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Shut the fuck up about this already.
Absolutely no one can use this claim anymore and expect to be taken seriously, not when hostage families are finding out that Hamas had literally offered to release all civilian hostages as early as October 9 but the government rejected that offer.
Not when Israeli ministers are saying that hostage deals throw war goals in the "trash" in order to save hostages.
Not when Netanyahu rejected one offer after another including in December of last year, while hostage families are in the same room begging him to take action.
Not when Netanyahu literally only yesterday said that his "war" will continue with or without a deal.
So shut the fuck up about the hostages. Israel does not give a flying fuck about the hostages so don't pretend this is about them. You have shown time and time again that you would rather let them starve to death and literally get killed than stop the slaughter of Palestinians in Gaza.
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You can say this dumb shit all you want but you will never convince me that this is applicable to a nation state literally built on and its existence sustained through ethnic cleansing to this very day.
It is laughable that Israelis have the nerve to claim they oppose Netanyahu's government then turn around and send their kids to serve in the IDF while they kick it on top of depopulated Palestinian villages. Be serious.
It is Israeli settlers, not soldiers, that have been terrorising Palestinians and invading their villages, burning down their properties and destroying their crops as recently as this week. It was Israeli settlers, not soldiers, that burnt the Dawabsheh family to death in their home. It was Israeli settlers, not soldiers, who kidnapped and murdered 17 year old Abu Khdeir.
This is Israel's legacy, I'm not saying anything new.
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The situation of the Congo Genocide is complicated because we are all implicated in it. We canât ascribe it to a foreign policy state interest as we can regarding Palestine. It is something we, as consumers, all have a hand in and given the ubiquity of the resources involved, a lot of us are caught off of guard by this premonition of the type of wars to come. This is that nasty intersection of neo-colonialism and hyper capitalism that pits the Global South against the Global North. Itâs a war of sustaining a way of life means imposing slavery and genocide on others. This is an instance of global capitalism and hyper consumption as a lifestyle and convenience is being pitted against the humanity of those we deem expendable.
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If you ever find yourself writing a post and it has âI love Palestine, but-â maybe you should just typing right there
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liberation never happened in the courts of wealthy colonial nations, it only happens at the barrel of a revolutionaryâs gun.
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Another thing is that when this aggression started, we were so worried about winter and how displaced people in tents will survive it. Earlier this week the temperature in Gaza hit 38 degrees (100 Fahrenheit) and we are now wondering how will displaced people survive the heat in those tents.
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a lot of the coverage of the Palestinian genocide is focusing on the US student protests and the narrative is constantly in danger of shifting away from what the protests are actually about and a lot of the language is now speaking in terms of police brutality, silencing of free speech, etc. It's not a radical thing to say that this isn't exactly helpful to the Palestinian cause if the actual reasons for the protests aren't constantly front and center. A lot of people have already made this point. I do not think the genie can necessarily be put back in the bottle with how the protests and the police reaction to them are entering the public consciousness of the USian people. A lot of people are or will become aware of these protests through the lense of these simply being instances of police brutality, and police brutality is a critical issue that many USamericans are very passionate about thus making it difficult to reframe the context of these images of police slamming white professors into pavement towards awareness of Israels decades long illegal occupation and systematic and indiscriminate displacement and murder of Palestinians. What I feel needs to be done is try to reframe these images flooding the internet not *away* from issues of police brutality and homesoil fascism, but in the wider context of imperialist governments taking the lessons they learn oppressing "foreign peoples" and turning them inwards. That police brutality is not disconnected from imperialist mass murder. That the one thing connecting the assaulted USian protester and the trans israeli denied gender affirming care for refusing to serve in the fascist Israeli military and the Palestinian child buried alive for the crime of being Palestinian... the one thing connecting them is that, sooner or later, they are all victims of power. Our rights are granted to us inequitably, unevenly, and are just as quickly stripped away when we do not serve the interests of fascist power. We are either a tool of the state or an enemy of the state. The Palestinian, not the innocent or the guilty but the human being Palestinian, is murdered because she can not be useful to the state while she is still breathing. She can never have the "privilege" of being a tool. I'll say it again: We outside of Palestine who can go to protests, who have families, who are able bodied, who can work, who can keep their head down or speak without immediate retaliation have the "honor" of choosing to be a tool of the state or an enemy of the state. The Palestinian has no choice.
There will always be an armed cop ready to arrest you and kill your brother as long as there is a bomb ready to drop on the heads of Palestinian children. Fascism trickles up and inward.
