"For more than 56 years, what was termed the ‘peace process’ – a process that led nowhere – was actually a series of American-Israeli initiatives to which the #Palestinians were asked to react. Today, ‘peace’ must be replaced with #decolonization, and Palestinians must be able to articulate their vision for the region, with #Israeli|s asked to react." - #IlanPappé
Through the mailinglist of the Nib: Cartoonists for Palestine
"Comics have no walls nor borders, and the youngness of our medium represents an opportunity to reject the boundaries that were assigned to us. All around the world, in newspapers, magazines and on mobile phone screens, comics speak about the most important topics of the day. We are not powerless. Through comics, we can shape the narratives told about ourselves and our world—and in that way, we hope to provoke change.
Recent events are extreme, brutal, and shocking, but they are part of a continuum–the long ideological project of settler colonialism that requires the systematic denial and destruction of indigenous peoples. Now is the time to build something new and different."
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If Israel escalates by attacking Iran and striking at the country’s infrastructure, then Iran’s counter will be to take a page out of Russia’s book and commence the one line of attack which Israel, the US and their allies cannot withstand any better than Ukraine – that’s Electric War.
For the seven months which have elapsed since Hamas began its operation against Israel on October 7, and Israel commenced its genocide against the Palestinians, there has been no targeting by Hamas, Hezbollah, the Houthis, or the Syrian and Iraqi groups of Israel’s highly vulnerable maritime gas platforms, gas pipelines, coal and oil-fired electricity generating plants, the coal and oil storages nearby, solar and wind power units, or the electricity grids keeping the country alight.
The Arab inhibitions and calculations are understandable. Iran’s will disappear if Israel triggers a new round of attacks.
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If Israel escalates by attacking Iran and striking at the country’s infrastructure, then Iran’s counter will be to take a page out of Russia’s book and commence the one line of attack which Israel, the US and their allies cannot withstand any better than Ukraine – that’s Electric War.
For the seven months which have elapsed since Hamas began its operation against Israel on October 7, and Israel commenced its genocide against the Palestinians, there has been no targeting by Hamas, Hezbollah, the Houthis, or the Syrian and Iraqi groups of Israel’s highly vulnerable maritime gas platforms, gas pipelines, coal and oil-fired electricity generating plants, the coal and oil storages nearby, solar and wind power units, or the electricity grids keeping the country alight.
The Arab inhibitions and calculations are understandable. Iran’s will disappear if Israel triggers a new round of attacks.
The 44-year-old Faye will be the youngest president of Senegal. His victory is considered an upset–Faye is a self-described “left pan-Africanist” and his pledge to pursue significant systemic reforms in the country has been well received, in particular by Senegalese youth. Faye won as an independent after his party, the African Patriots of Senegal for Work, Ethics, and Fraternity (PASTEF) was unilaterally dissolved in July 2023 in a crackdown on opposition protests by the incumbent government of President Macky Sall, as covered last year in Liberation News.
The leader of the party, Ousmane Sonko was arrested along with Faye and barred from running in the 2024 presidential election. Sonko and Faye, who had been arrested earlier in 2023, were released along with hundreds of other political prisoners on March 14–just ten days before the election. Their release was triggered by the Constitutional Court barring an attempt by incumbent President Macky Sall to postpone the elections over concerns about which candidates were legally eligible to run.
The court overturned this move, affirming that Sall must leave office on April 2. Sonko ran for president on the PASTEF ticket in 2019, receiving just over 15% of the vote. This year, Faye stepped in as the party’s candidate as Sonko’s legal eligibility remained in question and decisively won with 54.3% of the vote in the first round over incumbent Prime Minister Amadou Ba’s 35.8%.
✍️ Until 30 April, you can still submit your manuscript for the issue of Práticas da História dedicated to the theme "(Digital) Retrospectives on African Historiography: Decolonisation, the African press and the uses of knowledge".
The editors are Noemi Alfieri and Cassandra Mark-Thiesen.
Millennials Are Killing Capitalism: Al Shifa, Resistance, and Fanonian Psychoanalysis with Dr. Lara Sheehi
"In this episode we will talk about the war crimes the zionists have committed in Al Shifa, how this fits into the landscape of this genocide materially and psychologically. We will also revisit October 7th and discuss how psychological warfare has made it challenging to discuss what Al Aqsa Flood represented and enacted. In doing so we will seek to resist the framing of this day that places limits on our speech and actions in solidarity with the Palestinian Resistance. We will also incorporate some discussion of Fanon and his analysis of the Algerian revolution and the anticolonial process."
