Love, but not for the colonized: responding to repression of Palestine solidarity at CUNY
"However, what we find particularly affronting and are driven to address here is the insidious way in which WAC coordinators weaponized the language of love, antiracism, and care to silence support for Palestinian liberation. This hypocrisy is part of a broader trend in left academia and is thus important to address."
I genuinely can't believe ANYONE can still be defending Israel. It's now February 9th. Palestinians have been unceremoniously displaced, rounded up and murdered in numbers so large as to render the original Hamas attack almost insignificant in numerical terms. Genocide before our eyes. You CANNOT defend it. If you do you are morally bereft and personally abhorrent.
Russia, the stone in the shoe of the globalist West. (Essay)
Since the beginning of the SMO in Ukraine, talking heads in the west have given the same regurgitated reasons for why Russia is the greatest threat Europe or even the world has ever known. About how Russia will leap-frog it's way from nation to nation if they are not stopped and Putin removed from power.
They however will not tell you of warnings in the late 90s by Russia, that a military alliance such as NATO is fine so long as it does not encroach it's way onto Russian borders. One only need to look at a map of NATO in it's infancy compared to now to understand the weed that is NATO and how it has not only expanded but done the very thing it promised Russia it would not do, expand upon Russian borders.
Russia had worked with Zelensky and Ukraine on a peace deal that was settled and ready to implement but in April of 2022 Boris Johnson arrived in Kiev at the behest of America and convinced Zelensky to tear up the peace agreement with Russia.
Russia knew NATO would not stop when it promised Ukraine a path to membership. Russia also knew that the people of the Donbass who cried out to Russia for help because Ukraine was killing them no hope if not for Russian intervention. It was then that not Putin alone but the entire Federation of Russian Assembly voted to begin the SMO in Ukraine and thus you have the actual truth for why Russia is in Ukraine.
But this alone is not the only reason western leaders hate Russia. You see Russia used to be accepted by the west. Durring the times after the fall of the Soviet Union and what the Russians remember as, "the terrible 90s," Russia was very much liked by the west. Of course this is when Russian oligarchs completely sold out Russia. The land was being picked dry and drained of wealth and resources. The economy a skeleton and the people and culture in decline.
This is until someone stepped from the shadows of obscurity and said enough. That someone was Vladimir Putin. Many, many years of hard work and scraping themselves up from near ruin now sees Russia thriving on every front but this also is STILL not the truth as to why Russia is hated by western leaders.
You see, the western globalists controlled by the World Economic Forum and World Health Organization types have a plan, a vision for the world and stubborn Russia refuses to bend the knee as America, Canada, Germany, Switzerland, Australia the UK and others have. Putin realized that in order to be apart of the club would mean to sacrifice Russia on the alter of globalism. After seeing exactly what that agenda was Putin said no, and walked away to stand with his people.
There are some requirements in order to be apart of the globalist club of countries. You must sacrifice health-care, national identity, sovereignty, open your borders, remove religion, free speech, self defense, gender and family. You must embrace degeneracy, LGBTQ ideology, climate change agenda and place total control of all things into the government run out of Davos Switzerland.
Putin and Russia said no, we will remain Russia, we will keep our pride, our culture, protect our kids, our families our borders and reject the insanity we increasingly see from the west and globalists. The truth is that the west cannot force Russia to bend the knee because Russia has the strongest military on earth. Add to this the rise of BRICS which seeks to replace western hegemony economically across the world and we now see a much clearer picture as to the true motives of the west when they paint Russia as the great evil.
Είναι εντελώς παράλογο πόσο εύκολα οι Δυτικοί τιμωρούν όποιον άνθρωπο, φορέα, οργανισμό καταγγέλλει ή διαμαρτύρεται για την σφαγή, την γενοκτονία στη Γάζα.
Norway parliament says be ready for Palestinian state 'recognition'
Norway’s parliament on Thursday adopted a resolution calling on the government to be ready to recognise an “independent” Palestinian state, in a new sign of Europe’s anxiety over the Gaza war.
Israeli occupation soldiers use a Palestinian detainee as a human shield during confrontations in the Al-Arroub refugee camp, in the occupied West Bank. 10.11.23
Israeli forces carried out raids in the West Bank city. As many as 14 Palestinians were killed today as a result of Israeli raids on the Jenin refugee camp. #PalestineUnderAttack#WestBank#GazaGenocide
The Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant:
“We have abolished all the rules of war. Our soldiers will not be held accountable for anything. There will be no military courts”
This total lack of rules of engagement has lead to what is a massacre on Gaza, as civilians, including many children (just under half of Gaza’s 2.3million population is children), have been killed by often indiscriminate bombardments of Israeli airstrikes.
The devastating images coming out of Gaza have chilling echoes of the 1948 Nakba (Arabic for catastrophe) when Israel was established on the rubble of Palestinian towns, villages, and cities.
Then, the Israeli military forcefully expelled over 750,000 Palestinians and captured 78 percent of historic Palestine.
According to The European Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor, Israeli forces have deployed firepower equivalent to a quarter of a nuclear bomb since they started their onslaught in one of the most densely populated areas of the world.
"If that weren’t enough, Palestinian slaughter is too often presented ahistorically, untethered to reality: It is not attributed to real steel and missiles, to occupation, to policy. To earn compassion for their dead, Palestinians must first prove their innocence. The real problem with condemnation is the quiet, sly tenor of the questions that accompany it: Palestinians are presumed violent — and deserving of violence — until proved otherwise. Their deaths are presumed defensible until proved otherwise. What is the word of a Palestinian against a machinery that investigates itself, that absolves itself of accused crimes? What is it against a government whose representatives have referred to Palestinians as “human animals” and “wild beasts?” When a well-suited man can say brazenly and unflinchingly that there is no such thing as a Palestinian people?"
The IDF has reportedly carried out airstrikes in Gaza’s Nuseirat refugee camp tonight. Initial reports from the camp have claimed that dozens may have been killed.
"This piece was originally commissioned by an editor at The Guardian, who asked me to write about the wave of retaliation and censorship of political expression in solidarity with Palestinians that we’ve seen in the past two weeks. Amid my work as an attorney on some of the resulting cases, I carved out some time to write the following. Minutes before it was supposed to be published, the head of the opinion desk wrote me an email that they were unable to run the piece. When I called her for an explanation she had none, and blamed an unnamed higher-up. That a piece on censorship would get killed in this way—without explanation, but plainly in the interest of political suppression—is, beyond the irony of the matter, a grave indictment of the media response to this critical moment in history. —Dylan Saba"
Israel has destroyed one of the oldest Christian Churches in the world, the Orthodox Church of Saint Porphyrius in Gaza, where people were taking shelter.
Israel's foreign minister, Eli Cohen, hints at potential annexation of a portion of Gaza in recent radio interview. States that by war's end, "the territory of Gaza will also decrease."