darkcalling [comrade/them, she/her]

Don’t be so sure. Gladio never ended. The only ones allowed to make sense on Russia are the far-right reactionary parties. The left euro-coms are totally defanged NATO stans. Add in the huge anti-immigrant racism push by the bourgeois press and those parties are making continual massive gains year over year in France, Germany, elsewhere and I expect will sweep the continent within the next 10 years with a few hold-outs. Maybe in 20 years you could see some reaction to that, some rejection but between then and now IMO Europeans will experience horrible economies, being used as fodder against China, increased reaction, gutting of social services, scapegoating of minorities, etc. Europeans like Americans are so cooked in propaganda and white supremacy that they’re not going to break out and go anti-capitalist in the near term.

Human shields. As always with the west every accusation a massive projection of their own psychology, actions, and wants.

My opinion is zionists are not going to be scared to be zionists because of one shooting which results in an overwhelming state response and likely passing laws to further protect them and criminalize any dissent. I mean this is the US, you’re likely to be shot for doing nothing but being in the wrong place at the wrong time, one instance is kind of background noise when the targets are low level employees.

And if they are scared do you know what they do? They run to their colony, they run there and hide and proclaim loudly how unsafe they were as Jews outside it. Again it plays right into things. If this were replicated a dozen times like school shootings maybe but it still wouldn’t influence US policy-makers when it’s a bipartisan project, it wouldn’t scare Microsoft and Google from assisting them because it doesn’t target them, it wouldn’t scare the leadership in the entity because they’re safe and have police details when they travel. Which feeds into:

I think the only thing is that it should’ve targeted some higher people, in the same way the Japanese PM and CEO were targeted, why not aim for the highest of the high.

Not wrong. In that obvious symbols of power have more resonance. This was poorly done and I only hope against hopes this person has no relations to PSL, ANSWER, etc and wasn’t a rabid watcher of say Hasan because anyone they can tie this to they will and they will move to crush them. They can designate PSL a terrorist organization, ANSWER the same, they can arrest Hasan or at least deplatform him and this isn’t going to resonate. This isn’t going to get a bunch of people to say “obviously they deserved it” like if it had been someone much more central.

I mean this is just about the worse target you could pick. The zionist advocacy orgs are more directly responsible and obvious in terms of public resonance, the lobbying firms, the tech enablers, etc.

I think this was an ill thought out act of despair, it was individualistic, not carefully and extensively planned. His distant association with PSL was unfortunate and reckless and they’ve been looking for a way to crack down on the orgs organizing the pro-Palestine stuff for a while and even a distant link will be enough if the zionists seize on it. At the very least this turns up the heat on PSL which is not okay.

I maintain you want to scare the zionists and intimidate them within the entity where it matters, to drive them back to their homes in Europe and the US and you want to target the enablers with BDS and direct action in the enabling states. Activists in the UK have shut down suppliers for weapons companies, weapons companies in the US are well guarded but acts against the operability and profitability of their suppliers may be possible. Same with tech company enablers, you shame the employees, you implore them to join, you make them feel bad, you disrupt their CEO appearances and shame them, you tie them publicly to genocide and tarnish their company names and images and create negative sentiment which creators pressure.

This is frankly not good. Acts like this will lead to more excuses to crack down on pro-Palestine movement and BDS with incredible levels of harshness and state violence and yes probably moving to the level of outlawing groups and rounding people up. They’ll also lead to crackdowns and attacks by the way on online spaces like this. They’ve been looking for excuses, here’s one.

Adventurism doesn’t work. Killing a couple of them -outside- the occupation isn’t going to dissuade those in the entity from continuing the genocide. In fact it plays into their narrative of not being safe outside the entity and thus needing everyone to move to the entity and giving rise to the excuse for its existence and crimes. And it gives an excuse to play the victim again just when that was running dry. They don’t care about not feeling safe outside of their occupation, they very much desire it. What works are things like Oct 7th, that drove the settlers to flee back to their homes elsewhere, what works is Ansar Allah’s strikes and a bad economy.

If there’s a need to create a cost in the west it shouldn’t be against these but their enablers. Look at the actions of those activists in Britain shutting down weapons suppliers. Things like that have an positive impact by inflicting a cost for participating on those who are stuck there in terms of manufacturing or living situations.

Hope this guy is not part of or a frequent participant with any orgs. The gloves are not off yet contrary to what many may think and the US can hit much, much harder.