people still ask “why do Palestinians resist?”
Because occupation breeds resistance. No one wakes up and chooses armed struggle, it’s created by checkpoints, bombs, prisons, dead families and stolen lives.
Journalist Anas al-Sharif won’t be around to announce the ceasefire as he did the last time,
because Israel assassinated him along with more than 260 other journalists.
Israel is still very much bombing Gaza. Civil defense reports that 40 Palestinians are either killed or under the rubble after an Israeli shelling of a residential building in Gaza city.
.@ZohranKMamdani I have told you this on the phone, in person, and I will reiterate it publicly: what you think of the phrase “globalize the intifada”—our beautiful uprising against occupation—is irrelevant, what matters is that it’s a slogan adopted by a movement that is partly responsible for your success and you mustn’t throw them under the bus. We are facing unprecedented levels of state-repression and institutional censorship, both our political organizing and speech are criminalized, and we are confronting genocide for God’s sake. That you choose to continue elevating Jewish feelings over the lives of Palestinians, over the fact of genocide, is nothing more than punching down on those who have helped elevate you, and not to mention, it is a bad electoral strategy considering you are quite literally winning and need not to bow down to Zionist pressure. The tens of thousands of volunteers who have canvassed for you in the scorching hot sun, they are not to be taken for granted. Their support isn’t unconditional. Remember that.
You know, the killing is so relentless that you almost get used to it. A classroom of children killed every single day. You write about it, you read about it. Someone’s mother digs herself up from the rubble. Someone’s father is split in half. There was a video of wounded man using his arms to crawl across the road. Another man is so hungry he weeps. You read the stories. Each one is more brutal than the next and somehow the brutality is banal. You are numb, for better or for worse. But there are moments in the day, maybe just a singular moment, when you actually contend with the magnitude of the tragedy, when you are able to quantify the loss and in those moments you feel crushed—there are no adjectives. There are people mourning their lovers. Students missing their teachers. Orphans. Widowers. Grandmothers who look just like your own. I cry when I think about the people who were martyred just hours before they could apologize for something, or confess to something, or have something to eat. Or the slain who believed they would survive. And as the rancid rotten people of the world pontificate and debate the definition of genocide, you are at war with yourself, trying desperately to ignore the material meaning of the word. You read the news and you read the news and it is so hard to accept that the dead, the thousands of people they are slaughtering, they are your loved ones and your loved ones’ loved ones. This isn’t just a bad dream.
This shouldn't be dubbed as anything other than chemical warfare. Soiling humanitarian aid with a bioactive substance that has caused close to a million documented fatalities is another surefire way to expedite the extermination blitz.
Israel is secretly poisoning Gaza’s starving civilians by hiding deadly oxycodone drugs in flour bags.
This is not just cruelty.
This is chemical warfare — disguised as ‘humanitarian aid’.
In a barbaric display of sadism, Israelis film themselves having a barbecue and eating delicious food not far from the Gaza border, where nearly 2.4 million Palestinians are being starved to death.
"They had been executed while bound."
A chilling testimony from Mohammed Safi, a member of the Civil Defense team, who discovered the bodies of 15 Red Crescent in Rafah after they were executed in cold blood by the Israeli army.
No I don’t. Obama reduced Libya from the country with the highest living standard in Africa into a war-torned state, and dropped so many bombs on Syria that the US ran out of bombs. He destroyed entire nations across the Global South but is praised because our lives don’t matter.