#J'accuse

[catsofyore]

"Petite Lilly Bear... was sabotaged in the Persian cat competition during a cat show in Milwaukee, Wisconsin." 1949. Source.

[eretzyisrael]

by Brendan O'Neill

Now, not even Israel’s most fervent defenders would describe it as ‘spotless’. Like every state, it makes mistakes, it does wrong. But the showtrial of the Jewish State eerily echoes the showtrial of the Jew Dreyfus. Again we see the deployment of ‘lurid imagination’, where every single thing Israel does is pored over and judged nefarious. Again we see men – or in this case, nations – that are ‘lost in debts and crime’ projecting their own sense of guilt on to a Jewish scapegoat. And again we see not one nation this time, but many nations seeking to distract attention from their own inner turmoil through the creation of a spectacle of accusation – only now it’s not a Jew in the dock; it’s the entire Jewish nation.

We have heard quite enough of your lurid accusations against Israel. Now it’s time you heard ours against you. I accuse South Africa of joining the holy war against Israel in order to cynically curry favour with the woke elites of the West. In order to try to repair its global image as a just, radical nation despite its cataclysmic failing of its own population who still await the enrichment and equality they were promised following the fall of Apartheid 30 years ago. I accuse Iran of backing the legal crusade against Israel as a furtherance of its violent anti-Semitism. As yet another opportunity to defame and isolate the Jewish State in order that the Jews there might feel compelled to leave.

I accuse Turkey of backing the showtrial in order to disguise its own past genocidal crimes. In order to pool its genocidal guilt, and project it on to others, in particular the supposedly evil ‘Zionist entity’. I accuse Turkey of spying in these kangaroo proceedings an opportunity to rearrange power relations in the Middle East to its own tyrannical advantage. To strengthen the Turkey-Iran alliance on the back of what they hope will be the international court’s reprimand of the Jewish State. I accuse Turkey of sacrificing the safety of Jews in Israel at the altar of its own demented regional ambitions.

And I accuse the Western left of being the running dogs of all this global Israelophobia. Of forfeiting their right to be treated as serious moral actors by aligning with the demagogues, Islamists and outright racists who have dragged the world’s only Jewish nation to court on the most trumped-up charge imaginable. Of flagrantly abandoning their supposed commitment to anti-racism by whitewashing Hamas’s orgy of racist violence that gave rise to the current war. And of emboldening the fascists of Hamas by promoting the libel that says Israel is a genocidal state. After all, if Israel is guilty of the worst crime known to man, why should Hamas not attack it again, and again, and again, until the Nazi-like threat it poses to the Palestinian people has been eradicated? I accuse you of giving moral succour to fascists.israe

[cambrioleur]

Posting an alignment chart every day until we have new updates on Part 4: Day #9 (thematically appropriate)

[goryhorroor]

1910s horror ladies

[zeldamacgregor]

a boop day but it's called j'accuse and it's just us accusing each other like we're the detective in a whodunit

[somethingusefulfromflorida]

"You lie" will always be funnier to me than "you're lying"

[kansassire]

J'accuse, 2019, Roman Polanski

[wallacepolsom]

Wallace Polsom, Life During Wartime: J'Accuse...! (2022), paper collage, 19.7 x 27.2 cm.

[gaytkachuk]

he's so...

[catsofyore]

Raymond Chandler and his tyrannical secretary, Taki. Source.

[drsonnet]

J'Accuse...! I Accuse...! It is not only Israel that commits this genocide. Western governments are sharing the responsibility. They are the largest provider of military assistance. They fueled this ongoing #GenocideinGaza by all means: military, media, logistics,....etc. The list is long... Good night, have nice dreams while children in #Gaza are massacred every minute by airstrikes, white phosphorus, and bombardment,... This has been going on for 24 days. If You are silent, add yourself to the list. J'Accuse...! I Accuse...!

[eretzyisrael]

[cambrioleur]

Posting an alignment chart every day until we have new updates on Part 4: Day #13

[rwpohl]

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[lairreparablefugadeltiempo]

J’accuse (Abel Gance, 1919)

[frnndlcs]

J'accuse, Roman Polanski, 2019