'Antisemitism explodes in ways we’ve never seen': Schumer warns of rising hate in the US
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Most senior Jewish-American official condemns the UN’s Gaza genocide claims in a new book and says he has no faith in the international body; Senator is now facing Democratic backlash

“There was an incident on the New York subway and a bunch of people got on, protesters or whatever, and said, ‘All the Zionists, get off.’ When the head of the Brooklyn Museum, who was Jewish, but the Brooklyn Museum had nothing to do with Israel or taking positions on Israel — her house is smeared in red paint. That’s antisemitism. And a lot of the slogans that people use either are or slide into antisemitism.”

“The one that bothers me the most is genocide,” Schumer added. “Genocide is described as a country or some group tries to wipe out a whole race of people, a whole nationality of people. So if Israel was not provoked and just invaded Gaza and shot at random Palestinians, Gazans, that would be genocide. That’s not what happened. In fact, the opposite happened. And Hamas is much closer to genocidal than Israel.

Schumer also sharply criticized the UN for using the term “genocide” when describing the war in Gaza. “The U.N. has been anti-Israel, antisemitically against Israel. [Daniel Patrick] Moynihan was my idol. He became famous when in 1976 [it was 1975] they tried to pass a resolution, Zionism is racism.

    • Schmoo@slrpnk.net
      111·
      1 day ago

      It is genocide, but when innocent civilians are being killed indiscriminately by the tens of thousands (and injured by the hundreds of thousands) by people who refer to them as “animals” and state very clearly their intent to “eradicate” them, I don’t really give a shit what it’s called. Unacceptable is what it is.

    • Keeponstalin@lemmy.world
      142·
      1 day ago

      It’s a genocide.

      Israel's Genocide on Occupied Palestine

      Our first-hand observations of the medical and humanitarian catastrophe inflicted on Gaza are consistent with the descriptions provided by an increasing number of legal experts and organizations concluding that genocide is taking place in Gaza.

      It examines the killing of civilians, damage to and destruction of civilian infrastructure, forcible displacement, the obstruction or denial of life-saving goods and humanitarian aid, and the restriction of power supplies. It analyses Israel’s intent through this pattern of conduct and statements by Israeli decision-makers. It concludes that Israel has committed genocide against Palestinians in Gaza.

      On 26 January 2024, the ICJ said that it was plausible that Israel had breached the Genocide Convention. As an emergency measure, it ordered Israel ensure that its army refrained from genocidal acts against Palestinians.

      The ICJ reported, as part of its decisions in March and May, that the situation in Gaza had deteriorated and that Israel had failed to abide by its order in January.

      So, when we look at the actions taken, the dropping of thousands and thousands of bombs in a couple of days, including phosphorus bombs, as we heard, on one of the most densely populated areas around the world, together with these proclamations of intent, this indeed constitutes genocidal killing, which is the first act, according to the convention, of genocide. And Israel, I must say, is also perpetrating act number two and three — that is, causing serious bodily or mental harm, and creating condition designed to bring about the destruction of the group by cutting off water, food, supply of energy, bombing hospitals, ordering the fast evictions of hospitals, which the World Health Organization has declared to be, quote, “a death sentence.” So, we’re seeing the combination of genocidal acts with special intent. This is indeed a textbook case of genocide.

      More than 800 scholars of international law and genocide have signed a public statement arguing that the Israeli military may be committing genocidal acts against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip as the total siege and relentless airstrikes continue to inflict devastation on the occupied territory.

      An independent United Nations expert warned Monday that “Israel’s genocidal violence risks leaking out of Gaza and into the occupied Palestinian territory as a whole” as Western governments, corporations, and other institutions keep up their support for the Israeli military, which stands accused of grave war crimes in the Gaza Strip and West Bank.

      Our documentation encompasses over 500 incitements of violence and genocidal incitement, appearing in the forms of social media posts, television interviews, and official statements from Israeli politicians, army personnel, journalists, and other influential personalities.

      I, Lee Mordechai, a historian by profession and an Israeli citizen, bear witness in this document to the situation in Gaza as events are unfolding. The enormous amount of evidence I have seen, much of it referenced later in this document, has been enough for me to believe that Israel is committing genocide against the Palestinian population in Gaza. I explain why I chose to use the term below. Israel’s campaign is ostensibly its reaction to the Hamas massacre of Oct. 7, 2023, in which war crimes and crimes against humanity were committed within the context of the longstanding conflict between Israelis and Palestinians that can be dated back to 1917 or 1948 (or other dates). In all cases, historical grievances and atrocities do not justify additional atrocities in the present. Therefore, I consider Israel’s response to Hamas’ actions on Oct. 7 utterly disproportionate and criminal.

      Others: AP News, Time, Reuters, Vox, CBC

    • surph_ninja@lemmy.world
      152·
      1 day ago

      The definition is “in whole or in part.”

