I don’t know too much about the specifics of religious affiliations in Gaza. The guy this is about is a Salafist scholar and Hamas is Shia. Is Salafism even popular in Gaza? Or is this dude just a “leading scholar” because some people outside of Gaza listen to Salafists? I know I read somewhere about its influence on Gaza a long while ago, but I kind of thought it just died away honestly.
To anyone seeing this kid for the first time, he’s pretty shitty person. Still young so I’m not gonna be too harsh, but the videos on the channel have tons of right wing bullshit and mocking of anything vaguely left wing. The footage is fine here though, because he’s just trying to chase fights and happens to be showing something useful. Just don’t go looking deeper into the content
On number 5, I was attempting to look at the lyrics and compare to something, but it was so hard to find any text for what the chant (a known chant in Israël) is. The only thing I could find and confirm from the vid6e was Mawat laAravim which is “kill the Arabs” (but they changed the work “kill” to “fuck” which I don’t know) Anyone have a longer text of it?
Not native but I could understand it fine without subtitles. Terrible at accents, though I definitely heard some heavy American sounding things. But I know 0 people from Puerto Rico so maybe that’s just how people there talk, for all I know.
'“do your own Marxist analysis” then read Marxists? My question is, why would I do that instead of reading and critiquing Marxist analyses? Not everyone has to reinvent every wheel. I can look critically, it’s not like this is my first Marxist analysis. I’m gonna read and put more trust in the PFLP than anyone on Palestine, too.
If there is no good analysis, then of course. That’s the information I hoped someone would give: is there a good analysis somewhere? I’d rather learn and apply than have to create my own position on Sudan. It’s the purpose of parties really. But no party I affiliate with has said anything, and maybe, as you insinuate, there is no good analysis.
I’ll read some on socialist Sudan; I know little outside of what I already mentioned and the writings of the Communist Party of Kenya. You seem to disagree with them, if I’m understanding right.
Would you then like to set me on a correct path? What can I read? Everything I look into seems to be shitty analyses every time, lacking any materialist bases, which gets me nowhere. That frustration was the start of this, though I didn’t communicate it well.
My best bases is reading Nkrumah and Rodney, but I feel like those don’t help too much with the current conflict
Trying to self-crit right now, is the problem that I’m wanting a position to just adopt? Because that’s not my intention, I was hoping to get some links to good Marxist critiques/party positions to learn more.
What’s the point of having a group of like-minded people except to not learn everything on your own? Maybe my question is not worded well, and I will also take your critique seriously, in that I should investigate further.
But why would I begin by nothing? This is my first real moment of thinking I maybe have some time to learn something about it. I’m going to begin with a basis among comrades, look for resources from communists (and look, another comrade gave that knowledge about a communist party, though I will have to search further on my own).
Maybe it does show some “white leftist” attitude that I should critique, but don’t act like there’s not enough that I’ve been trying to learn and apply these past years. I didn’t want a fully digested take, I wanted to know what Marxists has said about the positions.
What is the Marxist position on this war? I know little and feel shitty about that every time I see news. -self crit. This was a shitty question, I shouldn’t have asked. If anyone has good resources, I want to learn more and that’s my point.
I saw a video the other day from the Dutch equivalent of John Oliver where he (a neoliberal who seems progressice because he likes gay people) talked about why the EU needed to become more like the US because the EU was falling behind. But to prove it, he showed a chart with the US, China, and EU GDP per person from the past 40 years. The US started growing more than the EU a few years ago, so he pointed there, ignored the enourmously high rate of growth of china compared to the others, and said “we should copy the US, because theyre growing faster than us”.
I thought that someone would have told him that that was at least dumb. Like leave china off the chart if youre gonna do such dumb propaganda.
Eventually, Taiwanese people will realize that their Chinese compatriots really do care about them and want them to join and become better.
Every time they are exploited by the US, they get the chance to realize that more. Chips will no longer be made there for US purposes in the future, and merging with China will become more attractive again.
