I wrote about how we could mourn Refaat, how we should engage with Western intellectual talking points, and how we must rid ourselves of the “language of inaction” and usher in a “productive language” as Fathi al-Shiqaqi once said.
Placing Refaat Al-Areer alongside the likes of Hanna Mikhail & Fathi Al-Shiqaqi as examples of Cabral’s class suicide in action,
@AmeedIsTyping
assesses how Palestinian intellectuals have sought to advance the liberation struggle through their work.
Palestinians have the right to burn this whole world down after what’s been done to them. Everyone who participated in this premeditated massacre is complicit. Everyone who took the gray zone is complicit. Every Palestinian has the right to turn your world upside down for this.
Wearing my keffiyeh is resistance. Writing some crummy article is resistance. Watermelon balloons are resistance.
What Iran did, however, was theatrics.
One day, Rafah will be your hometown. You will be incinerated while sleeping; you will be shot, arrested, and tortured.
By that point, do not portray yourself as the victim in all of this. You stoked this fire via complacency. The fire that is burning Rafah will consume you.
Everything that’s been happening with Judith Butler, Naomi Klein, and that clown masquerading as an intellectual: Zizek, has reaffirmed my belief that Palestine is the sieve that distinguishes between the careerist rats & people genuinely in line with national liberation.
كل حدا مقاوم بغزة انتشر اسمه بهالفترة تم استهداف عائلته وكل من يمت له بصلة من قريب أو من بعيد.
لا داعي أن نعرفهم. عرفناهم بصيحاتهم وعبورهم وراجمات صواريخهم، وهذا يكفي. دمهم لوحده يكفي لنعرفهم حق المعرفة.
أن تصرخ دول الجنوب العالمي في وجه طغاتها ومستعمريها البيض السابقين، هذا أمر لم نشهده منذ الستينيات والسبعينيات...
في حمى الحامي عمي أبو خالد الضيف، قلبت كل موازين هالعالم. رحم الله شهداء عبور السابع من أكتوبر.
Namibia rejects Germany’s Support of the Genocidal Intent of the Racist Israeli State against Innocent Civilians in Gaza
On Namibian soil,
#Germany
committed the first genocide of the 20th century in 1904-1908, in which tens of thousands of innocent Namibians died in the most
like look i get you're trying to exploit this historical moment in your favor and to have a voice and everything but maliciously putting "national and islamic forces" signatory on your statement that revokes armed struggle as a strategy when PFLP called you out is so funny
During his visit to Bureij camp, Che asked a local camp leader: “Where are the training camps? Where are the factories to manufacture arms? Where are people’s mobilization centers?”
Che Guevara in Gaza, Palestine.
The handwritten text reads- “With Guevara, the hero of the Cuban Revolution.”
Mansion of the Governor General, Lieutenant General Ahmad Salim. Gaza, 1959.
Another aspect of dehumanization of Palestinians is turning our struggle into ✨buckle up girlypops✨ “girlsplaining” gimmick tiktoks that are most likely not informative and impartial. We are not objects for your social media entertainment and consumption.
Some dumbass says brown Arabs with guns are raping settler prisoners (not even Israeli media says this btw!) and your racist minds all believe it because you can’t conceive of Arabs as rational, planning beings w/ basic human principles.
Just so we’re clear: UNRWA fired Palestinian poet Mu’in Bseiso from his job as a teacher due to his opposition to the UN’s refugee “resettlement” project in Sinai. He participated in demonstrations and represented communists in meetings with the Egyptian military governor.
Consider it a prophecy, a threat, or whatever you want to consider it. Point is that everything we do, and will do, will forever be justified. No ifs or buts. The whole world brought this upon itself.
الدكتور سلمان أبو ستّة أقضى جلّ عمره بتأريخ القرى المهجرة والخطوط الحدودية والتفاصيل الديمغرافية لفلسطين قبل وبعد النكبة، عدا عن طرحه الأكاديمي لكيفية حل مشاكل الملكية للاجئين بعد التحرير.
