Due to a (now former) admin of the instance anarchist.nexus calling for a member of our team, as well as anyone else they call a zionist, to be murdered, the instance has been defederated.
We’re currently discussing how we will proceed with this situation and whether it will affect lemmy.dbzer0.com, which is mostly run by the same admin team, notably excluding the person who used to be on the anarchist.nexus admin team.
We will share further updates once we have them.
Update 2026-04-22 23:25 UTC: anarchist.nexus federation has been reactivated.
We are still discussing this matter, but there is currently no point in keeping anarchist.nexus defederated while lemmy.dbzer0.com is federated.
Just so I get this right, you defederated an entire instance because a singular user has lost it and called for violence?
it wasn’t a regular user. it was a member of their admin team.
A member of the admin team who is now not om the admin team anymore
Which is still just a single person.
If the instance in question fails to remove the admin, then the only valid conclusion is that the admin team of that instance supports that type of behavior.
The only possible way to proceed is to defederate from the instance, at least until there are significant changes in the administration, starting with an admission of wrongdoing and an apology. Until that happens, the entire community should treat that instance as malicious.
The post itself admits that the admin in question is no longer in their admin group. I don’t know more beyond that, but it sounds like the instance may already be working towards making things right
I’ve got a bit more knowledge of the narrative here so I’ll explain. Luminous, the admin who said kill all Zionists, has voluntarily resigned as an admin in order to try and get anarchist.nexus refederated. But the prevailing sentiment on anarchist.nexus and its sibling instance is that Luminous did nothing wrong.
Personally, as an anarchist, I think we should only be killing Zionist soldiers, not the civilians. So I’m very concerned by this apparent support for what would likely amount to war crimes. Zionism is bad, but I don’t support the death penalty for being a zionist.
Now if you look at the history of Gaza, it gets even worse. Netanyahu funded Hamas in the most recent Gazan election to help them win, because they were more radical and violent than the other parties. Netanyahu wanted Gaza to be governed by people who think killing all Zionists is okay. So I think that Luminous is playing into Israel’s hands, and giving them the propaganda they want. Is defederation an appropriate way to keep this propaganda from spreading? Unclear, I’m still on the fence. But I’m definitely not on Luminous’ side in all this.
‘netanyahu created hamas’ is a hasbara talking point that removes palestinian agency and de-legitimizes resistance by framing it as an israeli puppet show.
hamas emerged from the material conditions of occupation and blockade
allowing qatari money into gaza and exploiting hamas/pa divisions is standard colonial divide-and-conquer, not ‘creating’ resistance.
the ‘playing into israel’s hands’ argument is just more tone policing. colonial powers will paint resistance as terrorism regardless of rhetoric.
respectability politics doesn’t stop genocide. if palestinian armed resistance against iof soldiers is legitimate, then saying ‘kill zionists’ online isn’t ‘giving israel propaganda’, it’s just being honest about what legitimate resistance entails.
applying ‘war crimes’ frameworks to resistance while actual genocide is happening is liberal legalism that judges the oppressed by their oppressor’s rules. international law was written by imperial powers to protect imperial interests.
this whole framework of calling on moral realism about death penalty being ‘objectively wrong,’ insistence on fair trials, tone policing resistance rhetoric, defending zionist family members as ‘just misled’ is just liberal moralism with anarchist aesthetics. there’s nothing anarchist about supporting state institutions (courts, prisons) or prioritizing israeli propaganda concerns over palestinian liberation.
‘anarcho anti-realist’ my ass
Now, I’m an innocent* bystander normie who’s just wandered in here…
But the way you write is pretty strident(?). I get that this language is developed over time and many interactions that I’ve not seen, and yadda yadda
But you are the FIRST person I’ve seen say “netanyahoo created Hamas”
Who tf sincerely says/believes/promotes that? The comment you replied to sure didn’t. Nowhere in this thread afaik has anyone made a statement even resembling that.
No shit Sherlock opposing interests will try to manipulate their opponents by doing shit like promoting/helping/enabling the “worst elements” in their opposition. That’s not new and occurs everywhere and apparently there is clear and compelling evidence that Netanyahu worked pretty hard to make sure that Palestinians were represented poorly.
So, I guess… Thanks for letting us know that someone out there has that ridiculous rhetoric? But it’s not relevant to the commenter you were replying to, or anything else afaik.
for an innocent bystander you sure seem quick to tone police
i was responding to this:
“israel created hamas” narrative has been an extremely common zionist talking point, just because the phrasing here is slightly different doesn’t change that
‘represented poorly’ is liberal optics framing; they’re a colonized people resisting a genocide; colonizers are going to portray any effective resistance as violent terrorism
the ‘anarcho anti-realist’ i am responding to has a history of claiming extremely radical politics but then regurgitating bog standard liberal zionism, hence my ‘strident’ response
To some extent, none of that matters. There is no justification for calling for the extra-judicial killing of anyone, no matter how much you dislike their politics. That’s just murder.
You might say that some people should face trial for their behavior, and you might support the death penalty as a punitive measure, and those statements might be valid and permissible.
Saying that anyone should be killed based on their personal beliefs or political views is fucking heinous, no matter the context.
Why should the state have the monopoly on killing? They clearly do a horrible job with it and use it to kill innocent school girls to defend genocide.
What’s legal is not what’s ethical. Legal systems have no basis for justice.
Well, killing soldiers in a war is extrajudicial, and I think there are valid reasons to kill soldiers in a war. I want us to go to war with Israel and blow up their military bases, which would certainly cause the deaths of some soldiers. But soldiers sign up to put their lives on the line for their country, so there’s a measure of fairness. Israel’s draft complicates that argument a little bit, but not by much.
