“What is the point of having power," she says, "if you will not use it to stop crimes against humanity?”
Jewish Presidential appointee Lily Greenberg Call resigned in protest at its refusal to stop arming Israel. It's an astonishing letter.
Update: a few minutes after tweeting this, her X account was suspended 🤨
"Gilad Erdan, the [Israeli] ambassador, said in an interview with Israel’s Army Radio on Wednesday that the UN has “turned into a collaborator with Hamas . . . maybe even more than that — a terror organisation unto itself."
@sufferforme Many senior Likud figures indirectly fund Hamas ... so you're more right than you know.
Did you see the resignation letter from the Biden appointee?
It's pretty scathing.
@lostsettler The only connection to Google I have now is a dummy account for Mastodon. I've been talking about ditching Windows too but haven't got round to it yet.
I will though.
DuckDuckGo gets a lot of bad (mainstream) press but it is a perfectly good search engine.
@SallyStrange I honestly thought those words couldn't go in a sentence together when talking about a fucking school in this country.
This is some dictatorship level shit.
Two girls meet through digital educational project. Samar's father comes from the #Palestinian#OccupiedTerritories. Linor's family was evacuated from a #Jewish settlement. Only 67 kms apart, yet an #ideological gulf stands between them. The girls meet and an instant bond is struck. Nevertheless, reality overpowers the #friendship.
Looks like he's drenched in the blood of the anachronistic Empire his unearned privilege is built on to me, and posing in front of the bonfire his government has made of the country.
Look at these giggling old men. This is what they're saying to the interviewer (see video link, sorry it's Xitter) about their actions in 1948.
Left:
"I didn't talk to anyone about it."
"What about your wife? I assume you lived with her for many years. You never talked to her about it?"
"I never told her. What would I tell her - that I'm a murderer?"
Right:
"And some guys took flamethrowers and ran after people and incinerated them."