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Today marks the 76th anniversary of the Nakba, the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians to make way for Israel in 1948.
Over 750,000 Palestinians were displaced that day. This did not start on October 7th.
Know their history, fight for their future. 🍉
Today marks the 76th anniversary of the Nakba, the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians to make way for Israel in 1948.
Over 750,000 Palestinians were displaced that day. This did not start on October 7th.
Know their history, fight for their future. 🍉
The idea behind these right wing marches calling for the ethnic cleansing of a people is rather clear at this point - Provoke the Palestinians so that they fight back, when they do beat them up and arrest them, Hamas sends in a few rockets build from scrap metal and the IDF then gets the excuse to bomb and flatten Gaza, massacring Palestinians. And then use the ‘Terrorist/Hamas’ excuse to justify their genocide to the world.
It’s appalling, it’s disgusting. It’s painful to watch.
Never forget that Joe Biden and most democrats in congress fund and support this terrorizing of children, apartheid and ethnic cleansing of a people based on religion. They don’t stand for human rights. Never have. The few who do speak out get attacked by their own colleagues, get nooses and death threats send to them and forced to retract.
IF you do care about these issues, next time there is an election, give US foreign policy equal importance to domestic policy. During primaries, look at what your candidates stand for in terms of the Global South, the Middle East, Latin America. Look at what bills they supported in congress.
Support a candidate who is more interested in healthcare, education, police reform, removing student debt etc. than continuing the military-industrial complex and selling weapons to the Saudis to bomb Yemen to the stone age or fund coups in Latin America because socialism is bad.
Remember, all lives are the same. The life of a Yemeni child has the same value to their parents, family and society as the life of an American child. The rest of the world also deserves equal human rights, also deserves a just and democratic society.
It’s not just enough to support equal human rights at home and then vote for people who fund and support ethnic cleansing and genocide in other countries.
Zionists Morphing Into Nazis
During the Holocaust, Nazis would paint the Star of David on the homes of Jewish people – marking them for forced eviction.
Zionists do the same to Palestinians. The Star of David marks a Palestinian home for eviction, and then destruction.
Ousman Noor
Book recommendations for reading on Palestine with overviews or access to the content:
The Hundred Years' War on Palestine - A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917 - 2017 by Rashid Khalidi
The Palestinian - Israeli Conflict: A Very Short Introduction by Martin Bunton
Voices of the Nakba: A Living History of Palestine edited by Diana Allan
Freedom is a Constant Struggle - Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement by Angela Y. Davis
The Palestine Laboratory - How Israel Exports the Technology of Occupation Around the World by Antony Loewenstein
Ten Myths About Israel by Ilan Pappé
The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine by Ilan Pappé
On Palestine by Noam Chomsky & Ilan Pappé
A History of the Arab Peoples by Albert Huraini (Afterword by Malise Ruthven for later editions)
A Foreign Fighter and War Criminal
An Israeli-American soldier, notice the US flag on his uniform, posted on Instagram that he will be to Gaza again soon.
(He was in Gaza city back in February).
“They’re letting me loose in Gaza again soon. Every Palestinian wins a surprise 5.56 to the f***** head”.
“Palestine can suck my fu**ing balls.”
“Fu*k Gaza and fu*k Palestine.”
“Y’all don’t deserve shift but death.”
Younis Tirawi
My Children
Keir Starmer: Israel Has The Right To Kill
These so-called leaders keep giving Israel the green light to commit genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity.
They supply that Rogue state with weapons to commit genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity.
Then they consistently validate that pariah's genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity.
Today marks the 76th anniversary of the Nakba, the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians to make way for Israel in 1948.
Over 750,000 Palestinians were displaced that day. This did not start on October 7th.
Know their history, fight for their future. 🍉
My Children
Israeli minister admits of ' a Nakba of Gaza '.
This was never about Hamas .
Nothing screams SUMMER!!! like the bones of the murdered under your feet 🤩
… said no decent human being ever.
A Plea for Peace: End the Romanticization of Victimhood
Give Israelis and Palestinians a Chance for Coexistence
Content Warning: Mentions of violence and historical atrocities
For too long, people from the outside have romanticized the Israeli-Palestinian conflict as a gladiatorial arena, a reality show, or a competition of values. By romanticizing victimhood and choosing sides, you allow governments and dictators to stay in power. Your inconsistent support, favoring one side's victimhood over the other, makes it impossible for those of us, both Jews and Arabs, who want to live in peace to actually achieve that goal.
The West and East have chosen politicians on both sides who oppress the weak, buy warfare from them, and lack empathy. Yet for centuries, Jews and Arabs lived together peacefully in many areas, and there are still those among us who have never stopped hoping for that reality, even in the face of atrocities like the Nakba, Sabra and Shatila and many other horrendous crimes to the one side and bus bombings, rape crimes, and the horrific events of October 7th, where Jewish Arab supporters were slaughtered and burned alive on the other. Brainwashed-hurting-people are hurting people. By dehumanizing each side for its barbaric acts you leave them lonely and hurting, which leads to more extremism.
We are all being brainwashed, and as time goes on, more Jews and Arabs are losing hope, allowing pain and hatred to consume us, and enabling the rise of fanatic politicians who further fuel this cycle. But we are all just people who want to live. If the East and West truly wanted us to find a solution, they would invest in mutual education and acknowledgment of each nation's pain, helping us learn about our shared Semitic Abrahamic roots, rather than selling both of us more weapons.
Many Arabs in Israel-Palestine are not just our cousins, but our sisters and brothers. Not all Jews fled when the Romans came; some of them became Christian and then Muslim. Some of them are the Palestinians of today! And the other part is our closest cousins. Our DNA is so similar; there are no closer ethnicities in the world. The world plays savior while pushing us to fight harder, funding narratives of hate and promoting xenophobia and antisemitism on both sides.
We are all children of the same God, the last remaining Semitic peoples. Please, world, support new leadership on both sides! Invest in peace, not war. Give the Jews and Arabs who want peace a chance to achieve it. Strengthen us, and give the next generations of Semites a chance to live with dignity, compassion, respect, and mutual love.
Since the British Mandate pitted us against each other, as they did in India and Pakistan and so many other places, where colonial empires left the people to fight each other - "proving" the "barbarity of the locals" in comparison to the supremacy of the colonials, the biggest world powers have used our conflict to prove their own strength, choosing a side as if we were gladiators in a ring. Please, stop this game of money, power, and manipulation. No one should have to die anymore. Life is already too short! Palestinians and Israelis should be free together, from this war, from these separative beliefs, from the hatred, to live and move freely, to marry each other freely. To have one shared government that represents us all equally with dignity - with no more brainwashing and separation. This is what I pray for. No occupation nor any slaughter or rape of any kind. We should not fall into traps; if all people open their eyes, politicians lose their power. With the help of decent, honest allies from the world, this is achievable, slowly but surely. This should be the reality. Where all kids know both languages in an Arab-Jewish state, celebrating together, growing and then aging together with the deepest respect for all the mutual and all the unique, beautiful differences. Looking into Arabs' eyes, I see the eyes of my family members. You are not that different. I want peace with you .