#coopting — Public Fediverse posts

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

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

Morgan McSweeney has served as Downing Street Chief of Staff under Prime Minister Keir Starmer since October 2024.
McSweeney was the campaign manager for the Labour Party and director of the think tank "Labour Together".
Morgan McSweeney has a murky history of targeting the Left of the Labour Party: https://www.thecanary.co/uk/news/2025/09/22/campaign-to-sabotage-corbyn-coming-back-to-bite-morgan-mcsweeney/

#plot #corruption #campaigning #influence #LabourParty #Wales #England #Britain #UK #UKPol #UKPolitics #proZionism #StandWithIsrael #collusion #support #coOpting #imperialism #government #cabinet #Starmer #KeirStarmer #McSweeney #Labour

The Guardian shows "the same patterns of systemic bias, deliberate distortion and deceptive underreporting" as other British mainstream media:
https://www.newarab.com/opinion/guardians-gaza-line-atrocious-rest-uk-press 🧶

#DumpTheGuardian #EuropeIsrael #proZionism #proSionism #propaganda #manipulation #coOpting #coloniality #StandWithIsrael #UK #Britain #England #London

A subjective history of a ‘long march through the institutions’: https://www.counterfire.org/article/ploughshares-to-swords-the-story-of-the-german-greens/

#environmentalism #Grünen #DieGrünen #Greens #TheGreens #atlantism #complicity #collusion #connivance #Baerbock #AnnalenaBaerbock #decline #warfare #GazaMethod #imperialism #politics #recycling #manipulation #coOpting #coloniality #proZionism #StandWithIsrael #Germany #GermanHistory #politicalScience

“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

"BBC staffers reveal editor's 'entire job' to whitewash Israeli war crimes"
at The Cradle: https://thecradle.co/articles/bbc-staffers-reveal-editors-entire-job-to-whitewash-israeli-war-crimes

#EuropeIsrael #propaganda #manipulation #coOpting #coloniality #proZionism #StandWithIsrael #islamophobia #mediaCritique #UK #Britain #BBC #BBCNews

@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

Germans still prefer that Jews go away. The support of the German state to the Zionist state remains unconditional, in weapons but also in storytelling:

There was strong international condemnation, including from the EU, of @israel's brutal attack on a school sheltering displaced Palestinians in Gaza, which killed at least 100 people.

Nevertheless, the Germany government deputy spokesman Wolfgang Buechner justified it on Monday 12th, saying that “Israel has the right to defend itself. The reality is that Hamas uses schools, hospitals, kindergartens as command centers and that the people in the Gaza Strip are also abused against their will as protective (human) shields.”

https://www.aa.com.tr/en/middle-east/germany-justifies-israels-killing-of-100-palestinians-at-school-shelter-in-gaza/3301853

#nationalism #ethnicCleansing #racism #coloniality #antisemitism #Zionism #politics #guilt #recycling #manipulation #coOpting #fragility #Germany #StandWithIsrael #censorship #NeverAgain #warOnGaza #GazaWar #Hamas #reputation

"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

"Pro-Israel lobbyists have donated to 13 out of Labour’s 25 cabinet members since they were first elected to parliament"

John McEvoy reports: https://www.declassifieduk.org/israel-lobby-funded-half-of-keir-starmers-cabinet/ @israel

#influence #Parliament #Commons #LabourParty #Scotlandv #Wales #England #Britain #UK #UKPol #politics #UKPolitics #proZionism #StandWithIsrael #collusion #support #coOpting #coloniality #imperialism #allies #lfi #government #cabinet #Starmer #KeirStarmer #AngelaRayner #RachelReeves #DavidLammy #YvetteCooper #JonathanReynolds

"#Labour’s current support for Israel, particularly in the aftermath of October 7th, has more in common with the cynical and cowardly support offered to other murderous and repressive governments, like that of Saudi Arabia, with which the UK (and US) maintain alliances."

https://vashtimedia.com/labour-zionism-palestine-election-history/

#history #opinion #influence #LabourParty #England #Britain #UK #UKPol #politics #UKPolitics #proZionism #StandWithIsrael #collusion #support #coOpting #coloniality #imperialism #allies #lfi #government

The German state and institutions crack down on expressions of support to Palestinians

Michael Sappir: https://www.972mag.com/germany-israel-palestine-solidarity-repression/ @israel @germany

#support #conflation #confusion #antisemitism #antiZionism #politics #guilt #recycling #manipulation #coOpting #coloniality #proZionism #StandWithIsrael #Gessen #EuropePalestine #governance #Germany #freeSpeech #democracy #publicOpinion #dissent

In 1910 in Copenhagen, the 2nd International Conference of Socialist Women adopted the idea of an "International Women's Day" from a proposal by Clara Zetkin (German Social Democratic Party), although no date was set.

The "Journal du CNRS" notes that "Women's Day was therefore the initiative of the socialist movement and not of the feminist movement, which was very active at the time". The historian Françoise Picq adds that "it was precisely to counteract the influence of feminist groups on the women of the people that Clara Zetkin proposed this day", rejecting "the alliance with the 'feminists of the bourgeoisie'": https://lejournal.cnrs.fr/articles/journee-des-femmes-la-veritable-histoire-du-8-mars @histodons

#feminism #feminisms #bourgeoisFeminism #socialism #socialDemocracy #socDem #coOpting #InternationalDayForWomenSRights #WomenSDay #tactic #history #WomenSRights #learn #amazing #March8 #historyOfFeminism #SPD #InternationalWomenSDay

Ben Smith writes about journalism and NYT:
"The Times turned over crucial elements of its reporting on one of the most difficult and sensitive stories it has ever published to amateurs, one of whose social media posts would make reasonable people question her ability to be fair.
"That sounds insane when you say it out loud. Why would you do that?"

"Institutions of all sorts are struggling to win trust in this kaleidoscopic, networked world. If you can’t do the painstaking work of presenting an incontestable truth with absolute confidence, the alternative is humility and an openness to multiple points of view."

https://www.semafor.com/article/03/03/2024/how-the-times-stumbled-on-a-sensitive-israel-story

#NYT #confusion #recycling #manipulation #coOpting #coloniality #proZionism #StandWithIsrael #professionalism #integrity #ethics #institutionsDeceive #NYT #AnatSchwartz #October7 #postFactual #bias #manipulation #news #media #proZionism #StandWithIsrael #Gettleman #warRape #israel #doubt #press #reporting #journalism #foreignCorrespondents

How the UK Security Services neutralised the country’s leading liberal newspaper:
(2019) https://www.declassifieduk.org/how-the-uk-security-services-neutralised-the-countrys-leading-liberal-newspaper/

#TheGuardian #Assange #Corbyn #MI5 #MI6 #LabourParty #Labour #England #Britain #UK #centreLeft #leftOfCentre #elections #UKPol #politics #SocialDemocracy #SocDem #media #security #manipulation #coOpting #conflation #confusion #antisemitism #Guardian #DumpTheGuardian #manufacturingConsent

@sarahzedig im pretty sure i would've hated douchney anyway (racism- every ism) but when "Alladin" came out and everyone (white) thought I'd given my dog that name from that trashflick... that sealed the deal. Plus i was too young (and too white) to realize- #culturalplagiarism #culturalappropriation #coopting (Meaning no disrespect to Robin Williams of course). I try to not hate, but I'm totally fine with hating dis*y.