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chargrille, 10 days ago to random

CNN reporters identified an 18yo high school student from Beverly Hills who beat UCLA students with a stick, who were encamped on their own university to protest the #genocide in #Gaza.

CNN approached his parents, "who expressed support for him & revealed that he will soon leave for Israel to join the Israeli occupation forces"

He should be awaiting charges in the US, not fleeing the country.

Query: what happened to Meir Kahane's cousin who tried to kill NYC students with his car?

chargrille, 10 days ago to H5N1

Who is tracking #AvianFlu #H5N1 closely?

Somewhat closely?

Who should I be following?

I have questions about the quality of research identifying temperature at which the virus is guaranteed to be killed.

Other questions too. Always with the questions.

chargrille, 10 days ago to random

Israeli historian Ilan Pappe was targeted by US CBP this week. They took his phone & asked him questions like did he believe Israel was committing genocide against Palestinians, &if he had any Palestinian friends.

My first reaction was that CBP doesn't know the first thing about Israeli historians, & likely Israel's govt told the US to target him. Turns out Pappe believes Israel's govt was involved.

It would be a good time to read his work. #Histodon #Lawstodon

https://www.huckmag.com/article/zionism-is-not-judaism-myths-about-israel

chargrille, 11 days ago to random

chargrille, 1 month ago to Palestine

Immediately in the wake of Biden's call to #Netanyahu, raising the scary specter of the US actually complying with its own aid conditions meant to avoid arming war criminals, as many have begged for months, Israel announces it will open the Erez crossing for 1st time in 6 mos.

I predict it'll help some, but won't shift in Netanyahu's genocidal aims or plans to starve #Gaza. His govt will still do everything it's doing at other points, to thwart entry of food, water, & medicine to #Palestine.

chargrille, 1 month ago to random

"israel has killed more aid workers in the tiny #gaza strip than have died in all of the countries in the rest of the world combined in any of the last 30 years"

Graph of Aid worker deaths showing more than 70% of all the aid worker deaths in 2023 were in #Gaza. Even more in 2024 - roughly 75-80%

All 161 deaths of Palestinian aid workers in 2023 were after Oct. 7

Data is as of April 1, 2024. The data from 2024 & some incidents from 2023 are provisional

Source: Aid Worker Security Database

chargrille, 1 month ago to random

Heartbreaking post from Chef Andrès this morning addressed to his friend Zomi, a #WCK aid worker assassinated by the Israeli government while in #Gaza to feed starving #Palestinians.

"I’m sorry my friend…I wish I never founded @WCKitchen
..you would be alive somewhere today, smiling & making somebody somewhere feel like they were the most beloved person in the world…That how I always felt with you…"

chargrille, 1 month ago to Israel

Since POTUS loves tailoring policy & elections to listening to Republicans and MORNING JOE:

"Former Condoleezza Rice advisor & NSC spokesperson Elise Jordan erupts at President Biden’s unwillingness to condition weapons aid to #israel"

"Morning Joe guest Richard Haass calls for sanctions on Israel, criticizes Biden: "At some point, the words become empty...there has to be trade sanctions.”

"[Biden] looks weak and impotent."

#Gaza #IsraelPalestine #CWK #Genocide

chargrille, 1 month ago to random

the Palestinian American doctor who walked out of the WH meeting last night:

1. He understood "it would be the first time that the President would hear from people who were actually on the ground in Gaza, since Oct 7. [WOW].

2. "It was a few members from the Muslim American community, people who had also been on the ground in Gaza, ready to give their firsthand, eyewitness testimony. [I was] the only Palestinian-American." [DOUBLE F*CKING WOW]

https://twitter.com/brikeilarcnn/status/1775608996759580815

chargrille, 1 month ago to random

Center for International Policy NEW MEMO on #Gaza

5 recommended steps for #Biden Admin

1. Use U.S. leverage to press for a full #ceasefire

2. Fully enforce U.S. law & arms policy to ensure accountability & adequate humanitarian aid delivery

3. Focus diplomacy toward a multilateral, just resolution

4. Take meaningful anti-occupation, anti-annexation steps

5. Substantially expand support for the Palestinian people & Palestinian leaders who seek peace with Israel

https://t.co/q1eeJWs4bH

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chargrille, 1 month ago to Israel

Report today that #Israel's military (#IDF) just murdered 5 #WorldCentralKitchen volunteers who were providing nourishing meals in #Palestine.

