Dear @carolinelucas@adrianramsay
My grandfather knew Theodor Herzl and attended the first Zionist Congress in 1897
Zionism was a colonial project at a time when European colonialism covered much of the world
ALL colonialism is racist. How can it be otherwise?
Zionism has led to ethnic cleansing, apartheid, persecution, occupations and GENOCIDE of Palestinians BECAUSE they are Palestinians
Many Jews condemn Zionism because of their humanity
@TheGreenParty must support the oppressed, not the oppressors
I support @ZackPolanski
Why do PA security forces never intervene against Israeli settlers,at least in areas under their control?
Because under the Oslo Accords PA security is not meant to protect Palestinians.
Voilà what 33yrs+ of int'l community backed peace process have delivered to the Palestinians.
Gabby Petito was murdered by her partner Brian Christopher Laundrie on July 2, 2021 so this group of brazen Australian dudes decided to demean her.
They called her a virus, said they'd 'give her one in an emergency' and claimed her murdered was justified. Because of course they did.
@ShereleMoody I just signed the petition, lets have a royal commission. This example of male banter denigrating a murdered woman can’t be excused by a society.
https://t.co/2zk7jURPPd
A new poll has shown the Greens' vote is on the rise!
The Greens are the most popular party with young people & ahead of their state election, the Victorian Greens are polling at record highs.
People want change.
Murdoch’s hard right News Corp has racked up a decade of paying ZERO tax while blaming the poor, migrants and Indigenous Australians for our economic woes.
Don’t fall for the bullshit fed to you by media moguls.
“Truth Lies & Media” is live!⚡️
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I don't know what to say about this genocide.
We live under the weight of a war that has left us with nothing of the life we knew. I stand before you today carrying a fear that I cannot describe. We no longer have a normal life to return to, no safe home to hide in, and no stable income to rely on. We live in fear and anxiety.
It is going to be so good to have a left leaning party again, since Labor vacated the position.
David & Steph will be fantastic for the party and the country.
#auspol
She’s immediately entitled to my grandmothers home in Jerusalem because clearly she’s indigenous to Palestine and my family, which has inhabited the land since humans inhabited the region, are now foreigners because we live in an upside down world of Zionism make believe
Let's be honest about what the United States came to Vietnam to do.
Not to "save" anyone. Not to "stop communism." Not to "protect democracy."
Those were the slogans they sold to their own people so the boys from Ohio and Georgia would climb onto the planes without asking too many questions.
What they actually came to do was make an example.
The "Third World" was getting ideas.
Countries were looking at their own land, their own oil, their own rubber, their own rice, and thinking "dangerous thoughts."
Thoughts like: this belongs to us.
Thoughts like: we don't need to ask permission.
Thoughts like: maybe we can choose our own way.
That could not be allowed.
So they chose Vietnam.
A small country. A poor country. A country of farmers and fishermen and people who had already spent a century being told they were too primitive to govern themselves.
The perfect candidate for an example.
The plan was simple: destroy Vietnam so completely, so publicly, so mercilessly, that every other poor country on earth would see it and go quiet.
Would swallow their dignity.
Would open their resources to the right corporations and smile while doing it.
They dropped more bombs on Vietnam than were dropped by all sides in all of World War II combined.
Let that land on you.
More bombs. Than all of World War Two. On one small country.
On its villages. On its hospitals. On its rice fields. On its children.
And they still lost.
Not only did they lose.
They lost to people in sandals.
They lost to people moving supplies on bicycles through jungle paths.
They lost to a people so committed to their own liberation that they built an entire city underground and kept fighting.
The example was made. Just not the one they intended.
The lesson the "Third World" learned from Vietnam was not don't resist.
The lesson was: they can be beaten.
The lesson was: their technology is not destiny.
The lesson was: if you are willing to pay the price of dignity, they will eventually run out of the stomach for the bill.
Every sanction today. Every coup. Every engineered "color revolution." Every "civil society" organization funded from Langley.
These are the tactics of an empire that learned in Vietnam that it cannot always use the full weight of its military without consequences it can't control.
They are not acting from confidence.
They are acting from the memory of Vietnam.
And Vietnam said no.
@AliAbunimah@BenjaminNorton The leaders of the world have allowed this. How does one process this without the deep sense that, it could be us too.
Why are so many still silent?