susurros

susurros , 10 hours ago to palestine group

Germany Designates BDS as 'Suspected Extremist Group'

"Germany's federal intelligence agency classified the international Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement as a suspected extremist organization this week.

"This new designation will allow German authorities to monitor BDS activists and recruit informants within the organization."

https://www.haaretz.com/world-news/europe/2024-06-20/ty-article/.premium/germany-designates-bds-as-suspected-extremist-group-citing-antisemitism-concerns/00000190-361d-d700-a7f0-bfffd7250000

@palestine #Palestine #Israel #Gaza #Germany #BDS

susurros , 10 hours ago to palestine group

A settler shot my husband. Then Israel bulldozed my childhood home

https://www.972mag.com/settler-shooting-home-demolition-masafer-yatta/

@palestine #Palestine #Israel #WestBank

susurros , 2 days ago to random

"Some 10 million people are displaced – the highest figure in the world – and famine-like conditions are taking hold across the country.

"About 756,000 people are facing 'catastrophic levels of hunger' with an additional 25.6 million people facing acute food shortages."

https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2024/6/18/sudanese-refugees-in-chad-fleeing-starvation-as-much-as-theyre-fleeing-war

#Sudan

susurros , 2 days ago to palestine group

"Zionism’s solution for the 'problem' of the Palestinians is to empty them of any meaning or life that is not self-referential, such that they can be eliminated without triggering remorse, such that the decision to let them stay—on the land, alive, it doesn’t matter—becomes an act of benevolence. If the Palestinians are allowed historical grievances (or anything beyond 'desires and prejudices'), a consciousness before Zionism, beyond Europe, Zionism collapses.

"Insofar as Palestinians exist, they are about Israel. Those uncomfortable with the optics of Zionism measure the condition of its Palestinian subjects as a litmus test for Israel’s soul...Palestinians exist on the state’s periphery, as both mirror and threat, helping Zionists articulate an identity, projected against and shaped by this existential foil (in other words, textbook orientalism). Palestinians are the glue that holds Israel together."

https://thebaffler.com/latest/running-amok-turfah

@palestine #Palestine #Israel #Gaza

susurros , 2 days ago to palestine group

"According to Gaza’s Health Ministry, as many as 3,500 children are currently at risk of starving to death. With the Strip’s health system decimated, and in the absence of an immediate ceasefire and a flood of humanitarian aid into the Strip, the situation for Gaza’s children is increasingly life-or-death."

https://www.972mag.com/northern-gaza-famine-hunger-malnutrition-aid/

@palestine #Palestine #Israel #Gaza

susurros , 5 days ago to palestine group

"More than 76 percent of schools in Gaza require 'full reconstruction or major rehabilitation' to be functional following Israel’s months-long onslaught, according to a new assessment shared by the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.

"Israeli attacks on educational institutes in Gaza have not only 'disrupted immediate educational activities but also eroded the foundation for sustained societal growth and development.'"

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/6/15/israel-targeting-of-gaza-schools-eroding-foundation-for-societal-growth

@palestine #Palestine #Israel #Gaza #education #academia

susurros , 6 days ago to palestine group

"Embodying Homeland: Palestinian Grief and the Perseverance of Beauty in a Time of Genocide" by Devin G. Atallah & Hisham Awartani

"The layers of loss we, Palestinians in the homeland and exile, face individually and collectively in our bodies, families, and communities are stacked within decades of colonial violence perpetrated by the colonial cult of death. The accumulation, however, is not only across time, but also reaches across space. Our grief is transnational and intergenerational, intimate and collective, spiritual and embodied. And so is our homeland. As the Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish reminds us, Palestine urges us to recast it, time and again, 'with all the tools of the impossible.'

"When we grieve, listen, and love as Palestinians, we are revolutionaries of the world. When we find the courage to transform our pain—to process our grief—into energies for the perseverance of the beauty in all that we love against the currents of cruelty our people face, we teach the world a lesson in humanity: 'Palestinians teach a fundamental decolonial truth, which the current world is still unable to comprehend—that Gaza has liberated us all.' Palestinian grief asks the entire world a question: What would life be like for you, without our people? Who will remember all the beauty of that which we love?"

