Conferences have been abruptly cancelled, media appearances suppressed and demands made to fire critics of Israeli policies.
Palestine started it.
That’s certainly a take.
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History didn’t “start” last week. Palestine has been under occupation for 75 years, and a lot has happened in the last few.
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“Palestine” didn’t start this: you mean Hamas. Those are very different groups.
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The article is about threats of violence being used to silence and intimidate human rights groups. Even if you disagree with the politics of the targets of these threats, this is enormously dangerous and destabilizing to a democratic society.
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And therefore they should not have any voice in the reporting? There’s no viewpoint to give? There’s no data to understand? There’s no context which is useful in dealing with the situation?
This guy says a few very sane things, and then just totally loses connection with reality.
He’s right that there a huge risk to our while civilization, and that we need to deescalate both sides. He’s right that there will never be peace or security until Palestinians have a future.
And then he says that the peace treaty with Saudi Arabia was a step forward: it is not. It is a deal between authoritarians to further legalize Isreal’s ethnic cleansing program.
He says that Hamas should release the hostages without conditions. I wish they would, but that is as sensible as suggesting that they should all turn over their weapons and turn themselves in to be scheduled for execution. How is that anything other than a further embrace of the current Israeli peace plan, which is displacement, conquest, eradication? That’s not acceptable.
The international community needs to demand that Israel afford Palestinians living under permanent occupation full civil rights as Israeli citizens (including displaced Palestinian refugees) in exchange for security measures and a staged binational reintegration.
It’s this or continued gradual genocide.
so u r in favor of kidnapping citizens
Palestinian American activists say the cancellation of the conferences is part of a wider campaign by hardline Israel supporters, at times exploiting the extreme rhetoric of some student and leftwing groups celebrating or excusing the Hamas killings, to shut down views critical of Israel and the part its policies play in perpetuating conflict.
Well peaceful protests / demonstrations that don’t call for violence or condone/support Hamas should be allowed.
hamas is a terrorist organization
Supporting Hamas with a demonstration is by definition not peaceful in my book
Why do you reply to a month old comment though?
apologies didn’t notice that, and no idea why the filters showed me such old posts…
