I remember how much Muslims were lectured about the importance of a right to offend being part of a right to free speech.
We were told that we must accept offensive and racist remarks about our faith, our Prophet, etc, in the name of free speech and integrating into 'Western civilization'. Voltaire and the rest.
Those same folks who lectured Muslims are now saying to people that they cannot be offensive about a dead conservative influencer - and they will be punished if they do so. Even if being offensive in one's speech is literally what the First Amendment guarantees.
Oh, the hypocrisy. Oh, the gaslighting.
What is being perpetrated by the vicious Zionist occupation in Gaza, in the form of intense bombing, killing, cutting off electricity and internet, destroying all aspects of life, and blocking information about the scale of massacres and war crimes taking place, constitutes blind terrorism and a blatant violation of legal and humanitarian conventions and norms. The world must condemn and take decisive action to stop this at once. History will never forgive those who failed to defend innocent Palestinians or supported this continued Zionist terrorism. It is the duty of the Arab and Islamic nations, along with all free people of the world, to unite and find an immediate solution and rescue the oppressed Palestinian people, who are facing an unprecedented humanitarian catastrophe.
My clueless 3-year-old is wiping my tears asking me what's wrong, telling me it's OK. But it's not okay, is it!
Our dear @RoshdiSarraj is gone. Israeli air strike on his family home. My throat is clogged up with grief.
You can finally see Yaser again and give him our love 💔
Israel's "fight against Hamas" so far:
🇵🇸 4,600 Palestinians killed (half of them are women and children
🇺🇳 29 UN workers killed
🎥19 journalists killed
⛑️37 medics killed
🏚️140,000 homes damaged
How many more have to die before Israel is satisfied?
I used to be pro-Palestinian. I thought Israel was wrong for carpet bombing Gaza and using siege warfare on civilians.
But then I ran into a very wise Israel apologist who changed my way of looking at things forever.
I was walking down the street and I saw him leaning against a lamp post, smoking a pipe as wise men do.
“Your shirt says Free Palestine,” he said from behind a plume of smoke.
“Yep!” I replied.
“So I guess that means you love Hamas then?” spake he.
I stopped in my tracks. I’d never thought of it that way before.
Could it be? Could my opposition to murdering civilians really be indicative of a deep affection for a Gazan militant group? Maybe I really did love Hamas and think everything it did on October 7 was great and wonderful?
“Is this really how I want to live my life?” I thought to myself.
“I — I — I…” I said out loud.
“Or perhaps,” he said with a raised eyebrow, “you just HATE JEWS??”
I fell to my knees.
Oh my God. He really had a point. What possible reason could anyone have for opposing military explosives being dropped on buildings full of children besides a seething lifelong hatred of adherents to the religion of Judaism? How could anyone possibly oppose siege warfare tactics which cut off civilians from food and water and electricity and fuel and medical supplies unless they harbored a dangerous hostility toward members of a small Abrahamic faith?
“Who… who are you?” I asked.
“That’s of no consequence,” he said, casually blowing a smoke ring through another larger smoke ring.
“But… but the children,” I stammered as my entire worldview crumbled before my eyes. “The civilians! They’re dying! Isn’t it bad that they’re dying?”
And then he went for the coup de grâce.
“Have you considered,” he said before a pregnant pause, “… that all of those deaths are the fault of Hamas?”
I fell flat on my back. The world was spinning. A trickle of blood ran down into my hair from my ear.
I felt all the anti-colonialism leaving my body. I suddenly could no longer remember why I thought it was bad to rain down military explosives on a densely populated concentration camp.
Everything went black.
When I finally came to, the mysterious stranger was gone. But his wisdom and profound insights into Israel and Gaza will always live on in my heart.
American conservatives love to talk about liberty, sovereignty and the 2nd amendment. Then when Palestinians living under foreign military occupation put those ideals into action, conservatives instantly transform into snowflake liberals. The American right is cucked by Zionism.
Incredible watching all these Western politicians who've been beating their chests and talking for years about how we must support armed struggle against foreign occupation (in Ukraine) describing Palestinians rising up today as "terrorists".
An extremely informative moment.
The Palestinians are again fighting for their lives, refusing to live in the prison known as Gaza, controlled and policed by Israel with Palestinians killed and maimed, unreported, day after day. Now their resistance, to which they have a right, is called 'unprovoked'. Read on:
When you bomb innocent children for 20 years they will grow up to resent you and retaliate. What else would you expect?
The world is a sad place and innocent blood spilled should hurt us but the truth is the truth. #FreePalestine
The Gaza Strip is an open air prison for 2 million Palestinians, most of whom are children. If they try to leave, Israeli snipers will shoot them on sight.
Netanyahu just announced his intent to commit war crimes.
There is no "both sides" argument:
~Only Palestinians live under military occupation
~Only Palestinians have homes stolen for illegal Israeli settlements
~Only Palestinians are being dispossessed
~Only Palestinians face apartheid laws
ALL of this is done by one side: Israel
Once again the discrepancy between many of those celebrating Ukrainian resistance but now condemn Palestinian resistance, speaks loudly of their hypocrisy
You are either with people's right to resist an army occupation or not!
It can't be "only for people who look like me"
I've just been watching the appallingly one-sided @BBCNews coverage of the situation in Palestine. So, here's a few notes to the corporate media.
1. Israel is in breach of international law
2. Palestinians are fighting to liberate their homeland from 75 years of Israeli oppression and terrorism
3. The Israel military and settlers are the "militants" NOT the Palestinian freedom fighters
4. Armed struggle is legitimate under international law
5. Israel has been abducting Palestinians for many years. Over 1,000 Palestinians are currently being held in 'administrative detention' in Israeli dungeons.