رأى بهذا الفيديو كلّ عمره، ومستقبل أحفاده.
د سلمان أبو ستة أثناء تصوير بودكاست أرض برعاية مركز دراسات الوحدة العربية، لما قال أن أرضنا أقيمت عليها "نيريم" فالمحاور بشّار اللقيس أعطاه فيديو دخول الشباب يوم 7 ل نيريم، وهذه كانت تعبيرته، ضحكت عيناه كطفل لم يشق يوما.
Shifa’ Hospital staff have literally been begging for an international observer team to go in there and to prove that the hospital isn’t a command and control center. Recent statements by US and Israel only prove their moral and ethical backbone since inception: bloodlust.
There’s something to be said about prefacing every single defense of Hamas under the sun with “I’m certainly not a fan of Hamas/not a fan of its ideology, but”.
Look, nobody is telling you to be a fan. Nobody cares about what you think. You’re irrelevant in the face of genocide.
شو يعني صالح العاروري؟ يعني الإنسان اللي قدر يبني أحد اللبنات الأولى لكتائب القسام في الضفة الغربية وهو طالب بجامعة الخليل.
شو يعني صالح العاروري؟ يعني الرجل اللي كان يطلع ع الشاشات يشجع شباب كتيبة جنين تكمل بدربها.
شو يعني صالح العاروري؟ أحد مهندسي صفقة وفاء الأحرار.
The callousness, dehumanization, and targeting of Jews on display at last night’s protest outside the Nova Festival exhibit was atrocious antisemitism - plain and simple.
Antisemitism has no place in our city nor any broader movement that centers human dignity and liberation.
Gaza’s armed resistance erupted a few years later under the Fedayeen unit and the PLA, then under the PFLP’s Red Eagles, Fateh Hawks, and finally now under Qassam and Saraya al-Quds.
Woah. Crazy development. As if Zionism from the 1920s - late 1970s wasn’t based on a predominantly “left” “social democratic” stream.
Look, you can twist yourself into a pretzel trying to portray this timeframe of Israel’s logic of elimination as something unique, but it’s not.
A close relative just traveled to Israel to be with family.
He said the entire country has turned far-right. People who were on the left, for peace, have adopted a rhetoric that just a few years ago was considered extreme. The dehumanization of Palestinians is now the norm.
أحب الصور على قلبي لنزار بنات. يتكلم على هاتف متواضع بأنامل امتزج بها عرق اليدين وآثار تقطيع الأخشاب من النجارة. يدخن دخانًا "عربيًا" كما يسود القول على الدخان المصنوع محليًا. رجل الشعب، استشهد لأجل الشعب.
دمت حيًا في ذكراك الثالثة.
Believing that there is an “Israeli working class” completely divorced from the ideology of settler colonialism and its caste system and positioning it as something new is really funny considering that this was the traditional (failed) Marxist approach to Israel in the 50s.
710 souls between martyred and injured during Israel’s operation to rescue their 4 settler pigs. 710 — do we realize the magnitude of this number in the span of only one-two hours?
It's frankly patronizing to say to a Palestinian "well you know they could get arrested on terrorism charges" when you point out the fact that the BNC could just shut the fuck up about armed struggle and never mention it and continue business as usual.
الزنكلوني من اقدم المطلوبين للاحتلال في منطقة نابلس ومن ابرز مؤسسين شباب الثأر والتحرير، وحالة مطاردته سبقت حالة العمل المسلح بالضفة.
الحرية الحتمية للي ما تعب ولا كل ولا مل.
.
@NaomiAKlein
speaking
@occupyuoft
right before Shabbat service by
@JewsSayNo
@UofT
“The only thing I can imagine more horrific than this live-streamed genocide would be a world in which that became normal, became background; ambient.”
BDS has called to boycott Standing Together (
@omdimbeyachad
), an org I proudly support.
BDS describes it as a "Israeli normalization org" that “whitewash[es] Israel’s ongoing genocide."
This is counter-productive, circular firing squad purism. 🧵
This will be an uncomfortable reality for careerists who built their entire repertoire off of delegitimizing armed resistance and belittling its impact. A historical day for the cause. The clock will not turn back after this.
