Grad School Witch

PhD student. Woman of colour. Accidental mystic. Interpreter of energies. Disciple of nature, the erotic, the sublime & the mundane.

[Grad School Witch @gradschoolwitch]

I’m a WOC PhD student on the edge of finishing my dissertation in the next 6 months-but, due to COVID m, much of my support structures, side jobs and funding in general has fallen through. If you have the means, I’d really appreciate some help. PayPal: [email protected]

[Grad School Witch @gradschoolwitch]

@sakisavavi What does this mean here?

[Grad School Witch @gradschoolwitch]

Fuck @elonmusk

[Grad School Witch @gradschoolwitch]

“That mountain of child corpses is a much better representation of western culture than anything Mozart, da Vinci or Shakespeare ever produced.”

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

When Israeli president Isaac Herzog described the assault on Gaza as a war “to save Western civilization, to save the values of Western civilization,” he wasn’t really lying. He was telling the truth — just maybe not quite in the way that he meant it.

The demolition of Gaza is indeed being perpetrated in defense of western values, and is itself a perfect embodiment of western values. Not the western values they teach you about in school, but the hidden ones they don’t want you to look at. Not the attractive packaging with the advertising slogans on the label, but the product that’s actually inside the box.

For centuries western civilization has depended heavily on war, genocide, theft, colonialism and imperialism, which it has justified using narratives premised on religion, racism and ethnic supremacy — all of which we are seeing play out in the incineration of Gaza today.

What we are seeing in Gaza is a much better representation of what western civilization is really about than all the gibberish about freedom and democracy we learned about in school. A much better representation of western civilization than all the art and literature we’ve been proudly congratulating ourselves on over the centuries. A much better representation of western civilization than the love and compassion we like to pretend our Judeo-Christian values revolve around.

It’s been so surreal watching western rightists babbling about how savage and barbaric Muslim culture is amid the 2023 zombie resurrection of Bush-era Islamophobia, even while western civilization amasses a mountain of ten thousand child corpses.

That mountain of child corpses is a much better representation of western culture than anything Mozart, da Vinci or Shakespeare ever produced.

This is western civilization. This is what it looks like.

Western civilization, where Julian Assange awaits his final appeal in February against US extradition for journalism which exposed US war crimes.

Where we are fed a nonstop deluge of mass media propaganda to manufacture our consent for wars and aggression which have killed millions and displaced tens of millions in the 21st century alone.

Where we are kept distracted by vapid entertainment and artificial culture wars so we don’t think too hard about what this civilization is and who it is killing and maiming and starving and exploiting.

Where news cycles are dominated more by celebrity gossip and Donald Trump’s latest mouth farts than by the mass atrocities that are being actively facilitated by western governments.

Where liberals congratulate themselves for having progressive views on race and gender while the officials they elect help rip apart children’s bodies with military explosives.

Where Zionist Jews center themselves and their emotions because opposition to an active genocide makes them feel like they are being persecuted, and where Israel supporters who are not Jewish still kind of feel like they are being persecuted also.

Where a giant globe-spanning empire powered by militarism, imperialism, capitalism and authoritarianism devours human flesh with an insatiable appetite while we congratulate ourselves on how much better we are than nations like Iran or China.

These are western values. This is western civilization.

Ask somebody to tell you what their values are and they’ll give you a bunch of pleasant-sounding words about family and love and caring or whatever. Watch their actions to see what their actual values are and you’ll often get a very different story.

That’s us. That’s western civilization. We say we value freedom, justice, truth, peace and free expression, but our actions paint a very different picture. The real western values, the actual product inside the box underneath the attractive label, are the ones you see acted out in Gaza today.

[Rabbi David Mivasair🔥 @Mivasair]

I speak Hebrew. The translation on this clip is accurate.
This woman is deeply pathological.

[Tiberius @tiberiusfiles]

Every fucking word of this

[İyad el-Baghdadi | إياد البغدادي @iyad_elbaghdadi]

A pattern of colonial violence is to dehumanize natives until they lash out at you, and once they lash out, you use that to argue that they're subhumans anyway and deserve to be dehumanized. A pattern identified in the 1950s by Jewish French-Tunisian writer Albert Memmi

[KNEECAP @KNEECAPCEOL]

Tonight the flag of Palestine flew proudly on stage for our gig at a sold out Olympia Theatre.

Just outside it flew over Dublin City Hall.

Ireland stands with Palestine and against apartheid. 🇮🇪🤝🇵🇸

[Grad School Witch @gradschoolwitch]

Amen.

[Jana Lynne Umipig @jlcreator]

They will argue that to call for the end of the Colonial Occupation of Palestine means the genocide of Jewish Israelis. That is a misinterpretation-misguided by their own lack of imagining what it could look like to live in a world where power is shared and not wielded.

[Grad School Witch @gradschoolwitch]

@CZARINAnyc I love this so much

[trans judeo-bolshevik @transjewtalian]

thinking today of henry kissinger’s victims

3 million + vietnamese
2.5 million + cambodians
200,000+ laotians
3 million + bangladeshis
10,000+ indians
10,000+ pakistanis
15,000+ egyptians
3500+ syrians
6500+ cypriots
40,000+ chileans
30,000+ argentinians

[Ian Fraser @Ian_Fraser]

This is ridiculous.

Newly-elected rector of @univofstandrews faces calls to resign after accusing Israel of breaches of international humanitarian law in Gaza. Stella Maris also denounced Hamas’ hostage-taking and targeting of civilians as war crimes. Freedom of speech?

[jordan @JordanUhl]

First, your calls for a ceasefire led to a temporary pause, which allowed for humanitarian aid flow & hostage release.

Now, KEEP the pressure up to make the ceasefire permanent.

Flood Congressional inboxes & voicemails before they return from break: https://t.co/WqnKDiaCMp

[Grad School Witch @gradschoolwitch]

From the river to the sea, a single state for all and the dismantling of apartheid, forever, beyond Zionist supremacy. No room for any kind of ethnonationalism

[Male Loneliness Epidemiologist @girlinrobot]

As an alumni of St Andrews Stella Maris has my full support. To accurately describe the actions of Israel is not antisemitic. And it is a serious threat to academic freedom to suggest she should resign over these comments
https://t.co/bXENa0gJUW

[🍉Russell Khater🍉 @ruskhat]

Solidarity with Stella Maris at St Andrews University for recognizing Israel's genocidal policies against native Palestinians and being censored by dismissal for it.

[Prof. Mario I Aguilar @MarioIAguilar]

My support to Stella Maris, rector of the University of St Andrews.

[Vindhya Buthpitiya @vindib_]

the rector, Stella Maris, an alumna of the University of St Andrews has showed nothing but courage, conviction and care and has not done anything more than call for a ceasefire just as the Scottish government has done - she represents the best of us https://t.co/U0iCWvkTZj

[Séamus Malekafzali @Seamus_Malek]

There is condemnation, but notice how Jeffries de-contextualizes this and places it firmly within identity politics. The violence is informed here by a vague racism, not an atmosphere that Jeffries helped to create by backing Israel's genocide in Gaza.https://t.co/Em9notqljx

[Séamus Malekafzali @Seamus_Malek]

Mind-boggling to me how supporters of Israel were spreading around this interview as somehow indicative of the IDF's resolve, bravery, and superiority when it was actually incredibly incriminating.