vintin

vintin, 16 days ago to Israel

'After their dismissal of the ICC and ICJ calls on Israel to comply with international law, how can the US and its partners make a convincing case again that their rules are fair and universal, and so must be followed by all? It is brazenly clear that the rules-based order is not about democratic values, the rule of law and the sanctity of human lives, but the observance of a global hierarchy in which some lives are sacred and others are not.' #ICC #israel #hamas #justice https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/may/27/icc-israel-benjamin-netanyahu-arrest-warrant-us-west

vintin, 1 month ago to politics

The influence of cable news is core to the US two ruling factions’ ability to manage perception and control dissent among the US public. A recent survey found that Americans who receive their news primarily from cable news were more likely to support the US-backed war in Gaza or believe Israel wasn’t committing war crimes, while those who get their news from social media and other internet-based platforms held the opposite views.' #universities #gaza #protests #politics https://jacobin.com/2024/05/palestine-crackdown-authoritarianism-university-police?mc_cid=de0dd3039a&mc_eid=c5d6f6ec39

vintin, 1 month ago to Columbia

“The administration said that the protests were a disruption and presented safety risks, but it is the administration itself that has disrupted campus life by locking us out, relocating or postponing students’ exams, bringing in police to arrest students, and inviting police to remain on campus for the next two weeks until graduation.” #studentprotest #columbia #journalism #police #faculty #acadmia #protest #gaza #israel #USA #politics #repression https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/may/01/columbia-university-student-protesters-arrested-faculty-reacts

vintin, 1 month ago to movies

'The film has been described by some baffled early viewers as a mix of “Ayn Rand, Metropolis, and Caligula.” Others have offered briefer notes, calling the project “unflinching in how batshit it is.”' #film #literature #coppola #megalopolis #hesse #graeber #marxism https://lithub.com/the-unlikely-literary-inspiration-behind-francis-ford-coppolas-new-film/

vintin, 3 months ago to Palestine

'Dissidents are people who would rather pay the psychic cost of becoming outcasts because what Václav Havel called “living within the lie” is even worse. Within this minority, there seems to be an even smaller group of people who find their individual helplessness so unbearable that they are willing to do something as desperate as self-immolate.' #gaza #palestine #protest #aaronbushnell #despair https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/aaron-bushnells-act-of-political-despair

vintin, 3 months ago to Palestine

“Intentionally depriving people of food is clearly a war crime. Israel has announced its intention to destroy the Palestinian people, in whole or in part, simply for being Palestinian. In my view as a UN human rights expert, this is now a situation of genocide. This means the State of Israel in its entirety is culpable and should be held accountable – not just individuals or this government, or that person.” #gaza #palestine #genocide #famine #israel #war #unrapporteur https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/feb/27/un-israel-food-starvation-palestinians-war-crime-genocide

vintin, 4 months ago to climate

'“I’ve been here 32 years and never imagined this would happen,” said Rolando Fernández, one of the people who lost his home. He said he first saw the fire burning on a nearby hill on Friday afternoon. Within 15 minutes the area was engulfed in flames and smoke, forcing everyone to run for their lives. “I’ve worked my whole life, and now I’m left with nothing,” Fernández said.' #climatechange #elniño #fires #chile https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/feb/03/forest-fires-in-chile-cause-multiple-deaths-and-widespread-destruction

vintin, 4 months ago to climate

“It’s very easy to label some emerging economies, especially the Gulf states, as climate villains, but this is very unfair by countries with historic responsibilities – who keep trying to scapegoat and deviate the attention away from themselves. Just look at US fossil fuel plans and the UK’s new drilling licenses for the North Sea, and Canada which has never met any of its emission reduction goals, not once.” #G77 #climatechange #defundoil #canada #necrocapitalism https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/jan/19/cop28-fossil-fuels-climate-deal-pedro-pedroso-us-uk-canada-pollution

vintin, 5 months ago to random

'Everything has gotten worse: the vitriol, the rage, the righteousness. Clearly, impunity – the sense of imperviousness and untouchability that underpins Israel’s treatment of Palestinians – is not a static force. It behaves more like an oil spill: once released, it seeps outwards, poisoning everything and everyone in its path. It spreads wide and sinks in deep.' #BDS #naomiklein #gaza #ceasefire #IDFimpunity #warcrimes https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/jan/10/only-outside-pressure-can-stop-israels-war-crimes

vintin, 5 months ago to climate

'The CCCS data also showed that 2023 was the first year on record when every day was at least 1C warmer than the 1850-1900 pre-industrial record. Almost half the days were 1.5C hotter and, for the first time, two days were more than 2C hotter.' #climatechange #defundoil https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/jan/09/2023-record-world-hottest-climate-fossil-fuel

vintin, 5 months ago to random

#USarms #UScomplicity #gaza #bombs #IDF “There’s no review of human rights, there’s no review of regional balance, there’s none of the conventional arms transfer policy review that would normally happen,” he said. “Essentially, it’s take what you can and we’ll sort it out later.” https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/dec/27/gaza-war-puts-us-extensive-weapons-stockpile-in-israel-under-scrutiny

vintin, 5 months ago to random

#gaza #indiscriminate #IDF 'After only three weeks of attacks, Israeli forces had killed more children in Gaza than the number of children killed in all the world’s conflicts over an entire year, outstripping that total for every year since 2019. In fact, with the death toll for Gazan children now standing at more than 7,870, Israeli forces have killed almost the same number of children as those killed in all of the world’s wars over those three years combined (8,174).' https://jacobin.com/2023/12/israel-defense-forces-gaza-palestine-civilian-death-casualties-women-children-journalists-war?mc_cid=88473b183e&mc_eid=c5d6f6ec39

