If you wholeheartedly condemn white folks in Ukraine being murdered by a hostile state (I know I do) but couldn’t care less about Brown folks in Palestine being murdered by a hostile state, you might just be racist.
More #inhumanity from the #HomeOffice as a Nigerian academic (now with a full time job at Bristol U) finds that the HO can find 'no compassionate grounds' for her six year old daughter to be given a visa to join her own in the UK.
No doubt #SuellaBraverman willl be patting the officials on the back for a job well done...
Some 52 years ago, when I was in 4th grade of primary school, I found a book "who put glasses on the kid's eyes" in a small book shop in open bazaar of my hometown Ahvaz in khuzestan province of Iran.
A few days later, we had to bring a book to school and read it in front of the class. Happy as I was to have found a great book, I took it to school and read it in front of the class.
I couldn't understand why my teacher was acting so scared and stopped me before I had finished the book and sent me to the principals office.
I was nervous, didn't know what I had done wrong and our principal, who was a really nice man, and went to the same university as my oldest sister took the book and asked me where I had bought it. I knew something was wrong, so I said I bought it at the book store of our local mosque, to protect the guy who was my source of cheap and lovely books and would buy back my old ones to help me afford buying new ones.
In the evening my father came home, agitated and clearly upset. Asked me what I have done and I explained the situation, including the fact that I lied about wher I had bought the book. Told him the highlight of the book about a happy child who was living in a town with happy people who were all wearing glasses.
He was seeing flowers, colorful houses. Nice people and happy children all around him, birds flying in the sky and everyone were so friendly to him.
Until one day he fell of and his glasses broke. He couldn't believe his eyes, the flowers, colorful houses and happy people were all gone. All he could see was a run down city, with piles of garbage everywhere, people wearing worn out clothes, looking hungry and sick.
He was nece happy after that, he couldn't believe that everyone were walking around with glasses and we're happy all the time. But he was sad and miserable, because he had seen his town without those glasses.
Anyway. My father took me to a building close to the main police station on the other side of the Karun river, he spent almost entire day in a room where I could people screaming at him and a few times someone his the table very hard. But couldn't hear what they were saying.
My dad came out. Pulled my hand without saying a word, we walked for an hour to get home, didn't take taxi as we used to do.
He didn't say a word during the whole day and told me to go over my books and bring all the books I had bought from that shop, he through them in a metal bucket and poured some fuel over it, set them on fire and waited until they were completely burned, mixed the ashes to turn them into dust, filled the bucket with water and through it in the toilet.
He told me to never go back to that shop and be careful to take any books to school from now on.
That' was my first interaction with the notorious Savak police of Shah of Iran. In the next days, all the 4 book stores in our town were raided. Books confiscated and doors locked. Never heard about any of them again.
Reading the comments of pro Israeli accounts on mastodon reminded me of that book and that experience that changed my life when I was only 8 years old.
This post specially triggered those memories. Unlike the kid in my book and the people living in the town, these people know very well tat what they are posting is not true, they have seen the horror of the past 76 years of occupation, they have seen the 66 times they were subject to UNSC charges, and 45 that were vetoed by the US..
But they don't care, they see themselves as victims. They don't see the millions of starving palestinians, or the millions living in refuge camps around the world as worthy of their empathy or cause of why Palestinians and some of the world is fed up with their out of control criminal behavior
They don't have glasses on their eyes, they have chosen to be selective and above the laws of the world.
I guess the ICJ verdict wasn't perfect, but it may have opened up a window for the world to have chance to watch the truly and ugly face of Israeli occupation and military operations.
PS. The video came out last week. It's not something new, they chose to sit on it for a week waiting for ICJ verdict to come out.
"If we killed 4000 Palestinian kids, you know what? IT WASN'T ENOUGH"! Stewart Seldowitz former US state department employee and Obama advisor
#Video of him harassing a #halal food truck owner in New York City has gone viral. He threaten the Egyptian American vendor by saying that " #Mukhaberat (Egyptian secret police) is going to take your parents " .
