#israel #freeGaza from #hamas and help 2 defend #rojava / #kurdistan against the #jihadism #turkey #clericalfascism #islamism #sna
https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/article-834072
#islamism
strange times with weird coalitions, but #antisemitism connects the stupid #left with #nazis, #antifa means fighting #islamism and #clericalfascism!
https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/article-824938
The Yale Review | Len Gutkin on Blasphemy and Salman Rushdie's Knife
https://yalereview.org/article/len-gutkin-salman-rushdie-knife
“Islamophobia” is a meaningless word - Andrew Doyle
#politics #society #islamism #wokistan
The term “Islamophobia” is a case in point. Few of us would tolerate the abuse of citizens for their belief in Islam, the vandalism of mosques, or physical attacks on those who are identifiably Muslim. We are right to condemn all such behaviour, and to support freedom of belief and worship. This is the essence of a secular democracy.
And yet those of us who maintain that the belief system of Islam is essentially wrong, that the veiling of women is rooted in misogyny, and that no religious icon should be ringfenced from ridicule, are often dismissed as “Islamophobic”. This is to conflate the actions of bigots and criminals with those who are simply exercising their right to criticise ideas. It is linguistic sleight-of-hand. And it works.
https://andrewdoyle.substack.com/p/islamophobia-is-a-meaningless-word
University Settles With Professor Who Was Sacked Over Prophet Muhammad Artworks
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/hamline-settles-with-sacked-professor-muhammad-censorship-2515768
#Gaza #islamism #hamas #women
and the other side… translate with deepl - horrible…
https://taz.de/Gewalt-an-Frauen/!5972451/
title: And what about the #Israel i women ?
excerpt
For the first time, Israeli women’s rights experts met with representatives of UN Women on Wednesday to campaign for the anti-women crimes of 7 October to be recognized as such. In her speech to the UN Security Council, the Executive Director of UN Women, Sima Bahous, finally condemned the crimes committed by Hamas. However, this remained a side note, as Bahous was mainly referring to the suffering of the people in the Gaza Strip as a result of Israel’s military operation.
Selective help from UN Women
The fact that UN Women is only selectively committed to women’s rights reveals that it does not care about certain women: Israeli women and Jewish women do not count. Given the anti-Israel positioning of the United Nations, which Alex Feuerherdt and Florian Markl outlined in their book “United Nations against Israel” back in 2019, this is hardly surprising. Back in 2015, Israel was the only country to be condemned as the world’s biggest violator of women’s rights. Not countries such as Afghanistan, Iran, Pakistan or Saudi Arabia.
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#intersectional #feminism is, when you celebrate the #gangrape of an #israeli #lesbian as #decolonization!
modern #patriarchy #islamism #clericalfascism #antifa #theFailureOfTheLeft #postmodernMadness #leftLunatics
#hamas #gaza #warcrime #genocide #clericalfascism #antisemitism #palestinians #islamism #palestine #freeGaza from hamas!
The unemployment rate in Gaza is 47% and more than 80% of its population lives in poverty, according to the United Nations. Hamas, however, has funded an armed force of thousands equipped with rockets and drones and built a vast web of tunnels under Gaza. Estimates of its annual military budget range from $100 million to $350 million, according to Israeli and Palestinian sources. (...)
Since coming to power in the Gaza Strip 17 years ago, Hamas has filled its coffers with hundreds of millions in international aid, overt and covert injections of cash from Iran and other ideological partners, as well as cryptocurrency, taxes, extortion and smuggling, according to current and former U.S. officials and regional experts. (...)
In addition to levying taxes on Gaza’s businesses and residents, Hamas imposes unofficial fees on smuggled goods and other activity, for a combined income of up to $450 million per year. Hamas also has real estate and other investments around the globe, despite international restrictions, and uses cryptocurrency to mask some of its transactions. (...)
Between 2012 and 2021, Qatar provided $1.49 billion in financial aid to support projects for Palestinian civilians in Gaza, a Qatari official told NBC News. (...)
Hamas’ leadership has invested its income in an international investment portfolio worth $500 million in real estate and other assets from companies in Algeria, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Turkey and the United Arab Emirates, which it uses to conceal and launder its money, according to a Treasury announcement.
