I was tempted to say that “my trash can has torn the fabric of Space-Time and removed itself from existence”, but that would be an obvious exageration since any people whose trash can went that far, would not remember even having had that trash can on account of it having erased itself from the timeline and hence their memories.
The Telegraph is a far-right British tabloid.
Of course they’re propagandizing for the Fascist White Colonialism project committing Genocide.
The don’t gatekeep Jewishness, they gatekeep Israeli Nationality on the basis of being Jewish or not.
I have no idea how they determine who is a Jew and who is not.
What I do know, which is pretty damn interesting, is that Etiopian Jews, who are Black, did got Israeli Nationality when they came to Israel and asked for it, same as all other Jews but from what I read the State Of Israel still treated them differently (for example, see here, though this being Britain and the BBC they’re likely reporting a milder subset of reality).
Good old white colonialism…
They’re citizenships, not nationalities.
Israel does this almost unique thing in the World which is split Citizenship from Nationality, with those who have the former only having the latter if they’re Jews (constitutionally only a Jew can be an Israeli national). Further Israeli Citizenship is broken into Jewish Israeli and Non-Jewish Israeli, with the latter having less rights than the former (for example, Non-Jewish Israeli Citizens require “authorization” from local authorities to go live in certain parts of the country).
Israel was set up as an Apartheid state from the very beginning.
That said the other poster made a mistake: Palestinians are not Israelis - not even Non-Jewish Israeli Citizens - and have no rights at all in Israel. Further, there is no right to Israeli Citizenship by being born in Israel (unless you’re a Jew: any Jew, anywhere in the World, has a right to Israeli Nationality, which also gives them Jewish Israeli Citizenship).
This has interesting effects such as people whose families have lived in Jerusalem for generations not having Israeli Citizenship because it was denied to them even though they were born there and lived there their whole lives. Of course, all of these people are not Jewish as all Jews constitutionally have a right to Israeli Nationality.
So By Law Israel has 3 different classes of people living there, in decreasing order of the rights they have:
I lived in the UK as an EU immigrant for a decade up to Brexit, and my feelingby the time I left was that they by then were pretty close to just being a posher version of Fascism.
Maybe Fascism is really just the natural end state of Neoliberal Capitalism: you can only go so far in helping the few pillage the wealth of the many before you have to start throwing the empoverished masses some outsiders (immigrants, other nations) and powerless insiders (like the poor and minorities) as scapegoats to distract them away from the (very much local) powerfull that are making them poorer, and as people grow increasingly skeptical of the traditional propaganda machine (for example, all the celebrating of a “growing GDP” doesn’t work quite as well when people feel their pockets getting ever lighter) start forcefully cracking down on any dissent that’s gaining traction and endangers the interests of the powerful.
Certainly I can’t seen any end state of Neoliberalism that’s not either Revolution or Authoritarism: all those politicians who got used to an environment were it’s entirelly legal and totally normalized for them to get non-executive board memberships, gold-plated consulting gigs and millionaire speech-circuit fees from people they were “friendly” towards whilst in power, aren’t going to turn to the people whose “friendship” yields such payouts and tell them they’re going to start having to take a smaller cut of the country’s wealth and pay more taxes, hence the only ultimate outcomes left are either some kind of Revolution of the masses that forces a cleanup of the political system, or increasing authoritarian measures to stop the masses from rebelling and given that if they’re already rebelling it’s usually too late (certainly it’s far harder to stop it, impossibly so with no damage), what’s normally done is to control information and to keep the masses divided and fighting amongst themselves - hence things like Identity Politics, which you can see in the US being fully weaponized - so that they don’t rebel again the powerful.
That’s well beyond merelly “neo-liberal” and already into Fascist.
Mind you, Israel bought the current British Government by having Israeli-linked Jewish Organisations support the campaign that smeared Corbyn as an anti-semite in order to topple him from the leadership of the Labour party and bring these guys in which, in due course given that the UK has a First Past The Post electoral system, rotated positions with the Tories and became the governing party, so zero surprise that the British Government is just a puppet of the Israeli regime.
I’m just glad the UK has left the EU so that their rot doesn’t interfere with how things work in the EU (it’s bad enough that we have Racist and increasingly Authoritarian Germany and Austria, not to mention the outright Fascist Hungary, we don’t need the country were de facto the two main parties are Fascist).
I could hardly waste that once in a lifetime opportunity to make that joke in an English-language forum!
It would have been grave if they picked the other one.
German politicians are now in the Delay, Distract & Dissemble stage.
I’m not sure it’s at all possible for them to actually Act, even in the face of pictures of children dead from starvation.
In all fairness, this one time whilst living in London (UK) the police did recover my stolen bicycle.
Frankly I totally didn’t expect it and had only reported the theft to make sure it ended up in the theft statistics.
I’ve been commuting by bicycle on and off for over 2 decades and got maybe 5 or 6 bicycles stollen in the meanwhile and this was the only one I ever got back.
When I had an account in lemmy.world my registration e-mail was leaked to Israel and I started receveiving invitations in my native language from a Tel-Aviv based organisation to attend an online “Learn about Israel” course.
Getting my registration information including e-mail requires the level of access of an admin of the instance rather than merelly that of a mod.
It makes sense that as maybe the largest Lemmy instance in terms of number of users lemmy.world is targeted by the propaganda ops of the biggest players and since Israel spends a ton of money in propaganda plus Lemmy being a left-leaning community tends to side with the oppressed (so, Palestine), it’s absolutelly logic that Israel has at least one full time sock-puppet here.
Sanders rips US-backed New Holocaust
FIFY
By the way AOC just voted in favour of a new ADL-backed “antisemitism” definition so I guess she’s not a genuinely leftwing humanitarian successor for Sanders.
“The ethnicity-and ancestry-based conception of the people that predominates within the party is not compatible with the free democratic order,” the BfV said on Friday.
Pretty much the entirety of the German political mainstream is right now “unwaveringly supporting” a fascist regime commiting an extreme Genocide in Gaza, and that support has been very openly because of the ethnicity the murderers claim to represent, or in other words, due to “ethnicity-and ancestry-based conceptions”.
Normalize race as an excuse to support no matter what those commiting the most atrocious of actions and all that it takes is to add “if it applies to them, then surely it applies to us” to that normalized racism to get something like the ideology of the AfD.
German politicians have long been plowing and fertilizing the field from which the AfD sprouted with great vigour.
This right now is just hypocrisy: the AfD is but the tip of the iceberg which is the view in Germany that the way people are treated should depend on their race and even the most horrible of deeds are excusable if one’s race is the right one.
It’s good old Projection: every accusation is an admission.