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Germany has been one of the worst Western countries for whitewashing Israel’s genocide in Palestine. Now it wants to do it with AI.

Becker was consulted by the Tagesspiegel because of his affiliation with the Decoding Antisemitism project at the Center for Research on Antisemitism at the Technical University Berlin, which he led from 2019 until 2025. With the help of a large language computing model, the project aims to create “an [AI] algorithm that will automatically recognize antisemitic statements in web comments . . . so that antisemitic posts can be removed more efficiently and accurately” by online platforms.

The dataset is divided into labels of differing forms of supposed antisemitisms such as “analogies with Nazism,” fascism, apartheid, or colonialism; calling Israel a racist or terrorist state; accusing it of genocide; referencing the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement (BDS); giving Israel the sole blame for the plight of the Palestinians; applying double standards; and denying Israel’s right to exist.

On the topic of Palestine and Israel, the glossary seems to operate within a logic that sees emotional responses to a live-streamed genocide not as a human reaction but as an indicator of antisemitic beliefs.

In an interview with Israeli news outlet Mako, Becker suggests that social media providers are opening their doors and hearing concerns like his. This strongly suggests hopes to commercialize and implement its findings with online platforms. Five years after its inception, it appears that its conceptual framework and glossary have been overtaken by reality.

"Both sides." "Hopes and prayers." "I am a victim, too."

This guy sucks.

cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/5091655

Is the U.S. genuinely aiming to save Gaza’s population from starvation? Or is the true purpose of Israeli-U.S. aid in Gaza to empower Israel to prolong its war while pacifying Palestinians with minimal food supplies amid mounting international pressure? After Rafah was completely destroyed — homes flattened and entire families erased from the civil registry — Israel took full control of the city. On May 27, it distributed what it called “aid,” with U.S. assistance. During the so-called aid distribution, Palestinians who had walked long distances searching for basic food supplies were killed by the Israeli military. Has bread now become something we must pay for with blood?

For Gaza’s people, reaching the Israeli-U.S. aid point in Rafah was no easy task. The journey was long, dangerous and shadowed by constant airstrike threats. There is no safety in Gaza. But hunger — a weapon Israel has deliberately used against civilians — has forced many families to take the risk, especially after several children in the Strip have starved to death.

The suffering was not just hunger or distance — it was the complete collapse of life in Gaza. No transportation, no services, no infrastructure. All this hardship for a small bag of basic food! But what happened next was even more devastating. On May 27, after these families finally arrived, the Israeli army opened fire on civilians scrambling for food. Three were killed, 46 wounded. The military’s excuse? “There was chaos.”

But how can anyone expect order from a starving population, terrified of returning home empty-handed to hungry children?

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One of the two drivers who was beaten, Ahmad Kar'in, told Haaretz that the attack happened while he was driving his regular route and reached Malha Mall, near the stadium.

"Dozens of young Beitar Jerusalem fans showed up," he recounted. "I recognized them by their dress and the scarves. They recognized that I was an Arab after speaking with me. They started shouting out of nowhere, 'death to Arabs', and cursed and attacked me. More and more kept joining them."

"There was no one there to help me besides this driver," he said. "The police only came after 20 minutes, perhaps even half an hour. They pulled me out from there and took me to Magen David Adom, which evacuated me to a hospital."

"German Officials Might Be Criminally Liable": Five Questions to Kai Ambos (Verfassungsblog, 2025-05-30)

https://verfassungsblog.de/german-officials-might-be-criminally-liable/
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>> Under the Arms Trade Treaty (#ATT), #Germany is prohibited from exporting weapons if there is an “overriding risk” that they could be used to commit international crimes…

>> … What matters is not whether the respective weapons are eventually used in war crimes or serious violations of international humanitarian law (IHL), but whether such an “overriding risk” existed at the time the export was approved…

>> In the case of the Occupied Palestinian Territory … such indicators have been present for years – and in the current Gaza war, they have intensified to the point that an “overriding risk” must clearly be assumed.

>> A failure to conduct or inadequately conduct the said risk assessment constitutes a violation of international law …

#InternationalHumanitarianLaw
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May 29, 2025
By Catherine Russell

Ms. Russell is the executive director of UNICEF.

