It’s not both sides doing the same thing. Israel has been displacing, brutalising and killing Palestinians for 70 years. Israel has a modern army, a modern air force, nuclear weapons and a functional economy.
Since 1948, Israel has taken the vast majority of the land and continues to chip away at what little remains to Palestinians through illegal settlements in the West Bank.
Gaza is an open air prison that Israel constantly surveils and bombs, controls who and what gets in and out and even regulates how many calories per day Gazans are allowed.
It’s not both sides doing the same thing. It’s a settler colonial apartheid state brutalising an indigenous people who are holding on for dear life.
Surgery is not the end goal for all trans people, and even if it were, requiring that it be completed before they can have their gender identity legally recognised is unnecessary and unhelpful.
Many states in the U.S. have ‘proof of surgery’ requirements before they will legally recognize people’s trans people’s gender identity: www.lgbtmap.org/…/identity_document_laws
Am I just supposed to sit there and watch as all sort of injustices are taking place everywhere? What can a person do to make this world slightly better?
For my part, I’d say direct action and prefiguration of new institutions are good places to start. We of course need to educate people in various ways - in addition to direct action and prefiguration, which are educational in their own right. I also think we need to engage with art and culture to build consciousness and expand popular imagination of what’s possible.
I was thinking that would come under ‘prefiguration of new institutions’ (although actually it permeates all aspects), but you are right to name it explicitly, comrade 🖤
The police exist to defend capitalists’ interests. The state can’t call on a social worker when they need somebody to beat striking workers, or tear gas a riot.
The original source of this quote circled “died” versus “been killed.” But I also want to point out how the casualty numbers for Palestinians are “according to” Gaza’s health ministry, implying the numbers may not be accurate and the reader should judge the credibility of that source for themselves, while the...
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The original source of this quote circled “died” versus “been killed.” But I also want to point out how the casualty numbers for Palestinians are “according to” Gaza’s health ministry, implying the numbers may not be accurate and the reader should judge the credibility of that source for themselves, while the...