If you have ever wondered what colonization was like—the violence, the dispossession, the massacres, the genocide, the displacement, the famine, the dehumanization, the racism—you are watching it in real time. It is among the most depraved of all possible acts.
Motaz is right. How "free" are we in the west if we are telling our gov'ts to stop this assault on Gazans and they aren't listening? Also, not saying "no" to Isr@el is a damning condemnation abt who the world values and who it doesn't.
we’re really seeing the culmination of years of people seeing the holocaust as a generic stand in for “the worst thing ever” rather than a series of decisions made by people with agency, infinitely replicable