Save for the quaintly outdated words “neighbors” and “community”, it’s impossible to say definitively if this is a far-right or a far-left creation:
Add a couple of “we, the people”, a few additional spelling and grammar mistakes, and it could be a right-winger leaflet easily.
I’m old enough to remember the pre-internet days when you would find things like this taped to walls and telephone poles around college campuses. It seems almost like quaint, old school craziness.
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“pre-internet days when you would find things like this taped to walls”
When I worked at a small weekly newspaper (before internet) we received (completely unsolicited) leaflets and periodicals or even books devoted to this stuff all the time. It seemed almost every week there would be two or three…
It was all hard to _really_ hard right with very big anti-semitic and anti-black components….
It’s very informative.
All the arrows point back to student protesters. They don’t have any arrows going anywhere else: protesters aren’t supporting anybody, they aren’t helping anybody *and they know it*. They are center stage. It’s all about them, and everybody exists only in relation to whether they help or hinder student protesters. Black hole at the center of the galaxy.
You can sort of logic out that the protesters are there for something about the Israel/palestine thing, but Palestinians aren’t mentioned anywhere on the page, afaict (is there a missing footnote?). For practical purposes they don’t exist and aren’t needed here. They are definitely more against Israel than for Palestinians. Which means they have set themselves up to lose, from the beginning. They know what they’re against, but they have no idea what they are for.
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…the other block on there with only arrows pointing *in* not *out* is the Israeli forces box. So this is a binary: student protesters in the white good-guy box on the left, vs. Israel in the black bad-guy box on the right.
Yeah, wouldn’t be at all surprised to find the same diagram on a Stormfront website or Unz or something. What are Palestinians? Never heard of em. The important thing is: the Jooz are the baddies and we’re against them.
\ Palestinians aren’t mentioned anywhere on the page
One possible reason for this omission is that this is a war against Hamas, Iran and the latter’s proxy Hezbollah. Some protesters get it (see photo below), but stating “so”We support terrorism” directly is still (?) considered unwise.
It’s a war against white supremacists. Jews are just a stand-in for white supremacists. It’s a tad ironic but there you have it.
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Strangely, land acknowledgements have gone out of the window:
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Organizers perhaps. Most of the protesters… don’t seem to have any idea what they are protesting. They’re just there because protesting is what you do when you’re in college, right? Just like beer pong and streaking.
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Putin is not the only person living in alternate reality and starting to believe his own propaganda. Yahya Sinwar, the leader of Hamas, has gone even further down the rabbit hole . I bolded the craziest parts (put the text here since the original is behind a paywall):
// A former senior Fatah official told Israeli newspaper Haaretz that …
“One day, a well-known Hamas figure calls and tells me with pride and joy that they are preparing a complete list of heads of committees for the cantons that will be created in Palestine,” Iyad (not his real name) told the publication.
According to Iyad, he did not take the conversations seriously about the “last promise” until 2021, when he realized that “the entire leadership was captured by the crazy idea of an all-out battle of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar,” writes Israeli journalist Shlomi Eldar.
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Iyad told the publication that after the planned invasion he was offered to head the Zarnouk committee, “where my family lived until 1948.”
He claims that he refused an offer to “lead a team that would be responsible for the reconstruction of the Ramle-Rehovot area” the day after fulfilling his “last promise.”
That same year, Sinwar gave a written speech at the Hamas-sponsored “Promise of the Future” conference, attended by other Palestinian factions, discussing preparations for the future administration of a vast Palestinian state after the “disappearance” of Israel.
The Hamas leader said the conquest of the “Zionist state” is now “closer than ever” and reiterated efforts to implement Hamas’ “strategic vision” and plans for “what comes after it.”
<b>Among the stated plans are an independence document that would be “a direct continuation of Umar bin al-Khattab’s pact to surrender Byzantine Jerusalem to Muslim conquerors in 638,”</b> a new currency and a call for guidelines for the resettlement of refugees wishing to return.
According to the American Research Institute MEMRI, the conference also recommended rules for the treatment of the Jewish population, including determining who would be killed, who would be prosecuted, and who would be allowed to leave or stay and be integrated into the new state.
The conference also discussed <b>the risk of brain drain and how to do so that “educated Jews and experts in the fields of medicine, engineering, technology, civil and military industry” would remain – without giving them the opportunity to leave.</b>
I share this since even one normal Palestinian is hard to meet or hear about, especially in the Western press:
Message From a Gazan to Campus Protesters: You’re Hurting the Palestinian Cause | Opinion
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It pains me to say this as a Palestinian from Gaza. As my home is destroyed and too many killed, I never thought I would find myself criticizing those speaking up.
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The last thing they care about is the Palestinian cause. Exactly like the BLM who didn’t have any interest in black people.
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The idea that “neighbors” and “community” are quaintly outdated must be a regional thing. These words are in common use here where I live.
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