philip rizk

film-maker

[philip rizk @tabulagaza]

the genocide goes on. my text is out: "Reading the Dead of Gaza: Musha’ as mentality" https://t.co/fDjS6pbb4i

[Bikrum Gill @bikrumsinghgill]

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The resistance Iran is waging against US-Israeli aggression represents an unprecedented advance of anti-imperialism. It is striking at the heart of the military and economic basis of capitalist imperialism in forms we have not seen before. 1/

[Hanine Hassan حنين @Hanine09]

All this is symbolic.

It took Europe 400 yrs to produce this project & another 100 yr of effective military & economic implementation.

Whiteness will only give up on Israel when they feel the consequences on their economies &societies. Palestinian blood means nothing to them

[philip rizk @tabulagaza]

@andreas_krieg Been trying to work out this number for a while. Can you share how you conclude the US support of $60bn?

[Zoé Denessa @plushiecollect]

17 billion to israel though

[Sait Simsek @Sait_Simsek_]

Unprecedented support from @UofT faculty members.

“If you decide to move against the students, you’ll have to go through us first.” @debcowen

[Adi Callai | Rev & Reve youtube @AdiCallai]

This piece is my attempt at a comprehensive analysis of Oct 7 and its fallout.

A longer video essay is forthcoming, going deeper into the core of Israeli military philosophy.

https://t.co/03X0MAvKqf

[PACBI - BDS movement @PACBI]

BREAKING: 76 universities in Spain suspend ties with complicit Israeli universities in a groundbreaking decision by the Conference of University Rectors.

https://t.co/tfL70qRfxI

[Mosab Abu Toha @MosabAbuToha]

There live in the area of east Rafah more than 200,000 people. All these people are ordered to evacuate now.
In that same area is one of Rafah’s three hospitals.
Also, the Rafah border crossing and the path which aid trucks use to enter the strip is there.
It’s nightmarish to think what’s going to happen in the coming few hours.

[Palestine Highlights @PalHighlight]

The Israeli army has dropped leaflets in eastern Rafah, calling on citizens to evacuate the area.

#GazaGenocide

[Jonathan Cook @Jonathan_K_Cook]

One doesn't need to be a fortune-teller to understand that the Israel-US game plan for Gaza runs something like this:

1. In public, Biden appears “tough” on Netanyahu, urging him not to “invade” Rafah and pressuring him to allow more “humanitarian aid” into Gaza.

2. But already the White House is preparing the ground to subvert its own messaging. It insists that Israel has offered an “extraordinarily generous” deal to Hamas – one that, Washington suggests, amounts to a ceasefire. It doesn’t. According to reports, the best Israel has offered is an undefined “period of sustained calm”. Even that promise can’t be trusted.

3. If Hamas accepts the “deal” and agrees to return some of the hostages, the bombing eases for a short while but the famine intensifies, justified by Israel’s determination for “total victory” against Hamas – something that is impossible to achieve. This will simply delay, for a matter of days or weeks, Israel’s move to step 5 below.

4. If, as seems more likely, Hamas rejects the “deal”, it will be painted as the intransigent party and blamed for seeking to continue the “war”. (Note: This was never a war. Only the West pretends either that you can be at war with a territory you’ve been occupying for decades, or that Hamas “started the war” with its October 7 attack when Israel has been blockading the enclave, creating despair and incremental malnutrition there, for 17 years.)

Last night US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken moved this script on by stating Hamas was “the only thing standing between the people of Gaza and a ceasefire… They have to decide and they have to decide quickly”.

5. The US will announce that Israel has devised a humanitarian plan that satisfies the conditions Biden laid down for an attack on Rafah to begin.

6. This will give the US, Europe and the region the pretext to stand back as Israel launches the long-awaited assault – an attack Biden has previously asserted would be a “red line”, leading to mass civilian casualties. All that will be forgotten.