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/0377919X.2024.2344419

@palestine #Palestine #Israel #Gaza #grief #mourning

susurros , 6 days ago to palestine group

"I come from the oldest colony in the world. We understand that it is not easy living under these colonial conditions. We have lived and survived through genocide. Our struggle is the same. We have the same enemy: the Yankee Empire, because the Zionists receive funding from the United States to commit this genocide.

"I am here talking about our country with Palestinians. They [tell me], 'I did not know that about Puerto Rico. That sounds like Palestine.' And that is true. The bombs they [Israel] have been using here were [tested] in Vieques. The weapons they have been using were probably [tested] in Vieques. There is a direct connection with our struggle."

https://nacla.org/boricua-gaza-direct-connection-struggle

@palestine #Palestine #Israel #Gaza #PuertoRico

susurros , 7 days ago to palestine group

"Israeli tanks rolled into the western part of Rafah on Thursday as the city came under intense helicopter, drone and artillery fire in what residents described as one of the worst bombardments of the area so far.

"The assault on Rafah has driven out more than a million Palestinians who had been sheltering there, forcing them into areas with little or no access to food, water or shelter. The UN has warned that more than a million people are expected to 'face death and starvation by the middle of July'."

https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/jun/13/israel-gaza-war-rafah

@palestine #Palestine #Israel #Gaza #Rafah

susurros , 9 days ago to palestine group

"Israeli forces have killed six Palestinians during a raid in the village of Kafr Dan near Jenin in the occupied West Bank, the Palestinian Ministry of Health has said, as Israel intensifies its attacks on the territory amid the war on Gaza.

"According to Palestinian health authorities, Israel has killed 544 Palestinians, including 133 children, in the West Bank since October 2023 when the violence in Gaza broke out. Israel has also detained thousands of Palestinians during that period."

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/6/11/israeli-forces-kill-six-palestinians-in-west-bank-raid

@palestine #Palestine #Israel #WestBank

susurros , 11 days ago to palestine group

“We did not know from which direction death would come for us.”

The Israeli operation killed 274 Palestinians, including 64 children, and injured 689 Palestinians in total.

https://mondoweiss.net/2024/06/i-heard-all-of-my-friends-last-breath-testimonies-from-the-nuseirat-massacre/

@palestine #Palestine #Israel #Gaza #Nuseirat

susurros , 12 days ago to palestine group

"A statement released by the Gaza Government Media Office said that 210 people had been killed in the Israeli attacks on Nuseirat and other parts of central Gaza.

"Dr Tanya Haj-Hassan, a paediatric intensive care doctor with Doctors Without Borders (MSF), described Al-Aqsa Hospital as a 'complete bloodbath', adding that it looked 'like a slaughterhouse'."

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/6/8/many-casualties-as-israel-escalates-attacks-across-gaza

@palestine #Palestine #Israel #Gaza

susurros , 14 days ago to palestine group

"The annual 'Jerusalem Day' Flag March has long been notorious for its open displays of Jewish supremacy. Every year, in celebration of Israel’s occupation of East Jerusalem in 1967 and continued control over the city, tens of thousands of mostly young Israeli Jews rampage through the Old City, harass and attack Palestinian residents, and shout racist slogans — all under police protection.

"However, if in the past it could be said that only some of the participating groups engaged in such behavior, this was the year that it became the norm."

https://www.972mag.com/jerusalem-flag-march-2024/

@palestine #Palestine #Israel #Jerusalem

susurros , 14 days ago to palestine group

"Israeli forces have killed at least three Palestinians during a raid in the Jenin refugee camp in the occupied West Bank, the Palestinian Health Ministry has said, as Israel intensifies its deadly attacks in the territory."

