#conflation — Public Fediverse posts

"In 2023, 60 per cent of Australians rejected a constitutionally recognised Voice for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. A body that could only make representations, only on matters concerning the people whose ancestors have been here sixty thousand years.
"Too much, the No campaign shrieked. Division. Privilege. Special treatment.
"Nine months later, Anthony Albanese handed Jillian Segal what the Voice never dreamed of asking for. Not a right to be heard. Power. No election. No parliamentary vote. No hearing. A three year commission reporting personally to the Prime Minister, with a mandate reaching into every campus, newsroom, classroom, gallery, charity, arts contract and visa file in the Commonwealth."

Andrew Brown writes: https://michaelwest.com.au/the-segal-state-the-office-australia-never-voted-for/

#academicFreedom #influence #lobbying #policing #silencing #genocideSupport #hasbara #grievability #conflation #confusion #manipulation #proZionism #StandWithIsrael #lineOfColor #Australia #RoyalCommission #AusPol #JillianSegal #Segal #AnthonyAlbanese

RE: https://techhub.social/@estelle/116804111381589798

"If the Royal Commission is serious about investigating the nature of antisemitism and its 'key drivers', it should begin with Australia’s Israel lobby – the leading proponents of the conflation of antisemitism with antizionism."
https://www.deepcutnews.com/p/if-the-royal-commission-is-serious?utm_source=substack&publication_id=4434423&post_id=203508596&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&utm_campaign=email-share&triggerShare=true&isFreemail=false&r=2jzucl&triedRedirect=true

By Louise Adler, former Director of Adelaide Writers’ Week:

#influence #lobbying #policing #respectability #Zionism #silencing #PalestinianLivesMatter #fragility #genocide #JewishSupremacy #hasbara #hasbara #grievability #conflation #confusion #recycling #manipulation #coOpting #proZionism #StandWithIsrael #lineOfColor #Australia #RoyalCommission

How cultural institutions subtly silence and exclude writers, in the guise of concern or responsibility, to censor and “reshape[s] what other writers feel able to say, and what audiences are permitted to hear”.

Natasha Joyce, "Empty Words, Emptying Stages": https://www.lantana.net.au/words/empty-words-emptying-stages

#fragility #whiteFragility #culturalSafety #intersectionality #institutionsDeceive #coloniality #beliefs #censorship #conflation #nationalism #proZionism #StandWithIsrael #racism #IHRA #Australia #institutions #organizations

Foreign influence in Australia

"The reach [of the Israel lobby] extends into the newsrooms and it has been there for decades. Veteran ABC journalist John Lyons documented it in his 2021 book Dateline Jerusalem, writing that in forty years of journalism he had never encountered a lobby as formidable, well-funded, or relentlessly effective as the pro-Israel lobby in Australia, and that material the lobby succeeded in suppressing here was routinely published in Israel without consequence or controversy."

Andrew Brown: https://michaelwest.com.au/the-enforcement-the-lobby-that-bought-australian-democracy/

#influence #lobbying #media #policing #respectability #Zionism #silencing #PalestinianLivesMatter #fragility #genocide #JewishSupremacy #hasbara #hasbara #grievability #conflation #confusion #recycling #manipulation #coOpting #proZionism #StandWithIsrael #lineOfColor #Australia #RoyalCommission

Healthcare coalition tells UK government not to enforce 'chilling' NHS censorship on Palestine.

#MiddleEastEye #12JUN2026
by #AmaraSophiaElahi

https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/exclusive-coalition-medical-groups-tells-uk-government-not-enforce-chilling-nhs-censorship

#Censorship #IHRA
#Conflation #Conflating #HierarchyOfRacism
#OpposingGenocide
#NHS #Humanitarianism

On The Conflation of Money and Things

https://lithub.com/is-it-even-real-on-the-conflation-of-money-and-things/

#HackerNews #conflation #money #value #economics #philosophy

Wieland Hoban explains #philosemitism in Germany:
"It’s very difficult to have a general sense of Jews as ordinary people who are part of the country’s population. Many people have an image frozen in time of Jews as the victims of the Nazis, who were the parents or grandparents of many Germans.

