As the world looks elsewhere, Israel continues to exterminate Palestinians in Gaza. Days in days out. Shame on complicit western media and all complicit governments.
Just spoke to friends on the Global Sumud Flotilla. Israeli vessels & drones are harassing them off the coast of Crete. The Greek gvt is either complicit or incapable of defending our seas from Israel. So much for Freedom of Navigation & Int. Law
- Shame Within Borders -
Maintaining trade in times of genocide means valuing goods over humans. Markets over life.
This is not policy: it is a system. A clash of values.
It is either equality, freedom, solidarity. Or it is their contrary.
Please choose.
When simulation becomes the norm, it weakens the human capacity for discernment. As a result, our social bonds close in upon themselves, forming self-referential circuits that no longer expose us to reality. We thus come to live within bubbles, impermeable to one another. Feeling threatened by anyone who is different, we grow unaccustomed to encounter and dialogue. In this way, polarization, conflict, fear and violence spread. What is at stake is not merely the risk of error, but a transformation in our very relationship with truth.
“A person’s whole life is in that place, their work, their memories, everything. Suddenly you see it exploding in front of you,” said Ahmad Abu Taam, a 56-year-old resident of Taybeh. “From that moment, I felt that I had become a refugee. I feel like I have no home.”
“You feel a deep sense of frustration. Like someone has the power to erase you,” said Abu Taam.
The world watched as Israel razed Gaza to the ground.
Now, the world is watching as Israel razes Lebanon to the ground.
War crimes beget war crimes — and the failure to bring Israel to justice for genocide has emboldened it to destroy human life with total impunity.
@vonderleyen Did the EU President really discuss the most catastrophic moment in West Asia as if corporate interests mattered more than human life?
This sounds both inhuman and dangerous: it doesn’t just shame the institution Ms @vonderleyen presides over, it makes Europeans look barbaric.
Some states say they can’t act on Israel's genocide because "the ICJ hasn’t ruled''. But it has. In July 2024 the ICJ found the occupation illegal, ordered it dismantled, and banned aid or assistance. Keeping trading with and arming Apartheid Israel means one thing: complicity.
As the pause in Israel-US military aggression on Iran takes effect, Israel escalates its war crimes in Lebanon with the same vindictiveness used for decades against Palestinians. Israeli crimes remain a threat to peace in the region and beyond. They must be stopped and punished.
I genuinely feel sick. This is just beyond anything the mind can fathom. And I keep thinking of what Ta-Nehisi Coates said. If you can’t draw the line at the genocide in Gaza, you can’t draw it anywhere else. Moral failure, on a mass and collective scale, brought us here.
It is painful to see what Israelis are doing to the Palestinians -soldiers, settlers, security, police, very tangibly. This is not a war. It is to torture a people: physically and psychologically. And it is part of their erasure.
tired of the excuses re: why we can’t bring back technicolour like oh “that kind of technology doesn’t exist anymore” we invented it once?? do it again?
As I wrote in my last report: the oldest military occupation in modern history looks like a prison & works like a prison. About three generations of Palestinians have grown within its confines.
Fascism grows when people disengage and expect heroes. It weakens when people organize, protect each other, and refuse to normalize cruelty, and we have to do it over and over again. It does not ever end.