This happened more than once and Seldowitz didn't have any fear of the police either.
Do you think US, #France, #UK and other governments going to call for a demonstration to condemn the recent wave of islamophobic attacks in their countries? Like the one they did against #antisemitism?
Director of the Friendship Hospital in #Gaza: The situation is catastrophic in every sense of the word, and we have 10,000 cancer patients in the streets and shelter centers.
This is the silent suffering of palestinians in Gaza who are slowly fading away while the world is busy with making sure that the trade routes through the Red Sea can be safe and open for Israel to do their "business as usual" uninterrupted and with unconditional support of the whole western world.
Palestinian lives are not worthy of the empathy of the "civilized westerners" except for the small minority who are fighting a uphill battle against the war machine and the global, rich and extremely powerful Israeli lobby and their extended hands of it controlling the social media companies.
An Israeli soldier posted a photo of his fellow soldiers posing with jewelry they looted from Palestinian homes during their invasion of residential homes in #Gaza.
Oh remember the stories and millions of jokes about Russian soldiers in Ukraine? Do not expect any western media covering these stories.
Heartbreaking news from #Gaza, the sweet beautiful girl Mais who stole the hearts of millions online was murdered by #IDF and her body is lost under piles of robble.
Death of a child is a tragedy, but 12000 children murdered by the rogue nation of Israel is a crime we should never forget or forgive those who comitted the crime or the ones who helped ot happen.
It's really sad. Her beautiful smile reminded me of my sister when she was young. It's really upsetting.
There is a level of inhumanity that makes a person so hateful to mock the tragic death of a handicapped child who died of starvation.
Yazan Al-Kafarna, a 9-year-old Palestinian boy with cerebral palsy, was tragically killed due to the compounded effects of malnutrition and a lack of access to essential medical supplies, including food and oxygen.Israelis took to #Telegram to mock the 9-year-old and make fun of photos that were captured of the boy in his final moments on this earth.
An Israeli soldier shared videos of himself driving a tank over some food in Gaza and making fun of the starving Palestinians.
This is what pure evil looks like.
They are preventing close to 1000 trucks with lifesaving food and humanitarian aid to enter Gaza, they block the entrance of UNRWA and WHO trucks as well as Red cross supplies, and then make sarcastic videos of destroying food items they find in destroyed houses in #Gaza .
Video shared on telegram channel: t.me/newsvideofa/1135
They don't want the world to see : #Meta has suspended the #Instagram account belonging to Wissam Nassar, an international award-winning Palestinian photographer, suddenly and without explanation.
It wasn't fake. It wasn't CGI, it wasn't 40, but an innocent child was murdered in the most heneous way by American provided bombs by Israeli genocidal army in Rafah.
Don't expect the same reaction from media or "world" leaders like those after the fake stories of October 7.
Reality of dead Palestinian children is less valued than fake stories of dead Israeli ones.
In the most heroic act of self defense, Israeli military destroyed the flower roundabout in Nablus in occupied West Bank.
The criminal actions of IDF in occupied west bank is not receiving much publicity, but they are attacking every town in under Palestinian control under the cover of fighting "Terrorists" but in reality, they are destroying roads, infrastructure, bakeries, schools, electric poles, cellphone base station and hospitals and medical centers.
These actions can not in any way counted as self-defense or justified in a fight against Hamas or even the PA, these actions are to make lives of Palestinian unbearable and to punish them in the most barbaric ways.
And again, the so called civilized world is standing by silent and in compliance fully behind these atrocities while punishing and muzzling those who raise their voices against these crimes.
Justice John Roberts displayed a alarming lack of humanity throughout the arguments on Monday, strongly fighting the idea that being homeless could ever be a status because a person can get a home at any point.
Tom Osborne, the senior coroner for Milton Keynes, said Scott Rider had given up all hope of release before he took his own life at HMP Woodhill in June 2022.
Indefinite sentences were ended years ago, but it is claimed that reviewing sentences would be an unbearable strain on a system that has found courts and judges for asylum cases.