If you insist on posting “Israel bad!” to a community specifically for US Politics, you will get banned again.

Please elaborate on what precisely you mean by "Israel bad!"? Do you mean low effort articles that claim Israel is bad for intellectually lazy reasons? Have I posted those? If so which ones? What evidence do you have of those articles having baseless, sloppy criticisms of the politics at hand here?

Israel / Gaza = Goes in ![email protected]

How does this make sense? Defend your position as moderator of a community where you exclude Israel/Gaza as a political topic but you do not exclude discussion of any other international issue that has direct, intimate relevance to the US along countless dimensions?

I temp banned you for three days after you repeatedly failed to follow the clear guidelines I gave you.

Ok, lets make a bet, how many US made bombs do you think Israel will drop from US trained fighter pilots flying US jets that refueled on US made tanker aircraft on innocent children in the next 3 days while I wait to post political articles about it? 20? 30? I will say 35 as my guess, what do you guess?

To say that Israel and Gaza arent predominant political issues in US politics is just straight up denial

Hi Jordan. Nice to see your imminent death experience prompted you to reflect on some of your opinions and actions.

Israel / Gaza

That would make some sense if USA and majority of congress people weren't either supporting Israel in their genocide or just in supplying weapons and funds

If it's only for US politics, why don't you call it USpolitics?

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Yes, the ![email protected] community followed the convention from Reddit. If you want to post Israel bad in a US politics community, relate it more closely to US politics. Polling about elections, AIPAC donations, votes or movement on a particular bill are examples. What exactly is wrong with posting in ![email protected] or ![email protected] or wherever else you want?

The sources thing is also reasonable. May not be perfect, sure, but you're welcome to moderate your own community.

There certainly aren't enough current issues to replace/remove a moderator, especially one who has done so much unappreciated work for Lemmy and his communities.

This whole post seems like a harassment campaign.

No it's on the USA being lying liars. And calling it out should very well be US Politics, and allowed. Unless you know, this is a psyop server.

It's literally the first line on the sidebar:

And the second line is the start of the rules. If you're gonna treat it as a rule you're banning people over maybe you should make it a rule--cause right now a plain reading indicates it's not.

The community was set up before I was brought on board

And you're there now, presumably with some modicum of influence (at least enough to suggest that the stupid naming scheme is stupid).

It's not 6 degrees of separation

I agree. It's more like 1 degree of separation:

1. US gives bombs to Israel after genocide started

All the other bullshit about "good faith" (something you've adequately demonstrated in this thread you lack all understanding of)

A little more than a year after the genocide started the US was still supplying arms. If it's not US foreign policy to fund this genocide why is the US continuing to fund this genocide? If it's not US foreign policy why does the US back Israel in the genocide case at the ICJ? If it's not US foreign policy why did the US vote against the UN's Gaza ceasefire resolution?

It seems that the people who are responsible for carrying out the US's foreign policy initiatives as pertinent to the Gaza genocide keep facilitating the genocide, almost like the US is culpable in executing the genocide and that the US backed genocide actually has something to do with the US.

I recognize that you seem to get off in wielding power to the extent that your lust necessarily prevents you from having a grasp on causality were it to change your mind, but your artiface does not actually change reality. You are wrong. The US is involved in the genocide of the Gazan people and therefore the genocide of the Gazan people is relevant to US politics.

Because no US politician or policy authorizes the genocide. That's an Israeli war crime. The US provided funding for legitimate defense, not genocide.

Weird, considering a majority of the are fully okay in supporting it. Hell even Kamala fully embraced it to not hurt Biden

You mean the social credit score that makes it so if liberals disagree with you that you're shadow banned?

Or the obfuscation of what's allowed because it scans all images uploaded?

Or any of the horrid things Rimu does because he's never blamed for the poor chickens and horribly written code?

If someone has a PieFed.world or .social I just know they hate brown people and communists more than they hate fascists.

Yeah I'm more inclined to believe you're just another Ruski

I am well aware of that, this is very obviously a pattern of thought for you.

