Expecting sex because you paid for dinner is coercion. It’s part of rape culture. Hope that helps. If your generosity comes with a sexual invoice, you weren’t being romantic ... you were trying to purchase access to someone’s body.
Israel murdered a Reuters journalist. In a hospital.
As rescue workers tried to recover his body, Israel murdered them. Live on TV. Along with three more journalists.
Apparently "it's complicated".
Why is our media and political class more outraged by musicians showing solidarity with Palestine than by a UK government directly complicit in genocide?
Condemn war criminals, not musicians.
Ban arms sales with a genocidal apartheid state, not non-violent direct action groups.
"No Other Land" director Basel Adra: "We call on the world to take serious actions to stop the injustice and to stop the ethnic cleansing of Palestinian people." | #Oscars
For the past year, millions of us around the world have made repeated, desperate calls for a ceasefire. We demanded an end to the genocide. We warned of a disastrous regional conflict.
We were ignored.
Governments have fuelled the machinery of war. Their indifference to human life has destroyed prospects for peace and endangered us all.
All of this violence was entirely avoidable. Without urgent de-escalation, more unimaginable horror is on the horizon.
It’s time to listen to the voices of ordinary people across the globe calling for peace.
That means ending the root cause of this appalling cycle of violence: the occupation of Palestine.