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/6/6/israeli-froces-raid-occupied-west-banks-jenin-kill-three-palestinians

@palestine #Palestine #Israel #WestBank #Jenin

susurros , 14 days ago to palestine group

Announcing the launch of the online Popular University for Gaza

San Francisco State University cancelled Dr. Rabab Abdulhadi's Palestine course. It is now available online as part of the Popular University for Gaza.

https://mondoweiss.net/2024/06/announcing-the-launch-of-the-online-popular-university-for-gaza/

@palestine #Palestine #Israel #Gaza #academia

susurros , 14 days ago to palestine group

"Israeli forces have bombed a United Nations-linked school in central Gaza where forcibly displaced Palestinians are sheltering, killing at least 40 and wounding more than 70."

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/6/6/israel-bombs-unrwa-school-in-gaza-kills-32-displaced-palestinians

@palestine #Palestine #Israel #Gaza

susurros , 16 days ago to palestine group

"The vast majority of children under the age of 5 in Gaza are regularly forced to go at least one full day without eating as Israel’s manufactured famine has intensified in recent weeks, aid groups have reported.

"According to a food survey conducted by humanitarian aid groups in May, 85 percent of children under 5 were deprived of food at least one day over a three day period. Official death counts reported by Gaza’s government do not include deaths by starvation; at least 30 children have been recorded starving to death in Gaza so far."

https://truthout.org/articles/report-vast-majority-of-children-under-5-in-gaza-going-full-days-without-food/

@palestine #Palestine #Israel #Gaza

susurros , 16 days ago to palestine group

"At least 15 people have been killed in Israeli ground and air attacks on the Bureij and Maghazi refugee camps in central Gaza, a Palestinian health official has said.

"The Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital is the only medical facility currently offering services to more than one million people in the area, the spokesperson said."

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/6/4/at-least-15-killed-in-israeli-attack-on-central-gaza-refugee-camps

@palestine #Palestine #Israel #Gaza

susurros , 21 days ago to palestine group

"A San José State University professor serving as a liaison for students demonstrating against the Israel-Hamas war was placed on a 60-day administrative leave amid an investigation into misconduct, according to a suspension letter.

"'I believe that my temporary suspension is part of an academic freedom suppression campaign against me,” she said. 'I have been an outspoken critic of the genocide in Gaza as well as an advocate for faculty rights as a California Faculty Assn. union member and leader.'"

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-05-30/san-jose-state-professor-suspended-over-pro-palestinian-work

@palestine #Palestine #Israel #Gaza #SJSU #academia

susurros , 22 days ago to palestine group

"Our civic infrastructure – universities, schools, hospitals, libraries, museums and cultural centres – built by generations of our people, lies in ruins from this deliberate continuous Nakba. The deliberate targeting of our educational infrastructure is a blatant attempt to render Gaza uninhabitable and erode the intellectual and cultural fabric of our society. However, we refuse to allow such acts to extinguish the flame of knowledge and resilience that burns within us."

https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2024/5/29/open-letter-by-gaza-academics-and-university-administrators-to-the-world

@palestine #Palestine #Israel #Gaza #academia

susurros , 22 days ago to palestine group

‘Bodies everywhere’: people describe horror of Israeli strike at Rafah camp

https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/29/bodies-everywhere-people-describe-horror-israeli-strike-rafah-camp

@palestine #Palestine #Israel #Gaza #Rafah

susurros , 23 days ago to palestine group

This evening, Mexico City police attacked protesters outside the Israeli embassy in Polanco and then kettled them in city center. Reports of several injured, some seriously.

Video via Radio Zapote.

@palestine #Palestine #Israel #Gaza #Mexico #CDMX

In a shaky video, police can be seen swinging their riot shields at demonstrators while some yells, "Qué pedo, culeros?" Later on, traffic cones are thrown into the street. A fire is burning to the left-hand side of the screen.

susurros , 23 days ago to palestine group

Sources: Internal IDF Report Finds Two Gazans Died After Being Beaten en Route to Israeli Prison

"An Israeli Military Police investigation found that two detainees who were taken from Gaza to the Sde Teiman detention facility in Israel were beaten and later died, say two sources who spoke with Haaretz.