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i just saw a wolf carrying in its mouth and eating a dead gazan baby. don't ever fucking talk to me about the "lesser evil" ever again. i hope all of you who are complicit die in the most horrible ways and suffer an eternity in hell.
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This photo express how all of people gaza feeling.
This hurts my heart she's so tired look at her tear my heart to pieces đ
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#esims for gaza#the guide is really easy#the reports from gaza have really dimmed#we need more esims#donations#palestine
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If you're having trouble keeping up with what's going on in Palestine because of US news coverage of university protests, here are some articles you can read and a video you can watch:
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While CNN & all the other mainstream media try to paint the university protests as "pro terrorism" (which they're not, they're literally anti-war protests.) Palestinians are being slaughtered by the minute.
Please don't stop speaking about Palestine.
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if the universe were not so cruel the "Tailor Swift" would be a beautiful bird that elegantly sews its nest together
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do you have any book recommendations on zionizm or israel/palestine conflict
I had a screenshot of my reading list going around for awhile but Iâve updated it since. Hereâs what I have so far:
- The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine. Ilan Pappe
- The Jewish State. Theodore Herzl
- The Iron Wall. Zeâev Jabotinsky
- Lethal Theory. Eyal Weizman
- The Returns of Zionism: Myths, Politics and Scholarship in Israel. Gabriel Piterberg
- Palestine: A Four Thousand Year History. Nur Masalha
- Legacy of Empire: Britain, Zionism and the Creation of Israel. Gardner Thompson
- Land, Labor and the Origin of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, 1882-1914. Greshon Shafir
- Comrades and Enemies: Arab and Jewish Workers in Palestine, 1906-1948. Zachary Lockman
- The Revolution of 1936-1939 in Palestine. Ghassan Kanafani
- Palestinians: From Peasants to Revolutionaries. Rosemary Sayigh
- The Hundred Yearsâ War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917-2017. Rashid Khalidi
- Zionism During the Holocaust: The Weaponization of Memory in the Service of State and Nation. Tony Greenstein
- Zionism in the Age of Dictators. Lenni Brenner
- The Transfer Agreement: The Dramatic Story of the Pact Between the Third Reich and Jewish Palestine. Edwin Black
- In the Shadow of the Holocaust: The Struggle Between Jews and Zionists in the Aftermath of World War II. Yosef Grodzinky
- What Must Be Forgotten: The Survival of Yiddish in Zionist Palestine. Yael Chaver
- Hebrew Fascism in Palestine, 1922-1942. Dan Tamir
- The Jewish Radical Right: Revisionist Zionism and its Ideological Legacy. Eran Kaplan
- The Iron Wall: Zionist Revisionism from Jabotinsky to Shamir. Lenni Brenner
- The Making of Israeli Militarism; War Over Peace: One Hundred Years of Israelâs Militaristic Nationalism. Uri Ben-Eliezer
- Fortress Israel: The Inside Story of the Military Elite Who Run the Country - And Why They Make Peace. Patrick Tyler
- The Dark Side of Zionism: Israelâs Quest for Security Through Dominance. Baylis Thomas
- Evangelicals and Israel: The Story of American Christian Zionism. Stephan Spector
- Hollow Land: Israelâs Architecture of Occupation. Eyal Weizman
- Israel: A Settler Colonial State. Maxime Rodinson
- Israel and Settler Society. Lorenzo Veracini
- Israeli Exceptionalism: The Destabilizing Logic of Zionism. M. Shahid Alam
- Imperial Israel and the Palestinians: The Politics of Expansion. Nur Masalha
- The Iron Wall: Israel and the Arab World. Avi Shlaim
- War Against the People: Israel, the Palestinians and Global Pacification. Jeff Halper
- Disappearing Palestine: Israelâs Experiments in Human Despair. Jonathan Cook
- The Palestine Laboratory: How Israel Exports the Technology of Occupation Across the World. Antony Loewenstein
- Palestinian Identity in Jordan and Israel: The Necessary "Others" in the Making of a Nation by Riad Nassar
- We Look Like the Enemy: The Hidden Story of Israelâs Jews from Arab Lands. Rachel Shabi
- On the Arab Jew, Palestine, and Other Displacements. Ella Shohat
