Is this a better slogan? From parts of area A to parts of area B Palestine will be a non contiguous, non sovereign unviable non-state w/ no control of borders or access to the sea, all pending final status negotiations which will never take place & Gaza remains an isolated ghetto
I urge folks to start using EuroMed's numbers since they incorporate into the death toll all of those missing under the rubble now for quite some time (Allah yirhamhoum)
Can't dance can't celebrate can't fight or boycott or write cant wave flags cant call it apartheid or Jim Crow or genocide cant say from the river to the sea can't live and can't even die
I feel the need to vomit then take a shower after watching this scumbag in an ill-fitting suit & Just For Men hair dye try to sell me U.S. support for genocide as some kind of humanitarian diplomatic breakthrough based on Biden's statesmanship. It is laughable & reprehensible.
Thanks to President Bidenโs leadership, a deal has been struck between Israel and Hamas to release more than 50 hostages that Hamas has been holding.
This deal will also allow for a pause in the fighting and a much-needed surge of humanitarian assistance to the people of Gaza.
How about that for perspective, folks: Israel has slaughtered& disappeared more people in Gaza in 6 months (!) than the brutal Argentine dictatorship killed or disappeared over a 9 year span (population of Argentina in 1980 was 28 million, population of gaza today 2.3 million).
"Do not forgive, do not forget, do not reconcile.
It was genocide, it was 30,000"
Mural in Lanus University in Buenos Aires refering to the number of people killed or disappeared by the dictatorship of Argentina from 1974 to 1983.
Besides the constant incitement to genocide, which is creepy enough, the other takeaway f/ IDF pre "game" party/music aesthetic is that it's super lame & awkward, which makes it all the more creepier & cringe. Also, they steal Arabic music styles & fuck em up. Just like w/ food.
Thomas Friedman, put your hands up where we can see them and walk slowly away from the keyboard. Anything you do or say can be used against you in an international court of law.
Met with
@IsraeliPM
and reaffirmed our support for Israelโs right to prevent another October 7 from occurring.
I also stressed the importance of avoiding civilian harm, protecting civilian infrastructure, and ensuring the distribution of humanitarian assistance throughout Gaza.
I don't buy any of this. In any case, we are six months and 40,000 dead into this genocidal rampage carried out with American firepower. Anyone who took this long to get angry about it and demand it be ended is either an idiot or a sociopath.
Don't forget these other "tall tales"
- he saw beheaded babies after oct. 7
- Israel isn't commiting genocide
- the US pier in gaza is for humanitarian aid
- that he would be vastly better than Trump on immigration
- etc
This is a remarkably soft way of reporting that the president is a serial liar of Santos-level proportions, having said he:
- was selected for the Naval Academy
- was arrested as a civil rights activist
- drove an 18-wheeler
- was the first in his family to go to college
American universities are money laundering operations in the form of real estate and private equity cartels. In some cases they also traffic in the massively profitable unpaid gladiator industry (college athletics, namely football) and the brand marketing that comes with it.
Also interesting that Blinken's visits to region haven't produced any diplomatic breakthroughs. It's almost as if he's...not a diplomat....and, gasp...not interested in peace. Makes sense considering his boss refers to Hamas & Palestinians as the "opposition" & the "other team"
On this day in 1862, US President Abraham Lincoln ordered the largest ever mass execut!0n in American history, ki!!ing 38 Dakota men after sham military trials. The "crime" that they were convicted of was resisting their own ethnic cleansing.
Took a pretty fucking long time (45 days) and a LOT of slaughtered civilians (at least 15,000) to make this obvious no-brainer of a bare minimum statement. You are complicit in these atrocities, Ms. Warren.
"fearless" my ass, you got on the phone to your Israeli and American masters and they gave you permission to throw some crumbs to the people you have betrayed again and again. Don't try to launder your conscience on Twitter. Take it up with your maker.
Our fearless air force personnel air-dropped at midnight urgent medical aid to the Jordanian field hospital in Gaza. This is our duty to aid our brothers and sisters injured in the war on Gaza. We will always be there for our Palestinian brethren
As a 90's Chicago boy, I'm loving the dive into the warm sea of Bulls dynasty nostalgia w/ Netlfix doc The Last Dance, but all time favorite Bull is still freedom fightin' sharpshooting 3-point specialist & Chi-town hero Craig Hodges who spoke out against racism & imperialism.
