Today I was hoping that I could have put the whole episode of the outlandish accusations made against me by @8124 behind, and use again my profile to talk of the things I enjoy the most (AI ethics, automation, Big Tech alternatives, new geek projects etc.).
But it looks like the levels of harassment against me are only escalating, not winding down.
Report 1
That account and its network also reported me for antisemitism for this post, which:
- Includes a shameful video of people cheering at the bombs being dropped in Gaza and waiting for everybody to be dead so they can occupy that territory again
- Outlines the connections between those sitting in the current Israeli cabinet and publicly acknowledged terrorists like Kahane that argued the same exact things that Israel is doing right now decades ago in books such as “They must go”
- Outlines some of the most controversial quotes from their scriptures, often cited by the most orthodox Rabbis as a justification for their current actions.
To put things in context: if a random person wrote something like this:
When they have been delivered over to you and you have defeated them, then you must destroy them totally. Make no treaty with them, and show them no mercy
How would you react?
Would you be outraged and call it an explicit apology of genocide?
Now, if I were to add “this is actually Deuteronomy 7:2“, would your previous reaction make you automatically an antisemite?
Do these fundamentalist accounts apply the same level of “religious respect” to similar quotes from the Quran that argue for exterminating the non-believers?
Report 2
I have also been reported for this post.
This is the most shameful of all the reports.
It’s a video showing the devastation of Gaza that Netanyahu didn’t want the world to see. It’s calling for accountability of the actions of his government. I even wrote:
Just like no god would have allowed Auschwitz, no god would have allowed a whole territory to be turned into this.
And still got reported for antisemitism.
Report 3
I have also been reported for this old post.
They have literally dug up my all profile to find a post from last year where I discussed Israel’s ethno-religious claims because they couldn’t find anything else to frame me. These levels of harassment, doxxing and tenacity honestly make me feel unsafe.
For context, my criticism of Israel as a homogenous ethno-religious State comes from a very well-documented academic discussion known as Israel’s trilemma.
It’s also been mentioned several times on The Economist (source 1, source 2).
It boils down to a simple observation: Israel must decide whether it wants to be an ethnically heterogeneous democratic State, a homogeneous ethno-religious democratic State achieved through a two-State solution, or a homogeneous ethno-religious single State achieved through the means of Apartheid, genocide and forced displacement.
Being a democratic country means either acknowledging the two-State solution, or a Jewish-Arab “binational” State, where Arabs also get their fair representation in the Knesset and non-Jews minorities aren’t subject to prejudice. Which sits completely at odds with folks in the current cabinet like Ben-Gvir who proudly defended the “ancient tradition” of spitting on Christians, who harass Muslims praying in mosques, and who caused the previous cabinet to collapse as soon as a ceasefire was discussed because “Gaza hasn’t been punished enough yet”.
Forcing a Jewish electoral majority can be possible only by either acknowledging a two-State solution (see previous point), or an Apartheid State.
Controlling all the occupied lands means either accepting a Jewish-Arab binational State, or an Apartheid State.
Israel must choose a side on this triangle.
My rejection of Israel as a homogenous ethno-religious State that doesn’t acknowledge the rights of its ethno-religious minorities and neighbours comes from the fact that I would refuse to consider such a State a democracy, and I would have all the right of treating it as a pariah and a rogue country like South Africa during the times of its Apartheid.
Of course, all these nuances get lost, all the academic sources are often accused of being antisemitic too (including the NYT and The Economist I guess at this point), and every criticism of their crimes and contradictions get the same levels of ostracism that I have seen in cults.
I made similar observations to those that scholars made when analyzing the South African Apartheid. I demand the freedom to talk about these topics without being harassed.
Conclusion
I want those accounts GONE.
@Gargron @staff you have a moral duty in front of history to ban them. Every single additional day where they are active on your platform without facing consequence is an additional day that you spend sheltering terrorists.
Had these been State-sponsored actors spreading pro-KKK or pro-Hamas propaganda, you would have probably (rightfully) banned them without blinking an eye.
It shouldn’t be always me defending myself while they do apology of genocide and terrorism behind anonymous accounts with full impunity. I want the spotlights to be on those motherfuckers, not on me. I won’t stop putting pressure on you until you start putting pressure on them.
The activity of some of these accounts (including 8124) were already observed by the kolektiva.social staff years ago, and the investigation concluded that most likely they are just an emanation of Hasbara on the Fediverse.
You have foreign propaganda and terrorist thugs harassing, doxxing and threatening people on your platform with full impunity, and yet I’m the one being threatened with defederation.
And I strongly demand the right of getting their personal details. Now it’s time for my lawyers to send letters to these anonymous cowards who use Hasbara staff IDs to log in. I am NOT afraid of these thugs, I am NOT afraid of rallying support for a legal case against Hasbara and its systematic intimidation techniques and interference in foreign politics, and I want to see their faces in a court and repeat these accusations to them while staring them in the eye.
You have failed to properly stand up against these levels of harassment perpetrated by anonymous propaganda accounts sponsored by a hostile power, condemned by the UN, with terrorists sitting in its cabinet, and considered a threat to the national security of the country where I live.
You have humiliated yourself, twice, by trying to frame me like a poa.st Nazi troll and falling into all the fallacies that a random troll on the Internet laid in front of you.
You have failed to provide me clear motivations behind this outrageous level of inaction, despite I’m the one who received threats to get fired on YOUR platform, and I’m the one who is now receiving, on a daily basis, levels of harassment of doxxing comparable to those of a cult.
You owe us an explanation now. You owe it to history and you owe it to everyone who is watching.
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