- The Mizrahi Era of Rebellion: Israelâs Forgotten Civil Rights Struggle 1948-1966. Bryan Roby
- Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Makings of a Movement. Angela Davis
- Zionism and its Discontents: A Century of Radical Dissent in Israel/Palestine. Ran Greenstein
- Rebels Against Zion: Studies on Jewish Left Anti-Zionism. Jack Ross
- Strategy for the Liberation of Palestine
- After Zionism: One State for Israel and Palestine. Antony Loewenstein, Ahmed Moor
- Decolonizing Israel, Liberating Palestine: Zionism, Settler Colonialism, and the Case for One Democratic State. Jeff Halper
- Zionism from the Standpoint of its Victims (1979). Edward Said
- Sephardim in Israel: Zionism from the Standpoint of its Jewish Victims (1988). Social Text. Ella Shohat
- Zionismâs Internal Others: Israel and the Oriental Jews (1996). Journal of Palestine Studies. Joseph Massad
- The Great Chain of Orientalism: Jewish Identity, Stigma Management, and Ethnic Exclusion in Israel (2003). American Sociological Review. Aziza Khazzoom
- Zionism in National Socialist Jewish Policy in Germany, 1933-39 (1978). The Journal of Modern History. Francis Nicosia
- Ethnoreligious Fundamentalism and Theoethnocratic Politics in Israel (2014). Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism. Nissim Leon
- The Hebrew Reconquista of Palestine: From the 1947 United Nations Partition to the First Zionist Congress in 1897 (2009). Journal of Palestine Studies. Walid Khalidi
- Settler Colonialism and the State of Exception: The Example of Palestine/Israel (2012). Settler Colonial Studies. David Lloyd
- The Surrogate Colonization of Palestine, 1917-1939 (1989). American Ethnologist. Scott Atran
- Zionism and Imperialism: The Historical Origins (1977). Journal of Palestine Studies. Abdul-Wahab Kayyali
- The Political Economy of Israelâs Demand for Palestinian Labor (1998). Third World Quarterly. Ali Kadri, Malcolm McMillen
- The Political Economy of Israeli Occupation: What is Colonial About It? (2008). Electronic Journal of Middle Eastern Studies. Leila Farsakh
- Communism versus Zionism: The Comintern, Yishuvism, and the Palestine Communist Party (2007). Journal of Palestine Studies. Johan Franzen
- The Nakba Did Not Start or End in 1948 (2017). Al-jazeera. https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2017/5/23/the-nakba-did-not-start-or-end-in-1948
- Zionism, Anti-Semitism and Colonialism (2012). Joseph Massad. Al-jazeera. https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2012/12/24/zionism-anti-semitism-and-colonialism/
- Anti-blackness and the Core Logic of Zionism (2017). Devyn Springer. Mondoweiss. https://mondoweiss.net/2017/10/blackness-logic-zionism/
- Blowback: How Israel Went From Helping Create Hamas to Bombing It (2018). Medhi Hasan, Dina Sayedahmed. The Intercept. https://theintercept.com/2018/02/19/hamas-israel-palestine-conflict/
- Zionist Role in 1950s Attacks on Iraqi Jews âConfirmedâ by Operative and Police Report (2023). Rayhan Uddin. Middle East Eye. https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/iraq-jews-attacks-zionist-role-confirmed-operative-police-report
- How Benjamin Netanyahu Became a Holocaust Revisionist (2018). Anshel Pfeffer. Haâaretz [Zionist publication] https://www.haaretz.com/world-news/2018-12-13/ty-article-opinion/.premium/how-netanyahu-became-a-holocaust-revisionist/0000017f-ded1-d3ff-a7ff-fff1b72a0000
- Scholars Call Bullshit on Netanyahuâs Speech Blaming Palestinians for the Holocaust (2015). Avi Asher-Schapiro. Vice News. https://www.vice.com/en/article/vb83gm/scholars-call-bullshit-on-netanyahus-speech-blaming-palestinian-for-the-holocaust
- Trump Accuses âLiberal Jewsâ of Voting to âDestroy America and Israelâ in Rosh Hashanah Message (2023). Summer Concepcion. NBC News. https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-goes-liberal-jews-israel-rosh-hashanah-message-rcna105540
- Majorie Taylor Greene Calls Israel-Gaza Ceasefire Protest an âInsurrectionâ (2023). Heather Hunter. MSN News. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/marjorie-taylor-greene-calls-israel-gaza-ceasefire-protest-an-insurrection/ar-AA1itAHG
- Government Said to Use Canary Mission Blacklist to Bar Visitors (2018). The Times of Israel [Zionist publication]. https://www.timesofisrael.com/government-said-to-use-canary-mission-blacklist-to-bar-visitors/
