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Btw I’m a non-binary trans person [they/she/he].
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solo@piefed.socialto World News@lemmy.world•UK excludes Israelis from leading defense college over escalating war in GazaEnglish1·17 days agoA relevant article from declassified uk:
Revealed: The British military college teaching Israeli soldiers
After months of secrecy from Labour, we expose where Israeli troops have trained in Britain during the Gaza genocide.
Israeli army officers have been allowed to study at a British military academy in central London throughout the Gaza genocide, Declassified can reveal.
At least two Israeli colonels have attended the prestigious Royal College of Defence Studies (RCDS) since 2023.
One of the soldiers, thought to be Elad Edri, only graduated a fortnight ago.
Another officer, Yeftah Norkin, completed the course in July 2024 and almost immediately led the army’s “Bang” division in Israel’s invasion of Lebanon. (…)
solo@piefed.socialto World News@lemmy.world•Spain cancels €700 million Israeli arms dealEnglish111·17 days agoThe Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention and Human Security has been calling it a genocide since 2023: Statement on Why We Call the Israeli Attack on Gaza Genocide. Btw Lemkin is the person who first quoted and defined the term Genocide.
And what Le Monde has to say on the topic is:
what his leftist government called “the genocide in Gaza.”
They are clearly supporting the Genocide in Palestine.
solo@piefed.socialOPto World News@lemmy.world•Pro-Palestine actors use Emmy Awards platform to slam Gaza genocideEnglish3·17 days agoI don’t see anything surprising in what you describe. It is well known that Zionism uses Judaism as a tool for its settler colonialism for well over a century now. The Bund wrote anti-zionist songs at the time.
Clearly, Judaism and Zionism are not synonyms, nor have they ever been.
It is the Zionist state of Israel that tries to present Judaism and Zionism as synonyms. We shouldn’t fall for Zionist propaganda / Israeli propaganda / Hasbara, call it as you want, these are synonyms. And this is why we need to call out both Zionism and antisemitism.
Saying that Israel is a theocracy (…) because this is what the Jewish religion is, not only is an uniformed statement, it is also an antisemitic one. Israel is a settler collonial theocracy because of Zionist principals. (And the support from the West - meaning, the decendents of the christians and/or europeans that were procecuting Jewish populations for centuries. I won’t expand on this now.)
solo@piefed.socialOPto World News@lemmy.world•Pro-Palestine actors use Emmy Awards platform to slam Gaza genocideEnglish204·17 days agoYou conflate Judaism with Zionism, and this makes your comment antisemitic.
Edit: Being anti-zionist makes sense. See Jewish Voice for Peace - On Antisemitism, Anti-Zionism and Dangerous Conflations
solo@piefed.socialOPto World News@lemmy.world•Google rejects Poland's complaints over Israeli “disinformation” videos about GazaEnglish1·18 days agoI don’t know what to say, for me it works.
solo@piefed.socialOPto World News@lemmy.world•Music festival in Belgium cancels concert over Israeli conductorEnglish957·22 days agoI see things differently. Condemning genocide is not an arbitrary test related moral purity.
And like Jewish Voice for Peace say:
Never Again For Anyone
as well as
Not in our name
solo@piefed.socialOPto World News@lemmy.world•Belgium To Recognize Palestine, Impose Sanctions On IsraelEnglish6·30 days agoWhitout doubting what you say, from this last tweet it looks like the narrative (at least in this instance) has shifted? In the sense that this text seems pretty clear to me.
No matter what, I hope the protest goes incredibly well!!
solo@piefed.socialto World News@beehaw.org•The stunning reversal of humanity’s oldest biasEnglish0·4 months agoIf you look into the article, when this is mentioned, there is a relevant link. I think it is worth taking a look at it, because it gives perspective on this topic. Actually, a few, not only one.
The countries with the biggest skews in favour of boys in sex ratios at birth have seen a reversion towards the natural rate.
In a handful of places, the overall birth statistics appear to reflect a preference for girls over boys.
But in most countries, any preference for girls expressed in polls is not strong enough to show in the overall sex ratio at birth. Most parents-to-be seem to balk at sex-selective abortions, in other words.
The assumption that daughters will be more nurturing whereas sons will grow distant is ingrained even in the most egalitarian societies.
Edit: I rewrote the comment, when I realised there are a few links in the article that clarify things
solo@piefed.socialto World News@beehaw.org•The stunning reversal of humanity’s oldest biasEnglish0·4 months ago[…] boys will be aborted and neglected in favour of girls
It’s the first time I hear about this. Any relevant links you could share that corroborate this take?
Great. Recognising Palestine is one part of the equation. Of course, this is done too many decades too late.
The other part of the equation is Israel. Practically, what will the UK do to stop its Genocide and when? It looks like the UK still supplies millions of pounds worth of arms to Israel
Edit: Freezing Israeli Zionist assets sounds like a great option too to stop a Genocide. And the UK knows how to do this since around £25 billion of Russian assets are held there (see article).