My body may be torn apart as my father's was in 2001, and I may die as more than 70,000 of my people have died in this relentless, unending slaughter.
But when that happens, I don't want anyone to talk about me. I don't want any news channel to reduce my life to a mere headline or a number added to statistics.
I am not just a number.
I am not media content to be broadcast for a few minutes and then forgotten.
I am a human being, a soul created to live a dignified life like everyone else in this world, yet we have been denied even the right to life.
I will not forget, and I will not forgive those who participated in or conspired to kill us, those who remained silent despite knowing the truth, and those who witnessed our tragedy and did nothing.
@LuanaGoriss You are a nasty Islamophobe and a hater of Muslims, and you make Jews like me ashamed. Real Jews do not support Israel or genocide or ethnic cleansing. You do not speak for people like me or any decent people #FREEPALESTİNE
A post dedicated to the not-so-funny, not-so-clever, geno-apologist @charliepick. Completely ignorant of Jewish religion, history, and culture. Completely ignorant of the background to the current conflicts and culture wars associated with them.
Globalise the 'Shaking Off'
To some, it's a call for international solidarity with Palestinians and a demand for political action against oppression. To others, it’s about a threat against Jewish communities. Understanding the phrase requires looking at its origins, how different groups interpret it, and why it remains so fiercely contested.
The word intifada is Arabic for “uprising”, “shaking off”, or “rebellion”. It became widely known through the First Intifada (1987–1993) and the Second Intifada (2000–2005), two major Palestinian uprisings against Israeli occupation and control in the Palestinian territories.
The First Intifada was characterised by mass protests, strikes, boycotts, civil disobedience and clashes with Israeli forces. While violence occurred, many Palestinians remember it primarily as a grassroots popular movement. The Second Intifada, however, became heavily associated with armed attacks, suicide bombings and military confrontations that killed both Israelis and Palestinians. Because of this history, the word intifada carries very different meanings depending on who is hearing it.
The phrase “Globalise the Intifada” emerged much later and gained prominence at pro-Palestinian demonstrations in Europe, North America and Australia. Supporters generally argue that the Palestinian struggle should not be viewed as an isolated regional issue but as part of a broader global movement for human rights, decolonisation and social justice. They often compare it to international campaigns against apartheid in South Africa or other global solidarity movements.
Many activists who use the slogan insist they are not calling for violence. They argue that globalising the struggle means encouraging peaceful actions such as demonstrations, boycotts, divestment campaigns, political lobbying, public education, consumer activism and pressure on governments and corporations. In this interpretation, the slogan is a call for worldwide civic engagement on behalf of Palestinian rights rather than a call for armed conflict.
This understanding is particularly common among younger activists involved in climate justice, Indigenous rights, anti-racism and other social movements. For them, “Globalise the Intifada” is often used as shorthand for building international solidarity networks and applying non-violent political pressure.
Jewish organisations, toxic politicians and some scholars argue that because the historical intifadas included significant violence against civilians, the slogan cannot be separated from that legacy. They contend that calls to globalise the intifada inevitably sound like calls to spread the tactics associated with those uprisings beyond Israel and Palestine.
As a result, the slogan has become the focus of heated political and legal debates in several countries. Some governments and police forces have examined whether its use may constitute hate speech or incitement, while civil liberties advocates argue that criminalising political slogans risks undermining free speech and legitimate protest.
What is often lost in these debates is that language does not have a single fixed meaning. Words and slogans acquire meaning from both their history and the intentions of those using them. The majority of pro-Palestinian activists genuinely view Globalise the Intifada as a call for peaceful resistance and international activism. At the same time, many Jewish people hear the phrase through the lens of historical attacks carried out during the intifadas and experience it as threatening. Both reactions exist, and both help explain why the slogan remains so divisive.
Today, among its supporters, the phrase is most commonly used to encourage protests, boycotts, political campaigning, community organising and other forms of non-violent activism aimed at advancing Palestinian rights on a global stage. Its most vocal detractors are the toxic, divisive, racist pigs that occupy valuable space in our houses of parliament, the aggressive, confrontational shysters running Jewish lobby organisations, media personalities beholden to these lobby organisations, and the growing cohort of Islamophobes these three groups have created.
It’s become a major issue because politicians and media types exploit it to drive their own agendas, which in many cases lean away from, not towards, social cohesion.
I’ll continue using the phrase where appropriate as a call to activism and advocacy rather than violence. As a call to cowardly and/or racist world leaders to stop the fucking murder of innocent, defenceless children, and a call to world citizens to lobby for peace. And if the pathetic little man running this state decides that an Israeli-born Jew, the son of Holocaust survivors, should be punished for promoting the Jewish ‘never again’ vow of humanity, or if that vile, racist, genocide apologist envoy gets offended, so be it.
What are they going to do, send a SWAT team to my nursing home?
With Germanys failure to get elected to the United Nations Security Council, this brilliant address by Slovenia, Spain, and Belgiums action in Europe and the weakening of the US/Israeli military by their defeat in Iran, there is real hope that US/Israeli global terrorism may finally be addressed.
I am relieved that Iran has finally fired back at Israel.
The impunity with which Israel constantly violates the ceasefires in Lebanon and Gaza has to end.
Iran is standing up for all of humanity against the zionist supremacists.
