Very few school shooters have gotten the death penalty. Yet the U.S. is trying to charge Luigi Mangione so he gets the death penalty for killing one man. You can kill dozens of kids and get a lesser sentence because their lives don’t matter as much as a CEO’s. That’s America.
"Say Palestine one more time, and I'll kill you."
This Israeli soldier is on vacation away from Palestine, where he kills and harms Palestinians and their children with impunity.
Look at him aggressively abusing and threatening UNICEF volunteers collecting donations for Palestinian children.
This is the consequence of unchecked impunity: it endangers people everywhere. It must stop!
#EndIsraeliImpunity #HindRajabFoundation #March30Movement
My first encounter with Israelis was when I was backpacking through South America in my twenties, and I remember being shocked by how consistently awful they all were. I guess after their mandatory military service they tend to go traveling for a bit, and whenever I'd run into them they were reliably some of the nastiest people I'd ever encountered.
They weren't ever nasty to me, though. I am a white westerner, and I never had a problem with them. They were nasty to the impoverished brown-skinned people who were hosting us. They were obnoxious and bullying toward local guides, they'd leave the place in a mess, and they were always trying to screw over the locals for a better deal or extra meals or favors. One time they tricked a hostel into putting up a sign in Hebrew for other Israeli backpackers which said ugly things about our hosts (they told the hostel owner it was a great review), which I only know because they were laughing hysterically about it and told me. They consistently treated the people who were looking after us like they were much lesser than us. Their pushiness and entitlement were just unbelievable.
It was a very educational experience for me. I knew the Palestinians were being treated unfairly because my father had told me so, but I also had a great love of Jews and Jewish culture. I had visited Auschwitz and Dachau and Anne Frank's house in my travels, and I remember having some romantic ideas about kibbutzim. This was my first time directly encountering the reality that there is something unhealthy about Israeli society. Not Jews or Jewish culture, but Jewish Israelis.
Now I see evidence of this on my news feed every day, in the IDF soldiers prancing around in the undergarments of dead and displaced Palestinian women, in the AI translations of Hebrew tweets, in the polls which show widespread Israeli approval for the atrocities in Gaza, in Israeli TikTok videos mocking the suffering of the Palestinians, in the Israelis showing up in my comments justifying the worst things in the world in the most depraved ways imaginable.
My encounters with Israelis in South America were an early taste of ugly things to come. Everything I glimpsed then I've been seeing online over the past year. I keep thinking about those obnoxious pricks I met all those years ago, and about how they didn't know at the time that they were giving me very useful information for me to make use of in the future.
When Israel supporters tell you to shut up about Gaza until you've been to Israel and met Israelis, just ignore them. Don't go to Israel; you're a westerner, they'll be nice to you. Go to one of the tourist spots in the global south that Israelis like to visit, one with lots of brown-skinned people who've been colonized by the west, and watch how they treat people there. That will show you what Israelis are really like.
As women we need to adorn our bodies, wear cute jewelry & high quality materials, put flowers on our hair, oil our skin, sunbathe, stretch our hips, dance slowly, drink warm teas, eat juicy fruits, massage our womb. Our bodies are sacred temples, we have to adorn it & honor it
A doctor being raped and killed while she was on call, at work is insane.
Showing up to work to save lives but you’re not even safe in your place of work.
Justice for Dr. Moumita Debnath.
Video of Israeli soldiers using a freaking CATAPULT to set fire to Lebanese land. Burning our lands, biodiversity, trees, and sustenance. Where is the condemnation by the respective international environmental organizations? Why are you silent? What are you waiting for?
I’d even argue that lack of community/friendship is part of the reason why so many romantic relationships fail. Relying on your partner to be your everything is not realistic.
Expecting one human to meet all of your needs is unfair.
You NEED community.