🚨 BREAKING | SAUDI ARABIA
Saudi Prince Turki Al-Faisal: "Israel is a hypocritical state, pretending to be under threat while detaining thousands of Palestinians whose lands it has seized in camps."
South Africa and the entire world must take lessons and courage from how Israeli lobbyists failed to control the Adelaide Writers Festival by ostracizing Australian Palestinian writer Dr Randa Abdel-Fattah. They thought they could get away with what they have been doing for decades: Hounding professionals out of spaces for daring to criticize Israel. Often, people look away and are too afraid to act.
But in a formidable show of solidarity and moral clarity, writers and speakers said : NOT IN OUR NAME! They pulled out in numbers, and the entire edifice collapsed. The board imploded. Heed the lesson! Silence enables this global bullying.
Now, the Goodman Gallery in Johannesburg is banning artist Gabrielle Goliath for her artwork for the 61st Venice Biennale. This is after a lawful selection process.
The work confronts femicide & the killing of children in Gaza. From Johannesburg to Kyiv, Goliath has used her art to tell stories that must be told. Every story is allowed except ones that give Palestinians a voice? We should be careful what we allow.
Already, so many people in RSA are too scared to criticize Israel. Why? Are we not all South Africans? South Africans who criticize our own government consistently. So why must we be terrorised for criticising Israel? Don't let this happen. Once you normalise it, it will be hard to reverse.
Stand up! Speak up! The implosion of the Adelaide Writers Festival is an inspiring lesson.
Yes, I know there will be hours of pro Israel supporters having a meltdown on my timeline. I don't give a rat's ass and I am not afraid of you.
The percentage of child dead in the Ukrainian conflict is 0.3%.
Zero point three per cent.
The percentage of child dead in the Gaza conflict is 37.7%.
Thirty seven point seven per cent.
In a single statistic, there you have the difference between a war and a genocide.
Israeli military preparing to forcibly expel Gaza City residents as it kills another 40 people, including a baby in a tent, in brutal attacks on previously designated “safe zones”. https://t.co/EAKhJFBvhP
Genocide scholar Martin Shaw argues that ending Israel’s genocide in Gaza and isolating Israel on the international stage must become the cause of every country that claims to represent human values. https://t.co/qoX6sgRcFa
There will be a protest in Cape Town tomorrow starting at the Mouille Point Light House @15h00 and ending at the Pavilion/Sea Point Swimming Pool, to protest the Israeli genocide in Gaza and the murder of Palestinian journalists. If you are in Cape Town, I hope to see you there.
Even the Dutch Reformed Church (who used to be the informal state church of the apartheid regime) donated money for humanitarian aid for the people being starved by the Israeli’s in Gaza. https://t.co/H0ufCU6Y8N
A Message To My Ummah
By Sheikh Ali al-Qaradaghi (President of the International Union of Muslim Scholars)
“I say this with heartfelt sincerity and the conscience of a scholar entrusted with the responsibility of the word: We are no longer in a fleeting moment where reminders or calls to awaken suffice. We are facing an existential threat to our central cause—Jerusalem and Palestine—a direct, grave, and blatant threat, in broad daylight.”
#Gaza
Aye! And they believe others should ‘adopt’ the Zionist Regime war machine, ideals. As if the Zionists are role models! 🙃 If a desired country doesn’t toe the line and agree to be owned or it wants a particular resource another country possesses the Zionists feel entitled to it, thus it is forever wartime here in the West, which taxpayers fund all their misadventures, rendering fabulously wealthy who ever agrees to do their bidding(s); better to deal with the devil than these rascals! Meanwhile Russia, China, Japan, Iran, Yemen, a lot of other countries are clean beautiful, affordable and relatively crime free unlike here in the West. They invest in their country, not military industrial complex adventures with in cahoots agencies, Israel, fraternities, and of course, the bankers.