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3·13 hours agoI don’t know what you’re referencing about people losing their homes.
42·16 hours agoIsraelis (as a populace) are 100x worse than the Nazis. Not just their ruling parties, but their people. Irredeemable in every way.
Another nepotism hire? Viktor must need a job
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BCNDP shot themselves in the foot and need to move left further. At best they were centrist liberals when it came to workers interests and progressive liberals on social topics. They lost their appeal to the proletariat a long time ago.
Eby called for a snap election (and probably with support and push of his caucus) for absolutely no reason. They had nothing worthwhile on the table that they wanted to push so badly which needed a majority. And snap elections have failed several times in Canada’s history.
Yes, very true. But the majority of state governments in Brazil (the National Congress) have flipped to conservative. So it’s a big stalemate and congress will ensure that things get worse just to make Lula look bad (similar to what Republicans in the US do).
leftists should consider the top down approach doesn’t work
Yeah, that’s kind of the defining idea that a left leaning party would adhere to.
And a clear majority for absolutely no reason! It’s not like they were doing anything wild and imaginative like public grocery chains.
Hopefully this is the slap in the face the BCNDP need to move left instead of staying centrist.
This is an annual march where thousands of Israelis march through the streets of Jerusalem chanting “death to Arabs” and “may your village burn”, and Palestinians hide out of fear of being lynched.
I get you. But dehumanization is a very different thing than understanding their psychopathy and colonial mindset. For me, demonization is not the same as dehumanization.
I dunno. Your initial comment seemed to be misunderstanding or misconstruing (or at worst dismissive) the data shared in the article, focusing your analysis on one point, making it inaccurate. My response was to highlight that there is more data available.
You then didn’t really consider the additional data and instead moved on to a different topic based off a part of my response which was to mention an Israeli politician (considered left). That part of my response was to show that the Left vs Right paradigm as we know it doesn’t apply to Israeli politics when their center-left also advocate for genocide (which makes the fact that more Israelis identify with being right-wing all the more concerning, since even the center-left advocate for genocide).
It was a terse response because the only interaction we’ve had is one where you seem to have misconstrued information and then been deflective/changed topic to something unrelated (considering that Yair Golan is not “anti-genocide” as referenced by prior points, he doesn’t even have a seat in parliament). So I’m not quite sure what you’re getting at.
Nobody said anything about a genocide and I don’t know anyone that’s asked for it.
Israel needs to be treated like apartheid South Africa, a full embargo until the racist state breaks. When you remove the power dynamics that allow an ethno-supremacist state to exist then it will crumble.
International allies need to continue to be vocal, petition their governments, rally in support of BDS, regular direct action, protests and blockades at ports - these are all happening now and need to continue and grow.
they’re not necessarily irredeemable people any more than the German people were after WW2
Very big clarification here and not in defense of Germans who voted for fascism. The German citizenry didn’t know that the Holocaust was happening and that’s well documented.
Israelis know exactly what’s happening. Israeli civilians have blocked aid trucks, openly hold pogroms, brag about it on their socials, politicians have it on their election campaign, and people publicly call for killing of Palestinian children because “they are future terrorists”.
I don’t know what you’re trying to whitewash here because the article and post is about the Israeli population veering further extreme right and has been for several decades (as reported by Israeli polls).
There were communist parties running against Hitler during the elections in 1933. Doesn’t change the fact that Germans voted for fascism that led to genocide.
Also, it’s interesting to highlight Yair Golan. The guy who said that Palestinian statehood is “extremely damaging to Israel”.
The leader of the left-wing party has long supported a two-state solution, but “not at this time.”
that annexing Gaza and its Palestinian population, as has been floated by the current government, is impossible: “No country in the world is ready, willing, or interested in absorbing two million Palestinians.”
So he supports the 2SS but only on Israel’s terms, when Israel wants, under Israeli military security…seems about the same decades long hollow promises from the Liberal Zionist camp that led to this point. His concern isn’t about ethnic cleansing, but that it’s not realistic.
It’s been reported on for weeks, but the other comment here is trying to downplay the increase in right wing support.
Analysts also pointed out that several parties running, including ones that are currently in power and a number that are challenging the current coalition, all advocate for the expulsion of Palestinians from Gaza, as one of the examples of the shift to the right.
I don’t know if you’re trying to downplay the increase in rightwing-ism.
You’re referencing one of the many polls that are mentioned in the article, and it’s definitely worth noting that “far-right” means the likes of ben-gvir. How many would vote for the “right” like Smotrich and Bibi?
Poll shows some three quarters of Jewish first-time voters identify as right or centre-right, higher than the rest of Israeli society.
The Israeli Central Elections Committee says more than half a million voters were added to the roll since the last elections in 2022. They are aged between 18 and 22 and polls show that 80 percent of them plan to vote
Around three quarters of Jewish first-time voters polled identified as “right or centre-right”, according to a recent poll for Israel’s Channel 12.
Considering that nearly everyone in Israel’s elections (even the “left of center”) advocate for genocide; I don’t think it’s wise to dismiss the findings that the majority are voting for the right (i.e. all out genocide, expulsions, pogroms).
How about Florida? Since the US wants to support them so badly, might as well just create the Israeli state within the US’s own borders
Ethno supremacy. Not too different than how the Germans voted for Hitler.
But the looters!!
I didn’t know Avi ran in a riding election!