#suppressing dissent

[rebelcaptain4life]

If you weren't Pro-Palestine already, I hope the fact that the US government is literally trying to censor people that don't agree with them opens your eyes

[alwaysbewoke]

[rimouskis]

obsessed with a government body voting to force a sale of a social media app and then said social media app immediately exploding with conspiracy theories that further erode our trust in our government institutions lol like oh my god the call is coming from inside the house

[immaculatasknight]

Canada on the brink

[if-you-fan-a-fire]

"Accusé d'avoir incité des ouvriers à la grève," La Patrie. July 25, 1943. Page 43. --- Accusé d'avoir encouragé les ouvriers de la Canadian Vickers à faire la grève et de les avoir incités à la continuer. David Côté, un jeune homme d'environ 35 ans, a comparu, ce matin, devant le juge Edouard Tellier qui a fixé l'enquête de l'inculpé au 27 juillet prochain en le remettant en liberté moyennant un cautionnement de $950. ---- Côté fut appréhendé, hier soir par la gendarmerie royale lors d'une radio réunion des ouvriers de l'United Shipyards, à l'Assistance publique. L'arrestation fut pratiquée tellement discrètement que les amis de Côté ne s'aperçurent de sa disparition que lorsque vint le moment d'entendre le discours qu'il devait prononcer en public. Des agents de la R.C.M.P. se seraient approchés de lui, puis l'auraient invité à les suivre sans éveiller l'attention. Me Auguste Mathieu occupe pour la poursuite.

Voici maintenant les autres comparutions, de moindre importance. devant le juge Tellier, ce matin.

André Patrice, inculpé de faux prétexte, subira son enquête le 27.

M. Fitzpatrick, accusé d'avoir fait un faux chèque, s'est avoué coupable. Sentence le 29.

Albert Trudeau, inculpé de vente de liqueurs alcooliques, aura son procès le 6 août. Trudeau déclare qu'il n'a jamais vendu de boisson de sa vie mais que lors de son arrestation, il était avec des amis dans une taverne. Comme ils ne pouvaient plus obtenir de bière. Trudeau alla en chercher deux bouteilles chez-lui. L'un de ses compagnons, pour le dédommager, déposa alors sur la table une pièce de 30 sous, d'où l'arrestation pour vente de spiritueux.

André Pinel, sans domicile connu, s'est avoué coupable d'avoir volé un clavgraphe d'une valeur de $45. Sentence le 29. Pinel passera trois jours à la Sûreté.

M. Jones, inculpé d'avoir volé un et une somme d'argent de $12, a plaidé non culpabilité. Enquête le 27 et caution de $500.

[politicalantibody]

Whether you agree with them or not, they certainly have a right to make their views known.

Remember, Zionism is NOT the same as Judaism, so opposing the actions of Netanyahu’s Israel in Gaza and the West Bank is not even remotely anti-Semitic.

(Nov. 9)

@MPower_Change: BREAKING—Palestinian, Muslim, & Arab @Google workers just published an open letter covered by the @nytimes exposing how workers have been internally surveilled & harassed for expressing solidarity with Palestinians during Israel's genocide of Gaza [Article]

[trendynewsnow]

Family Connections and Political Struggles: The Case of Umar Khalid

Family Connections Amidst Struggles The family gathers around their laptop in New Delhi once a week, creating a virtual bridge across distances. Sometimes, relatives join the call from northern India or even the United States. They eagerly wait for Umar Khalid, a 37-year-old Indian political activist, to appear on the screen from his prison cell. “How are you, Ammi?” Mr. Khalid boomed during a…

[cattailtales]

Hey so pls remember that there's an electoral college in this god forsaken hell scape

That if you don't wanna vote for Trump or Biden on some moral grounds that's....I mean fine I suppose but it's literally only you who's going to know or be affected by it (I don't want to call it selfish, because I know it's not)

3rd party could absolutely win the popular vote but they're still gonna put one of the main candidates into office (Trump didn't even fucking win the popular vote the first time)

I mean here's hoping Trump's in super jail and Biden steps down due to age or some shit but like...not voting for one of them is only going to ease your conscience and literally nothing else

(this is said with no malice or hate, only horrified resignation to the state of the hell world we're living in)

if my options are vote for the guy who is committing genocide or vote for the guy who will also probably commit genocide then sorry to say I’m not voting for fucking either of them. plain and simple. like I’m gonna be completely honest I could care less about the future of this country if complicity in genocide is the cost. maybe this shithole needs to collapse in on itself in that case.