"The Military Police is investigating in recent months the deaths of 35 Gazan detainees have died in Israeli detention facilities or while being detained by the army. Military Police investigations were opened into all of the incidents, but no soldiers have been arrested in any of the cases."

https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2024-05-28/ty-article/.premium/sources-idf-report-finds-two-gazans-died-after-being-beaten-en-route-to-israeli-prison/0000018f-bbbb-df3d-abbf-bffb68980000

@palestine #Palestine #Israel #Gaza

susurros , 23 days ago to palestine group

"Tanks reached the middle of Rafah on Tuesday as Israel’s global isolation deepened, with three European countries formally recognising a Palestinian state and the UN security council calling an emergency meeting to discuss the situation in Gaza.

"Overnight Israeli forces again attacked the Tel al-Sultan area, where at least 45 people were killed on Sunday by an airstrike and huge fire in an area crowded with refugee tents.

"Twenty-one people were killed in the latest strike, more than half of them women, authorities in Gaza said. At least one bomb landed about 300 metres from the weekend strike."

https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/28/tanks-centre-rafah-israel-isolation

@palestine #Palestine #Israel #Gaza #Rafah

susurros , 23 days ago to palestine group

"Carrying 'on strike' pickets and some wearing kaffiyehs, academic workers at UCLA and UC Davis walked off the job on Tuesday, alleging their rights were violated by University of California actions during pro-Palestinian protests and encampment crackdowns."

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-05-28/ucla-uc-davis-brace-for-strike-as-union-alleges-free-speech-violations-in-pro-palestinian-protests

@palestine #Palestine #Israel #Gaza #labor #academia #UCLA #UCDavis

susurros , 23 days ago to palestine group

"For nearly a decade, Israel has been surveilling senior International Criminal Court officials and Palestinian human rights workers as part of a secret operation to thwart the ICC’s probe into alleged war crimes, a joint investigation by +972 Magazine, Local Call, and the Guardian can reveal."

https://www.972mag.com/icc-israel-surveillance-investigation/

@palestine #Palestine #Israel #Gaza #ICC

susurros , 24 days ago to palestine group

'Happy Holidays': Right-wing Israeli Journalists Celebrate Rafah Attack, Likening It to Lag Ba'Omer Bonfire

"Two right-wing journalists reacted to the death of scores of Palestinians killed in Gaza on Sunday night by making a joke likening footage of the fires caused by the Israeli airstrike that killed them to the traditional bonfires lit on the Jewish holiday of Lag Ba'Omer, which also took place Sunday night.

Journalist Yinon Magal – who hosts the popular panel show The Patriots on Israel's pro-government news outlet Channel 14 – and news columnist and frequent Channel 12 panelist, Naveh Dromi, tweeted two versions of the same reaction to the unfolding tragedy in Rafah to their social media accounts. Magal posted a video of fires blazing in Rafah as emergency personnel and civilians worked to rescue the injured under the caption, 'The central bonfire this year in Rafah.' Dromi retweeted another user's post which also showed a fire in Rafah, adding her own 'Happy Holidays.'"

https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2024-05-27/ty-article/.premium/right-wing-israeli-journalists-celebrate-rafah-attack-likening-it-to-lag-baomer-bonfire/0000018f-b983-dca9-a5cf-bd832e6e0000

@palestine #Palestine #Israel #Gaza #Rafah

susurros , 24 days ago to palestine group

"Gaza officials say the death toll from Israeli air strikes on a camp housing displaced Palestinians near Rafah in southern part of the strip has risen to 45.

"The enclave’s health ministry on Monday said 45 people, including 23 women, children and elderly, were killed in the attack and 249 others wounded."

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/5/27/dozens-killed-in-israeli-strike-on-rafah-following-hamas-rocket-attacks

@palestine #Palestine #Israel #Gaza #Rafah

susurros , 28 days ago to palestine group

"Pro-Palestinian protesters launched a new encampment on the UCLA campus Thursday, weeks after their initial camp was violently attacked by counterprotesters and then dismantled by police.

"The Los Angeles Police Department issued a citywide tactical alert Thursday morning to keep officers on duty in case authorities were called to the campus."

