I’ve just started reading Hil #Aked's new book “Friends of #Israel: the Backlash Against Palestine Solidarity” (Verso, 2023) in order to get a better handle on what the #IsraelLobby in Britain today looks like and how it works to enable and sustain the regime of #Apartheid oppression by the Israeli state against Palestinians.

#Palestine solidarity activism globally, especially the Boycott Divestment and Sanctions (#BDS) movement, is facing a major pro-Israel backlash. Aked’s book tells the story of this repression in #Britain with detail and nuance, explaining the role of the #Israeli and #British governments and the #Zionist movement.

By pushing back against efforts to conflate criticism of Israel with #antisemitism and demystifying the #IsraelLobby actors defending Israeli apartheid, Aked carves out a space for an anti-racist discussion about the pro-Israel networks standing in the way of Palestine solidarity, situating them as part of the long history of British #complicity in Israeli #Apartheid.

Quoting briefly from an early section of the book entitled “Britain’s historic responsibility”:

“Britain’s historic and ongoing role on Palestinian oppression cannot be overstated. In the early years of Zionist settler colonialism, British imperialism had something of a symbiotic relationship with the Zionist movement; indeed, the former nurtured the latter in its formative years.

[..] The original foundation, then, of British support for the Zionist project was its usefulness to the British Empire, just as Israel’s ‘special relationship’ with North America today rests, to a very significant degree, on its utility to US imperialism.

This book therefore attempts to situate the birth and ongoing activities of the British Zionist movement within the broader history of British state racism which continues to this day. [..] The same racist political logic shaped Britain’s treatment of colonial populations, from Palestinians to the Windrush generation, and both groups continue to suffer the consequences today.”

Republican women learn the hard way: Complicity will not protect you — The Freedom Caucus ousts Marjorie Taylor Greene and Ron DeSantis ends alimony for older, mostly conservative women

https://www.salon.com/2023/07/11/women-learn-the-hard-way-complicity-will-not-protect-you/

#Salon #RepublicanWomen #Complicity #FreedomCaucus #MarjorieTaylorGreene #RonDeSantis #Politics #News

Just started tracking my reading at #Bookwyrm (Goodreads is owned by the Am*zon parasite), kinda fun. Here is monthly blog post on What I'm reading:

https://sfmatheson.blogspot.com/2023/07/what-im-reading-in-july.html

#WhatImReading
#books
#NeilGaiman
#complicit
#complicity

Sorry for sullying your feeds with the monumental shite spewing from the mouth of Richard fucking Tice.
"Boris was wrong, it wasn't a kangaroo court, it was a lynch mob. 'If anything has truly undermined democracy it is this shameful political lynch mob'."
#Complicity #UKPolitics #PrivilegesCommittee

GOP doesn't care about ethics. There are more important issues in society like keeping easy access to guns and removing access to LGBTQ.

"Senate Republicans stand by Clarence Thomas, defend ethics allegations"

https://www.salon.com/2023/05/05/senate-stand-by-clarence-thomas-defend-ethics-allegations/ #GOP #SCOTUS #ethics #corruption #complicity

"Republicans defend Clarence Thomas and deflect from bombshell reports about the Supreme Court justice"

#transition: Much of the reluctance to do what #climatechange requires comes from the assumption that it means trading abundance for austerity, and trading all our #stuff and conveniences for less stuff, less #convenience. But what if it meant giving up things we’re well rid of, from deadly #emissions to nagging feelings of doom and #complicity in #destruction? What if the austerity is how we live now — and the #abundance could be what is to come?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/03/15/rebecca-solnit-climate-change-wealth-abundance/

We as @Left_EU have been calling for the triggering of Art 46 in the case of Greece for a long time. Good that FRO agrees. @Frontex still closes its eyes to #pushbacks in #Greece and Frontex' own clear #complicity. Will the new ED @lgenLeijtens finally act to #endpushbacks?
RT @MatinaStevis: Greece Border Abuses Highlight Europe’s Clashing Priorities on Migration
Exclusive docs show Frontex rights officer recommended agency pull out of GR bc of serial abuses incl.…

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/ErnstCornelia/status/1625566877878521858

@TechNews For $$ Facebook would stand aside & watch as Lady Justice is being raped & murdered.

#RuleOfLaw #Ethics #Facebook #Greed #ContentModeration #FreeFromFacebook #Complicity #CriminalContents

The British royal family needs to officially apologize for their families complicit part and continued institutionalized profit from subjugation and slavery. The UK government needs to address their own complicity in not seeing this is done. Reparations need to be addressed.

