It's beyond ridiculous what companies like Roc Nation and Craft Recordings are doing. They don't care about art. They care about draining music listeners dry. You can't tell me they are drastically marking up these things. Pricing out low income folks is not real art like.
Delivered by C‑section from her dead mother's body. 23 years old. 'israel' bombed and killed her. Buried them under rubble. The baby girl was named after her. Doctors gave her a 50/50 chance of survival. She died 5 days later and was buried next to her mum.
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The U.S. left really does not understand the damage it is doing to the Palestinian liberation struggle.
No serious Palestinian engaged in the struggle for liberation, whether in Palestine or in exile, would ever condemn or denounce the right of Palestinians to resist occupation, apartheid, and genocide by any means necessary.
Yet we are increasingly told that people who do exactly that are part of the movement, and that anyone who challenges them is divisive, unreasonable, or an “op.”
What this actually does is place Palestinians who remain committed to our political principles in the crosshairs of everyone: Zionists, the right wing, the state, and now even sectors of the left. It marginalizes Palestinians, portrays us as extremists for upholding positions that have always been central to our national liberation struggle, and pressures us to abandon our own political consensus in order to accommodate American political sensibilities.
The result is the isolation of Palestinians from our own movement.
And beyond being wrong, it simply does not work. Palestinians have always been told to mute criticism, soften demands, and overlook real political differences with elected officials because doing otherwise might hurt their chances of winning. We are told they secretly agree with us, that they just cannot say it publicly yet, and that once they gain power things will be different.
But the opposite keeps happening. Politicians benefit from the energy and legitimacy of the Palestine movement, then distance themselves from it once they are in office. Palestinians are expected to accept that distance, accept new compromises, and accept the constant narrowing of our politics, all in the name of pragmatism.
Meanwhile, Zionists are free to pressure those same politicians from the right without restraint, while Palestinians are told that applying pressure from our own political position is unacceptable.
If our support is always conditional on staying quiet, abandoning our principles, and never criticizing elected officials, then what is being asked of us is political obedience, and that has never advanced Palestinian liberation.
Palestinian filmmakers have risked their lives and been targeted by Israeli forces and settlers for sharing their stories and participating in film festivals and recognitions. Fatima Hassouna, a photojournalist and the documentary subject of the documentary about her life, “Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk,” was killed in an Israeli air strike targeting her family home in Gaza City on April 16, 2025, just one day after the 2025 Cannes Film Festival announced the film as an official selection.
Documentarian Awdah Hathaleen, a narrator, producer, and consultant on the Oscar-winning documentary “No Other Land,” was shot in the chest and lungs by Israeli settler and bulldozer driver Yinon Levi in Umm Al-Khair, Hebron (West Bank) when Levi fired a handgun toward village residents, killing Hathaleen on July 28, 2025. Israeli forces infiltrated the planned funeral of Hathaleen the next day to snatch his body and arrest 14 Palestinians from his village. An Israeli court upheld Levi’s claims of self-defense — ultimately, Palestinian funeral participants served more time than Hathaleen’s killer did.
Routinely, Palestinians are tortured and killed for even acknowledging the brutality of their circumstances. And those who support the continuation of the brutality against Palestinians are granted impunity, even encouragement.
@Tribeca you say you are “aware of the concerns raised” regarding those who would use their platforms — amplified by your festival — to laugh at and mock the torture of Palestinians. Permitting them to do so with impunity, with zero consequences, reinforces the dehumanization and devaluation of Palestinian life.
It says a lot about Tribeca that zionist producers on the red carpet can get away with mocking the sexual abuse and rape of Palestinians by Israeli dogs and the festival not only hasn’t banned them but has done nothing about it besides an empty social media statement.
If this was Palestinian filmmakers instead they would have banned them for life instantly and gotten authorities involved.
Not a single peep from the likes of the BBC or CNN, the same outlets that were reporting on the Iranian women’s football team three times a day.
Western media doesn’t care about women’s freedom in Iran, Palestine or Lebanon unless it can be weaponised to serve their narrative.
It’s hard to take Nakba “commemorations” seriously when they come from officials who do nothing to stop it and allow it to continue, including through allowing the sale of stolen land. This is not a moment for politicians to be applauded while the Nakba continues.
One is a progressive pro palestinian candidate and the other is a pro genocide pro israel candidate.
San Franciscans need to choose wisely and elect Saikat ❤️
No Kings proves the size of a protest is meaningless if there are no policy demands and direct threats to power. This was a parade to funnel people from the red capitalist party to the blue capitalist party to ensure the source of our problems, capitalism, remains unthreatened.