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-05-23/ucla-students-set-up-a-second-encampment-as-gene-block-testifies-before-congress

@palestine #Palestine #Israel #Gaza #UCLA #academia

susurros , 28 days ago to palestine group

"Prisoners held at an Israeli detention camp in the Negev desert are being subjected to widespread physical and mental abuses, with at least one reported case of a man having his limb amputated as a result of injuries sustained from constant handcuffing, according to two whistleblowers who worked at the site.

"'The prisoners are detained in a sort of cages, all blindfolded and handcuffed,' the source said. 'If someone speaks or moves, they are immediately silenced or they are forced to stand with their hands raised above their head and handcuffed for up to one hour.

"'If they are unable to keep their hands raised, the soldiers attach the handcuffs to the bars of the cage. Many of the detainees had infected wounds that were not being properly treated.'"

https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/23/whistleblowers-allege-widespread-abuses-at-israeli-detention-camp-sde-teiman

@palestine #Palestine #Israel #Gaza

susurros , 28 days ago to palestine group

"After a military operation in Jenin that lasted nearly 40 hours, Israeli forces withdrew from the city of Jenin and its refugee camp on Thursday morning, May 23, leaving 12 Palestinians martyred in its wake.

"The Ministry of Health announced on Thursday that four of the 12 slain Palestinians were children."

https://mondoweiss.net/2024/05/jenin-resistance-defiant-as-israeli-army-kills-12-palestinians-in-raid/

@palestine #Palestine #Israel #WestBank #Jenin

susurros , 30 days ago to palestine group

"The Palestinian Health Ministry reported that seven people were killed and nine others wounded, including two seriously, during an Israeli forces raid in Jenin on Tuesday.

"According to local sources, among the dead is a senior doctor at the government hospital in Jenin, Aseed Jabareen, who was hit while on his way to work.

"Local sources also reported that a local teacher, Allam Jaradat, was killed by gunfire while in his car. A boy who was riding a bicycle was reportedly also killed by gunfire."

https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2024-05-21/ty-article/.premium/seven-palestinians-killed-in-israeli-army-raid-in-west-bank-city-of-jenin/0000018f-9a9a-d6da-a1cf-fbba1e850000

@palestine #Palestine #Israel #WestBank #Jenin

susurros , 1 month ago to palestine group

Perhaps not a popular view, but as someone who believes not only in Palestinian liberation but in abolition and anarchy, I am not celebrating the ICC seeking warrants for Netanyahu, Gallant, Sinwar, Deif, and Haniyeh.

The ICC falls firmly within the punitive, repressive carceral system and logic on which modernity operates. Putting people in prison, even people we don't like, does not heal, does not transform harm, does not lead to justice. It simply perpetuates a cycle and mindset of revenge as punishment.

"You can't jail an idea" is a popular slogan. But the same holds true for genocidal, hierarchical, supremacist ideas and the power behind them. Jailing Netanyahu is not only something that will not happen, but were it to happen, it would not stop genocide or Zionism or settler colonialism.

While fighting to stop the genocide, while tending to the immense loss, suffering, and harm, I believe we also need to articulate and propose liberatory visions that escape discourses of states, leaders, and oppressive ideologies of which the ICC is a part.

https://www.theguardian.com/law/article/2024/may/20/icc-prosecutor-seeks-arrest-warrants-israeli-pm-netanyahu-hamas-officials-war-crimes

@palestine #Palestine #Israel #Gaza #ICC

susurros , 1 month ago to palestine group

Israeli Settlers Torch Cars in West Bank Village, Raid Truck Carrying Aid for Gaza

Dozens of settlers entered the Palestinian village of Yatma, south of Nablus, and set tires and cars on fire on Sunday, before proceeding to the Tapuah Junction in the northern West Bank, two security sources said.

Earlier Sunday, dozens of Israelis gathered at the Tapuah and Yatma junctions and threw stones at Palestinians, the security sources added. Several of them, including children, blocked a road in the area.

Traffic between Tapuah and the West Bank settlement of Eviatar, meanwhile, was blocked in both directions. Dozens of other Israelis simultaneously gathered in the area around Eviatar, stopping a Palestinian truck and damaging the equipment it was carrying. The rioters claimed that the truck was delivering humanitarian aid to Gaza.

