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CrimethInc. Ex-Workers' Collective

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We are a rebel alliance—a decentralized network pledged to anonymous collective action—a breakout from the prisons of our age. We strive to reinvent our lives and world according to the principles of self-determination and mutual aid. 🏴 crimethinc.com

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CrimethInc. Ex-Workers' Collective @crimethinc.com · Dec 6

Welcome to everyone who is just now following us!

We are a thirty-year-running all-volunteer anarchist collective involving participants on several continents. Everything we do is collectively produced, anonymous, and not for profit.

Here's a short introduction to our work:

tochangeeverything.com

To Change Everything, an anarchist appeal

The case for complete self-determination—a guide for the furious, the curious, and the pure of heart

tochangeeverything.com

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CrimethInc. Ex-Workers' Collective @crimethinc.com · 11h

The Israeli military is currently attacking the Thousand Madleens flotilla as they attempt to deliver much-needed aid to people in Gaza who are suffering famine as a consequence of the Israeli blockade.

Read this statement from one of the participants in the flotilla:

crimethinc.com/SailingforGaza

A livecam still showing a mercenary in the pay of the Israeli occupation forces climbing the mast of the Sunbird, a boat in the Thousand Madleens flotilla, aiming to destroy the camera.

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CrimethInc. Ex-Workers' Collective @crimethinc.com · 4d

In the wake of Donald Trump's security directive aimed at criminalizing anti-fascism, we can expect to see federal agents use entrapment strategies to attempt to disrupt social movements.

Read about how earlier movements have experienced and dealt with entrapment:

crimethinc.com/entrapment

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Brad Wenner @bradwenner.photo · 3d

Speaking of Crimethinc, I just got a package from them.

New Catharsis is best album of the year so far imo #nchc #hardcore #vinyl

Me holding Catharsis LP "Hope against hope" in front of my record player and speakers

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CrimethInc. Ex-Workers' Collective @crimethinc.com · 15h

You might hear that in Anglophone media, especially tankie media. But to hear what Georgian anarchists think, read the above article!

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CrimethInc. Ex-Workers' Collective @crimethinc.com · 15h

Please, then, do not spread lies about the good, brave, honest people participating in the flotillas, people who just want to stop children from starving to death.

If you don't know any of them, you can read their words. We have published one statement. Many people have published others.

CrimethInc. Ex-Workers' Collective @crimethinc.com · 15h

Hamas is not responsible for bombing children in Gaza. Put the blame where it belongs! Netanyahu is responsible for that.

Hamas is not discrediting the Israeli government. The Israeli government has discredited itself.

You are responsible for making excuses for those perpetrating genocide.

Stop.

CrimethInc. Ex-Workers' Collective @crimethinc.com · 15h

As anarchists, we don't defer to courts. We listen to Israeli anarchists when they tell us that what they are seeing with their own eyes is genocide. We listen when South African activists tell us that it is genocide. Genocide experts all around the world are calling it genocide.

Listen to them.

Human Rights Discourse Has Failed to Stop the Genocide in Gaza

An anarchist from Jaffa explains why we should not look to international institutions to put a stop to the genocide in Gaza.

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CrimethInc. Ex-Workers' Collective @crimethinc.com · 16h

Even without addressing colonialism—even without addressing history—you must admit that the difference between Netanyahu and Hamas is that Hamas is not in a position to do much right now, but Netanyahu and his friends have promised to commit ethnic cleansing against two million people. And they are.

CrimethInc. Ex-Workers' Collective @crimethinc.com · 16h

Hopefully what you say is true, and hopefully, you will find it in your heart to care about Palestinian children again one day.

You don't have to support any party or government. We don't. But you have to understand that if we don't act bravely in solidarity, tens of thousands more people will die.

CrimethInc. Ex-Workers' Collective @crimethinc.com · 16h

What motivates you to post all day on this topic, attacking those who value the lives of Palestinian children?

Is it guilt about supporting a genocidal government? Or are you being paid?

It is obvious what motivates us: if we don't act, countless more children will die.

But what motivates you?

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CrimethInc. Ex-Workers' Collective @crimethinc.com · 16h

Tell us, do you think that the New York Times is an anti-Semitic publication? That will help everyone to understand where you are coming from.

