Even in the wake of a devastating earthquake that has killed 5,000 people in Turkey and Syria, the US and EU refuse to lift the sanctions which prevent Syrians from receiving direct aid from many countries.
Remember this the next time they lecture the world about human rights.
Elon Musk told the United Nations he would give them $6 billion to end world hunger if they showed him a detailed plan of how they would use the money. They called his bluff and gave him their plan— and then they never got the money. Now he’s buying Twitter for $45 billion.
It's been five years since the release of Ava DuVernay's seminal documentary film 13TH and the statistics it presents about the disproportionate imprisonment of Black men in America remain harrowing and largely unchanged.
Let me rephrase this: instead of making a ruling on land ownership, the court decided to evade its responsibilities and pressure us into reaching an agreement with settlers. No decision or agreement has been reached.
Muslim parent tip:
Take your kids to buy toys for refugee children this Eid, then take them to drop it off personally. Teach them from now that even in celebration, they don’t forget the grieving.
What is most significant about Ben & Jerry’s decision to stop operating in the occupied West Bank is that sets a precedent and a high-profile one at that. The door is now open for more and more companies (and individuals) to boycott and divest from Apartheid israel all together.
Israeli occupation forces shot Palestinian child Mohammad Hamayel during protests against land theft in Beita. The bullet hit his spleen & other shrapnel in his waist. He was transferred to the ICU, later released. IOF injured 411 people last night, 23 of them with live bullets.
Zionists murder our children, steal our land, bulldoze our homes, imprison our loved ones, poison our crops, uproot our olive trees, inhibit our movement, destroy our careers, and then accuse us of racism for not accepting it all with a bow and a smile.
(1/3) We are aware of an incident in Edmonton that took place yesterday evening. A man, described as a Caucasian male, allegedly discharged a firearm from inside a motor vehicle at a woman wearing hijab. Alhamdullilah, there were no physical injuries.
Of course it would cost less to house people than to maintain & police poverty. We know this, the state knows this.
But deliberate impoverishment and criminalization of poverty serves a broader strategy of precarity & disposession in racial capitalism and settler colonialism.