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This is not correct. You have to look at the historical context and the fact that this is an anti-colonial liberation resistance struggle since about 1929. If you don't understand …

It's not a religious war. It's an anti-colonial struggle. An understanding of events of October 7 starts with an understanding of the historical context of Palestine and Israel: mo…

An understanding of events of October 7 starts with an understanding of the historical context of Palestine and Israel: most of the coverage of the events of October 7 deal with th…

Chappelle is a genius. And he's not even Jewish ;-) What bothers me about articles like this is (regardless of its veracity) that when other claims of ethic supremacy (since they o…

>“We’re here because we want this to be a normal state, you understand?” she said, “just like the United States or France or Germany. We don’t want this country to be taken over by…

> In 1948, Palestinian irregulars led by Amin al-Husseini, who had been The Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, who spied for he Nazis and was a guest of Hitler's in Berlin during WWII and w…

When there is an article about Israeli researchers delving into the history of the land they have stolen, I pay attention because my family was ethnically cleansed from this land i…

Oy Ye! Which comment was antisemitic? Is any criticism of Israel now antisemitism? "A nation that doesn't know its past, has a dull present and a future shrouded in fog" --Yigal Al…

This is a great idea. I've often written small chunks of code in my favorite other language (scheme). I find this very satisfying. Of course, I only do this after finishing the ori…

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> susceptible to dogmatically motivated biases. Indeed. And it's not just biblical archaeology. The Israeli government influence and corruption extends to most academics. When the …

It's not clear to me why human rights abuses by Israel or their practice of apartheid on non-Jews in the West Bank and Gaza should bother anyone at google. Morality or ethics was n…

Interesting interview today with Ariel Koren, a former Google employee who says she was pushed out for her activism, as well as Gabriel Schubiner at https://www.democracynow.org/20…

Let's not confuse Zionist ideology with Judaism. One is a peaceful religion whose followers understand commandment #8 (no stealing (e.g. land, property, etc.)). And the other is a …

> I am not Jewish but the logic here is sound. Jews need their own country so they can take control of their destiny. Why exactly? I'm genuinely curious. >Israel is not an aparthei…

>the search for a Jewish homeland was led by Jewish religious fundamentalists Not initially. This myth of the Jewish homeland only took hold after the turn of the century. The earl…

I think this law will only hurt the Israeli image abroad a little bit. The 3 recent human rights reports (calling Israel out for practicing apartheid) are much more damaging. This …

I did a lot of taping of movies that were broadcast locally. Lots of documentaries on PBS were many hours long and broadcast over the span of several days, or once a week over the …

I lobbied heavily to crawl my company's intranet since our official IT folks would not include the ~10k "grey" (as in unofficial) web servers set up by technical people over the ye…

This is a really good article. I've enjoyed freebsd on older hardware for since 4.x days. One of the most satisfyung aspects of FreeBSD (really all the BSDs) is the ability to rebu…

It's not just Amnesty calling out apartheid Israel: Amnesty's report came out after Israeli human rights advocacy organizations published their reports: 1. 18 months after Yesh Din…

This is not surprising. Amnesty released a damning report (the third from major human rights groups) on Israeli apartheid and there was not a single word written about it in the ve…

I believe the major "earthquake" occurred already. The Amnesty International report on Israeli apartheid was released February 1, 2022.

Found some nice charts here: https://singlepairethernet.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/SP...