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The then leader of the opposition, Benjamin Netanyahu, was the star speaker at two now infamous demonstrations, where the crowd’s slogans included “Death to Rabin”. In July 1995, Netanyahu walked at the head of a mock funeral procession featuring a fake black coffin. Israel’s head of internal security asked Netanyahu to dial down the rhetoric, warning that the prime minister’s life was in danger. Netanyahu declined.

Jonathan Freeland at The Guardian (2020). The assassination of Yitzhak Rabin: ‘He never knew it was one of his people who shot him in the back’

Twenty-five years after the death of the Israeli prime minister, those who were there recall the night two bullets altered the destiny of two nations

#israel#yitzhak rabin#benjamin netanyahu#terrorism
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The bombing of the Marine barracks in 1983 was a direct result of the United States allowing itself to be sucked into involvement in one of Israel’s offensive wars. Without that involvement, the bombing never would have happened. A similar price to be paid for the United States getting sucked into Israel’s current wars will not necessarily be paid within Lebanon. The battering that the Israeli offensive has inflicted on Hezbollah’s capabilities in Lebanon has probably not diminished its capability for asymmetric operations elsewhere.

Paul Pillar at Responsible Statecraft. 41yrs ago: 220 Marines involved in Israel's war on Lebanon killed

41yrs ago: 220 Marines involved in Israel's war on Lebanon killed Have we learned the lesson? If the US hadn't got ensnared in Tel Aviv's affairs, the bombing would never have happened.

#israel#lebanon#us foreign policy#terrorism
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The chance of terrorist reprisals against Israeli-related soft targets during the next few months is high. If such an attack occurs, the reaction of outside observers, especially in the United States, probably will include something along the lines of, “Hezbollah is a terrorist group, and that’s what terrorist groups do.” Such a response will perpetuate the mistake of viewing terrorism as a fixed group of bad guys rather than as a tactic that different groups and nations have used for different purposes. That mistake impedes understanding of the nature of the conflict between Israel and Hezbollah and its underlying causes.

Paul Pillar in Responsible Statecraft. Cut off the head, get another 'terrorist'

Israel seems to forget that Nasrallah was a more effective version of the last Hezbollah leader it assassinated in 1992

#israel#terrorism#lebanon#american foreign policy
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Princeton University professor of African-American studies Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor tied recent racially-charged events into her presentation at the 12th annual Anne Braden Memorial Lecture in Middleton Auditorium. Her Nov. 1 speech landed on the same week as high-profile mail-bomb attempts, the Pittsburgh synagogue mass shooting and Louisville’s race killings. She spoke about these incidents, the rise of “white terror,” the intertwining nature of capitalism and racism and the role that activist movements play in political change.

Quintez Brown at University of Louisville, first published in The Louisville Cardinal, Nov. 7, 2018. Princeton professor traces the rise of “white terror” in Anne Braden Memorial Lecture

Kamala Harris was the reciepient of on of the 13 mail bombs mentioened here. I am an old white guy. I suspect that it's harder for white people like me to spot and piece together "white terror." We ignore it at our peril.

#terrorism#domestic terrorism#white terror#donald trump#incitement
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Sixty years ago, the Birmingham church bombing helped unify the country around a consensus that state-sponsored racism had to end and, along with the assassination of President Kennedy two months later in Texas, eased the posthumous passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which abolished legal segregation. Since the domestic terrorism of January 6, though, the partition of hate has only widened. 

Diane McWhorter in The Guardian. How a ‘Trump train’ attack on a Biden bus foreshadowed January 6 – and echoed bloody history

Kamala Harris could have been on the bus Trump supporters threatened to run off the road in Texas, yet law enforcement barely responded. History shows the fruits of such inaction

#far right#terrorism#donald trump#incitement#police#domestic terrorism
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Rhiannon Giddens - Birmingham Sunday (Official Audio)

Rhiannon Giddens

The 16th Street Baptist was a large and prominent church located downtown, just blocks from Birmingham's commercial district and City Hall. Just before 11 o'clock on September 15, 1963, instead of rising to begin prayers, the congregation was knocked to the ground. As a bomb exploded under the steps of the church, they sought safety under the pews and shielded each other from falling debris.

National Park Service. 16th Street Baptist Church Bombing (1963)

#music#rhiannon giddens#Addie Mae Collins#Denise McNair#Carole Robertson#Cynthia Wesley#kkk#terrorism#Youtube
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What to say to kids about school shootings to ease their stress
The death of children, shot at school, is hard to comprehend. It can be even harder for kids. Counselors say parents should take cues from their kids, listen to their fears and answer their questions.
www.npr.org

There are many good links in this piece and the really important advice: “[K]eep having conversations with your kids. Ask what they're thinking and feeling .”  The resource, Talking to children about terrorist attacks and school and community shootings in the news is good.

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Buffalo shooting victims: 'Hero' guard and a teacher who was a 'pillar of the community' are among 10 killed
Thirteen people were shot -- 10 fatally -- at a Buffalo, New York, supermarket Saturday in a massacre authorities believe was racially motivated.
www.cnn.com|Alisha Ebrahimji, Dakin Andone and Amir Vera, CNN

I linger on this page. 

