Caram Kapp

…is a Berlin- based independent documentarist. Draws Aubergines. Hacked Homeland at some point. Rantings on #caramblogage. All mistakes (here) my own. DMs off.

[Caram Kapp @dot_seekay]

Everyone I know is trying to survive, make sense, stay sane. Everyone is afraid of what might come, what is, what they see.

Even the most timid are saying "we have to do something. We need to keep together and resist this."

No-one agrees on what the "this" is.

[Caram Kapp @dot_seekay]

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[Fabio @FabioA]

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EU-Bürgerinnen und -Bürger fordern die Aussetzung des EU-Israel-Assoziierungsabkommens wegen Menschenrechtsverletzungen.

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[الكسندرا ميراي @LexiAIexander]

An EU official accidentally told the truth and now all hell is breaking loose

[Caram Kapp @dot_seekay]

They’re pretty desperate.

[James Jackson @derJamesJackson]

Scoop: Hertie School in Berlin has banned its students from showing maps of historic Palestine as "Anti-Semitism" at their graduation ceremony

[Yves Engler @EnglerYves]

FIFA rejected a jersey recognizing may be the greatest ever win for human liberation. It’s part of a long history of punishing Haiti for its important contribution to advancing equality.

International football federation FIFA recently decided that Haiti’s jersey for the World Cup violated its rules prohibiting political imagery. Named after the elite soldiers of the Haitian Revolution, the Grenadiers’ jersey featured a small image based on the Battle of Vertières, which was the culmination of a 13-year struggle for independence.

The 1791-1804 Haitian Revolution delivered a major blow to slavery, white supremacy and European colonial rule. “Arguably”, notes Peter Hallward, “there is no single event in the whole of modern history whose implications were more threatening to the dominant global order of things.”

Before the 1791 slave revolt the French colony of Saint Domingue was home to 450,000 people in bondage. At its peak in the 1750s the ‘Pearl of the Antilles’ provided as much as 50 per cent  of France’s GNP.

The African masses put a stop to that with a merciless struggle that overcame the most barbaric slave plantation system. The revolt rippled through the region and compelled the post-French Revolution government in Paris to abolish slavery in its Caribbean colonies.

Between 1791 and 1804 ‘Haitians’ would defeat tens of thousands of French, British and Spanish troops (‘Canada’ backed the British and Washington backed France financially), leading to the world’s first and only successful large-scale slave revolution. The first nation of free people in the Americas, Haiti established a slave-free state 27 years before human bondage was abolished in today’s Canada and 58 years before the USA’s emancipation proclamation (it wasn’t until after this proclamation ending slavery that the US recognized Haiti’s independence.)

The Haitian Revolution’s geopolitical effects were immense. It stimulated the Louisiana Purchase and London’s 1807 Act for the Abolition of the Slave Trade. The revolutionary state also provided important support to South American independence movements.

After winning their liberation from slavery and colonial rule in a war that killed half the population, Haitians were forced to pay their former slave masters an astronomical sum for their freedom. In a remarkable act of imperial humiliation, two decades after independence Haiti began paying France a huge indemnity for lost property, which was the now free Haitians. Under threat of invasion and the restoration of slavery, Francophile Haitian president Jean-Pierre Boyer agreed to pay French slaveholders 150 million francs. It took Haiti 122 years to pay the ransom.

In the lead-up to the 200-year anniversary of the Battle of Vertière and country’s independence, the Haitian government instigated a commission to estimate the cost of the ransom, which they put conservatively at $21 billion. The Jean-Bertrand Aristide government called for its restitution and instigated legal proceedings to force Paris to pay. The demand was part of why France (along with Canada and the US) helped overthrow Aristide in 2004 and the coup government dropped the issue.

A country born in the only ever successful large scale slave revolt should be allowed to mark a struggle that greatly advanced human equality on its football jersey. FIFA demanding the Grenadiers expunge its commemoration of the Battle of Vertières is odious.

Let’s hope the Haitian team responds with a successful tournament.

[Fabio @FabioA]

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[Bashar Zapen @BasharZapen]

For months, Israel refused to let Habiba evacuate as her limbs withered away. She lost 3 limbs because of Israel.

Thousands of injured children and cancer patients are still refused treatment or evacuation by Israel.

Issuing mass death sentences without firing a single bullet.

[Caram Kapp @dot_seekay]

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[The Sameer Project @sameerproject]

What happens if donations to Gaza stopped? Listen to the responses of Palestinians in Gaza to this question.