This long history of UNRWA demonizing resistance, bastardizing their self-proclaimed goals, is only natural. International “humanitarian” organizations can only apply a bandage to a gunshot wound. They’re not allies, and they should be treated with the utmost pragmatism.
You regard Palestinians as stupid, backwards, and politically illiterate when Palestinians probably know about what terror charges entail, and the penalties associated with it, more than you do - we pay for it with our blood and our stolen lives in prison.
Israel could’ve, theoretically and practically, agreed to a ceasefire. It could’ve sucked up the punches it got and made peace with the fact that Palestinians beat them fair and square and negotiated a prisoner swap with them. It could’ve done all of this, and it chose genocide.
Good opportunity to dunk on identity politics.
Being Palestinian doesn’t validate one’s voice. Harkis were Algerian through and through. SLA were Lebanese.
The tokenization of the oppressed is exactly how collaborationism accelerates & legitimizes itself.
@Paliefer3
@omdimbeyachad
Sally Abed, who I encouraged everyone to listen to in the 🧵, is Palestinian. ST is led by Jews & Palestinians who are Israeli citizens.
And in Gaza & the West Bank, too, Pal opinions are diverse. I share tweets, interviews & polling from Pal scholars & analysts regularly.
Once the dust settles, do not forget nor forgive the careerist scum who either aligned themselves completely with Israel or sat on the fence because they want to save their jobs under the guise of the resistance not abiding by their moralistic values of what liberation means.
As good of a time as ever to reclaim Fanon as a principle inexorably tied to the armed struggle in Palestine from the clutches of liberal academia that historicizes him in the era of decolonization instead of seeing him as a timeless constant in every colonial context.
Multipronged assaults on Israeli settlements from land, air, and the sea. Takeover of land crossings, police stations, and army bases. Rocket fire reaching as far as northern Tel Aviv and Ofer prison in Ramallah. Countless amounts of Israeli prisoners in preparation for a deal.
From the "decolonial" academics steering away the conversation from the genocidal bombing of Gaza to the supposed "misrepresentation" of Fanon and/or prison abolition, to CNN broadcasting blatant lies about Hamas, its all a concentrated effort to dehumanize Palestinians.
أي خطاب بيلوم حماس على كلشي اللي صار، وبيتناسى حصار جوّع ونخر غزّة للعظم، وحروب "جزّ العشب" قبل ٢٠١٤ وبناء معادلات الردع فيها، كله هادا خطاب مشبوه بأفضل الأحوال.
المشكلة بعد كل هادا الدم نضلنا نكرّر بديهيات، لما اللي بيلوم حماس بيسواش اصلًا ينرد عليه بأي منطق كان.
💪 Putin, a dark conservative religious fanatic, must be stopped ASAP, and the West should even provide Ukraine with nuclear weapons if necessary, believes Slovenian leftist philosopher Slavoj Žižek.
Iran was behind October 7.
Iran is behind Hamas & PIJ.
Iran is behind Hezbollah.
Iran is behind the Houthis.
Iran is behind terrorism.
The destruction of ISRAEL 🇮🇱 & USA 🇺🇸 has been official Iran policy for a long time!
The Iranian Islamic regime is the cancer!
وبالحقيقة، المستوطنين مش قطعان. القطيع مسيّر وعادةً بدون قائد بيكون فوضوي وبيتوه. هدول على الصعيد الفردي والجمعي منظمين وعندهم رؤيا واستراتيجيا، هدول عصابات وجزء لا يتجزأ من مؤسسة إسرائيل الأمنية في الضفة. عنفهم غير اعتباطي ومش نابع من زعلة ع الفلسطيني لأنه قتلهم مستوطن.