"In some cases, this leads to an over-compensation which means that people want to have a particularly favourable idea of Jews. They make a point of doing what they think is supporting Jews. Including supporting Israel, going on holiday in Israel, or cultivating connections to Israel thinking this somehow revives Jewishness."

https://theleftberlin.com/wieland-hoben-interview/

#lacuna #conflation #beliefs #antisemitism #EuropeIsrael #Germany #IHRA #recycling #coloniality #proZionism #StandWithIsrael #Europeanness #Hoban

"Germany is open about its uninhibited support for Israel‘s war of extermination and genocide in Palestine, and wants to make sure the entire world sees it."

"Establishment forces have translated Holocaust remembrance chiefly as support for Israel, elevating its protection to a German Staatsraison (national interest) coupled with zero tolerance for criticism of Israel, which is automatically treated as antisemitism".

Gjovalin Macaj: https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/germanys-zeal-israeli-genocide-revives-its-dangerous-exceptionalism

@eu @israel 🧵

#transgression #GazaMethod #allies #collusion #connivance #complicity #internationalCommunity #imperialism #counterTerrorism #conflation #confusion #antisemitism #politics #recycling #manipulation #coloniality #proZionism #StandWithIsrael #IHRA #IHL #Germany #FriedrichMerz #Merz #exceptionalism #whiteSupremacy #arrestWarrants #ICC #ICJ #EuropeIsrael

“Self-defence means not only attacking terrorists but destroying them. When Hamas terrorists hide behind people, behind schools … civilian places lose their protected status because terrorists abuse it,” said Germany's then foreign minister during a parliamentary session marking the anniversary of the 7 October 2023 Hamas-led attack on southern Israel.

by Pauline Ertel: https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/how-germany-former-foreign-minister-failed-gaza-then-got-top-un-job

#Baerbock #AnnalenaBaerbock #Greens #TheGreens #complicity #collusion #connivance #internationalCommunity #decline #warfare #GazaMethod #imperialism #UN #October7 #counterTerrorism #conflation #confusion #antisemitism #politics #guilt #recycling #manipulation #coOpting #coloniality #proZionism #StandWithIsrael #IHRA

@germany's government class deepens its alliance with @israel – criminalising dissent, rewarding lobby groups, and eroding rights in the name of fighting antisemitism

Jürgen Mackert: https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/welcome-berlin-germany-capital-zionist-repression 🧵

#academicFreedom #proZionism #StandWithIsrael #StrikeGermany #Germany #EuropeIsrael #coloniality #Berlin #NeverAgainIsForAnyone #conflation #confusion #antisemitism #politics #manipulation #coOpting #citizenship #freeSpeech #JurgenMackert #Mackert #civilLiberties

#research #Gaza #hospitals
We are still developing a more precise database (MS Access).

Between Nov. 10 and Nov. 14, 2023, the #Israelis were attacking 3 #hospitals in Northern #Gaza simultaneously. They only made "#Hamas claims" about #AlShifa Hospital.

The Al Ahli #Hospital in Zeitoun was the first hospital the #Israelis attacked (Oct. 17, 2023) by targeting the parking lot, killing 500 people. The database about #hospitals shows Israelis were already resorting to #warcrimes by #conflation

Germany's claim to have reckoned with its racial supremacist past is fraudulent, proven by decades of supporting fascist regimes.

Esad Širbegović: https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/germany-support-israel-far-right-alliances-shatters-denazified-facade

#complicity #beliefs #censorship #conflation #antisemitism #guilt #proZionism #StandWithIsrael #racism #IHRA #genocide #colonialism #Denazification #afD #normalization

"Spreading fear and silencing
[…]
"As it silences and threatens to sanction any dissent against Israel, its apartheid system, and its crimes against humanity as antisemitic, it is obvious that the government and parliament intend to spread fear of being branded antisemitic, being criminalised and persecuted for expressing your opinion as a basic individual citizenship right.
[…]
"From the very beginning of Zionism in the late 19th century, #Germany has joyfully and wholeheartedly embraced what Theodor Herzl offered to the “West”.

