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[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

“Why aren’t more artists speaking out about Gaza?”

This is why. The rich and powerful will torch your whole career if you utter any criticism of the state of Israel.

[Friendly Neighborhood Comrade @SpiritofLenin]

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[Nick Mullen @nycguidovoice]

I support Hamas and I will never go back to my home country of Aruba right on the beach @WhiteHouse

[Mohammed El-Kurd @m7mdkurd]

“Shalom”

[Existential Comics (find me on bluesky) @existentialcoms]

Not sure I've ever seen a more obvious picture to remind us that police exist to protect the property of the ruling class, not the rights of the people.

[Tyler Levitan @LevitanTyler]

To be a Zionist, in the simplest terms, is to believe that a Palestinian born in Haifa 77 years ago with a long lineage there can NEVER return, but a Jew w/ a biblical claim from thousands of years ago — or a convert to Judaism — gets automatic citizenship. Plainly racist & dumb.

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

Zionism is destroying human rights throughout the western world.

[Sana Saeed @SanaSaeed]

He was a permanent resident with protected constitutional rights. The Columbia Jewish Alumni Association wants students exercising their free speech out of this country. Specifically Arab Muslim students - Palestinians. Racist, rancid org & anyone associated should be ashamed.

[Ryan Grim @ryangrim]

Anyone who objects to the perfectly reasonable decision to cut off electricity to 1.7 million people will have their immigration status investigated and will be detained at the will of the government. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

[Sana Saeed @SanaSaeed]

Six months ago today, Ayşenur Ezgi Eygi - an American woman from Washington state - was shot and killed by Israeli occupation forces while she was protesting against an illegal settlement in the Occupied West Bank.

Ayşenur was shot in the head.

She’s one of several U.S. citizens killed by Israeli forces in recent years who received no support from their government while their killers, armed with U.S. weapons, received impunity.

[Sana Saeed @SanaSaeed]

New piece in Mondoweiss, in which I breakdown the media and liberal establishments’ politics of outrage over the very thing they supported in Gaza under Biden.

[Yousef Munayyer @YousefMunayyer]

The speed at which Israel went from "The Nakba never happened, it is a lie" to "Shut up or we will Nakba you again" to "Nakba here, Nakba there, Nakba, Nakba everywhere!" is pretty astonishing and, well, revealing.

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

Someone accused me of being "obsessed with Israel" yesterday and it just blew my mind. Civil rights are being destroyed throughout the west to defend a state that's committing genocide and ethnic cleansing with western backing, and we're not meant to talk about that state and the things it's doing? Huh?

I mean, do people think I like writing about this sleazy apartheid state all the time? Does it look like I enjoy it? Do you think it's been fun having to look at videos of children with their guts ripped out by western-supplied weapons and getting called a Nazi when I say it's wrong? Yeah man that shit's like crack to me. I'm obsessed with it.

I'm not "obsessed" with Israel. I hate writing about Israel. I wish I never had to think about it. Israel just happens to be the focal point of the worst things that are happening in the world right now, all with the backing of the western empire I live under. I can't just not talk about this; if I didn't I'd be a shitty person. This is obvious to anyone with a working mind and a healthy heart.

[Sana Saeed @SanaSaeed]

Amazing how we are to accept that a Jewish child born anywhere in the world has a right to citizenship on Palestinian land, because of mythical claims of ownership from thousands of years ago, but a Palestinian child born on that very same land needs to be removed.

[Sana Saeed @SanaSaeed]

Do you know what kind of a read of history you need to have in order to make and agree with the argument made here?

A brain dead one.

This whole article talks about Palestinians like they’re a pesky infestation that needs to be taken care of. Not surprising from the WSJ.

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

It's so obnoxious how Democrats are framing this ethnic cleansing plan as a push that emerged out of nowhere when Trump took office. Ethnic cleansing was ALWAYS the plan for the day after Gaza was demolished. I myself wrote about this constantly during the Biden administration, as did many others. That Israel was using October 7 as an excuse for another colonialist land grab was transparently obvious from the very beginning, and became more and more obvious as Israel systematically turned Gaza into an uninhabitable wasteland by deliberately destroying everything in it that's necessary for human life.

This all happened while Biden was president. Biden committed the murder, Trump's just the guy who showed up to help dispose of the body. It's just different parts of the same crime. You don't commit a murder without a plan to dispose of the body, and you can't dispose of a body without having first committed the murder. Democratic Party loyalists are pointing and shrieking at the mobster who's sinking the body in the river saying "Look! He killed that guy, all by himself!" as though we didn't all just watch the other mobster shoot the victim in the head.