My wife and I were talking when she looked at me and said:
"It feels like the world has forgotten us... It feels like we are just waiting for death."
Then my son Imad interrupted and said:
"Why, Mom? Doesn't Dad always say that people around the world stand with us? That the war will end? That Gaza will be rebuilt? He even told me there will be a school for me to go to one day." 💔
I looked at them and replied:
"No, the world has not forgotten us. There are still good people standing with us. And one day, the sun of freedom will rise over Gaza again."
So my friends, if you stand with us, please leave a 🇵🇸, a 🍉, or even just a dot (.)
I want to show my family that they are not alone.
Please don't ignore us.
@StarboySAR@noplaceforsheep Ever since the arrival of American troops with their pop music and chewing gum, Australians have subjugated themselves to US interests and ambitions.
A still thriving national inferiority complex.
Unless the world takes action, Israel will eradicate the Palestinian people. That is their ultimate plan. Many people, especially your government officials, who support and fund Israel and its crimes look on without issue. Some even cheer on these atrocities. They have no problem smelling our blood and burnt flesh. They have no issue watching our children’s brains spill from their heads, or fetuses struck by shrapnel and killed alongside their mothers.
It falls on everyone to stop this. Your tax dollars have been funding the weapons Israel uses to carry out these terrorist strikes and crimes.
What are you doing each day to change this? We aren’t asking for tanks, F-16s, or F-35s; we are just asking you to stop sending the bombs and bullets.
Demand that your media stop covering this up. Your media is complicit.
Do everything in your power to stop Israel’s actions, just as your government does everything to enable them.
I should not have to beg you. It is your responsibility!
DO SOMETHING
"Australia should provide at least 15,000 humanitarian places for refugees from Gaza and restore scholarship eligibility for Palestinians to undertake tertiary studies. This is not a wishlist. It is the simple implementation of legal obligations.": https://t.co/uAkB2M0re0
الحكومة الإيرانية تعلن حصر ثروة السيد علي الخامنئي (رض):
كل ما يملكه تم حصره بسيارة حمل صغيرة.
لا عقارات، لا حسابات بنكية، لا قصور ولا شركات ولا أرصدة مخفية.
٤٧ سنة قائداً في الثورة التي حكمت إيران.
سنوات وزيراً للدفاع.
سنوات رئيساً للجمهورية.
وما يقارب ٤٠ سنة قائداً أعلى لإيران الغنية بالنفط والغاز والصناعات، الدولة التي هزمت أقوى قوة في العالم وأذلت مشروعها في المنطقة.
مرجع ديني يقلده الملايين وتُدفع له مليارات الحقوق الشرعية، ومع ذلك خرج من الدنيا وهو لا يملك إلا أثاث منزل قديم دمرته صواريخ أمريكا والكيان.
هكذا يكون العظماء...
لا بسرقة أموال الشعوب، ولا ببناء إمبراطوريات عائلية، ولا بتهريب المليارات إلى الخارج.
بل بالزهد والنزاهة وخدمة الأمة حتى آخر يوم.
هذه الصورة قبل استشهاده( رضوان الله عليه )بدقائق.
It is deeply regrettable that certain Arab states have begun copying the language and talking points of Israel and American neoconservatives when discussing Iran. Describing Iran’s government as the “regime” or labeling its defensive military actions as “terrorist” is textbook rhetoric straight from the Israeli lobby.
Policy begins with language, and this awkward imitation is yet another sign that they are slowly but surely surrendering their sovereignty. They would be well advised not to allow their policies and perceptions to drift away from their own local culture and traditions.
Sidoti: Here is what Australia should do
‘•The first action should be a wide ranging review to identify the many ways in which Australia’s relations with Israel support Israel committing international crimes.
•Trade and diplomatic measures include ceasing all defence-related trade with Israel, including dual-use products, components, materials and technology, and ending trade and cooperative ventures with companies developing military items for use by Israel. Australia should also withdraw Australian defence and trade officials from our Tel Aviv embassy and impose secondary sanctions on states conducting defence-related trade with Israel.
•Accountability measures comprise Australia affirming its commitment to enforce international criminal court arrest warrants for Israeli political and military leaders, along with imposing personal sanctions against these leaders and Israeli settlers responsible for violence in the West Bank.
•Legal enforcement actions include investigating and prosecuting Australian citizens who have served in the Israel Defense Forces since October 2023 for potential war crimes, crimes against humanity or genocide, while prohibiting Australian citizens from fighting in foreign armed forces. The full force of Australian law should be applied to Australians who commit international crimes, as the prime minister, Anthony Albanese, has said.
•Settlement-focused measures would prohibit financial transactions with illegal Israeli settlements and end tax deductibility for Australian charities providing funding to organisations supporting illegal settlements.
Additionally, Australia should provide at least 15,000 humanitarian places for Palestinian refugees from Gaza and restore scholarship eligibility for Palestinians to undertake tertiary studies in Australia.
This is not a wishlist. It is the simple implementation of legal obligations. Australia wants to be a good international citizen. This is how it can be that.’
https://t.co/gnkldB6toX
Non si parla più di Palestina? FALSO.
Forse certi media e politici hanno voltato pagina, ma il popolo italiano resta vigile, come testimoniano i presìdi che da oltre un anno tengono viva la coscienza collettiva.
Lieta di incontrarli il 19 giugno. Il silenzio non è un'opzione.