Support now: https://t.co/6l9JFjWInX

During our water distributions, Hamza who is part of The Sameer Project asked people what would happen if donations stopped. “People will die,” people answered.

Mutual aid groups are as necessary as ever in Gaza. Without community kitchens and water distributions, people don’t have access to food and water. Your support to mutual aid groups in Gaza is crucial.

Help us continue our water distributions by donating to the Food & Water Campaign: https://t.co/6l9JFjWInX

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[Muhammad Shehada @muhammadshehad2]

For perspective, the average Gazan's income is currently $161 per capita PER YEAR after Israel's genocide

That is 0.0644% of the amount Saleh needed to keep his family alive

In other words, Israel has created conditions in Gaza calculated to make life impossible; aka genocide

[Caram Kapp @dot_seekay]

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“They destroy and we rebuild” - Palestinians in Gaza.

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Nothing and we mean nothing can kill the determination in Palestinians. Not the mass killing, not the mass destruction and not the suffocating siege. Hope is still seen in Gaza in different forms, every single day.

On international environment day, The Sameer Project planted olive trees with other groups in Beit Lahia. This area was known for its farming pre genocide so there’s large significance in planting in Beit Lahia.

The Sameer Project doesn’t provide aid to meet a quota or please a donor. We provide aid as a form of resistance, as a means to liberation.

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[Fabio @FabioA]

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[courtneybonneauimages @cbonneauimages]

🔴 According to the Lebanese Ministry of Health, the Israeli army has killed at least 17 people and wounded approximately 50 more in the city of Tyre. This morning, the Israeli army again sent a forced displacement order for the entire city, this time including the Christian quarter, which had not been previously included in displacement orders.

Currently they are bombing all over the city. I just received a report that the densely populated al Buss refugee camp was bombed so the casualty toll from today is sure to rise.

[Caram Kapp @dot_seekay]

Sperm is antisemitic now.

[Muhammad Shehada @muhammadshehad2]

🚨Israel's genocide is increasing male infertility in Gaza to unprecedented levels

Israel's contamination of Gaza's soil, air & water with formidable amounts of gunpowder & noxious gases; destruction of basic infrastructure; flooding of Gaza with expired cans of beans & tuna & pesticide-coated vegetables; prevention of any reconstruction; & restricting the removal of mountains of rubble & garbage are all now leading to a manufactured epidemic of male infertility.

Add to this, Israel bombed & destroyed Gaza's fertility centers & IVF clinics, killing more than 5,000 frozen embryos.

"Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group" is most flagrant act of genocide under the genocide convention

[Abubaker Abed @AbubakerAbedW]

Israel is repeating the same playbook of Gaza in Lebanon.

It did so in Gaza to lure people into areas for help and then bomb them which @MahaGaza first, and later I, reported on for the MEE and the Electronic Intifada.

They also used dogs barking sounds to force out people returning or staying in their homes in the displaced communities.

[Keine Stimme für Genozid @KStimmeGenozid]

Alle Teams sollten diese WM boykottieren.

- Iran darf sich nicht vorbereiten
- Somali-Schiri darf nicht einreisen
- Iraki-Spieler auch nicht
- Iraki-Spieler interniert
- Marokkanische Fans dürfen nicht einreisen (nachdem alles bezahlt)
- Usbekische Spieler durchsucht
- etc.

[Motasem A Dalloul @AbujomaaGaza]

🚨Israeli occupation navy have kidnapped THREE fishermen while fishing off the Gaza coast

[B.M. @ireallyhateu2]

A year ago, Halima saw her entire family being massacred by the Israel Genocide Forces in front of her eyes. She herself was left injured. This is the "bathroom" she is forced to use now. Please help her raise $700 for a proper outdoor bathroom. She deserves so much more.

[Caram Kapp @dot_seekay]

Ceasefire is mythic.

[Bedazzling Bearer of Bad News @PixieOfDeath]

I have no more commentary on this. Israel is burning up the West Bank. That's all.
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[Caram Kapp @dot_seekay]

Please give Jehad and his family a hand 🙏

[JEHAD | جهہ‏‏آد🇵🇸 @HosamMoomen]

💔 Are we just numbers now?

My pregnant wife is suffering from malnutrition, and our unborn baby is at risk.

We urgently need $400 for treatment before it's too late.

Donate, share, or quote. Help us save our baby.

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[Quds News Network @QudsNen]

A statue of Handala is inaugurated in Ireland in solidarity with Palestine.