This podcast is good at making #history easier to digest, if you're interested--
Up this week is Zionism, Zionist #propaganda, Balfour, the guy chosen to mess up Palestine, who had previously wreaked havoc in Ireland and denied entry to Jews fleeing the holocaust who were hoping to find refuge in the UK. And Herzl &more stuff.
An intelligent analysis of what's been going on with Iran - including the puzzling minority of Iranians who appear to support Israel. (Sometimes the enemy of your enemy is not a friend! Evidence being Zionism and genocide, hello.)
Any of the Palestinian memoirs/biographies are great in so many ways. You can come in with little idea of the Middle East and get a human story as well as where that falls in the history/context of something people call complicated, but isn't.
One shows humor in the face of such circumstances as Palestinian refugees face and another shows that this carnage (by Israel) you see today has been happening a very long time (British+Zionists).
"It is thus far from cynical to argue that these purported humanitarian interventions are anything other than a stalling tactic designed to allow the US and Israel time needed to achieve their ultimate political aims and objectives – an ethnically cleansed Gaza." https://www.juancole.com/2024/03/western-genocide-humanitarian.html
Ghassan Kanafani in the 70s dealt with the same problems we have now:
“Because this is something that cannot be avoided.” In fact, though, this phrase is an extension of the widely used Israeli slogan that “A good Arab is a dead Arab.”
~ “Knowledge is Israel’s worst enemy. Awareness is Israel’s most hated and feared foe.”
In that 2014 article, “There are no poems of mass destruction,” he wondered why Israel would bomb the Islamic University of Gaza, where he taught literature. ~
By Amna Shabana https://mondoweiss.net/2024/03/refaat-alareer-lives/
"It is almost as if the world is telling us a morbid joke: we will kill you if you resist and kill you if you hide, and if you refuse, and if you concede, and we will devour your land and gulp your oceans and kill you with hunger and thirst."
By Mohammed El-Kurd https://mondoweiss.net/2024/03/are-we-indeed-all-palestinians/
On the dehumanization of Palestinians. "You don't become genocidal in one day." If you have seen the videos of Israelis dressing up as Palestinian victims to mock them, you know: https://www.instagram.com/reel/C4grb9-uaU5/
Tik Tok - Israel views info as a threat so US bans it
This Republican-led push for censorship has been reinforced by behind-the-scenes pressure from pro-war celebrities, Zionist groups like the ADL, and tech executives like the former executive of dating app Tinder Jeff Morris Jr, who is “convinced” TikTok “is the reason we’re losing the information war with high school & college students.” All of them have pressed TikTok to censor more pro-Palestine content. https://jacobin.com/2024/03/tiktok-ban-israel-gaza-free-speech
This is a great concept. It's a group of activists putting up posters of the alt text (it looks like) with a black square where a photo would normally be, describing photos of the genocide in Palestine.
"I can’t say I think others should follow Aaron’s example. I doubt he wanted anyone to. An act like this needs attention, not imitation. What we can follow is the moral courage. What we need to decide for ourselves is how to act, not whether or not to act."
"I don’t have any answers for me, and I don’t have any answers for you.
I can say that he shouldn’t be forgotten, that he ought to be remembered when we ask ourselves if we have the courage to act."
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Nothing is more annoying than influencers giving themselves permission to dehumanize Palestinians. Here are two examples, but I've seen many more. These are definitely two of the most defensive, lol.
Maybe it says more about the pitfalls of influencer culture (than the individuals), the need to be seen by millions as "authentic," ...