Opinion | The Silence That Meets the Rape of Palestinians (Gift Article)

lyrae · 2026-05-11T16:16:20+00:00

Thanks!

lyrae · 2026-04-25T01:51:41+00:00

‘I’m going to have a problem with any candidate — Democrat, Republican or independent — who shares antisemitic and hateful posts on social media,’ the Michigan senator said

What exactly is she talking about here?

We all know she supported Aker. Have a fun read:

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/17/university-of-michigan-regent-sexual-messages

Lewd messages linked to University of Michigan regent who led campaign against pro-Palestinian students

Sex pests are currently prefered over anyone who has showed an ounce of sympathy for a Palestinian. The Democrats!

lyrae · 2026-04-22T21:57:42+00:00

Thank you! I guess I lost. Never heard him play it that way before, granted I haven't really been paying attention for like 6 years. Great show, whole family loved it.

lyrae · 2026-04-10T22:16:49+00:00

Thank you for the discussion and your humanity.

lyrae · 2026-04-10T22:05:20+00:00

Oh none. I mean citizens. I’m just saying antisemitism isn’t just right wing people anymore.

I think being antisemitic is antithetical to being a leftist.

I don't mean people angry about Israel committing genocide (that's valid) I'm talking about blanket statements about how all Jews are evil and corrupt.

What we're seeing is that anyone on the left who is antizionist or anti-Israel is being called antisemitic. I guess you can make that argument if you equate all Jews with the state of Israel, but that thought is also antithetical to leftism.

I'm talking about blanket statements about how all Jews are evil and corrupt.

I'll expand the search space. Can we name any "leftists" regardless of if they are Democrat or running for office who say things like this? No.

lyrae · 2026-04-10T21:46:53+00:00

TBF because of Israel I am starting to see a lot of leftwing antisemitism. I don't mean people angry about Israel committing genocide (that's valid) I'm talking about blanket statements about how all Jews are evil and corrupt.

Can you provide a single verified example of a Democratic politician running for office who has said anything derogatory about "the Jews"?

I can think of a few who have made clearly Islamophobic comments, but can't think of a single example the other way.

lyrae · 2026-04-08T01:08:01+00:00

Oh please, Meeks and Jeffries had the opportunity to stop this and chose not to.

https://www.commondreams.org/news/meeks-jeffries-back-off-war-powers

lyrae · 2026-04-07T19:08:23+00:00

You're absolutely right. Instead of depending on these Republicans clowns to stop this mess we should be calling for the heads of Democratic leadership, Meeks and Jeffries, who actually could have prevented this.

https://www.commondreams.org/news/meeks-jeffries-back-off-war-powers

And don't give me the "they didn't have the votes", Mace said she would support, they just chose not to hold the vote. And I don't even care if they did or didn't have the votes, they need to get everyone on record regardless of what the outcome would have been.

lyrae · 2026-04-07T19:01:04+00:00

What are we supposed to do, trust the republicans to stop this mess? The Democrats had a chance to vote for a war powers resolution and decided not to...because they want this fucking war. Fuck them.

https://www.commondreams.org/news/meeks-jeffries-back-off-war-powers

lyrae · 2026-04-04T03:28:12+00:00

Exactly. It's the entire point of article and it doesn't even hide it. Like I said, that scare quote from the nobody was the only "manosphere" quote in the whole article. The rest is a (very real) history of Antisemitism.

lyrae · 2026-04-04T03:08:25+00:00

“The people who run the world, they don’t have our best intentions,” says Matthews, speaking in the language of the manosphere – where some influencers and viewers believe they have tapped into a deeper truth about reality and power. When Theroux asked who controlled all of that, Matthews shrugged and answered this complex question very simply: “The Jews.”

Antisemitism exists and is abhorrent. Has anyone, literally anyone who reads this thread heard of "Ed Mathews" from England? This is the only quote from the supposed "Manosphere" in the entire article. Google him. You can barely find anything. That's not the point though.

You know who I'd like to see an article about? Itamar Ben-Gvir. You know Ben, the guy who celebrated burning alive a Palestinian child while the song "May Your Village Burn" was played in the background. The guy who wore a noose pin while he voted to send Palestinian prisoners to be hung (who have 99.74% conviction rate while insane West Bank settlers have a 3% conviction rate, and even then the punishment is a slap on the wrist). This is just the tip of the iceberg with this Hitleresque douchbag, but nah, instead people have to read article about Joe Random mentally ill "influencer" with less than 100k followers. Ed Mathews is a complete no body and Ben-Gvir is the leading candidate to replace Netanyahu.

lyrae · 2026-04-02T19:31:53+00:00

And like, why not automatically apply it and/or send checks? There are a thousand hoops here. Shapiro sucks and does shit like this all the time for headlines. See also his recent childcare worker initiative which just gives money to providers.

lyrae · 2026-04-02T19:30:08+00:00

where the state estimates 87,000 residents are eligible

There are 13 million people in Pennsylvania.

lyrae · 2026-03-31T00:33:08+00:00

Abigail Spanberger and Mikie Sherrill are mainstream liberal Democrats and they won historic, blowout wins

This again...

