“it is my obligation as a Jewish person to distinguish Jews from the state of Israel. Our religion and our culture is such an important and long-standing institution that is separate to this sort of ethnonationalist state”

“I cannot work with somebody who justifies or supports the genocide. I can’t. It’s as simple as that, and we shouldn’t be able to do that. In this industry, and in any other industry,”

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    I stopped using pro palestine and use anti occupation , anti genocide, pro palestinian liberation.

    God forbid we just generally think that genocide is bad no matter who it’s done to or why

    Palestine is the only place where there is a war of extemination right now

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      Palestine is the only place where there is a war of extemination right now

      Listen, I am about as active as any non-Israeli or non-Palestinian can be in anti-genocide discourse, but you’re smoking crack if you think that Russia’s intentions for Ukraine are to simply absorb their government and people. Russians by and by large do not believe Ukrainian culture is a thing, and in fact, have been breaking chunks off from their culture and absorbing it as their own since Moscow was founded by a couple of guys who got lost in the woods.

      Russia’s goal is absolute cultural annihilation, and their actions have fit the standard definition of genocide since 2022.

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        Russians by and by large do not believe Ukrainian culture is a thing

        Yes Putin don’t believe Ukrainian should not exist , he want to assimilate them to become Russians that’s why he is kidnapping Ukrainians kids and why during the interview with Carlson he was claiming about how Russians and Ukrainians are historically one people.

        As opposed to Israel which considered Palestinians just Arab colonizers and them just the righteous people who is going back to their land so they want them either expulsed to Egypt and other countries or kill them

        Both genocides are terrible but the Israeli one is another level of evilness. You are an idiot if you believe otherwise

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          As opposed to Israel which considered Palestinians just Arab colonizers and them just the righteous people who is going back to their land so they want them either expulsed to Egypt and other countries or kill them

          ??? This is literally the official position of the Russian Federation — they consider Ukrainians colonizers who unjustly rebelled and stole Russian land, assets, and production. Putin does not want to assimilate Ukrainians; the intention is total extermination and replacement with ethnic Russians, and always has been.

          I am not here to debate which genocide is worse, because plainly, Palestinians are suffering yawning abuses that would make even Mussolini blush. I am just saying that Palestine is not the only active genocide happening in the world right now. Ukraine can fight back; Palestine cannot. That is plainly on a different level. There’s no need to imply I am an idiot just because I pay attention to other stuff happening in parts of the world that don’t report in English.

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            This is literally the official position of the Russian Federation — they consider Ukrainians colonizers who unjustly rebelled and stole Russian land, assets, and production. Putin does not want to assimilate Ukrainians; the intention is total extermination and replacement with ethnic Russians, and always has been

            Which Putin statements prove that they think Ukrainians are colonizers and that they want to exterminate the people and kick them out rather than exterminate their culture?

            Palestine is not the only active genocide happening in the world right now

            And i never denied that but the truth is that the situation in Gaza is a lot more urgent and severe. Ukraine still have an army to defend itself, Ukraine still receive billions to defend itself, Ukraine don’t have a famine, Ukraine doesn’t have almost all it’s school, , hospital destroyed and almost it’s agricultural land damaged

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            Of course one genocide is worse than another. Are you dumb? Is a genocide where you want to kick out all people of the land or kill then similar to a genocide where you simply just kill the culture and assimilate them to your culture? Or a genocide where a small part of the population is genocide as bad as a genocide where the majority of the population is killed?

            All genocide should be prevented and called out.