@aapis If there wasn't a video, this wouldn't even be a case, but the video clearly shows how they PASSED 2 ambulances without handing over the injured.
It is just sickening to read the media cover this outrageous act like they do not have access to the video like the rest of us.
Way back in the 1980s, when I was in college, we had a tent city on the UC Berkeley campus to protest the Apartheid regime in South Africa. Lots of parallels to what's been happening on campuses recently with the Palestinian solidarity protests, including violent police crack downs.
During this time, author Kurt Vonnegut came to speak in support of the movement, and against Apartheid. I don't remember what he said then. But here's an amusing clip of him talking about the writing process, explaining the different types of character arcs a story can have.
[…] We’re heeding the call from over 1000 #Google and #Amazon workers to rise up against the contract, known as Project Nimbus. Technology should be used to bring people together, not enable #apartheid, ethnic cleansing, and settler-colonialism. Following in the footsteps of those who fought to divest from apartheid South Africa and won, it’s our responsibility to rise up in support of Palestinian freedom. The Amazon and Google execs who signed this contract can still choose to be on the right side of history.
Demand Amazon & Google stop doing business with Israeli apartheid & powering the genocide of Palestinians in Gaza
@zorg yes indeed .. I was prompted by this news report about STEM students petition, but forgot to include it :(
Over 1,100 STEM students and young workers from 120+ universities have signed a pledge to boycott Google and Amazon by refusing to take jobs or internships until the companies end their involvement in Project Nimbus, a $1.2 billion contract providing cloud computing services to the Israeli government. The pledge, organized by No Tech for Apartheid, aims to pressure Google and Amazon to divest from Project Nimbus, which critics argue enables Israeli apartheid and violence against Palestinians.
@faab64 There's an article I can't find at the moment containing the (approximate) lines: “Where are the Palestinian Gandhis, they ask? They're in Israeli prison cells.”
@bifouba throughout history, Israel has been extremely violent against peaceful protesters and leaders who don't call for it's destruction.
They KNOW that the passive and indifference masses western population may change rapidly if they no longer see palestinians as bloodthirsty savages who's only interest is to start a new holocaust.
That's one of the main reasons Netanyahu ordered the assassinated architect of the one and only hostage exchange in Lebanon.
But Israel's arrogance and savagery have become it's worst enemy and with social media, the vast majority of people have seen the true face of the Israeli treatment of palestinians.
Young people who were not brainwashed for decades have seen the real Palestine. And that's why Israel has been using all it's power to prevent real and uncensored news from Gaza. Either by killing the reporters, censoring the internet or forbidding apps like TikTok, telegram and "signal"
Today in Labor History June 7, 1892: The authorities arrested Homer Plessy for refusing to leave his seat in the "whites-only" car of a train. He lost the resulting court case, the landmark Plessy v. Ferguson Supreme Court decision, which codified segregation and paved the way for Jim Crow. The ruling is commonly known as “separate, but equal,” and was later ruled “unequal” in actuality, in 1954, in Brown v Board of Education.
On the one-year anniversary of Plessy’s act of civil disobedience, Mahatma Gandhi was forcibly ejected from a train in Pietermaritzberg, South Africa for refusing to vacate a 1st class carriage for a white man, in a similar act of civil disobedience.
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Remember when #IQ45 was announcing the creation of the Space Force, & he remarked that it was part of the military, “separate but equal.”?
Not subtle, as racist dog-whistles go, and such an awkward, contrived way to work one into a press conference.
Israeli occupation Apache helicopters are firing high-caliber rounds toward Palestinians amidst the ongoing Israeli raid of the #Jenin refugee camp, north of the #WestBank.
Multiple injuries were reported after Israeli occupation forces, disguised in civilian clothes and using a civilian vehicle, raided the #Jenin refugee camp.
Israeli Jewish-supremacist Minister of National Security, Itamar Ben-Gvir: "Every house in #Gaza has a picture of Al-Aqsa Mosque. We must break into their holiest site."
Why isn't this monster sanctioned by the western leaders? How far does he need to go before they take action against this JewishLKK leader?
Can we treat this monster like holocaust deniers at least?or is it too much to ask?
@faab64@palestine@israel I'm from Mexico. Almost all the important churches built in colonial times were built on top of prehispanic religious centers ("pyramids"). The main cathedral in Mexico city was built atop the so called "Major Temple" (temple mayor) and there are some churches, like the one at Cholula, where you can see the base of the "pyramid" beneath the catholic church.
Do not expect him to be listed as a hostage in the list of those demanding release of the #hostages: The father of Ahed Tamimi was #kidnapped by Israeli forces
Bassem #Tamimi The father of Palestinian activist Ahed Tamimi was kidnapped by Israeli #occupation forces from the village of #NabiSaleh in October 2023. His family has not heard from him since then.
South Africans angry at joblessness, #inequality & power shortages have cut support for the #ANC to 40% in this week's election, ending 3 decades of dominance in #SouthAfrica by the party that freed the country from #apartheid.
A dramatically weakened mandate for the legacy party of #NelsonMandela, down from the 57.5% it got in the previous 2019 parliamentary election, means the ANC must share #power w/a rival in order to keep it.
"We have achieved our mission: ... to bring the ANC below 50%. We want to humble the ANC," #Malema said. “We are going to negotiate w/the ANC" for a coalition deal, though that would not be quite enough for a majority w/o incl’g another party.
The #ANC won every previous election by a landslide since the 1994 vote that ended #WhiteMinorityRule, but over the last decade its support dwindled as the economy stagnated, unemployment rose & roads & power stations crumbled.