This is also very similar to what indigenous people on Turtle Island (North America) have been saying about #landback. From what I learned from my Indigenous studies classes, #landback would mean ceding power over the land back to Indigenous people, not kicking you personally out of your house, or making you go to Europe or something.
just to be completely clear, the amount of military power and political influence Israel has has NOTHING to do with its settlers being Jewish. Israel is a force for American & European interests in the region and they’re just doing what America does and allows/encourages its close allies to do.
war crimes aren’t considered war crimes when someone America finds useful is doing them. european and american pushback against anyone criticizing Israeli apartheid & genocide is 100% because these crimes are useful to American & European hegemony.
Governments that are deeply antisemitic, like France, aren’t suddenly caring about Jewish people. Jewish people, persecuted the world over, don’t hold some kind of hegemonic power outside of Israel.
The state of Israel and its attendant brutal treatment of the locals are both incredibly useful to the US, and American hegemony means we’re expected to celebrate both.
not bc they’re Jewish. this isn’t a break in the pattern of western antisemitism and it’s not evidence that antisemitism doesn’t exist.
it’s just like how you could get fired for saying shit against the US war in Afghanistan when i was growing up. it is 100% about US military and political interests (ok slightly western europe too but lbr)
anyone have that image that was like “usa: our thoughts and prayers are with palestine and israel. our 4 billion dollars in military aid is only with israel” or something like that
My partner, who used to be a sex worker and is now a farmer, described themself recently as "Rarity to Applejack trans", and I thought you might get a kick out of that
If y’all can’t boycott Starbucks and McDonald’s what use are you really? Because these aren’t places that you NEED (do not bean soup this post I’m so serious) what do you have that’s a NEED from Starbucks?? Exactly.
The Palestinian crocodile went extinct during the British Mandate period of Palestine, it’s last traceable rhetorical circulation to 1935. Here, the crocodile represents the ecological damage of colonialism in Palestine’s indigenous wildlife, which extends to modern day occupied Palestine. [further reading].
The curse of modern fandom is that it has allowed fans to get even closer to artists, but they won’t view the artists as people.
Human limits, human mistakes, human feelings, human needs, are never ascribed to artists, and when other fans rightfully point out, “hey, humans are making this, maybe don’t harass them or demand they cater to your personal tastes,” it gets shut down under, “uh, people who make popular mainstream things are automatically Public Figures who are also probably rich, so eat the rich and destroy artists over every perceived minor fault. <3”
Even though there’s, y'know, a really big strike currently going on because those artists are very much not rich or influential or in control of the bullshit.
The more friends I make in the various facets of the entertainment industry, and the more widely my own art gets shared, the more I realize that a lot of y'all genuinely don’t see artists as human beings if they meet some arbitrary standard of Being Known Online.
There is no amount of online fame that makes someone subhuman and a valid target for blatant disrespect and harassment.
Contrary to popular belief, you do not actually own and control a piece of art just because you like it a lot. The artists are not subject to your personal whims and tastes. They owe you nothing.
Israel has started putting out loads of “evidence” that the Hamas headquarters are below the Al-Shifa hospital.
Their “evidence” is a CGI video that they made themselves showing the whole hospital and then zooming in and going below ground to show a sprawling, multi-level “headquarters” with little CGI-people with guns roaming around on metal platforms and such. Here’s the link to Netan-fuck-you’s twitter, and the video. 50/50 odds on it vanishing within 24 hours, so if anyone wants to embed the video into a reblog of this post in order to preserve it in all its bullshit glory, please do.
Their second piece of evidence is a phone call recording where the two people are “overheard” saying THEE most obvious script I’ve ever heard in my life, which basically amounts to “Well you know how the headquarters of Hamas are under the Al-Shifa hospital?” “The headquarters of Hamas are under the Al-Shifa hospital?” “Yeah, the headquarters of Hamas are under the Al-Shifa hospital.” It’s literally that badly done. I can’t now find the video of it, but if someone has it, pls link it. The version I saw was shared by SkyNews (🤮)
Make no mistake. This is israel getting ahead of the global narrative. This is Israel justifying their bombing of a hospital before they do it.
They bombed the Al-Ahli hospital, and the world responded with an enormous wave of outrage and recriminations, so Israel immediately tried to claim that Hamas did it, and then they said that actually no, it was Palestinian Jihadists (who don’t even operate out of Gaza; they’re all based in the West Bank).
They know full well that if they bombed another hospital, they wouldn’t be able to claim it was Hamas/PJ.
So now they’re laying all this groundwork, disseminating blatantly falsified “evidence” of a sprawling secret terrorist bunker hidden beneath the main hospital in Gaza, where its estimated that 50,000 people are sheltering.
If Al-Shifa hospital is still standing by this time tomorrow, I will be shocked.
Israel is laying the groundwork now so that when they level the hospital and kill every single person inside it, the public will justify it for them. “Yeah but Hamas had a huge headquarters underneath,” the public will say. “It’s not Israel’s fault that Hamas hiding underneath hospitals,” they’ll say. “Israel’s just trying to root out Hamas! It’s awful that so many civilians died, but that’s what happens when terrorists use civilians as shields” they’ll say, as though killing a human shield in order to get to the bad guy is acceptable literally anywhere in the world, much less when the “shields” amount to well over 7,000 civilians.
Do not fall for the propaganda. Do not allow Israel to bomb another hospital without forcing them to fave the backlash for it (even if they didn’t do Al-Ahli, they’ve attacked hospitals and health centres repeatedly in the past). Do not let your country’s politicians justify the slaughter of a hospital full of civilians just to get at the (alleged!!) terrorist base below. Do not let your colleagues or friends or family justify the razing of a hospital full of innocent men, women, and children.
We can’t do much to stop them, but by fuck can we do everything in our power to make sure they don’t get away with it.
[Image IDs: the first is a tweet by Netanyahu, saying Hamas-ISIS is sick. They turn hospitals into headquarters for their terror. We just released intelligence proving it.“ This is followed by a video, which the at the time of the screenshot was showing a CGI version of the hospital. Image 2 is the same, but the video was screenshotted as it shows the CGI "lair” of hamas that’s allegedly below the hospital; a multi-storey industrial-looking space with armed soldiers walking along suspended platforms. Image three is a tweet by @HenMazzig that says “BREAKING: it’s now confirmed that Hamas’s operational headquarters is stationed below the Al Shifa hospital - Gaza’s main hospital.” This is followed by an image screenshotted from Netanyahu’s bullshit video, this time showing an aerial shot of the hospital amidst the debris of the almost completely destroyed neighbouring suburb.]
I accidentally hit the poll button and now it won’t let me get rid of it or publish this post until I’ve filled it in, so: is bombing a hospital utterly reprehensible, unforgivable, and unjustifiable?
EDIT: Hey guys, there are eleven votes on the poll as of time of editing, but only two reblogs thus far. With tmblr actively suppressing any posts that have to do with the situation in Gaza, reblogs are imperative; it’s the only way to spread word, since the main tags are all being hobbled. Please reblog this. 50,000 civilians sheltering at the hospital, and Israel is almost certainly gonna bomb it - if they haven’t already.
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