"How does it feel to be a war-crimes reporter whose family bankrolled a nation that’s committing war crimes?
I can tell you.
I covered the genocide in Bosnia for The Post, wrote a book about it, and reported from Iraq & Afghanistan, among other conflict-ridden countries. Also, my ancestors were key funders of Jewish immigration to British-controlled Palestine." #GiftArticle#GiftLink https://wapo.st/3TUjTtp
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"These protesters are part of a movement that includes #Jewish demonstrators who wear T-shirts that say #NotInOurName. Their potent voices undermine the argument that all protests against Israeli violence are #antisemitic. They help legitimize global opposition to what’s being done in #Gaza, and they defend not only #Palestinian lives but Jewish lives, too, because they contradict the misbegotten idea that #Jews as a whole are to blame for what #Israel is doing." https://wapo.st/3TUjTtp
"Pro-Palestine protesters disrupted the largest one-night fundraiser in presidential campaign history on Thursday" featuring Biden, Obama and Clinton, moderated by Stephen Colbert & "with tickets costing up to half a million dollars each".
Biden must stop US complicity in genocide. Netanyahu has been called the Israeli Trump. Why bother voting Democrats if that's the outcome. Any unconditional support must stop now.
"The event disruption was organized by a coalition including Adalah Justice Project, Palestinian Youth Movement and Jewish Voice for Peace and the Sunrise Movement.
Meanwhile, outside the event, thousands took to the streets to protest President Biden’s support for Israel’s assault on Gaza."
Today: Protest at Israel Consulate in Toronto. Sun Jan 14. 4pm at the corner of Yonge and Bloor.
Sponsoring groups include:
Toronto4Palestine
Palestinian Youth Movement
Hamilton4Palestine
Jews Say No To Genocide
Actions4Palestine
Palestinian Cultural Club
Association of Palestinian Students
Nato Green: I’m out here with 600 Jews occupying the Oakland federal building ready to face arrest (including me & @BootsRiley ) to demand a #CeasefireNOW and say #NotInOurName . @israel@palestine
I'm a liberal American Zionist. When I see news like this, I cover my eyes, stick my fingers in my ears, and scream as loud as I can "Hamas!" "Antisemitism!" "Israel can do no wrong!"
@marisa
Please don't be quiet people. Shine the light of humanity on this abomination that is going forward full steam. Voice your disapproval. #NotInOurName and #NotWithOutTaxDollars
Jewish writers, artists, musicians, activists and similar can now put our names on a list that normies, centrists, zionists, christian fundamentalists and other fascists and fash-adjacents (and of course our parents and grandparents and siblings and most of our cousins) will all super love to hate
I can’t get past the Pod Save America guys in Cleveland last night calling settler colonialism an ahistorical take. Like they’ve never heard of Benny Morris or Ilan Pappé and are unable to see the ethnic cleansing taking place right before our eyes in Gaza and the West Bank.
In 2nd grade I used to bring dimes to Hebrew school to plant trees in Israel. 40 yrs later I learned those trees were planted on the ruins of Palestinian villages evacuated at gunpoint in 1948-9 and then bulldozed by the Israeli military. Many of the refugees resettled in Jabalya and other camps, where their descendants are now being killed by Israeli bombs. Israel now wants to cleanse north Gaza, perhaps to annex it as well.
"Settler colonialism" is personal to me. My mom's aunt made aliyah in the 1920s, after escaping pogroms in E. Europe she settled with her husband on a moshav near Tel Aviv. I don't know if they bought the land from the inhabitants or from absentee landlords who expelled the residents from their land -- both things happened in the 20s -- but I do know her children and grandchildren grew up as racist as the worst Jim Crow rednecks in the US South.
In plain language, the most charitable interpretation of the thinking behind what #Israel is doing in #Gaza right now—and I really mean that, any other motive we could ascribe would be even worse from a moral, ethical, and legal viewpoint—is that any number of deaths in Gaza is acceptable to prevent even a single death in Israel.
I.e., Israeli lives are worth more than Palestinian lives.
Israel's military defense was not always like this and doesn't need to be like this. #NotInOurName