I've been watching some video clips and stuff from the anti-Israel protesters at #Pride events, the terrorist takeover of the Israeli consulate building's bathroom in San Francisco and stuff like that as part of their #intifada
So, now I feel that I need to make a banner that says GAYS FOR STONING and go join them.
If anyone has even a remotely credible argument or evidence that the Palestinian response to the Nakba and occupation would have been any different in practice if Israel claimed to be a Zoroastrian or Taoist or Rastafarian state, let's hear it.
Today in Labor History March 5, 1965: A Leftist uprising against British colonialism erupted in Bahrain, known as the March Intifada. The uprising began after the Bahrain Petroleum Company laid off hundreds of workers at on March 5, 1965. Students at Manama High School, the only high school in Bahrain, went out into the streets to protest the lay-offs. Several people died in the clashes between protesters and police. The authorities quickly suppressed the uprising. However, as news of the crackdown spread, protests erupted throughout the country, creating a nationwide uprising which lasted for a month.
I know Mastodon is designed to keep everything nice and to shield us from the horrors of the world, and that it is good for us to only look at cat pictures all day and cheer each other up, but honestly: sometimes i also think that that is just a lot of crap and everyone who turns away and continues with their nice privileged life as if all is ok is complicit #Gaza
The word #شهيد, #shaheed, "carries connotations not only of seeing, but of presence and proximity. To be a #witness is to make contact, to be touched, and to bear the marks of this touch.
"Shaheed is the word Palestinians use to describe those lost to Israeli violence, a word which has drawn condemnation from American universities and press, who once again presume to know the meaning of Arabic-rooted terms, without bothering to investigate. They allege the word #martyr glorifies death for death’s sake. But in this context, it should be read as honoring the truth these brutalized bodies speak. Their flesh, marked by colonial violence, makes visible the wild injustice they endured. Which is to say, their martyrdom tells us the truth about our world."
Amjad #Iraqi explains why Palestinians identify with Khader #Adnan, a prisoner who died on hunger strike, for his struggle against #israel#prisons.
"Those trying to undermine public anger over the hunger striker's death don't want to talk about the violent carceral regime that he struggled against."