China plays the long game and understands that the material incentive bends towards them over time, due to location, political economy, and the US’s inherent necessity to sacrifice at the borders of the “west” for its expropriation. Taiwan is becoming the border instead of benefitting from that border.
So, whole rant to say: Taiwan will choose China. Eventually. The US is in a race against a growing China. and China only has to continue the course and wait for Taiwanese realize it.
Just floating this to pulse how other, more knowledgeable hexbears feel, but I would guess Israel is planning to attack Iran further very soon and just in small enough waves to build up to bigger strikes not at once. Easier to not lose support from the west when it’s constantly low-level and rising. It also would make the whole “knowing where air defense is” easier for Israel.
Idk exactly, but I am just not convinced that the Zionist entity is backing down when it’s the classic cornered country, snarling and lashing out.
One must stay posting, it cannot be otherwise
Timing is interesting, but I also think that China has every incentive to make this lasting. I’m no expert, so please some chime in if I’m missing something, but I’ll stake my bet in that China sees its own interests entirely aligned with ending that border disagreement. It only costs resources to maintain the status quo and the benefits of peace are much larger for the state and people.
I agree that it sounded exactly like a conscious attempt to spread anti-Semitism, but I think that both the cultural phenomenon and the inability to realize that it’s a terrible thing that shouldn’t be done arise from the same material pressures. Namely, they arise due to settler colonialism and the way that one must relate to indigenous people to do it.
But I’m open to Israel doing this consciously. Is there any leaked doc or admitted strategy of spreading anti-Semitism? Or is it just something that seems obvious based on actions (like this)? Because I think that the system of propaganda is just advanced, and nobody is intentionally making it function how it does. It just works because the media and culture conmect in this way which has material benefits to settler colonialism more broadly.
Did I say anywhere that it’s anti-Semitism to hate Zionists?
I think you’re very wrong in the last paragraph. Jewish people are already seen by anti-Zionists without material analysis as less trustworthy due to being Jewish. Anti-Semitism against Jews will rise as the crimes done in their name (by an entity claiming to represent all Jews) are more clear and discussed. Maybe that will be limited in the western countries supporting due to the coming systemic pushback against making any critique of Israel broader (to avoid settler colonialism as a cause, so it’ll be said that only Netanyahu was evil) but this is not universal. The people who care know the material facts and how to understand ethnicity, nationality, religion, etc. But they aren’t the ones who we are worried about
I think that it is not any intentional 4D chess propaganda or so from any party, personally.
The first I heard of it was an Israeli describing it as just a cultural interest on TikTok, so like the fun “you know the Irish have 10 words for draft beer?” kind of thing. But then it’s spread is likely because everyone seems to have a buy-in. For anti-Zionists, it’s a clear description of a cultural phenomenon related to the hubris and destructiveness of Zionism. For anti-Semites, it’s pretty clearly playing into the tropes they have long believed about Jews. For Zionists, it’s a description of how wise and uncompromising Israel is in the face of worse “pallywood” and bullshit like that
All groups have an active role in the spreading, because it plays on all fronts perfectly. But it’s a mistake for anti-Zionists because such a thing is immaterial as a cause, settler colonialism is the cause of both this cultural phenomenon and the genocide being committed.
I get the feeling that the “Freyer” discourse (word which basically means the person taken advantage of) is the beginning of the anti-Semitism which will definitely be terrible once this genocide is ended and the Zionists are forced to flee. And it’s the fault of the Zionist settler-colony that this will happen.
Sorry if I’m changing the subject away from the Palestinians themselves (whose suffering immensely eclipses that of anti-jewish sentiments right now, of course), but seeing the comments on Twitter about this concept gave me an insight into the form that the anti-jewish sentiment will be (again) in the future.
Ok very clear! I was just a bit worried that I did not understand how these tanks work or something lol
The last one would be kinda cute in some parallel world where it was someone who loved cows and was hanging with his cow buddies. I can’t imagine a political situation for it to be cute in but it’s kinda cute
Ah shit just noticed the money.