Absolutely appalling scenes from #Harvard. #Jewish students being harassed. While protesting against the slaughter of civilians by #Israel in #palestine is justified. The usual crap of threats against those who do not agree and calling for harm to the #USA is not acceptable. Also any support for #hamas should result in those doing so being taken away. Hamas have killed many of their own people, and knew exactly what they were doing when they killed so many innocent #Israelis.
Calling protesters "Pro-Hamas", because they protest the genocidal slaughtering of #Palestinians in #Gaza by #Israelis, is like calling Americans who fought in WWII, "pro-communist". Nazis at the time were saying they were fighting "Jewish Bolshevik sub-humans".
Oh, wait!… That's what Trump calls the Democrats now: "communist thugs".
Lyndon Johnson, one of the most accomplished POTUS, was forced to withdraw from the presidential race in '68 and never was reelected. Wonder why…
"Like millions of #Israelis, I was also kept ignorant by the state and its educational system on purpose. However, once you unlearn #Zionist propaganda, there is no going back; the world makes so much more sense, and it feels similar to what I have heard of those who escaped a cult."
@faab64@Miro_Collas@palestine@realskibidi
In late October last year the majority of #Israelis showed they supported the #genocidal attacks on #gaza. In fact, many thought the IDF should be killing far more. #Israel is, like South Africa once was, a nation of mostly white supremacists devoted to #apartheid and their own privilege built on oppression, and to treating the occupied, indigenous people as sub-humans.
@realskibidi@Miro_Collas@faab64@palestine
Of course there are other organisations. I know a bit about one (al Mubadara - the PNI) that has long advocated non-violence & a 2 state solution (although they are on the verge of giving up on the latter).
Of course, #Israelis hate PNI as #Hamas, & arrested the Sec Gen (a Doctor) & smashed his knee with a rifle butt.
It seems the only person who could successfully unite Palestinians is Marwan Barghouti, currently serving life sentences in Israel.
Es Geht! Leuchturmprojekt 25 Jahre West-Eastern Divan
"Ein Orchester könne zwar keine politischen Konflikte lösen, sagt Gründer Daniel Barenboim. Es könne aber zeigen, wie menschliches Miteinander funktionieren kann." #Musik#DanielBarenboim#Israelis#Araber https://west-eastern-divan.org
from #World-Outlook, an online journal of political analysis
‘For a Just Peace Enabling #Israelis and Palestinians to Co-Exist with Mutual Respect’
Appeal by African Leader #GraçaMachel, widow of #NelsonMandela
article from [#ProjectSyndicate, a magazine in South Africa. With an introduction by W-O]
"Thousands of #Israelis took to the streets in demonstrations against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s far-right government, demanding fresh #elections...
Demonstrators carried torches and posters denouncing #Netanyahu, who is also facing pressure from allies, including the #UnitedStates, over Israel’s punishing military campaign in #Gaza...
Tens of thousands of #Israelis thronged central #Jerusalem on Sunday in the largest anti-government #protest since the country went to #war in Oct. Protesters urged the govt to reach a #CeaseFire deal to free dozens of #hostages held in #Gaza by #Hamas militants & to hold early #elections.
"6 April 1994, when a #Palestinian man, dispatched by one of the leaders of Hamas’s armed wing, blew himself up at a bus stop in the northern Israeli city of Afula, killing eight #israelis It was expressly an act of vengeance in response to the massacre of 29 worshippers at the Ibrahimi mosque, carried out two months earlier by an Israeli extremist hoping to derail peace talks between the Israeli government and the #PLO." @palestine @israel #history #civilwar #war https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/mar/21/what-is-the-real-hamas
Thom Hartmann shared this on his show today. Thread 🧵via Marty Taylor, Executive Director NewBlueUSA. President niteflyermedia. Pilot. Musician. Political and media consultant. 1/...
A personal story about Donald Trump, Marla Maples. The “Carpet King” Bob Shaw, Adolph Hitler and my wife Martha.
...and his (probable) #WarCrimes regime. They do the "clearing," the #TrumpCrimeFamily (and its #Saudi investors) reap the benefits.
Circling back to that infamous dinner of #MarthHartman.
Can we really continue to believe that #Israelis will be inhabiting these luxurious condos, after #Hitler "did not finish the job?!?"
