Erik van Straten<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.world/@Fou_ad" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>Fou_ad</span></a></span> : I know a bit about Pascaline's sentiments (I'm following her, she often shares interesting information).</p><p>As I wrote, "no offence". I meant that.</p><p>However, we need *more* people to speak out. Not the same people all of the time, in particular not speaking out on behalf of others. It is exactly what our (mine at least) opponents do.</p><p>It's simply insufficiently credible. Worse, Jews may think "great, Pascaline speaks for me, no reason for me to take any risks".</p><p>We need *Jews in particular* to support heroes like, for example, Francesca Albanese, Antonio Guterres, ICC and ICJ people, Norman Finkelstein, Gideon Levy, Haaretz journalists, B'tSelem members, Sarah Schwartz [1] and Yuli Novak [2]. These fighters for human rights must feel abandoned with so little backup.</p><p>[1] <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jan/28/when-peter-dutton-and-the-lnp-use-the-jewish-community-as-political-footballs-it-makes-all-of-us-less-safe-ntwnfb" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/commentisfree/</span><span class="invisible">2025/jan/28/when-peter-dutton-and-the-lnp-use-the-jewish-community-as-political-footballs-it-makes-all-of-us-less-safe-ntwnfb</span></a> (source: <a href="https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/01/29/trjd-j29.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">wsws.org/en/articles/2025/01/2</span><span class="invisible">9/trjd-j29.html</span></a>)</p><p>[2] <a href="https://youtube.com/watch?v=y54ZVcmOdsw" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">youtube.com/watch?v=y54ZVcmOdsw</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.nl/@pascaline" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>pascaline</span></a></span> </p><p><a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/FrancescaAlbaneseIsRight" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FrancescaAlbaneseIsRight</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/NormanFinkelstein" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NormanFinkelstein</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/GideonLevyIsRight" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GideonLevyIsRight</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/ICJIsRight" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ICJIsRight</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/ICCIsRight" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ICCIsRight</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/Haaretz" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Haaretz</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/BtSelem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BtSelem</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/SarahSchwartz" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SarahSchwartz</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/YuliNovak" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>YuliNovak</span></a></p>