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I’m here to have fun goddamnit

[queen of charts @mdjohnsto]

keep your mind in hell and despair not

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

As we speak, write, tweet, sob: Israeli forces are committing another massacre in northern Gaza. People in Jabalyia are killed - both in groups, and one by one - amid unspeakable cruelty and sadism. By Israelis who have accepted to be "willing executioners" of a genocidal plan. With western-manifactured weapons and with western support.

It blows my mind to think that WE KNOW what Israel is doing and alltogether, we cannot stop it. Looking at where we were 100 years ago, no much progress has been achieved.

[Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand]

Extraordinary text by Israeli historian Omer Bartov, a former IDF soldier who's now the world's leading scholar on genocide and the Holocaust: https://t.co/BCjj3HNeUC

He directly compares the ideology in today's Israel to that of Nazi Germany, says Israel is committing genocide and that it might be headed towards "self-annihilation".

Some extracts:

"[Israel has adopted a] logic of endless violence, a logic that allows one to destroy entire populations and to feel totally justified in doing so. It is a logic of victimhood – we must kill them before they kill us, as they did before – and nothing empowers violence more than a righteous sense of victimhood. Look at what happened to us in 1918, German soldiers said in 1942, recalling the propagandistic “stab-in-the-back” myth, which attributed Germany’s catastrophic defeat in the first world war to Jewish and communist treason. Look at what happened to us in the Holocaust, when we trusted that others would come to our rescue, IDF troops say in 2024, thereby giving themselves licence for indiscriminate destruction based on a false analogy between Hamas and the Nazis...

I told [some Zionist students] the story of how, in 1930, the German student union was democratically taken over by the Nazis. The students of that time felt betrayed by the loss of the first world war, the loss of opportunity because of the economic crisis, and the loss of land and prestige in the wake of the humiliating peace treaty of Versailles. They wanted to make Germany great again, and Hitler seemed able to fulfil that promise. Germany’s internal enemies were put away, its economy flourished, other nations feared it again, and then it went to war, conquered Europe and murdered millions of people. Finally, the country was utterly destroyed. I wondered aloud whether perhaps the few German students who survived those 15 years regretted their decision in 1930 to support nazism. But I do not think the young men and women at BGU understood the implications of what I had told them...

By the time I travelled to Israel, I had become convinced that at least since the attack by the IDF on Rafah on 6 May 2024, it was no longer possible to deny that Israel was engaged in systematic war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocidal actions. It was not just that this attack against the last concentration of Gazans – most of them displaced already several times by the IDF, which now once again pushed them to a so-called safe zone – demonstrated a total disregard of any humanitarian standards. It also clearly indicated that the ultimate goal of this entire undertaking from the very beginning had been to make the entire Gaza Strip uninhabitable, and to debilitate its population to such a degree that it would either die out or seek all possible options to flee the territory. In other words, the rhetoric spouted by Israeli leaders since 7 October was now being translated into reality – namely, as the 1948 UN Genocide Convention puts it, that Israel was acting “with intent to destroy, in whole or in part”, the Palestinian population in Gaza, “as such, by killing, causing serious harm, or inflicting conditions of life meant to bring about the group’s destruction”."

[Yonah Lieberman 🔥 @YonahLieberman]

The powerful moment when NYU anti-war students marched into the solidarity Shabbat, organized by American Jews in support of their movement and demands.

We were signing a song that translates to: “Nation shall not lift sword against nation, neither shall they learn war anymore.”

[queen of charts @mdjohnsto]

Harold Green walked so that David Rose could run.

[Vincent Bevins @Vinncent]

Bone-chilling thing about the current Israeli government position is that if you ask, "what are Palestinians supposed to do??" the answer is effectively "their leaders should have taken one of the bad deals that was on the table years ago but is definitely not on the table now"

[Dave Bush @DBrabblerouser]

The IDF has killed more people in Gaza over last 10 days than Palestinian armed groups have killed Israelis over the last 20 years.

The number of children killed by the IDF this past week alone already exceeds all Israeli fatalies in the last decade.

A sense of proportion.

[Sera @schwarz_seher]

low-key kind of hate how the world is a theatre of pain and vale of tears in which we take turns blindly suffering and blindly passing along suffering, untouched by anything even potentially fully good, lost even to the possibility of comprehension or salvation or repair

[Neoliberal tears 💦🌊 @Neolibtears]

Barbaric:

[Kim Siever @kim_siever]

The Bank of Canada solution to inflation is to increase unemployment.

[Adsum for Women & Children @adsumforwomen]

Many people have yet to recover from Fiona, we’re facing a long, hot fire season ahead, then another hurricane season. And covid. And food insecurity. A housing crisis. We aren't made to live with these sustained levels of stress and anxiety. There’s no time to recover or heal.

[Kaley Kennedy @kaleybk]

Great piece from @jastoff about the @CUPE5047 strike and ableism in @springmagca!

Important read!

#nspoli @cupenovascotia #canlab

[queen of charts @mdjohnsto]

@dan_guad Unbelievable

[James Clark @2JamesClark]

Show your #solidarity with @psac_afpc members on strike for better wages, #decentwork & well-funded public services. Download posters here: https://t.co/ubvZ7Die4B #EnoughIsEnoughON #EnoughIsEnough #canlab #onlab #justice4workers

[Spring Magazine @springmagca]

If we can build mass solidarity for PSAC members, they can strike and win against Trudeau, expose Poilievre, and give confidence to other workers to fight back. #canlab #psacstrike #Justice4Workers #EnoughisEnoughOn #cdnpoli

https://t.co/V2nqSD0CfA

[queen of charts @mdjohnsto]

@brenmccracken it's a life sentence

[queen of charts @mdjohnsto]

.@CUPE_NSSBCU school support staff will be in a legal strike position on April 21st at 12:01 AM, and @HRCE_NS is planning a job fair April 19th to hire casuals workers to scab. It's not too late to negotiate, but it looks like the employer doesn't intend to. #nspoli

[queen of charts @mdjohnsto]

@brenmccracken oh dear

[queen of charts @mdjohnsto]

@brenmccracken there’s an NYRBxRachel Comey collaboration?

[queen of charts @mdjohnsto]

@RyanAllenb this is so nice to hear. I love cheering people on, do it every year at the Bluenose.

[queen of charts @mdjohnsto]

@CUPE_NSSBCU @NanMcFadgen