“Do you condemn Hamas?: The question we have to ask ourselves is not whether we condemn Hamas, but whether we condemn a settler colonial regime that makes armed struggle necessary for survival.”
“Like them [Hamas] or not, the efforts they have waged and continue to wage have made more of a material impact toward the liberation of Palestine than anything any of us in the West will ever make. They are taking on the brutal violence of colonial power and waging a campaign of armed struggle that has, at the current moment, with coordination with other resistance factions, made the Zionist colony more of a pariah than it has ever been on a global stage and shattered the image of military invincibility and overall stability it has spent decades cultivating. Countless years of struggle have culminated in this flashpoint.”
@zephry@GeriatricGardener@mondoweiss@palestine@israel you forget who invaded who, Israelis Zionists invaded Palestine in 1946, warred against the native inhabitants, you may have heard of it the #Nakba
they slaughtered innocent civilians, men, women, children, drove the rest out of "israel" they've been doing it ever since.
Israel is not a state it's an invading, occupying terrorist army. The only state is Palestine, israel is a zionist colonial idea. Who's end is fast approaching.
@chiraag@palestine@israel
Speaking truth to power is always a long treacherous road.
Kudos to the author, and to you, for publishing the words that are so revolutionary that corrupt power people will do anything to keep us all from hearing them. #gaza#nakba#columbialawreview
I love it how Israelis now acknowledge eye witness report are valid, just when they don’t have anything tangible to show, and refuse to fully cooperate with independent investigators.
The Zionist Wikipedia and most right wing historians, including Benny Morris, are awfuly dismissive of Palestinians eye witness reports of massacres, rape and other atrocities during the #Nakba of 48 and after. If right-wing activists are now ok with that, there are many Israeli history book that will need revising, starting with, but not limited to, any chapter dealing with Deir Yassin and Tantura massacres.
Only issue though is that in our time there are lots of ways to document such events, far less than been available to Palestinians, who whatever they had, has been stolen by Israeli authorities, including photography, personal diaries, books and the like.
High value Hollywood productions of washed out Silicon Valley Jewish princess don’t count as historical record. What next? Seinfeld? Noaa Tishbi? Kuni Lemel?
Give us a break.
PS IDF leaking torture confessions to the Islamophobic Daily Mail says everything there’s to say about Israel itself : discredited.
"The #Nakba is a structure, not an event. Its authors openly admit its aims" explains Dr. #ArdiImseis, professor of #InternationalLaw, Queen's University, Canada
#EU / We Condemn the Israeli Lawmaker Calling for a Second 'Nakba'
"Right now: one goal: Nakba! A Nakba that will overshadow the Nakba of 48. Nakba in Gaza and Nakba to anyone who dares to join" —— MK Ariel Kallner, head for the Knesset delegation for relations with the European Parliament [October 7, 2023]
[…] We would like to remind MK Kallner of the EU's firm and steady position that all settlements in Palestinian territory are illegal under international law and the EU will not recognise any changes to the pre-1967 borders, including in Jerusalem, other than those agreed by both sides.
[…] We remind MK Kallner and all Israeli officials of their obligations under international law, including the protection of civilians in armed conflict. We also would like to remind MK Kallner that the indiscriminate use of force and the targeting of civilian infrastructure in Gaza are clear violations of these legal obligations, and any attempts to justify or condone such actions are unacceptable.
[…] This is why we ask the Knesset leadership to appoint a new head of the Knesset delegation for the relations with the European Parliament, unless MK Kallner apologizes for these comments and deletes his despicable tweets.
"Police have beaten and arrested several demonstrators at a pro-Palestine protest in New York’s Brooklyn in the latest crackdown on voices speaking against the war on Gaza in the United States.
"Protesters gathered on Saturday in the Bay Ridge neighbourhood in southwest Brooklyn, home to a large Muslim community, including people of Palestinian and Yemeni origins.
"Local sources said at least a dozen arrests were made on Saturday out of a crowd of several hundred."
While I agree with you @martin that Zionists are (ultra)nationalists who created an apartheid state, they are everything but social (almost like the OG nazis). There wouldn't be concentration camps for Ethiopian Jews if that's not true. "homeland for the Jewish people" is a bloody joke of yours, since real Jews condemn zionists & the apartheid regime of Israel. Real Jews have no interest in perpetrating a genocide and ethnic cleansing since they aren't undereducated funda(mental) zionazis (like you?).
