Jewish Voice for Peace spends less than 10% of its $11+ million yearly budget on actual actions, such as protests.
Most of its funding goes to paying its own members salaries and bonuses ($5+ million per year). They doubled the amount they pay themselves in the last year.
I never asked to know what a dismembered child looks like. Israel imposed that knowledge upon me.
I never wanted to know what it looks like when military explosives blow an infant's head off. I only know it because Israel forced me to know it.
The reason the Gaza holocaust hit westerners so hard is because it punched through our shitbrained western supremacist narcissism and our vapid mainstream culture and shook us violently awake to something real and terrifying.
All of a sudden the idea that our bombs are killing people in the middle east was no longer a vague abstraction sitting in the periphery of our awareness. It was a reality hitting us right in the guts in the middle of the day while we casually scrolled our phones, forcing us to run to the toilet to vomit up our lunch.
It made it personal. We were being kicked in the stomach over and over again by the state of Israel with the backing of our own western governments. The abuse of the Palestinians wasn't something that was happening exclusively to the Palestinians; to a much smaller degree, it was also something that was happening to everyone who witnessed it.
Westerners aren't accustomed to such confrontations. We are accustomed to bustling around in our mind-controlled dystopia with our first world problems and our neuroses and distractions, our attention going into treats and screens and our consumerist preferences and the petty dramas playing out in our respective social circles. Then all of a sudden we find ourselves in the bathroom puking up our sushi because our phone had just shown us the most unimaginably horrific thing we have ever seen.
And we were at all times aware that all the nausea and horror and rage and disgust we experienced when witnessing the Gaza holocaust happened because of the real material actions of real material people. The Israelis were deliberately causing as much devastation as possible to advance their longstanding goal of forcibly transferring all Palestinians out of Gaza. Our leaders were deliberately stalling and equivocating from behind their podiums to buy Israel enough time to make Gaza uninhabitable. We all understood that the waking nightmare we were witnessing was not some natural disaster that was passively occurring; it was being actively inflicted by people who were fully aware of what they were doing.
That's the sort of thing that changes you as a person. Changes your whole worldview. Changes your politics. Changes your beliefs. The average westerner needs to do a lot of internal restructuring to truly reckon with the Gaza holocaust and all its implications.
That, I think, has been the biggest reason why the genocide of the Palestinians has gotten so much attention and sympathy. It's because its live-streamed nature caused it to affect us in ways other acts of mass military slaughter usually don't.
Westerners are so propaganda-addled and indoctrinated that we are largely apathetic to what our bombs are doing to human bodies on the other side of the world. It's only when we are given some skin in the game, as in the Vietnam draft, that we start caring in any politically significant way. Gaza gave us skin in the game in the way it entered into our lives through our electronic devices and showed us things that were so jarring it left a permanent mark upon our lives.
Gaza forced us to look, and forced us to see, against all the efforts the propagandists have expended trying to keep us from noticing such things. That's why this thing isn't going away. People are only getting angrier and angrier. The empire has spent three years scrambling around unsuccessfully trying to get us to close our eyes again, and it keeps failing and failing and failing.
My utmost respect to Palestinians, man. Not only have they had to witness the killing of their people for more than 3 years, they’re having to prove to a bunch of apathetic privileged gringos who are still debating whether their existence is worth protecting that they matter.
A woman who has unequivocally stated that the Israeli assault on Gaza is genocide has been awarded The Nobel Peace Prize.
All debate on the issue is now over.
Rough operating day:
9 year old girl from Gaza. Shoulder reconstruction. Both parents killed. Cared for by uncle.
5 year old boy from Gaza. Right lower limb amputation. For revision of stump so he can start fitting a prosthesis.
Medical student from Lebanon, early twenties. Blast Injury to face with loss of both eyes. For reconstruction of facial bones and eyelids so he can have glass eyes fitted.
To top the day off, message from lawyers: High Court Appeal case by GMC, court date set for end of January 2027.
Ashkenazi Jews with names like Cohen & Rosen are NOT Semites. They are European Jews with about a 3% genetic link to the Levant. Same as most Europeans. The Palestinians, Lebanese & Iranians are true Semites; nothing can change this. Antisemitism does not apply to non-ME Jews.
Two little survivors of the ongoing Holocaust in Gaza are rescued by a Palestinian man from the rubble of the Abu Oudeh family home after an Israeli airstrike.
Let’s be clear. We are not demanding a two-state solution or a life with our colonizers. We demand liberation and sovereignty - a free Palestine, from the river to the sea.
.@ZackPolanski: "[Palestinians] are facing an ongoing genocide & its very obvious to me & clear, that if there is an ongoing genocide then that is underpinned by a racist ideology" 🎯
"Mr. Polanski, you have just tripled the Green vote share, and reduced Labour's majority to 12%, the smallest it's ever been in the 43 years that this seat has existed. Will you now apologise, and stand down as leader?"
Former MI5 Agent ANNIE MACHON reveling how the Mossad setup a false flag by bombing their own Israeli embassy in London in 1994 and blamed it on Palestinian activists
They received 20 years sentences for crimes they did not commit.
To all the non New Yorkers crying about Zohran being called out, I’d like to remind you during his campaign he himself said if he doesn’t maintain his promises he wants people on the street to call him out. But hey maybe that’s just another lie.