Look at every photo. This was not a nightmare. It is real. It happened. It is happening still. This is not to be erased or forgotten or downplayed. This is not forgiveable.
CNN has a habit of airing IDF videos with false information. Then, when the errors are pointed out, these same videos are carefully edited to delete the falsehoodโwithout an editorial note explaining or acknowledging what was cut.
"I won't write about poetry alongside the 'reasonable' tones of those who aim to acclimate us to unreasonable suffering. No more ghoulish euphemisms. No more sanitized hell-worlds. No more warmongering lies."
Anne Boyer has resigned as the poetry editor of the New York Times magazine: โBecause our status quo is self-expression, sometimes all artists have left is to refuse. So I refuse.โ
A crowd has climbed onto the statue of colonial King Lรฉopold II in
#Brussels
chanting โmurdererโ and waving the flag of the Democratic Republic of Congo where his atrocities took place.
#DRC
๐จ๐ฉ
#BlackLivesMatter
Mabrook, pops! Well-deserved! "Rashid Khalidi has been longlisted for the 2020
@CundillPrize
for 'The 100 Years War on
#Palestine
'. The shortlist for the leading international prize for history writing will be announced in partnership w/
@LitHub
on Sept. 22."
#CundillHistoryPrize
This thread is a must-read. Horrifying but not surprising. Racist, abusive
#Israeli
cops train racist, abusive U.S.
#cops
. The nexus of racial capitalism,
#militarism
and
#SettlerColonialism
is real and destructive to brown, black and poor folks the world over.
Thread: When we did our investigation into the illegal home raids by D.C. police that brutally target Black families, we were horrified by the precision of the military tactics. The D.C. police were being trained by the Israeli military. (1)
"accurate, nuanced and articulate"?
Congrats. You just used three words never before used to describe Joe Biden. Ever. Also, op-ed was penned by Bibi Netanyahu.
Just eyeballing it, I think replacing that window pane might run the university 70 bucks. $150 max with labor. If this wasn't so demented and dangerous it would be fucking hilarious.
Columbia University President Minouche Shafik walks past a damaged door while visiting Hamilton Hall on campus. Police arrested nearly 100 people after demonstrators occupied the building overnight on Monday. In a statement today, Shafik writes, "I know I speak for many members
The Colonizer's logic makes no sense. Because it is not logic. It is just racism deployed as logic which means it requires, naturally, dishonesty and negation and gaslighting.
Israel offered to give fuel toโฆ a Hamas terrorist base?
So doctors are Hamas, children are Hamas, journalists are Hamas, the UN is Hamas, and now,โฆ Israel is Hamas ๐คฏ
โIn a nutshell, the presidentโs plan doesnโt include enough police officers to lock up the violent thugs. Not enough prosecutors to convict them. Not enough judges to sentence them, and not enough prison cells to put them away for a long time.โ -โฆ
@JoeBiden
โฉ
Not that we needed more proof that the ADL is a reactionary, extreme right wing hate org, but here you go. Let the ghouls and fascists and imperial warmongers show their true colors fawning over Voldemort these next couple of days.
Kissinger: โIf it were not for the accident of my birth, I would be antisemiticโฆ. Any people who has been persecuted for two thousand years must be doing something wrong.โ
Even for the
@nytimes
, this an all-time manipulation of passive voice to describe the NYPD potentially killing a student protester.
The โ gunshot had been firedโ โthe gun firedโ โthe bullet ended up in the wall.โ
Yes. Racism is deeply fuckin troubling. The worst part is it's so engrained that they don't even consider Palestinian journalists to be "real" journalists. To Israel/the "west" our culture isn't culture, history not history, our news isn't news, our deaths arent even real deaths.
Lots of love & gratitude to the creative team of Returning to Haifa at San Francisco's Golden Thread. It's no small feat to have Kanafani's vision on the American stage in the midst of an American-backed genocide.
#CulturalResistance
#Palestine
Ah yes, the notorious Houthi intelligence agencies are paying operatives to diligently groom activists at IVY league schools from the besieged and beleaguered cities and the bombarded battlefields of the poorest country in the Arab world. What a scoop.