[determinate-negation]

Did the majority of Jewish people and institutions support Zionism pre-1948?

no, very far from it. i dont have time to give an in depth response, theres a lot of history here but ill give some bullet points

some interpretations of judaism have always opposed a jewish state in any form and many jews were religiously against zionism from when it first started becoming a political movement

(there are still a lot of religious jews who are anti zionist on religious grounds. the satmar hasidic dynasty is an example. this is separate from political groups like neturei karta)

religious opposition to a jewish state was so strong that without zionism constituting itself as a specifically nationalist movement drawing on other 19th century nationalist movements it probably would not have become successful

assimilated jews in europe, which herzl himself was, were divided on zionism. many assimilated middle class jews were liberal nationalists of their own countries and rejected zionism. many other european jews were socialists and rejected zionism as a form of nationalism and imperialism.

among european jews who were generally poorer and more religious, zionism became more popular in response to the active extermination of jews in eastern europe. still, it was not the dominant belief in eastern europe. eastern european jews were very involved in socialist and radical movements, many specifically saw socialism as the only answer to european antisemitism. the jewish labor bund in particular espoused a type of anti zionist diaspora politics.

most anti zionist and socialist jews, especially eastern european ones, especially the working class, were murdered. thats part of why its not so common anymore

post-war and in the context of the red scare, american jewish institutions basically threw left wing anti zionist jews under the bus, let people lose their jobs and get blackmailed, and started focusing on relations with israel

there has always been jewish opposition to zionism both on religious and political grounds and it was a hotly debated topic and not something people agreed on. you can read more here

i have reading guides under my tag resources

edit: this is just pertaining to european jewish history and american jewish history, and mostly of ashkenazi jews. the history of arab jews is different but to be very brief, there was not widespread support among arab jews for zionism before the nakba and founding of the state of israel, and the israeli govt and zionist organizations were very active in trying to create conditions for arab jews that would encourage them to immigrate to israel

[allthecanadianpolitics]

Canada’s Department of National Defence (DND) will host trial sessions for Israeli arms technology used to kill Palestinians and maintain apartheid and occupation during a three-week “sandbox” event in Alberta next month.

From May 27 to June 21, DND is giving a select group of military suppliers the chance to test products that are designed to counter aerial drones, with direct assistance from Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) staff and experts. Among those selected is a company called “Twenty20 Insight Inc.,” which is testing the “Smash Hopper counter-drone weapon station.”

The “Smash Hopper” is a remote control weapon system developed and manufactured by Israeli arms company “Smart Shooter,” whose technology is deployed by the Israeli military in fortifications that are used to suppress Palestinian dissent in the occupied West Bank, as well as in military hardware currently being used in Israel’s assault on Gaza.

As reported by AP News in November 2022, Smart Shooter developed remote control turrets deployed by Israel that fire tear gas, stun grenades and sponge-tipped bullets at Palestinian protesters in the occupied West Bank.

Omar Shakir, the Israel and Palestine Director at Human Rights Watch, told AP: “This system will only [...] further grave Israeli human rights abuse and further the Israeli army’s abuses and the Israeli government’s crimes against humanity of apartheid and persecution against millions of Palestinians.” [...]

Continue Reading.

Tagging: @newsfromstolenland, @abpoli, @vague-humanoid

[odinsblog]

NEW YORK (14 November 2024) – Israel’s warfare in Gaza is consistent with the characteristics of genocide, with mass civilian casualties and life-threatening conditions intentionally imposed on Palestinians there, the UN Special Committee to investigate Israeli practices* said in a new report released today.

“Since the beginning of the war, Israeli officials have publicly supported policies that strip Palestinians of the very necessities required to sustain life — food, water, and fuel,” the Committee said. “These statements along with the systematic and unlawful interference of humanitarian aid make clear Israel’s intent to instrumentalise life-saving supplies for political and military gains.”

Covering the period from October 2023 to July 2024, the report examines developments across the occupied Palestinian territory and the occupied Syrian Golan but focuses on the catastrophic impact of the current war in Gaza on the rights of Palestinians.

“Through its siege over Gaza, obstruction of humanitarian aid, alongside targeted attacks and killing of civilians and aid workers, despite repeated UN appeals, binding orders from the International Court of Justice and resolutions of the Security Council, Israel is intentionally causing death, starvation and serious injury, using starvation as a method of war and inflicting collective punishment on the Palestinian population,” the Committee said.

The report documents how Israel’s extensive bombing campaign in Gaza has decimated essential services and unleashed an environmental catastrophe that will have lasting health impacts. By early 2024, over 25,000 tons of explosives—equivalent to two nuclear bombs—had been dropped on Gaza, causing massive destruction and the collapse of water and sanitation systems, agricultural devastation, and toxic pollution.

“By destroying vital water, sanitation and food systems, and contaminating the environment, Israel has created a lethal mix of crises that will inflict severe harm on generations to come,” the Committee said.

The report raises serious concerns about Israel’s use of AI-enhanced targeting systems in directing its military operations, and the impact it has had on civilians, particularly evident in the overwhelming number of women and children among the casualties.

“The Israeli military’s use of AI-assisted targeting, with minimal human oversight, combined with heavy bombs, underscores Israel’s disregard of its obligation to distinguish between civilians and combatants and take adequate safeguards to prevent civilian deaths,” the Committee said.

