Although personally in favor of Palestinian independence and critical of war crimes committed by Israel in its siege of Gaza, I attempted to explain in a back-and-forth discussion with a user (only afterwards learning was one of the community’s two moderators) why protest voting in the 2024 election to “punish” the democrats in favor of the republicans harmed the ultimate interest of reigning in Israeli violence in Palestine.
To further emphasize the damage caused by such a protest vote, I argued that not only is Palestine worse off with Trump elected instead of Harris, but as are a myriad of other social issues. The other user disagreed, arguing that Trump’s return to office facilitated the ceasefire, rather than my argument that Netanyahu deliberately delayed it to help Trump get elected.
After my fourth reply post in a reply chain that stemmed from my initial reply to the moderator’s comment, I was banned from !palestine@lemm.ee. Having at no point advocated in favor of the violence perpetuated by Israel in Gaza, I think the ban was unjustified, and demonstrates a bad precedent for maintaining echo chambers of moderator opinions, rather than communities that foster discussion.
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I disagree; Netanyahu wants to settle the rest of Palestine, and Trump’s actions demonstrate that he is far and away more in favor of that than Biden or Harris ever were or would have been if re-elected themselves.
Regardless of whether we agree or not, the point of my post here was to emphasize that disagreement should not in and of itself be the basis for a moderator to ban someone from a community.
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Stick to the the topic subject please. There’s plenty of other areas to discuss Israel-Palestine
So far the cleansing of Palestine has been far less intense under Trump than it was under Biden. But I understand that American genocide apologists like you are more than willing to ignore factual reality and make up a new one to defend your genocidal sports team of choice.
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