• carpoftruth [any, any]
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    10 months ago

    Israel really throwing gas on the antisemitism fire with this one hey

  • GrouchyGrouse [he/him]
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    10 months ago

    "I love her like a cousin" Dersh was reported as saying when asked about his views on Israel

  • Tankiedesantski [he/him]
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    10 months ago

    This is the legal equivalent of one of Ukraine's morale-raising but militarily counterproductive counter offensives.

    You'd have to be absolutely stupid to ask a criminal lawyer to defend you in a matter of international public law. Completely different kettle of fish.

  • Llituro [he/him, they/them]
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    10 months ago

    The genocide case is already a slam dunk, but sending the dersh out to defend would be an all-time throw

    • bbnh69420 [she/her, they/them]
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      10 months ago

      So realistically, what is the outcome of this case? Obviously the evidence is stacked in favor of the prosecution, but it’s been nearly a century of everything Israel does going unpunished. My brain is having trouble imagining an alternative outcome

      • HumanBehaviorByBjork [any, undecided]
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        10 months ago

        yeah it kind of feels like this is a step on the path to the collapse of the Rules Based International Order and a geopolitical return to power unreservedly doing what it will, and the powerless doing what they must. expecting a US president to be tried for war crimes in absentia this decade to zero effect.

      • Llituro [he/him, they/them]
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        10 months ago

        i find it highly unlikely that a verdict in favor of the palestinians would actually move biden's hand. israel isn't bosnia after all.

  • pooh [she/her]
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    10 months ago

    Whoever is running Israel's national public relations right now is really doing a bang up job

  • material_delinquent
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    10 months ago

    Look at it this way: Dersh and Professional Genociders immediately get to say "blood libel" whenever corporate-art are brought up and their immediate surroundings will agree and add that Hamas beheaded Israeli babies en masse and then played basketball with their heads, so all of Gaza must be settled in Madagascar.

    Hopefully these takes stay mostly contained in these circles, but there are absolutely people that get shut up by intellectually lazy and politically convenient definitions of Antisemitism and we are sooo gonna see those