#western political hypocrisy

[focusonmy]

[hussyknee]

I woke up to the news about Refaat Alreer. I still feel cold. Imagine seeing someone talking on your TL every day, narrating what the genociders are doing, counting the dead and telling their stories, amplifying his colleagues in Palestinian activism and academia, advocating and pleading endlessly for a ceasefire, delivering blistering witticisms about Zionist propaganda and then...he and his whole family are dead.

Two of my favourite tweets by him, calling out the craven Western media for never naming Israel.

It feels like a funeral today. My whole TL full of his students and Palestinians mourning Refaat alongside writers and journalists and academics from all over the Global South. The only people who matter to us is us.

Meanwhile, Zionists are attacking us under our mourning tweets, circulating the tweet where he laughed at the monstrous lie of Hamas cooking a baby in an oven during Oct 7th, one of the lies that fuelled the slaughter that eventually killed him too.

This was his last tweet.

USAmerican disability activist Imani Barbarin's tweet today was partially motivated by Refaat's death.

I need to go offline for a while.

I leave you with Refaat's last poem that was his pinned tweet for over a month. When a storyteller dies, generations are robbed of universes. When a poet dies, the world loses a piece of its soul.

You can find Refaat's book "Gaza Writes Back" in my gdrive folder of Palestinian literature. I don't know where the royalties will go now, but please also try and find it in a bookstore or library.

[sonyaheaneyauthor]

Quick. Someone tell Derrick about the Budapest Memorandum of 1994.

Also, maybe tell him that genocide is actually bad.

And then maybe tell him that an innocent country being attacked with Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles actually IS something you should care about. Especially as it WILL be YOUR problem if you don't help Ukraine win now and the russians start invading NATO countries.

And I must edit to add: the monster thinks the prices of petrol and eggs are more important "issues" than hundreds of thousands of innocent dead Ukrainians? How Christian of him.

American isolationism seems worse now than in 1939.

But then, I guess his profile says everything you need to know...

[ohsalome]

[lavender-not-fruit43]

Can twitter like… Don’t fucking treating Ukrainians and Syrians like a punching back for five minutes??? Or do they live in world where palestine is the only country that exists in their minds and eyes??? God dammit I’m so so tired of this shit if it will getting happening again and again then I’ll just fucking straight up deleting all of my accounts here. Hospital literally got bombed days ago and y’all still think ukraine getting bazillion support of it??? I fucking hate y’all I can’t take this shit anymore

[nastylittleman]

One of the best explanations as to why the whole "US is threatening poor russia by expanding eastwards" narrative is a complete bs and an extremely harmful, egocentric and hypocritical take.

[troythecatfish]

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[nando161mando]

stonetoss is still Hans Kristian Graebener and he still lives at 4910 Hennington Drive, Spring Texas 77388

spread the word

[workersolidarity]

Oh the hypocrisy of the West knows no bounds!

[bbybnnuy]

i am no sociologist/political scientist, but

from what i understand, americans don't perceive other people as individuals with a complex ethnical background. they see their skin color first and decide on how to treat them accordingly. and it's not just the big bad racists, the supposedly anti-racist leftists do it too, no matter the race. and dare i say this may be why so many (mostly american) leftists here have second doubts when it comes to the russian invasion of Ukraine. to them it's just two groups of white people, i.e evil colonizer demons fighting each other. they don't see how russians are way worse than ukrainians, because in their eyes, both of these groups have the same skin color as the most priviliged and oppressive group in their country.

although these supposedly open-minded american westerners preach to not put the conflicts in other countries through american lense of black/white, colonizer/colonized, oppressor/oppressed, they are guilty of the exact same thing. and that, on top of sheer self-righteousness is stopping them from actually opening their minds and ears to the Ukrainian history, told and lived by ukrainian people, every single day.

[hussyknee]

Over the last 11 months, the US Biden-Harris Administration has funded and facilitated the murders of more UN employees than Al-Qaeda, ISIS, Boko Haram, and JNIM combined.

[sonyaheaneyauthor]

If Jackson Hinkle can be this evil at the age of twenty-five, imagine what he'll be like when he's Trump's age.

When did modern Americans start mocking genocide?

USA: sort your Nazi problem out.

[ohsalome]

[lavender-not-fruit43]

I fucking swear to god if I’ll see someone again saying that ruzzia is a real country and saying israeli is not then I’ll just cut of my hands and jump from balcony and I’m not joking I am dead serious

[blackpilledkremlintsarina5294]

Former Israeli Government Minister Shulamit Aloni on Democracy Now

On 14 August 2002, former Israeli minister, Shulamit Aloni, said this on the US news program, Democracy Now:

"It is a trick; we always use it. When, from Europe, if someone is criticizing Israel, we bring up the Holocaust. When, in this country (USA), people are criticizing Israel then 'they are anti-Semitic'..

"And the organization is strong and has a lot of money and the ties between Israel and the American Jewish establishment are very strong and they are strong in this country..”

She continued, “They have power, money, media and other things and their attitude is Israel my country right or wrong... They are not ready to hear criticism. It is very easy to blame people who criticize certain acts of the Israeli government as anti-Semitic and to bring up the Holocaust and the suffering of the Jewish people and that 'justifies' everything we do to the Palestinians...."

[troythecatfish]

Liberals just want a different aesthetic for U.S./Western imperialism, rather than opposing it. They are fine with continuing to bomb, occupy, sanction, and coup countries to "save the LGBT people living there," or to "stop the genocide against Uyghurs" (pay attention to what's going on with this CIA talking point), or to "save the women suffering under patriarchy"...Or the generic "spreading democracy." It's all the same imperialism but the packaging & marketing are what may at times be different than what we might hear from conservatives.