Way back in the 1980s, when I was in college, we had a tent city on the UC Berkeley campus to protest the Apartheid regime in South Africa. Lots of parallels to what's been happening on campuses recently with the Palestinian solidarity protests, including violent police crack downs.
During this time, author Kurt Vonnegut came to speak in support of the movement, and against Apartheid.
I recently found this amusing clip
of Vonnegut explaining the different types of character arcs a story can have.
It is unconscionable for Israel to participate in the 2024 Paris Olympics. Israel should be suspended from international sports organizations and events until it ends its grave violations of international law.
@mondoweiss@palestine@israel
As a French and living in Paris at that, I can tell you Israeli athletes are NOT bienvenus here and a lot of noise, fuss and boohs are gonna welcome them in each and every competition they're gonna be involved in.
It ij positively outrageous a country comitting #warCrimes and #Genocide , a country where #Apartheid and #segregation are Palestinian everyday life should be welcomed in Olympics.
Historically, all Greek tribes had do put a hold on their wars if they wanted to participate to OG.
Russia has been banned from all international events for a war that made 5 times less civilian victims in 2 years than Israel in 8 months.
(Don't get me wrong, Russian agression of Ukraine is NOT ok).
Every freaking day we hear, read or see outrageous criminal acts by the occupation forces of IDF.
And every day disgusting leaders of the world ignore these atrocities and the media help to cover them up and then a few days later everyone forget about those and IDF does another outrageous criminal act with total impunity and absolute no fear of ever being held accountable.
#Israel / Hamas' complete defeat - and then Gaza's rehabilitation
#Ynet is publishing a disturbing proposal written by some Israeli academics and “policymakers,” who are promoting the establishment of a system of governance in Gaza that eerily resembles US's failed state-building experiment in #Iraq, or more closely, the apartheid-era Bantustans of South Africa. The working paper was allegedly already read by government officials.
The paper is titled "From a murderous regime to a moderate society". It was written by four Israeli academics, and reviewed by members of the Military Intelligence Directorate and the War Cabinet. Its authors state that there is a need for Hamas' "complete defeat" - which, in their opinion, includes losing control over territory and "public trials" for its leaders. It also outlines a path for rehabilitation and de-radicalization. "Rehabilitation under fire is doomed to fail," the authors wrote.
The document, written in February, deals with the question of how Gazan society can become “a peaceful neighbor to the State of Israel.” The authors assume that victory - at least in the sense of preventing Hamas' resurgence and harming Israel - requires "rehabilitating and transforming a nation led by “a murderous ideology,” and cultivating stable institutions and an Arab culture that does not educate for jihad and accepts the existence of the of Israel as the Jewish people's nation-state."
The authors’ conclusions are provocative. First, there is a need for Hamas' "complete defeat," which means losing territory (for an unlimited period of time) and "public trials" for Hamas leaders. One of the authors, Dr. Palmor, says: "My position is that the average Palestinian needs to feel defeated. He needs to feel that the path they've taken so far, including education, hasn't worked. In my opinion, we should have declared the entire northern Gaza Strip as Israeli territory, for all intents and purposes." This is his opinion, not the document's recommendation.
All the writers agree that Hamas' defeat is necessary and that “rehabilitation under fire is doomed to fail." To succeed, they propose setting a "positive horizon for the defeated nation, conditioned on achieving concrete and measurable goals," and suggest establishing an "autonomous Palestinian entity."
The authors proposed (already in February) the immediate establishment of an effective mechanism to address the humanitarian crisis in Gaza. They wrote that "it is necessary to achieve control as soon as possible over the humanitarian crisis in Gaza in order to prevent further deterioration and to deprive Hamas of one of its most important recruitment bases."
But this is clearly not a “peace plan”: "The state independence of this entity must be conditional on strict conditions, including education for peace, renunciation of violence and terror, and effective security and administrative capabilities," they write. "Even if Israel is not interested in ruling Gaza and prefers to establish a different civilian government in the Strip, the option of Israeli military rule must hover in the background."
A glaring omission in the proposal is, understandably, the occupation itself. Regardless of how Israel chooses to frame the events of October 7th, it's impossible to detach them from the broader context of Palestinian resistance and the right to self-determination, which is enshrined in international law. Israel can continue down the path of entrenching its occupation, but it's unlikely to find much support from its allies. In fact, by doing so, Israel risks becoming increasingly isolated and likened to the apartheid regime of South Africa, a comparison that already has severe diplomatic and economic consequences.
The full article will be published on Friday in "Yediot Ahronot" and ynet.
[…] We’re heeding the call from over 1000 #Google and #Amazon workers to rise up against the contract, known as Project Nimbus. Technology should be used to bring people together, not enable #apartheid, ethnic cleansing, and settler-colonialism. Following in the footsteps of those who fought to divest from apartheid South Africa and won, it’s our responsibility to rise up in support of Palestinian freedom. The Amazon and Google execs who signed this contract can still choose to be on the right side of history.
Demand Amazon & Google stop doing business with Israeli apartheid & powering the genocide of Palestinians in Gaza
The reaction and the answer by this palestinian kid explain the reality of loving under apartheid.
I'm sure many Israeli friends have a reasonable explanation about this, possibly because the boy is Khamas.
