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[LadyIzdihar @LadyIzdihar]

From "This Soviet World"
by Anna Louise Strong. 1936.
Page 39

[Mohammed El-Kurd @m7mdkurd]

In light of the Israeli genocide in Gaza, the Green Party of England and Wales is set to vote on a motion declaring Zionism a form of racism—something that, in my opinion, is long overdue.

If the motion passes, it would make the Greens Britain’s first anti-Zionist party and the first to support a one-state solution.

There is no room for wishful or forgiving definitions of Zionism. Zionism is what Zionism does, and that is genocide and settler-colonialism. Members of the party should pass the Zionism is Racism motion without hesitation. And it is about time other parties, collectives, and institutions follow suit.

Zionism must be isolated and rooted out.

[A Left-Wing Account ™️ @PushDemsLeft]

"Centrist" Dems be like, "We should be brutalizing black and brown people overseas, not here!"

[Briahna Joy Gray @briebriejoy]

So, the Pentagon is failing its audits while receiving more money year after year and the answer is to “scrutinize it” but not defund it at all?

What are we doing here?

[A Left-Wing Account ™️ @PushDemsLeft]

If only Lebanon was as white, blond, and blue-eyed as Ukraine, then the West would be screaming "We Stand With Lebanon" and plastering their flag everywhere as we scrambled to send them billions of dollars in weapons while sanctioning and banning Israel in response.

[Briahna Joy Gray @briebriejoy]

This is such a weird take. No one forced Nixon to join DSA. Just don't join if you're not willing to identify as socialist.

It doesn't mean progressives can't support her. Hell, if CA DSA can recommend voters choose billionaire Tom Steyer they can def support Nixon, and even endorse and door knock for her if they want. But shouldn't identifying as a socialist be the basic ideological litmus test to be in DSA?

Again, what are we doing here? So odd that *actual* Socialist DSA member Kshama Sawant was berated by the online left for WANTING DSA support, but this is the posture around Nixon.

[☀️👀 @zei_squirrel]

@TheTNHoller @VanJones68 Norman Finkelstein described him perfectly: "Van Jones wears the yellow/blue Zionist pin to advertise he's their slave. When Van Jones goes on Bill Maher and says dead Gazan babies, he knows his masters are not laughing with him, they're laughing at him: He's our slave."

[Briahna Joy Gray @briebriejoy]

The Venn diagram of Platner-leftists and “Woke 1 was crazy” defenders is a circle.

Nazi tattoos: forgivable
Decarceration: not in my DSA!

[susan abulhawa | سوزان ابو الهوى @susanabulhawa]

Justice prevailed today.
Congratulations to Palestine Action warriors.
You are the best of humanity in this hour of genocide.

[The Kavernacle @TheKavernacle]

Doing my Novara media vid tomorrow - anything people want me to cover link me vids/clips. I'm mostly sorted though - i watched way too much today and the three main hosts really stand for nothing imo. Supporting social media bans was a fun one I just found out lol

[susan abulhawa | سوزان ابو الهوى @susanabulhawa]

TRANSLATION: we are attacking our neighbors first, we're stealing their land, we're colonizing it, and we're destroying the native populations there. It's who we are. It's what colonizers do, because violent colonizers will never be welcomed and we just have to keep killing our way through the world because we're God's chosen. God loves us more.

[☀️👀 @zei_squirrel]

the Israeli regime targeted, shot and killed journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, then released doctored videos claiming she was killed by "Palestinian terrorists", then months later admitted they intentionally killed her but let off her killers after a fake "investigation". Same playbook they're using now for Hind Rajab.

[Briahna Joy Gray @briebriejoy]

What can you even say?

[Briahna Joy Gray @briebriejoy]

Should we fund state-backed extra-judicial murder, or defund it?

[The Kavernacle @TheKavernacle]

Defund the DSA !

[susan abulhawa | سوزان ابو الهوى @susanabulhawa]

All you can do is bear witness, then that’s something. Watch this film, and remember what Israel did.

[susan abulhawa | سوزان ابو الهوى @susanabulhawa]

features of indigeneity:

1) ancestral connection—actual familial ancestry, in one's direct lineage, that had lived and died (and/or continue to live) in the land. All Palestinians have can prove such familial ties, whether in historic records, cemeteries, or forensic evidence. NOT RELEVANT TO 99% OF JEWISH ISRAELIS

2) cultural relevance—culinary, sartorial, architectural, literary or artistic heritage continuously connected to the land. Palestinian cuisine is similar to surrounding societies and has its own distinct flavors based on local wild herbs and plants; the traditions of their clothing is centuries old and directly tied to the land and topography; all the old homes that exist in that land now were built by Palestinians. In fact, Israeli real estate agents like to advertise "old Arab home" for added value; our folklore, songs, and dance traditions are centuries old and all of them connect to the land. NOT RELEVANT TO 99% OF JEWISH ISRAELIS

3) continuous habitation of a land over generations—Palestinians have lived in the land for millennia. Israelis like to say that they're "returning after 3000 years". This fairytale claim is absurd, but it does not negate the fact that Palestinians never left. We are the the descendants, according to DNA studies, who lived and were buried in the land during the Canaanite times, and also during the brief reign of Hebrew tribes. NOT RELEVANT TO 99% OF JEWISH ISRAELIS

4) living communion with the land—understanding the flora, fauna, and wildlife and having a symbiotic relationship with them. Palestinians have seasonal foraging traditions and a spiritual relationship with fruiting trees, especially olive trees (which Israelis regularly cut down, uproot, and burn). We were a largely agrarian society that lived off the land, making the entire country self-sustaining and exporting food too. NOT RELEVANT TO 99% OF JEWISH ISRAELIS.

5) Intergenerational knowledge—passing down oral history and survival skills from elders to youth, including botanical knowledge, local lore, traditional medicine, ancient agricultural traditions, artisan skills (like glass blowing, tile-making, stone masonry). NOT RELEVANT TO 99% OF JEWISH ISRAELIS.

6) naming traditions—the naming of places, plants, rivers, villages, and people are never random and always connected to stories forged over thousands of years of habitation. NOT RELEVANT TO 99% OF JEWISH ISRAELIS (many of whom changed their names to sound native).

7) self governance—Using traditional laws and leadership structures. Every Palestinian town had a Mukhtar and a counsel of elders who settled disputes and managed people's affairs. NOT RELEVANT TO 99% OF JEWISH ISRAELIS.

If you just stop and think for a moment, engage critical thinking skills, you will see that the story sold to the world by this European Jewish colonial movement is an absurd, logic-defying fairytale.

[susan abulhawa | سوزان ابو الهوى @susanabulhawa]

Another archival masterpiece. The researchers, archivists, technologists, writers, and activists quietly doing this important work are heroes.

[The Kavernacle @TheKavernacle]

The Graham Platner Left is still a thing apparently - remember when they all deleted their tweets endorsing him lol

[Briahna Joy Gray @briebriejoy]

If this *isn't* what happened, AOC could submit to an interview to explain her reasoning. She and Zohran could explain what *new information* caused them to "evolve" on policing, and why the public should have any confidence they won't "evolve" on Palestine now that Tisch & Pelosi are their confidants.

But they avoid any left media that won't give them the tongue bath treatment, and corporate media is already pro cop and Zionist, so here we are. Failure of the fourth estate and Democracy itself.