This podcast is good at making #history easier to digest, if you're interested--
Up this week is Zionism, Zionist #propaganda, Balfour, the guy chosen to mess up Palestine, who had previously wreaked havoc in Ireland and denied entry to Jews fleeing the holocaust who were hoping to find refuge in the UK. And Herzl &more stuff.
Israel is committing one of the worst atrocities in modern history.
The attack on Rafah is unlawful and monstrous.
The "evacuation plan" is a bad joke. There are no services or safety in an already overcrowded area.
Even if moving somewhere else was a possibility, there has not been enough time for hundreds of thousands of hungry, sick and scared people, mostly children, to move.
Student protestors have historically been proven right about every single war they protested.
Column writers at Reputable Newspapers, Think Tankers and Hawkish political operators have, conversely, been proven wrong every single time they've supported imperial war.
Stand with the students.
Stand with Palestinians.
Stop the genocidal war machine.
Not sure if setting snipers on the rooftops of universities overlooking unarmed, peaceful student protests is the best way to demonstrate how committed your society is to freedom and democracy.
An intelligent analysis of what's been going on with Iran - including the puzzling minority of Iranians who appear to support Israel. (Sometimes the enemy of your enemy is not a friend! Evidence being Zionism and genocide, hello.)
"They can’t tell you that at Shifa Hospital complex, after it was raided and shut down in November, that it was slowly coming up to speed and that people who were sheltering had returned there. The emergency department started to see patients again. You don’t get to hear that aspect of it."
Reminder that one of the most impactful, but also simplest, individual actions you can take is to check whether your retirement savings, or any investments, are supporting the genocidal regime.
And then move them to a fund that doesn't.
It worked against apartheid South Africa.
It will work again.
Any of the Palestinian memoirs/biographies are great in so many ways. You can come in with little idea of the Middle East and get a human story as well as where that falls in the history/context of something people call complicated, but isn't.
One shows humor in the face of such circumstances as Palestinian refugees face and another shows that this carnage (by Israel) you see today has been happening a very long time (British+Zionists).