Post AzIg3IFAIjvgAtQf8C by shantini@techhub.social
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(DIR) Post #AzIGZs8xlQEzyVP0Cm by aral@mastodon.ar.al
2025-10-17T07:50:51Z
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You can support the Palestinian people without supporting Hamas. You can support the Ukrainian people, oppose Russia, and oppose American imperialism at the same time.Do you see the common thread? You can support the everyday people being oppressed without taking the side of any oppressor.
(DIR) Post #AzIHFF41S3Movxom7E by HNumberger@mastodon.social
2025-10-17T07:58:12Z
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@aral My words for the last two years. I might add: You can oppose Israel's policies without being antisemitic. I just don't understand why so many people - even academics - are uncapable of differentiating 🙈🤷♀️
(DIR) Post #AzIHaSJPOG1a6U88AK by aral@mastodon.ar.al
2025-10-17T08:02:04Z
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An important note to my Palestinian friends in Gaza: please do not favourite, boost, share, or otherwise show support publicly for any of my posts wherein I criticise Hamas. I would urge you to avoid the topic entirely in public discourse here. This is for your own safety.Also, to any keyboard warriors who want to have philosophical conversations about Hamas with people from Gaza (or worse, want them to denounce them) as you sit in your comfy armchair enjoying the safety of your gilded Western abode: don’t. They don’t owe you anything and you could be putting their lives at risk.
(DIR) Post #AzIHg32OGzapSBpwJc by aral@mastodon.ar.al
2025-10-17T08:03:06Z
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@HNumberger The latter must be especially hard given you’re in Germany. Lots of love and solidarity 💕
(DIR) Post #AzII5QmB9PruJiMDZY by Rania@freesewing.social
2025-10-17T08:07:45Z
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@aral Thank you, you know what's happening with us in Ghayrah, and no one likes Hamas. Thank you, Aaron.
(DIR) Post #AzIIAbeq7XjLVuOOCO by Rania@freesewing.social
2025-10-17T08:08:37Z
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@aral Ask anyone in Gaza and you will find that they will be happy when Hamas's rule changes.
(DIR) Post #AzIJWMFCCzo82BKjhI by DavyJones@c.im
2025-10-17T08:23:50Z
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@aral Can you support Ukraine without supporting the Zelenskyy governments right to the state monopoly on violence?
(DIR) Post #AzIKiMGE4YjzVz6LHE by MahmoudGaza@mastodon.scot
2025-10-17T08:37:11Z
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@aral Yes, these are truly essential words, Aral.The world must stop linking ordinary people to political matters.I often receive upsetting comments about this because of the widespread misunderstanding and false perceptions many people have.
(DIR) Post #AzILFDhGvvj0VkQCjw by aral@mastodon.ar.al
2025-10-17T08:43:06Z
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@divya Anyone can talk about whatever they want however they want to.I’m in a position where I’m being followed by a large number of Palestinians from Gaza and speaking out against Hamas. Not all of them are experts at how Mastodon works or the reach or permanence of ActivityPub. My post is to inform them that favoriting, boosting, etc., my posts could be visible to Hamas. That is all.And given Hamas was just publicly executing people in the streets of Gaza this week, I’d rather have warned them about this than not, given the possible repercussions.I’m not policing what anyone can or cannot say. I’m asking the people I care about to please protect themselves. A post criticising Hamas on the fediverse isn’t going to change the world so I’d rather not see it get someone I care about killed.But everyone is free to speak their own mind and that includes me warning my friends to be careful.
(DIR) Post #AzILWJem1pYluxPB0i by greenWhale@dice.camp
2025-10-17T08:07:43Z
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@HNumberger that's because some very powerful Zionists have an interest in conflating the terms. @aral
(DIR) Post #AzILWL3ynbJgHQCowC by Opfoss@c.im
2025-10-17T08:36:54Z
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@greenWhale @HNumberger @aral Those terms being often conflated in a widely accepted but fundamentally unfit definition of anti-semitism as proposed, ratified and used as a guiding principle—IHRA definition of antisemitism.The definition started badly, has been heavily criticised, including various Jewish groups, but was broadly accepted in the countries you might expect.This, of course, led to issues in academia and journalism as certain lobby groups will then cite the definition against any perceived criticism.It's easier and cheaper to simply retract.The definition is, IMHO, junk, not fit for purpose and a means to chill speech, particularly against Israel, this enforcing the status quo.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IHRA_definition_of_antisemitism
(DIR) Post #AzIN9fl5t6STiIgxIe by Tooden@aus.social
2025-10-17T09:04:33Z
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@aral The fight is with the zionists, zionist-supporters, and the tame media. Since 7/10/23, the Israeli govt has equated every Palestinian - from premi babies, to the elderly - with Hamas. They have made them synonymous. The slant is deliberate.People can support Ukraine against the evil Communist Putin, with no backlash from Western Governments, or the media.