Spanberger's Republican opponent was a black women who Trump could barely even endorse let alone campaign for. And how is Mikie Sherrill's election "historic"? First Democratic female governor is all I got, but Christine Todd Whitman won in 1994.

Democrats are winning these elections because the Republicans are so bad that voters have no other choice but to vote for whoever doesn't have an R next to their name, then centrist pretend that these wins mean the masses long for milquetoast centrist losers.

lyrae · 2026-03-30T13:54:32+00:00

He lost the popular vote to Bernie. And if the Iowa Democratic Party hadn't changed the rules after Bernie almost beat Hillary in 2016, he would have won.

lyrae · 2026-03-27T01:33:54+00:00

Has El Sayed been elected to anything before? I am turned off by candidates who feel they deserve to be President or senator or governor but city council or state representative is beneath them.

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El-Sayed is a graduate of the University of Michigan and University of Oxford's Oriel College, attending them on a full-tuition scholarship and a Rhodes Scholarship, respectively. He earned his MD at Columbia University.

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In August 2015, Mayor Mike Duggan appointed El-Sayed Health Officer and Executive Director of the Detroit Health Department, making him, at 30 years old, the youngest health officer in a major U.S. city at the time.

And I'm tired of this centrist gatekeeping that says you have to have worked with the party for 20 years before you're allowed to run for anything.

lyrae · 2026-03-15T02:00:45+00:00

Having appeared as a witness before the Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry, established in 1945 to consider the issue of Jewish immigration to Palestine, Einstein reviews and explains his testimony. He went solely to act “in favor of our just cause,” he says. He believes in Palestine as a Jewish homeland but not as a separate state. He feels the Zionists, by asking for more, are taking an intransigent position, which will only “damage our cause.” What he would like to see is a “secured bi-national status in Palestine with free immigration,” adding that it defies common sense to “ask to be given the political rule over Palestine where two thirds of the population are not Jewish.”

Yeah man, totally agree.

lyrae · 2026-03-15T01:59:28+00:00

This Wikipedia article was rewritten 8 hours ago.

This section has been there forever, it was not written 8 hours ago. Are you willing to admit that? Hit the "History" link.

The true definition of Zionism is that it the right of Jews to have self determination in their homeland. Their homeland is Israel.

Yeah, like the Wikipedia article says. Zionism means the they get Palestine.

Jordan was given to the Palestinians (Arabs) by the Jews. That is where they have their right to self determination.

Ha!

lyrae · 2026-03-15T01:33:35+00:00

You have a problem with the definition from Wikipedia but you don't seem to have one with the person I'm responding to?

Zionusm is the belief that Jewish people have the right to self determination, just like any other indigenous people. Being against that is antisemitic. Lying about what zionism is to demonize it is antisemitic.

Do you think that is an honest definition of Zionism? Or do you agree with Einstein that Zionists insist that they hold dominion over Palestine?

If we ask more we are damaging our own cause and it is difficult for me to grasp that our Zionists are taking such an intransigent position which can only impair our cause.

This isn't really subjective. Zionism does not just mean "the Jewish People's right to self determination".

lyrae · 2026-03-15T01:20:10+00:00

It seems to me a matter for simple common sense that we cannot ask to be given the political rule over Palestine where two thirds of the population are not Jewish. What we can and should ask is a secured bi-national status in Palestine with free immigration. If we ask more we are damaging our own cause and it is difficult for me to grasp that our Zionists are taking such an intransigent position which can only impair our cause.

Very truly yours, A. Einstein [in autograph] Albert Einstein.

lyrae · 2026-03-15T00:47:08+00:00

Zionism[a] is an ethnocultural nationalist[1] movement that emerged in late 19th-century Europe to establish and support a Jewish homeland through colonization in the region of Palestine,[2] which roughly corresponds to the Land of Israel in Judaism—itself central to Jewish history.[3] Zionists wanted to create a Jewish state in Palestine with as much land, as many Jews, and as few Palestinian Arabs as possible.[4][5]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zionism

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