Pressure on Israel and Hamas is growing it seems. While Israeli officials attempt to pressure Hamas by warning the the failure to compromise would lead to an immediate invasion of #Rafah ("This means that an operation in Rafah and in other parts of Gaza will take place in the very near future," Galant), for the first time since October, the Biden administration puts a hold on an ammunition shipment to Israel:
Satellite images show IDF logistics route towards Rafah
For the past five days, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) has been working on a logistics route that extends on the Gaza side of the border near the former airport towards Rafah.
🔶️ Armored vehicles are visible in the Planet images shared by Jake Godin.
🔶️ The IDF has set up a logistics center at a (new) military base south of this point (31.2118,34.2799).
#US / Twenty-five people were arrested at the University of Virginia after police clashed with anti-war protesters who refused to remove tents from campus
On Saturday, police wearing heavy gear and holding shields lined up on campus in Charlottesville University police declared an "unlawful assembly" in the area
[...] In Ann Arbor, the protest happened at the beginning of the event at Michigan Stadium. About 75 people, many wearing traditional Arabic kaffiyehs along with their graduation caps, marched up the main aisle toward the graduation stage. They chanted “Regents, regents, you can’t hide! You are funding genocide!” while holding signs, including one that read: “No universities left in Gaza.”
Not Nethanyahu, not Hamas, its Israeli society which is the guilty party for everything that's going on.
Nethanyahu is the product of the uncontested fascism that pervaded that society since its inception.
Hamas is the product of the level of vileness that society condoned & incentivised since this settler colony's birth thru ethnic cleansing.
Those trying to push the blame onto Nethanyahu by making this disingenuous argument
Israeli are victims of Nethanyahu
Gazans are victims of Hamas
are simply trying to give cover for the rotten culture & crimes normalised in that rotten society (yes thats what it is now).
Its true that State, Capital, Fascism, Empire, and other intersecting systems of domination are responsible too, but those cannot take away the guilt of society that consciously chosing to dehumanise & dispossess.
NOTE:
Since my argument has the likelihood of being misconstrued as something else, I just want to emphasise, a society doesn't imply every person in society. I am only speaking about what a large section of tolerates & perpetuates.
Every society has good & bad people, but when speak about societies we are speaking about the dominant culture, never individuals — as I am sure there are many good people even in a society as rotten as Israel.
Our society is quite rotten (closeted-Israel) & we are as capable of & in some places are as rotten as them — as we are no different, but we are not yet at their level only due to historical coincidence, not because non-Israeli societies are any better. We all are vulnerable to the same pulls & pushes of societies we inhabit.
Another BS agreement being celebrated from UC Riverdale as "deal" with literally no tangible commitment on anything.
Please stop celebrating so called "deals" achieved thru "peaceful negotiation" unless you see the actual text.
If PR precedes the actual details, agreement is likely to be BS. If "deals" are agreed through closed door negotiation — as opposed to publicly contested & voted, they are guaranteed to be dogshit.
The culture of so called "leadership" (self-appointed/imposed) exists to usurp/sell off agency of others. If one is not aware of tactics of ruling class, they will simply waste the leverage they have outside by falling for trickery & sign on something with closed door so called "leadership" negotiation i.e professional managerial class (PMC) trickery.
Text of the so called "concession" is below.
The substantive part is:
We will form some BS committee with no actual commitment.
This is the "deal" people are celebrating. Completely unserious stuff.
If you agree to simply accept whatever your opponent places on table, not what you want, you will always get a "deal" — however shit it is.
Full text of agreement:
The signatories agree to the following amended terms:
All currently public information on UC’s investments will be posted to the UCR campus website. It will continue to be updated as the UC releases more information. The goal is to get full disclosure of the list of companies in the portfolio and the size of the investments.
The UCR Administration agrees to form a task force that includes students appointed by ASUCR’s Diversity Council and faculty appointed by the Academic Senate to explore the removal of UCR’s endowment from the management of the UC Investments Office, and the investment of said endowment in a manner that will be financially and ethically sound for the university with consideration to the companies involved in arms manufacturing and delivery. The goal of this task force is to produce a report to present to the UCR Foundation Board of Trustees by the end of Winter Quarter 2025. The task force will be formed by the end of the Spring 2024 quarter.
Commitment to bimonthly meetings with the AVC of Auxiliary Services and an ongoing review of Sabra Hummus consistent with existing product review processes until we can find a resolution.
