Freiburg: »From the River to the Sea«-Demo darf stattfinden (Junge Welt, 2024-04-03)
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A pro-Palestinian demonstration planned in Freiburg for Wednesday under the motto “From the river to the sea – Palestine will be free!” is allowed by the local administrative court in charge. 🙌
The slogan has been politically categorized in #Germany as a symbol of Hamas and therefore to be banned, but the judiciary puts doubts on this practice.
The controversial phrase “from the river to sea,” explained (Ellen Ioanes | Vox, 2023-11-24)
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A fairly fair 😉 article about the disputed slogan, I should think.
“The question of whether «from the river to the sea» is offensive or a call for liberation is a ‘Rorschach test,’ as the writer Robert Wright put it in a recent Substack post. The answer is dependent less on the phrase itself than on the speaker, the listener, and the context.
“But it also invites questions about what the future of Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories could be…”
“Yet, even when Arab Christians are Catholics, Anglicans (like the late Palestinian scholar Edward Said) or Lutherans (like Munther Isaac), they continue to be seen as Arabs first, Christians second. They are racialised, Orientalised, and erased in the European view of what a Christian should look like.”
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.
Voting #uncommitted, disrupting appearances, and speaking continuously about #Gaza are arguably what got #GenocideJoe to abstain from the #UN resolution today.
Whereas #BlueMAGA 's even more constant and obsessive shouting about #TFG didn't do jack shit to sway the #US legal system.
Funny how you make more progress when your priorities are in order.
Page 875 of the recently passed US appropriations bill prohibits funds to Palestine if it joins the UN without Israel's permission or if they initiate an ICC action against Israel. #Gaza#Palestine#FromTheRiverToTheSea
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).
“I cleared the rubble from Israeli airstrikes, tilled the soil, and planted seeds. This is our home, our land. Everything will return more beautiful than before.”
Yahya Bashir From #Gaza, where only life befits it, where its people excel in resilience and persistence.
"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/
"Despite their narrow focus, recent international sanctions against settlers are laying the foundations to turn verbal condemnations into tangible action."