I've only read a few Palestinian prisoners stories and I have to stop each time. I'm usually one who can sit and read for hours. It's devastating but necessary reading - we MUST get these stories to as many eyes as possible.
#EU foreign ministers discuss sanctions against Israel: “For the first time at an EU meeting, in a real way, I’ve seen significant discussion on sanctions and ‘what if,'” Ireland’s foreign minister said. (Politico, 2024-05-27)
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“‘There was a very clear consensus about the need to uphold the international humanitarian legal institutions,’ Martin told reporters following the Foreign Affairs Council.”
"After more than seven months of the Israeli genocide in #Gaza – a word Physicians for Human Rights-Israel still refuses to use – the group acknowledges that “the Israeli government and other entities have been exploiting reports of sexual violence in a manipulative and cynical manner.”
Too little, too late!"
🔻'Trump would be worse' is a bad argument & misses several key points.
🔻Biden is pitting vulnerable groups here against genocide victims in Palestine.
🔻If Biden loses, it will be HIS fault.
🔻Protest the DNC in August
This podcast is good at making #history easier to digest, if you're interested--
Up this week is Zionism, Zionist #propaganda, Balfour, the guy chosen to mess up Palestine, who had previously wreaked havoc in Ireland and denied entry to Jews fleeing the holocaust who were hoping to find refuge in the UK. And Herzl &more stuff.
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🔻 There was a McCarthyite Congressional hearing recently where they were more concerned about a slogan for freedom than people dying in a genocide.
In the clip, McClain, a representative, even says "infantada" demonstrating the care and knowledge level were dealing with: https://www.democracynow.org/2024/4/18/columbia_university_israel_palestine
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🔻(Note that Columbia is concerned abt words- "from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free" but does nothing when former IDF soldiers attack students w the chemicals in skunkwater. Students went to the hospital-there was no Congressional hearing on that...)
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🔻BREAKING Nov 17, 2023: In a bombshell, The Nation reports today that Israel is operating a phony front group in the US to spy on pro-Palestinian students on college campuses – all blatantly illegal under US law. NY Times is ignoring.
FBI has done nothing to stop it. https://www.thenation.com/article/world/israel-spying-american-student-activists/
An intelligent analysis of what's been going on with Iran - including the puzzling minority of Iranians who appear to support Israel. (Sometimes the enemy of your enemy is not a friend! Evidence being Zionism and genocide, hello.)
"They can’t tell you that at Shifa Hospital complex, after it was raided and shut down in November, that it was slowly coming up to speed and that people who were sheltering had returned there. The emergency department started to see patients again. You don’t get to hear that aspect of it."