The fact that Jewish support for Palestine is so huge just goes to show that what's happening in Gaza isn't about religion. you don't need to be Muslim to support Palestine, you just need to be human. #CeaseFireNOW
This is disingenuous.
If you’re serious about humanitarian aid getting to the people of Gaza @JustinTrudeau, you will join the growing worldwide call for a humanitarian #CeasefireNow.
How can you say Hamas is the only party to blame, that killing civilians is innately bad regardless of circumstance, then turn around and say “Israel’s hands are tied. They have to do what they have to do.”
This is what genocide looks like. These are the 2913 Palestinian children killed by the Israeli military this month, as of Thursday, October 26. As the Israeli airstrikes on Gaza intensify, we recognize with horror and grief that this death toll is already inaccurate.
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the sheer dystopia that is needing to go about ur business, go to school, go to work, all while one of the most documented genocides of our lifetimes is occurring
Cutting off all communication to a population of 2.2 million is unacceptable. Journalists, medical professionals, humanitarian efforts, and innocents are all endangered.
I do not know how such an act can be defended. The United States has historically denounced this practice.
"I’m personally a Holocaust survivor as an infant, I barely survived. My grandparents were killed in Aushwitz and most of my extended family were killed. I became a Zionist; this dream of the Jewish people resurrected in their historical homeland and the barbed wire of Aushwitz being replaced by the boundaries of a Jewish state with a powerful army…and then I found out that it wasn’t exactly like that, that in order to make this Jewish dream a reality we had to visit a nightmare on the local population.
There’s no way you could have ever created a Jewish state without oppressing and expelling the local population. Jewish Israeli historians have shown without a doubt that the expulsion of Palestinians was persistent, pervasive, cruel, murderous and with deliberate intent - that’s what’s called the 'Nakba' in Arabic; the 'disaster' or the 'catastrophe'. There’s a law that you cannot deny the Holocaust, but in Israel you’re not allowed to mention the Nakba, even though it’s at the very basis of the foundation of Israel.
I visited the Occupied Territories (West Bank) during the first intifada. I cried every day for two weeks at what I saw; the brutality of the occupation, the petty harassment, the murderousness of it, the cutting down of Palestinian olive groves, the denial of water rights, the humiliations...and this went on, and now it’s much worse than it was then.
It’s the longest ethnic cleansing operation in the 20th and 21st century. I could land in Tel Aviv tomorrow and demand citizenship but my Palestinian friend in Vancouver, who was born in Jerusalem, can’t even visit!
So then you have these miserable people packed into this, horrible…people call it an 'outdoor prison', which is what it is. You don’t have to support Hamas policies to stand up for Palestinian rights, that’s a complete falsity. You think the worse thing you can say about Hamas, multiply it by a thousand times, and it still will not meet the Israeli repression and killing and dispossession of Palestinians.
And 'anybody who criticises Israel is an anti-Semite' is simply an egregious attempt to intimidate good non-Jews who are willing to stand up for what is true."
Art is a voice. They cut off the power in Gaza to silence Palestinians. Do not let them silence us who still have the ability to advocate for Gaza. Ignorance and neutrality is what they WANT. #CeaseFireNOW#FreePalestine
An occupying force will never have the need for violent genocidal 'defense' against the people of the land they have forcibly colonized. The fact thats being intentionally ignored by my own country's government is deeply shameful and diagusting