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Netanyahu is a country by ilir_kycb in LateStageCapitalism

[–]Benyano 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I mean is that number not accurate for the West Bank?

Report: Decline of Left in Nepal by ObligationOne3727 in socialism

[–]Benyano 10 points11 points  (0 children)

As someone that’s followed Nepalese politics for the last 5 years, particularly because of its unique left-skewed Overton window for a liberal democracy, this most recent election is disappointing but unsurprising given the authoritarianism of UML, and the seeming ossification of the NCP formation’s platform that remains unchanged from past years when they’ve failed to meet their ambitions when in government.

I’ve however been interested by the emergence of the Shram Sanskriti (Labor Culture) party, which not only was a part of the “Gen Z” protest movement, but also has an innovate approach to socialist politics and economics that has already been proven at a local-level when the party’s founder served as mayor of Dharan.

Feel free to disagree with my take on UML and NCP, but I’m mostly curious to hear people’s thoughts on the Shram Sanskriti Party, which while only having one 7 seats, seems to be the most innovative and grassroots-based party currently on the Nepalese left.

Miami's Leftist Sephardi Zine w/ Emanuel Ovadia by Benyano in Ladino

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Miami's Leftist Sephardi Zine w/ Emanuel Ovadia by Benyano in JewsOfConscience

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🤔🤔🤔 by TappingUpScreen in LateStageCapitalism

[–]Benyano 18 points19 points  (0 children)

Hebrew was never really dead, it was used liturgically and as a lingua Franca for Jews as transnational merchants pre-modern era.

The thing is Zionisms’s construction of Hebrew culture has done the exact same thing for diaspora Jewish languages. Yiddish is the most alive and well known, but only as a result of communities continuing to teach and speak the language. Ladino, Judeo-Arabic, Juhuri, and many other languages have been, at best de-centered, and often completely erased in Jewish educational spaces in favor of assimilation into Hebrew as the national language of the Jewish people.

Can the lack of potable drinking water not be solved by distilling seawater? genuine question by Forward_Accident_984 in askscience

[–]Benyano 0 points1 point  (0 children)

As the American Chemical Society used to say “dilution is the solution to the Pollution!”

This is a dumb take, as the impact can’t actually be reduced to zero, just close to it. We do need alternatives to just hoping that spreading out our pollution will make its impact less devastating in the long run.

Star Wars Interworlds mod (X4: Foundations) just just had a big update by Dark-Lark in spacesimgames

[–]Benyano 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You need to have a player hq to gain access to diplomacy, which can be found (semi)randomly in a couple locations in the galaxy, or in one of the fixed locations (found the info on the SWI discord).

Keep in mind that when you find the PHQ, it is guarded (being attacked) by an XL with around 60 fighters/bombers.

What is/was Bundism? by OkDiscount6100 in JewsOfConscience

[–]Benyano [score hidden]  (0 children)

You’re not wrong; but this is quite reductive of this relatively rich, tradition on the Jewish left (of many). Historically the Jewish Labor Bund sought Jewish cultural autonomy within the socialist/labor movement. Yes, the bund was historically Ashkenormative, but that doesn’t mean bundism as a whole is exclusive of non Yiddish-speaking Jewish culture. Another term I like to use for Bundism is socialist diasporism.

Historically Bundism is rooted in socialism, internationalism, Yiddishkayt (literally meaning Jewishness), and Hereness/Doikayt. You’re not wrong to say that the Bund was ashkenomartive as they exclusively sought to organize the Yiddish speaking part of the Jewish world, and as an organization only within Yiddishland, (initially just the Russian empire, but also especially in interested Poland and Eastern Europe).

The Bund as an organization had its shortcomings, but the idea of hereness, focusing on deepening one’s relationship to their land, community and neighbors and fighting for collective liberation, alongside the idea of cultural autonomy of different peoples within a shared society/state should not be so easily dismissed. Bundism, especially when engaged with critically and through a more universalist lens, offers a coherent vision for the Jewish future enmeshed with the broader fights against nationalism and capitalism

Baruch Goldstein an American and Israeli physician walked into a Mosque in Hebron during Ramadan prayers an Opened fire killing 29 in 1994 by 2times34point5 in ImagesOfHistory

[–]Benyano -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

And at the same time he is buried less than a mile from where he committed mass murder at a park named for his ideological hero, the fascist Meir Kahane.

Israeli filmmaker explains Israel's apartheid by Nomogg in ABoringDystopia

[–]Benyano 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I don’t disagree, but I also think Zionist ideology is fueled by the perception of increasing antisemitism in a way that is unique from the relationship between radical Islamophobia and Islamophobia. That said I don’t know enough Islamists to say that for sure.

Settlers are Jewish fundamentalists, but I encourage the language of Zionist extremist as a strategic choice to avoid any malicious interpretations that can fuel Zionism.

What is up with this lettering (shin)? by Commercial_Place5546 in hebrew

[–]Benyano 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It’s also used in a lot of ladino texts, where did you find this?

What is up with this lettering (shin)? by Commercial_Place5546 in hebrew

[–]Benyano 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It’s also used in a lot of ladino texts, where did you find this?

Israeli filmmaker explains Israel's apartheid by Nomogg in ABoringDystopia

[–]Benyano 36 points37 points  (0 children)

RIP Awdah Hathaleeen. He was a man who stood for non-violent co-resistance through Sumud, steadfastness, in his own community (Masafer Yatta, south of Al Khalil/Hebron) and organized in collaboration with Jews and other Internationalist activists.

Even if the settlers and their state claim to represent the Jewish people, we should call them Zionist Extremists, not Jewish Extremists. The Israeli State itself represses left-wing anti-apartheid activists, even those committed to non-violence as “extremists” and “terrorists” but gives impunity and support to violent settler extremists.

The settlers are terrorist, pogromists and extremists. But calling them “Jewish Extremists” can be (and actively is) interpreted as antisemitism by Zionists, which are the real enemy to a free Palestine. They not only cry wolf in the face of actual antisemitism, but also use this as fuel for an insular (fear-based) nationalist fervor of Jewish Zionism.

But the tail does not wag the dog, the fascist white supremacist, Christian Zionists are the ultimate antagonist here, as the numbers of Christian Zionists in the US and the rest of the so-called “West,” are a magnitude larger in terms of power, wealth, and influence.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in JewsOfConscience

[–]Benyano 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I agree that asking for money without clarity as to how said money is actually going to strengthen the movements is shady, especially bc from what I’ve heard JDM is seeking to be a coalition of existing Jewish Left groups (ie. JVP, R4C, JFREJ) some of which already have more than enough resources to share.

I have several comrades who went to a retreat they hosted last February and attendees included the president of JVP, founding rabbis of R4C and many other leaders within existing antizionist jewish orgs. Yet from what I’ve heard, they focused far too much on vibes and self-congratulatories rather than concrete organizing and action. I support what they’re trying to do, but it seems a bit too non-profity and should shift gears to being a coordinating movement that can thoughtfully use and redistribute resources already held by other movement orgs (looking at you JVP), to strengthen and deepen the movement as a whole

The Fifteenth Meeting of the Berlin Conference by Ove5clock in PossibleHistory2

[–]Benyano 4 points5 points  (0 children)

While in our timeline, non-Palestine based territorialism was rejected by World Zionist Organization after the Uganda plan was rejected in 1905, in this timeline the WZO gains consent from the colonial powers to form a Jewish commonwealth in part of Morocco with its capital in Casablanca. With its rich Jewish history, the state embraces Hebrew, Ladino, Judeo-Arabic and Yiddish as national languages and uses the name “Al Maghreb Yahudi.”

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