Shani Louk, who was attending the music festival near Gaza, is not dead as many online believed, according to her mother. She is being treated for a serious head injury in a Gazan hospital.
Not sure why any country who claims to value freedom and human rights would support a country whose Defense Minister publicly and indiscriminately called a whole population “human animals” and is very much intent on murdering civilians as an acceptable casualty of fighting terrorism. This is being on the wrong side of history. #Israel#Palestine
As usual, the left is playing its role as the critical opposition within the capitalist camp, trying to rally workers to one or the other capitalist state.
As an antidote, I will share -- as I notice them -- the internationalist, anti-frontist positions of the Communist Left (and some anarchists) on the war in Israel/Gaza.
First up is the International Communist Current's statement, "Neither Israel nor Palestine! Workers have no fatherland!"
Je conseille de regarder l'émission de @Mediapart sur les récents évènements en Israël. Les intervenants arrivent à parler avec tranquillité et en parlant de la situation dans son intégrité.
Ayant vu Jean-Paul Chagnollaud et Stéphanie Latte Abdallah se débattre sur le plateau de 28 Minutes afin de pouvoir caser du bon sens. Les voir pouvoir en parler sans aucune agressivité de la part des autres intervenants fait du bien.
Why Gandhi opposed a Jewish nation-state in Palestine
Gandhi was deeply sympathetic to the plight of the Jewish people in Europe. But he was against Zionists and the attempt to create a state of their own by force in Palestine, which was already inhabited by the Palestinian Arab people. What was his argument?
On the duality of our digital selves and real world selves, posting vs. doing, and on #Israel and #Palestine specifically:
“I feel the urge to speak meaninglessly, and the urge to stay silent, and the senseless notion that not speaking is the same as refraining from action.
It isn’t… What I cling to are the idea that children should not be slaughtered for the sins of their governments, and that I want the people I love to be safe; this is the sum of my opinions.”
@freemo@mushroom_soup There is probably some truth to this. Not sure about how many people in #Palestine support #Hamas, nor if they gained power through purely democratic means, but I have heard some Jews on far right talk radio out of #Israel say there’s “no such thing as an innocent Palestinian” 😫
Do you think that if we removed both leaders, the people could live together in peace? Or have the citizens become too radicalized for that to work?
“Behaviours that are legitimate in some circumstances, for example the waving of a Palestinian flag, may not be legitimate such as when intended to glorify acts of terrorism.”
I used to support #Palestine, but I've come to realize that they are only there for #religious reasons; they could have left by now. The war against them is unjust, #Israel should never have stolen their land, but they did and at some point you have to adapt to reality. Even if it means losing a stupid old #church.
Tlaib grieves Palestinian and Israeli lives lost after Hamas attacks, calls for end of ‘apartheid’
U.S. Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Detroit), the daughter of Palestinian immigrants has been one of the most outspoken critics of Israel. In a statement released Sunday, Tlaib said she grieved the loss of “Palestinian and Israeli lives” but did not mention Hamas, while calling for “ending the occupation, and dismantling the apartheid system.”
“I grieve the Palestinian and Israeli lives lost yesterday, today, and every day,” Tlaib said. “I am determined as ever to fight for a just future where everyone can live in peace, without fear and with true freedom, equal rights, and human dignity. The path to that future must include lifting the blockade, ending the occupation and dismantling the apartheid system that creates the suffocating, dehumanizing conditions that can lead to resistance.
“The failure to recognize the violent reality of living under siege, occupation, and apartheid makes no one safer,” she said. “No person, no child anywhere should have to suffer or live in fear of violence. We cannot ignore the humanity in each other. As long as our country provides billions in unconditional funding to support the apartheid government, this heartbreaking cycle of violence will continue.”