Looking at the posts you have linked, no I don't see any overwhelming evidence of anything here. Didn't you say it was easy to find?

now Jordan is saying dbo is a tankie instance

I guess they gave up on world defederating from ml and are now trying to get db0 defederated.

mwog has been saying it since seven months ago

• Dbzer0 admin casually defending Uyghur genocide denial because "libs worse", yikes
• Does lemmy.ml own db0? db0 user denies the Uyghur genocide, begins to backtrack that maybe there are human rights abuses, and then immediately backs off as soon as lemmy.ml admin, Davel, steps in.
• Tankie bar, db0, will remove your comments and ban you if you criticise lemmy.ml admin, Davel, for denying the Uyghur genocide
• When the tankie bar, db0, is pushed about communists purging peasants, Davels swoops in with dehumanisation. Also, if you bring up the Holodomor then you're a nazi.
• On Dbzer0, 'harassing mods' is when you criticize the top admin of .ml for responding to a Wiki link with a Lemmy search
• Dbzer0 admin claiming Uyghur genocide is 'overblown and misrepresented'
• Dbzer0 admin asserts that Red Fascist states are "Actually Existing Socialism" and that Hexbear is preferable to .world and SJW
• Dbzer0 admin is 'ashamed' about 'warfare' between instances (read: .ml being criticized) as one of the tankie admins of .ml literally defends genocide and the socialist-crushing incident tankies were
• Dbzer0 admins have a little fight where db0 tells a user that they're attracting too many tankies (exactly like I did to db0). They wonder why tankies are given more leeway than liberals
• The tankie takeover of dbzer0 continues

Racism against whom precisely? Which demographic is unfairly targeted by J. Sakai's "Settlers"?

Not too shocking from him honestly. Also not too shocking the reason he gave is different either.

I don't know if anyone told you this but the israelis are the ones who broke into the Palestinians house with the help of the allied powers.

IV. Intersecting Components of the Gaza Genocide A. Genocide Under the Guise of Diplomatic and Political Actions

1. Prolonged political and diplomatic support by influential Third States has enabled Israel to initiate and sustain its assault on the Palestinian people. In the past two years, entrenched complicity, marked by narrative manipulations and reproduction of Israeli fabrications, have muted the urgent calls for action and obscured the web of political, financial and military interests at play. The longstanding failure to address egregious violations of international law by Israel – threatening international peace and security – has normalized and deepened relations with it, entrenching oppression, domination and erasure.

1. Following 7 October 2023, most Western leaders parroted Israeli narratives, disseminated by State and corporate media, repeating debunked claims and erasing core distinctions between combatants and civilians. Israelis were depicted as “civilians” and “hostages”, and Palestinians as “Hamas terrorists”, “legitimate” or “collateral” targets, “human shields” or lawfully detained “prisoners”. Drawing on a long history of the “savage” denied protections of international law, revived by the War on Terror discourse, Western States helped to justify the genocide against Palestinians. On 9 October 2023, immediately after Israel announced a tightened siege on Gaza, key Western leaders expressed support for the “self-defence” of Israel – unwarranted under article 51 of the UN Charter. President Biden repeatedly cited unsubstantiated reports of “beheaded babies”. British opposition Leader Keir Starmer defended Israel’s right to cut off water and power to civilians.

1. This environment fuelled a ferocious Israeli assault. Even amidst urgent calls for a ceasefire, Western states, led by the United States, advocated only for humanitarian “corridors”, “pauses” and “truces” – sidestepping a permanent ceasefire and ensuring a continuation of the violence. States reverted to treating the situation as a humanitarian crisis to be managed, rather than resolved, by demanding that Israel end its unlawful occupation once and for all, providing further leeway to the assault on Gaza.

1. Post-October 2023, the United States used its veto power in the UN Security Council seven times, controlling ceasefire negotiations and providing diplomatic cover for the Israeli genocide. The US has not acted alone. Abstentions, delays, watered-down draft resolutions and a simplistic rhetoric of “balance” reinforced the diplomatic protection and political narrative Israel required to continue the The United Kingdom maintained alignment with the US position until November 2024. A bloc of Western states – Australia, New Zealand and Canada, sometimes joined by the UK, Germany or the Netherlands – appeared at times ready to pressurize Israel, such as in December 2023, when their statements added momentum for a ceasefire. Yet their introduction of the term “sustained ceasefire” produced a diluted UNSC resolution that delayed action. In February 2024, they criticized the planned invasion of Rafah while simultaneously withdrawing United Nations Relief Words Agency (UNRWA) funding. Such diplomacy created an illusion of progress while concrete actions were repeatedly stymied.

1. Sanctions served a similar In 2024, Australia, Canada, the EU, New Zealand and the UK sanctioned some extremist settlers and organizations, and in June 2025, Israeli Ministers Itamar Ben-Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich were sanctioned by Australia, Canada, Norway and the UK. Yet such isolated actions effectively condone the Israeli state system and structures as a whole.

