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Cenk Uygur @cenkuygur 3h Can everyone please stop the dumb "from the river to the sea" chant? It is incredibly hurtful to our Jewish brothers and sisters. It's also incredibly counterproductive to protecting Palestinians. Do not chant something that majority thinks is call for genocide. Not complicated. Dec 11, 2023 · 11:09 PM UTC

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from the river to the sea
cenk uygur is a dumb baby
Not too long ago I was at a pro-Palestine protest where members of Jewish Voice For Peace were gladly joining along with "From the river to the sea" chants

So shut the fuck up Cenk
- Umm ackshually those weren’t true Jews. You might not know this but the Netanyahu is actually the Jewish pope and revoked their Jewishness.
majority

Nattering media class yet again mistakes the few hundred of their peers who pretend to believe from the river to the sea is antisemitic represent a majority
- the same logic that earned him a whopping 5% of the vote in 2020 when he ran for congress
  
  It's genuinely hilarious he's running for president. Like people either have no idea who he is or are so terminally lib brained they're definitely voting for Biden anyways.
  
  Imagine getting dominated that badly and thinking "yeah I definitely have a deep understanding of politics and my fellow americans" instead of just stepping back from bloviating and retiring
  
  I guess that's what happens when you don't get the Armenian vote because you don't think their genocide was real either.
  
  That shit was pathetic. It would have been smarter for him to go more local and run for a spot on a school board or the LA city council. Probably would have had more success too if his enormous ego didn't get in the way.
says the man who named his propaganda outfit after a group that famously committed multiple genocides
- Still amazing that after all those years he still hasn't renamed his channel.
  
  I mean, there's a clothing store in the US called "Banana Republic". Is that a bad look? Sure, to people like us, who know. But at a certain point your brand surpasses the original atrocity it's associated with in the cultural memory and no one cares.
  
  seems like he just loves a good bit of genocide
@marinadove.bsky.social:

ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME YOU NAMED YOUR SHOW AFTER THE ARCHITECTS OF ARMENIAN GENOCIDE YOU SICK MISERABLE BROKE FUCKING LOSER
I love how libs will insist everything is "complicated" except for defense of atrocities. Defending atrocities is the only non-complicated thing in the world and they are gobsmacked whenever others express those strange things called "morals."
- Guy who started an organization called "The Young Turks" maybe isn't going to have the best anti-genocidal politics.
First "that phrase is a call for genocide because we said so" combined with the more recent "maybe we should stop calling everything 'genocide'" whenever anyone describes what Israel is doing.

Utterly cooked.
Cenk has sold out so much that my 50+ year old politically illiterate step dad is watching him on TV now.
"It's also incredibly counterproductive to protecting Palestinians."

You see the reactionary brain pan is inherently violent and will commit atrocities at the slightest provocation.
How does he still not get that there will never be a form of resistance that will be considered acceptable?
- yeah, if the chant had been "peaceful and reasonable accommodation with the state of israel", they would've called that a genocidal chant. there's no point.
- He gets that. His entire schtick about trans people has been complaining how everything trans people do is too far actually. He understands it well and exploits it for every cause he doesn't like but is too cowardly to badmouth openly.
Israel doesn't equal Jews, Cenk.
- It does according to 90% of elected officials from both parties in this country. Clearly he's running to make that number 91%.
another settler down unlimited river to the sea
- every river to every sea,
  
  from the Rhine to the Baltic
  
  from the Yangtze to the Yellow Sea
"Free Palestine... From Hamas."
How do you really feel about the slogan, Cenk?
- Gonna go ahead and say the guy with the media empire called the young turks is being disingenuous when he's complaining how bad seeming to support genocide can be for your messaging.
I personally prefer the original: "From the window to the wall, Palestine will be free"
- From the Need for Speed to the Underground 2
  
  There's definitely a tunnel joke in here with the "underground" part lol. I'm just not funny enough to come up with one.
Why does no one seem to say this to the other side when they say 'no ceasefire', that it sounds like support of genocide (I asked rhetorically)
Know what's not complicated? Speaking out against genocide. It's really easy actually. Shame Cenk can't even do that
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- Just call them libs, there's nothng left about them
  
  "Um esxcuse me? As a left lib, I once thought about purchasing a Che Guevara T-shirt! That's as left as they come!"
our Jewish brothers and sisters

protecting Palestinians.

huh I wonder why he used different language
i misread cenk as "crank" at first and it works both ways tbh lol
- If Trump ever has to deal with him someday, I know exactly what the nickname will be
I bet you could get polling majorities the CRT is white genocide in several US states
look, it's very simple. palestinians are stupid children who are incapable of properly advocating for themselves, so we must refrain from using their absurd political slogans
Roses are red

Violets are blue

Can't have an ethnostate these days

One state solution it is
Just a reminder of all the conservative uncles we will all be dealing with this Christmas 🙄
- These days my brother and I are the uncles.
Ending occupation isn't the equivalent of what is doing to the Palestinians.

From the River to the Sea, Palestine will be free.
No
jenkem uygur
- get his ass
Didn't he just go on a rant against zionists that turned a bunch of heads on the left? Was he cynically trying to win over some left cred just so he could sell this to some people?
- cynically? no probably not he's just a big dumb optics-brain baby who thinks the republicans would totally all be democrats if they just sloganeered a little better
- Wdym raised heads? I’m ootl on this one.
  
  I actually didn't watch the clip myself I just kinda deducted what I could from context. It was on Twitter so it was probably mostly libs sharing it now that I think about it. I think I just made up a story in my head. I don't want to link to Twitter, but it's all I found so here it is: https://twitter.com/umyaznemo/status/1733326416718987727
If it really were ”our Jewish brothers and sisters” there may have been a point, not that I suggest listening to a damn westerner concern policing people fighting for freedom from foreign occupation. Except even the premise is false. The people getting irritated or whatever by the slogan are the people who know on a fumdamental level that they're settlers and occupiers, and that the reckoning is long due. These poeple don't have a problem with antisemitism, so much as any reminder that they live on stolen land and the rightful owners are held in an open air prison.
- Zionism not only breeds but it encourages anti-Semitism. Zionism's goal is a Jewish estate, part of that is encouraging migration from other places, part of that requires making Jews in those other places feel unsafe, feel persecuted.
Why does the majority think its a call for genocide, Cenk?
I'll stop saying it when Palestine is free
shut up. shut uuuuup.
needs a ratio

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