"Before hostilities resumed, the United Nations operated a vast and effective aid delivery system inside Gaza. During the recent cease-fire, we were delivering assistance like essential vaccines and medicine, lifesaving nutrition services and access to clean water through more than 400 distribution points, including in sites close to shelters for displaced families. UNICEF and our partners went even further, delivering aid door-to-door, reaching malnourished children and pregnant women directly in their places of refuge."

https://archive.ph/1H3Oc

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/30900650

May 30, 2025 at 2:23 pm

"“Ben & Jerry’s believes in human rights and advocates for peace, and we join with those around the world who denounce the genocide in Gaza,” the board said in a statement viewed by Reuters. “We stand with all who raise their voices against genocide in Gaza – from petition-signers to street marchers to those risking arrest.”"

May 29, 2025 at 9:38 am

"Israeli Knesset Member Yulia Malinovsky held up the keys and the lock of the main door of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) headquarters in East Jerusalem during a parliamentary session yesterday bragging that she had locked the building and even the government could not access it as a result.

Malinovsky, who initiated the legislation to ban the UN agency from Israel and from working with Israeli government bodies, showed the lock to Knesset members, after raiding the UN agency’s office in East Jerusalem earlier this week."

Opinion - Soumaya Ghannoushi 29 May 2025 12:04 BST

"As Haaretz reported, Israeli youths marched through the Muslim Quarter chanting “Death to Arabs”, “Flatten Gaza” and “There’s no school in Gaza, there’s no children left”. Flagpoles were slammed against ancient doors, while marchers cursed the Prophet Muhammad and mocked the memory of Palestine.

Not a single person was arrested for incitement.

On Jerusalem Day, the law of incitement is effectively suspended. Hate becomes state-sanctioned. The slogans screamed are not cries against Hamas, but declarations of war on Arabs, on Muslims - on the very soul of the city."

Additional picture (credit ytirawi)

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from The Forward [Jewish publication from USA] Jay Michaelson May 28, 2025

"The gulf between Israel’s government and the rest of the world — including its allies, the #Trump administration, the Israeli public, and the American Jewish community — is widening into a chasm. And yet some in Jewish leadership are hiding their heads in the sand.

Critics of the Netanyahu-Smotrich regime are no longer just campus protesters, or hostile-to-Israel regimes, or antisemites like the murderer of two young Jews at an AJC event in Washington DC last week. They include former prime minister Ehud Olmert..."

#Morocco has awarded a special 'gift of friendship' to the commander of the Israeli Air Force, who is in charge of bombing the #Gaza Strip on a daily basis.

#Israel
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Germany has been one of the worst Western countries for whitewashing Israel’s genocide in Palestine. Now it wants to do it with AI.

Breaking the Silence executive director Nadav Weiman on Democracy Now to discuss Israel's use of Palestinians as human shields.

"… then-commander-in-chief of the IDF, was sitting in the meeting room while the mosquito protocol was discussed, meaning that everybody knew."

https://www.democracynow.org/2025/5/29/israeli/_soldiers/_using/_palestinians/_human/_shields

Articles discussed:
* https://www.972mag.com/gaza-human-shield-mosquito/
* https://apnews.com/article/israel-palestinians-hamas-war-army-human-shields-80f358dd2c87a1123f26ffada159701c

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#Palestine #Israel #IDF #Gaza #Genocide #HumanShields #WarCrimes #news #media #FreePalestine

How six months in the West Bank undid a lifetime of Zionist indoctrination (Sam Stein | +972 Magazine, 2025-05-30)

https://www.972mag.com/how-six-months-in-the-west-bank-undid-my-zionist-indoctrination/
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>> Growing up in the American Orthodox Jewish world, spending a post-high school year studying Torah in Israel was simply what one did…

>> I finished that year with little understanding of Israel’s occupation…

>> The first time I recall hearing the word “occupation” was when my rabbi — a resident of the illegal settlement … — grumbled about … restricted access to the Temple Mount. “Israel,” he declared, “is occupied by Arabs.”

>> Seven years after …, I returned to Israel-Palestine — this time with a working understanding of the West Bank’s occupation and the responsibility that came with stepping onto this land. … I came to join All That’s Left, a grassroots, non-hierarchical collective of diaspora Jews committed to direct action against the occupation…

#AllThatsLeft #AmericanOrthodoxJew #EndOccupation
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AMMAN, 27 May 2025 – “In a 72-hour period this weekend, images from two horrific attacks provide yet more evidence of the unconscionable cost of this ruthless war on children in the Gaza Strip.