#ChefAndres's humanitarian organization feeds starving people in crisis all around the world.

The larger point is critical: What she (@seachanger) said >>>

#Gaza #IsraelPalestine

@ World Central Kitchen @WCKitchen We are aware of reports that members of the World Central Kitchen team have been killed in an IDF attack while working to support our humanitarian food delivery efforts in Gaza. This is a tragedy. Humanitarian aid workers and civilians should NEVER be a target. EVER. 418 PM - Apr 1,2024 - 1.8M Views
reminder that if Netanyahu & the US gets away with this in #Gaza — targeting journalists, targeting hospitals and schools and refugee camps, starving millions of children, mass murder on the scale of tens of thousands, shutting down press, internet and information, killing humanitarian workers, preventing crucial aid convoy, firing on people receiving aid, and planning resettlement of regions based on ethnic identity — these methods will be normalized & advanced by other western nations & govts

chargrille, 1 month ago to H5N1

A. The 21 yo college student with avian flu who died in #Vietnam, has been confirmed to have had the #H5N1 clade.

B. The #US H5N1 cattle outbreaks have increased, and have infected at least one human being in the US (confirmed).

Remember just last year when 99% of the world was pooh-poohing the idea that #AvianFlu would jump from birds to mammals to humans?

Well, that was reckless. Let's just keep that kind of stupidity to a bare minimum, shall we.

https://afludiary.blogspot.com

chargrille, 1 month ago to random

@tparsi is really important to read on #Gaza.

Presuming that Israel simply is breaking international law as part of the war but with no larger intent no longer holds IMO. [bold italics] Rather, Israel is seeking to either destroy these norms or create a new normal in which it - much like the US - will be untouchable above these laws and norms. This is the exact type of conduct that usually prompts the US to label a country a pariah or rogue state. The US accuses such states of seeking to destroy the "Rules Based Order." But so far, Biden has acquiesced to Israel's conduct in this area as well as all other aspects of Israel's slaughter in Gaza. [Image of Biden with his arm around Netanyahu, Biden's face looking friendly & beginning to smile, attempting to look Netanyahu in the eyes; Netanyahu with thinset lips in grimace, colooking down and away from Biden, to his left.] Last edited 11:50 AM - Apr 1, 2024 - 475.9K Views

chargrille, 2 months ago to Israel

HUGE.

Scathing statement from Patrick Gaspard, the President of the Center for American Progress, which is closely allied with the Biden Admin.

He writes that US State Depart's official stance that #Israel is following international law is “a gross disregard of overwhelming evidence.”

#Gaspard was Obama's Director of the WH Office of Political Affairs & served as US Ambassador to South Africa. He was Executive Director of the DNC & in charge of its support of Obama's re-election campaign.

chargrille, 2 months ago to random

"Israel must take action to prevent mass starvation. If this requires a temporary ceasefire & Israel delivering & distributing the food, then so be it.

Mass starvation of human beings violates the moral code…The present government has no right to betray Israel’s national ethical code because of its internal political dynamic & desire to hold onto power.

-Yitz Greenberg, "theologian & ethicist & the author of The Triumph of Life: A Narrative History of Jews & Judaism"

https://www.jpost.com/opinion/article-793151?dicbo=v2-fWFBOmI

chargrille, 2 months ago to random

"What Israel needs in order to reverse its growing isolation is a basic change of mindset, which can only result from a change of government in Jerusalem. The Economist appears to believe that successful negotiations on a new hostage deal between Israel & Hamas could somehow lead to a change of government."

