Grave Dohl
@letsdestroy.bsky.social
Void boi. Balkan bear-man living in exile in the decadent West. Union thug. Scientific socialist. Neurodivergent. I'm sorry for whatever it was that I said.
As though the lack of a constitution were the real barrier to a sovereign Palestine.
November 11, 2025 at 9:16 PM
As though the lack of a constitution were the real barrier to a sovereign Palestine.
the System is good, it's just being corrupted/directed by a nefarious group of individuals who have to be rooted out. 9/9
November 10, 2025 at 8:34 PM
the System is good, it's just being corrupted/directed by a nefarious group of individuals who have to be rooted out. 9/9
within it, rather than blaming it on the system itself. Especially with a system as complex as a capitalist economy, which has both positive and negative sides, and which in many ways is just the air we breathe.
All of that to say, it's fairly easy to get people on board with the idea that... 8/
All of that to say, it's fairly easy to get people on board with the idea that... 8/
November 10, 2025 at 8:32 PM
within it, rather than blaming it on the system itself. Especially with a system as complex as a capitalist economy, which has both positive and negative sides, and which in many ways is just the air we breathe.
All of that to say, it's fairly easy to get people on board with the idea that... 8/
All of that to say, it's fairly easy to get people on board with the idea that... 8/
I've heard people say that certain conspiracy theories can be structurally antisemitic even if they don't implicate Jews, and I think there's something useful in that analysis:
It's much easier and more appealing to blame the problems that emerge from a system on a group of individual actors... 7/
It's much easier and more appealing to blame the problems that emerge from a system on a group of individual actors... 7/
November 10, 2025 at 8:28 PM
I've heard people say that certain conspiracy theories can be structurally antisemitic even if they don't implicate Jews, and I think there's something useful in that analysis:
It's much easier and more appealing to blame the problems that emerge from a system on a group of individual actors... 7/
It's much easier and more appealing to blame the problems that emerge from a system on a group of individual actors... 7/
the "bad" ones, i.e. the "globalists" like George Soros, are a subversive fifth column in white Christian society. An implication that could gain traction among a wider audience of cultural and economic conservatives. 6/
November 10, 2025 at 8:24 PM
the "bad" ones, i.e. the "globalists" like George Soros, are a subversive fifth column in white Christian society. An implication that could gain traction among a wider audience of cultural and economic conservatives. 6/
I'd heard she was big on Sabbateans lol. What a deep cut.
November 10, 2025 at 8:19 PM
I'd heard she was big on Sabbateans lol. What a deep cut.
Makes sense. I'm probably wasting my time trying to disentangle the Red Scare anti-leftism/liberalism from the antisemitism in this rhetoric, as the two tendencies seem to overlap quite a bit.
November 10, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Makes sense. I'm probably wasting my time trying to disentangle the Red Scare anti-leftism/liberalism from the antisemitism in this rhetoric, as the two tendencies seem to overlap quite a bit.
it was founded by Jews. I suppose the "Bolshevik" dog-whistle could be a way of saying "Israel was founded by Jews (derogatory)" without making your antisemitism obvious. I suspect the Jewish/Bolshevik conflation still has some currency today because it's a way of implying that Jews, at least... 5/
November 10, 2025 at 8:12 PM
it was founded by Jews. I suppose the "Bolshevik" dog-whistle could be a way of saying "Israel was founded by Jews (derogatory)" without making your antisemitism obvious. I suspect the Jewish/Bolshevik conflation still has some currency today because it's a way of implying that Jews, at least... 5/
Yeah that's the vibe I'm getting as well, but I have to admit I don't follow the US far-right close enough to understand these nuances fully. You just don't hear normal people throwing the word "Bolshevik" around very often. It was jarring to see it here where it's so historically inaccurate.
November 10, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Yeah that's the vibe I'm getting as well, but I have to admit I don't follow the US far-right close enough to understand these nuances fully. You just don't hear normal people throwing the word "Bolshevik" around very often. It was jarring to see it here where it's so historically inaccurate.
