Buried in the Red Dirt: Race, Reproduction, and Death in Modern Palestine (Cambridge UP)
@Blacks4Peace
Solidarity
Anti
#GaslightersforGenocide
مجموعة المشكلجيات
Cats fully understand Arabic and are, as evidenced in this video, more than capable of engaging with a sermon on Ramadan virtues.
Humans, on the other hand, still copy رمضان كريم from Google Translate 🤭
i keep retweeting this in different ways, Israel ziptied children's hands behind their backs, assassinated them, and mass buried them at the Nasser hospital compound. They assassinated hundreds of Palestinians in this one site.
@poppy_haze
😂You should hear the Arabic. Not all of it is audible to me, here's my mini translation:
"Honorable ones. Now, God willing, the month of Ramadan is coming. Meows in unison. You need to lighten up. Meaning, the people will throw away the left over food [after Iftar].
@poppy_haze
The recording guy whispers to someone else, I'm recording for Face. "Meat, chicken, [inaudible, he wipes hands to mean "no more"] God thanks you to become vegetarians. Eat grass. Bulgur you can eat. Avoid getting violent over the food-" [can't guarantee i caught everything right]
Israel ASSASSINATED 3 Palestinian university presidents and 95 deans and lecturers, among them 68 professors, in Gaza. Almost always in their homes or shelters with members of their families.
"Five out of six major universities in the Gaza Strip were completely destroyed by Israel, killing three university presidents and 95 deans and lecturers. This includes 68 professors."
@JoshuaPHilll
love her, she was prepared and packed the historical facts, infrastructure, law, UN, prisoners, apartheid, the right to defense and resist and so much more in 1 minute. "Just one more thing"
They've been breaking limbs and sexually assault and humiliating for decades. In 1980, they assassinated or delimbed Palestinian mayors in West Bank cities that held elections under occupation when they won. Always been an ethnic cleansing project supported by US.
Israeli soldiers are breaking limbs and hands of Palestinian prisoners. Torturing them by handcuffing behind the back, then tightening the cuffs to excruciating pain. Stripping them naked in groups for invasive 'searches.'
"This moment has demonstrated the limits of solidarity. It’s easy to show solidarity with corpses and with Palestinians who stoically remain resilient and endure their suffering. As long as Palestinians remain powerless victims, it’s easy to ride on the high horse of morality
It's easy to show solidarity with powerless victims who endure their suffering with stoicism. But Palestinians chose to break free of their cage, even if it shattered the image of perfect victimhood.
@bjrisman
This is not a historically-informed argument. The Zionist project was racist from the beginning, called itself a settler colonial project, and is built on the homes, lands, and bones of Palestinians. Primary sources are helpful.
@samah_fadil
It also shows that women and to a lesser extent queers, esp. racialized, are doing most organizing work, taking most of the risks, and are most targeted in the diasporic Palestine liberation anti-genocide anti-apartheid movement at every level and age. I estimate 3 to 1.
We’ve lost one of the great anticolonial leaders in history. The oppressed everywhere have lost one of their greatest champions.
For many of us, this is like losing a parent. I grew up on the Sayid’s speeches.
But the tears will dry and the path will be clearer than ever.
@codet_t
UAE is a horrific political project set up with help of feudal families and Britain built on extraction from its residents and poorest workers and from Africa talking about "no taxes." Less than 15 percent of UAE longterm residents are citizens.
@samah_fadil
Zionists always project onto the other (the "fanatic") who they "truly are," their own fears, desires, act, and assumptions. It's always half fantasy, half hasbara strategy.
Israel assassinated a uni president + his family with US weapons, money + support. A renowned theoretical physicist + applied mathematician. I'll hold my breath for uni + departmental condemnation statements. Palestinians continue to gift the world with Masks Off moments.
Dr. Sufian Tayeh, the president of the Islamic University of Gaza, along with his family, were killed in an Israeli airstrike in the northern Gaza Strip.
"The Israeli authorities prohibited the released hostages and their families from communicating with the press or making any statements. Violators are subject to a fine of 70,000 shekels ($18,738)." We know why.
