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
As coups are one of the primary ways through which dictatorships are installed, this piece details measures that civilians, civil society, and governments can take to prevent and block coups d'état and executive usurpations. It also contains specific legislative steps and other measures that governments and non-governmental institutions can follow to prepare for anti-coup resistance.
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.
Today in Labor History February 27, 1943: The Rosenstrasse protest occurred in Berlin. The demonstration was carried out by non-Jewish wives and relatives of Jewish men targeted for deportation. It was the only mass public demonstration by Germans in the Third Reich against the deportation of Jews. The women were successful, too, forcing the Gestapo to release the 1,800 Jews they had in custody in Berlin.
"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."
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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," ...
Algorithms of Resistance
The Everyday Fight Against Platform Power
How global workers, influencers, and activists develop tactics of algorithmic resistance by appropriating and repurposing the same algorithms that control our lives.
Activists establish protest camp outside Antony Blinken’s home as demonstrations escalate against the Biden administration
Activists are camped outside Antony Blinken’s home to bring the call for a Gaza ceasefire directly to the Secretary of State’s doorstep. The protest is part of an escalating wave of protest directed squarely at the Biden administration.
Hey again Christof. Check your facts man! Those accusations have been totally debunked by a wide array of media - including Israel-supporting corporate media!
None. Of. That. Happened! It was all Israeli #hasbara bullshit!
For those like you sitting at the back I repeat:
None. Of. That. Happened! It was all Israeli hasbara bullshit!
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:(
"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."
This is The Palestine Pod.
It was a good one, an interview with one of the journalists I frequently link to - hear what's involved in reporting on a genocide, about the Gaza she knows, the meaning of her name and more.
I usually give the spotify link, but they're on YouTube too. https://youtu.be/du_-Wxfl8ek?si=GgRDU66wa9VLx8-B
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."