Amid the devastation in Gaza, Israel’s escalating media censorship, suppression of dissent, and targeting of journalists are deliberate efforts to block global access to information, the Committee found. It also noted how social media companies disproportionately removed “pro-Palestinian content” in comparison with posts inciting violence against Palestinians.

The Committee condemned the ongoing smear campaign and other attacks against UNRWA and the UN at large.

“This deliberate silencing of reporting, combined with disinformation and attacks on humanitarian workers, is a clear strategy to undermine the vital work of the UN, sever the lifeline of aid still reaching Gaza, and dismantle the international legal order,” the Committee said.

The Committee called on all Member States to uphold their legal obligations to prevent and stop Israel’s violations of international law and hold it accountable.

“It is the collective responsibility of every State to stop supporting the assault on Gaza and the apartheid system in the occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem,” the Committee said.

“Upholding international law and ensuring accountability for violations rests squarely on Member States. A failure to do so weakens the very core of the international legal system and sets a dangerous precedent, allowing atrocities to go unchecked.”

The Committee’s report will be presented to the 79th Session of the UN General Assembly on 18 November 2024.

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[leviathan-supersystem]

re-posting this because op was using it as a jumping off point for moronic blue-no-matter-who bullshit (as if the democrats wouldn't do the same thing-as if they aren't already doing the same thing to pro-palestine protesters) still a good article for looking at how the ruling class will manufacture evidence to suppress dissent.

[immaculatasknight]

Censorship state

[wosoandstuff]

For those of you who are foreign and commenting on the supposed "socialism"/ "communism" in Venezuela, let me set the record straight: Your opinions are uninformed and offensive.

You have no idea what it's like to live under a dictatorship that systematically violates human rights, suppresses free thought, imprisons good people and have your future stolen from you.

Just hours ago, the dictator announced plans to build massive prisons to 're-educate' those who dissent, which is nothing more than a thinly veiled threat of concentration camps.

This is straight out of the N*zi playbook.

Before you comment on Venezuela, please educate yourself on the reality of the situation.

So, if you still believe this is all some elaborate scheme by the US to steal our oil (BREAKING NEWS: CHINA, RUSSIA, AND IRAN ARE ALREADY DOING THAT), let me tell you this: Coman mierda.

[if-you-fan-a-fire]

"Canadian Fascist Groups Still Banned," Vancouver Sun. October 16, 1943. Page 2. --- Special to The Vancouver Sun OTTAWA, Oct. 16. - The lifting of the ban on Jehovah's Witnesses and five other hitherto illegal organizations still leaves a list of 28 other associations and groups held to be unlawful under the Defense of Canada Regulations. Included in these are three subsidiaries of Jehovah's Witnesses, which remain illegal although the parent body has been set free. These are the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society, the International Bible Students' Association and the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society Incorporated.

TRACTS SUPPRESSED The IBS came under strong suspicion during the Great War of 1914-18. The Watch Tower societies are publishing organizations for Jehovah's Witnesses and while the Witnesses may now function as a legal organization the authorities have not yet come to the stage of releasing the flood of printed propaganda put out by the subsidiaries. One of these tracts which came under discussion in Parliament proved to include nothing but Biblical excerpts.

Leading the list of still-banned organizations are the Nazi party organizations in Canada: The Auslands Organization of the National Sozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartel, the Deutsche Arbeitsfront and the Deutsche Bund Fur Canada.

Then there are the Italian Fascists organizations, which will still remain suppressed despite the change in the war status of Italy. These were the Fasci Italiani All-Estro, the OVRA, Opere Volontarie Repressione Anti-Fascisto-National organization for the repression of anti-Fascism); the Dopolavoro (after work organization); Associazione Combattenti Italiani (Italian war veterans); Ogel (Italian youth organization abroad); and the Italian United Front (a combination of Italian and Italo-Canadain societies in Montreal, under the control of Canadian Fascio).

BLACK SHIRTS ILLEGAL The ban also stands on Adrien Arcand's Black Shirts (the so-called National Unity Party) and on the Canadian Union of Fascists, the latter a small organization in Ontario and Saskatchewan which was already dying out when suppressed.

While the Ukrainian Farmer-Labor Temple Association has been freed, its youthful annex, the Canadian Ukrainian Youth Federation is still on the banned list, as is the Workers and Farmers Publishing Association, a UFLA adjunct.

The Communist Party of Canada has had many champions who want the ban on it removed, but no action has been taken.

Nor has the ban been removed from some of its off-shoots such as the Young Communist League, the Canadian Labor Defence League and other organizations such as the Russian Workers and Farmers Club, the Croatian Cultural Association, the Hungarian Workers Club, the Polish People's Association, all of which were banned for Communist tendencies.

Many of the banned organizations had separate publishing companies such as the Croatian Publishing Company, the Polish People's Press, the Serbian Publishing Association. These re- main under suppression.

The League for Peace and Democracy which started out as the league against war and Fascism during the Spanish war still remains on the banned list.