(Or How to Demand dKos Harass Palestinians)
It appears we have one single voice harassing dKos to ban anyone who reports on Israel's actions or advocates for fair and human treatment for the Palestinian people.
Karmafish has decided to single handedly define what the Democratic Left may speak about. And more importantly, what we may not speak about.
Here and here.
UPDATE: And for the love of Billybush, "elsewhere in his daily comment history in I/P on dkos"...
It gets more complex than that, it is an attempt at thought-policing, for he decides the "intent" of the people post such diaries and unjustly brands them haters of Jews. By that mindreading standard, he is trying to push the Overton Window of what the Left can say through only a filter of his own making.
Lets start with the bullet points.
- Only karmafish and pro-zionists can use the words "Jewish State" because when they use it, it is from a position of a "safe place for Jews" named Israel.
- Anyone else who uses the term "Jewish" when reporting any actions of Israel is instantly a anti-semite. You see, when Israel is caught mistreating Palestinians, it is only Israelis who do it, and it is no longer a Jewish State.
(Got that???)
- If one suggests a Single State solution, one is by some strange twisted logic anti-semitic. You see, Israel has to be the only country allowed to have nationality/jewish purity for "security".
- If people who are left by nature see the above as indicative of an apartheid state, wherein land owning, leasing, and basic rights of survival for one people are thwarted and allowed for only a "certain classification" of people, we must be silenced.
(Ok, so we on the left must support the Right Wing party running Israel in order to be Left???)
- Palestinian and Arabic peoples have no right to advocate for a "safe place" in their own homeland, by his reckoning period. He holds hostage (by his own powah and athoritah) that dKos and the Democrats will lose all Jewish voters if you do not ban these people from voicing criticism of their own oppression.
(Isn't it a tenet of fascism to remove the voice of your opposition, so that their cries may not be heard?)
- By advocating against or reporting their own horrors imposed by the Israeli Army and Settlers, it subjects Jewish people to "hatred," since they have to defend these actions.
- Arab and Palestinian posters may be subjected to any amounts of hatred, because Karmafish sees them as "antisemites." The hatred includes, but is not limited to, demanding they support the Zionist movement oppressing them, or be subject to censorship.
(Only those who agree with us are worthy of fair treatment as far as attacking goes and only those who agree may have free speech)
- Reporting destruction of wells, razing of homes or any other FACT as reported in Israel's own news is demonizing the Jews.
(Ahhh, darn facts are so anti-semetic)
- People interested in peace rallies, peaceful protests or in the Peace process itself are usually thinly veiled anti-semites. This is apparent because they ask for Israel to make concessions.
(Advocating for peace activists is an attack, and attack, I tell you on the poor, mistreated jews on dKos)
I could go on, but most of you have read enough of these screeds through the years, and are familiar with the strawmen.
I think he must be the one who is full of hatred, for he cannot find the humanity in our suffering. He cannot see the tears of the men, women and children living under the guns of those who hate them, the family farms wrested from them, the abject poverty and horror bestowed on us by his beloved Israel. Somehow, I think Daily Kos will survive the one-man onslaught to muzzle the Palestinian and Arabic posters here.
I have survived, but I am a man, not a boy. I can survive the attacks from people like that essayist on every essay I read here from the point of view of the oppressed, and still not demand he be silenced.
But I find it ludicrous that these "you must do as I demand" essays keep popping up every other day.
I for one, think this community is strong enough not to muzzle facts and reporting for the delusional feelings of oppression from one poster.
I trust you.