On Tuesday the Republican leader in the Senate, #Mitch#McConnell, told reporters ⭐️Johnson should “let the House speak”. ⭐️
Asked about Republican proposals to offer aid to Ukraine as a loan not a grant,
👉McConnell said it was more important to act quickly.
“The only way to get relief to the #Ukrainians and the #Israelis quickly is ♦️for the House to figure out how to pass the Senate bill,” ♦️he said, adding:
“We’ve got a bill that got 70 votes in the Senate. Give members of the House of Representatives an opportunity to vote on it. That’s the solution.”
"She thought of vengeance, decided there had been too much of that already, and instead joined an Israeli-Palestinian nonprofit organization dedicated to dialogue. Israeli members have lost loved ones to Palestinians, Palestinian members to Israelis. They talk, get to know one another, comfort one another
Seeing each other as human beings” is more difficult than killing. If world history teaches us anything, it teaches that"
#Trump Says Little on #Gaza, & Nothing About What He’d Do Differently
In the ~5 months since #Hamas invaded #Israel on #Oct7, igniting the most divisive #ForeignPolicy crisis of #Biden’s presidency, Trump has said noticeably little about the subj.
“So you have a war that’s going on, & you’re probably going to have to let this play out. You’re probably going to have to let it play out, because a lot of people are dying,” #Trump said in an interview w/Univision a month after the attack. His main advice to #Netanyahu & the #Israelis …was to do a better job w/ “public relations,” because the #Palestinians were “beating them at the public relations front.”
"A few members of the Commons #foreignaffairscommittee sat in a modest room & took evidence from #Israelis & #Palestinians about how #Britain might actually do something useful to end the bloodshed. The discussion was serious & practical – and delivered precisely zero attention or political benefit to those involved."
“You can criticise our acceptance speech, you can say that we should have mentioned the events of 7 October – all that is legitimate. But #Germany is weaponising a term that was designed to protect Jews, not only to silence #Palestinians but also to silence #Jews and #Israelis who are critical of the occupation and use the word #apartheid. This is also dangerous because it devalues the term #antisemitism.”
Am I being a bit slow or is he suggesting that the term "antisemitism" was designed to protect Jews? That's not in any way accurate and in fact the opposite is true.
When people say “host your own server” to me I am going to start telling them to represent themselves in court. We all have different skill sets and the bar for entry should not be being a server admin or mastodon is doomed to fail. There is no meaningful growth as it is . I want to see it succeed but chastising me does not make it so
I just know the #western & #israelis hypocritical politics & medias would qualify you as "antisemitic" (disregarding the fact that if you was you wouldn't care of what the Nazis did to Jews).
What would you call a society this genocidal whose blood thirst is still at this, after massacring 30,000 Palestinians & still continue to massacre them?
Most protests we hear about removing Nethanyahu are largely about internal power struggle, but not against genocide itself.
#Israel really became the New #Nazi State. It actually started in 1948 but increasingly progressed over the decades to reach this stage. And most #Israelis are just fine with that. Time for the world as a whole to realise what they are dealing with. And that includes especially the #USA.
“Medical teams have added a new acronym to their vocabulary. WCNSF: wounded child, no surviving family,” he said. “Children who survive this war will not only bear the visible wounds of traumatic injuries but the invisible ones, too — those of repeated displacement, constant fear and witnessing family members literally dismembered before their eyes. These psychological injuries have led children as young as five to tell us they would prefer to die.” #Gaza#WarCrimes
And the #Israelis believes that their #genocidal actions in #Gaza will make #Hamas disappear? They're creating a whole generation of #Palestinians who will hate #Israel with an intensity never seen before.
Even though the saying goes, each country gets the government it deserves. Even a democratically elected government is not the same as its people.
This is why I have started to... https://mastodon.social/@DrALJONES/111963080262253515
#Israel has said it has informed the families of 31 people held in the territory since 7 October that their relatives are dead. The news came as the Qatari prime minister said #Hamas had given a “generally positive” response to proposals for a deal trading a break in the fighting and release of #Palestinian prisoners for the return of more #hostages.
"There is a tiny, reed-thin chance that something better might come out of this horror show of a war. To grasp it, the #Palestinians need to be free of #Hamas and #Israelis free of #Netanyahu. Every day those men remain in power is a curse on both peoples – who have surely been cursed long enough."