I've seen others suggest that "Bolsheviks" is a kind of far-right dog-whistle for "Jews", which sounds plausible given the "Judeo-Bolshevism" conflation of the Nazis. But it's weird to me to use a dog-whistle like that when you're talking about the foundation of Israel, because nobody denies... 4/
November 10, 2025 at 8:04 PM
I've seen others suggest that "Bolsheviks" is a kind of far-right dog-whistle for "Jews", which sounds plausible given the "Judeo-Bolshevism" conflation of the Nazis. But it's weird to me to use a dog-whistle like that when you're talking about the foundation of Israel, because nobody denies... 4/
aside decades ago. Modern-day Israel is very much a capitalist state that many right-wing nationalists look to as a model, and for good reason: it can be reasonably described as a fascist ethno-state, the kind of society many in the western far-right aspire to create in their home countries. 3/
November 10, 2025 at 8:00 PM
aside decades ago. Modern-day Israel is very much a capitalist state that many right-wing nationalists look to as a model, and for good reason: it can be reasonably described as a fascist ethno-state, the kind of society many in the western far-right aspire to create in their home countries. 3/
My first thought was that it was Cold War-era rhetoric intended to pain the Labour Zionists of 1948 as Soviet-allied revolutionary communists, i.e. a Red Scare approach to criticizing support for Israel. In that case, it's a weak argument because the socialism of the Labour Zionists was swept... 2/
November 10, 2025 at 7:57 PM
My first thought was that it was Cold War-era rhetoric intended to pain the Labour Zionists of 1948 as Soviet-allied revolutionary communists, i.e. a Red Scare approach to criticizing support for Israel. In that case, it's a weak argument because the socialism of the Labour Zionists was swept... 2/
If this is the future of entertainment I'm going to unalive myself.
November 10, 2025 at 2:41 PM
If this is the future of entertainment I'm going to unalive myself.
I mean it's so lazy and sloppy. Very low effort. Embarrassing.
November 10, 2025 at 2:40 PM
I mean it's so lazy and sloppy. Very low effort. Embarrassing.
local representatives, and it was very real. So real, in fact, that the British had to fight three bloody battles in Gaza in 1917 before wresting control of Palestine from the Ottomans.
November 9, 2025 at 10:03 PM
local representatives, and it was very real. So real, in fact, that the British had to fight three bloody battles in Gaza in 1917 before wresting control of Palestine from the Ottomans.
Jewish settlers (I use the term non-normatively) in Ottoman Palestine encountered this society, purchased land from its elites, dealt with its bureaucracy, paid taxes, and attempted to gain the support of the Ottoman authorities. The State was the Sublime Porte in Constantinople, with its various...
November 9, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Jewish settlers (I use the term non-normatively) in Ottoman Palestine encountered this society, purchased land from its elites, dealt with its bureaucracy, paid taxes, and attempted to gain the support of the Ottoman authorities. The State was the Sublime Porte in Constantinople, with its various...
productivity, growth and development, but Ottoman Palestine was never empty.
The strangest part of the myth to me is the term "stateless no-man's-land", as though Palestine were some kind of terra nullius, free real estate for the taking, which completely ignores the society that *was* there.
The strangest part of the myth to me is the term "stateless no-man's-land", as though Palestine were some kind of terra nullius, free real estate for the taking, which completely ignores the society that *was* there.
November 9, 2025 at 9:53 PM
productivity, growth and development, but Ottoman Palestine was never empty.
The strangest part of the myth to me is the term "stateless no-man's-land", as though Palestine were some kind of terra nullius, free real estate for the taking, which completely ignores the society that *was* there.
The strangest part of the myth to me is the term "stateless no-man's-land", as though Palestine were some kind of terra nullius, free real estate for the taking, which completely ignores the society that *was* there.
This is why Jewish settlers in Palestine never became more than ~1/3 of the population. There was already a settled agricultural society present in Palestine by the 1880s, with an urban life, a state bureaucracy and a culture. The very real dysfunction of the Ottoman Empire may have slowed its...
November 9, 2025 at 9:49 PM
This is why Jewish settlers in Palestine never became more than ~1/3 of the population. There was already a settled agricultural society present in Palestine by the 1880s, with an urban life, a state bureaucracy and a culture. The very real dysfunction of the Ottoman Empire may have slowed its...
I can see how reports from the 1830-40s led to the "land without a people" myth that Christian and Jewish Zionists took and ran with. But the inconvenient reality is that by the time of the First Aliyah, Palestine was already in the midst of a period of modernization and natural population growth.
November 9, 2025 at 9:44 PM
I can see how reports from the 1830-40s led to the "land without a people" myth that Christian and Jewish Zionists took and ran with. But the inconvenient reality is that by the time of the First Aliyah, Palestine was already in the midst of a period of modernization and natural population growth.
the Ottoman Empire and my understanding is that a number of reforms reestablished security and modernized farming across the empire, leading to pretty significant population growth.
November 9, 2025 at 9:40 PM
the Ottoman Empire and my understanding is that a number of reforms reestablished security and modernized farming across the empire, leading to pretty significant population growth.
@pymundgenealogy.bsky.social I think makes a fair point that the Levant of the 1830-40s had potential in terms of agricultural productivity and population capacity that was unrealized due to insecurity from Bedouin raids and outdated farming methods and tools. The early 19th C was a low point for...
November 9, 2025 at 9:36 PM
@pymundgenealogy.bsky.social I think makes a fair point that the Levant of the 1830-40s had potential in terms of agricultural productivity and population capacity that was unrealized due to insecurity from Bedouin raids and outdated farming methods and tools. The early 19th C was a low point for...