The media and political class is complicit in the far right, racist and Islamophobic violence weโre seeing across our country.
This morning, I experienced the visceral denial of this reality.
Palestinian artist Imad Abu Ishtayyah painted this piece during Israel's 2014 Genocide on Gaza. It's called 'We shall Return', with a Palestinian woman wearing a traditional Palestinian dress (thobe) & she is rising from the buildings destroyed by Israel in Gaza, showing hope amidst the destruction.
No matter how many times you bleat the phrase "Blame Hamas", it will never magically erase Israel's guilt in raining military explosives on a giant concentration camp full of children.
No matter how many times you accuse Israel's critics of being anti-semitic, it will never magically erase Israel's guilt in raining military explosives on a giant concentration camp full of children.
No matter how many times you mention October 7, it will never magically erase Israel's guilt in raining military explosives on a giant concentration camp full of children.
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Israel apologists always speak as though all critics of Israel are constantly obsessing over Jews, when nothing remotely like that is happening. It's a fantasy. The only reason people like me ever mention the Jewish faith is because 90% of the arguments made by Israel's defenders rely on babbling about Jews and antisemitism.
If Israel's defenders weren't constantly babbling about Jews and antisemitism, it would never even occur to me to think about those things in relation to what's happening in Gaza, and I'm quite sure the vast majority of people on my side of this issue are the same. When you see mass atrocities of unfathomable horror unfolding in real time in a nonstop deluge of video and photo evidence, the very last thing on your mind is what religious faith the perpetrators espouse. It's not something normal people think about.
Throughout my life I've had a positive view of Jews and Jewish culture because so many of the people I've admired and been influenced by have been Jewish, but other than that it's not something that I've really thought about much. This notion that opposition to the criminality of the Israeli government is driven by a demented hatred of Jewish people is a complete work of fiction. People in our society simply do not feel that way about Jews. Real antisemitism does exist, but it's a small fringe view. Normal people just want the mass slaughter of children and the ethnic cleansing to stop.
Let's talk about my experience being Queer in a Palestinian Muslim family. And how it's used against me. I have family members who accept me and family members who don't, I know many other Queer Palestinians who have the same experience as me, (1/7)
Anyone who knows the International Committee of the Red Cross knows that their official policy is to never speak out (https://t.co/pGX2wTwQKs)
Which is why such a statement by the ICRC president is so exceptional, and why you should listen.
Here's what she says:
"The things I saw [in the European Gaza hospital] is beyond anything that anyone should be in a position to described.
What shocked me the most were the children, with atrocious injuries and at the same time having lost their parents with no-one looking after them.
We are facing a situation here that will not be healed by sending in more trucks. We need to provide protection to the civilians in Gaza, to the women and children, to the elderly people that I saw today that have nowhere to go...
We have to find solutions to this. We can't turn away from what is evidently a moral failure in the face of the international community."
I grew up in a Zionist household, spent 12 years in a Zionist youth movement, lived 4 years in Israel, and have friends and family who served in the IDF.
When that is your world, it's hard to see apartheid when it's happening.
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