Security sources said Border Police dispersed the rioters and arrested four in all the incidents. Earlier, activists against the transfer of aid to the Gaza Strip took goods out of trucks in the Lakish Junction area and destroyed the contents.

On Friday, settlers attacked a truck driver near the settlement of Kochav Hashar in the central West Bank, believing that he was delivering humanitarian aid to Gaza. Later, reservists who were called to the scene and tried to treat the driver were beaten by the rioters, according to a security source. The driver was moderately injured, and two officers and a soldier were slightly injured. There were no arrests in the incident.

https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2024-05-20/ty-article/.premium/israeli-settlers-torch-cars-in-west-bank-village-raid-truck-carrying-aid-for-gaza/0000018f-9252-d9d1-abcf-d65e1f300000

@palestine #Palestine #Israel #Gaza #WestBank

susurros , 1 month ago to palestine group

"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."

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/5/19/new-york-police-violently-arrest-pro-palestine-protesters-marking-nakba

@palestine #Palestine #Israel #Gaza #NewYork #Brooklyn #BayRidge #Nakba

susurros , 1 month ago to palestine group

The Center for Research and Training in Economics (CIDE), a think tank and institute of higher education in Mexico, has announced, in response to student pressure, that it is cutting ties with Tel Aviv University.

https://www.sinembargo.mx/17-05-2024/4502205

@palestine #Mexico #Palestine #Israel #Gaza #BDS #academia

susurros , 1 month ago to palestine group

"The union representing 48,000 academic workers across the University of California said Friday that its members at UC Santa Cruz will go on strike Monday over alleged worker rights and free speech violations, potentially dealing a blow to campus operations at a critical time during the final weeks of the spring quarter.

"The Santa Cruz strike would be the first of potentially several work stoppages that the union intends to launch one by one across campuses based on how receptive administrations are to pro-Palestinian activists’ demands."

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-05-17/uc-academic-student-workers-santa-cruz-strike

@palestine #Palestine #Israel #Gaza #academia #labor #strike

susurros , 1 month ago to palestine group

“Morehouse is being used as political cover for Biden. This commencement is taking place on Malcolm X’s birthday. Morehouse is the school that Dr. Martin Luther King went to and we know he came out against Vietnam, which was also a genocidal war. Morehouse wants to blanket itself in this history, but bypass an understanding of it.”

https://mondoweiss.net/2024/05/morehouse-says-it-will-shut-down-commencement-if-students-protest-biden-speech/

@palestine #Palestine #Israel #Gaza #Biden #USpol #academia #Morehouse

susurros , 1 month ago to palestine group

"Israeli troops also appear to have commandeered nearby civilian structures and turned them into military outposts. One is a former school in the village of Juhor ad Dik, about a mile from the border with Israel. Protective sand berms appeared at the location between March 15 and March 30, according to satellite imagery. The rest of the village has been destroyed.

"Israeli troops also appear to be using the Turkish-Palestinian Friendship Hospital, which once specialized in treatment for cancer patients, as a base of operations. The hospital shut down in the first week of November due to nearby airstrikes and lack of fuel, and thousands of cancer patients have been left without care. Sand berms appeared around the hospital in late November."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/05/17/gaza-israel-netzarim-corridor-war-hamas/

@palestine #Palestine #Israel #Gaza

susurros , 1 month ago to palestine group

"Since the beginning of Israel’s war on Gaza, academics in fields including politics, sociology, Japanese literature, public health, Latin American and Caribbean studies, Middle East and African studies, mathematics, education, and more have been fired, suspended, or removed from the classroom for pro-Palestine, anti-Israel speech."

https://theintercept.com/2024/05/16/university-college-professors-israel-palestine-firing/

@palestine #Palestine #Israel #Gaza #academia

susurros , 1 month ago to random

An important, powerful piece on #Sudan.