- Jewish Establishment Needs to Take on âIslamo-leftistâ Jews Who Are Undermining Israelâs Security - Zionist Thinktank (2022). Phillip Weiss. Mondoweiss. https://mondoweiss.net/2022/01/jewish-establishment-needs-to-take-on-islamo-leftist-jews-who-are-undermining-israels-security-zionist-thinktank/
- Israel Lobby Group ADL Rehabilitates Hitlerâs Accomplices in Ukraine (2022). Ali Abunimah. The Electronic Intifida. https://electronicintifada.net/content/israel-lobby-group-adl-rehabilitates-hitlers-accomplices-ukraine/35021
- San Francisco Federation Funds Far Right U.S. Groups, Not Just Canary Mission (2018). Allison Kepler Sommer. The Forward. https://forward.com/israel/411787/san-francisco-federation-funds-far-right-us-groups-not-just-canary-mission/
- Israel is Arming Neo-Nazis in Ukraine (2018). Asa Winstanley. The Electronic Intifada. https://electronicintifada.net/content/israel-arming-neo-nazis-ukraine/24876
- Israel is Still Arming Ukraineâs Nazis (2022). Asa Winstanley. The Electronic Intifada. https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/asa-winstanley/israel-still-arming-ukrainian-nazis
- Anti-Semitism and Orthodoxy in the Age of Trump (2019). Eliyahu Stern. Tablet Magazine [Zionist publication] https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/arts-letters/articles/anti-semitism-orthodoxy-trump
- The New Heimish Populism (2020). Joshua Leifer. Jewish Currents. https://jewishcurrents.org/the-new-heimish-populism
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How to spot Liberal Zionist Propaganda 101
This post is by no means exhaustive at all. There are many Liberal Zionist talking points but these are just some of the most common ones. While on the surface they seem a little naive and hopeful at best, they are very much harmful. If you claim to be an ally to Palestinians, this post is primarily for you!
For starters, liberal Zionists will often try to both-sides the issue of Palestine, talk about how it's complicated, they'll claim that the conflict hurts both Israelis and Palestinians, how the only way forward is one where Jews and Arabs "just need to get along," amongst other things. They also often like to centre themselves, even when acknowledging Palestinians as the victims of Israel or this "conflict." From time to time, they also like to engage in tokenising certain Palestinians whose views tend to more or less align with theirs. Here are some common arguments you may hear from them:
1. Any form of justifying Israel's existence or claiming that the only solution is two states
It does not really need to be said why justifying Israel's existence is harmful but justifying its continued existence also means legitimising Israel's land theft, its expulsions of Palestinians, and its ongoing harm to Palestinians and other populations. Reducing any sorts of âsolutionsâ into a binary is unhelpful. Needless to say, a 2ss would not even address any legitimate concerns Palestinian have, such as the right of return, and would only legitimise Israelâs colonialism. Talking about a two-state solution also implies that the root of the conflict lies in Palestinians not having their own state rather than being an occupied people. It is very much also possible to construct a paradigm where Jews and Palestinians both live together on the same land as equal citizens that doesn't involve two separate states, much less an ethnostate.
2. Security for Israel could only come through peace
This is a similar talking point to the one above. Not only does it centre Israeli safety and security above Palestinian liberation but it mistakenly assumes that once Israel makes peace with Palestinians, it'll achieve security. The reality, however, is that Israel's imagined security has quite often come at the expense of peace. In fact, "peace" has just acted as nothing more than a smoke-screen for Israel to carry out its expansionist policies, particularly in the West Bank. When liberal Zionists talk about peace juxtaposed with Israeli security, they're talking about attaining a negative peace rather than a positive one.
3. Israelis are not their government.
This point does nothing to actually help Palestinians. It is also an incredibly tone-deaf thing to say when Israel has targeted many Palestinian civilians by having alleged proximity to Hamas, such as being family members of militants or leaders (inc. children!), civil servants in a Hamas-led government, or even any male above the age of 15 they consider to be a potential combatant! It also deliberately erases Israeli civilians' support of and culpability in Israel's actions towards Palestinians.
