Aaron Aarons

@joesanders33 @antiserenity @DSA_LosAngeles @defendnela Under capitalism, you have all the rights and freedoms that money can buy -- provided, of course, you have the money to buy them.

@ca_decor @visegrad24 The Israeli prisoners taken on October 7, minus the ones killed by Israel in its bloody response to the initial attack, should be exchanged for the Palestinians held by the Israeli occupiers.

@visegrad24 I don't get it, isn't bringing back the hostages will benefit everyone? Human life will be saved.

This woman in Chicago was destroying posters of Israeli civilians kidnapped by Hamas. She claims the people on the posters have been kidnapped by Israel, not Hamas. She’s a clinical mental health and sex therapist. What about her mental health?

@Yona832 @visegrad24 @durhamcollege Far more Jewish students in North America are being persecuted for being pro-Palestinian than for being Jewish.

@visegrad24 @durhamcollege are your Jewish students safe?

A student at Durham College in Canada says Hamas aren’t terrorists but that they should conduct the October 7th Massacre against Israelis “again and again and again and again.” 🇨🇦🇮🇱

@Yona832 @visegrad24 @durhamcollege A lot safer than are babies in Gaza!

@IanMitchellGill @visegrad24 But it's not cowardly to cheer on genocide from the safety of a nation that is aiding and abetting that genocide?

@visegrad24 Speaking as someone who lives in the Durham Region, I can say this isn't common, but it would be good to see her return to "her people" to help them with their decisions. After all, it's kind of cowardly to encourage violence from the safety of a tolerant nation.

@visegrad24 /2 It was the massive violence by the occupiers to prevent prisoners being taken safely to territory not controlled by the occupiers that caused most of the deaths among non-combatants.

@visegrad24 1/ There was NO "October 7 massacre" by Hamas! It started as a legitimate act of resistance to an occupying power by part of the occupied population, aimed at securing prisoners to be exchanged for prisoners being held by the occupiers.

@SKSurpal @mishtal Stop repeating Israeli propaganda about what happened on October 7. It was a legitimate armed attack against an occupying power by a section of the occupied . Most of the deaths of "civilian" Israelis were the result of the massive indiscriminate violence of the Israeli response.

We witnessed the largest massacre of Jews since the Holocaust. We are suffering a hostage crisis beyond belief. Hamas just released footage of another hostage dying. One by one they torture us. Meanwhile the media can't stop criticising & bullying Israel. It's just insane.

@EvanRosenberg13 @tattooedsaint1 @RaniaKhalek @docjazzmusic @BTnewsroom @Lowkey0nline The word of a random person off the street is, in fact, of more value than that of any Israeli official, except when such an official is boasting of their genocidal intentions.

@tattooedsaint1 @RaniaKhalek @docjazzmusic @BTnewsroom @Lowkey0nline Yes they are definitely wrong, all those sources are not even reputable 😂 might as well just believe any person at that point, which is exactly what’s happening.

Israel's goal is not the eradication of Hamas, their leadership knows that's not really possible. The objective is to depopulate northern Gaza and push everyone into Egypt. We know this because that's what their leaked intelligence plans say and that's exactly what they are doing. That's why they have announced they will expand their war to the south of Gaza where they told everyone to flee (though they have been bombing the south all along). Egypt is not going to accept this plan. It's shocking the world is allowing this very obvious act of ethnic cleansing and genocide to continue. Palestinians are literally fighting for their survival.

@Matt_Kolb_ @AlexSad75177637 @RaniaKhalek Why would the Palestinians agree to such a thing? That would leave thousands of Palestinians in ZioNazi hands.

@Aaron_Aarons @AlexSad75177637 @RaniaKhalek How about all the Israeli hostages for the same amount of prisoners? I thought so

I understand now just how racist some people are. If you see the images of babies chopped in pieces and bloodied from Israel’s bombs in Gaza and your immediate response is to make excuses for Israel rather than demand an immediate ceasefire, you are racist. You clearly do not see Palestinians and Arabs at fully human.

@SHMSBS7 @caitoz I support Hamas against genocidal Israel.

@caitoz You just made the following clear: 1. You don’t care about people in Israel - otherwise why would you not support eliminating the Hamas terrorists organization 2. You don’t care about people in Gaza - otherwise why would you not support eliminating the Hamas dictatorship.