Millennials Are Killing Capitalism: Al Shifa, Resistance, and Fanonian Psychoanalysis with Dr. Lara Sheehi
"In this episode we will talk about the war crimes the zionists have committed in Al Shifa, how this fits into the landscape of this genocide materially and psychologically. We will also revisit October 7th and discuss how psychological warfare has made it challenging to discuss what Al Aqsa Flood represented and enacted. In doing so we will seek to resist the framing of this day that places limits on our speech and actions in solidarity with the Palestinian Resistance. We will also incorporate some discussion of Fanon and his analysis of the Algerian revolution and the anticolonial process."
Imprisoning Palestine, Zionist colonialism through an abolitionist lens.
by Rawan Masri & Fathi Nemer, June 2023
"Today, more than ever, it remains crucial to center any discussion about Palestinian liberation through the lens of abolition and a complete rejection of carcerality. In this context, Incarceration is not only related to prisons and prisoners, but touches upon every aspect of our life. From the moment of birth, Palestinians must contend with being criminalized for existing. We are surveilled and censored, our oppression normalized, and our bodies corralled into various open-air and closed prisons.
Such tactics have always revealed more about the jailor than the prisoner, and the logics inherent to the carceral apparatus are shared between all oppressive forces. While the goal is to project strength and power, what it divulges instead is fear, insecurity, and self-doubt. Resorting to locking away the inconvenient reminders of a crooked system betrays its weakness, a society unable to function without constructed villains onto which the world's ills can be pinned.
[...] The vessel Open Arms, collaborating with World Central Kitchen—an organization founded by Chef José Andrés, has been stationed in Cyprus since last Friday, equipped with tons of food and water.
[...] Our mission is to establish a maritime humanitarian corridor to Gaza, introducing a new route that facilitates the ongoing delivery of essential supplies to the Strip. This highly complex operation is designed to alleviate the severe humanitarian crisis faced by the Palestinian civilian population, many of whom are still without access to food or water in various regions.
Zionist ex-minister of "defense" Moshe Dayan once said, "We control Gaza by day, and Guevara controls it by night."
Today, we remember Guevara of Gaza, Mohammed Al-Aswad, on the 51st anniversary of his martyrdom.
Born in Haifa in 1946, Guevara joined the Arab Nationalist Movement as a youth before later joining Al-Sa'iqa and then the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine in its early years. When he was 13 years old, the Argentinian revolutionary Che Guevara visited the Gaza Strip, touring several refugee camps.
After carrying out many armed operations, zionist forces imprisoned Mohammed in 1968 and released him in July 1970. They did not know that Mohammed was the famous "Guevara" that all talked about at the time. Training and educating fighters, he was the commander of the PFLP in #Gaza.
We congratulate the "Homesh" qualitative operation, which resulted in the injury of many zionists.
This qualitative operation comes as part of our people's response to the ongoing genocide against #Gaza and the aggression against Al-Quds and the West Bank.
This qualitative operation constitutes a new and powerful security blow, reflecting the fragility and failure of the zionist security system.
The enemy must realize that our people's resistance is steadfast and will not succeed in breaking its will and its quest for liberation. It should expect more heroic acts from our people and their free revolutionaries.
We call for the blessed month of #Ramadan to be an opportunity to escalate confrontation and uprising against the criminal enemy and its settler gangs, and to engage in the battle to defend the people, the land, and the sanctities.
We renew the call to our militant cells and resistance factions to intensify their strikes against the forces of the fascist enemy in response to the ongoing genocide against our people.
Palestinian Mujahideen Movement
Media Office
Saturday, 28 Sha'ban 1445
Corresponding to March 9, 2024
✍️ A new call for papers has opened for the journal Práticas da História:
edited by Noemi Alfieri and Cassandra Mark-Thiesen, the theme of the issue will be "(Digital) Retrospectives on Historiography from Africa: Decolonization, the African press, and the uses of knowledge".
Love, but not for the colonized: responding to repression of Palestine solidarity at CUNY
"However, what we find particularly affronting and are driven to address here is the insidious way in which WAC coordinators weaponized the language of love, antiracism, and care to silence support for Palestinian liberation. This hypocrisy is part of a broader trend in left academia and is thus important to address."