This report proves, beyond any doubt or attempt to deny, that the Israeli occupation - from state institutions to the settler society - enacts sexualised and gendered violence against Palestinians in a systematic, coordinated, and deliberate manner with genocidal intent
🚨Iranians March In Their Millions For Al-Quds Day
Quds Day occurs at the last Friday of Ramadan in support of the Palestinian people & was started by Ayatollah Khomeini.
This footage is from Qom.
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The Lancet recently published a study which found that sanctions from the US have caused 38 million deaths since 1970. The average death toll ranges from 400,000 to over 1 million per year.
American imperialists and zionist colonizers are never able to grasp this. Whether in Gaza or in Isfahan.
You will never be able to comprehend the essence of what motivates them. You cannot conquer this; there is no defeating it. It doesn't matter how many you kill or how much you destroy. With every bullet and bomb; with every body that you tear through— is only another nail in your own coffin.
When they aren't just unafraid of death, but welcome and seek it— what can you take from them? No matter how awesome or sophisticated your weaponry; no matter our gruesome your mandate or fanciful your designs for the future, it doesn't matter.
When the more you need to kill; it only weakens your legitimacy in every moral or physical capacity.
You have already failed. You will continue to fail.
Reposting this great video of Palestinian martyr Nizar Banat on Iran, because apparently a lot of people need to hear it. This message was directed at his own community but it could just as easily serve as a message to all of us in the imperial core.
Iran is waging a heroic anti-colonial war against the most brutish empire in history. Its struggle is every bit as righteous as the great anti-colonial wars from China to Korea to Vietnam to Algeria. Its stakes are not just Iran's survival, but the emancipation of the region from US-Zionist occupation — and the advancement of sovereignty in the global periphery as a whole. Anything but full solidarity with Iran is a capitulation to the forces of colonialism.
every single one of those children were just sweet little kids. they were bringing home laughter and stories about their day and test grades and homework, and all that is there for their parents to pick up is a backpack.
this is unbearable.
WATCH | Emergency responders in northern Gaza gathered to honor more than two years of relentless lifesaving work under Israel’s genocide in Gaza.
Civil Defense crews, emergency medical services, the Palestinian Red Crescent, and Ministry of Health ambulance teams came together to mark their efforts pulling people from under rubble, evacuating the wounded, and keeping emergency services functioning under bombardment, siege, and destruction.
The gathering highlighted the systematic targeting of humanitarian workers and stood as a collective assertion of endurance and resistance in the face of sustained Israeli attacks on Gaza’s emergency infrastructure.
(Translating Falasteen)
The political and class alliance between Iranian fascists and Zionism is not incidental; it is a unity of form and structure. This is why we see the same tactics of repression used by Iranian fascists to silence anti-imperialist politics in support of Iranian sovereignty that Zionists have used in universities to suppress pro-Palestinian speech. Solidarity and love to @TamanishaJohn, who is showing us how to confront this authoritarianism without retreat.
Weaponizing the Iranian identity of comrades to justify imperialist positions on Iran reflects a profound moral & political & intellectual failure. Western-based academics—many of whom remain unaccountable for their intellectual/political complicity in the devastation of Syria—have relied on “both-can-be-true” framings that helped facilitate the twelve-day war on Iran. Our sovereignty is not up for debate and is the necessary pre-condition for our internal struggles. The primary contradiction has been, and remains, US imperialism.
Disabled man dies after ICE detains father and caregiver
Wael Tarabishi, 30, passed over the weekend of complications from Pompe Disease, a rare condition that required constant medical care. The family is calling for the release of his father and caregiver Maher Tarabishi to attend his son’s funeral.
Diagnosed with Pompe Disease at the age of four, doctors said Wael would likely only live 5-10 more years. Instead, he thrived in the care of his father.
After Maher’s detention, Wael experienced a number of health scares.
In an interview with @journojudy for BT News in November, Wael said medical professionals often relied on his faher to understand his condition. “Even sometimes doctors ask him, ‘What should we do?'”
"My father is my hero, my hope, my miracle, my motivation, my safe place, my sanity, my best friend, my only friend ... As long as he’s with me, nothing will happen to me. And as long I am with him, nothing else matters. Not a single person knows more about my condition than him," Wael told BT News.
Maher Tarabishi, 62, was detained by ICE last October when he appeared at the Dallas ICE office for a scheduled appointment.
The Department of Homeland Security has accused Tarabishi of “terrorist” connections to the Palestinian Liberation Organization, a claim the family denies.
With regard to US imperialism, we should more accurately refer to an imperial slingshot, not a boomerang. If we take seriously internal imperialism (shoutout to @nickwestes), then we realize that the violence is always simultaneous on the domestic and international front.