vintin, 5 months ago to meta

#meta #palestine #gaza #censorship “Reports of Meta’s suppression of Palestinian voices raise serious questions about Meta’s content moderation practices and anti-discrimination protections,” she wrote. “Social media users deserve to know when and why their accounts and posts are restricted, particularly on the largest platforms where vital information-sharing occurs.” https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/dec/14/elizabeth-warren-mark-zuckerberg-meta-instagram-censorship

vintin, 6 months ago to climate

#gaza #genocide #ceasefire #climatejustice 'The horrific murders of Israeli civilians by Hamas cannot in any way legitimise Israel’s ongoing war crimes. Genocide is not self-defence, nor is it in any way a proportionate response. It also cannot be ignored that this comes within the broader context of Palestinians having lived under suffocating oppression for decades, in what Amnesty International has defined as an apartheid regime.' https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/dec/05/gaza-climate-justice-human-rights-greta-thunberg

br00t4c, 6 months ago to college

Three Palestinian students shot and wounded in Vermont, police say

#college #students

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/nov/26/palestinian-students-shot-wounded-vermont

vintin, 6 months ago to Palestine

#gaza #palestine #ceasefire #usdemocrats #biden #election2024 #publicopinion #youngvoters 'The White House may be calling them “repugnant”, but the pro-ceasefire camp in Congress looks more and more like the future of the Democratic party: it is younger, it is further to the left, and it is majority non-white.' https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/nov/23/joe-biden-young-voters-israel-palestine-arab-muslim-americans

vintin, 6 months ago to Palestine

#gaza #ceasefire #civilians #palestine #literature #culture #poetry “They were trying to evacuate from the north to the south, when they were stopped at a checkpoint with a lot of others. They were told to lift their arms to show they didn’t have anything. Mosab was ordered to put his son down and then the army grabbed him, along with a lot of other men, 200, his wife said. His wife has not heard from him since.” https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/nov/20/palestinian-poet-mosab-abu-toha-arrested-by-israelis-in-gaza-family-says

vintin, 6 months ago to random

#gaza #arms 'The event for the C$100,000 Scotiabank Giller prize was first disrupted when protesters jumped onstage with signs that read “Scotiabank funds genocide”. Elbit Systems is an Israel-based arms manufacturer that has long been criticised by activists for supplying the Israeli military. In April, American investigative news outlet the Intercept reported that Scotiabank’s stake in the company was estimated to be $500m, making it the largest foreign shareholder.' https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/nov/14/pro-palestine-protesters-disrupt-canadian-book-prize

vintin, 7 months ago to Palestine

#palestine #bedouin #literature #culture “In Palestine-Israel, I, like many others, grew up realising language is not merely a tool for communication. It often hides rather than articulates, holding between its silence endless possibilities not concerned with expression. Language can be attacked, abused. It can still offer the ultimate freedom of being and love you don’t have access to in reality.” https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/nov/09/palestinian-author-adania-shibli-frankfurt-book-fair

vintin, 7 months ago to climate

#climatecrisis #wildfires #canada #carbonbomb 'The fires were largely centered on Canada’s vast boreal forests, a trove of habitat for creatures such as moose, bears and songbirds and a crucial carbon bank that blankets an area larger than India, representing about a quarter of the world’s remaining intact forest.' https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/nov/09/canada-wildfire-record-climate-crisis

vintin, 7 months ago to random

#gaza #warprofiteering #armsindustry #canadian #complicity 'The demonstrators called for an embargo on arms sales to Israel. They also said they were acting in response to an urgent call by Palestinian unions for their international counterparts to act to stop arms sales to their occupying force.' https://breachmedia.ca/inkas-canadian-company-with-links-israeli-army-deadly-weapons/?vgo_ee=pXJpFCMIWkNowPyk7juWQSpUdhxuUapxXHd5M9Mghi16YamDIgzn%3AIn3LbVqDzzW%2FkhE%2BfrrhRi9SSlDWAT1v

vintin, 7 months ago to Palestine

'Actor Tobias Menzies read out chilling social media posts by Palestinian poet Mosab Abu Toha, currently in Gaza, that spoke of bombs dropping and civilians dying all around him. One, from two days ago, read: “My neighbours are killed.” Another spoke of how there were not enough hospital beds: “Children are screaming. It’s dark except for the light of the explosions. We are hardly alive.”' #PalFest #palestine https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2023/oct/30/gaza-palestine-festival-of-literature

vintin, 7 months ago to random

'Joe Biden has asked Congress for $106bn in military and humanitarian aid for Israel and Ukraine and humanitarian assistance for Gaza. The money could be a boon to the aerospace and weapons sector which enjoyed a 7-percentage point jump in value in the immediate aftermath of Hamas’s 7 October attack on Israel and the beginning of Israel’s bombardment of Gaza in response.' #warprofits #gaza https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/oct/30/wall-street-morgan-stanley-td-bank-ukraine-israel-hamas-war

vintin, 7 months ago to random

“We should all be standing up and objecting and calling for an end to genocide,” says Butler of the Israeli assault. “Until Palestine is free … we will continue to see violence. We will continue to see this structural violence producing this kind of resistance.” #judithbutler #palestiniangenocide #callforceasefire #gaza https://www.democracynow.org/2023/10/26/judith_butler_ceasefire_gaza_israel

vintin, 7 months ago to random

'Newly released satellite images reveal how cities and towns in Gaza have been destroyed by almost three weeks of Israeli bombardments on the besieged enclave.' #israeliairstrikes #israelhamaswar #indiscriminatebombing #civiliancasualties https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/oct/27/gaza-before-and-after-satellite-images-show-destruction-after-israeli-airstrikes