But I remain opposed to the death penalty. In a war, death is the only way to remove someone from being able to harm others. When we have other options, we should take them. If we manage to get Netanyahu into government custody, we should be keeping him alive so he can face trial for his war crimes. And then he should be put in prison for life.
Unless you believe that the admin’s comment was made in the context of suggesting that “Zionists” (unspecified - generally?) should be killed while in combat (specifically), I think all of that is irrelevant to the issue at hand.
Given all of the discussion around this incident, it seems clear that the admin was proposing murder, not warfare.
If they are, then they can look forward to re-federating in the future.
But, as I said above, removing the problem person is only part of what the community should require.
And based on what @Grail@multiverse.soulism.net said, that may not be forthcoming.
No they cannot, because Kaplan is on an agenda here. It has nothing to do with the user.
You let one Nazi drink at your bar and you’re a Nazi bar.
You only gotta fuck one goat.
So why do you allow Zionist admins at lemmy.world? It’s a Zionist instance, by that logic.
The irony of posting this while defending a literal fascist.
And yet the world functions by having groups work together (not with nazis) like every single government on the planet. This person isn’t a nazi. And the bar isn’t a nazi bar. And the about federation is it isn’t like a bar. You can cut them off anytime so you can wait until it becomes (or doesnt) to defederate.
They do support the death penalty, which is gross. I think we should only kill zionist soldiers. Not the civilians. And we should do it in a legitimately conducted war. We should go to war with Israel, blow up their military bases, and force them to make peace with Palestine. None of that requires killing zionist civilians. In fact, killing civilians is often a war crime. So I don’t support War Crimes Luminous.
While I agree with you to an extent, I’d like to point out there are many zionist civilians who are active participants in the genocide. How would they be handled? Also I find the idea of a “legitimately conducted war” to be a fools notion. Violence can be a necessary and appropriate response, but it is ultimately corrosive to all involved. War, as they say, is hell. It is devoid of moral righteousness. If you are in a war, fight it, to survive, but know you aren’t getting out intact nor clean.
Not attacking you, just my 2 cents.
When I say legitimately conducted, I’m talking about not committing war crimes. No targeting civilians, no poison gases, no atom bombs, no cruel and unusual weaponry, no torture of POWs. You know, the bare basics. War is hell, but we don’t need to go making super-hell. Regular hell will do.
As for the civilians who are participating in genocide, I say put them on trial. Send them to prison. Civilians are defined by their not posing an active combat risk. If we defeat the IDF and then Bibi picks up a gun, then he’s become a soldier. But if he surrenders, then we don’t execute him, we put him on trial and send him to prison for life. And it should be a decent prison with a nice quality of life, because there’s no need to punish people when they’ve already been removed from society and can’t do anything to hurt people anymore. I’m a supporter of luxury prisons, they have a better rehabilitation rate and I don’t believe in punishment,
But those “civilians” are actively killing Palestinians as well. There isn’t really a delineating line here when the politics are aligned across the entire country civilians and soldiers, and the country is utilizing civilians as a mechanism to continue the genocide, through settlers who are committing crimes just as bad as the soldiers are. Why do the soldiers not get a trial but the “civilians” do?
To be abundantly clear, I do not agree with “kill all Zionists” in any way shape or form. But I am disagreeing with the entire premise of this conversation. LW is banning someone based not on what they do or have done, but based on a political call that was in their username. You said it yourself, we should kill Zionists soldiers (not saying I agree with this but it is in the conversation). So what makes your point of view so legitimate but their point of view a reason for complete defederation? Imagine the UN even existing if something like this got you kicked out of the conversation.
My grandma’s a zionist. She’s a little old lady who lives in Australia. She’s not Jewish, she’s a Christian. But she’s fallen for the propaganda that says the holy land is owed to Jewish people. She’s gone for a holiday in Israel a few times because the place is important to her faith. But she’s disappointed in Israel for its war crimes in recent years, the same as most people. She wants peace, she just hasn’t realised that Israel is fundamentally anti-peace. She might get there one day.
I don’t think grandma deserves to die. The only thing she’s done wrong is give Israel’s economy a few thousand tourism dollars. That’s bad, but it’s not death penalty bad. I want grandma to live.
I don’t know if defederation is an appropriate response, I haven’t made up My mind. But I do know that Luminous is harming the Palestinian cause by giving Netanyahu the violent rhetoric he wants people to hear from his enemies. Netanyahu wants his enemies to look like terrorists. Luminous looks like a terrorist. I want us to look like we’re interested in stopping the killing.
the ‘anarchist anti-realist’ is extremely invested in liberal moralizing and tone policing
whenever zionism comes up the anti-realism goes out the window and is replaced with moral realism
absolute farce of an account
Who’s in charge of that instance. Are you suggesting that admins are never responsible for what they say because every admin is a single individual? The admins of this instance have complete discretion over who they want to federate with.
Not at all. But by defederating the instance, you’re not just punishing the admin, but every other user on that instance. It’s a complete overkill reaction to something that is honestly a harmless threat. If I’d go nuts like that every time someone tells me he wants me to get killed I’d have a very high blood pressure.
Defederation is a last resort reaction if an instance is seriously incompatible with the rest of society, like .ml
I don’t know man, the admins of this instance don’t owe anything to the users over there, and the defederation doesn’t meaningfully impact anyone over there as far as I understand.
If I was regularly chatting with people who call for killing me, I would have a very high blood pressure.
Yes, that’s why most sane instances blocked .ml
But we’re talking about a single person who lost it, not the entire instance rebelling against lemmy.world or something. You’re not just punishing the person who did it, but everyone else on that instance.
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