surfer rosa

The cherry on top.

[surfer rosa @NadineEssami]

Holier than thou, motherfucker.

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

If you liked "All the hospitals in Gaza are Hamas", you'll love Israel's new hit "All the hospitals in Lebanon are Hezbollah."

[John Cusack @johncusack]

Don’t look away - US bombs are killing children
A lunatic is shredding children . The US could stop it with one phone call

[Yumna @yumna_patel]

Hey, what does this look like to you?

[Mohammed El-Kurd @m7mdkurd]

Last week, a friend sent me an episode of a progressive Jewish podcast where one of my essays was discussed. At some point, the host and her guests began talking about the "ostracization of Zionists," and they agreed that it was a complex and controversial matter—almost as though it were unreasonable for us to demand that proponents of this racist, genocidal ideology face social consequences. One guest even called it "litmus testing Jews on Israel."

Anyway, while the episode continued, I opened social media to see to see the news: Zionists were burning Palestinians alive. I saw 19-year-old Shaban al-Dalou, connected to an IV drip on a makeshift hospital bed, being engulfed in flames. I couldn't think of a starker juxtaposition to illustrate the chasms that separate us from some of our allies—between their priorities, their concerns, and ours. I could not come up with a better metaphor for this level of detachment from reality.

We know that, rightfully, they would never extend the same grace or nuance to Nazis, but somehow, miraculously, when the conversation is about Zionists, demanding moral and political consistency becomes much more intricate—hesitation masquerades as intellectual complexity. I don't know whether it's incredulity, cognitive dissonance, or willful ignorance, but we are on two completely different planets and only the Palestinians are expected to bridge the gap. It’s depressing to think that, after a year of nonstop televised massacres, the irredeemable, indefensible rot that is Zionism remains "debatable" in public life.

I know these words will be hard to read for some, and for others, they’ll be easy to dismiss. Some will cast me as overly critical and their worldly Palestinian friends will agree. Others will say: “No matter what we do, we’ll be called either Hamas supporters or Zionist apologists,” a refrain I often hear, reminiscent of clichéd biracial slam poetry. Others are waiting for some kind of BDS fatwa to command them to spit in the face of their Zionist uncles, knowing that fatwa will never come.

So can we be honest? What will it take? What is it, if not the systemic rape of political prisoners, that will propel you to have the difficult dinner conversation, to dispel and disown Zionism materially, not only discursively? What is it, if not the carving of the Star of David into the cheeks of our young men, that will propel you to protest the Israeli flags present in every facet of Jewish American life? I ask sincerely—is there a threshold?

[Prem Thakker @prem_thakker]

This was eight months ago. Israeli forces have killed more than 11,783 kids since.

[Alon Mizrahi @alon_mizrahi]

But do tell me, in great detail and using as much drama as possible, how sad and terrible it is that an Israeli was refused service in a restaurant in Hanoi

[Asadoya @Queen_Asadoya]

I’ll never understand the logic of grabbing a gun and killing other people’s kids in a land that’s not even yours, then coming back to yours and performing all these theatrics when seeing your own kids.

Pure hypocrisy!

A good parent would never kill someone else’s child.

[𓂆 deeja🫒 @deedeehimawari]

ARE Y’ALL NOT HEARING THIS?? ARE YOU NOT ENRAGED??? THEY INFILTRATED THE REFUGEE CAMP IN TRUCKS DISGUISED AS HUMANITARIAN AID!!! IN TRUCKS DISGUISED AS HUMANITARIAN AID. IN TRUCKS DISGUISED AS HUMANITARIAN AID. IN TRUCKS DISGUISED AS HUMANITARIAN AID. IN TRUCKS DISGUISED AS HUMANITARIAN AID. IN TRUCKS DISGUISED AS HUMANITARIAN AID!!!!!!!

[Adam 🇵🇸 @sad_pali]

It’s happening

[Evan Dyer @EvanDyerCBC]

US military “expert” @RyanMcbeth thinks I should defer to his expert view that the best way to dump ammo you’re too lazy to carry home is to climb a hi-rise building and spray hundreds of lethal rounds — unaimed — across a city full of civilians.
That is nuts. Also a war crime.

[inaba 🇵🇰🇵🇸 @inabaabelfaroqi]

“please add trigger warning” NO every single person should be aware of what’s actually happening and how terrible it is

[Khadija @khadljasays]

Those families followed evacuation orders. They built and set up tents. They were in the ‘safe zone’. They are as ‘perfect’ a victim can get for the West and yet none of that will humanise them enough to end this genocide. May every person supporting this burn in Hell

[🌻 @curlsoconfusing]

“Eyes on Rafah”. Yeah, okay. I’m watching. What now? A genocide isn’t for witnessing. It’s for preventing. For stopping.

[maleure.🪶 @morosers]

this should hurt to look at. this should make you feel sick. this is one of the worst tragedies in human history and you can see it from space.

[Dr. Sabreena Ghaffar-Siddiqui @sabreenaGS]

One day, I’ll be standing in an auditorium full of undergrads teaching them about Nazism and Zionism under the same module.
I’ll show them a documentary about May 26th 2024 - when Israel dropped several 2 thousand ton bombs on sleeping refugees in a tent, the students will lament on how the world could possibly remain silent if we had video footage from months of similar carnage.
We’ll sociologically analyze how global consent and complicity is manufactured through propaganda, and then students will be asked to write a 1000 word essay on the fake beheaded babies story.
And this is how history simply repeats itself, unless the cycle is broken by a few brave souls.
Are you on of them?

[Mohammed El-Kurd @m7mdkurd]

When a state is burning people alive in their tents after it has displaced them and demolished their homes and killed their relatives, there is a moral obligation to abolish that state, to sanction its supporters and benefactors, to burn its flag wherever—wherever—it may appear.

[Asmer Asrar Safi @asmerasafi]

A day before commencement, the Harvard Corp. has told me I will not be allowed to graduate.

I hope this moment exposes the corporate rot central to institutions like Harvard.

To my peers graduating - remember: 15,000 Gazan kids will never graduate.