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A community for everything related to Palestine and the occupation currently underway by the occupying force known as Israel.

Anti-Zionism is not anti-Semitism. Existence is resistance for Palestinians.

Please refer to Israel as Occupied Palestine, or occupied territories. The IDF is a fascist and ethnonationalist occupying force. Israelis are settlers. We understand however that the imperial narrative (which tries to legitimise Israel) is internalised in the imperial core and slip-ups are naturally expected.

We always take the sides of Palestine and Palestinians and are unapologetic about it. Israel is an occupying power whose "defence force"'s (note the contradiction) sole purpose for existing is to push Palestinians out so they can resettle their rightful land. If you have anything positive to say about Israel we do not care.

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[–] doccitrus@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I'm pretty sure that's Haim Bresheeth-Zabner, who wrote a really powerful and informative history of the IDF, starting with the paramilitary organizations that preceded it. (I strongly recommend it even if you don't normally have much interest in military history or military-oriented histories! It's as much or more about the role of the IDF in Israeli society/culture/ideology/education/propaganda as it is about the causes/trajectories/outcomes of battles and wars.))

He has a couple of YouTube channels (old, new), though only the newer one seems active. He has a lot of good interviews and lectures available in English on them, often together with other dissident Israeli Jews, like Shlomo Sand and Avi Shlaim.

Incidentally, I believe he is a Marxist, too. In his book, he talks about having been active in Matzpen, a defunct revolutionary socialist (and anti-Zionist) organization when he still lived in Israel.

Anyway, yes: extremely based.