You interviewed Satrapi in and around Sept. 2024. She literally blamed the region's problems all on Iran and couldn't mention the genocide nor the entity once. I'll let Satrapi speak for herself. Clip from the interview.
this is a great object lesson: it conflates a territorial identification in the first case with a blood/race/ethnic identification in the second
the entire Zionist project, like other blood & soil ideologies before it, is to create racial exclusivity & enforce racial supremacy
Marjane Satrapi was a genocidal Zionist racist Islamophobe, and no matter how many times you post that interview excerpt from 20 years ago or that one still from that shitty propaganda trash Persepolis, she was an unrepentant imperialist Zionist scumbag. Here she is last year:
Si vous n’avez pas vu passer, les albanais se révoltent depuis 4 nuits contre la vente de terres de réserve naturelle par leur gouvernement à la famille Trump pour en faire un lieu privé touristique
Ils ont mis feu à la maison de leur président
Zionists didn’t come to Palestine as immigrants and become part of the multi-faith communities living there; instead they came as conquerors and colonizers and have been at war since their arrival because of this. Zionism was and remains explicitly a colonial project.
The incredibly wealthy love to do this weird "I don't actually have any liquid cash" thing as if that's how wealth works. Money is a thing normal people like you and me and worry about. Rich people have *assets* and debt. They live off loans leveraged against what they own.
Στην Αλβανία μόλις μας έβαλαν τα γυαλιά! Η εκεί εισαγγελία κατά της διαφθοράς (SPAK) πάγωσε τους τραπεζικούς λογαριασμούς της εταιρείας του Κούσνερ, αποδέκτη του ξεπουλήματος του νησιού Σαζάν και της απέναντι λιμνοθάλασας από τον Ράμα...
Person who has an elevator that goes directly into the living room of their NYC apartment:
Israel must exist as an ethnostate because nowhere is safe for me i am a uniquely oppressed person
Barak Ravid has made a whole career out of these articles telling Americans they don't need to worry about the latest horrifying war because the president is taking care of it. Some Ravid headlines from the Biden administration:
Biden “running out” of patience with Bibi as Gaza war hits 100 days
Scoop: Biden in “frustrating” call told Bibi to solve Palestinian tax revenue issue
Biden’s ultimatum to Bibi: Change Gaza policy or we will
White House temperature is “very high” ahead of Biden-Bibi call
“We won’t support you”: Inside Biden’s ultimatum to Bibi
Israel and U.S. deeply divided in meeting on key Rafah operation issues
Biden and Bibi “red lines” for Rafah put them on a collision course
Biden-Bibi clash escalates as U.S. accused of undermining Israeli government
Biden and Netanyahu hold first call in a month amid public split
Biden breaks with Netanyahu but sticks with Israel
Biden on hot mic: Told Bibi we needed “come to Jesus” meeting on Gaza
Biden, in rare criticism, warns Netanyahu that Israel risks losing global support
Biden, in rare criticism of Bibi, says pause in Gaza fighting should have come sooner
Scoop: Blinken warns Israeli officials global pressure will grow longer war goes on
Israeli minister lambasted at White House about Gaza and war strategy
Scoop: Biden tells Bibi he’s not in it for a year of war in Gaza
Blinken unloads on Bibi: “You need a coherent plan” or face disaster in Gaza
Scoop: White House cancels meeting, scolds Netanyahu in protest over video
Netanyahu irked by “critical” Harris comments
This is extremely shameful.
🇦🇺Australian filmmaker Juliet said:
"I was raped by an Israeli soldier inside a darkened shipping container while handcuffed and shackled on a Gaza aid flotilla.
They also used water torture and beatings."
The matter is even more shameful when the whole world is silent and toothless on this 😭
In July 2025, Labour govt gave ‘special mission’ immunity to head of Israeli Air Force force—and key architect of Gaza genocide—so he could visit UK
Same govt just banned journos Hasan Piker and Cenk Uygur from UK for criticising same genocide
Labour is a genocidal institution
I saw the film Palestine 36 last night, while in Beirut. It portrays how the British kept handing Palestinian land to Zionist settlers, and how indigenous rural Palestinians organised armed resistance to fight back.
Two things. First, 'israel' clearly learned their brutal tactics for oppressing Palestinians from the British. Rounding up men, executing them, blowing up whole villages, setting fire to crops etc. etc. It is demonic that these same tactics are still being inflicted on Palestinians and Lebanese villages right now, and the world abandons them.
Second, why can't we humanise Palestinian resistance fighters now? The film heroised the men who took up arms. It is a disgrace that so few are willing to stand up for, defend, or humanise the men who are taking up arms against the occupation now. Maybe they will make films about them in 100 years when there is nothing riding on it.
What I hear in this is an inability to imagine Palestinians outside of their relationship to Jews. They are not allowed independent political subjecthood. They are perpetually discussed in relation to someone else.