I attended the weekly protest for Palestine/Lebanon this afternoon and evening in Ottawa, and I’m trying to make sense of the level of police brutality and repression I saw with my own eyes. I’m still processing, but what happened tonight was a display of fascist violence.
I'll condemn Hamas as soon as you can tell me what the Palestinians should do instead besides lay down and die. Show me a coherent plan for Palestinian liberation that (A) doesn't involve violence, (B) would be effective, (C) isn't naive and (D) isn't moronic. THEN talk to me.
This day last year, I awoke to hundreds of messages. I assumed it was a prank. Breaking out of the world’s largest open air prison? I thought of the march of return. Finally, I believed what was happening. Then I heard about the Nova festival. I thought of my time on kibbutz Re’im and knew many of the children I worked with 14 years ago would be at this rave, drinking and dropping ecstasy while dancing on top of Palestinian graves. I put on my Jews for Palestinian liberation shirt and went to the bridge to wave Palestinian flags over the highway. I met a woman that I’ve seen at every action this year. She asked if I was Palestinian and when I pointed to my shirt, she quickly embraced me. She said many Jewish people are against Israel and I agreed. She handed me a flag and we waved and chanted together. My heart was heavy that day for the Israelis who lost their lives. My heart was heavy for the Palestinians who experienced so much oppression that armed resistance was their only answer. Who am I to tell Palestinians suffering under violent colonialism how to resist? How can I be in solidarity with Palestine if my support is conditional upon ‘appropriate’ forms of resistance? This year has been filled with grief. Grief for the genocide in Gaza. Grief for Lebanon and Yemen. Grief for my rejection from many areas of the Jewish community. I also grieve for Israelis and Jewish people all over the world. Those who have lost their humanity through the dehumanization of their neighbours. Those who have died in the service of the Zionist entity. Those who have been so indoctrinated into Zionism, they are blind. No one is free until everyone is free. That is why I fight for a free Palestine. That is why, even in complex grief, I will use every breath in my body to call for a liberated Palestine.
More than 41,800 people have been killed in a year of Israel’s genocide against Palestinians in Gaza.
The health ministry in Gaza has confirmed the identities of more than 34,000 of them. Here are their names.
Today I asked the Prime Minister if he will finally do what’s legally and morally right and end the government’s complicity in Israeli war crimes by banning ALL arms sales —including F-35 fighter jets — to Israel.
He said “no”.
Imagine being a mother and signing a bomb that will be used to kill babies, toddlers, and children.
Imagine writing the words "Finish Them" on this bomb.
You're the worst of humanity @NikkiHaley.
I’m currently at Princeton wearing my Yarmulke, waiting to be inundated with all the vicious anti-Semitism we’re told has overtaken our once-great Elite American Universities. I’ll let you know if I survive 😭
Father shows up for his daughter protesting against genocide at USC in Los Angeles 🇵🇸
“I imagine being a father in Palestine.. to see my kid be assassinated by Israel.”
BREAKING: After 7 hour debate, majority of Israeli cabinet votes in favour of phased, limited hostage exchange + 4-day ceasefire. 50 Israeli hostages, mostly children, to be released for a) 150 Palestinian prisoners, mostly women b) a 4-day ceasefire c) 300 trucks of aid daily.
BREAKING: White House spokesman says US officials have not seen or confirmed pictures of atrocities in Israel, saying President Biden based his comments regarding beheaded children on Israeli statements and media reports.