jack’s trivial pursuit

librarian & wastrel. he/him.

[Ahmed Eldin @aseisfree]

My old account, which I created in 2007, when Twitter first launched, has been permanently deleted. Trying to recover it, since it was not meant to be deleted, but till then, find me here: @aseisfree

[Rabbi David Mivasair @RabbiMivasair]

Don’t like people wearing watermelon pins at your shitty medical conference?

Don’t care.

“From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free” makes you feel scared?

Don’t care.

Seeing Palestinian flags on university campuses upsets you?

Don’t care.

A student calling Israel an apartheid state hurts your little feelings?

Don’t care.

A doctor speaking publicly about Palestinian children being massacred feels “divisive” to you?

Fuck you.

People refusing to condemn Palestinian resistance makes you uneasy?

Don’t care.

Hearing the word “genocide” feels inflammatory to you?

Don’t care.

A keffiyeh in a workplace gives you a panic attack?

Don’t care.

“Globalise the intifada” sounds genocidal to you?

Don’t care.

People interrupting politicians feels disrespectful to you?

Don’t care.

You no longer being able to monopolise victimhood makes you angry?

Truly could not care less.

What I care about are the Palestinian children being burned alive.

The doctors being tortured.

The families erased under rubble.

The starvation.

The concentration camps.

The destruction of Gaza’s hospitals and universities and refugee camps and entire civilian infrastructure.

But for the nearly last 1,000 days and decades prior, Western institutions have demanded everyone stop and carefully tend to Jewish emotional discomfort instead.

Not Palestinian lives.

Not Palestinian suffering.

Not Palestinian speech.

Zionist discomfort.

Zionist fragility.

Zionist political sensitivity—elevated, enforced, and institutionalised across universities, hospitals, media outlets, professional associations, politicians, donors, and advocacy groups.

All working in sync to transform Zionist discomfort into institutional emergency.

While Palestinian suffering is rendered invisible.

While Palestinian speech is disciplined.

While Palestinian humanity is treated as negotiable.

That is the function of the Jewish Feelings Industrial Complex.

Not safety.

Not care.

Not protection.

Institutionalised Zionist emotional management at scale.

Fuck every single institution that constantly weaponizes “Jewish safety,” “Jewish discomfort,” and “Jewish feelings” to justify censorship, repression, career destruction, anti-Palestinian racism, and silence in the face of mass atrocity.

If a watermelon pin destabilises you more than the annihilation of Gaza, the problem is not the watermelon pin.

The problem is you.

-- from "The Anti-Zionist" https://t.co/38l41J9sY8

[The Cradle @TheCradleMedia]

BREAKING | Israeli forces have detonated the historic Shamaa Castle and the shrine of Shamoun al-Safa (St. Peter) in south Lebanon, destroying the UNESCO-protected sites alongside an airstrike on Froun. This follows local reports of multiple deaths in Haboush within the last hour.

[Pastor Ben @BenjaminPDixon]

We asked them to not support genocide

and they acted like we were unreasonable.

[Arkan Almasri 🇵🇸 @AlmasriHaifa]

We are the next generation of doctors in Gaza — displaced, determined, and still fighting to learn, to heal, to live.💙🥹

[Committee to Protect Journalists @pressfreedom]

CPJ calls on Kuwaiti authorities to immediately and unconditionally release Kuwaiti-American journalist Ahmed Shihab-Eldin, detained under new security and fake news laws.

Read more: https://t.co/H1qBu1OCFg

#FreeAhmed #FreeAhmedEldin

[Craig Mokhiber @CraigMokhiber]

The detention in Kuwait of award-winning Palestinian-American and Kuwaiti journalist Ahmed Shihab-Eldin, simply for reporting on an incident in the US-Israel aggression on Iran, is a shameful attack on press freedom, an act of arbitrary detention, and a gross violation of Kuwait’s obligations under the ICCPR. Ahmed must be freed, and the Kuwaiti government must finally commit to human rights at home and in its foreign policy. #FreeAhmedEldin #FreeAhmed

[jeremy scahill @jeremyscahill]

🚨 Prominent Journalist Ahmed Shihab-Eldin Has Been in Jail for Six Weeks in Kuwait, Faces Trial in Special Tribunal

https://t.co/6u8QeUpMUU

[jasper nathaniel @infinite_jaz]

Hasbara is going into overdrive trying to create distance between the Israeli government and the violent settlers rampaging across the West Bank. But there is no daylight between them. None.

[Assal Rad @AssalRad]

The people who did this want you to know international law and civilian life must be protected.

[Tom Woods @ThomasEWoods]

Boomers in 2030: ok, you were right about Iraq and Iran, and frankly everything in between, but this war with Turkey is really necessary

[Jenni @hashjenni]

So let me get this straight: Iran blocking the Strait of Hormuz is ,unfair’ but blocking oil shipments to Cuba in order to collapse their whole country is what? Fair?

[Mohammad @MargBarAmerica]

israel and america do 9/11’s in lebanon and iran every day and it feels like the world barely cares

[Omar Sakr @omarsakrpoet]

They gang-raped a Palestinian so brutally he was hospitalised. They did it on camera. When footage leaked, and the rapists were arrested, Israelis rioted to protect them. They said they had the right to rape. The Israeli lawyer who leaked the footage was arrested. This is Israel.

[JOKAMRREDPILLZ @JOKAQARMY1]

👀 🤔

[Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @NYCMayor]

Frederick Wiseman changed the way we see the world.

From the classrooms of High School to the corridors of Hospital, he turned his camera on the institutions that shape us — inviting us to look closer, sit longer & confront truth with empathy. 

May his memory be a blessing.

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

Who believed that "if they only released the hostages"? Who believed in the ceasefire?
After killing 500+ people in about 3 months, Israel- armed and supported by the US - continues its genocide in Gaza undisturbed.
Don't let it become the new normal. Stand up against genocide!

[Blue @BlueBadger2600]

Positions ICE has taken:

- We can enter your home without a warrant
- You must carry your papers at all times
- But we can ignore them and only our scanner matters
- We can detain you anywhere, no matter your age, situation or status
- Indefinitely with no access to a lawyer
- And basically no right to a day in court
- We can send you to a third world prison if we choose
- But we can’t bring you back if we made a mistake
- And if you interfere with any of this we can shoot you because you are a terrorist

How is this not a recipe for totalitarianism?

[david ehrlich @davidehrlich]

unambiguous gestapo shit. Our tax dollars paying for cowardly racist thugs to terrorize American streets with impunity. Anyone who says otherwise is complicit.

[Adam Johnson @adamjohnsonCHI]

I would simply like my country to stop starving and killing people. And I would like US liberals to stop aiding this regime of violence by constantly propping up its moral logic and acting as if there’s some “human rights” or “democratic” “international order” the US is defending