Persephone 🍉 🇵🇸 🔻

Ana.
Bookworm.

[Persephone 🍉 🇵🇸 🔻 @DropDeadRita]

I'm not always proud to be Portuguese, but this right here is reason to be proud.

[LPC @landpalestine]

Portugal fans carried the Palestinian flag in solidarity with Palestine at the World Cup in Canada Your humanity is greater than the game

[Persephone 🍉 🇵🇸 🔻 @DropDeadRita]

A bola não vai entrar na baliza da Croácia nem que estejam a jogar até amanhã... 😂

[tim anderson @timand2037]

Why Hamas is NOT a terrorist group

The framework of international law:

The United Nations (UN) has never declared Hamas a terrorist group. Only certain countries are doing this (USA, EU, Canada and some others), but not international law.

Why? Because Israel is recognized as an occupying power: since 1967 it has occupied Gaza, the West Bank and East Jerusalem by military force. According to International Humanitarian Law, peoples under occupation have the legitimate right to resist, even with weapons, against the occupier.

This is supported by:

- UN resolutions, which recognize the right of all peoples to fight against colonial and foreign occupation.

- Geneva Conventions and the practice of the International Criminal Court (CPI), which do not criminalize armed resistance, provided that the laws of war are respected.

In this frame, Hamas is a political and resistance actor, not a terrorist group.

Judith Butler (American philosopher, Berkeley University): affirmed that “armed resistance under occupation cannot be reduced to terrorism,” and that the debate must include the roots of violence: occupation and colonialism.

Hamas could be criticized for certain acts, but that does not nullify its political legitimacy nor its character as a liberation movement.

Israel has imposed the label of "terrorism" as a propaganda tool to:

1) Prevent the world from talking about occupation and apartheid.

2) Justify massive bombing of civilian population in Gaza.

3) Criminalize any form of Palestinian resistance, whether armed or even peaceful (NGOs, students, journalists).

Calling Hamas a “terrorist” is not a legal fact, it’s a political and media strategy.

Israel, on the other hand, has murdered resistance leaders without trial, demonstrating its contempt for international law.

Palestinian resistance groups are comparable to other anti-colonial movements in Africa, Asia and Latin America.

Hamas is a Palestinian actor with real representation in society, as it won elections in 2006.

The UN has never declared Hamas a terrorist. Israel is an occupying power. And according to international law, resistance against occupation is legitimate. That is not terrorism, it is a people's right to liberate themselves.

[Persephone 🍉 🇵🇸 🔻 @DropDeadRita]

Fucking hell, they're committing piracy, they're abducting civilians in international waters... My hatred for z!0s knows no limits!!!

[Persephone 🍉 🇵🇸 🔻 @DropDeadRita]

Recording almost every second of the #Handala live stream. Fucking watching #israhell doing piracy again is fucking wild. THEY'RE IN INTERNATIONAL WATERS!!! #FreedomFlotilla

[Persephone 🍉 🇵🇸 🔻 @DropDeadRita]

And I think it's great, they're constantly reminded that Palestine isn't going anywhere. They do no deserve peace.

[Persephone 🍉 🇵🇸 🔻 @DropDeadRita]

Two things I'm loving right now:
1- I'm at the airport in Lisbon and while having my breakfast a man turned to me and said "I love your kuffiya!" with a big smile on his face. Immediately made my day better.

[Persephone 🍉 🇵🇸 🔻 @DropDeadRita]

2 - Two israhellis (who should sue their plastic surgeon) on my flight, but besides me with my kuffiya, we have a lady with a giant Palestine bag and a girl with a Palestine sticker on her phone.
Also saw another man with a kuffiya, but not on my flight.

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

Since Bob Vylan said "Death, death to the IDF" the IDF has killed 400 Palestinians.

Which is why he said what he said.

[Sarah @Sal_feeko]

Bob Vylan is not the story.

Kneecap is not the story.

Gary Lineker is not the story.

Dawn French is not the story.

Ms Rachel is not the story.

Action Palestine is not the story.

Glastonbury is not the story.

GENOCIDE IN GAZA IS THE STORY.

[Husam Zomlot @hzomlot]

This article is for the genocide deniers!

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

Can't get over how we're being asked to pretend "Death, death to the IDF" is some kind of hate crime at the exact same time IDF soldiers are telling the Israeli press they're being ordered to massacre starving civilians at aid sites.

[Persephone 🍉 🇵🇸 🔻 @DropDeadRita]

🔴 I demand safe passage for the humanitarian ship Freedom Flotilla
🔴 I demand an end to the blockade and justice for Gaza.

#freedomflotillatogaza @jmalbares @sanchezcastejon @rterdogan @mfaturkiye @MariaStenergard @SwedishPM

[Persephone 🍉 🇵🇸 🔻 @DropDeadRita]

🔴 I demand safe passage for the humanitarian ship Freedom Flotilla
🔴 I demand an end to the blockade and justice for Gaza.

#freedomflotillatogaza
@_friedrichmerz @jowadephul @kmitsotakis @GreeceMFA @itamaratygovbr @lulaoficial

[Persephone 🍉 🇵🇸 🔻 @DropDeadRita]

🔴 I demand safe passage for the humanitarian ship Freedom Flotilla
🔴 I demand an end to the blockade and justice for Gaza.

#FreedomFlotilla #SafePassageNow @AlsisiOfficial @MfaEgypt @ministerBZ @minpres @emmanuelmacron @francediplo @jnbarrot

[Apollo ☆ sees blue!!! @OmensWorm]

"I bet europeans are laughing at us" no we're watching in horror

[Zachary Foster @_ZachFoster]

My entire life, I wondered how the world stood by as the Jews were shipped off to the gas chambers during the Holocaust.

Over the past year, I've stopped wondering. The entire Western political & media class has taught us exactly how genocides happen:

1) Dehumanize the victims
2) Manufacture atrocity propaganda
3) Ignore historical context
4) Obsess over one's own history of victimhood
5) Manufacture false claims of antisemitism

What's most shocking is just how easy it has been to compel an entire generation of media & political elites to support genocide.

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

This is your periodic reminder that some of Israel’s own leading scholars of the Holocaust and genocide, including Professor @bartov_omer at Brown and Dr. Amos Goldberg at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, say what’s happening in Gaza *is* a genocide.

Trust them over this guy.