This is pure terror, it nothing to do with Hamas or Gaza, these are Israeli brown shirts spreading terror by protection and support of IDF and #JewishKKK minister #BenGvir
Settlers continue to destroy Palestinian property, burning cars in Barqa, east of #Ramallah, after burning the land. Settlers are also attacking vehicles in Beitin, north of Ramallah.
We're talking about history. Its Arab neighbors tried to destroy it decades ago and failed.
They call this failure the "Nabka" so that they can make it sound like they were the innocent victims of Jewish oppression, not bloodthirsty lunatics who chose war instead of accepting the UN's plan.
Everyone creates his very own #hell. The Jews now have theirs in Israel. It has never proved a good idea to steal land to establish an #Apartheid regime.
Backed by the #UN the state of #Israel had been given the chance, to integrate cultures and religions in #Palestine in a modern civilized society as e.g. India did, but they failed.
The #Jewish founders failed because of their childish belief in being God's 1st choice, the elite of Mankind.
Israeli Jewish-supremacist Minister of National Security, Itamar Ben-Gvir: "Every house in #Gaza has a picture of Al-Aqsa Mosque. We must break into their holiest site."
Why isn't this monster sanctioned by the western leaders? How far does he need to go before they take action against this JewishLKK leader?
Can we treat this monster like holocaust deniers at least?or is it too much to ask?
I've only read a few Palestinian prisoners stories and I have to stop each time. I'm usually one who can sit and read for hours. It's devastating but necessary reading - we MUST get these stories to as many eyes as possible.
Do not expect him to be listed as a hostage in the list of those demanding release of the #hostages: The father of Ahed Tamimi was #kidnapped by Israeli forces
Bassem #Tamimi The father of Palestinian activist Ahed Tamimi was kidnapped by Israeli #occupation forces from the village of #NabiSaleh in October 2023. His family has not heard from him since then.
After 10 days of detention by Israeli occupation forces, the traces of #torture on the body of Palestinian #prisoner Amir Shuja'iyeh from #Ramallah are evident.
[...] "Only a racist and corrupt police force arrests a citizen like Rasha Khreim Kharami from Majd Al-Krum, an Arab woman, because of a post against the war and a post against the police: handcuffs and blindfolding in the police station courtyard. She was brought before a judge, who released her home. The attackers of the kidnapped families are not arrested, the settlers who attack Palestinians are not arrested, the murderers and crime organizations roam free. But Rasha is arrested as a means of punishment and humiliation."
"We are seeing... important processes that are leading to the collapse of the #Zionist project," said #IlanPappé, following his interrogation in the #USA.
#ICC / Prosecutor asks for arrest warrants for three leading Hamas leaders, as well ass Netanyahu and Galant
[...] The office of the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court on Monday said it was seeking arrest warrants against three leading Hamas militants for their alleged roles in the Oct. 7 attacks in Israel, for war crimes and crimes against humanity.
Watch: ICC Prosecutor Karim Khan explains the charges against top Hamas and Israeli leadership in detail in this excerpt from his interview with @amanpour this morning at The Hague
Mentioned by name in the #ICJ ruling, seen here autographing a bomb that was dropped on Gaza, killing an unknown number of children, women an men, Israel's shameless weasel #Herzog said proudly (I'm sure):
[The Hague Prosecutor] "Encourages Terrorists, We Won't Forget Who Raped, Slaughtered, Burned and Abducted Civilians. [...] This is a decision that goes beyond outrageous. The one-sided decision, which will strengthen terrorists around the world, violates all the basic laws of the court."
The decision, of course, was "two-sided"...
[...] Hamas leaders are dictators guilty of numerous cases of murder, rape and abduction of men, women and children. Any attempt to draw a parallel between these monstrous terrorists and elected officials in a democratic state is outrageous. We will not forget who started this war, who raped, slaughtered, burned, tortured and abducted innocent civilians and families."
"The War" of course stated in 1948, followed by illegal occupation, depopulation, a brutal regime, campaign of dehumanization of an indigenous people to whitewash those crimes, and an #apartheid...
#Palestine / Bedouin Shepherds Face Harassment and Violence from Israeli Settlers in West Bank
455 Palestinians have been killed and almost 8,000 arrested in the West Bank since October 7th on this 'third front' of Israel - alongside #Gaza and #Lebanon. The repression against Israeli activists has also intensified, following a hearing at the Knesset on March 12th, focusing on criminalizing 'anarchist' Israelis: several activists that Reporterre met with have been arrested and even banned from entering the West Bank by authorities since then.
Awdeh Hathaleen:
"We were chased off our lands in Arad (now in Israel) in 1948 and then from the hilltop in 1982; our entire village has been razed several times - but we've always come back, [...] This is apartheid: the settlers have water, electricity, security, and all the rights, and just a few meters further on, we're totally excluded, [...] It's essential to understand that settlers are just the tip of the iceberg of a colonial and genocidal system, [...] They're not only protected by the army and police, but also financed and armed by the government."
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Oh my dear @h4890
how did you achieve this level of indoctrination and ignorance? To support #genocide today isn't much different than to support #holocaust back in 1938. Are your parents proud that you became a #ZioNazi?
Since it wasn't me who financed #Hamas, but the #apartheid#regime of @israel (that you support) ... you might guess who does the dirty work as useful idiot.
:linus:
While I'm prepared with historical facts for an intellectual duell with #genocideDenier's, it's you who is unarmed, obviously.