"By demanding support for the Zionist movement from European powers, he submitted the offer that in Palestine the Zionists would “form a portion of the rampart of Europe against Asia, an outpost of #civilisation as opposed to barbarism”.

"God’s chosen people": https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/germany-not-holocaust-guilt-entrenched-racist-superiority

#coloniality #landGrab #whiteSupremacy #supremacy #beliefs #censorship #conflation #antisemitism #guilt #freeSpeech #nationalism #proZionism #StandWithIsrael #racism #IHRA #genocide #colonialism

The German state has bound its own re-birth into the “realm of civilized nations” through a particular protective relationship with the figure of the Jew, where (always Jewish) Israelis are a prime embodiment of Jewish life.

"As long as the figure of the Jew remains a medium through which German post-unification identity is articulated and experienced, the performance of Jewish collective difference and political agency will be exclusively relegated to the State of Israel. The figure of the Palestinian, as well as Palestinians’ political subjecthood and demands for equality will, in turn, be addressed as either an annoyance to be ignored or a threat to be criminalized—rather than as a crucial prism through which the multiple layers of legitimatized moral violence in Germany have to be recognized."

Hannah Tzuberi & Nahed Samour in 2022: https://contendingmodernities.nd.edu/theorizing-modernities/the-german-state-and-the-creation-of-un-desired-communities/

#taboo #fetishism #sacred #holly #Germany #guilt #philoSemitism #conflation #confusion #antisemitism #guilt #coloniality #proZionism #StandWithIsrael

@immibis
The article at top of this thread lists many examples of silencing by @germany

Your recollection may hint at an earlier incident:
#Oyoun, a migrant-led cultural center, refused to give in to political pressure and cancel the 20-year anniversary event of the Jewish anti-Zionist group Jüdische Stimme in November 2023. #Berlin’s Culture Minister #JoeChialo ended the center’s contract with the city government, effectively shuttering Oyoun.

They announced: “This decision feels like more than just a closure; it resembles the setting of a precedent that all state-funded institutions may now fear. The implications are far-reaching, impacting the very essence of artistic freedom and expression.”

https://www.the-berliner.com/english-news-berlin/oyoun-cultural-centre-to-close-after-senate-cuts-funding-jewish-voice-israel/

#censorship #freeSpeech #culturalBoycott #culture #Kultur #Germany #EuropeIsrael #conflation #confusion #antisemitism #antiZionism #politics #guilt #recycling #manipulation #coOpting #coloniality #proZionism #StandWithIsrael #supremacy #GermanPol #GermanPolitics #DEPol #stateRacism #genocideSupport #entitlement

Never again is for anyone 🧵

"Renowned Jewish American photographer Nan Goldin used the opening of her retrospective exhibition at the Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin to denounce Israel’s genocide and call for global action."

In her speech, Goldin criticized Germany for conflating anti-Zionism with antisemitism, stating that the government is using this false equivalency to suppress dissent.

“This is not just an Israeli war. It’s also an American war.” She pointed to the billions in US military aid to Israel and corporate profits tied to the genocide.

https://qudsnen.co/what-have-you-learned-germany-nothing-nan-goldins-fiery-speech-shakes-berlin-art-scene/

#culturalBoycott #StrikeGermany #Kultur #Germany #EuropeIsrael #coloniality #proZionism #StandWithIsrael #photography #NeueNationalGalerie #Berlin #NanGoldin #exhibition #NeverAgainIsForAnyone #conflation #confusion #antisemitism #politics #guilt #manipulation #coOpting

Germany’s main parties each have a state-funded political foundation. Boasting thousands of employees, they have enforced a collective silence on the genocide in Gaza out of obedience to German foreign policy

