Here's my #introduction. Hi, I'm Tatiana. I am a 26 year old Black Afro-Palestinian living in Canada. I am vocal about racial justice, #lgbtqia and #disabilityrights. I am interested in becoming more active in the #activist community, especially #BlackMastodon and issues about my homeland #palestine. If you don't believe in #freepalestine, please leave. Some of my hobbies include taking care of my 2 #cats, #reading, #writing and #art. Please follow me, especially if Black, LGBTQ+ or disabled.
The U.N. human rights office is citing possible war crimes by Israeli forces and Palestinian armed groups in connection with a deadly raid by Israeli forces that freed four hostages over the weekend.
If, like many people, you are still trying to process the horrific attack on the Nuseirat refugee camp, on top of the many other massacres that apartheid Israel has committed, I suggest the below video. Palestinians sharing the beauty and their memories of Gaza.
It features Australian-based Palestinian playwright Samah Sabawi reading a poem, and her artist son Nahed Elrayes, and her father Abdul Karim Sabawi, a well known poet. Along with Palestinian photographer Suhail Nassar, and Irish surf film-maker Andrew McConnell.
Does the world know about this fanatism, what words are allowed ?! Foto from the Jerusalem unification day which means ethnic cleansing of natives #palestine #israel
Survivors of Israeli strike on #Gaza school describe finding children’s bodies
A UN spokesperson, Stéphane Dujarric, said the school attack was “just another horrific example of the price that civilians are paying” as they try to escape Israeli attacks. “[They] are being forced to move around in some sort of a death circle around Gaza, trying to find safety.”
As more countries are recognizing the State of #Palestine, the departing Israeli ambassador to the United Nations, Gilad Erdan, warned that "Israel" was losing the battle over the narrative on the world stage.
Erdan told Newsweek during a media meeting last week at the Israeli Mission to the #UN that "Israel" has to "do more to convince the world," citing that it "always concerns us when our approach is not being accepted, like every normal country."
Erdan also alleged, "Today, the U.N. is being exploited and weaponized against Israel to delegitimize the whole notion of a Jewish state."
He argued that it was crucial to maintain a presence at the UN if "lies are being spread against Israel," otherwise, there would be no way for the #US and #UK ambassadors to retrieve intelligence that is helpful for allies to "continue supporting us."
[cont’d] hundreds of men singing song of vengeance, “Death to Arabs”
Imagine what a march like this feels like to a Palestinian, when hundreds of young men (youth, as the Israeli media calls them) are passing through your neighborhood, while the state insists its ok, knowing very well the only purpose is to platform Jewish supremacy and intimidation of the residents of the the old city of Jerusalem.
[…] Hours before the parade officially launched, hundreds of young men rampaged through the Old City's Muslim Quarter chanting "Death to Arabs," and violently attacked Palestinians, journalists and activists. Some of the march participants also entered Palestinian shops.
[…] In past years, the marches included countless violent incidents, racist calls and incitement by the participants against residents of east Jerusalem. Almost every year, hundreds of young men are documented singing songs of vengeance and hate accompanied by calls, "Death to Arabs."
[…] Although petitions filed in the past against the march's route throug
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[cont’d] hundreds of men singing song of vengeance, “Death to Arabs”
Imagine what a march like this feels like to a Palestinian, when hundreds of young men (youth, as the Israeli media calls them) are passing through your neighborhood, while the state insists its ok, knowing very well the only purpose is to platform Jewish supremacy and intimidation of the residents of the the old city of Jerusalem.
[…] Hours before the parade officially launched, hundreds of young men rampaged through the Old City's Muslim Quarter chanting "Death to Arabs," and violently attacked Palestinians, journalists and activists. Some of the march participants also entered Palestinian shops.
[…] In past years, the marches included countless violent incidents, racist calls and incitement by the participants against residents of east Jerusalem. Almost every year, hundreds of young men are documented singing songs of vengeance and hate accompanied by calls, "Death to Arabs."