Society needs to stop idolizing bad behavior. We need to reclaim the meaning of the actual nobility of a person.

#Slavery #Subjugation #Complicity #Monarchy #Uk #Reparations #InstitutionalSubjugation #Royalty

Today's the 4th🎂of my article exploring the subversive potential of #Tolstoyan #defamiliarisation. Freely available here: https://repository.lboro.ac.uk/articles/journal_contribution/The_subversive_potential_of_Leo_Tolstoy_s_defamiliarisation_a_case_study_in_drawing_on_the_imagination_to_denounce_violence/9468479.

Short summary: T is primary example of master of #literary technique of ‘#defamiliarisation’ (looking at the familiar as if new) to shake readers into recognising absurdity of common views & practices

Article focuses on T’s #defamiliarization of common justifications of #violence (with examples), encouraging readers to admit their implicit #complicity & noticing process which numbed them into accepting such complicity

Then reflects on 4 specific #subversive characteristics of defam: #disruption of automated perception, implicit #concession of problem, corrosion of respect for traditional #hierarchies, & encouragement of #empathy

If you don't know Norman Baker, you really don't know Donald Trump - or how we as a country, have given them both all we have for their miracle cures. #journalism #democracy #autocracy #complicity https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2022/09/how-trump-follows-in-the-footsteps-of-a-notorious-con-artist

@DebPearlstein Did Alphabet, Meta, Reddit & twitter ever efficiently moderate Trump's or other offenders'/insurrectionists' incendiary inciting posts before Jan 6?
No, they didn't!

What made them refuse to moderate? It generated revenues for them, regardless of laws, rules, norms & values!
A profitable "celebrity bonus" for criminal contents, bare of any ethics & lawfulness.

#RuleOfLaw #Compliance vs #Complicity #OnlineCrime #HateSpeech #Incitement #Violence #Insurrection #Jan6 #Moderation #CriminalNetworks #Extremism #Terrorism #DOJ #DHS

@sean @VulpineAmethyst

Recommend #ThinkBlack by Clyde Ford. It's about his father, the #First #Black #SoftwareDeveloper at #IBM

Also describes IBM's #complicity in the #Holocaust

My latest published LTE in the 12/25 @sacbee_news #ca03 #cowardice #complicity

RT @SHIjournal
Check out our new fantastic Monograph "#Complicity: #Methodologies of power, politics & the ethics of knowledge production" edited by @roswillz and @GregHollin. Link to the introduction and ten papers here!: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14679566/2022/44/S1

Praise for LAWYER, JAILER, ALLY, FOE from John Grisham:

"LAWYER, JAILER, ALLY, FOE is a fascinating and detailed account inside one of America’s darkest chapters. Through the eyes and work of three dedicated lawyers we see the struggles of Japanese American citizens stripped of their dignity and rights and locked away simply because of their race."

(No, really! John Grisham!)

Available in May 2023 from @uncpress .

@histodons #lawfedi #books #history #AsianAmerican #lawyers #complicity

"The moral case for coal: The ethics of complicity with and amongst Australian pro-coal lobbyists" - Kari Dahlgren

https://doi.org/10.1111/taja.12389

#anthropology #aiart #midjourney #academia @anthropology #ClimateChange #CoalMining #complicity #ethics #ExtractiveIndustry
#ResearchMethods

While some with #Agendas of #Complicity who risk loss of privilege, money, position, will claim he is doing harm to his family and nation - the truth is with his desire to learn from history he is leading with a torch of light to help humanity see, deal, and process the #Karma of the past to create a healthier society to grow into.

The #BritishMedia #Trashing attempts of the #HarryMeghan #DocuSeries underscores the #Truth of the #Medias #BadBehaviour with them and what the #Media is playing at.

#Society is #GrowingUp and #Seeing through the #Propaganda and #FalseNarrative that tries to #Control the #Social #Narrative and thus #Society as a whole.

#ParadigmShift
#PeckingOrder
#Hierarchy
#Ascension of #Consciousness
#Racist #Complicity
#Britain #England

#PrinceHarry
#MeghanMarkle
#DukeandDuchessofSussex

The #Narrative of #Society needs to be #Freed and society needs to #Transcend its #Complicity of #Subjugating itself with that narrative.

#Subjugation #NarrativeOfDiscourse #Freedom #Karma #SocialDiscourse