“In one of those moments that you can’t believe is not satire, Antony Blinken met with Arab-American leaders and warned them that if Palestine got statehood, the US would defund the United Nations and potentially the World Food Program, plunging the developing world into starvation. It wasn’t enough for these fascists to starve innocents in Palestine, they’re now threatening to do it across the world. They would really rather kill millions more than stop doing genocide.”
“Several hundred students set up a non-violent anti-war protest camp at #FU#Berlin today. The police cleared the camp within hours — like this. The FU administration at the scene did not negotiate with the protesters. They refused to comment.”
If you can access X, pls watch the short video (a scene attatched as screenshot⬇️ )
Students wrap George Washington monument with keffiyeh (a fitting response to the videos of graduating students in Georgia dragged out by police for wearing keffiyehs) @palestine
From the river to the sea, Israel is waging the same war: The Gaza assault cannot be understood separately from Israel’s divide-and-conquer strategy against Palestinians in Jenin, Jerusalem, and Nazareth. (Orly Noy
| +972 Magazine, 2024-04-26)
"The categorization of Palestinians into separate classes — citizens inside Israel, permanent residents of East Jerusalem, occupied subjects in the West Bank, prisoners in the Gaza ghetto, and refugees in exile — is at the heart of Israel’s policy of divide and conquer. It effectively negates the existence of the Palestinians as a single and organic people, while keeping them all under the rule of Jewish supremacy."
"it is crucial not to fall into the trap set by Israel’s policy of divide and conquer. We must see this war in its entirety, and in every territory between the river and the sea, for all of them are defined by apartheid..."
"Since October 7, Israel has been waging an all-out war not only against the residents of Gaza, but against the entire Palestinian people..."
Namely beside Gaza,
West Bank - accelerated ethnic cleansing through the systematic violence of its uniformed soldiers and the settlers; Recent pogroms in villages...
East Jerusalem - plans to build some 7,000 housing units in existing or future settlements in the city; accelerated demolitions of Palestinian homes; tightened checkpoints; hundreds of arrests & administrative detentions...
Palestinian citizens inside Israel - mass arrests of anyone expressing any solidarity with their people in Gaza; the detention of political leaders for organizing a protest against the war; persecution of students and faculty at universities; harassment of doctors, nurses, and other workers in the healthcare system; and even administrative detention.
The Hidden War in Gaza and the West Bank (Bellingcat, 2024-04-29)
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“Using open source imagery #Bellingcat and our partners Scripps News examined widespread destruction of property inside the Gaza Strip and looked at deteriorating conditions there.
“Meanwhile, conflict in the West Bank has continued to escalate despite being overshadowed by events in Gaza. Bellingcat and Scripps News used satellite imagery to identify ongoing expansion of West Bank settlements and reveal the heightened tensions on the ground…”
This is simply insane ... literally! They continue to supply arms to Israel, which enables it to continue killing and starving Palestinians - then do this nonsense with a pier, rather than pressuring for existing entries to be opened. I question the sanity of the leadership of the US and UK.
Middle East debate in #Germany: The bell of Gaza (Charlotte Wiedemann | Qantara.de, 2024-04-23)
"With its fossilised premise of «raison d'etat» Germany is damaging itself. It is time for change – for constructive partnership in a concerted effort to overcome the Israeli-Palestinian catastrophe"
"What has happened? Germany has allowed itself to go down the slippery slope of misunderstood exceptionalism: by narrowing down the consequences of its responsibility for the Holocaust and its corresponding exceptional obligations to an unquestioned commitment to the structure of the Israeli state and its politics. And by telling others what they should think about Israel..."
"The outcome is an oppressive mixture, a strangely boastful detachment from the world. ... And we reserve the right to offend, because as the ex-evil masterminds, we are the only true good guys."
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FYI: "The project Qantara.de is a cooperation between Deutsche Welle and the Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen (Institute for Foreign Relations). The project seeks to promote dialogue with the Islamic world and is funded by the German Foreign Office."
Naomi Klein: Jews Must Raise Their Voices for Palestine, Oppose the “False Idol of Zionism” (Democracy Now!, 2024-04-24)
Zionism as another golden calf. A strong message from Naomi Klein.
(Video with transcript)
"Thousands of Jewish Americans and allies gathered in Brooklyn on Tuesday for a «Seder in the Streets to Stop Arming Israel» on the second night of Passover..."
"What I want to say to you this evening at this revolutionary and historic Seder in the Streets is that too many of our people are worshiping a false idol once again... And that false idol is called Zionism."
"Gathered around a banner emblazoned with the words «stop arming Israel,» thousands of protesters joined with Jewish-led peace groups in Brooklyn, New York, on Tuesday evening to attend a Passover protest that recalls the «Freedom Seder» held in the tumultuous year of 1969."
"The event was organized by the left-leaning Jewish Voices for Peace and the If Not Now movement, who said they saw the Seder protests as part of Jewish tradition that they traced back to Rabbi Arthur Waskow, who held the first Freedom Seder."
"Hundreds of protesters were reported arrested while blocking the streets of Brooklyn's Grand Army Plaza."