When you can't refute the message, criminalize the messenger and smear them as terrorists
Israel and its proxies and allies succeeded in the international criminalization of Palestinian political parties that rightly rejected the Oslo surrender and refused to accept Israel's colonial rule
They've gotten laws banning advocacy for boycott, divestment and sanctions measures against Israel, even infringes on free speech, in multiple countries
They've lobbied for an international definition of anti-Semitism that conflates criticism with Israel with anti-Jewish bigotry, at the expense of free speech and combatting actual anti-Jewish bigotry
In October, Israel branded six prominent Palestinian advocacy groups as "terrorist organizations" in an attempt to delegitimize their work and cut off their international funding
Now Israel and its proxies are resorting to even more absurd measures in a desperate and pathetic attempt to thwart any threat to decades of impunity.
Israel's foreign ministry says that Amnesty is anti-Semitic because their press conference was advertised with a Beirut time zone and this obviously means they're in bed with Hizballah -- it's so patently stupid
Israeli impunity's days are numbered and that's why those committed to it lash out the way they do. They're desperate and on the defensive and that's a good thing but they will try to destroy people's lives in the process.
That's why all of this should be resisted, including the "terror" designation of any Palestinian group working within the national liberation consensus and why we should uphold the resistance in all its forms electronicintifada.net/content/uphold…

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