I’m NOT excited and I’m NOT thrilled. I’m honestly scared to share this, but I’m not a coward. I have to show you what you helped us create.
None of this would have been possible without your help, and we can’t finish it without your support
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I sat down with @briebriejoy to expand on the video post I made a few days ago and to answer questions regarding the specific posts I've made that offend the sensibilities of some.
This will be the only further commentary I'm going to make on this matter. I wasn't going to talk about it beyond my post, but as there were still unanswered questions, I thought perhaps this could help clarify my position, because there still seems to be a gap in the way people understand the ways in which power and powerless can give the same words different weight and even different meaning.
Also, because Briahna Joy Gray is one of my favorite podcasters.
It is not structurally possible for any Palestinian to be antisemitic. Antisemitism is white supremacist, European, and eugenicist in its origins. It is not enacted by those who are suffering genocide at the hands of that same western system.
"The sniper who shot my friend Jihan's 3 year old daughter Noor, shattering her tiny legs while she was in her mother's arms in Gaza, is a hateful, racist ghoul -- I understand that's one of the things I've been criticized for saying. And I double up on it, frankly. But the rage, the disgust even hatred that Jihan or I feel toward that sniper is not racism. It is not anti-Jewishness. It is not anti semitism. Nor are her feelings toward the tank operator who blew out the back of her son Arhab's head, making her fingers sink into his brains when she tried to pick him up. Our feelings or words in response to 78 years of this barbaric, colonial violence are not 'reprehensible.' They are not antisemitic. And they are not anti Jewish. In fact, despite everything they have done to us -- despite the fact that the overwhelming majority of Jews both inside & outside of Israel support this zionist carnage & domination -- we still have the tender human sense to recognize those Jews, however a minority they may be, who do not support Israel. And to embrace the far smaller minority who are anti zionist, in fact."
I've just been chatting with Nick Cullinan, the excellent new director of the British Museum, and I'm very relieved to say that the story put by the Daily Telegraph about the BM cancelling the name Palestine is a complete misrepresentation of the facts:
"To reassure you we are not removing mention from Palestine from our labels," Nick told me. "Indeed, we have a display on at the moment about Palestine and Gaza.
"I know this is something our curators have thought long and hard about - as you can imagine. We amended two panels in our ancient Levant gallery last year during a regular gallery refresh, when some wording was amended to reflect historical terms.
"To be honest, the even more frustrating and concerning thing is that I knew nothing about this until yesterday and has only been explained to me this morning. I hadn’t even seen that [UK Lawyers for Israel] letter despite asking for it until this morning. I’m disgusted by the whole thing."
The question remains why the Daily Telegraph would put out such a mischief-making story without first fact checking it with the Directors office.
Since Sept '24, an autonomous group of New Yorkers has organized to push IOF drone manufacturer Easy Aerial out of Brooklyn Navy Yard.
Today it was announced that EA's lease will not be renewed. WHEN WE FIGHT, WE WIN!
Not sure the magnitude of this is fully understood: Israel has wiped out 2,700 families in Gaza, leaving 6,000+ people as the sole survivors of entire bloodlines. This is the result of deliberate policy, pursued with full knowledge of its effects. This is not war. It is genocide.
Begging you not to let Wael’s story get lost amidst all the horrors.
He was a 30 year old disabled man. His dad was his full time caregiver.
ICE took him away.
Wael said it would kill him. He said the fear was “real & immediate”.
He died last week. ICE killed Wael.
A judge has unsealed the memo ordering the detention & deportation of Rümeysa Öztürk. It confirms the sole evidence against her was that she co-wrote an op-ed the government disliked.
Here she is being arrested by men in plainclothes. Over an op-ed.