The most despicable thing about the way Israel supporters smear Israel's critics as anti-semites is that they are exploiting a very healthy impulse to advance a profoundly sick impulse. They knowingly exploit the fact that the further to the left someone is on the the political spectrum the more likely they are to (A) support Palestinian rights and (B) be very receptive to any suggestion that they might be acting in a racially insensitive way. My followers who are on the right side of the political spectrum always have melodramatic conniptions whenever I say this, but there is a lot of value in learning about the role racial inequality plays in the injustices of our society and getting real with ourselves about where our own racial circumstances fit in with those unjust power dynamics. It’s a very healthy impulse to look within yourself and figure out if there’s anything in you as an individual that feeds into the racial injustices of our society, whether you‘re aware of it at first or not. This is especially true of white people, since racial injustices tend to benefit us in this society. The further someone is toward the left end of the spectrum, the more likely they are to respond to an accusation of racism by stopping in their tracks and inquiring deeply into whether the accusation might have some truth to it. If the accusation is that you harbor the same kind of racism that gave rise to the Holocaust — one of the worst mass atrocities in all of human history — then you are all the more likely to stop and take the accusation seriously. This is a healthy impulse. If everyone took seriously their responsibility to expunge everything in them that feeds into the injustices of our world, we would have peace and harmony on earth very quickly. But this impulse gets exploited in the most odiously cynical way imaginable to defend the interests of a murderous and tyrannical government whose very existence is premised on racism, apartheid, ethnic cleansing and abuse. Have you ever noticed that it’s never the actual anti-semites who get attacked as anti-semites? Nowadays it’s very seldom the assholes saying Jews rule the world and are the source of society’s ills who are inundated with such accusations; supporters of Israel tend to more or less leave them alone. The ones who get slandered as anti-semites are people like Jeremy Corbyn — leftists who’ve dedicated their entire lives to anti-racism, whose only actual offense is believing that Palestinians are human beings and should be treated as such. In fact actual anti-semites are some of Israel’s strongest allies. The lion’s share of forceful support for Israel in the United States comes not from Jews but from Christian Zionists who support Israel because they believe it will bring Jesus back so he can damn all non-Christians to eternal hellfire. Televangelist John Hagee, who believes Hitler was sent by God to help create Israel, had a prominent speaking spot at Tuesday’s “March for Israel” in Washington DC. While people who hate Jews so much they want them to writhe in eternal hellfire are warmly embraced as allies of convenience by Israel and its supporters, healthy leftists who oppose racism in all its forms are attacked by Israel apologists as Nazis and Jew-haters. This is because their actions are not designed to protect Jews or reduce anti-semitism — their actions are to facilitate the strategic objectives of the Israeli government and its allies. Really what’s happening in Gaza right now isn’t about Jews or Judaism at all; it’s about using violent force to take land and resources away from an indigenous population, as history has seen happen time and time again in situations that had nothing to do with Jews. It’s a profoundly unhealthy impulse that’s been causing immense human suffering for centuries, and people who’ve noticed the same patterns in Israel that they’ve seen in all the other settler-colonial projects over the last 500 years are being shouted down and bullied into staying silent using some of the most unethical manipulations ever devised. The good news is that it doesn’t seem to be working as much anymore. People are gradually becoming aware that accusations of anti-semitism are used by Israel apologists to stagnate and stifle support for Palestinian rights, and are beginning to take those accusations a lot less seriously. There’s only so many times you can watch dishonest smear campaigns against good-faith leftists before you start to figure out that you’re being manipulated. As with most problems, the solution to this one is to expand consciousness. The more people become aware of the way accusations of anti-semitism are cynically used to shut down pro-Palestine sentiments around the world, the less power those methods will have. That doesn’t mean we stop treating real anti-semitism like a real problem or that we become less sensitive to racial injustice; it simply means we see what’s being done in this specific instance and start calling it what it is.

@TonyByr12651881 @ArchPhantom94 @caitoz Correction: Hamas -> Israeli

@ArchPhantom94 @caitoz Hamas child-murderers and rapists must be captured, tried in Nuremburg trials and all guilty ones HANGED like Eichmann and other Natzis. Much better than shooting them... thats an easy 'martyrdom'. Public trials, shaming, and HANGING - the best solution to Hamas' satanic evil.