محمد الكرد بالأساس بيولد شعور عند الناس بقديش هي صغيرة. شب من الشيخ جراح وصل صوته ومع المقاومة وبيحكي للغربي خرا عليك؟ مش المفروض المقدسي يموت ويتهجر بصمت؟ كيف يعني حشد وعمل وسوى احسن مني انا؟ يلا تعالوا نطول شماعة نحاول فيها ندين فيها الشب هادا
But no, you have to explain the intricacies, the nuance of it all, as if I fucking care or give a fuck about nuance when 40k+ of my people are dead and thousands more are getting tortured in prisons. Shut the fuck up and humble yourselves.
يا عابد الحرمين لو أبصرتنا
لعلمت أنك في العبادة تلعب
من كان يخضب خدذه بدموعه
فنحورنا بدمائنا تتخضّب
أو كان يتعب خيله في باطل
فخيولنا يوم الصبيحة تتعب
ريح العبير لكم ونحن عبيرنا
رهج السنابك والغبار الأطيب
As Some Palestinian Guy living in Nablus with no “stakes” in the US electoral system, what I see is two genocidal white supremacist clowns trying to win over constituencies who are directly complicit in perpetuating the fact they’re on a podium and speaking in the first place.
I asked the State Dept. today about the U.S. response to the discovery of apparent mass graves at a Gaza hospital — which has been to ask the Israeli govt. for more information.
— “And do you believe the govt. of Israel is a credible source in enlightening you?”
— “We do.”
In 1991, the US bombed al-Amiriyya shelter killing more than 400 Iraqi civilians. The US justified this bombing, claiming that the air raid shelter was actually a military compound for the Iraqi army. Same shit, different day.
Really highlights western priorities when a video of a Yemeni guy who never saw a Jewish person their entire life is overshadowing an entire ethnic cleansing campaign conducted by a state that claims to represent, by some “divine” metaphysical fiat, ALL world Jewry.
No but on a serious note: I am glad that the West came out in support of our genocide. No grey areas anymore and no “just one more Israeli-Palestinian delegation and you MIGHT get statehood trust me bro”. I am genuinely glad that the fascist in them is coming out.
The IOF warned the hospital that a Hamas rocket which turned out to be PIJ would hit munitions in the hospital because secretly it was a Hamas base that the IOF told to evacuate 1 hour before but the rocket landed in a parking lot 1 hour after reports of the bombing started
Good occasion to say that both the left and right in the Israeli political spectrum are the same. The latter at least has the balls to say carpet bomb Gaza, the former dilutes conversation with pointless semantics in order to pave the way for the carpet bombing of Gaza.
Y’all get so bent up when we mention that white working classes are complicit in the subjugation of entire peoples of the Global South. But here it is, a white (racially and ideologically) supporting genocide only to be overshadowed by Trump’s ear piercing. You will be forgotten.
Lesser known fact about the PIJ is that its founder, Fathi el Shiqaqi, was heavily influenced by Marxist dialectics and Gramsci, and he made several allusions to such ideas in his writings about Palestine and liberation.
The Ikhwan that Hamas and PIJ grew out of was fervently opposed historically to Marxists and revolutionaries and secular governments but two decades in an open-air prison will make people fight for freedom in the same way no matter what banner they’re under
The history of Palestinian resistance is subsequently the history of opposing the “rules-based” international order by virtue of Palestinians being at the bottom of the food chain and thus rendered expendable by imperialism.
Disputing obviously clear Israeli myths requiring 3D analysis, a physics degree, and intimate knowledge of missiles is fucking baffling.
They can literally lie about anything and the onus is on us to work 24/7 to dispute it using every method under the sun.
Our latest findings on the al-Ahli hospital blast: using 3D trajectory analysis, we dispute the Israeli military’s claim that the hospital was struck by a misfiring Palestinian rocket from a salvo of 17, with most of the damage caused by unspent rocket propellant.
Praise of Yemen in the face of US-UK airstrikes is not because of some “self-righteous bravado” as described by some pundit whose pockets are stuffed with Gulf blood money. Yemen has imposed an embargo on Israeli ships with a simple diplomatic solution.