7. As Middle East Eye reports, Israel is building a ring of checkpoints around Rafah. Netanyahu will suggest, falsely, that these guarantee its attack meets the conditions laid down in international humanitarian law. Women and children will be allowed out – if they can reach a checkpoint before Israel’s carpet bombing kills them along the way.

8. All men in Rafah, and any women and children who remain, will be treated as armed combatants. If they are not killed by the bombing or falling rubble, they will be either summarily executed or dragged off to Israel’s torture chambers. No one will mention that any Hamas fighters who were in Rafah were able to leave through the tunnels.

9. Rafah will be destroyed, leaving the entire strip in ruins, and the Israeli-induced famine will worsen. The West will throw up its hands, say Hamas brought this on Gaza, agonise over what to do, and press third countries – especially Arab countries – for a “humanitarian plan” that relocates the survivors out of Gaza.

10. The western media will continue describing Israel’s genocide in Gaza in purely humanitarian terms, as though this “disaster” was an act of God.

11. Under US pressure, the International Court of Justice, or World Court, will be in no hurry to issue a definitive ruling on whether South Africa’s case that Israel is committing a genocide – which it has already found “plausible” – is proved.

12. Whatever the World Court eventually decides, and it is almost impossible to imagine it won’t determine that Israel carried out a genocide, it will be too late. The western political and media class will have moved on, leaving it to the historians to decide what it all meant.

13. Meanwhile, Israel is already using the precedents it has created in Gaza, and its erosion of the long-established principles of international law, as the blueprint for the West Bank. Saying Hamas has not been completely routed in Gaza but is using this other Palestinian enclave as its base, Israel will gradually intensify the pressures on the West Bank with another blockade. Rinse and repeat.

That’s the likely plan. Our job is to do everything in our power to stop them making it a reality.

The article version of this post, The Israel-US game plan for Gaza is staring us in the face, can be shared here: https://t.co/kURvTIBNGy

[شبكة رصد @RassdNewsN]

طلاب جامعة بيرزيت يطردون السفير الألماني أثناء زيارته المتحف الفلسطيني احتجاجا على دعم بلاده لحرب الإبـ ـادة في غزة

[DEACTIVATED @thrasherxy]

The World Central Kitchen killing is meant to circulate akin to a lynching postcard: as a warning sign to any other would-be aid workers who'd come to Gaza. It's a warning, and an effective one, to help make sure the people of Gaza continue to starve.

[Lemon Juice @LibreNow]

@LeeMordechai You're just missing calling out the elephant in the room: Zionism is a violent genocidal project and needs to be dismantled

[Middle East Eye @MiddleEastEye]

In an exclusive interview with Middle East Eye Zukiswa Wanner, South African writer, explains why she returned her Goethe medal to Germany.

[UntoldMag @UntoldMag]

On the first day of #COP28 on 30 November 2023, the activist collective @OccupyCop27 sent a letter entitled “What does Gaza have to do with the Climate Crisis?” to different climate movements in Germany.
https://t.co/3v2txC6OSo

[philip rizk @tabulagaza]

this behavior reminds me of my 4 year old son when ge gets reaaally angry, says he will no longer do the things he most loves with me. #GermanyGoAheadAndDefundYourself

[Moritz Schmoll @moritz_schmoll]

After the Palestinian-Israeli film "No Other Land" about the occupation in the West Bank won the prize for best documentary at the Berlin Film Festival, German politicians and journalists are now trying to get said festival defunded.

[Moritz Schmoll @moritz_schmoll]

The German Ministry of Culture puts out an official statement that at the award ceremony at which "No Other Land" received a prize green Minister Claudia Roth was only clapping for the Jewish-Israeli member of the filmmaking team, not the Palestinian.

I'm not making this up.

[Andrew Feinstein @andrewfeinstein]

‘Germany rewards Saudi Arabia for its 'constructive' Israel stance by lifting arms export ban’ - Germany has rewarded human rights abusing, Yemen war crimes committing Saudi for remaining silent on Israel’s slaughter of Palestinians, by giving them weapons https://t.co/EFnhxq3jNs