      Hitler also didn’t eliminate all of the Jews. You gonna engage in Holocaust denial, too?

    • 【J】【u】【s】【t】【Z】@lemmy.world
      111·
      17 hours ago

      Better delete any posts you disagree with to stay in your echo chamber.

      Why even allow the link the Chuck Schumer’s comment?

      There’s like five negative Chuck Schumer stories today. You don’t recognize a coordinated hit job when you see one?

      • the_three_tomatoes@lemmy.world
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        14 hours ago

        I don’t like that the mods deleted your comment.

        But, have you seen the news recently? I was studying this before and have read a lot. I am now convinced it’s a genocide. Openly cutting aid off for almost a month… that’s insane.

        • goferking (he/him)@lemmy.sdf.org
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          3 hours ago

          Mods didn’t, they deleted their own comment then replied to themselves nvm client said user deleted it

          Although considering it was just them doing genocide denial makes perfect sense it was removed

        • Keeponstalin@lemmy.world
          61·
          14 hours ago

          That commenter is a Zionist who has repeatedly justified Israel’s actions, continued to repeat Zionist propaganda regardless of how many times it gets debunked, and has denied both that Israel has been cutting off aid throughout the genocide and the reality of famine in Gaza

          • 【J】【u】【s】【t】【Z】@lemmy.world
            16·
            11 hours ago

            Wrong. Not a Zionist, which is idiotic.

            You post the same fundraising links with zero aside from “reports.” I’m not convinced by evidence that’s falls apart under basic scrutiny. Also, things that make decent people angry aren’t automatically war crimes; the mere fact that civilians die in a warzone does not equate to war crimes.

            And, you can’t refute the hard facts:

            If Israel wanted to could it obliterate all of Gaza and kill every person in it within a matter of hours or days? Yes.

            Has Israel done that? No.

            Has Israel killed an obviously excessive number of civilians? Yes.

            Are there potentially valid moral and legal explanations for such excess civilian casualties? Yes. Hamas uses mass human shields as a primary strategy of defense and offense; and civilian casualties that occur incidentally to valid military actions–weighed against the larger, conflict- long war against actual terrorists–are not unlawful.

            Despite the explanations, is there nonetheless an obscene number of civilians casualties or clear operational intent? No. Again, 99/100 people in Gaza remain alive, and certainly you must agree that tends to suggest there isn’t some rampant genocide as you describe; there are no roving death squads point-blank murdering woman and children, no helicopter gunships firing indicrininatly¹ on crowds of refugees without even a pretext of legit military advantage, such as in Rwanda or Darfur.

            Finally, if Hamas surrenders, the war ends. How is that genocidal?

            1. Indiscriminate here means actually indiscriminate, not how you use it to describe every targeted attack against Hamas members that results in damage or causality to any adjacent structure or person. It means actually indiscriminate, like how Hamas attacks civilians day in day out, with thousands of unguided rockets per week for years on end.
        • 【J】【u】【s】【t】【Z】@lemmy.world
          05·
          11 hours ago

          I’m not there to see for myself, but it’s not as straightforward as the headlines sound. Here’s what I mean, from BBC from when this recent blockade began three weeks ago:

          A statement from Netanyahu’s office said: "With the end of Phase 1 of the hostage deal, and in light of Hamas’s refusal to accept the Witkoff outline for continuing talks - to which Israel agreed - Prime Minister Netanyahu has decided that, as of this morning, all entry of goods and supplies into the Gaza Strip will cease.

          “Israel will not allow a ceasefire without the release of our hostages. If Hamas continues its refusal, there will be further consequences.”

          Aid agencies confirmed that no aid trucks had been allowed into Gaza on Sunday morning.

          Thousands of trucks entered the Gaza Strip each week since the ceasefire was agreed in mid-January.

          Aid agencies have managed to store supplies, which means there is no immediate danger to the civilian population from this morning’s Israeli decision.

          https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c9q4w99je78o

          From January:

          The U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs said 897 aid trucks entered the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, citing information it received from Israel and the guarantors for the ceasefire agreement - the United States, Egypt and Qatar.

          This compares with 630 on Sunday and 915 on Monday. The truce deal requires at least 600 truckloads of aid to be allowed into Gaza every day of the initial six-week ceasefire, including 50 carrying fuel. Half of those trucks are supposed to go to Gaza’s north, where experts have warned famine is imminent

          https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/un-says-897-aid-trucks-entered-gaza-tuesday-2025-01-21/

          That second article is from January 2025, and KeepOnStalin and anti-western media have been spamming articles about how imminent the famine is since November of of 2023. Does the rote death toll reflect a widespread catastrophic famine when 99/100 people in Gaza have survived?

          Even while thousands of trucks poured in every week, KeepOnStalin posted the same five articles over and over about genocidal Israel is.

          Point is, it’s just not as straightforward as the headlines and KeepOnStallin make it sound. Nuance is hard.