Ali Nobil Ahmad: https://jacobin.com/2024/11/germany-stiftungen-genocide-gaza-censorship

#publicDebate #supremacy #supremacism #Netanyahu #Germany #totalitarianism #media #agnotology #beliefs #believe #Baerbock #collaboration #censorship #conflation #longRead #confusion #antisemitism #politics #guilt #recycling #manipulation #coOpting #fragility #crackdown #freeSpeech #nationalism #StandWithIsrael #racism #immigration #EuropeIsrael #IHRA #parties #democracy #FDP #SPD #CDU #DieGrünen #GreenParty #Bundestag #DEPol #GermanPolitics

There is a protest at 1pm in Dublin to request Ireland to "publicly denounce Germany’s role in the criminalisation of pro-Palestinian voices, and Germany’s active participation in genocide in Palestine. Ireland must lead by example in Europe, immediately enacting the Occupied Territories Bill".

https://braveneweurope.com/open-letter-to-the-government-of-ireland-condemning-the-failure-of-the-irish-government-and-eu-to-publicly-denounce-germanys-repeated-contraventions-of-international-law-and-active-role-in-ge 🧵

#NeverAgain #NeverAgainForAnyone #Germany #genocide #ethnicCleansing #collaboration #censorship #conflation #longRead #confusion #antisemitism #antiZionism #politics #guilt #recycling #manipulation #coOpting #fragility #crackdown #freeSpeech #nationalism #HamasLoving #StandWithIsrael #racism #immigration #EuropeIsrael #genocideSupport #allies #proZionism #MiddleEast #logistics #warOnGaza #warOnLebanon #IsraelWars #weapons #armsTrade #exports #LebanonWar #EU #Europe #Dublin #Ireland

Hisham Matar: "Acrobatics […] so as not to name the crimes for what they are, but name some of them, so as to have named something"

Kate Greenberg: https://vashtimedia.com/translation-of-solidarity-amsterdam/ 🧶

#discrimination #moralBeauty #liberals #policing #respectability #Zionism #JewishState #israelism #Maccabi #TelAviv #MaccabiTelAviv #NL #Netherlands #Amsterdam #UK #silencing #PalestinianLivesMatter #fragility #warOnGaza #GazaWar #IsraelHamas #genocide #ethnicCleansing #October7 #JewishSupremacy #supremacy #VashtiMedia #Vashti #hasbara #hasbarah #grievability #racism #islamophobia #community #solidarity #conflation #confusion #antisemitism #antiZionism #politics #recycling #manipulation #coOpting #coloniality #proZionism #StandWithIsrael #lineOfColor #raceMaking

News outlets didn’t make a mistake. They knowingly aired disinformation and peddled fake news. Admitting that requires a troubling recalibration of perspective

Jonathan Cook: https://jonathancook.substack.com/p/the-medias-role-in-lying-about-amsterdam @ethics 🧶

#mainstreamMedia #massMedia #media #London #UKPol #Amsterdam #MaccabiTelAviv #football #soccer #JonathanCook #SkyNews #BBC #TheGuardian #DumpTheGuardian #Maccabi #TelAviv #Zionism #JewishSupremacy #conflation #antisemitism #NL #Netherlands #UEFA #EuropeIsrael #propaganda #manipulation #coOpting #coloniality #proZionism #StandWithIsrael #islamophobia #mediaCritique #disinformation #fakeNews #hooliganism #hooligans #OwenJones #UK #Britain

Protest tomorrow in Dublin + Call for Ireland and the EU to denounce Germany’s repeated contraventions of international law and active role in genocide

https://braveneweurope.com/open-letter-to-the-government-of-ireland-condemning-the-failure-of-the-irish-government-and-eu-to-publicly-denounce-germanys-repeated-contraventions-of-international-law-and-active-role-in-ge @eu @israel 🧵

