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rat, 1 month ago to palestine

https://www.breakingthesilence.org.il/

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rat, 1 month ago to palestine

https://video.mondoweiss.net/w/7EsoTcikJttdnbjxH3fZPD

Palestinian political prisoners matter

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rat, 1 month ago to palestine

https://video.mondoweiss.net/w/7EsoTcikJttdnbjxH3fZPD

Palestinian political prisoners matter

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palestinenews, 1 month ago to random

Resistance news network, 17th April, 12:57:
https://t.me/PalestineResist/36282?single

🚨 The last two days have represented the largest series of direct actions in support of Palestine since October 7th, 2023 as part of the April 15th actions and beyond it.

Impactful actions were the address of the last two days, to reorient the movement from symbolic protests towards materially affecting zionist economic arms.

Actions took place in over 50 cities internationally on April 15th alone, reflecting the geographic extent of zionism's influence on the global economy, as it profits off Palestinian, Lebanese, Syrian, Iranian, Iraqi, and Yemeni blood.

Ports were blockaded, such as in Athens, Greece; Belfast, Ireland; ports in Montreal, Halifax, and Vancouver in Canada; and Melbourne, Australia. Major roads were blockaded in the US, including in Chicago and Oakland.

In the Bay Area of California, the Port of Oakland was shut down due to three simultaneous direct actions. Activists even creatively made parking meters unusable by jamming coin slots and card readers, writing "NO TAXES FOR WAR" and "Parking tickets are a war tactic the state uses to attack the working class." Blockades took place in Oregon, Philadelphia, and New York, and dozens of activists were arrested across cities.

Weapons manufacturers such as Boeing and Elbit were certainly not spared, with actions targeting them, their subsidiaries, and their funders in Britain and US, while Valero, Amazon, and others were targeted elsewhere.

You can see some more examples at instagram.com/a15actions.

This morning, 9 Google employees were arrested at Google headquarters in New York City and Sunnyvale, California, after staging a 10-hour-long sit-in in protest of the company's billion-dollar deal (Project Nimbus) with the zionist entity. The employees, who refused to leave, were put on administrative leave.

You may donate to this support fund (bit.ly/a15fund) for dozens of community members arrested in the US for their solidarity with Palestine. These funds will be used for bail, legal defense, and support for defendants.

rat, 1 month ago to palestine

https://itsgoingdown.org/stop-the-world-for-gaza-roundup/

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Thousands took part in mass direct actions and blockades on Monday, in protest of the ongoing genocide and ethnic cleansing within the occupied Palestinian territories by the state of Israel and supported directly by the United States. The demonstrations take place against a backdrop of rising public support for a ceasefire and also represented a dramatic turn toward direct action and more autonomous, horizontal organizing efforts and away from simply symbolic mass marches and demonstrations.

rat, 1 month ago to palestine

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rat, 1 month ago to Israel

https://video.mondoweiss.net/w/4ZMSLozq7csn3mHZrapC7g

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#Israel is testing weapons on 🇵🇸

rat, 1 month ago to Israel

https://video.mondoweiss.net/w/4ZMSLozq7csn3mHZrapC7g

#Israel is testing weapons on 🇵🇸

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rat, 1 month ago to palestine

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/4/15/we-are-on-the-edge-palestinians-terrified-by-israeli-settler-violence

‘We’re on the edge’: Palestinians terrified by Israeli settler violence

Mobs of Israeli settlers attacked West Bank Palestinian villages recently, raising people's fears for their safety.

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rat, 1 month ago to palestine

https://truthout.org/articles/israeli-forces-massacred-hundreds-at-al-shifa-hospital-heres-how-it-happened/

Israeli Forces Massacred Hundreds at Al-Shifa Hospital. Here’s How It Happened.

Eyewitnesses report the IDF shot patients in their beds and summarily executed hundreds of government employees.

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rat, 1 month ago to palestine

https://truthout.org/articles/israeli-forces-massacred-hundreds-at-al-shifa-hospital-heres-how-it-happened/

Israeli Forces Massacred Hundreds at Al-Shifa Hospital. Here’s How It Happened.

Eyewitnesses report the IDF shot patients in their beds and summarily executed hundreds of government employees.

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rat, 1 month ago to palestine

https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2024/apr/13/iran-launches-drone-attack-against-israel

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rat, 1 month ago to palestine

https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2024/apr/13/iran-launches-drone-attack-against-israel

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rat, 2 months ago to berlin

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via @foufoutos

German police have announced they are shutting down the #PalestineCongress in #Berlin and demanded delegates leave immediately. They have threatened to use force and already arrested one of the organizers, Jewish activist Udi Raz. He is the third person to be arrested today, two of them Jewish.