"In her work on 'grievability,' Judith Butler argues that some lives are more grievable and hold more value than others. Ungrievable lives, in her definition, are lives that can’t be lost or destroyed, because they as they already inhabit a lost and destroyed zone. They are perceived ontologically, from the very beginning, as already lost and destroyed—meaning that when these lives are destroyed in war, nothing is destroyed. The Sudanese identity, which blends 'blackness' and 'Muslimness,' is a recipe for disaster in the world of global solidarity that rejects either one of the two identities or both."

https://africasacountry.com/2024/05/the-worlds-forgotten-war/

susurros , 1 month ago to palestine group

Health Crisis in Gaza Spirals as New Diseases, Infections Spread

"The WHO reported this month that from October 16 to May 1, there have been 761,327 known cases of acute respiratory infections.

"There have also been 415,766 cases of acute diarrhea (108,777 involving children under the age of 5); 90,982 cases of scabies and lice; 54,799 cases of skin rashes; 8,103 cases of chickenpox; and 61,099 cases of acute jaundice syndrome. These figures significantly surpassed the incidence rates of previous years."

https://www.haaretz.com/middle-east-news/palestinians/2024-05-16/ty-article/.premium/health-crisis-in-gaza-spirals-as-new-diseases-infections-spread/0000018f-7d06-d7f9-a5ff-fd762e1e0000

@palestine #Palestine #Israel #Gaza

susurros , 1 month ago to palestine group

More "insubordination" in the face of genocide!

"The president of Sonoma State University was placed on leave Wednesday, a day after he released a controversial campuswide message on the Israel-Hamas war that said the university would pursue 'divestment strategies' and endorsed an academic boycott of Israeli universities.

"California State University Chancellor Mildred García announced the decision in a statement posted to the CSU website, saying that Sonoma State President Mike Lee was taken off the job for his 'insubordination' in making the statement without 'appropriate approvals.'"

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-05-15/sonoma-state-president-mike-lee-on-leave-after-endorsing-academic-boycott-israel

@palestine #Palestine #Israel #Gaza #BDS #SonomaState #CSU #academia

susurros , 1 month ago to palestine group

"Scores of police officers converged on UC Irvine on Wednesday as a pro-Palestinian demonstration escalated, with protesters occupying and barricading the Physical Sciences Lecture Hall, which is near their encampment."

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-05-15/police-converge-on-pro-palestinian-protest-at-uc-irvine-students-are-told-to-shelter-in-place

@palestine #Palestine #Israel #Gaza #academia #UCIrvine

susurros , 1 month ago to palestine group

"The UN has run out of tents and food to distribute to almost 2 million people in Gaza, the majority displaced from their homes and dependent on aid to stave off looming famine.

"'There are no tents in humanitarian warehouses. There are also no stocks of food left with World Food Programme or UNRWA.'"

https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/15/un-says-it-has-no-more-food-or-tents-for-nearly-2m-people-in-gaza

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susurros , 1 month ago to palestine group

"It is hard to predict how we will historicize this current moment, but if our reflections on the late forties are any indication, we might remember only today’s destruction and defeat. And so when one begins to write or speak about Palestine, it is tempting to look at loss and only loss, and to find in this loss a plea for survival. But there is — and always has been — more to our reality."

https://mondoweiss.net/2024/05/rain-is-coming/

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susurros , 1 month ago to palestine group

"With the Aurora Borealis above us and the martyrs in our hearts, we attacked the UC Office of the President in solidarity with the Palestinian Resistance. Using a fire extinguisher filled with red paint we covered the facade and smashed seven windows. Then, with access to the building, we released 500 cockroaches inside and emptied a second fire exintguisher onto the interior. We finalized the act by leaving a water jug inscribed with 'Bonk' at the scene - an homage to the militants of Cal Poly Humboldt and the international student encampment movement."

https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2024/05/14/18866217.php

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susurros , 1 month ago to palestine group

"Given the diversity of tactics used by students and administrators, and many questions and concerns we are receiving, PACBI wants to outline, as a member organization of the Palestinian BDS National Committee (BNC) representing the broadest Palestinian coalition, a simple path of strategic radicalism to move forward collectively."

https://bdsmovement.net/news/campus-uprisings-for-palestine-strategic-radicalism-ethical-principles-and-incremental-wins

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