#NeverAgain #NeverAgainForAnyone #Germany #collaboration #censorship #conflation #longRead #confusion #antisemitism #antiZionism #politics #guilt #recycling #manipulation #coOpting #fragility #crackdown #freeSpeech #nationalism #HamasLoving #StandWithIsrael #racism #immigration #EuropeIsrael #genocideSupport #allies #proZionism #MiddleEast #logistics #warOnGaza #warOnLebanon #IsraelWars #weapons #armsTrade #exports #LebanonWar #EU #Europe #Dublin #Ireland

"The western world and mainstream media have once again jumped on an opportunity to conflate anti-Zionism with antisemitism after Israeli football hooligans, protected by the Mossad, wreaked havoc on the streets of Amsterdam, deliberately provoking a harsh response": https://thecradle.co/articles-id/27638

#football #soccer #Amsterdam #Maccabi #TelAviv #Zionism #JewishSupremacy #conflation #antisemitism #NL #Netherlands #UEFA #EuropeIsrael #propaganda #manipulation #coOpting #coloniality #proZionism #StandWithIsrael #islamophobia #IsraelLobby

#NGOs #funding vs. #NeverAgain in #Germany

"Fifteen Israeli NGOs said it ‘would be instrumentalised to attack and constrain German funding for our human rights work’."

"The resolution calls for immigration, asylum and criminal law to be tightened to combat antisemitism, and for universities, where antiwar activists have occupied buildings and set up encampments, to be granted wider powers to discipline and expel students. All levels of government are asked to prevent the financial support of projects and organisations – Documenta is mentioned as an example – that ‘spread antisemitism, question Israel’s right to exist, call for a boycott of Israel or actively support the BDS movement’. The IHRA definition is to be considered ‘authoritative’. The new resolution cites the 2019 BDS text as its model, ignoring a parliamentary assessment from a year later, which found that if that resolution had been formulated as legislation, it ‘would not be compatible with the fundamental right to freedom of expression and would therefore be unconstitutional’."

"With a non-binding resolution, recipients of state funding will be drafted, willing or unwilling, as enforcers. Curators, convenors of academic conferences and charity administrators will be expected to screen and blacklist any partners or collaborators who could be seen to violate the IHRA guidelines. An old social media post or a signature on a petition could result in funds being withdrawn."

Ruairí Casey: https://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2024/november/questions-of-funding

#collaboration #censorship #conflation #longRead #confusion #antisemitism #antiZionism #politics #guilt #recycling #manipulation #coOpting #fragility #crackdown #freeSpeech #nationalism #HamasLoving #StandWithIsrael #racism #immigration #EuropeIsrael #RuairíCasey #culture #cultureWars #LRB #IHRA

• #Antisemitism must be vigorously challenged as a pillar of Eurocentric white supremacy.
• #Zionism is a specific political ideology and form of ethnonationalism that drove the establishment of the state of Israel and maintains the illegal occupation of Palestine.

"The primary goal of the IHRA definition is not to fight antisemitism or to protect Jewish communities from racist attacks, predominantly carried out by white supremacists; it is a mechanism to suppress advocacy for Palestinian rights. Of the definition’s 11 examples, seven deem criticism of Israel or Zionism to be antisemitic."

Harsha Walia wrote an excellent primer on deliberate #conflation: https://monitormag.ca/articles/colonialism-racism-and-the-ihra/ via @KarenWyld

#IHRA #philoSemitism #nationalism #ethnicCleansing #racism #coloniality #politics #recycling #manipulation #coOpting #fragility #censorship #NeverAgain #reputation #rightToExist #trauma #JewishSupremacy #whiteSupremacy #CanadaIsrael #colonialism #proZionism #StandWithIsrael #Canada #Toronto #schools #HarshaWalia

Our #institutions are vulnerable to sudden, catastrophic failures with no repair. Do not believe them:

"In most settings, climate and sustainability professionals are not getting paid to change important things, they’re getting paid to protect important things from change.