#Palestine #Germany #Berlin #GazaGenocide

https://t.me/theredstream/8131

rat, 2 months ago to palestine

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4kiqhjiUdA

Palestine Conference 2024: the genocide in Gaza must stop! — LIVE from Berlin (German & English)

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rat, 2 months ago to israel

https://video.mondoweiss.net/w/11ZNafC4CXE8k4aBNMqqmd

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rat, 2 months ago to israel

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rat, 2 months ago to palestine

https://archive.org/details/001_ShlomoSand

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rat, 2 months ago to palestine

https://archive.org/details/the-invention-of-the-jewish-people

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rat, 2 months ago to palestine

https://archive.org/details/SandHowIStoppedBeingAJew

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Sand, a history professor at Tel Aviv University, is the author of The Invention of the Jewish People (2009), a discursive yet polemical work that systematically undermines the claim that Jewishness is necessary – let alone sufficient – to justify the claims of the Israeli state to the territory formerly known as Palestine.

Now comes this short, highly personal text, which repurposes some of these arguments to serve existential ends; The Sand asks the question: what, in this day and age, exactly is a secular Jew?

Born in an Austrian displaced persons camp in 1946 to a Jewish mother and a non-Jewish father, he grew up in Israel and continues to identify himself as an Israeli, yet he unearths inconsistencies in the Zionist ideological bricolage that explain – at least in part – why a state founded on democratic and socialist ideals has descended into bigotry, intolerance and a lopsided form of what, I think, can only be termed racism.

Sand observes that Theodor Herzl and his financial backers were assimilated German Jews, repelled by the Ostjuden who came west, fleeing the Russian pogroms of the late 19th century; the creation of modern Hebrew (which bears scant resemblance to the biblical language) was aimed specifically at replacing Yiddish, which was perceived by the nascent Zionists as the peasant tongue of the shtetl and Pale.

In time, the othering these Ashkenazim had imposed on the Ostjuden was reimposed by the emerging Israeli Sabra elite – many of whom had Eastern European origins – on post‑1948 refugees from the Maghreb; Jews who, while more “traditional” in their lifestyle – and more observant – had such demerits as speaking and writing fluent Arabic.

According to Sand the contradictions of Israel are implicit in its inception: a secular state, established by colonisation and the expropriation of land, its claims to ancient title over Israel/Palestine have no more validity than would an Anglo-Saxon’s “right to return” to Germany (should we opt to exercise it), unless, that is, secular Jews choose to ground them – as the devout do – in a contractual arrangement with a supernatural being.

Sand dubs the current Israeli position on Jewishness “identitarian”, or alternatively “ethno-Zionism”, and notes that Zionists have reached out to the Jewish diaspora and sought to make “Israel” a state of mind that anyone, no matter how far flung, can experience – so long, of course, as she has a Jewish mother.

These “new Jews”, as Sand terms them, can be in Los Angeles or London; they can be religiously unobservant, and possess no recognisably “Israeli” cultural attributes (because, after all, most of what we term “Jewish culture” is in fact the cuisine, the humour and folk tales of the discredited Yiddish-speakers), yet they possess the “right” to settle in Israel – a right to citizenship, in effect, that is held by the Israeli constitution to be logically and morally prior to that of Palestine’s indigenous people.

Sand dryly observes that were this situation to obtain in our neck of the woods, “Britain would solemnly proclaim that it no longer belonged to any of its British subjects – the Scots, the Welsh, the citizens descended from the immigrants from the former colonies – but was henceforth the state only of the English, those born of an English mother”.

For each element of supposed secular Jewish identity, Sand has a concise dismissal: any talk of Jews as a “race” (not, of course, that most Jews think of themselves as a race) is unfounded: according to Steven Pinker, the “genetic overlap” between the Ashkenazim and adjacent populations was/is between a third and a half depending on which genes you examine.

Nor, according to Sand, do most secular Jews look simply to shared language or traditions for their identity; instead, he argues that the most secure foundation of Jewish secular identity since 1945 has been the persecutory criteria that crystallised in the Holocaust – following Elie Wiesel, he says we “Jews” have defined ourselves purely as the sort of people who might be murdered by Nazis, although conveniently downplaying the way that might make Roma, Communists, Poles and homosexuals equally “Jewish”. (Yes, I know it can be argued that the specifically genocidal character of the Nazis’ liquidation of European Jewry makes it distinct – but I doubt that argument would cut much ice with their non-Jewish victims.)

Really, if you subscribe to Sand’s viewpoint unequivocally, the conclusion has to be that it’s support of embattled Israel alone that allows the new Jews to cleave to their old, faithful brethren.

rat, 2 months ago to palestine

https://yt.artemislena.eu/watch?v=6lcXlKJQPzM

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