state of Palestine, with borders based on a roughly equal division of the Cisjordan region, based on the incorporation of the largest populations of the two groups.

Jewish leaders accepted the international resolution, while Arab leaders rejected it, and attacked the newly established state of Israel.

These events had as much if not more to do with the end of European colonialism than the Holocaust. It was much the same way that the British Raj was divided into roughly ethnic states of India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh.

Not exactly. Zionism was a labor-communist movement with an emphasis on fairly purchasing land from absent landlords, communal ownership, multiculturalism, agriculture, and independence for the native peoples of the region.

I know it goes against the popular narrative these days, but the nice thing about history is that it never changes. I’m happy to share primary sources or mainstream, independent scholarship on any of these points if you have followup questions on any of these points.

For now, here is a poster from 1900 to illustrate the point:

Russia is really calling in all their chips on this one.

They forgot that having a secret network of vassal mercenaries means keeping them secret.

Weird phrasing, unless maybe you’re happy about the election results.

Democrats sanctioned far right Israeli leaders, limiting their ability to cause havoc in the West Bank. They also brought in literal tons of direct aid to Gaza, where armed groups have made it notoriously difficult to bring in and distribute aid.

Leftists only love failed independence movements. Jews worked and fought for centuries before succeeding in building an independent homeland. As soon as they succeeded, it became the “wrong” thing.

I’m not afraid to say:

Free Palestine

Free Tibet

Free First Nations

Free Kurdistan

Try staring at it anxiously a little bit longer, and see if that helps.

It’s an election year… Should we help Palestine by protesting

A - the party that acts as a partial if somewhat ineffective check on right wing Israeli policy, OR

B - the guy who has an Israeli settlement named after him for building an embassy in East Jerusalem (and will possibly have us rounded up and sent to camps, if he becomes president)

It is weird that there are these protest groups wearing particular scarves that always seem to be acting in the interest of Russia.

I’m just going to say it. Pixelfed is empty and Peertube is virtually unusable.

The marketing of the Fediverse as Mastodon + Pixelfed makes no sense. Sometimes Friendica is even still tossed in there.

Lemmy/threadiverse is WAY bigger than either one, but is regularly left out of the conversation. I honestly don’t get it.

“Sure is a nice publicly funded and scientifically minded space program you got here. It would be a shame if anything happened to it.”

Once again, corporate america will use this as an excuse to raise prices more than necessary, gouging the people and stuffing the pockets of CEOs.

It’s not.

They sure do have a lot of leeway on steam. It’s time we recognize that it’s a form of social media with the same real-world consequences.