u/lewkiamurfarther

A wonderful distillation of the David Brooks/Timesian pov: in the center of western capitalism, college professors are the elite.

As a New Yorker I can tell you this feels true at least at street level: no one wants to cross the PhD mafia. The cops respect academia, the media defer to them, and the Wall Street traders live in fear of the upper west side cocktail conversations that can make or break a career.

Mouin Rabbani's tweet:

> In just one day: > > - Canada rejected visas for the leadership of the Palestinian Football Association to attend the annual FIFA Congress in Vancouver, where it intended to challenge FIFA's obscene position that "the final legal status of the West Bank remains an unresolved and highly complex matter under public international law”; > > - The French parliament began deliberations on legislation that would outlaw criticism of Israel and make such criticism a criminal offence (the deliberations were suspended at the last moment); > > - The French government denied entry to @SJabaren, the head of the most prominent Palestinian human rights organisation in the West Bank. > > As the article below makes clear, Zionism is a totalitarian movement, whose future now depends on crushing and punishing any and every form of scrutiny, debate, discussion, and dissent.

Here is the MERIP article by Torin Monahan referenced by Mouin Rabbani.

David Sirota's tweet

James Jackson's tweet:

> A pro-Israel German skinhead attacked a young Arab man wearing a keffiyeh.

> Because he had an Israeli flag tattooed on his head, self-defense against the attack was treated as an antisemitic incident by NGOs

> Insane story by @hahauenstein

And here is Hanno Hauenstein's article.

James Jackson's tweet:

> A pro-Israel German skinhead attacked a young Arab man wearing a keffiyeh.

> Because he had an Israeli flag tattooed on his head, self-defense against the attack was treated as an antisemitic incident by NGOs

> Insane story by @hahauenstein

And here is Hanno Hauenstein's article.

Adam Johnson's tweet

Craig Mokhiber wrote in a tweet:

> Beyond the many bombings and invasions, the US-Israel Axis has worked for decades to ensure that the Lebanese state was weak, its army feeble and non-credible, its development stifled, and its economy captured, controlled and fragile, in order to ensure the hegemony of the Axis. Now in the midst of yet another brutal invasion and occupation, supported and funded by the US and carried out by the genocidal Israeli apartheid regime, some Lebanese are urging collaboration with their Axis oppressors. This is reminiscent of the tensions between Vichy supporters and the French resistance under Nazi aggression and occupation. Under such terrifying circumstances, every Lebanese has a right to make his/her own difficult choice. But it is one thing to surrender. It is quite another to demand that others- including the resistance - surrender as well. And surely collaboration with the enemy in such circumstances can never be morally justifiable.