The School of Business has discontinued Global Programs in Oxford, USA, Cuba, Vietnam, Brazil, China, Egypt, Jordan, and Israel.
UCR will modify its approval process for all study abroad programs to ensure compliance with UC’s Anti-Discriminatory Policies.
Looks like various administrators are following various tactics to avoid doing anything about genocide now.
Some using State's baton/gun & some deception.
This is of the later kind.
> … companies that profit from “the occupation of Palestinian territories.”
> The two committees will make policy recommendations by fall 2024, after which the college will consider implementing them no later than spring 2026.
They are going to "consider", not implement. Not divestment from Israel but companies that profit from those benefiting from "Palestinian territories".
They have 2 more years to do this when there is no immediate pressure to implement, as there will be other crimes ruling class will engage in by then & no one will pay any attention if its thrown into dustbin then.
These are not victories, these are the tactics of someone who is not serious to give any concession. These are professional managerial class "victories" i.e nothing burgers, barring rare exceptions.
The only tangible concession one gets now is real. Everything else driven by committees are simply unserious & goal is ensure pressure is off their back now.
The reason why students of every generation by & large (with minuscule exceptions to this rule) fight the reactionary status-quo is very simple.
Unlike many of us who learnt to make an uneasy peace with statusquo — even tho we hate it — students are not yet fully corrupted by the rotten written & unwritten rules/conventions shitlibs legitimized & impose on everyone, where every element of societal domination accompanies an obfuscatory & gaslighting rhetoric with legalism backing it. Since shitlibs are broadly the brains of statusquo (write the laws or have a major influence in written laws), legalism is not such a challenging task for them.
For some of us — either from personal experience (or) read experiences of others (or) know others who are forced to see the true face of status quo (not the one main-stream peddles or even alt-stream peddles, but the real face we see in radical-stream), we know that the most effective evil force backing statusquo is shitlibs.
Some of us made our peace with statusquo knowing it's too big & too hard to influence as the enemy is too powerful, even tho we express our anger at regular intervals. For some of us, the pain from the wound is always there, even tho we chose to distract ourselves with other activities — else we will have no peace of mind & no life.
Everyone understands the thuggery of fascists quite easily without much effort, as fascists are brutally honest about who they really are — Evil. They will have lot of dogshit accompanying their imaginary — and bigoted — grievances, but atleast they revel in their devilry openly. But shitlibs are the upholders & enablers of this system of ever present fascist thuggery, masterminds who build legitimacy to this rotten system which fascists can always threaten with barely any effort.
Since the threat from fascists is ever present — thanks to shitlibs who build legitimacy & are co-beneficiaries of this rotten system, shitlibs feign ignorance about the help they provide fascists, tell everyone that the moustache twirling fascists (who are friends of shitlibs) are evil, claim they are fighting fascists & force everyone else into making concessions to them. Their argument is: If you dont support us, you are supporting our friends (fascists) i.e they threaten everyone with fascist violence. The thing is, both fascists & shitlibs threaten with fascist violence, in two different ways.
Fascists: We abuse viciously.
Shitlibs: You take our abuse, or else (threat being: our friends Fascists will abuse you)
Fascists definitely attack with even more viciousness than shitlibs, but fascists show the devilry of statusquo openly & everyone in society can easily comprehend whats going on. Whether fascists force most in society into submission (or) they wakeup the dormant contempt & outrage in rest of society, which forces fascists to back off is something only time will tell — depending on how society reacts to fascists*.
In the case of students, statusquo has not yet forced them into submission like it did our generation & all past generations. They still have a purer heart than us for that exact reason. They will be corrupted just like us if statusquo prevails, but lets hope the web of lies statusquo weaves are exposed by many of us — in our own tiny ways, reach enough people who are willing to critically examine the underlying forces rather than doing surface level analysis, such that students (next gen) have a better chance to save their souls from corruption unlike us.
In our shithole, as of now, fascists have no force opposing, thanks to shitlib criminality who enabled fascists long enough & centralized power in the hands of State & Capital, with us reduced to mere button-pressing (voting) machines who can be subjected to semi-organized Fascist & organised State "constitutional" thuggery.
I visited the University of Michigan Gaza solidarity encampment again last Sunday. With all of the distorted media coverage, I thought it might be helpful to post some photographs. Jewish students are playing a major role in the Gaza protests.