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ifnotnowboston, 27 days ago to random

STATEMENT: JVP Boston and IfNotNow Boston Stand With Northeastern Student Activists and Denounce False Claims of Antisemitism

https://innmvmt.org/NortheasternResponse

alexwild, 28 days ago to random

Campuses aren't being rocked by protests.

They're being rocked by politicized administrators ordering students beaten and jailed to satisfy the political elite.

Let's be clear who is causing the violence.

yumna, 4 months ago to Palestine

New: Drone strikes, mass arrests, and demolitions: Massive Israeli raid kills at least 11 Palestinians in northern West Bank

Israeli drone strikes have killed nine Palestinians in Nablus and Tulkarem during a massive ongoing army operation in the West Bank. As many as a 1,000 Palestinians have been detained in what locals are calling a "collective punishment" campaign.

https://mondoweiss.net/2024/01/drone-strikes-mass-arrests-and-demolitions-massive-israeli-raid-kills-at-least-11-palestinians-in-northern-west-bank/?utm_content=buffer797a0&utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=buffer

#Palestine #Israel

MitchellPlitnick, 4 months ago to random

Sahar F Aziz and I had a great, in-depth discussion with Khaled Elgindy of the Middle East Institute about our report, Presumptively Antisemitic: Islamophobic Tropes in the Palestine–Israel Discourse.

You can hear the conversation here.

https://www.mei.edu/multimedia/podcast/antisemitism-and-islamophobia-us-political-discourse-israelpalestine

MitchellPlitnick, 5 months ago to random

The US has responded to attacks by Ansar Allah (the Houthis) on commercial shipping in the Red Sea with a military coalition. This piece @mondoweiss examines why this is happening, what it portends, and why a more thoughtful approach would make more sense. https://mondoweiss.net/2023/12/biden-administrations-flawed-response-to-yemen-attacks-increases-possibility-of-regional-war/

MitchellPlitnick, 5 months ago to random

The effort to criminalize any support for #Palestinian rights in the US--indeed to criminalize #Palestinians--moved forward last week, in congressional hearings led by an antisemite and attacks on one of the US' leading Muslim figures. More at:

https://mondoweiss.net/2023/12/the-bipartisan-attack-on-palestine-solidarity-is-higher-than-ever/

MitchellPlitnick, 6 months ago to random

Important, eloquent, and profound open letter by scholars of the #Holocaust and #genocide about the enormous harm being done by those invoking the Nazi genocide to justify massive violence. Hear these voices.

https://www.nybooks.com/online/2023/11/20/an-open-letter-on-the-misuse-of-holocaust-memory/

georgetakei, 6 months ago to random

The GOP has introduced a bill to EXPEL Palestinians from the United States. I cannot read such things without remembering what happened to my own family after Pearl Harbor. After we and 120,000 other Japanese Americans were incarcerated in prison camps for years, without charge or trial, my own mother was very nearly expelled to Japan because of racial prejudice and hatred. Only the brave actions of a civil rights attorney saved her from being sent away. #NeverAgain

noahshachtman, 6 months ago to random

This is outrageous. Israel's government has denied
@RollingStone a press credential after our critical coverage of Netanyahu and the widening conflict.

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/israeli-government-denies-rolling-stone-press-credential-1234866286/

MitchellPlitnick, 6 months ago to random

When people look back at the missile that hit al-Ahli Arab Hospital in #Gaza, they are likely to believe what they want to. This NY Times piece does not provide an answer as to what exactly happened, but it does show that Israel's story is a lie.

And, while the Times analysis may not give a definitive conclusion, it certainly does show that Biden was either in on the lie or simply bought whatever a serial liar like Netanyahu told him. That is inexcusable in a POTUS.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/24/world/middleeast/gaza-hospital-israel-hamas-video.html

andrewstroehlein, 7 months ago to random

The Israeli government is deliberately deepening civilian suffering in #Gaza by refusing to restore water & electricity and blocking fuel shipments.

Wilfully impeding relief supplies is a war crime, as is collectively punishing civilians for the actions of armed groups.

https://www.hrw.org/news/2023/10/23/israel-still-blocking-aid-civilians-gaza

MitchellPlitnick, 7 months ago to random

This from Defense for Children International - Palestine, as of this morning:
At least 2,055 Palestinian children in Gaza have been killed by nonstop Israeli airstrikes & shelling since Oct. 7, and 830 children are reported missing under the rubble of destroyed buildings.
182 Palestinian children were killed in Gaza just in the last 24 hours.

taylorlorenz, 7 months ago to meta

IG/Meta has been inserting the word "terrorist" into the bios of users that included the words Palestinian" and “alhamdulillah” (which means praise to Allah, or God) https://www.404media.co/instagram-palestinian-arabic-bio-translation/ #meta #instagram #palestine #war

MitchellPlitnick, 7 months ago to random

That's nice. Did they turn on the electricity which is the only way to circulate water in #Gaza in the best of times? Did they repair the many water pipes destroyed in the latest bombardment?
No?
Then, this empty gesture might be better than nothing but not by much.

taylorlorenz, 7 months ago to random

People have been trying to use Threads to follow the news about the war in Israel, and Meta is still wholesale blocking searches on dozens of words, downranking journalism, and does not seem to want news on its platform at all