The situation is not improving. Indeed, the virus is still spreading. Palestinianism seems to have taken control of progressive minds, and atrocities in other parts of the world are ignored by these folks.
I am on a sort of vacation in rural New York state, an area with a mix of locals and the more sophisticated migrants originally from the cities. The Palestinianism is confined to the latter group of new age types. Those people used to be sane and were focused on local life, growing organic food or whatever. Now that has been melded with this very specific kind of politics. A local market has events to raise money for the Palestinians. I see “pesto pizza for Palestine”. Seriously. I see a sign in front of a vintage clothing store: Free Palestine. Stop the genocide. I presume the owner knows her customers. These places are uniformly and obviously progressive. Pesto pizza for Palestine comes right after their yoga classes and lessons in Cuban salsa. You might think it’s a satire, but it’s not. Even some progressive Jews have bought into this. It’s quite depressing.
Pesto pizza for Palestine is a lovely-sounding alliteration, but I would prefer the more cumbersome, "make Palestinian leaders accountable for the wellbeing of the people they rule over."
This sort of thing put the last nail in the coffin of downtown Portland, Oregon. I used to go downtown about twice a week to shop and eat, but the nasty posters, window signs, and confrontational demonstrators made me stop.
Good point about "occupied" vs "disputed" territory when referring to the West Bank. There are, after all, lots of disputed territories around the world. I always say disputed West Bank,
The manipulative definition of "refugee" will make less and less sense as time goes on. I wonder what the next stage of antisemitism will be. Perhaps Jews will be accused of being AI. . .
Completely irrational and anti-mathematical. They had to start by creating another new name for Muslim Arabs who want to take over Israel. As we all know first they were redefined as THE Palestinians in the early 20th century, when prior to that everyone in the region, Jews, Arabs, etc. identified as Palestinian. Now because there are 14 million self-identified Palestinians and so even 60,000 deaths wouldn't constitute a genocide, the Palestinians who live(d) in Gaza were redefined as Gazans. But it's still off numerically, since there are 2 million of them. Next up? Redefining genocide as destruction of buildings not human deaths, probably.
The situation is not improving. Indeed, the virus is still spreading. Palestinianism seems to have taken control of progressive minds, and atrocities in other parts of the world are ignored by these folks.
I am on a sort of vacation in rural New York state, an area with a mix of locals and the more sophisticated migrants originally from the cities. The Palestinianism is confined to the latter group of new age types. Those people used to be sane and were focused on local life, growing organic food or whatever. Now that has been melded with this very specific kind of politics. A local market has events to raise money for the Palestinians. I see “pesto pizza for Palestine”. Seriously. I see a sign in front of a vintage clothing store: Free Palestine. Stop the genocide. I presume the owner knows her customers. These places are uniformly and obviously progressive. Pesto pizza for Palestine comes right after their yoga classes and lessons in Cuban salsa. You might think it’s a satire, but it’s not. Even some progressive Jews have bought into this. It’s quite depressing.
This Palestine insanity on the left is the exact mirror image of the QAnon stuff on the right.
It even has the same origin story - yes, the Kremlin, everyone’s favorite spreader of scary fairy tales.
Pesto pizza for Palestine is a lovely-sounding alliteration, but I would prefer the more cumbersome, "make Palestinian leaders accountable for the wellbeing of the people they rule over."
This sort of thing put the last nail in the coffin of downtown Portland, Oregon. I used to go downtown about twice a week to shop and eat, but the nasty posters, window signs, and confrontational demonstrators made me stop.
Good point about "occupied" vs "disputed" territory when referring to the West Bank. There are, after all, lots of disputed territories around the world. I always say disputed West Bank,
Judea and Samaria
The manipulative definition of "refugee" will make less and less sense as time goes on. I wonder what the next stage of antisemitism will be. Perhaps Jews will be accused of being AI. . .
Completely irrational and anti-mathematical. They had to start by creating another new name for Muslim Arabs who want to take over Israel. As we all know first they were redefined as THE Palestinians in the early 20th century, when prior to that everyone in the region, Jews, Arabs, etc. identified as Palestinian. Now because there are 14 million self-identified Palestinians and so even 60,000 deaths wouldn't constitute a genocide, the Palestinians who live(d) in Gaza were redefined as Gazans. But it's still off numerically, since there are 2 million of them. Next up? Redefining genocide as destruction of buildings not human deaths, probably.
I vote to add this one to the fan fave list
When a liberal nation fights off jihadists and it's called a genocide, that's truthicide.