قصة "لا تموتوا من أجل السنوار" بتضحك. مفكرين الفلسطيني عنده عقدة يحس بالنقص فيها ويتبع قادة؟ الشعب الفلسطيني حرفيًا زي شوال البصل، كل ما تمد ايدك بالشوال بيطلعلك راس. القصة انكم بعد 75 سنة من احتلالنا، و 100 سنة أو يزيد من قمعنا، لساتكم مش عارفينّا، مش عارفين طريقة تفكيرنا.
This middle ground has perpetually fucked us over for the last 30 years or so and has absolutely diluted our cause to a neoliberal technocratic checklist we need to fulfill. I am happy they’re throwing that checklist away and going full mask off. For once, they’re honest.
Said this a million times and will continue saying it: the future of the world lies w/ Gaza. If standing idly by makes you think you wouldn’t be targeted, you’re sorely mistaken.
The powers, classes, & politicians who deemed Gazans a ‘surplus population’ will deem you that too.
عشان نكون واضحين:
أميركا من ١٩٦٤ حتى ١٩٧٥ ضربت حوالي ٥ مليون طن من القذائف على فيتنام. عملية حسابية بسيطة بتبين انه اميركا ضربت ١٢٤٥ طن على شمال فيتنام يوميًا.
اسرائيل بتقول خلال ال٥ ايام للقصف، ضربت ٦٠٠٠ طن. بمعنى اسرائيل ضربت ١٢٠٠ طن يوميًا على رقعة اصغر بكثير من شمال فيتنام
الشيوعيين الفرنسيين عارضوا استقلال الجزائر، بلير احتل العراق، جوسبان وصف حزب الله بالإرهابي، اليسار الالماني بعد انهيار جدار برلين اصبح مناصر للصهيونية اكثر من الصهيونية ذاتها، اليسار اليوناني فاسد وغبي وصهيوني بامتياز.
ماذا تنتظرون من اليسار الأوروبي؟
“[Colonial ideology] even bestows upon the settlers a humane quality; a people who want to live in peace but the violence of the indigenous prohibits them from doing so and naturally their genocidal reaction is justified as a measure [to] protect their ‘way of life’”
-Ali Kadri
هيك بدت النكبة، مناوشات بين العمال العرب واليهود بأكثر من منطقة منهم يافا وحيفا. اغلبها كانوا يبدوها اليهود.
السيناريو ليس تخويفي، لكن هناك نكبة ستكون أشدّ فتكًا بنا لأن السلطة ابتغت تفكيك اي حالة مقاومة والاكتفاء بتركيب حراسات للشبابيك في قرى التماس مع المستوطنين.
تشكيلات القسام اللي اشتبكت مع العدو في جنوب لبنان وضربت صواريخ على مستوطنات الشمال تأسست بمبادرة الشهيد صالح العاروري. هاد الزلمة كسر كتير حدود وخطوط حمراء: كيف ترجع لمخيمات الخارج اعتبارها بدائرة صراعنا مع الاستعمار؟ رجل عارف هذا المصير ومشى إليه متواضعًا ومبتسمًا. هنيئًا له.
It is so fucked up that a genocide in Gaza is viewed as snuff film quasi-masturbatory material similar to watching “top 10 car deaths of all time” by even supposed “allies”.
Gaza is not a video in the algorithm for you to enjoy. People are dying en-masse. Have some basic respect
Really refused to comment on this because a washed up 2011-2013 era comedian is the last of my concern right now but this is being a blatant attention whore and capitalizing off of people’s misery for fame.
اليوم القسّام وباقي قوى المقاومة بتخوض معركة نيابةً مش بس عن كل العرب، بل عن كل شعوب العالم، من منطلق قول الشهيد فتحي الشقاقي إنه فلسطين الخط الفاصل بين تمام الحق وتمام الباطل. وهذا يفسر هلع أمريكا وباقي المعسكر الاستعماري لدعم مستعمرتهم بالمشرق العربي. هاي معركة عالمية بامتياز.
The point of this propaganda isn’t to be ironclad, rarely any fictitious propaganda even verges on aiming to be believable. Its point is to appeal to the lowest common denominator of Europeans and Americans.