If this is the area I think it is, these trees are, at minimum, 500-1000 years old. The oldest is al Badawi, est. 5,000 years old. The Garden of Gethsemane olive trees are ~3000 years old, and these are their descendants. Colonialism’s erasure of history is ecological too
Cori Bush defiant in defeat: "All they did was radicalize me, so now they need to be afraid."
"They about to see this other Cori, this other side," she said. "AIPAC, I'm coming to tear your kingdom down."
Sonya Massey was shot in the head by a police officer who didn’t have on his body camera. The family was told she killed herself and then told someone else killed her. The only way we knew what actually happened is his partner had on his body camera.
Read that again.
Americans need to see this so they can understand that Israel isn’t “fighting for its life,” Gaza’s destruction isn’t an “unavoidable consequence of urban warfare,” but that Israel is systematically wiping a city of two million people off the face of the earth block by block.
destroying the environment so that computers can pretend to know about nature it’s so comically dystopian if you read it in a book you’d call it too on the nose
This wasn’t a haphazard protest blocking a place of worship, there was a sale of Palestinian land being held here.
Note on the other hand: Biden has not said anything about news of a Texas woman attacking a Palestinian mother and trying to drown her two kids.
BREAKING: In a landmark victory for human rights, a US jury just found @Chiquita guilty of funding death squads in Colombia that were killing people near the company's banana farms.
First time US courts hold major corporation accountable for human rts abuses abroad.👊🙏
>tried to bait the employee
>gets arrested for asking if they have warrant
>isn’t read his rights at all
You think you hate cops, but you don’t hate them enough.
This is beyond words.
The US ‘humanitarian pier’ was used to massacre hundreds of Palestinians, many of them children.
This is how despicable the US is — they disguise war crimes as humanitarian aid to a starving population, then murder them.
Yes, I openly call Israel a Nazi genocidal state, as do most Jewish friends I know. You can tag as many accounts as you want. The truth doesn’t change.
I will always stand up for the rights of ALL humans - Palestinians & Jews alike.
30-50% of ppl subjected to police brutality are disabled. 33-50% of ppl murdered by police are disabled. disabled ppl only make up around 20% of the population yet are the most likely to die at the hands of police. acab. burn the system down. u cannot reform this.
Nothing to see here, just an annual event to mark a decades-long illegal occupation where Israelis chant “death to Arabs.”
This clip of them doing the same thing is from 2021.
Paulo Freire: "With the establishment of a relationship of oppression, violence has already begun. Never in history has violence been initiated by the oppressed. How could they be the initiators when they themselves are the result of violence?"