(DIR) Post #AzIPO5bEo9qfow5GPw by aral@mastodon.ar.al
2025-10-17T09:29:35Z
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@divya > People in Gaza have had to deal with extreme Israeli surveillance online their whole lives; it’s not a foreign concept. And yet still everyone uses WhatsApp.I’m not granting or not granting intelligence to Palestinians because they’re Palestinian. It’s tech literacy; the same as everywhere else. Living under constant surveillance doesn’t mean you’re fluent in protecting yourself from it, it just means you’re living under constant surveillance. Something Americans should surely understand. My advice here is no different to the advice I give to anyone who is going to travel to the US and has criticised Trump publicly.And it’s just that: advice. Take it or leave it, that’s your choice. My conscience is clear. It wouldn’t be had I not warned you and you suffered the consequences because of it.
(DIR) Post #AzIPUGdGhY2pm8ynFw by aral@mastodon.ar.al
2025-10-17T09:30:42Z
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@divya I appreciate that you care and I understand your point; as, I hope, you do mine.💕
(DIR) Post #AzIVNFdMcAsQNQ3tb6 by gimulnautti@mastodon.green
2025-10-17T10:36:33Z
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@aral Yes. It’s actually the authoritarians who try to convince us of the opposite.Because they are:1) Stupid and boring simpletons who can’t be helped2) When not so stupid, fearful zero-sum-games types whose first instinct is to lie
(DIR) Post #AzIg3IFAIjvgAtQf8C by shantini@techhub.social
2025-10-17T12:36:13Z
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@aral oh look another white man giving patronizing advice to marginalized people. Check your privilege. And when multiple brown people call you out, don’t write an essay. Check your privilege again. Sit with it. Or you are no better than any other oppressor we encounter.
(DIR) Post #AzIqAhQU4R5XqUtSoC by aral@mastodon.ar.al
2025-10-17T14:29:31Z
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@shantini Thanks, Shantini. I’ll let my Turkish parents know I’m a white man now.Do fuck off.
(DIR) Post #AzIwoDQfcLD47VCsKW by joynewacc@mastodon.social
2025-10-17T15:43:38Z
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@aral @shantini 😂😂😂😂😂
(DIR) Post #AzKYiYq75ll0CZnXqy by VoidDumu@mastodon.social
2025-10-18T00:23:46Z
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@gimulnautti @aral @Heavenly_Possum @NoahLoren13 so can you support Syrian people and minorities without being an Erdogan apologist or Ahmed Al-Sharaa apologist or a Sunni Jihad/Sharia/Islamism apologist?And yeah, NATO is pretty Authoritarian, the US, the UK, and most the West are pretty Authoritarian for sure.
(DIR) Post #AzKYia8EHtqID3HWjI by aral@mastodon.ar.al
2025-10-18T10:23:20Z
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@VoidDumu @gimulnautti @Heavenly_Possum @NoahLoren13 If you can’t, the problem is with you.
(DIR) Post #AzKgH2NMTzNpKdjidM by gimulnautti@mastodon.green
2025-10-18T11:48:09Z
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@aral @VoidDumu @NoahLoren13 Oh look at that. Account just started and straight up trolling on anyone that’s making people think for themselves instead of established partisan lines, eh?No follows, no followers, knows immediately who to target?So genuine, much voluntary, such not paid.
(DIR) Post #AzKpCY1IIot1c7Lflo by mohanad22@mastodon.social
2025-10-18T13:28:09Z
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@aral Thank you for your beautiful and wonderful words, my brother. We hope the same from everyone, and thank you to them all, my brother May God bless you for your kind efforts. We will not forget your help and standing by our side 🫶❤🇵🇸