This weekend the garden center at the store I work att was busy and teeming with “Let’s go Brandon” t-shirts and MAGA hats. Sundays in general are rife with rude customers. There is something about Sundays which amps up mean and resentful people. A customer went balistic on one of the cashiers over not getting a Veteran’s discount. He hasn’t signed up as required, but gets it anyway. The obvious thing about his explosion was his racism.

I am white and I am so brokenhearted over the suffering whiteness sows.

#white supremacy#whiteness#terrorism#republican party
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We must speak out in protest when women are threatened with violence because of the decisions they have made. We believe that sexist name calling and threats of violence, especially from those in positions of power, simply are not acceptable. This is not a context-dependent question: they are not acceptable.

Anne Curzan, Dean, College of Literature, Science, and the Arts, et al. in an letter to Ron Weiser, Regents of The University of Michigan via Informed Comment. University of Michigan Women Deans Decry Regent Weiser’s urging that ‘witch’ Gov. Whitmer be ‘burned at stake’

#ron weiser#terrorism#violence against women#political violence#neoliberalism#privitization#republican party
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Far-right militants are allowed to engage in violence and walk away while protesters are met with violent police actions. This “negligent response empowers violent groups in dangerous and potentially lethal ways: The most violent elements within these far-right militant groups believe that their conduct is sanctioned by the government. And therefore they’re much more willing to come out and engage in acts of violence against protesters.

Michael German quoted in an article by Sam Levin in The Guardian. White supremacists and militias have infiltrated police across US, report says

A former FBI agent has documented links between serving officers and racist militant activities in more than a dozen states

Report: Hidden in Plain Sight: Racism, White Supremacy, and Far-Right Militancy in Law Enforcement

#police#white supremacy#terrorism#law
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Trump’s national security establishment has now targeted the First Amendment activities of those deemed to exist in a network, however diffuse, that also includes those “supporting” violence in Portland. Once a majority of the country came to support Black Lives Matter, a majority of the country came to exist within a diffuse network that has long been treated using a similar framework used against terrorism. Marcy Wheeler at Emptywheel. BEN WITTES GETS STUNG BY THE TRUMP EFFECT
Source: emptywheel.net
#terrorism#law#black live matter#first amendment
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The London Bombings
koranteng.blogspot.com
“I wrote two trilogies in the wake of the July 7 2005 London bombings - the 7/7 bombings as they became known. I took it personal even before reading that the first declared casualty was a Ghanaian woman. Moreover I later learned that this was someone that I knew whose life story to that point had been a touchpoint for my family. No, all the casualties mattered. The failed follow-on attempts on July 21 2005 only deepened the wound when reports came in that a suspect was said to be Ghanaian. Unraveling that case of identity theft amidst the horror and grief caused a reckoning over the years.”

Koranteng Ofosu-Amaah's writing is among my most favorite on the Internet.

The two Trilogies collected here are nearly book-length all together. But it's on the Internet, so you can dive in where you like and get distracted by links you discover along the way. And there's music. You don't even have to read, just click around this exceptional blog; it's intriguing. 

Source: koranteng.blogspot.com
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We should start by surfacing these matters into consciousness. Only then can we begin the conversations needed to resolve them. We need to understand that the tension between fighting a ‘war on terror’ while at the same time in some ways being in bed with terrorists, has produced a disaster.

Alastair Crooke quoted in an article by Nafeez Ahmed in InsurgeIntelligence at Medium. ISIS was state-sponsored by US allies, says former government intelligence analyst

#american foreign policy#war#wot#terrorism
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It’s also instructive that about the time that Aitcheson was burning crosses in southern Maryland and plotting to bomb the NAACP, a Catholic anti-war and anti-abortion activist named John Cavanaugh-O’Keefe was pioneering abortion clinic protests not far away in Northern Virginia, where he led a series of clinic sit-ins in an attempt to bring the nonviolent tactics preached by Martin Luther King and Gandhi to the movement to end abortion. But the tactic that O’Keefe started turned violent when one of his disciples, Michael Bray, led the bombing of several Washington, DC-area abortion clinics, which energized a generation of radical anti-abortion activists who attacked clinics and terrorized providers. Thus, noted David Garrow, began “the anti-abortion movement’s precipitous slide from principled nonviolence to deadly terrorism.”

Patricia Miller at Religion Dispatches. THE EX-KKK PRIEST AND THE SUBTLE TERRORISM OF THE ANTI-ABORTION MOVEMENT

#catholics#republicans#racism#terrorism
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So while feeding his explicitly racist base with hateful rhetoric is important, it’s even more important to ensure that the cops remain with him, even as he fosters violence. There is no better way to do that than to convey to police that they can target brown people, that they can ignore all federal checks on their power, with impunity (this is probably one key reason why Trump has given up his efforts to oust Sessions, because on policing they remain in perfect accord). There is no better way to keep the support of cops who support Trump because he encourages their abuses then by pardoning Arpaio for the most spectacular case of such abuses. You’re not the audience for this pardon. The cops are.

Marcy Wheeler at Emptywheel. THE ARPAIO PARDON: YOU’RE NOT THE AUDIENCE

#police#donald trump#facism#racism#terrorism#surveillance
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