The guy in the video is Dr Ofer Cassif, who is explicitly antizionist. Search Ofer Cassif on youtube, you will see that he has spoken against Israel on Middle East Eye, Al Jazeera, Democracy Now, Majority Report and many other news networks. He was born in Israel and has devoted his life to ending the Zionist project. He helped South Africa take Israel to the ICJ.
Editing my post to include that there have been many posts in support of Ofer Cassif on hexbear in the past. Even the beloved SeventyTwoTrillion wrote a news post about Ofer Cassif.
People seem to say “critical support” as a joke a whole lot seem to never actually use critical support. I don’t agree with everything he says. You can say that you don’t agree with some things that he says and still appreciate that he has taken serious actions against Israel.
I don’t agree with Norm Finkelstein about his anti-transgender beliefs but we still recognize that him as a prominent antizionist figure.
I watched the video and I see that Ofer Cassif says “We condemned totally condemned the massacre which took place” and he keeps using the word “We”. It seems to me that he is using a metaphoric “We”, (I don’t think metaphoric is the right word). He’s using “We” to say that the general public said that they condemned Hamas. He doesn’t say “I condemn Hamas”, he said “we condemned” as he is setting up a comparison. He is setting up a comparison. In his next breath, he says that what the Israeli government is doing to Gaza is far worse. He calls the Israeli government fascist. Then he says “I place the blame on the Israeli government”. Why does he say “we condemned (oct 7)” but then he said “I place the blame on the Israeli government”? Because in the former instance he was expressing the opinion of the broader public and in the latter, he is saying his own beliefs.
The guy in the video is Dr Ofer Cassif, who is explicitly antizionist. Search Ofer Cassif on youtube, you will see that he has spoken against Israel on Middle East Eye, Al Jazeera, Democracy Now, Majority Report and many other news networks. He was born in Israel and has devoted his life to ending the Zionist project. He helped South Africa take Israel to the ICJ.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/1/11/who-is-israeli-mp-ofer-cassif-why-is-he-backing-south-africa-at-the-icj
Editing my post to include that there have been many posts in support of Ofer Cassif on hexbear in the past. Even the beloved SeventyTwoTrillion wrote a news post about Ofer Cassif.
https://hexbear.net/search?q=ofer cassif&sort=TopAll
Ty for the background, how does this change his words in the attached tweet?
People seem to say “critical support” as a joke a whole lot seem to never actually use critical support. I don’t agree with everything he says. You can say that you don’t agree with some things that he says and still appreciate that he has taken serious actions against Israel.
I don’t agree with Norm Finkelstein about his anti-transgender beliefs but we still recognize that him as a prominent antizionist figure.
I watched the video and I see that Ofer Cassif says “We condemned totally condemned the massacre which took place” and he keeps using the word “We”. It seems to me that he is using a metaphoric “We”, (I don’t think metaphoric is the right word). He’s using “We” to say that the general public said that they condemned Hamas. He doesn’t say “I condemn Hamas”, he said “we condemned” as he is setting up a comparison. He is setting up a comparison. In his next breath, he says that what the Israeli government is doing to Gaza is far worse. He calls the Israeli government fascist. Then he says “I place the blame on the Israeli government”. Why does he say “we condemned (oct 7)” but then he said “I place the blame on the Israeli government”? Because in the former instance he was expressing the opinion of the broader public and in the latter, he is saying his own beliefs.