If "Jews are indigenous people in Israel" then you can explain why skin cancer rates are so high among Ashkenazi Israelites, can't you? Please, explain why DNA test are illegal in that zionazi regime, if you're not 100% wrong.
"Arabs... have... rights... in Israel" You are referring to UNO #resolution194, the right to participate in elections and vote a government that isn't inhumane, aren't you? If so, you are nothing but a clown. In reality their rights are non-existing or you refer to a "right" to be occupied, oppressed, and exploited.
PS: If you would start to learn about Likuds history, you would find #Haganah and other ultra-right-wing fascists who perpetrated terror attacks and ethnic cleansing like Likud, today.
PPS: If you're one of those #genocideDenier 's, please explain why 1 #holocaust of <12y is worst than 3 #nakba's over a time period of >75 years.
Palestinian residents of the Upper Galilee village of Biram, expelled in 1949, were not allowed to return even after the Israeli High Court of Justice upheld their right. The village is now part of a national park. UNRWA estimates over 5 million Palestinian refugees are denied the right to return to their homes in contravention of international law.
Source:
Activestills Photography as Protest in Palestine/Israel, 2016
According to the UN, the number of Palestinian #refugees, who were expelled from Palestinian villages and cities during the #Nakba to Gaza, is approximately 1.4 million out of a total population of over 2 million, constituting two-thirds of the population in the besieged enclave, which has been suffering a new Israeli Nakba for the past seven months.
Rajha Abu Khalifa is one of many refugees in Gaza, who are older than Israel.
The Florida Palestine Network put on a massive march to recognize the #Nakba in #Orlando, video below! Orlando Police attacked the peaceful march and even pepper-sprayed children, but the march continued.
“walked back to #Palestine against the traffic of exile”
[…] In 1967, Sireen Sawalha's mother, with her young children, walked back to Palestine against the traffic of exile. My Brother, My Land is the story of Sireen's family in the decades that followed and their lives in the Palestinian village of Kufr Ra'i.
#Documentary / Black Flag (Israel 2024, 72 minutes, Hebrew and Arabic, with Hebrew and English subtitles)
English title: "The 1957 Transcripts"
"If we begin to recognize these divides, is there hope for reconciliation?"
"Black Flag" delves into the story of the Kafr Qasim (كفر قاسم) events in October 1956, when 47 innocent civilians were shot dead by Israeli border police officers.
Through three intertwining narrative threads, like a gripping legal drama, the complex historical, political and psychological realities that shaped and drove the event unfold.
The cinematic mosaic created by the potlines highlights the vast differences, contradictory narratives and deep rifts between Jews and Arabs - who were destined to live together in one place.
#Documentary / Death In Umm Al-Hiran (Israel 2024, 90 minutes, Hebrew and Arabic, English subtitles)
The story of the evacuation of the Bedouin village of Umm al-Hiran in 2017, which ended with the deaths of two people: a village resident, Yacoub Abu Al-Qian, a teacher at a local school, and Erez Amedi Levi, a police officer who took part in the evacuation.
"Death in Umm al-Hiran" lays out the entire course of events, beginning with the story of the village and the struggle against evacuation, through the night of the incident and up to the Department of Internal Police Investigation's inquiry and conclusions, and seeks to understand how the case became a political event and a tool for conflict between the strongest and most influential figures in the country.
Israeli Palestinians attending the premier. The screening went ahead as scheduled.
Scenes from the movie:
[…] Magav forces did update the mukhtars of the villages, but did not bother to update all residents of Kafr Qasem who left for work outside of it that same day. From the protocols, it emerges that this was not a matter of forgetfulness or mistake, but rather a decision made with a clear mind. The fact that many of the residents left the village that day for work was brought before the commanders. But they decided that it would actually be not a bad idea for some of the residents who return to the village after the curfew to be killed that same day. "It's better if a few go like that, and then they'll learn," testified one of the Magav soldiers in court.
[…] Excerpts from these protocols have already been published, and yet, setting them on the screen alongside the testimonies of the village residents and the explanations of the historians paints a picture of a premeditated and directed massacre carried out by Israeli security forces against innocent civilians – a picture that becomes even more chilling in the current timing, when the word "massacre" is so loaded and alive in the Israeli reality.
[…] Residents of the village who witnessed the killings describe how Magav soldiers ordered their comrades in the field "to mow them down", while the protocols make clear that the commanders dispatched their orders to kill innocent civilians. The soldiers had no problem shooting at women, children and infants, and were willing to obey any order without exercising judgment.