Author "worked in the Knesset for many years as a researcher, & has extensively published both journalistic & academic articles on current affairs & Israeli politics"
https://www.jpost.com/opinion/article-793521

chargrille, 2 months ago to random

"The road to enduring peace in the region depends entirely on the two-state solution—the establishment of a Palestinian state, existing in concert with a regionally-integrated Israel…the US must…bring about a two-state solution once & for all" –Dem Senators

Carper (DE)
Baldwin (WI)
Brown (OH)
Coons (DE)
Durbin (IL)
Heinrich (NM)
Hirono (HI)
Klobuchar (MN)
Markey (MA)
Merkley (OR)
Murphy (CT)
Schatz (HI)
Shaheen (NH)
Smith (MN)
Van Hollen (MD)
Warnock (GA)
Warren (MA)
Welch (VT)
Whitehouse (RI)

chargrille, 2 months ago to movies

I think I will start a #Feminist #Movies thread.

A #FeministDystopia movie I watched this week (by happy accident!) was Swallow.

Incredible, beautiful artistry, direction, acting, sound, color, everything, in this film. Haley Bennett was truly extraordinary as the lead. I prefer her performance to any of this year's Oscar nominees. She held me completely in suspense the whole time, bizarrely relatable.

Highly recommend watching this one, even if only for its spectacular ending!

chargrille, 2 months ago to movies

So…re-watched #VforVendetta (2005) after almost 20 yrs & let's just say the Wachowski sisters-McTeigue adaptation of a Thatcher-era comic, swims in a sick miasma of #DejaVu, bolding how our current fascism was previewed by progressive/POC critics of Reagan, Thatcher, Bush(es). Set post-fascist takeover, w/a choleric Hitlerian dictator enriched by corruption & profit off a plague released to scapegoat "outsiders" & spread fear.

The news reports American civil war & #AvianFlu.
#movies

chargrille, 2 months ago to Israel

I assume most Israelis, the vast majority of whom distrust & loathe #Netanyahu & want him replaced, are picking up what Gantz is laying down about #Israel's real natsec interests (i.e., maintain diplomatic respect & trust with the US –which is obviously impossible w/Bibi calling the shots).

Serious Q: Have Israelis decided keeping #Bibi in power forever is worth pushing US power to the "Jews Will Not Replace Us" party (GOP) for keeps? B/c that's where all this is headed in 2024 election.
Gantz:

chargrille, 2 months ago to history

A #MustRead thread: https://progressives.social/@AnarchoNinaAnalyzes@treehouse.systems/112158149698062526

When US responded to #ICJ ruling of plausible case, by stripping all funding from #UNRWA, I argued that was active US execution of #Genocide against #Gaza. New spending bill defunding it until 2025 outstrips that in viciousness & scope.

ALSO NOTE her citation of CNN reporting from 3 wks ago: UN clearly says Israeli govt used torture on UN staff to extract false confessions.

cc @AnarchoNinaAnalyzes

#Colonialism
#Imperialism
#USPolitics

So let's review here: the U.S. and much of the so-called West, cut funding to a UN aid organization that represents the only way to to prevent a literal famine in Gaza, based entirely on unverified accusations from a government engaging in a literal genocide against Palestinians in the territory. Additionally, Israel has never presented any hard evidence that these allegations are true, and that UN agency says Israeli officials extracted flimsy confessions of a UNRWA relationship with Hamas using literal torture. Finally, despite this lack of evidence, Israel's long history of attempting to dismantle the agency that feeds Palestinians, and a UN agency's report that torture was used to extract confessions, the American government's bipartisan position almost two months later is that helping Israel engineer a famine in Gaza by suspending UNRWA aid for the next year at a minimum, is cool and good actually. In fact, we're also going to keep funding Israel and we continue to ship weapons to Netanyahu's military during an ongoing genocide. At what point does this stop being Israel's genocide in Gaza, and start being a joint American-Israeli genocide in Gaza? Because frankly, I think we're already there.

chargrille, 2 months ago to random

In 2018 #Netanyahu's govt "pushed through Parliament a new law calling Israel the 'nation-state of the Jewish people'…its primary function is to build a formal foundation for Israel’s annexation of the West Bank—& for a Jewish state eventually to stretch over the whole of Palestine"…In 1948, the Declaration of Independence…created a Jewish state that would ensure 'complete equality of social & political rights to all its inhabitants irrespective of religion, race or sex'"
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/26/opinion/israel-law-jewish-democracy-apartheid-palestinian.html

chargrille, 2 months ago to random