“On Friday, we saw videos of the bodies of burnt, dismembered children from the al-Najjar family being pulled from the rubble of their home in Khan Younis. Of 10 siblings under 12 years old, only one reportedly survived, with critical injuries.

“Since the end of the ceasefire on 18 March, 1,309 children have reportedly been killed and 3,738 injured.

In total, more than 50,000 children have reportedly been killed or injured since October 2023. How many more dead girls and boys will it take? What level of horror must be livestreamed before the international community fully steps up, uses its influence, and takes bold, decisive action to force the end of this ruthless killing of children?

Deporting prisoners is not enough for Israel, now they want to deport the widow of a #Prisoner who died in prison from cancer and medical neglect.
https://aljarmaq.net/public/post/26042/%D8%A8%D9%86 غفير يطالب بطرد زوجة وليد دقة من أراضي48
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If This Is What Israel Does, Then Israel Shouldn't Exist (Caitlin’s Newsletter, 2025-05-29)

https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/if-this-is-what-israel-does-then
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#CaitlinJohnstone as crisp and clear as could be:

>> … I’m saying a genocidal apartheid state should not exist. A state is an artificial construct of the human mind, held together by human actions. If the actions we are witnessing in Gaza are the product of the artificial construct of the Israeli state, then that artificial construct should be dismantled, and those actions should cease.

>> I would say this about any other man-made construct that is doing the things Israel is doing. If some scientists built a robot that spends all day every day massacring children, then I would say the robot should be unmade. If you drew a Star of David on the robot’s head, it wouldn’t suddenly make me an evil antisemite to say that the child-murdering robot should be dismantled.

#StopIsrael #StopGenocide

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Jeremy Scahill, Sharif Abdel Kouddous, and Jawa Ahmad May 29, 2025

"A new proposal for a Gaza ceasefire spearheaded by Donald Trump’s special envoy, Steve Witkoff, includes a 60-day initial truce, a “redeployment” of some Israeli occupation forces, and an exchange of captives, including ten living Israelis held in Gaza. It would also require the “immediate” delivery of humanitarian aid, including by the United Nations and the Red Crescent. Drop Site obtained a copy of the document, labelled a “term sheet” by Witkoff."

"In this policy lab, Mariam Barghouti and Sharif Abdel Kouddous join host Tariq Kenney-Shawa to discuss Israel’s targeted assassination campaign against Palestinian journalists, the complicity of Western media in normalizing these crimes, and how this silence allows Israel to get away with genocide."

https://al-shabaka.org/policy-labs/israels-war-on-palestinian-journalists/

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#Palestine #Gaza #Journalists #PalestinianJournalists #news #media #Israel #genocide #WarCrimes #journalism

The Rising Death Toll of the U.S.–Israel Aid Distribution Plan in Gaza (The Intercept, 2025-05-28)

https://theintercept.com/2025/05/28/us-israel-aid-gaza-ghf-deaths/
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>> The humanitarian community worried the Israeli government would use the new aid plan as a weapon ... Some aid experts likened the zones to a “concentration camp” ... Some Israeli officials said they hoped the plan would permanently expel Palestinians from Gaza.

>> Such fears proved prescient Tuesday…

>> …Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor confirmed on Tuesday the death of seven individuals and said the 47 injured were wounded by bullets fired by both Israeli military and the U.S.-based private security firms... Israeli military soldiers had entered the site to fire on the crowd on Tuesday. And on Wednesday, … the Israeli military had sent texts to Palestinians instructing them to head south to the Morag Corridor area … to receive aid. When they arrived, soldiers once again fired on aid-seeking crowds, killing six,…

#StopIsrael
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By JAKE OFFENHARTZ
Updated 6:58 PM EDT, May 28, 2025

NEW YORK (AP) — A federal judge said the Trump administration’s effort to deport Mahmoud Khalil because of his pro-Palestinian activism at Columbia University likely violates the Constitution.

In a lengthy order issued Wednesday, Judge Michael Farbiarz wrote the government’s primary justification for removing Khalil — that his beliefs may pose a threat to U.S. foreign policy — could open the door to vague and arbitrary enforcement.