REFÉNS ISRAELITAS PRIBIDOS DE FALAR À IMPRENSA
🇮🇱 As autoridades israelitas proibiram os reféns libertados e as suas famílias de comunicarem com a imprensa ou de fazerem quaisquer declarações. Os infractores estão sujeitos a uma multa de 70.000 shekels (18.738 dólares).
@ajd_theory
"Even if our professors want to be used, we will not be complicit in genocide." They brilliantly expressed the institutional gaslighting occurring at so many universities and colleges.
@LolOverruled
Heart and logic in the right place. Historical correction at 1:09 is the project predates holocaust but the holocaust became an ideological (and obviously pr) legitimation of zionist settler-colonialism for West.
@Frances_Coppola
@chipslasagne2
There are Palestinians on the ground reporting and documenting, burying and grieving; there are human rights and humanitarian workers and medics and civil defense who aren't white. Have you read the South Africa report for the ICJ months ago?
@emanabdelhadi
This is not a strategy or based on clear analysis of past and present. The Democratic Party is not a movement or a representative party but a private corporation. We need to weaken the imperialist duopoly further by building alternatives.
His children must give up on extra items in food packages so he can sell them + buy a two hour session of dialysis, the only way to keep his feet. This is what we mean by "the right to maim" (Puar) and the politics of death whose agents are Zionist + Western powers.
In Gaza, a man grappling with kidney disease shares his story. With no income, he's forced to sell the aid he receives to afford dialysis treatments, a choice that weighs heavily on him as his family sacrifices their food. His journey to receive care is one filled with obstacles,
If you don't care enough about Palestinians, Yemenis, Haitians, Congolese, I remind you that US death machine freaks will do the same using all means against peoples + communities within US and will do the ideological work to bury causes + truth, as they always have.
@PalGirl_05
Algeria also. There will be selection bias, with those who remain being more likely to want to be part of an equal society. Decolonization in Kenya and S.A. was incomplete because land remained under a racialized/classed capitalist logic.
I'm devastated to share that Jeff Dillman, love of my life, partner, comrade, most intimate friend, person willing to go to the ends of the world with me, and co-parent of 2 children we deeply love died peacefully in his sleep over the weekend. May his spirit and energy live on.
Hisham Awartani, Palestinian student shot in Burlington, VT:
"What heinous deed did I commit for me to deserve to get shot and lose control of my legs? I was Palestinian. This is not the first time I had been tried and had a sentence passed on me in the kangaroo court (1/2)
"If you profess to be part of a profession, then those people who are your colleagues, your peers are being mass slaughtered, if you're not going to take a stand now, then what is your [fill in the blank] worth?"
Sociologist
@RandaAFattah
says there are journalists who share their grievances with media coverage of Gaza in private, but are too scared to speak out in public.
She says that’s no longer acceptable.
Watch The Big Picture podcast:
Shoot and gas!
Israeli occupation police shoot Palestinian woman in the back and then gas the family inside their home in Sheikh Jarrah.
#SheikhJarrah
#SaveSheikhJarrah
Keep eyes on state schools, which educate most students, are owned by "public," their students more likely to represent all classes, their faculty+staffs more likely to be organized into unions+other rep bodies and even right-wing states have harder time repressing that reality.
@SophiaArmen
@NofretB
And the Turkish government as usual says one thing in public and does the opposite in private with Israel, or says one thing today and another thing tomorrow. Both are horrible actors on the world stage.
Please read this letter. Being afraid is not worth it and will not protect you or others. It only emboldens repressive tendencies and actors. Standing up individually and collectively is better, as Torres and millions of others did and are doing. We protect each other.
Harvard students have been doxxed and harassed in recent weeks for speaking out against Israel's genocide in Gaza. President Claudine Gay has not protected these students but today she emailed the campus to "condemn" the phrase "from the river to the sea." Here is my reply:
I'm sharing a thank you card, handwritten, that was slipped under my office door by a nervous young brown student this afternoon (acc to staff). I typed instead of sharing the handwriting in case it matters to protecting the anonymity of the person.
