If it is worth anything I acknowledge that I can't mod the community on my own anymore and I am looking for mods. The thread that lead to the massive bans had users tacitly or blatantly celebrating the genocide and how worse it might get for Palestinians in the future.

Apply here: https://lemm.ee/post/53822281

I am also willing to handover the community entirely and become a normal member. I'm too emotionally invested in the cause. Not sure how to do this though.

I will not be seeing the responses here. I am temporarily blocking the community to save [what's left of] my sanity.

You're presenting a selective history.

And yes, although the Israeli army has plenty of war criminals that should be sent to The Hague along with Netanyahu for their actions in Palestine, Lebanon, and Syria, Hamas was never justified in kidnapping Israeli citizens in the first place. Terrorism is never justified, and terrorists on both sides deserve to be tried for their war crimes, as should be the case in any war.

I suspect that is why you were banned. Nothing about Trump. People like to do this, present one complimentary fact about their case and pretend that innocent thing was the whole reason for the response, instead of the less complimentary things they also did.

You are not by any means wrong in that statement. Hamas has no right to kill, rape, and kidnap a bunch of young Israeli civilians who have nothing to do with the occupation except having happened to be born in a country whose government is committing atrocities, and no amount of war crimes by the IDF would give them that right. However, I will have to say that trying to say that true fact in a Palestine community specifically, is probably a tactical error, and will lead to no good outcome and often to a ban.

PTB, I guess, technically, but asking people whose family members are being killed to sit still while you to tell them their side is also the bad guys is quite a lot to ask.

If it were me, I would focus more specifically on the fact that letting Trump get elected has now absolutely doomed everyone in Gaza and quite a lot of people in the West Bank. With Biden it was already a genocide. Under Trump, it's now going to be an accelerated genocide, with much grander scope and ambition.

you were drawing an equivalence between actions of occupied people resisting their occupation and the people responsible. Saying that they were both terrorists. On the comm for the occupied people.

Israel doesn't have a right to defend itself, YDI

I think this game theory analysis of why the Gaza ceasefire took so long is really interesting.

https://youtu.be/q-Hzq6iMIi0

I've been on the angry end of that mod. I can tell they're passionate about the cause but yeah, feels like they're quick to assume the worse of others in a disagreement.

As much as I support the Palestinian cause as a POC raised Muslim (and simply being a person with basic observation skills), I avoid interacting with that particular community because of them.

A lot of good stuff is shared there, so I don't block them but man, not great with the community building...

Just block the mods. The fediverse is wide