• dead [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    I think most people won’t watch the debate in its entirety. The point of the debate for Ethan was to make new clips to take out context. He will take clips from the debate to continue to claim that Hasan supports sexual violence or claim that Hasan secretly hides swastikas in his video. The point for Ethan is not winning the debate. The status quo sides with Ethan because Ethan’s beliefs align with the status quo. All Ethan has to do is take clips like when Hasan talked about how Ansarallah is fighting against Israel’s genocide in Gaza, erase the explanation, and then say “See, I told you, Hasan supports the Houthis which the US designates as a terrorist organization”. The status quo will consider that to be a win. Right wingers and Zionists have already sided with Ethan, even before the debate had started.

    Ethan admitted that his wife is a terrorist during the debate, but he’ll probably deny that. The most depraved thing is that he said that Anne Frank was loved for being a pacifist. Anne Frank was not a pacifist, she was a child. Ethan claimed that Anne Frank did not fight against Nazis because she was against violence and said that if she had fought against Nazis, then he wouldn’t have supported her message. Anne Frank was 15 years old.

    Hasan’s approach to the debate is quite different from Ethan. During the debate, Ethan presented a “double nakba” conspiracy theory. Ethan presented the idea that Jewish people were being expelled from many Arab countries at the same time that Israel was doing the Nakba to the Palestinians, to claim what Arab people did to Jewish People was worse than what Israelis did to Palestinians. Hasan compares this conspiracy theory to the WWII “double genocide theory”, where fascists claim that the Soviet Union did a genocide worse than Nazi Germany to downplay the Holocaust. Ethan says that “the Arabs” made Jewish people into Zionists. It’s the classic, “I didn’t want to become a fascist but you made me do it because woke” argument.

    Hasan has said that he is getting in contact with historian Avi Shlaim to disprove the “double nabka” conspiracy theory on stream. Avi Shlaim is an Arab Jew, born in Iraq. In 1951, at age 6, Shlaim’s family was part of an exodus of Jewish people from Iraq to Israel. His family forfeited Iraqi citizenship and all of their property. In 1966, Avi Shlaim moved to England and has lived in England ever since. Avi Shlaim is a critic of Zionism. In early 2023, Avi Shlaim published a book “Three Worlds: Memoirs of an Arab-Jew”, which is meant to prove that Israeli Mossad terrorized Jewish people to flee from Iraq by conducting a series of bombings against Jewish people in Iraq from 1950-1951.

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      The most depraved thing is that he said that Anne Frank was loved for being a pacifist. Anne Frank was not a pacifist, she was a child. Ethan claimed that Anne Frank did not fight against Nazis because she was against violence and said that if she had fought against Nazis, then he wouldn’t have supported her message. Anne Frank was 15 years old.

      I didn’t think I’d hear a worse take about Anne Frank than the “Anne Frank was a colonizer” nonsense from Black Hammer.

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        if she had fought against Nazis, then he wouldn’t have supported her message

        HE WOULD NOT SUPPORT ANNE FRANK IF SHE USED VIOLENCE AGAINST THE PEOPLE TRYING TO EXTERMINATE HER!?

        but he DOES agree with Israel using violence against Palestine??

        What is going on here??

        (I actually know what’s going on here)