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Israel – and particularly #Likud – have a complicated relationship with their Middle Eastern identity.

"Iraqi! Ashkenazi! Jews! Brothers! Warriors!" is a line from the most famous Likud speech, by the former Irgun command.

It is about a young man and a teenage boy who died in 1947 (in a way that cannot be described in detail on YouTube). The Iraqi was a #Kurdish immigrant, the Ashkenazi, and the other #Ashkenazi involved in that incident, were both born in Palestine

The former Irgun commander was making a speech praising Arab Jews (albeit not by that name) and that one Kurd who fought for the #Irgun and #Lehi

But when #Netanyahu made a speech about the same pair in 2010 both Arab Israeli and Sephardic #Knesset members heckled him.

youtube.com/watch?v=phuxruHIAB this started as a response to #IndieNile

cc @kmpiw@mastodon.social @kmpiw@kolektiva.social @kmpiw@aus.social @israel @palestine

“Around 200 #Israeli citizens living in the #UK have written to the British government demanding it suspend its #trade relations with #Israel until the country lifts its total siege on #Gaza. In a letter addressed to Prime Minister Keir Starmer and Foreign Secretary David Lammy, the group, many of whom hold British citizenship, called on the government to suspend the UK-Israel Trade and Partnership Agreement (TPA)...”
| Middle East Eye middleeasteye.net/news/nearly-

Middle East EyeNearly 200 Israeli citizens in the UK call on government to suspend trade with IsraelThe group, many of whom hold British citizenship, said that the prospect of mass starvation in Gaza is 'imminent and intolerable'

IMEU Policy Project | 77 Years of #Israel's Ongoing #Nakba against #Palestinians

May 15 2025 11am ET

Join special guest Congresswoman #RashidaTlaib for her reintroduction of her historic resolution to commemorate the Nakba and end US complicity in it.

Historians of the Nakba--Prof #MahaNassar and Prof #IlanPappé--will join us as well to discuss the ongoing nature of Israel's Nakba against the Palestinian people.

registration: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regist

#USpol #HR1123 #Palestine @palestine

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"Gewissermaßen übernimmt die #Tagesschau damit eine Erzählung der israel. Regierung, wonach es sich bei #UN, #WHO oder #IGH nicht um neutrale Institutionen, sondern um Gegner #Israel's handelt.
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Lediglich 2 von 672 Stimmen in 16 Monaten Berichterstattung gehörten Vertretern von NGOs, die das Leben im #Gaza'streifen täglich aus nächster Nähe erleben [...]."

schantall-und-scharia.de/tages

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Schantall und Scharia · 136 Vertreter Israels, 4 Palästinas - Schantall und SchariaZu einseitig, zu stereotyp, zu proisraelisch. Seit anderthalb Jahren stehen deutsche Medien für ihre Nahost-Berichterstattung in der Kritik. Eine Auswertung von 470 Tagesschau-Sendungen seit dem 7. Oktober 2023 zeigt: Es ist noch viel schlimmer.
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"Der vom Westen anerkannte palästinen. Präsident Mahmoud Abbas und sein Ministerpräsident Mohammad Mustafa waren in der #Tagesschau bisher kein einziges Mal zu hören.

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Mitglieder der Opposition oder Politiker, die der Nahostpolitik der Bundesregierung kritisch gegenüberstehen, spielten in der Berichterstattung [...] so gut wie keine Rolle."

schantall-und-scharia.de/tages

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Schantall und Scharia · 136 Vertreter Israels, 4 Palästinas - Schantall und SchariaZu einseitig, zu stereotyp, zu proisraelisch. Seit anderthalb Jahren stehen deutsche Medien für ihre Nahost-Berichterstattung in der Kritik. Eine Auswertung von 470 Tagesschau-Sendungen seit dem 7. Oktober 2023 zeigt: Es ist noch viel schlimmer.
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@RonSupportsYou If they agreed with us, then they would've stopped the fucking #Genocide in #Gaza. Not continuosly fund #Israel to a $100 billion in so called #SelfDefense Aid that still gave them weapons to destroy #Palestine & invade while the world watched in horror as #JoeBiden & #Democrats gave platitudes of being disgusted.

Fuck off with this shit! They've been saying this yet do nothing!

Why are you defending them after 10 years of this bullshit!

We're nowhere to a real solution!