10,000+ children.
130 educators.
100+ journalists.
148 relief workers.
613 in healthcare facilities.
18 sheltered in church.
333 in the West bank.
? Starvation.
Man, I hadn't even crawled out of bed before Today in #FuckThePolice started.
The campaign of intimidating Palestine activists and their allies continues unabated. It starts with this from Ottawa:
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In more unacceptable behaviour from @OttawaBylaw instead of issuing tickets for using a megaphone on the spot, theyre now doing late night visits, seemingly in an attempt to intimidate Palestine solidarity activists.
My friend Tom was issued a ticket at his home at 10 PM...
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— Sam Hersh @SamHersh01
Today in Labor History December 27, 2008: Israel launched a 3-week siege of the Gaza Strip. They killed 1,166-1,417 Palestinians in the war. 13 Israelis died, including 4 from friendly fire. Both sides used human shields. However, the Israelis used white phosphorus, which is illegal under international law.
A Gazan citizen carries his trembling cat with him as he flees his home to escape from being killed by the Israeli occupation bombing and tanks. 📸: @mariam_abu_dagga on Instagram
Today in Labor History December 9, 1987: The First Intifada began in the Gaza Strip and West Bank. It was series of protests, civil disobedience and riots carried out by Palestinians in the Israeli-occupied Palestinian territories and within the state of Israel against Israeli repression including beatings, shootings, killings, house demolitions, uprooting of trees, deportations, extended imprisonments, and detentions without trial. It lasted over 5 years, until September 1993, ultimately being suppressed by Israeli military force. Up to 200 Israelis and nearly 2,000 Palestinians died. Both the Oslo and Madrid conferences and Peace Accords stemmed from the First Intifada, as well as the PLO’s recognition of the right of Israel to exist as a Jewish state. Another result of these accords was the creation of the the collaborationist Palestinian Authority (PA), which currently controls the West Bank, and which had controlled the Gaza Strip, until being ousted by Hamas in the 2006 elections. The PA, which is heavily funded by the U.S. and the E.U.
Today in Labor History November 30, 1947: The 1947–1949 Palestine war broke out after the UN adopted a resolution recommending the Partition Plan for Palestine. The UN-approved plan would have divided Palestine into two states, giving Jews 56% of the land, even though there were twice as many Palestinian Arabs already living there, and despite the fact that Jews legally owned only 6-7% of the land. The war was part of what the Israelis called their War of Independence, and the Palestinians refer to as the Nakba (catastrophe), because it resulted in their violent displacement and the dispossession of their land, as well as the destruction of their society, culture, identity, political rights, and national aspirations. During the war, the Jewish and Arab communities of Palestine clashed, while the British, who had the obligation to maintain order, mostly looked on and did nothing. When the British Mandate expired in 1948, Israel declared itself a state and the neighboring Arab states (Egypt, Transjordan, Iraq & Syria) invaded. Israel’s military victory allowed them to claim 78% of Palestinians’ land.
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In an Oct. 10 directive telling employees how to write about the violence, CTV told them not to use the word “Palestine” and made the politically-charged assertion that “Palestine…does not currently exist.”
The email, sent to journalists across the media conglomerate, stated that all Bell Media platforms should use the same language.
It's always mystified me how large corporations think they can keep documents they send out to hundreds of people from being leaked, unless EVERYBODY they're sending it to agrees.
It's easier for military orgs to do this with a stronger implicit threat.