One of the essential element to defend oneself against State & Fascist goon squads is by having squads of self defence of our own i.e building street muscle.
However unlike both of those two authoritarian squads, this is structured in a completely non-hierarchical manner thats born in solidarity with loyalty only to truth & one's conscience which respects autonomy of both individuals & groups, self-constituted from the community it's part of.
With no loyalty/respect to Law or Constitution or Nation or Religion or Race or Gender or Caste or Class or whatever the bullshit ruling class euphemism/division that exists to control & dominate rest of society.
We can't wish away violence & don't have to pretend State, Capital & Fascism will give up their power voluntarily. They are never going to, never have, never will. They need to be forced.
(I am sure others would have already put this more concisely & more clearly than me long before, but this is what I can think of now. Also I beleive this is what many Antifa groups are trying to achieve too — good on them. I think others also call it: Community self-defence committees).
"Sadly, #GuineaBissau has allowed itself to become complicit in Israel’s deliberate #starvation, #illegalSiege and genocide of Palestinians in #Gaza. @israel is showing the world the extent to which it will go to deny Palestinians the aid they need to stay alive, in direct contravention of International #HumanitarianLaw, #UN Security Council resolutions, and two orders of the International Court of Justice #ICC@cij_icj . Israel is only allowed to get away with this because we have an international order where law does not apply equally, where people are not valued the same, and where might equals right. The US has hijacked #internationalLaw and is violating its own laws to protect Israel at every turn. A recently-leaked #USAID memo states that ' #famine in Gaza is inevitable,' and that 'changes could reduce but not stop widespread #civiliandeaths.' It also states that the government of Israel does not currently demonstrate necessary compliance with #USlaw required to receive #USmilitary aid. Nevertheless, last week, the #USCongress passed and Biden signed a $26 billion aid package for Israel. It is this kind of naked impunity, over decades, that has brought us to this point where Israel can carry out a #genocide "
The more resistance that the colonized shows, the more brutal the colonizer becomes. Genocidal Israel is now walking in the footsteps of all other settler colonies on their deathbed.
"Over the next few hours, counter-demonstrators threw objects, including wood and a metal barrier, at the camp and those inside, with fights repeatedly breaking out..."
#ICJ / Turkey to join South Africa's genocide case against Israel
[…] "Upon completion of the legal text of our work, we will submit the declaration of official intervention before the ICJ with the objective of implementing this political decision,"
Jewish students participating in pro-Palestine protests on their campuses would have valuable things to say about the alleged "rising antisemitism" at their schools. But the media is ignoring them.
One more instance that brings the guess work some credibility.
Now the ruling class has roped in the fascist street thugs (largely Israeli fascists, may be other fascists too) to attack UCLA students in collaboration with State goons.
The way it works is:
If Fascists can attack on their own without State goon help, State goons will simply sit idly by & let the attack happen.
If fascists doesnt have the required street muscle, State goons collaborate & intervene to help fascists.
It entirely depends on the circumstance.
In both cases, they use this manufactured chaos as a pretext to attack the people ruling class (in collaboration with fascists) wants targeted.
These attacks usually happen in the dark to ensure they can hide their identity when they do this criminal dirty work on behalf of their masters.
Its a strategy that has extremely high % of success rate — barring few rare exceptions.
@flawed@palestine@israel
It's a guess, because I don't think anybody keeps track of police political preferences, but the endorsement of police unions for #DefendantTrump lead me to guess as that as much as 75% of police in Blue states support him. For sheriffs' departments, I'd put the figure at 95%. Early in the Biden admin, 40% or the military refused direct orders to be vaccinated against covid, a good indicator that the military is also heavily pro-Citizen Trump.
#US / Brown University agrees to hear divestment proposal if encampment is cleared
Brown University has agreed to hear a divestment proposal from student protesters in May, on the condition that the current encampment protest is peacefully disbanded.
[...] The University has previously said that the endowment is not directly invested in weapons manufacturers. Brown’s Investment Office is contractually obligated not to disclose the content of the managers’ portfolios but assured that none have a specific focus on defense manufacturing.
[cont’d] #US / Billionaire Donor Barry Sternlicht Assails Brown’s Deal With Protesters
Jewish money in US academia is still not a problem apparently… imagine it’d be #Qatar, for example, withholding donations from Universities not condemning Israel for war crimes in Gaza, apartheid, settler violence, mass arrests, illegal occupation, attacks on academic and press freedoms, etc.
Favorite quote: […] the two sides did not agree on “facts and moral clarity,” as well as the scale of Israel’s invasion of Gaza … not sure what he means by “moral clarity”, but I doubt it anything justifies Israel massacring innocents civilians.
[…] Mr. Sternlicht, 63, said that no deal with protesters could be fruitful because the two sides did not agree on “facts and moral clarity,” as well as the scale of Israel’s invasion of #Gaza after Hamas’s Oct. 7 attack..
#Israel 22 or 30 people? ... it really doesn't matter any more
Define "blood lust".
Minister of Settlement (=occupied territories), Orit Strock, said this morning (Wednesday) that the deal being discussed with #Hamas is "terrible and horrible", and that "there is no right to exist for a government that tells soldiers who went out to fight that it is throwing it in the trash to save 22 people or 33 people." In an interview with Army Radio, Strock (Religious Zionism) described the deal as a "reckless deal that turns its back on the goals of the war." According to her, "You are basically saying, I settle for I don't know, 20, 33, it really doesn't matter anymore."
Quds News: #Brown University has reached an agreement with student protesters to disband tent encampments, and it will hold a formal vote to divest from companies with ties to the occupation state of Israel. (A different approach than Columbia’s) @palestine@israel
Lets pretend Israel just started ethnically cleansing the land they have OCCUPIED for the last 70 years, slowly pushing Palestinians out of their homes.
Lets pretend this slaughter is the first, eh?
This suggests, what, that Brown, Columbia, etc etc, only just found out about the Palestinian occupation and ongoing genocide?? ITS BEEN HAPPENING FOR SEVENTY FUCKING YEARS!
Amid growing speculation that the International Criminal Court could issue arrest warrants against #Israeli officials in the coming days over the war against Hamas in #Gaza, a White House spokesperson reiterates #US opposition for the investigation.
“The #ICC has no jurisdiction in this situation,” the spokesperson says.