Israelis Keep Hurting Their Own PR Interests By Talking One problem Israel keeps running into is how the institutionalized dehumanization of Palestinians which keeps the apartheid state operational also causes Israelis to say things that non-Israelis will find extremely shocking, which hurts Israel’s PR interests. We saw this illustrated in a recent New Yorker interview with Daniella Weiss, a leader of the push to build illegal Israeli settlements on Palestinian land. Weiss stated frankly and unapologetically that she supports apartheid, that she doesn’t believe Palestinians should have any sovereignty anywhere, that she doesn’t believe Palestinians should have voting rights, that she wants the population of Gaza to be replaced by Israeli settlements, and that she is untroubled by the killing of children in Gaza because she feels it’s being done in the interests of Israeli children. Asked where the Palestinians in Gaza should go, Weiss replied, “To Sinai, to Egypt, to Turkey.” When the interviewer said the Palestinians are not Egyptian or Turkish, she contended that “The Ukrainians are not French, but when the war started they went to many countries.” To the question “When you see Palestinian children dying, what’s your emotional reaction as a human being?”, Weiss answered, “I go by a very basic human law of nature. My children are prior to the children of the enemy, period. They are first. My children are first.” Asked if she believes human rights are not universal and should not apply equally to everyone, Weiss replied “That’s right.” But perhaps the most revealing statement Weiss made was her entirely truthful explanation of what drives the Israeli push to colonize Palestinian land: “In Israel, there’s a lot of support for settlements, and this is why there have been right-wing governments for so many years. The world, especially the United States, thinks there is an option for a Palestinian state, and, if we continue to build communities, then we block the option for a Palestinian state. We want to close the option for a Palestinian state, and the world wants to leave the option open. It’s a very simple thing to understand.” That one paragraph right there will teach you more about the present-day realities of the Israel-Palestine conflict than an entire year of watching CNN. It’s horrid, and it’s jarring to hear it spoken out loud in a favorable way… but it’s true. This sort of thing has been happening for years. Israelis who’ve been marinating in a self-validating echo chamber of Zionist ideology which dehumanizes Palestinians and normalizes oppression and abuse don’t think twice about saying things that make Israel look bad on the world stage, because to them it’s just the standard status quo way of looking at things. In 2021 a settler from New York named Yaakov Fauci made headlines around the world with his candid statements to a Palestinian family whose Sheikh Jarrah home he was squatting in. Fauci, apparently fully aware that he was being filmed, famously replied to the family’s complaints that he was stealing their home by shamelessly telling them, “If I don’t steal it, someone else will steal it.” And the thing is, he wasn’t lying. He was truthfully describing an abusive dynamic in apartheid Israel where Palestinians are being forced out of their homes in order to control ethnic demographics and advance the agenda outlined above by Daniella Weiss. If he’d been a trained propagandist for the Israeli state he never would have made such comments on camera, but because he was just a Zionism-indocrinated member of the Israeli public he saw no reason to hold his tongue. Some years ago The Empire Files’ Abby Martin put together a devastating critique of the Zionist ideology just by going around the streets of Jerusalem with a camera and a microphone and talking to Jewish Israelis about their views on Palestinians. Over and over and over again they shared their support for tyranny, murder, genocide and ethnic cleansing in their own words and without hesitation, never thinking that their words could be used to harm Israel’s image, because to them these were just normal things that they said all the time in their day to day life. You see the same sort of thing when Israelis are filmed sitting in lawn chairs to watch and cheer IDF bombing operations on Palestinian neighborhoods, during which a woman once told the press “I’m just a little bit fascist” after advocating the total destruction of Gaza City. Every time this happens it sends viral video footage around the internet and does real damage to the world’s perception of Israel. That’s a big part of why Israel is struggling to control the narrative about the Gaza massacre today, which is in turn being exacerbated by more incendiary statements by Israelis, not just from the general public but from within the Israeli government itself. On Saturday Israeli security cabinet member and Agriculture Minister Avi Dichter casually referred to the violent forced expulsion of Palestinians from the northern half of the Gaza Strip as “Nakba 2023”, a reference to the violent forced expulsion which was inflicted on Palestinians at the establishment of the Israeli state in 1948. Haaretz reports: Israeli security cabinet member and Agriculture Minister Avi Dichter (Likud) was asked in a news interview on Saturday whether the images of northern Gaza Strip residents evacuating south on the IDF’s orders are comparable to images of the Nakba. He replied: “We are now rolling out the Gaza Nakba. From an operational point of view, there is no way to wage a war — as the IDF seeks to do in Gaza — with masses between the tanks and the soldiers.” When asked again whether this was the “Gaza Nakba”, Dichter — a member of the security cabinet and former Shin Bet director — said “Gaza Nakba 2023. That’s how it’ll end.” When later asked if this means Gaza City residents won’t be allowed to return, he replied: “I don’t know how it’ll end up happening since Gaza City is one-third of the Strip — half the land’s population but a third of the territory.” Dichter’s comments are surprising not only because Israel has been publicly framing the mass displacement in Gaza as a measure taken solely to protect civilians, but also because the Israeli government has long officially denied that the Nakba ever happened, even passing laws forbidding its history to be taught in schools. Even as western officials hasten to frame Israel’s actions as a defensive and measured response to the Hamas attack on October 7, Israeli officials have been falling all over themselves in a mad rush to make those western officials look like liars. When talking about the Gaza assault Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made headlines by invoking the biblical nation of Amalek, whose people God instructed the Israelites to commit total genocide against. The first book of Samuel contains the instructions, “Now go, attack the Amalekites and totally destroy all that belongs to them. Do not spare them; put to death men and women, children and infants, cattle and sheep, camels and donkeys.” President Isaac Herzog insinuated last month that all civilians in Gaza are legitimate military targets because they failed to overthrow Hamas, saying, “It is not true this rhetoric about civilians not being aware, not involved. It’s absolutely not true. They could have risen up. They could have fought against that evil regime which took over Gaza in a coup d’etat.” When announcing the total siege on Gaza which would see the enclave cut off from electricity, food, water and fuel, Israeli defense minister Yoav Gallant stated that “we are fighting human animals, and we are acting accordingly.” IDF spokesman Daniel Hagari said Israel would turn Gaza into a “city of tents” and that Israel’s “emphasis is on damage and not on accuracy” in its bombing campaign. Dan Gillerman, Israel’s former ambassador to the UN, said last month that “I am very puzzled by the constant concern which the world is showing for the Palestinian people and is actually showing for these horrible, inhuman animals who have done the worst atrocities that this century has seen.” “Hamas became ISIS and the citizens of Gaza are celebrating instead of being horrified,” The Economist cites an Israeli general saying last month. “Human beasts are dealt with accordingly.” “Creating a severe humanitarian crisis in Gaza is a necessary means to achieve the goal,” a major general named Giora Eiland wrote in an Israeli newspaper, adding, “Gaza will become a place where no human being can exist.” Israel’s allies keep trying to portray it as a rational actor and a positive force in the world, but if you listen to Israelis themselves you get a very different understanding of what this murderous apartheid state is actually about. As Maya Angelou said, when someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.

