Israel's moderate voices - a case study in 4 parts:
1⃣ "Pointless", much like the more common "senseless", often in conjunction with the word "violence", obfuscates the fact that violence and cruelty are never pointless. They have a very poignant goal- domination, land, money.
(1/4) "Hi Vici, happy holiday, due to the current situation, a strike was announced by our Arab community, that’s why I won’t be coming to work tomorrow. Hoping for the best 🌷"
(2/4) "What does a strike in the Arab community have to do with your office work??
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2| ..to @TheOnion offering themselves up as a human shields to #Palestinians in #Gaza under Israel's hellfire; whether we can see it yet or not, yesterday heralded cataclysmic events that will radically shift our political landscape.
3| As Israel continued its blitzkrieg on Gaza, @JoeBiden was proving himself an unironic compromise between Trump and Obama, vetoing the UN's call for ceasefire three times because- I paraphrase..
2| Let's first recall that the Palestinian-lead global BDS movement has already been designated by the @UN as a #HumanRightsDefenders movement, whose speech is protected.
3| @amnesty chimes in with a bit of uncharacteristic & very welcome political analysis:
"This is simply the latest attack from a US government determined to undermine the universality of human rights and the global fight against racism and discrimination, including antisemitism."
2| The Brazilian filmmakers join Shin Seung Eun (Mother-in-Law, South Korea), Artemis Anastasiadou (I am Mackenzie, Greece) John Eames (March for Dignity, UK), Maggie Bailey (Sweet Sweet Kink, US), Andrew Blackman (Inferno, New Zealand) in pulling their films from the festival.
3| Camila Kater, director of the award-winning animated short Carne, including a Goya Award nomination for 2021, also withdrew from the festival. Carne producer, Chelo Loureiro, stated: