When you overcorrect to such an extent that you end up calling Jews anti-semitic just because they called for a ceasefire & end to apartheid.. Well done, Germany.
A right-wing Israeli mob came to my family’s home yesterday to search for me, threatening close family members who fled to another town in the middle of the night. I am still getting death threats and had to cancel my flight home. This happened after Israeli media and German politicians absurdly labeled my Berlinale award speech - where I called for equality between Israelis and Palestinians, a ceasefire and an end to apartheid - as ‘antisemitic’. The appalling misuse of this word by Germans, not only to silence Palestinian critics of Israel, but also to silence Israelis like me who support a ceasefire that will end the killing in Gaza and allow the release of the Israeli hostages - empties the word antisemitism of meaning and thus endangers Jews all over the world. As my grandmother was born in a concentration camp in Libya and most of my grandfather’s family was murdered by Germans in the holocaust, I find it particularly outraging that German politicians in 2024 have the audacity to weaponize this term against me in a way that endangered my family. But above all else, this behavior puts Palestinian co-director Basel Adra’s life in danger, who lives under a military occupation surrounded by violent settlements in Masafer Yatta. He is in far greater danger than I am. I’m happy our award winning film, No Other Land, is sparking an important international debate on this issue - and I hope that millions of people watch it when it comes out this year. Sparking a conversation is why we made it. You can have harsh criticism of what me and Basel said on stage without demonizing us. If this is what you’re doing with your guilt for the holocaust - I don’t want your guilt.
I don't know what sort of sadists run Bangalore Traffic Police because Goreguntepalya junction was halfway functioning when they kept it at 3mins per signal, and now they've gone back to 30s for the ring road and extended durations for Tumkur road, and jams are back.
🟢🦁 Viktor Gyokeres, not planning to leave Sporting in January — this has always been the idea.
Sporting are also very clear: €100m release clause is the only way.
Movement expected in the summer as top clubs are monitoring Gyokeres who has 20 goals & 10 assists this season.
According to @jjabrams the opening of Uncharted 2 was the best opening of a game, television show or movie he’s ever seen!!
Bollywood fans will also see a lot of set-pieces in @justSidAnand films that draw their inspiration from @Naughty_Dog's Uncharted series! @Neil_Druckmann
Did you know that the way a woman looks will impact whether her rapist or abuser is found guilty in a courtroom?
This was one of the most depressing findings of my PhD years ago.
Here’s what I learned:
If a woman is raped or abused, and she is seen as unattractive, overweight, gender non-conforming, if she is Black, if she is disabled or in some other way ‘unconventional’ to the white thin het femme norm, she is more likely for her case to be found not guilty or to be dropped.
When jurors and professionals have been asked why this was, they stated that they didn’t believe unattractive women would be raped or abused by men, and that she was probably lying.
HOWEVER - and here’s the fuckin kicker…
If a woman is raped or abused, and she is seen as very attractive, thin, White, or in some other way seen as beautiful… she is also likely for her case to be found not guilty or to be dropped.
When researchers asked jurors and professionals why this happened, they stated that they felt the woman must have led the man on, and it wasn’t his fault that he couldn’t control himself when she was so attractive. They were also more likely to employ rape myths about her wanting it or asking for it.
Worst of all, these findings apply to children: teenage girls.
So the moral of this vile misogynistic story is that:
Women, we can’t win.
They might pretend it’s about our appearance, but either way, we will be blamed and framed as liars. Our bodies will be used against us whether we are size 8 or size 22. It doesn’t matter whether we have long wavy locks or a short crop, it will be used. It doesn’t matter if we were running on a treadmill or we were in our wheelchair, it will be used against us.
This is misogyny. This is the reality of our courts.
This is why we can’t/won’t/don’t prosecute rape of women and girls.
Because no matter what he did, observers always find a way to blame the woman.
Ah look, another human shield used by Hamas just casually being kicked in the head by the most precise and benevolent military force in the world. They probably have his head fair warning to leave his body before the strike.
Israeli soldiers assault Palestinian journalist Mustafa Haruf in occupied al-Quds.
He was repeatedly kicked in the head and has now been hospitalised with serious injuries.