@AlexSad75177637 @Matt_Kolb_ @RaniaKhalek Hamas will readily do a prisoner exchange for the Palestinians held by Israel! It's the Zionists who want a one-sided release.

@Matt_Kolb_ @RaniaKhalek No it cannot, stop bombing Children, there are no IFS no buts, no conditions! Why is it so hard to get through to you people on the most basic of humanity?!

@samba_drome @BretWeinstein @MarkChangizi Gaza is not "next door" to Israel, it is occupied by Israel.

@BretWeinstein @MarkChangizi theres no possible move for israelis here that would be 1. pro Isr PR 2 end hamas threat impossible bcs the enemy is embedded inside civ centers no modern army faced such threat right next door

“Terrorist attacks are, first and foremost, psychological operations designed to alter behavior amongst the terrorized in a way that the actors believe will serve them.” Hamas and its partners have now set the bar for this strategy. Not only are they getting the military response they clearly hoped for, but in less than a month they have galvanized virulent antisemitism across the world. How could we be so stupid as to give these monsters such a gift? salon.com/2015/11/15/let…

@AliceTusk @MaxBlumenthal We've been inundated with lies about what happened on October 7. Most of the deaths were the result of the IDF wanting to keep Hamas from having live prisoners to exchange. It's the Hannibal doctrine.

@MaxBlumenthal Justify this???

Seems possible Israel dumped 12K lbs of bombs on Jabaliya camp to cover the failures of its military in Gaza Several invading soldiers were killed in their tank in the same area by Palestinian defenders Reports from Gaza say a homemade explosive was placed by hand on the turret, a tactic honed during Israel's 2014 invasion x.com/manniefabian/s…

@ShireenMcQuade1 @AlinejadMasih Hamas did not murder or even kill 1400 people in Israel. Probably most civilian Israelis who died were killed by Israeli troops who were more concerned with killing Palestinian fighters than with saving Israeli civilians.

True. But Israel’ s response is disproportional in the extreme, with zero regard for civilian lives. Yes, Hamas murdering 1,400 people in Israel and taking another 200+ hostages is grotesque and barbaric. But over 8,000 Gazan civilians, mostly women and children, are dead, and another 19,000 are wounded with little chance of medical care — all bombed or gunned down by brutal Israeli troops propelled by vengeance. Sorry, there is no Israeli justification for these civilian casualties to date.

