#super bowl massacre

[odinsblog]

This year’s Super Bowl was a weapon of mass distraction. If there’s any justice, future generations will remember the game not for Patrick Mahomes, Travis Kelce, or Taylor Swift but for the US-funded attacks on Palestinian civilians that occurred while so many Americans were glued to their TVs. During the game, watched by well over 100 million people in the United States, Israel launched a bombing raid of Rafah in the Gaza Strip, the most densely populated area on earth. More than 1 million people had fled now-leveled Gaza City to the refugee camps in Rafah and surrounding areas. Palestinians who have survived previous Israeli strikes are now staving off disease, destitution, and fear.

Meanwhile, CBS granted the Israeli government space for an ad about the 130 hostages left in Gaza. This ad, meant to build public support and justify the slaughter of nearly 30,000 civilians in Gaza, spurred 10,000 people to register complaints with the FCC, because the commercial did not disclose that a foreign government had paid for it. Coupled with the Rafah raid, this looks more like military synergy than happenstance. 

New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft also spent $7 million on an ad from his organization Foundation to Combat Anti-Semitism. It features Clarence Jones, a 93-year-old former speech writer for Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Kraft and other pro-war billionaires use the memory of King so much, they should be paying his family indulgences for slandering his name. The ad failed to mention that Kraft has given $1 million to pro-war AIPAC and donated $1 million in 2016 to Donald Trump’s inauguration. Given that Kraft says that the Nazi march in Charlottesville was his motivation to start his foundation (Charlottesville was the one with “good people on both sides,” according to Trump), his hypocrisy is insidious.

Kraft and Israel want the same thing: a blank check to uproot Palestinians from Gaza and build settlements. One can also only imagine if a peace organization tried to buy an ad asking Israel and the United States the question: “How many dead children will be enough?” I suspect it would be denied faster than a public-service announcement about concussions.

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[embraceyourdestiny]

“Idk man, this feels like a defining moment for US culture.

“All of you, clinging frivolously to your violent, ridiculous entertainment as you tax dollars fund the massacre of the defenseless

“more like land of the coward, home of the mentally enslaved”

Go team, go America 🩸🇺🇸

[taviamoth]

the ones shrieking "so i'm not allowed to have fun?!?!" when you tell them the massacre was timed to be buried by the superbowl were probably raised by parents who shriek "i'm not allowed to speak?!?!?" when someone tells them not to say a slur

[ohwaitihaveamemeforthat]

Super Bowl Massacre: 3/6

[prole-log]

[lady-byleth]

Woke up to the news that Israel chose the Super Bowl night, when everyone was busy getting their rocks off over the US's favourite overblown sports event, to carry out the largest attack on Rafah to date

In the middle of the night 40 different locations were hit within half an hour with bombs and artillery fire while a propaganda ad for Israel was playing in millions of homes

This is the world we live in, this is the reality of today

Palestinians were told to move to the safe zone, Israel continuously moved the safe zone south until they were all crammed into Rafah, and now Rafah is like a barrel full of fish for them to shoot at.

Don't look away. This is genocide.

[lemondeabicyclette]

"Nous ne quitterons pas Gaza". Quand le karma entrera dans Isra Hell, les anges auront des ailes.

[mariluphoto]

(via. IG: mohammed_fayq)

While millions watched the Super Bowl, Israeli (and the US) carpet bombed the "safe zone" in Gaza.

[carsonjonesfiance]

The main problem I think everyone can see with the idea that Israel was waiting until Super Bowl Sunday to begin bombing Rafah while “everyone” was distracted by the spectacle is that 96% of the world’s population doesn’t give a fuck about American Football. If someone had said they were waiting until the World Cup I’d almost believe it but the Super Bowl???

[secret-covet]

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[odinsblog]

👉🏿 https://www.thenation.com/article/world/super-bowl-rafah-israel-gaza/

I am deeply saddened, but not surprised. Israel timed their massacre in Rafah to coincide with their bullshit Super Bowl commercial. Why? How does that help anyone, how does that keep safe any IOF soldier involved in the massacre? The answer is, it doesn’t. There was no military reason for coordinating this. It’s just more unnecessarily cruel, evil, inhumane, jingoistic bullshit.

Look, people keep saying, “But what about Hamas and the hostages?” and Oh My Fucking God, why do we have to keep explaining basic concepts like empathy, compassion, humanity and basic human decency?

FFS, this is such a basic ass concept that it’s a “bad guy” foreshadowing trope used in comic books and movies—even Padmé Amidala recognized that Anakin murdering an entire race (genocide!) in retaliation for killing his mother was wrong. Thor Odinson, notorious for his hatred of Frost Giants, refused to let Loki completely destroy the realm of Jotunheim, because Thor understood that genocide is wrong.

It sounds really silly using Star Wars and Marvel movies to explain why what Israel is doing is wrong, doesn’t it? But I’m Black, and I’ve seen how wayyy too many white people will be depressed and cry about the death of imaginary characters but then turn right around and not give a single fuck about actual living breathing, non-white people being systematically oppressed and methodically murdered.

Israel is committing ethnic cleansing, war crimes and genocide against Palestinians. They have already murdered nearly 30,000 noncombatant civilians, a full third of whom were small children.

