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Jewish groups decry Black Lives Matter platform’s view on Israel

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Jewish groups decry Black Lives Matter platform’s view on Israel

Jewish Groups Condemn Black Lives Matter Platform for Accusing 'Apartheid' Israel of 'Genocide'

I had no idea BLM had a foreign-policy platform. This is wandering far afield from the initial cause-celebré of protesting US police brutality.

Balckliesmatter's platform is nothing more than irrational racial segregationist socialistic nonsense and wants everyone else to pay for it.



These are their summations of the following platform demands found under each heading.


Platform
End the War on Black People
We demand an end to the named and unnamed wars on black people - including the criminalization, incarceration, and killing of our people.​

Reparations
We demand reparations for harms inflicted on Black people: from colonialism to slavery through food and housing redlining, mass incarceration, and surveillance.​

Invest-Divest
We demand investments in the education, health and safety of Black people, instead of investments in the criminalizing, caging, and harming of Black people.​

Economic Justice
We demand economic justice for all and a reconstruction of the economy to ensure Black communities have collective ownership, not merely access.​

Community Control
We demand a world where those most impacted in our communities control the laws, institutions, and policies that are meant to serve us.​

Political Power
We demand independent Black political power and Black self-determination in all areas of society.​

BLM | Platform
 
Balckliesmatter's platform is nothing more than irrational racial segregationist socialistic nonsense and wants everyone else to pay for it.



These are their summations of the following platform demands found under each heading.


Platform
End the War on Black People
We demand an end to the named and unnamed wars on black people - including the criminalization, incarceration, and killing of our people.​

Reparations
We demand reparations for harms inflicted on Black people: from colonialism to slavery through food and housing redlining, mass incarceration, and surveillance.​

Invest-Divest
We demand investments in the education, health and safety of Black people, instead of investments in the criminalizing, caging, and harming of Black people.​

Economic Justice
We demand economic justice for all and a reconstruction of the economy to ensure Black communities have collective ownership, not merely access.​

Community Control
We demand a world where those most impacted in our communities control the laws, institutions, and policies that are meant to serve us.​

Political Power
We demand independent Black political power and Black self-determination in all areas of society.​

BLM | Platform

And they're damn good Democrats too. :lol:
 
Balckliesmatter's platform is nothing more than irrational racial segregationist socialistic nonsense and wants everyone else to pay for it.



These are their summations of the following platform demands found under each heading.


Platform
End the War on Black People
We demand an end to the named and unnamed wars on black people - including the criminalization, incarceration, and killing of our people.​

Reparations
We demand reparations for harms inflicted on Black people: from colonialism to slavery through food and housing redlining, mass incarceration, and surveillance.​

Invest-Divest
We demand investments in the education, health and safety of Black people, instead of investments in the criminalizing, caging, and harming of Black people.​

Economic Justice
We demand economic justice for all and a reconstruction of the economy to ensure Black communities have collective ownership, not merely access.​

Community Control
We demand a world where those most impacted in our communities control the laws, institutions, and policies that are meant to serve us.​

Political Power
We demand independent Black political power and Black self-determination in all areas of society.​

BLM | Platform

Whoever wrote that had more than a passing familiarity with the Nation of Islam's "Muslim Program".
 
You feel that Desmond Tutu is unqualified to comment?
Irrelevant. He is in no position to judge anything between the Country of Israel and the people of palestine.


French parliament report accuses Israel of water 'apartheid' in West Bank
So now you wish to add the French to the list of idiots. Great. That is a well deserved place for them.
 

There are countless of people even outside the Islamic world who will draw this comparison that doesn't make it a valid one of course it's nothing but the usual revolting comments made on Israel and Israeli attitudes by those who hate it and who hate the people who live inside it like the antisemitic BDS movement and other far-left organizations, there's no doubt really that this comparison is every bit as valid when made with Britain, Italy and France as it is with Israel let alone the actual absurd, pathetic accusation of 'genocide'. BLM in this case made an alliance with the antisemitic BDS movement and thus came the "foreign policy" declared in the OP. As Excon put it rightfully eventually what we're talking about is just idiots, I'll add hateful idiots, and yes Desmund Tutu falls under that definition as well as he made this comparison, I'll argue it's a clear insult on blacks as well as it compares the actual racist policies faced by blacks at that place and time with citizens who have full rights and are equal to every other citizen of the state.

What this teaches us more than anything else is what should already be well known to many, you practically can't be a far-left extremist without first and foremost being a hater of Israel and the Israeli people, if not an antisemite. People who are being radicalized and become far-left radicals are in most cases embracing, before anything else, anti-Israeli and antisemitic positions.
 
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What this teaches us more than anything else is what should already be well known to many, you practically can't be a far-left extremist without first and foremost being a hater of Israel and the Israeli people, if not an antisemite. People who are being radicalized and become far-left radicals are in most cases embracing, before anything else, anti-Israeli and antisemitic positions.

Which is both unfortunate and really weird. You wouldn't think that the left would support a reactionary anti-Semitic ethnic nationalist movement against a liberal democracy established to protect Jews, but here we are. I consider myself a leftist, and I support Israel for the same reason I support Black Lives Matter - the right of minorities to live without fear of arbitrary violence - but so many other leftists are tragically on the wrong side of the issue.
 
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Accusations of genocide and references to Apartheid/Apartheid analogies are prohibited terms/expressions under the Martial Law Concordance so I'm going to need to shut this one down. Thanks for understanding.
 
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