Context: https://lemmy.world/comment/14613536 Screenshotted context just in case:
A user claims that the killing in Palestine stopped under Biden now. I point out that biden had full-throatedly supported the genocide for over a year. A mod deletes my post and says that biden didn’t “state” (keyword here) full-throated support for genocide.
I counter by saying I consider sending billions in support of genocide counts as full-throated support for genocide. I also point out that I didn’t say Biden stated his support for genocide and that he didn’t need to outright state it because actions speak louder than words.
I receive a temp ban for that counter and the mod adds a response where they claim the weapons were “provided for defense from Iran, full stop.” which sounds to me like actual misinformation because how the hell does bombing hospitals in Gaza defend Israel from Iran? I’m not bothered by their stupid opinion, but I am bothered that they are enforcing it through moderation.
I ran into a similar moderation problem on the Political Memes community also on .world, but I didn’t bother making a post here for that because that’s just a dumb meme community and I was better off just blocking it, but now this is concerning a world news community and it’s awful to see something like this happening in a community that’s supposed to keep people aware of the news.
But hey, maybe I’m wrong and it actually is misinformation to say it’s full-throated support of genocide to send billions in weapons to a country using those weapons to commit genocide. Please let me know what you think!
The Houthis in Yemen, not Yemen proper, you mean. How does their piracy and kidnapping of ships and their crews do anything to protect Palestinians? It’s blatant disregard for international law.
Look up the awful crimes of the Houthis against Yemenis before you hail them as your humanitarian heroes.
No, I mean Yemen. Ansar Al·lah is the Yemeni party that is in position to dictate their actions during the civil war that has been paused as a reaction of the Israel attack to the Gazan territory (i.e.: the escalation of the Israel genocide)
What you call piracy and kidnapping, others can call it blockade of Israel and detention of the ships in violation of that blockage.
The ships kidnapped were not going to Israel.
It’s not a naval blockade at all. Read up how these work in international law.
Of course, that is not a naval blockage at all.
Just after they announced it, the USA (or Genocide Joe/USA Democratic Party, what do you like more) announced an ‘international’ military intervention to stop them. Some usual USA bootlickers withdrew from that army (I remember that Spain was one of them, but there were more). Later, I have only read references to the USA and the UK.
At least, I think that we can agree that Yemen (or Houthis/Ansar All·lah, what do you like more) can not sustain a blockade with the active opposition of the USA.