In dehumanising the Palestinians, #Biden has surpassed Trump
The US president’s support for the genocide of the Palestinians is hardly surprising given his country’s settler-colonial past.
"For Asian Americans, the Oriental became a shadow to dispel, a double to destroy, a name to reject. But if Orientalism provided much of the intellectual energy that drove the growth of Asian American literature and culture, many of us forgot or overlooked that Said was Palestinian and claimed the Palestinian cause as his own."
Muslims were disinvited to a US Democratic campaign event. Not a good look. I wish we had other options for voting. These people want to do a genocide without people yelling at them i guess:(
A teenage girl sits next to the dead bodies of her three siblings and cousins - just three of more than 13000 young human beings (not Hamas members) murdered by #netanyahu 's #israel , its' complicit supporters and silent enablers who did not call for a #ceasefire .
#opinion [Amal Oraby (أمل عرابي)] / 3 Reasons to be Optimistic About the #ICJ preliminary Ruling
1 / by accepting the case and hearing South Africa's arguments that Israel is violating international law, the Court shattered #Netanyahu's project to deny Palestinian nationhood. The Court affirmed there is a Palestinian people with equal rights.
2 / the Court's decision provides legal ammunition for demanding a #ceasefire. This is now not just an unrealistic moral demand but follows international legal norms to minimize suffering.
3 / #Israel is now under increased global scrutiny that exposes the less flattering realities of decades of #occupation and siege policies. Israel will have to reckon with the past, present and future consequences of its actions.
This shifts the calculus for other post-colonial peoples to demand justice for Palestinians as connected to their own struggles. A new political project is needed in Israel to change realities rather than deny them.
"CCR has filed [a lawsuit] against President Joe Biden, Secretary of State Antony Blinken, and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin for the support and failure to prevent genocide in Gaza. Arguments will begin next week in federal court in California."
They embrace genocide, but cut funding of #UNRWA that feeds millions of innocent people, many of them children.
These nations have absolutely 0 humanity just like the lies about October 7 that they happily spread. They are reacting to words of Israel to discredit and starve the one UN organization that is the lifeline of people facing starvation and death.
@faab64@palestine To cripple the UN agency trying desperately to feed people who are being purposefully starved to death by Israel is hypocritical & sadistic. Further traumatizing the most ill-treated people on Earth by enabling Israel's genocide while it is killing traumatized people lining up for food and bombing those seeking shelter in UN institutions is beyond evil. A siege is not enough? Instead support the nation perpetrating genocide in Gaza? #Israel#hypocrisy#ceasefire#Gaza
Rightly so! It is the height of hypocrisy to suspend aid over these allegations - made by Israel, no less, with its long history of blatant lies - while continuing to support Israel and its ongoing massacre of thousands of civilians.
Interesting thought about the #ICJ ruling that calls Israel's action against #Palestinians in #Gaza#Genocide; requires humanitarian access, but DOES NOT include a #ceasefire ... that by ruling it genocide and not providing a means of international protection for Palestinian citizens, legitimizes #Hamas as a #LiberationFront.😎