Israel just bombed a tent city full of #refugees who fled North #Gaza for #Rafah on the #IDF's orders.
Horrifying photos show families frantically rummaging through the carnage for the limbs of their family members. I won't reproduce them here, but they can be found on the bird site from @gazanotifications
They are murdering poor people trapped in a concentration camp, in the places they were told to flee for safety. They are killing impoverished, innocent, starving Palestinians, mostly under 30, with nowhere else to go.
This brutality is unparalleled in my lifetime. All studies show that Israel is in a class of its own, outdoing the Dresden bombings by a landslide. Saying this is not antisemitic: it is your duty, whoever you are.
I am #Jewish: spiritually, scholarly, and Litvak Ashkenazi. It's not antisemitic for me, OR ANY NON-JEW to say. In fact, its every human's duty to call for this bloodshed to cease IMMEDIATELY, and to even call for this genocidal Zionist occupation to be dismantled before there is any more blood shed. Nothing keeps my heart beating like my Arab and Muslim comrades speaking out against this barabarism every day. All while facing the harshest consequences of anyone! This ugliness would quite literally drive me to kill myself if I didn't know so many people who are so brave.
I have been doing activism in Palestine since 2012, both boots-on-the-ground defense of protestors, and teaching programming. These are not antisemites; my Palestinian friends are as close to me as any others. And I have had 6 students murdered in Gaza in 120 days. All the others are starving, fleeing from tent city to tent city, trying to survive the most hellish circumstances of drone democide any people have ever witnessed in the history of humanity. Thats a simple fact now.
If you are a goy and claim to support this in our name, WE WILL REMEMBER. The vast majority of #Jews outside of Israel who are under 40 years old are anti-Zionists today. All the fastest growing Jewish organizations of the past decade are anti-Zionist. And we will not forget those who cheered on a 21st century #Holocaust while evoking the memory of our family members killed by Nazi #Germany. Especially not the #Germans, who have been by far the worst inciters and supporters of genocide outside of #Israel.
I am begging you all once more to understand - the point of bringing up the decades long and systematic abuse, apartheid, and Occupation by the Israeli government of Palestinians ISN'T to "excuse" Hamas. It's to point out that it will be IMPOSSIBLE to build a lasting peace even IF Hamas is removed, as long the deliberate and ongoing IDF and Occupation violence continues.
If they don't care today, they will when they face higher prices because of trade sanctions, when they can't travel freely because of visa restrictions, when Israeli startups can't raise funds, when they lose hundreds of million in European research subsidies, when they can't participate in cultural, sporting, or academic events.
This conflict will only end when the cost of occupation outweighs its benefits for most Israelis.
there are D.C. scum calling #StudentSpring "pro-HAMAS protests". the minute anybody in the #Biden admin parrots that shit, all bets are off with #Democrats.
so all liberals on here screaming #VoteBlue no matter who, y'all better get your asses in gear and tell every single person in the White House to drop that shit immediately.
am not some magical Cassandra. i have +30 years experience with the treachery of Democrats against antiwar activists.
"I've been to over 40 countries across Africa, Asia and South America doing humanitarian work, and what I saw in #KhanYounis were the most horrific scenes I've witnessed in my entire life. The bombings were going on every few hours at that point in and the #IDF were about 1km away, and the mass casualties kept on coming in, and it was mostly — the majority of patients I treated — were children from the ages of 2-17. I saw horrific eye and facial injuries that I've never seen before with shrapnell lodged in their eyes in the most terrible ways; children with limbs dangling, barely still connected; people suturing patients without anesthesia; it was just mass chaos. And so now I know with the bombings going on in #Rafah — with videos coming out showing limbs spread across the ground following an explosion — so I know what my colleagues are going through right now."
The president of #Barnard College lost a faculty-wide vote of no confidence on Tuesday, as criticism mounts over the school’s response to a pro- #Palestine 🇵🇸 encampment
It is the first no confidence vote against a president in the college’s history.
'The US company said the restaurants, operations and employees would be retained "on equivalent terms" and that it remained "committed to the Israeli market".'
Some Israelis genuinely want peace and justice for Palestinians. There are very few of them, but they exist.
And they say it loud and clear: "we cannot stop this war from within Israel". Only overwhelming boycotts, divestments and sanctions will make Israel bend.
The fact that IBM is so invested in Israel considering its role on the Holocaust… #BDS
“#Norway’s second largest asset manager, Storebrand, divested holdings in IBM worth $141 million due to their supply of a biometric database to Israel "used to implement apartheid" and "discrimination and segregation of Palestinians".
There is a mass, international, peaceful movement to end the violence in #Palestine, with both Palestinians and Jews at the forefront, one that everyone who wants peace should support unwavering. Its the movement to Boycott, Divest from, and Sanction #Israel until they adhere to international law by granting Palestinians their full rights including following through on Resolution 194, which they agreed to as a condition for gaining recognition by the UN. Until Israel has to face consequences and international pressure for the crime of apartheid, the only recourse that Palestinians will have at their disposal is violence. They have no government, no passports, no real hospitals, no genuine representation, no course of action that could produce change available to them.
Unfortunately, #BDS is illegal in 12 US states, including NY, which I called home until it became illegal for any non-profit that receives US grants to hire me, and I used to make a living as a media artist, very much reliant on such orgs. My earnings have been cut in half of what they were before, as have most of my comrades who participated in the International Solidarity Movement from the start. Those laws aren't merely symbolic, they are aimed to destroy anyone who attempts to chart a path towards sustained peace, truth and reconciliation.
I'm a huge fan of the Eurovision Song Contest, but this year I'm boycotting Eurovision.
Eurovision has always been political. Its purpose is political by seeking to unite Europe with the power of love of music over the power of hate and war.
In previous years, I celebrated the overt shows of support for Ukraine, LGBTQIA people, and other oppressed people.
But this year, the organisers of the Eurovision Song Contest have chosen ignore calls for BDS and allowed Israel to enter, and they have chosen to ban other participants from showing even support of the people of Palestine.
If you think the Eurovision Song Contest has chosen an appalling stance on this issue, you're not alone. The Israel singer was booed off stage, and there have been a record number of protests against Eurovision inside the auditorium, outside this year's venue in Malmö, and in many participating countries around the world.
Swedish city Gothenburg wants to stop buying goods from Israel.
A majority in the municipality’s governing committee has proposed "the city phase out all purchases of goods originating in states that illegally occupy other states.
“Israel is conducting an illegal occupation of the West Bank that has only worsened.... Our tax money should not go to financially support occupation forces.”
GENTLE REQUEST
let's use #StudentSpring to mark the #BDS protests spreading across USA campuses. hopefully, like the Spring and Summer of 1968, these will gain momentum across the world.
for those new to BDS: it's the 1980s strategy used for successfully organizing citizens against #Apartheid:
Boycott
Divest
Sanction
Bishop Desmond Tutu compared #Israel's treatment of Palestinians as not just apartheid but the kind of humiliation that leads to #genocide.