Hey Saleh,

if multiple organizations and newspapers are saying that some organization is problematic, it might simply be true. It doesn’t help to attack the credibility of journalists if they are writing things you do not want to accept.

So let’s take this 148 page report about BDS antisemitism with lots of examples for violence on BDS protests and let’s see how you want to discredit the authors:

https://report-antisemitism.de/documents/2024-03-14_Antisemitismus-bei-BDS.pdf

(and my whole point is: Palestine has too many false friends. With antisemitic fuckwits on their side, they won’t win. There won’t be peace. Hamas sympathizers on the streets will kill public support. All those brainrot antisemitic accounts coming here on every Israel post will not lead to a peaceful middle east, it will lead to the opposite. Even murdering every Jew in Israel and founding a Palestine from river to the sea will not lead to a peaceful middle east. The solution is not supporting groups like those here)

As melchior has posted below: BDS Berlin is actually arguing that shouting “I hate Jews” and “Jews are shit” is not antisemitic. BDS Berlin supporters attacked politicians. Stolpersteine (monuments for holocaust victims) were graffitied with “BDS”. They’ve attacked critics violently. So whatever you are writing or whatever you think about BDS worldwide, those guys and girls from BDS Berlin are violent antisemitic idiots. People like them are fueling the hate in the middle east and not aiming for peace

Not so good - issue is that your “code” for electrical installations doesn’t include balcony solar and that your institutions are not able to include it because of reasons that do not make sense to anyone outside the USA

Only for stupid people who complained about “voting blocks” and “eastern european votes” and stuff like that. Some people take the ESC way to serious.

And in so many cases it is really senseless stupid. It’s fucking Eurovision. It’s a silly, but entertaining show, but some people really take it too serious.

For all those english speaking people here: The “Office for the protection of the constitution in Berlin” is the Landesverfassungsschutz Berlin. First of all: Nothing is really happening here, BDS is not banned. The Verfassungsschutz (as problematic as he is) is just reporting on groups who have anticonstitutional goals.

You can download the report here:

https://www.berlin.de/sen/inneres/verfassungsschutz/publikationen/verfassungsschutzberichte/

This is the part on BDS:

Translation:

The aim of the “Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions” (BDS) campaign is to “end the occupation” of “all Arab lands” by Israel “Ending its occupation and colonization of all Arab lands”)40, i.e. ultimately the abolition of the Israeli state. The binding ideological leitmotif of the network behind the BDS campaign is thus the negation of Israel’s right to exist. The instrument of the comprehensive boycott aims to inflict considerable damage on the state and the population that is equated with it. For one of the conceptual masterminds of the BDS campaign, the duo-listic contrast between the Israeli “oppressive regime” on the one hand and “almost the entire Palestinian population” on the other is at the heart of the Middle East conflict, whereby Israel is unilaterally assigned the role of being solely responsible for the conflict.41 At its core, the BDS campaign aims to demonize and delegitimize Israel. Hostility towards Israel is a key element of the Berlin BDS network. Its supporters and supporters reject Israel’s right to exist. On the internet, for example, some of them called for an “intifada” or the “annihilation of the Zionists” .42 For years, they have been involved in individual boycott campaigns, such as against , a sporting goods manufacturer accused of collaborating with of the Israeli soccer league.43 Finally, Berlin BDS supporters justified and/or glorified the terrorist attack by HAMAS on October 7, 2023.44 In official statements, the attack was described as a “liberation struggle against settler colonialism” or welcomed as an escape from the “open-air prison” Gaza.45 They were also an integral part of the anti-Israel scene, which was responsible for a large number of anti-Israel events. They initiated and organized these events in alliances with left-wing extremist and Islamist groups, such as the VPNK. Signs with stereotypical anti-Jewish imagery were repeatedly displayed at these events. Speakers from the BDS campaign denied the brutal dimension of the terror of 7 October 2023. At a demonstration on 2 March under the slogan “Solidarity with Palestine” , a BDS speaker also openly explained that the slogan “From the river to the sea […]” undoubtedly meant the ‘abolition’ of the “colonial project” of Israel.

Stop trolling.

The russian broadcasters left the Eurovision Broadcasting Union and participation in the Eurovision Song Contest is open to all EBU members. So it’s not a thing of “why is Russia still banned”, but Russia left the European Television Network in order to do whatever they are doing. ESC is only a small part of that.

Lemmy is totally open to vote manipulation. If I want to harass you, I can create accounts on multiple instances and downvote every post or comment you make with 100s of accounts. That might be a little obvious, but you can totally swing policital discussions with a small network of accounts here (just give everything pro palestina 40 upvotes and downvote every pro israel post 50 downvotes) and local admins have no method of checking that you are using multiple accounts. All they get is the federated upvote.

And, well, the whole Nicole situation also shows that there are huge holes in spam protection.

Yeah, and sneaking in such a thing at the last minute is also antidemocratic.

Real life doesn’t work like that

Russia is really good at building military train tracks. They are totally capable of building another one right into your rail network

Thank you!

How does it work? Does every country need to pass the threshold? Only a certain amount of countries?

And if you grant access to your own apps, but deny them to your competitors, that is totally a monopoly abuse

Take a longer text (like 70 pages or so) and try to delete the first 30 pages.

Yes - I was surprised recently how useless the text selection and editing features on Android are. I had to edit a bigger document (like 70 pages) where I had to move some paragraphs, delete some and so on. No problem on a desktop even on a smaller screen, but Android was surprisingly unusable

Mobile Apps really are really lacking in terms of usability. There really is a use case for a real laptop experience

Yes, I do. It’s great because you can take it everywhere and it also gives you the flexibility to sketch, write, design your own layout or glue in other things. That is something that no software is able to do without hassle.

But: My handwriting is totally unreadable, I never found a OCR software that works on it and it really sucks to search in handwritten notes

Reddit still isn’t able to fight back against those simple repost bots that copy old posts with the same title. That should be easy to detect.