Ariel Beery
Rallies by human rights and pro- #Palestinian activists around the world have called for an immediate ceasefire between #Israel and #Hamas. Many of those rallying have only good intentions at heart: they seek no more harm to innocents. They seek to protect the children of #Gaza, who have no responsibility for the crimes of members of their parents’ generation. They seek to mitigate the chances of an outbreak of a regional war that could cause further damage to even more innocents across Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, Egypt. They seek peace.
Seeing Israel as the stronger party, these well-intentioned activists have come to a simple conclusion: if only Israel stopped its military operations, a #ceasefire would emerge. #Hostages would eventually be returned. Lives would be saved. The problem is, as the leadership of the US and EU have already concluded, that is not #realistic. In past wars with Hamas, Israel has ceased fire and increased economic development for Gaza. Each time, Hamas used the time and money they siphoned off to build #weapons of war and aim those at both #Israelis and the #Palestinians who disagree with their #theocratic #dictatorship. Which is why the only way for the #Left, us #progressives, to live up to our morals and keep the high ground is to call for the immediate unconditional #surrender of Hamas.
Calling for the unconditional surrender of Hamas would prove that the Left cares about children of all countries, without ascribing to a hierarchy of human life. It avoids the moralistic laziness of publicly funded intellectuals such as Nicholas Kristof, among others, who essentially argue that a person planning to shoot you or your children has the same right to life as his victims. It avoids the abdication of responsibility by progressive leaders who forgive the war crimes of the party dedicated to carrying them out.(...)
Hamas depends on #international opinion far more than Israel. Hamas cannot exist without international aid, without international diplomatic air cover.
Those who care deeply about protecting the lives of #innocents need to think not just about today, but tomorrow.
Calling for a ceasefire would mean Israel #accepting a certain number of innocents dead by the hands of Hamas tomorrow in order to save innocent lives today. Calling for an alternative — for the unconditional surrender of Hamas — would solve this problem. Without Hamas in power, the threat to innocent lives on both sides drops precipitously. A ceasefire is made possible because the promise of future bloodshed is virtually eliminated.
There are those who would say that calling for Hamas’ unconditional surrender is unrealistic. That Hamas would not do it, and therefore the Left should focus on the only party who can be pressured by the international community: the democratic State of Israel. That, in my opinion, is worse than moralistic laziness. It is an abdication of morals, a cynical pragmatism that sacrifices Israeli innocent lives due to a lack of self-confidence that the Left should advocate for the truth. It is the path of least #resistance that leads towards the #victory of #evil over good.
Moreover, it is wrong. Because, again, Hamas depends on international opinion far more than Israel. Hamas cannot exist without international aid, without international diplomatic air cover. Without suitcases of cash coming from #Qatar with the active assistance of the #Netanyahu governments over the ages. If anyone can be influenced to stop the violence — if the Left’s progressive voice can have any impact whatsoever — it is by calling for the unconditional surrender of Hamas.
Because if Hamas emerged from its #bunkers, weapons down, hostages free, there would be no international justification for Israel to go to war, and Israel’s war aims would be met. Israelis who recognize now that there is no solution to the conflict that does not include a #political #transformation of the region would join with those #progressives who aided in freeing Gaza from Hamas to envision a new regional order. And there very well might just be peace
#antifa against #islamism #islamistic #clericalfascism and #antisemitism = #antizionism
https://jungle.world/blog/von-tunis-nach-teheran/2023/10/gaza-was-linke-auf-demonstrationen-fordern-sollten
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What life was like under Hamas around 2011:
Crime & Punishment in the Gaza Strip
An art treasure long cherished by Muslims is deemed offensive. But to whom? | Kenan Malik | The Guardian
#politics #islamism #fanaticism
What is striking about the Hamline incident, though, is that the image at the heart of the row cannot even in the most elastic of definitions be described as Islamophobic. It is an artistic treasure that exalts Islam and has long been cherished by Muslims.
Yet, to show it is now condemned as Islamophobic because… a student says so. Even to question that claim is to cause “harm”. As Berkson asked in another (unpublished) letter he sent to The Oracle, after his first had been removed: “Are you saying that disagreement with an argument is a form of ‘harm’?”