Hamas and Islamic Republic are terrorists, and they do not talk for the people of Iran or Palestine. The whole situation in Israel and Gaza is an incredible tragedy. While this is a proxy war by the Islamic Republic and its terrorist arm Quds Force and should be condemned in strongest terms, it is critical that Israel should do everything in its power to protect Palestinian civilians under the laws of armed conflict. Let’s us be honest: the crisis today is largely due to Hamas who took over Gaza in 2006 and has not allowed any elections since then. Gaza could have been another Dubai or Singapore. Instead, Hamas diverted funds to build tunnels and obtain rockets and weapons from the Islamic Republic of Iran, the world's biggest sponsor of terrorism, to wage war. The vast majority of Iranians don't support the Islamic Republic and are hostage to its soul destroying policies of the regime. The vast majority of Palestinians want peace, they want good jobs and decent education for their kids. They want a better life. That's not possible with Hamas leadership that takes its orders from the Islamist leaders in Tehran who want to export their vile revolution to take the world backwards to the sixth century. Hamas, like the Islamic Republic, is in the business of terrorism. Hamas doesn't care about Palestinians. Hamas knew exactly how Israel would respond to the brutal attack on its citizens on Oct. 7. Hamas is like ISIS. It must be destroyed.

@elie2222 @ShireenMcQuade1 @AlinejadMasih The claim that 500 died in that explosion was not made by Gazan officials. A Turkish news source claimed that there had been 500 killed AND injured, and that got distorted and spread.

Israel is defending itself against terror. It warns civilians to move out of harms way. Hamas makes up numbers. The same they did for the hospital car park explosion where they claimed 500 had died within 15m of it happening. And it turned out it was a rocket that fell short anyway. So if it was 500 that’s on them. But regardless, the only proportional response is to remove Hamas so this doesn’t happen again.

@RitchieTorres Your lack of concern over the U.S.-enabled genocide of the Palestinian population is hereby noted.

On Friday, I held a rally calling on the federal government to combat campus antisemitism. Today, the Biden Administration is unveiling a series of actions, such as the tracking of antisemitic hate speech online. The crisis of campus antisemitism—long overlooked—is beginning to command the attention of leaders from the President on down. College must be a safe space for all students. Jewish students should never be an exception to the rule of safety for all.

@Nudiustertian_1 @RitchieTorres Support for Israeli genocide of Palestinians is Naziism.

@RitchieTorres Nazism from Democrats is still Nazism.

@ChrexDeGeek @JackLinFLL @elonmusk @MarioNawfal Genuine leftists support Russia against NATO and Ukrainian Nazis, just as we support Palestinians against Israel.

@JackLinFLL @elonmusk @MarioNawfal U mean sane people with adequate morals? Musk gives a shit about you (as all populist demagogues do) but why suck his small penis ego off like he's a reliable friend when opposite is true... he will just cast all of you musk sheeps aside when he's done with you

ELON PREVENTS NUCLEAR WAR? Elon Musk covertly instructed his engineers to deactivate Starlink's satellite communications network during a MAJOR Ukrainian offensive. This action was taken to intentionally thwart a surprise attack by Ukraine against the Russian naval fleet. The Ukrainian submarine drones, armed with explosives, mysteriously lost connectivity as they advanced towards the Russian warships. Now we know that Musk intentionally deactivated Starlink. Ukrainian officials pleaded for the reactivation of the satellites, however Musk was concerned the attack could trigger a nuclear response from Russia. This fear was not baseless, as Musk had open discussions with high-ranking Russian officials not long before the attack. I’ve posted heavily about the dangerous rhetoric from Russia relating to a possible Nuclear attack on Ukraine, with Crimea being considered a Red Line. No matter which side of the war you’re on, we all want to avoid a nuclear conflict, and @elonmusk’s actions may have prevented just that. Do you think Elon did the right thing?

@L_Kazanov @Tatiana11Wilson @elonmusk NATO *is* Goliath!

@Tatiana11Wilson @elonmusk Ms. Wilson, unfortunately, when one goes through life, one encounters good and evil. And, despite you best efforts, you have to pick a side. Supporting David vs Goliath, does not make one a warmonger.

Much appreciated, Walter. The onus is meaningfully different if I refused to act upon a request from Ukraine vs. made a deliberate change to Starlink to thwart Ukraine. At no point did I or anyone at SpaceX promise coverage over Crimea. Moreover, our terms of service clearly prohibit Starlink for offensive military action, as we are a civilian system, so they were again asking for something that was expressly prohibited. SpaceX is building Starshield for the US government, which is similar to, but much smaller than Starlink, as it will not have to handle millions of users. That system will be owned and controlled by the US government.