The former Israeli (IDF) prison guard and torturer Jeffrey Goldberg is the editor of The Atlantic, he went as a settler. He supported the US invasion of Iraq. There's ideology at work, not just dislike of expertise.
One more thought about this whole "academia invented settler colonialism" discourse: American liberal elites love high-brow Ivy League credentials but they hate academic knowledge and expertise as much as conservatives do.
@LibyaLiberty
@Plz_Relax_
btw, high likelihood that settler soldier was brought up in the US or another white settler colony based on the fluid syntax and composition of that english sentence.
@thaqafatalhind
I've always loved that about him. I invited him to give a public talk on Palestine at UCLA in the late 1980s and he did the same to the Zionists (and more politely but sharply at a private event in Bel Aire to the Saudi hosts) while us scruffy undergrads watched + learned.
BREAKING: Protestors disrupt
@scotiabank
’s Giller Prize Ceremony this evening. Scotiabank is funding the genocide of the Palestinian people through its $500 million stake in Elbit Systems, Israel’s largest weapons manufacturer.
@RamAbdu
Another Californian doing genocide as a settler. Here's some background on her; a shame on her paternal line from Moldova. May she never get certified as a nurse practitioner in the US:
@KYFriedComrade
@BenjaminPDixon
Justin Jackson has a net work in the millions. Does that mean his political demands of the squad are not legitimate? It seems like other agendas are at play all around. Focus.
@LexiAlex
@the_spiderwife
My late partner co-authored a 1992 research report on Israel's use of electric shock torture against Palestinian prisoners. Nonstop brutality.
@islamocommunism
A picture I took on June 22, 2022 in West Los Angeles.
These Zionist militia settler-colonial orgs are completely normalized and registered. Check their website.
@buffalocialism
@Neclovian
It is a serious corporate "non-profit" industrial complex organization and always has been. It continues to be against universal healthcare for all.
I'm still Samir Amin-stanning for Feminist Theory and Imperialism.
This is an excellent overview essay by
@ingridharvold
on the Amin v. Edward Said approaches to global inequality.
Long Read | Beyond Eurocentrism via
@NewFrame_News
Yesterday, I sent my letter of resignation as a board director to
@CMA_Docs
. As the national organization that represents physicians and medical learners in Canada, I am profoundly disappointed and appalled by their actions and behaviour.
Link to letter:
Bisan Update: 12/15/23💔
-70 days continuous bombing
-25K children orphaned
-9/10 people can’t eat every day
-97% of 💧 from before war lost
-25K+ have been killed (12K children)
-22🏥out of service
-100+ Medical centers/🚑out of service
-300+Drs/MD staff killed
#AltTextPalestine
I don't think
@HillaryClinton
can be shamed, all things considered. The white supremacy, imperialism, and money is just too good for her class to let go. But bursting the bubbles of the ruling class is a good thing.
At today’s sit in for palestine, Hillary Clinton was shamed out of the SIPA building. She teaches a class at Columbia University and has refused to let students ask her questions about Palestine.
This photo shows the full dignity + power of the incarcerated, colonized and hungry Palestinian subject and the cowardice, brutality and fear of the Israeli colonizer. The peoples and forces on the right side of history are already working on liberation.
This photo shows a lot. Tells a lot. Talks a lot. It reveals who is right and who wrong. It says who is the man of truth and who is the occupier. It paint a clear picture of who is the coloniser and barbaric and who is the oppressed. It says million words.
I finally decided to look up the image of the UAE Sheikh who owns a fifth of Zimbabwe, 10% of Liberia, 10% of Zambia, 8% of Tanzania, & millions of hectares of forests in Kenya through his company Blue Carbon.
@itranslate123
@TheOmniLiberal
Bennett is the child of settlers who moved to Palestine from San Francisco and that woman "blogger" sounds like she's born somewhere in the northeast US.
@RachelGur
Settler shill:
"Gur moved to Israel from US at age 17 and served in the IDF Spokesperson’s Unit. After demobbing, she earned an L.L.B. and B.A. in political science from the Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya and an L.L.M. in Legal Theory from NYU Law School." Times of Israel