Australian foreign minister Penny Wong refuses to answer @DavidShoebridge question about Australian woman who was raped by Israel.
She claims the question “disrupts “social cohesion”. Shoebridge answers, “You know what disrupts social cohesion? Selling weapons parts to Israel”.
It’s ironic for @SenatorWong to talk about social cohesion when she clearly places Jewish lives above all others.
- She blocked me when I asked her how many Palestinians have to die before she recognises Palestine.
-She made a comment about 16 syrian children in the Golan only when she was wrongfully told they were Israeli. She never said a word about Palestinian children.
I’ve noticed I’m having very different conversations with my white friends to the ones I’m having with my non white friends about #Gaza.
I can’t do thought experiments and academic debates on Gaza anymore.
Notice that when you talk to your Black, Brown and non white friends, they may be struggling to talk about Palestine in the same way that we might talk about other political issues.
It is because we are in pain. It’s because what’s happening has reminded all of us that everything we’ve been taught about equality and justice for all - all of it is a lie.. we aren’t equally human in the eyes of the people that rule us. We never were.
In the UK, we grew up with the myth that there was some acknowledgement of the crimes of colonialism in the world, some repentance - but the state and power structures around us cannot possibly have any shame for the crimes of the past when they continue to commit them in the present day in real time, to the extent of a live streamed genocide.
What is happening in Palestine has opened up generational colonial wounds. Many of us are as close to the ethnic cleansing, murder of half our families, and mass displacement of our people - as a Jewish person to the Holocaust, and Palestinian to the Nakba (that has never ended). Colonialism ripped our parents, and grandparents worlds apart and we grew up with the scars.
Colonialism never ended.
We are all Palestinian right now.. it’s deeply personal and painful - and I cannot imagine the suffering of Palestinian friends and colleagues to carry not only the weight of history, but of love and loss with no justice in sight.
These dispassionate debates are painful to me, I can only imagine what it must be like for my Palestinian friends to have the existence of your people discussed so coldly, as collective governments gaslight, lie and profit from genocide…
Remember it is - or should be - personal to us all.
#freegaza #EndTheGenocide #ceasefirenow
Asad Baloch was a student of international relations at Federal Urdu University Karachi, he was enforcedly disappeared from Quetta on March 18, 2014. Asad's enforced disappearance is about to complete ten years, but to date, he has not been produced in any court, nor has any information been given to his family.
This state has forcibly kept our educated youth in their torture cells for ten years.
Young people around the world should raise their voices for Asad, free Asad from the torture cells of Pakistan's secret agencies.
#StopBalochGenocide
#MarchAgainstBalochGenocide
#EndEnforcedDisappearances
40% of #Israel’s energy supply comes from Azerbaijan (a Muslim dominated country) - the pipeline runs through #Turkey .
Why can’t #Erdogan close this pipeline if he is so serious about #Palestinians cause. ? #GazaGenocide
@USAmbUN@ICRCPresident History will remember you as an enabler in Genocide - murderer of 7000+ Palestinians. They don’t need your bloody donations. Go F*** yourself. hypocrite@
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Who is selected & who isn’t?
Who was a “project” & who wasn’t?
ZAB, NS & IK were all varying degrees of originally establishment-backed political phenoms. Partisan bickering aside, there is a reason the “dismantling” never works.
Politicians reside in hearts…
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Army brought school children to D Chowk for a rally in favour of themselves, while one kid chanted 'Imran Khan' and the entire crowd replied with 'Zinadabad.' 😂😂
What a desperate shit-show dearest Army, using school kids tsk tsk.
We have reached a new peak of stupidity. This AI generated image was never claimed to be real at any stage, it’s always a form of art to represent events.
And the Minister printed it and did whole PC 😂
IG Islamabad acting as a junior military officer, the PDM govt is powerless, busy appeasing military elite & even otherwise enjoying settling scores with PTI at expense of constitutional freedoms, Judges & Bar Councils across Pakistan must unite against this de facto martial law.
Today it appears the Pakistan army has reached an “enough is enough” moment re Khan. After several false starts/unsuccessful arrest attempts by the police, this time the mil took matters into its own hands.
What a mess.
General Bajwa’s new interview is a great insight into the mental caliber of army generals who take big decisions for us from their drawing rooms. Some highlights 🧵