CrimethInc. Ex-Workers' Collective @crimethinc.com · 16h

The New York Times is notorious for supporting the Israeli government. Even today, they give much more space to covering Israeli lives and deaths than to covering Palestinian lives and deaths. But like many similar outlets, the Times has published plenty of photographs showing starving children.

CrimethInc. Ex-Workers' Collective @crimethinc.com · 16h

Again, you show your ignorance. We work with comrades in Iran, supporting their resistance.

You certainly do not. They would never work with someone who says the disgusting things that you say.

Here are some texts from them:

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Jin, Jiyan, Azadi (Woman, Life, Freedom): The Genealogy of a Slogan

For International Women’s Day, Somayeh Rostampour explores the origins and implications of the slogan that became the watchword of the uprising in Iran in 2022.

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CrimethInc. Ex-Workers' Collective @crimethinc.com · 16h

Over a million people are threatened with famine right now, and you are justifying the violence threatening their lives while congratulating yourself on being "anti-fascist."

Do you think anyone outside Germany thinks that you can be "anti-fascist" while excusing genocide like this? If not—why not?

CrimethInc. Ex-Workers' Collective @crimethinc.com · 16h

If the lives of children actually mattered to you, you would be concerned about saving the children who are about to die of starvation in Gaza. In that case, you would support the flotilla.

But you try to discredit the flotilla. Apparently, you like to see Palestinian children die.

CrimethInc. Ex-Workers' Collective @crimethinc.com · 16h

Do you think it is a coincidence that the one religion that good Germans like you demonize in this way is the one that you perceive to be associated with non-white people?

No one who is reading this conversation thinks it is a coincidence.

CrimethInc. Ex-Workers' Collective @crimethinc.com · 16h

How do you think it happened that tens of thousands of small children were killed in Gaza over the past two years?

Why do you think the rates at which children were killed in Gaza are so much higher than in any other conflict zone anywhere else around the world?

It's genocide, that's why.

CrimethInc. Ex-Workers' Collective @crimethinc.com · 16h

You don't actually know what we have or have not done. You are an ignoramus who has not read any of the texts we have published.

But here's a question: did you ever demonstrate for the Israeli government to release its Palestinian hostages over the past decades? Or to surrender their weapons?

CrimethInc. Ex-Workers' Collective @crimethinc.com · 16h

In fact, the ones driving our analysis of the situation in Palestine are the Jewish participants in our project.

You are yet another gentile who pretends to care about Jewish people in order to advance your own hateful agenda. Not surprisingly, your advocacy for genocide is making us no safer.

CrimethInc. Ex-Workers' Collective @crimethinc.com · 19h

But these racist ways of thinking benefit no one. It is better to identify laudable and destructive activities and appreciate or criticize them, whoever is engaging in them.

And right now, you are excusing a genocide. That is destructive behavior.

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CrimethInc. Ex-Workers' Collective @crimethinc.com · 19h

In this discussion, you would not benefit from other people adopting your way of thinking of people in essentialist categories.

For example, if we compare the violence that self-righteous Germans have inflicted in the world, it is worse than what any Iranians have done.

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CrimethInc. Ex-Workers' Collective @crimethinc.com · 19h

We can criticize particular traditions and institutions without designating a "kind" of people. You are a racist, there is no other word for it.

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CrimethInc. Ex-Workers' Collective @crimethinc.com · 19h

No one here said anything about Hamas until you did.

Equating concern for Palestinian lives with support for Hamas is a well-known tactic intended to excuse the genocide and distract people from it.

The only possible explanation for why you are doing this is that you support the genocide.

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CrimethInc. Ex-Workers' Collective @crimethinc.com · 20h

Like the good Germans before you, you have a narrative to excuse your behavior.

But the tens of thousands of small children senselessly murdered in Gaza were not members of the Muslim Brotherhood.

You are actively excusing and contributing to a genocide, exactly like the Germans before you.

CrimethInc. Ex-Workers' Collective @crimethinc.com · 20h

Equating support for Palestinians with support for Hamas is a well-known fascist and Zionist tactic intended to excuse the genocide, or at least distract people from it. Anyone who engages in this behavior is contributing to the conditions that make the genocide possible. Surely this is intentional.

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