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When will Israel’s barbaric, uncontrollable desire to kill Palestinians end? When is it going to be enough?

Free Palestine 🇵🇸

[embraceyourdestiny]

Unfortunately Americans only know how to take action through rage so I want people to get mad but how much more do you need to have happen for you to get mad?

[depresseddenudatus]

I wish She Who Must Not Be Named a very "Remains Identifiable only through dental records"

[ohwaitihaveamemeforthat]

Super Bowl Massacre: 5/6

[opencommunion]

since zionists want to act obtuse about why we're criticizing a superbowl ad, here's an explanation from before the ad even aired. it was openly designed to act as pro-genocide propaganda. fighting antisemitism is a worthy goal but that's not what's happening here:

"The New England Patriots’ 81-year-old owner, Robert Kraft, writes seven-digit checks to the right-wing Israeli lobbying machine AIPAC, but his personal, political, and financial ties to Israel run deeper than the occasional donation. The multibillionaire married his late wife, Myra, in Israel in 1963 when Kraft, then 22, was older than the nation itself. Together they set up numerous business, athletic, and charitable ties to Israel, a record of which is proudly proclaimed on the Kraft company website. In particular, the Kraft Group boasts of its 'Touchdown in Israel' program, where NFL players are given free, highly organized vacations to see 'the holy land' and come back to spread the word about 'the only democracy in the Middle East.' (Not every NFL player has chosen to take part.) Kraft also attends fundraisers for the Israel Defense Forces, currently—and in open view of the world—committing war crimes in Gaza."

Now, as Israel wages war against the civilians of Gaza—more than 25,000 Palestinian have been killed with at least 10,000 of them children—Kraft is again flexing his financial and political muscles in order to defend the indefensible. His Foundation to Combat Antisemitism (FCAS) will be spending an estimated $7 million to buy a Super Bowl ad titled 'Stop Jewish Hate' that will be seen by well over 100 million people. Under Kraft’s direction, the ad’s goal is to create a propaganda campaign to counter the reports and images from Gaza that young people are consuming on social media. 

... The content of the Super Bowl ad is not yet known, but FCAS has afforded Kraft the opportunity to make the rounds on cable news saying things like, 'It’s horrible to me that a group like Hamas can be respected and people in the United States of America can be carrying flags or supporting them.'

This is Kraft enacting the mission of FCAS: fostering disinformation. He is far from subtle: A Palestinian flag becomes a 'Hamas flag,' and people like the hundreds of thousands who took to the streets of Washington, D.C., last month to call for a cease-fire and end the violence are expressions of the 'rise in antisemitism.' Without a sense of irony or the horrors happening on the ground in Gaza, Kraft says he is giving $100 million of his own money to FCAS, because 'hate leads to violence.'

Let’s be clear: What Kraft is doing politically and what he will be using the Super Bowl as a platform to do is dangerous. He appears to think any criticism of Israel is inherently antisemitic. For Kraft, it is Jews like myself, rabbis, and Holocaust survivors calling for a cease-fire and a Free Palestine that are part of the problem. Kraft seems to think that opposition to Israel, the IDF, and the AIPAC agenda is antisemitism.

... Right-wing Christian nationalists, with their belief in a Jewish state existing alongside their conviction that Jews are going to Hell, are welcome in Netanyahu’s Israel and Kraft’s coalition. Left-wing anti-Zionist Jews are not. The greatest foghorn of this evangelical right-wing 'love Israel, hate Jews' perspective is, of course, Donald Trump. Kraft, while speaking of being troubled by events like the Charlottesville Nazi march and the right-wing massacre at the Tree of Life synagogue, counts Donald Trump as a close friend and even donated $1 million to his presidential inauguration.

No one who provides cover for the most powerful, public antisemite in the history of US politics should ever be taken seriously on how to best fight antisemitism. No one who funds AIPAC and the IDF and opposes a cease-fire amid the carnage should be allowed a commercial platform at the Super Bowl. But given that the big game is always an orgy of militarism, blind patriotism, and big budget commercials that lie through their teeth, perhaps that ad could not be more appropriate. We can do better than Kraft’s perspective on how to fight antisemitism. Morally, we don’t have a choice."

[i-am-aprl]

💣 Israel is bombing Rafah while airing a propaganda commercial during the Super Bowl that cost them tens of millions of dollars.

🏈 With Americans distracted watching the Super Bowl, Israel is terrorizing Rafah, where it told more than a million Palestinian civilians to seek refuge as a ‘safe place’.

Israel is now intensely bombing Rafah through air, land and sea, in the middle of the night.

1.4 millions Gazan’s are packed against the Egyptian border.

🩸 Dozens of bombs have been dropped so far, hitting neighborhoods, schools, and even the areas around hospitals. It is a massacre.

🤡 Biden said he’d give the green light so long as Israel had “evacuation plan” for civilians … aka ethnically cleansing them to Egypt.

🚁 IOF is bombing north and east of the city of Rafah, while helicopters open fire in the north.

Heavy IOF airstrikes are targeting several parts of the city.

🇰🇼 Thousands of Palestinians have fled to the Kuwaiti Hospital to seek refuge.

🩸 Reports of dozens of Palestinian civilians killed so far.