[Michael Tracey @mtracey]

Trump just signed an Executive Order to combat "anti-Semitism." It builds upon his 2019 order mandating the so-called "IHRA" definition, which includes applying "double standards" to Israel. Violations could result in criminal prosecution of Americans, not just foreign nationals

[Ali Abunimah @AliAbunimah]

I’m free! I wrote this on the plane and I’m posting it just after landing at Istanbul. On Monday evening I was brought to Zurich airport in handcuffs, in a small metal cage inside a windowless prison van and led all the way to the plane by police. This is after three days and two nights in a Swiss prison cut off from communication with the outside world, in a cell 24 hours a day with one cell mate, not even permitted to contact my family. On Saturday in a police interview in the presence of my lawyer they accused me of “offending against Swiss law” without ever telling me what crime I had committed in Switzerland or listing any charges. As far as I know I have not been charged with any crime whatsoever and I was held in “administrative detention.” On Sunday morning, they took me from my cell for questioning by Swiss defense ministry intelligence agents without the presence of my lawyer, and they again refused to allow me to contact her or my family. I refused to talk to them without my lawyer and told them take me back to my cell. During my imprisonment I refused every meal and every cup of coffee or tea they offered me except the last meal, after I knew I would be going home. I accepted only water, which is the right of every human being. All of this was after I was abducted off the street around 1:30pm on Saturday while on my way to the Palestine teach-in by undercover agents, handcuffed, forced into an unmarked car and sped straight to the prison. My “crime”? Being a journalist who speaks up for Palestine and against Israel’s genocide and settler-colonial savagery and those who aid and abet it. I came to Switzerland at the invitation of Swiss citizens to talk about justice for Palestine, to talk about accountability for a genocide in which Switzerland too is complicit. But while I was hauled off to prison like a dangerous criminal before I even had a chance to say a word, the Israeli president Isaac Herzog, who declared at the start of the genocide that there are no civilians in Gaza, no innocents, received a red carpet welcome in Davos, a carpet soaked in the blood of the more than 47,000 known victims of the genocide and the thousands more still under the rubble, or who died of deliberately inflicted starvation and denial of medical care. And on this very day Netanyahu freely travels to Poland to make a mockery of the Auschwitz commemoration despite an outstanding ICC arrest warrant. That is the perverse, unjust world we live in. This ordeal lasted three days but that taste of prison was more than enough to leave me in even greater awe of the Palestinian heroes who endure months and years in the prisons of the genocidal oppressor. More than ever I know that the debt we owe them is one we can never repay and all of them must be free and they must remain our focus. The police gave me my phone back only at the gate of the plane so I’m only seeing now the extent of the overwhelming support and solidarity from all over the world. I’m deeply grateful to each and every person who stood up for me. I’m especially grateful to my lawyer Dina Raewel and her team, to our friends in Zurich who I learned afterwards demonstrated outside the prison, to my family and my colleagues at EI and so many others. I honestly had no idea what was happening outside that concrete room! Thank you from the bottom of my heart. I want to tell the whole story of what happened, perhaps in an @intifada livestream in the next day or two, because I think it’s important for people to know the depths to which their Western so-called “democracies” have sunk in the abject service of genocidal Zionism. Right now I’m glad to be on my way home. I’m looking forward to hugging my mom and dad, taking a shower and sleeping in my own bed. Journalism is not a crime! Speaking out for Palestine is not a crime! Standing against racist genocidal Zionism is not a crime! Say it with me:

From the River to the Sea Palestine Will Be Free! ❤️🇵🇸✌️

[Tiberius @tiberiusfiles]

This is a great example of how ignorance and prejudice combine to create a defence mechanism against truth.

Here’s how it works:

• A person is conditioned by society (family, community, propaganda, whatever) to be racist, in this case against Arabs/Muslims/Palestinians (can be any/all)

• A seemingly noble cause such as ‘protecting Jews from persecution’ provides cover for the racist to be emboldened — the racist can now laugh and cheer the mass slaughter of innocent Arab children and hide this evil behind terms such as ‘terrorist’ and ‘antisemitism’

• When presented with the reality of the evil they support, the racist will automatically assume it’s a lie, instead of confronting the reality of their situation, therefore a protective bubble of ignorance and prejudice has formed around the racist within which he can feel virtuous in his hatred

This type of person accounts for the vast majority of non-religious, non-Jewish supporters of Israel, imo.