1. Arab and Muslim states have long supported the Palestinian Three joint Arab- Islamic summits and several extraordinary meetings on Palestine, generated some collective efforts, including the Arab Plan. Nevertheless, these actions have not been decisive, even amid Israeli aggression against six Arab States, reflecting the complexity of regional geopolitics. Normalization through the US-brokered Abraham Accords has also shifted economic incentives. Open sources report that influential States in the region facilitated land routes to Israel, bypassing the Red Sea. While Qatar and Egypt sought to broker ceasefire agreements, Qatar hosts the largest US military base in the region, and Egypt maintained significant security and economic relations with Israel, including energy cooperation and the closing of the Rafah crossing.

1. Certain non-Western States have turned to international courts to seek accountability and pressurize Israel to cease its actions. While only 13 States have supported South Africa before the ICJ, most Western States have persistently denied genocide. None have joined Nicaragua against Germany at the ICJ, or invoked domestic laws against complicit corporations or individuals. Only seven referred the situation to the ICC, many sought to undermine its arrest warrants, and at least 37 States were non-committal or critical, signalling intent to evade arrest obligations. The United States imposed sanctions to paralyse the Court; the United Kingdom threatened its funding, while Prime Minister Netanyahu travelled freely across European airspace, even visiting Hungary, which withdrew from the Court in April 2025.

1. Israel has been sheltered from accountability in courts as well as in global fora, with institutions preventing its deserved expulsion both from sports (e.g., Paris Olympics, FIFA World Cup qualifiers, FIBA, Davis Cup) and cultural events (Eurovision, Venice Biennale).

1. The ICJ’s groundbreaking ruling on the illegality of the occupation has yet to bring change. On 18 September 2024, the UN General Assembly adopted resolution ES-10/24, reaffirming the binding nature of the Court’s legal obligations and formulating a roadmap to end the occupation by 17 September 2025 through diplomatic, economic and legal measures which states have yet to implement.

1. The Saudi–French Two-State Solution Conference of September 2025 led to ten new States recognizing the State of Palestine. While an important step, these tardy recognitions have so far remained symbolic, with no tangible effect in addressing the ongoing genocide. Overall, 20 new states have issued recognitions of the State of Palestine since October 2023, but with restrictive conditions (e.g., concerning governance, territorial integrity, political independence and demilitarization) incompatible with the very essence of self- determination, effectively reproducing forms of colonial tutelage.

1. Since October 2023, only Belize, Bolivia, Colombia and Nicaragua have suspended diplomatic relations with Israel, and only six States – Bahrain, Chad, Chile, Honduras, Jordan, Türkiye and South Africa – have downgraded their relations with Israel.

1. The most notable effort has come from the Hague Group initiative launched in January 2025. Led by Colombia and South Africa, 13 States of the Global Majority have committed to enforce six concrete measures against Israel. Twenty-one other States joined the third meeting of the Group in New York on the sidelines of the 80th Session of the General Assembly. Despite the efforts of some of its members, Israel still holds its UN credentials.

1. On 30 September 2025, many States, including Egypt, Indonesia, Jordan, Pakistan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Türkiye and the UAE, endorsed the “Trump Plan”, despite its silence on ending the occupation, ensuring accountability, providing transitional justice and its imposition of a temporary mechanism of imperial foreign governance for Gaza that further undermines, rather than realizes, Palestinian self-determination.

https://www.un.org/unispal/document/special-rapporteur-report-gaza-genocide-a-collective-crime-20oct25/

You are framing this as sequence of events where the US formerly gave Israel weapons under false pretenses from Israel about what they would be used for when there is no evidence it was under false pretenses, there is no evidence it stopped and there is no evidence it will stop.

You are trying to describe a river as a truck that drove by once, not a continuous flow where each subsequent thing is an evolution and a response to the last. You say well the US drove the truck of weapons to Israel and THEN they committed Genocide with them... I say it is a continous river where if what was happening downstream was truly dammed (and not just damned), the consequences would already be overwhelming for what was attempting to dam an undeniable upstream force even if there is a physical distance of separation described.... it is a river, that is what rivers are, conveyances in communication.

This is a river of arms, death and the machinery of oppression.

Mainaiining occupation is not self defense. Nazi germany did not have the right to defend themselves against the people they genocided

Huge difference for the people who legitimately believe Israel has a right to self defense.

No one believes genocide is self defense.

The funding was provided in good faith, it’s being used in bad faith

The funding was provided by genocide supporting shit who absolutely knew that the only thing it was ever going to be used for was to commit genocide.

Under the genocide and geneva conventions the united states should not give a single dime to Israel until the occupation end. It is complicity but you are too stupid to realize this. Nothing radical about opposing the complicity of the united states in the settler colonial project.

Your entire argument boils down to a child going "i'm not touching you".

Lund is a little Eichmann. Very little, fortunately.