From the paper that gave us the IDF-sourced โUNRWA dossierโ - that had zero evidence of absolutely anything - to justify the starvation of 2.2 million Palestinians.
Sellout, son & grandson of a sellout, how dare you pretend to care. You work with and for the Israelis and the Americans. You ain't shit but a puppet. A Harki and a jassous. You are a disgrace to your (distant) ancestors. Fuck off with your bullshit medical aid.
Our fearless air force personnel air-dropped at midnight urgent medical aid to the Jordanian field hospital in Gaza. This is our duty to aid our brothers and sisters injured in the war on Gaza. We will always be there for our Palestinian brethren
These sound like the words of Custer or Crook or Jackson or one of the other sociopathic genocidal American "indian fighters" who ethnically cleansed North America using exactly these kinds of scorched earth tactics.
As the despicable Jared Kushner has re-emerged to tout the real estate potential (for Israel) in a post genocide Gaza, I leave you w/ something I wrote 5 yrs ago. The plans have been in the drawer for years, folks: "The slumlordsโ peace"
via
@AJEnglish
US media used bird's eye images of
#COVID
ใผ19 graves in
#Iran
as proof of Iranian regime's ineptitude & callousness towards it's own people. Wonder if Iranian media is using these images to say same thing about US? Just sayin'...
@JSCCounterPunch
@jacobinmag
@sareemakdisi
Dude, we got aaaall the evidence we need f/ the past 8months that you are actively aiding & abetting a genocide. There are no 2 sides here and you are undeniably a racist who has no regard for Palestinian life. Spare us your crocodile tears, your double speak & your gaslighting.
The stories of suffering I have heard directly from Palestinians and Israelis alike motivate me to do everything possible to bring this conflict to an end.
#Barcelona
dockworkers joining global labor movement against
#genocide
. The stevedores of Barรงa vowed - as a result of their assembly's decision and as part of their commitment to int. law & human rights - to not load or unload boats that contain material for making war.
#Gaza
Los estibadores del puerto de Barcelona han decidido en asamblea
โโฆno permitir en nuestro puerto la actividad de los barcos que contengan material bรฉlico,โฆโ.
US is sitting alone with Israel at en empty table in the cafeteria...just two widely disliked rich white-boy bullies who can no longer even buy the friends they used to buy.
We are starting to see how Biden's international isolation due to his support for Israel's slaughter in Gaza is starting to backfire on the US.
Pentagon announced with much fanfare only a few days ago that it had formed a neighborhood watch in the Red Sea to defend against
Translation:"My family, all of them, have been martyred. I am now without parents, siblings, or uncles. I have no family, no home, no work. All my family lived, and I am the one who died. They are all doing fine together in a mass grave, while I am alone above the ground."
Swedish Prime Minister last night: โIsrael has a right to commit genocideโ quickly corrects himself โumโฆright to self defense!โ
Crowd erupts.
Ten bucks says Kissinger's funeral is interrupted by chants of "Henry Henry you can't hide, we charge you with genocides" and "From the River to the Sea..."
โYou see thatโs the whole story of America. They take their violence, and turn back around on somebody else.โ
This is Mrs. Georgia Jackson slaying a reporter who asked if her son George Jackson was violent.
The Harvard Law Review refused to run this piece about genocide in Gaza. The piece was nearing publication when the journal decided against publishing it. You can read the article here:
Democrats don't give a fuck if they lose. Trump helps them fill their coffers, which means they'll be begging us for money for 4 more years in order to 'stand up to fascism' etc etc. Its basically a ponzi scheme b/c they don't actually do anything w/ $ except get more $
going to be really interesting when Biden tells all the kids he called antisemitic - and told their administrators call the cops on them - to vote for him to avoid fascism
Breaking: It's a matter of public record that Israel has long enjoyed close relationships with imperial powers, apartheid regimes, dictators, fascists, genocidal death squads, arms merchants, rogue states other assorted international criminal entities.
May these soulless suits, these guileful ghouls not go a day w/out facing heckling & protests & direct action reminding them of their moral repugnance, cowardice & complicity in the crime of genocide for the rest of their lives as they watch the empire which they served crumble
These not kids, folks. No no no. They are "people under the age of 18", or as the Clintons, Bidens and Bibis of the world might call them: "superpredators".