4. Netanyahu and/or the Israeli right are the source of conflict.
While it is true that things have gotten inadvertently worse under Israel's various right-wing governments, they are not the source of conflict, but rather a product of extremist nationalism and Jewish supremacy perpetuated by the system. Both the 1967 occupations and settlements were undertaken under centre-left governments in Israel, and Israeli policy under non-right wing governments has been just as harmful towards Palestinians and has paved the way for where we are today. Blaming Netanyahu just also obscures the violent nature of Israel's military occupation over Palestinians which long precede him coming into power.
5. Netanyahu and Hamas are two sides of the same coin
I don't think I've seen any allies give validity to this claim but it's an extremely reductionist claim and is sort of similar to the one above. Groups like Hamas are merely a response to the Israeli occupation while Netanyahu is a byproduct of it. While some Israelis may see Hamas or their actions as an "obstacle to peace," Israel's actions and policies long pre-date Hamas and how Israel is currently responding to Hamas is no different to how Israel has engaged with Palestinian militant groups in the past, regardless of political affiliations or political goals. It is also important to note that Hamas has agreed to the establishment of a state along 1967 borders while Netanyahu aims to prolong the occupation and empower the settler movement (some of whom are part of his coalition government) as much as possible.
6. Israel is not a settler-colonial state.
While it is indisputable that Jews have historical connections to Palestine, that doesnât automatically make you Indigenous or negate Israeli settler-colonialism. Colonialism in particular describes a relationship of exploitation. There are many cases of this, but we most clearly see this in the West Bank where Israel exploits natural resources on occupied Palestinian territory for its own political and economic gains. In terms of settler-colonialism, it is widely known that Israel expelled hundreds of thousands of Palestinians to make way for Jewish refugees and migrants to the new state of Israel, and is still actively facilitating Jewish migration to Israel today while denying Palestinians their right of return.
7. (X) doesn't help Palestinians.
It is not up to anyone to determine whether certain tactics or strategies are helpful or not. This point only seeks to discredit pro-Palestine organising. Only Palestinians get to decide what is actually helpful for the cause or not.
8. Any sort of Hamas-blaming.
On the surface it may seem like thereâs nothing wrong with this, but this point is often harmful and usually lends itself to right-wing talking points because its objective is to deflect blame away from Israel. Certain arguments blaming Hamas also aim to minimise Palestinian suffering perpetuated by Israel. It also paints Israeli violence as retaliatory to Palestinian violence which only obfuscates Israelâs (and by extension, the USâ) role in its state military apparatus and the differing power dynamics between Israelis and Palestinians. In other contexts, this point seeks to also legitimise certain opposition, such as the Palestinian Authority. Hamas-blaming also tends to sometimes lead to racist diatribes about Palestinians and their culture.
9. Al-Jazeera is not a credible news source.
Al Jazeera is a news source like any other. It has varying editorial policies and therefore will have equally good reporting on certain issues while having terrible reporting on others. The difference is that Al-Jazeera's news on Palestine is credible because it comes directly from their Palestinian reporters on the ground and first-hand eyewitness accounts. Western news sources are no more or less credible than al-Jazeera. Compare this to CNN, NYT, and any other Western news sources where Palestinian voices are often entirely missing from the narrative.
10. Overemphasis of antisemitism on the left
Antisemitism is a real issue and has the potential to fester in left circles if not directly addressed head on. Combatting antisemitism is extremely important, however, it is not an issue exclusive to the left. There is also a double standard in that no one expects Zionists to call out Islamophobia and anti-Palestinian racism. Certain accusations of "antisemitism" also seek to distract from what's going on in Palestine by making it about Jewish comfort and feelings. Combatting antisemitism, Islamophobia, anti-Arab racism etc is always important as the basis of good politics.
Last but not least, be wary of native collaborators or any sort of normalisers! They are Palestinians or Arabs who try very hard to appeal to Western liberal consensus and can end up perpetuating a lot of harm to the cause and/or other activists. You will know them when you see them.
#not me reading this and realizing how many talking points ppl in real life who claimed to be pro-palestaine have said#it bothered me too much to hear that bullshit but i did not really recognize it right away as i should have#especially the one where they say "these protests for example would not help anything#sounds like just someone stating concern for the enormity of the situation#but really it is just devalues any solidarity efforts and eventually just encourages the status quo#i props should have not written this in the tags#oh well#palestine#zionism
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Fuck Israel and fuck everyone who still wants to pretend this is confusing or complicated. Is it really that hard to point out the "bad people" in a scenario where a multi-billion military apparatus is handcuffing and killing children and medical staff inside a fucking hospital?
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