~ “Knowledge is Israel’s worst enemy. Awareness is Israel’s most hated and feared foe.”
In that 2014 article, “There are no poems of mass destruction,” he wondered why Israel would bomb the Islamic University of Gaza, where he taught literature. ~
By Amna Shabana https://mondoweiss.net/2024/03/refaat-alareer-lives/
"It is almost as if the world is telling us a morbid joke: we will kill you if you resist and kill you if you hide, and if you refuse, and if you concede, and we will devour your land and gulp your oceans and kill you with hunger and thirst."
By Mohammed El-Kurd https://mondoweiss.net/2024/03/are-we-indeed-all-palestinians/
On the dehumanization of Palestinians. "You don't become genocidal in one day." If you have seen the videos of Israelis dressing up as Palestinian victims to mock them, you know: https://www.instagram.com/reel/C4grb9-uaU5/
Tik Tok - Israel views info as a threat so US bans it
This Republican-led push for censorship has been reinforced by behind-the-scenes pressure from pro-war celebrities, Zionist groups like the ADL, and tech executives like the former executive of dating app Tinder Jeff Morris Jr, who is “convinced” TikTok “is the reason we’re losing the information war with high school & college students.” All of them have pressed TikTok to censor more pro-Palestine content. https://jacobin.com/2024/03/tiktok-ban-israel-gaza-free-speech
Le 16 mars 2003, il y a 21 ans, Rachel Corrie 🇺🇸 a été tuée par un bulldozer israélien alors qu'elle tentait d'empêcher la démolition illégale de la maison d'une famille palestinienne à Gaza.
On 16 March 2003. 21 years ago, Rachel Corrie 🇺🇸 was killed by an Israeli bulldozer while trying to stop the illegal demolition of a Palestinian family’s home in Gaza.
This is so funny. The Zionists have made themselves so unwelcome to #mastodon mods via excessive reports that they've had to make their own, meaningless, reporting system.
In tonight's State of the Union speech Biden will not mention Palestine. He will use the words "Israel", "Gaza", and "The Palestinian People" but he will not speak the proper name of the land where they live. And he will not call Israel's actions a genocide.
There is absolutely no reason for people to be reduced to waiting for token "aid" to fall from the sky. Aid as a concept is itself a failure-this world could be a place of sufficiency and mutuality, if not for the forces of greed and violence which render millions-in Palestine and
beyond-deprived.
Remember Yazan al Kafarna today.
This is a great concept. It's a group of activists putting up posters of the alt text (it looks like) with a black square where a photo would normally be, describing photos of the genocide in Palestine.
Luister naar The day after in Gaza w/ Dr. Ghassan Abu Sitta op Makdisi Street, en word weer zo pissig op de Israëlische oorlogsmisdrijven gedogers en verdedigers in de #PvdA en #GroenLinks met hun ge-tut tut over From the river to the sea en hun 'cultuur van het leven' racisme.
Je staat niet voor internationaal (humanitair) recht, mensenrechten en solidariteit, dus wat is je 'links zijn' waard?
"I can’t say I think others should follow Aaron’s example. I doubt he wanted anyone to. An act like this needs attention, not imitation. What we can follow is the moral courage. What we need to decide for ourselves is how to act, not whether or not to act."
"I don’t have any answers for me, and I don’t have any answers for you.
I can say that he shouldn’t be forgotten, that he ought to be remembered when we ask ourselves if we have the courage to act."
The West, especially those to claim to care about human rights.
We must accept that we have now proven, beyond dispute, that we never cared, as countries, as polities, as establishments, as media, about human rights.
we only cared about our human rights, and about the human rights of our friends, of our vassals.
If you are not one of us, you don't have human rights.
In "The Book That Wouldn't Burn" by Mark Lawrence, each chapter is prefixed with a quote from a book, real or imaginary.
It gives the author a chance to make statements tangentially about the plot, throw in some humorous asides, and maybe even take a political stand about real world events.
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Nothing is more annoying than influencers giving themselves permission to dehumanize Palestinians. Here are two examples, but I've seen many more. These are definitely two of the most defensive, lol.
Maybe it says more about the pitfalls of influencer culture (than the individuals), the need to be seen by millions as "authentic," ...
A poster of the Irgun Zvai Leumi (National Military Organization), “Irgun” for short, which began its terrorist campaign against the Palestinians in September 1937, and was the parent body of the "Stern Gang".
The Hebrew letters inside the square stand for “only thus" This way, as indicated by the map and the superimposed rifle, was the establishment of Israel by force on both banks of the Jordan River, ie., in Palestine and Transjordan. The date of the poster is ca. 1946.
The translated transcript says "only solution".
Irgun emblem: The map shows both Mandatory Palestine and the Emirate of Transjordan, which the Irgun claimed in its entirety for a future Jewish state. The acronym "Etzel" is written above the map, and "raq kach" ("only thus") is written below.
A poster of the Irgun Zvai Leumi (National Military Organization), “Irgun” for short, which began its terrorist campaign against the Palestinians in September 1937, and was the parent body of the "Stern Gang".
The Hebrew letters inside the square stand for “only thus" This way, as indicated by the map and the superimposed rifle, was the establishment of Israel by force on both banks of the Jordan River, ie., in Palestine and Transjordan. The date of the poster is ca. 1946.
The translated transcript says "only solution".
Irgun emblem: The map shows both Mandatory Palestine and the Emirate of Transjordan, which the Irgun claimed in its entirety for a future Jewish state. The acronym "Etzel" is written above the map, and "raq kach" ("only thus") is written below.
"Palestinians across the West Bank describe how Israeli settlers, with military backing, are intensifying their takeover of land for illegal construction."