These are the Palestinian โprisonersโ being exchanged for Israeli hostages. They are also children. Children who were stolen from their homes. Children who just want to hug their mothers. These are the boys who the media wonโt even afford the dignity of being called children.
Yes
@monaeltahawy
, and
#Chile
too this past year, where since Oct. 18, 2019, close to 350 Chilean protesters lost an eye or their vision as a result of police targeting folks heads with rubber bullets, tear gas an other projectiles.
I am trying not to keep comparing the uprisings across the US to the
#Jan25
revolution - every revolution must write its own narrative. But hearing that
@KillerMartinis
lost her left eye after police shot her reminds me of revolutionaries in
#Egypt
It would have saved the Hague a lot of time and money trying him had he been sucked out of a hole near his window seat mid flight and off into the ether.
You can't make it up - a Biden official got stuck on his trip to party with the business elite because his Boeing broke down after the Biden admin shielded Boeing from accountability and regulation.
Waiiiiit a minute, "New Caledonia" is not in France ( and nowhere fcking near it for that matter), so why are they making any decisions there? Could it be that this is a form of....colonialism???
New Caledonia is a French colony in the Asia- Pacific. The French government is trying to cut their access to the outside world amidst ongoing protests for independence.
Notable that Yale's Genocide Studies Program has events on Ukraine, Myanmar, the Uyghurs, Sudan, but no talks or events addressing what is happening in Gaza and Palestine.
Salman Rushdie (
@salmanrushdie
) just made an abhorrent speech about Palestine, essentially saying that a free Palestine will be 'Taliban-like'. What a ghastly thing to say during this genocide.
These people are grade A morons. Also, it is obvious they're reciting talking points prepared for them by their friends in the apartheid regime or its affiliated operatives. Question should be: who is training & radicalizing our police departments? The answer is a no-brainer.
NYPD spokesmen suggesting student protests across NYC will be investigated by "anti-terrorism unit". This is an ominous threat against our students and communities.
In an alternate universe, had the Zionist colonists gone to Uganda as Herzl at one point suggested, then the ICJ judge on the case might be a Palestinian ruling in favor of the Ugandan case against Israeli genocide in Uganda. Just sayin'....
This is so stupidly transparent. It was obvious this would happen from the start. Israel intends to level Gaza in its entirety, that has always been the plan. There is no safe place. This is not a war on just Hamas - everyone in Gaza is a target.
โThe planes bomb us. We are deaf so it scares us. There is no one to help us and [we] cannot hear.โ
Ahmed Abu Odeh and his wife Walaa are both deaf. The couple and their children are trying to survive Israeli airstrikes in Gaza.
Six months into the war, the word filling my heart is khalas โ enough. We need a ceasefire now, one that frees the hostages and ends the starvation in Gaza. It's the right thing for humanity, and for Israel.
So important to hold up the fact that in the face of deafening silence if not outright complicity, the brave Yemeni people have been subjected to years of catastrophic and brutal collective punishment by undemocratic US armed allies (SA and UAE).
Saudi & UAE did this in Yemen for 8 years with full support from the so-called international community. Let's not wait until Palestinians starve en masse before holding our governments accountable for genocide.
Gรฉrard Araud, former French ambassador to Israel and to the U.S.:
"What is currently happening in the West Bank is absolutely scandalous. What the settlers are doing amounts to retail ethnic cleansing. They are taking advantage of the current tragedy to
Columbia Pres Shafik just announced a deadline of midnight tonight for CUAD-CU talks, implicitly threatening another camp sweep if talks do not succeed.
Edward Said on demonizing Palestinians. the perverse comedy of Israeli propaganda calling anything Palestinian โterroristโ.
Sometimes I think heโs better off up there.. didnโt have to deal with Nikki Haley.
You will never hear this kind of vile shit at a Palestine rally. Furthermore,
#Palestine
rallies in N. America & Europe are full of allied anti-occupation Jewish folks. I don't see any Arabs @ pro-apartheid/pro Israel rallies. So whose rallies are unsafe and non-inclusive?