"Climate/sustainability #expertise has become a profession, like any other. Its primary offering is least-cost plans for incremental-but-socially-credible action. Generally those plans defend organizations from criticism and pressure by making serious-sounding commitments to big-but-distant goals (like, “Net Zero by 2050”), paired with incremental and inexpensive steps in the near term. The two are then “triangulated” with arguments that small steps today are “in line” with a future of bold action. The key deliverable is the claim that the triangulator’s employer is “doing enough.”

"The definition of “doing enough” becomes the critical battleground with advocates and regulators who want more action. With triangulation, we see the deployment of bolt-on solutions purpose-machined to preserve the value of slow approaches, assets, and expertise. We see an emphasis on things like charitable gifts, ESG ratings, operational climate emissions (and carbon offsets), business-case sustainability commitments (small steps that pay their way) and employee behavior (“Remember, everyone, recycle your coffee cups and don’t forget to show up for tree-planting day!”), and messaging (from outright greenwashing to empty declarations of support for climate justice).

"The promise of #triangulation—the optics of serious commitment, but an action agenda that doesn’t upset existing management priorities and revenue centers—has proven attractive to those at the top, for understandable reasons: If you’re an executive without any particular insight into the crisis yourself, hiring triangulatory experts allows you to cover your butt without any obvious downside. It’s a plug and play solution, allowing you to keep focused on the business models that have been earning well so far. It limits exposure to the gulf between slow approaches and fast realities. And it works perfectly fine, as long as your decision-making horizon is very close, measured in quarterly reports, and uninterrupted by any sudden changes.
[…]
"Triangulation makes most institutions worse at strategy. It makes professional expertise gained within its programs pre-outdated. It hamstrings the ability to spot opportunity and the skills needed to move disruptively to seize it.

"Triangulation makes a professional more secure in their job for now, but less prepared for the future; triangulated strategies protect organizations from pressure to act now, but they weaken the organization’s capacities to change. Everything worth talking about is outside the boundary of the currently acceptable debate in most professional circles, because every triangulated position and expertise bubble creates the boundary it needs to stay safe. If you are relying on advice being given within triangulated boundaries to try to figure out what’s going on, you’re outsourcing your strategic acumen to people who’s core skill is avoiding the question."

Alex Steffen: https://alexsteffen.substack.com/p/discontinuity-is-the-job @anthropocene @climate @sociology

#discontinuity #priorities #believe #faith #hope #ecology #institutionsDeceive #economy #consumerism #capitalism #climateBreakdown #climateCrisis #globalHeating #climateChange #conflation #reality #environment #pollution #sustainability #sustainableDevelopment #greenwashing

"More often than not, the ultimate “victim” of the offenses denounced in the German press is no actual Jewish person, but only the German state."

"The story [of guilt and fragility] is not about Germany, but a certain segment of society, about the reactionary radicalization within a bubble of political and cultural elites: disproportionately white, disproportionately identified with existing institutions, and disproportionately—let’s face it—neither Jewish nor Palestinian. It is among such people that we can see a defiant reprovincialization of the German spirit: a pride in not understanding or participating in analogous debates that rage elsewhere, a perverse pride in imposing one’s own categories, as though historical guilt confers true expertise."

by Adrian Daub: https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/psychozionism/ @germany

#longRead #confusion #antisemitism #antiZionism #politics #guilt #recycling #manipulation #coOpting #fragility #Germany #crackdown #freeSpeech #press #antiWoke #nation #moralPanic #HamasLoving #StandWithIsrael #censorship #racism #immigration #conflation #AdrianDaub #NeverAgain

"There is a conflation of capitalism with reality, that this is the only way things operate. There are other ways of organising our relationships with nature and each other."

Patrick Bresnihan in The Irish Times: https://www.irishtimes.com/environment/2024/08/08/capitalism-is-killing-the-planet-but-curtailing-it-is-the-discussion-nobody-wants-to-have/ @anthropocene 🧶

#media #press #believe #faith #hope #ecology #institutionsDeceive #ecologism #politicalEcology #degrowth #growth #consumerism #quotes #quote #economy #shopping #capitalism #climateChange #conflation #reality #globalHeating #environment #pollution