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CEO of ADL Jonathan Greenblatt blames Hasan Piker for the DC Israeli Embassy Shooting, on CNN
(hexbear.net)
Greenblatt: "I'm thinking about the New York Times doing a gauzy profile a few weeks ago of this gamer, Hasan Piker, who regularly employs awful genocidal rhetoric against Jewish people and the Jewish State. Extremists should not be empowered. People who spout prejudice should not be platformed. This is a moment when we need to look ourselves in the mirror and say 'We've got to stop this because the consequences are deadly'. "
https://xcancel.com/CharlieSheenGO/status/1925566024218218496#m
This phenomenon is known as the "State Monopoly on Violence". The government's unlimited use of violence is considered by the public to be legitimate and any resistance against the state's violence is considered to be illegitimate.
"Our violence good, your violence bad"
"Violence of the oppressor good, violence of the oppressed bad"
Thing is, it's not even the state's monopoly anymore. Both the US & Israel empower & then protect vigilantes/settlers to commit fascist violence. (Obviously this has always been the case to some degree, but has certainly ramped up again in recent years)
Israel is expanding via the same process the US did into indigenous lands. Making reservations, breaking treaties repeatedly, having forward settlers staking claims and then having the US military come and defend their illegal settlements in so-called "Indian territory". Monopoly on violence is overly simplistic, the state is a vehicle of class war and class-based violence. The settlers and the state were the yin-yang that made the expansion possible. You know how when you're moving a heavy piece of furniture by yourself, you lift one part, then pivot and lift the other part, back and forth? This is the mechanism of genocidal expansion, one foot forward then the body follows.
The first plunge is made by those who are willing but unable, the thirsty ambitious psychopaths. They only succeed because they are shortly followed by those who were unwilling but are able, the boring legalistic normies, the officials and diplomats and soldiers. Their reluctance has been made irrelevant, the due process of law forfeit, they are dragged along with the settlers because ultimately the state serves the interests of the capitalist class, of which the settlers are a large portion.