You. Are. A racist. Old white war criminal. Aiding. And abetting. A genocide. No one. Believes. A fucking word. You say. Is that clear enough. For you?
Let me be clear:
The Palestinian people are suffering.
The need to get increased aid to the most vulnerable is urgent.
And our work with Israel to further increase the amount of aid getting into Gaza by land continues.
Thank you
@alijla2021
for sharing Saรฏd's razor sharp take down of the smarmy Friedman. And this was in 1989 before Friedman's orientalist racism, his imperial warmongering and warped and totally inane analogizing went off the tracks. Even then Edward had him pegged.
In 1989, Edward Said warned us about the shallow, racist, and orientalist perspectives of Thomas Friedman. Said believed Friedman felt entitled and authorized to advocate for extreme measures in the region. Since I began reading articles and analyses in English, it has become
folks, as we show up for
#Palestine
remember to show up for
#Yemen
too, subjected to years of brutal bombardment courtesy of the U.S. arms/death industry and our govt, which has supported Saudi war crimes against the Yemeni people.
#SaveYemen
#FreePalestine
#Solidarity
Hamas official has accused the top US diplomat Antony Blinken of bias for blaming the Palestinian group for the failure to reach an agreement, saying that he has been acting like he is Israelโs FM since the start of the war.
๐ด LIVE updates:
There was a video a few days ago where a man in Gaza found a small boy sleeping in the middle of a road at night, he picked him up and took him somewhere safe and the boy told him all his family were killed and he slept on the unlit road in the hope someone would run him over
Even Fox News' reporter was in disbelief about the "Hamas tunnel" under al-Shifa hospital:
He asks "Is this part of the hospital? b/c it looks like the tiles from the hospital... It looks like the same tile".
No wonder Israel bombed that "tunnel" evidence today to smithereens!
Ten bucks says a shadowy ISIS inspired separatist group emerges out of thin air and starts wreaking havoc on Maldives tourism industry...coincidentally of course, and totally unrelated to this policy shift to hold Israel accountable.
BREAKING: The Maldives just announced it will ban anybody with an Israeli passport, including dual citizens, from visiting the country
11,000 Israelis visited Maldives last year. Maldives is part of the ICJ genocide case and launched a national fundraising campaign for Palestine
The New York Times reports Israeli military is torturing people by impaling them with hot metal rods in their rectums and tying them to electric chairs. This information is buried at the end of a single article where these details are unmentioned in the headline or subheadline.
You know who DEFINITELY has a copy of Mein Kampf in his living room? The dude who was one of the headline speakers at the pro-war, pro-Israel rally today. Pretty perverse shit.
Interesting that the pro-Israel rally in DC today will be headlined by none other than televangelist Pastor John Hagee, who once said โGod sent Adolf Hitler to help Jews reach the promised land.โ
Says a lot about a movement.
Can someone please make an MLB style logo of this? (also, THAT dude on lower left blocking
@muntazer_zaidi
's arm is an asshole! That tiny obstruction of throwing motion gave W a split second more for reflexes to save him from otherwise very well-heaved footwear.
#IraqiLivesMatter
Same deal on the table for days and weeks that Netanyahu rejected in favor of genocidal slaughter and revenge and mayhem that wiped out many of his own hostages in addition to tens of thousands (yes I think it is already in that realm) Palestinians.
"Israel, the United States and Hamas have agreed to a tentative deal that would free dozens of women and children held hostage in Gaza, in exchange for a five-day pause in fighting."
Can't think of too many songs better suited to the current moment of uprising(s) than this absolute banger from the great
@anatijoux
and
@ShadiaMansour
. Bump it in your encampments, young rebels, and bump it loud.
Pret A Manger recently said theyโre opening 40+ stores in Israel. So on January 12, multiple groups went into NYC Pret A Manger stores, liberated shelves full of sandwiches, & redistributed them to people in need.
โHit โem where it hurts, and donโt stop until Palestine is free!โ
To that doctor who spoke after
#Trump
in Rose Garden just now: You done f#*ked up by not wiping off that mic first, lady! Shoulda cloroxed the shit outa that thing, especially with all the spit particles ejected out of his mouth as he huffs and puffs incoherently.
#coronavirus