In fealty to US foreign policy, Mexico has long refused to recognize Palestinian statehood. Last week, that finally changed, with AMLO’s government officially acknowledging Palestinian statehood and establishing a full embassy in Mexico City.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/1076816

In fealty to US foreign policy, Mexico has long refused to recognize Palestinian statehood. Last week, that finally changed, with AMLO’s government officially acknowledging Palestinian statehood and establishing a full embassy in Mexico City.

On June 2, the Palestinian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates announced that, as of the first of the month, it had reclassified its diplomatic mission in Mexico from special delegation to embassy. The ministry “expresses its firm conviction that this measure will contribute significantly to the . . . strengthening of relations between Mexico and the State of Palestine, on the basis of respect and mutual recognition, in benefit of our two peoples as well as international security and development,” it affirmed in a statement.

    • DevCat@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      7·
      1 year ago

      Some of the comments were going too far down the flamewar route, but a bunch of comments that were neutral were also deleted. I wish we could get a reason from the mods on this.

      • SuddenDownpour@lemmy.worldEnglish
        8·
        1 year ago

        By the looks of things, one or more mods decided to delete all comments in the thread. I don’t think that’s something that should never be done, but it should require enough transparency to disclosing the reasons.

      • SuddenDownpour@lemmy.worldEnglish
        81·
        1 year ago

        What do you mean anti-semitism? Some comments were talking about both current crimes of the Israeli state against Palestinians and the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians that was committed at the birth of Israel as a contemporary state, and other comments were defending Israel. You can still see them in the moderation log. When you claim that denouncing ethnic cleasing is anti-semitism you’re spitting on the victims of the Holocaust.

        You can see the removed posts here: https://archive.is/4VvSP

        • SparkyLight@lemmy.fmhy.mlEnglish
          29·
          1 year ago

          denouncing ethnic cleansing is fine, it’s just that there is no ethnic cleansing in israel to denounce ffs, just now there was a huge operation against terrorists in jenin in which not a single civilian died! when you denounce a non-existent ethnic cleansing… that’s anti-semitism

          edit: PS notice how the only ones banned were the ones defending israel

      • Master@lemmy.worldEnglish
        51·
        1 year ago

        Stumbled across that post and went to the mod log and saw everyone banned for 338 years and all of the mod logs show the comments as edited instead of deleted. Kind of stinks of mod abuse. But there is no way to tell because the comments weren’t delete they were modified which completely defeats the purpose of the mod log.

        • Syrc@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          1 year ago

          I don’t think that’s what happened, my browser’s language is in Italian and I don’t see “deleted by mod”, but the Italian for it. Though I still can’t find them in the modlog so I’m still confused.

          • Master@lemmy.worldEnglish
            52·
            1 year ago

            If you look at the mod log for that community ( https://lemmy.world/modlog/2840 ) they appear. They just dont appear in the lemmy.world mod log. So it’s significantly less suspicious… but its also obvious that c/world has an anti Israel bias. The one guy got banned for 338 years for posting facts that are not necessarily pro-Israel. I can even understand deleting all the comments since pal-israel is such of hot button topic. But the 338 year bans seem like a ridiculous overstep.

            Ah well, I blocked the community. If they cant provide unbiased news I’ve got no room for them.

            • Syrc@lemmy.worldEnglish
              2·
              1 year ago

              Oh there’s a community-specific log, I didn’t know, that makes things much easier.

              Anyway, they only banned two users and it doesn’t seem they were posting “facts”, one of them commented something that, googling a bit, seems disputed by various sources, and I’m not sure about the other one because they made three comments in the thread but only one shows in the community modlog.

              In any case yeah, not really a good sign to ban two people for 338 years without explicit reasons given.

      • zombuey@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        1 year ago

        Being against violent, racist, and fascist israeli action is not anti-semitic. When a white christian stands up and says they want a pure christian nation we all talk about how absurd it is. But when someone jewish says the same thing anyone who questions that obviously flawed statement is suddenly an antisemite. I get it Israel has a long and violent history and much of that was perpetrated by their neighbors that does not in any way excuse their behaviour.