[…] Although petitions filed in the past against the march's route through Damascus Gate and the Muslim Quarter have been dismissed by the courts several time, the judges have taken care to order the police to act with a strong arm against inciters and racist calls. In recent years, organizers have made a substantial effort to reduce these acts, but the calls have continued, albeit less than before.
Tens of thousands of people are participating in the annual Jerusalem Day Flag March, which passes through Damascus Gate and the streets of the Old City's Muslim Quarter.
This image is quite something isn’t it. Taken today during #JerusalemDay, the day far right extremists are allowed to force all Palestinians out of Jerusalem to celebrate their victory in 1967 and occupation of East Jerusalem.
This guy is a Palestinian journalist. He was just there. #Israel #Palestine
Last week, the National Student Union (unlike in the US, this is a national group that does have some political power, can strike, can collectively bargain with administrations, etc.) released a statement calling for a law to be passed which will fire, without compensation or pension, any university professor in Israel who speaks out against Israel by (a) denying its status as Jewish, (b) inciting or supporting violence or terror. (1/7)
The US House of Representatives has voted to pass legislation that would sanction the International Criminal Court (ICC) after its prosecutor applied for arrest warrants against Israeli officials.
The bill, proposed by pro-Israel Republicans, targets ICC officials involved in the case by blocking their entry to the US.
On Tuesday, it passed with a majority of Republican support by a vote of 247-155.
Les députés de la gauche habillés au couleur de la Palestine à l'Assemblée, Yaël Braun-Pivet enrage mais finit par ouvrir la séance tout sourire, faute de pouvoir les sanctionner...avant de suspendre la séance après que la députée LFI Rachel Kéké a brandi le drapeau de la Palestine. L'élue est d'ores et déjà sanctionnée par la dirlo, pardon la présidente de l'Assemblée...
“On Monday 3 June #PalestineAction upped the ante over genocide-enabling #Barclays – by targetting two locations of the Israel-complicit bank.
Overnight, Palestine Action activists targeted the Bradford and Bolton branches of Barclays, investors in Israel’s largest weapons firm – #Elbit Systems.”
“Activists dropped a banner on Monday 3 June from Westminster bridge calling on Labour Party leader Keir Starmer to say he’ll end arms sales to Israel if he wins the general election and becomes prime minister
On Sunday 2 June a letter was published from more than 100 celebrities, including Riz Ahmed, Paloma Faith and Steve Coogan, calling on Ke
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“Keir #Starmer’s #Labour just got a very public message about its support for Israel: End the arms exports”
“Activists dropped a banner on Monday 3 June from Westminster bridge calling on Labour Party leader Keir Starmer to say he’ll end arms sales to Israel if he wins the general election and becomes prime minister
On Sunday 2 June a letter was published from more than 100 celebrities, including Riz Ahmed, Paloma Faith and Steve Coogan, calling on Keir Starmer to commit to ending arms sales to Israel if elected prime minister on 4 July.”
Israel's far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir slammed US President Joe Biden’s three-stage Gaza ceasefire deal, labelling it “promiscuous”.
Ben Gvir threatened to leave the coalition and topple the government if Prime Minister Netanyahu agreed to the deal, which he said would end the war without eliminating Hamas.
The extremist minister said he was told by Netanyahu that the actual proposal differs from the one announced by Biden.
Faiza Shaheen, blocked from running in the next GE by Labour essentially for being left wing. The various reasons included "liking pro-Palestine posts on social media, including a tweet about the difficulties of speaking about Israel-Palestine." If you listen to her story, it sounds like a real witch hunt ...
As voters in the United Kingdom prepare to head to the polls on July 4 for what is widely expected to be a Labour Party landslide, we speak with a prominent candidate who was dropped by the party as part of a purge of left-wing members.
An important piece from Bosnian journalist Nidžara Ahmetašević:
"Using the term “ethnic cleansing” and talking about “complex situations” and “centuries-old hatreds” is like letting Milošević or any other genocide perpetrator win. It is deeply insulting to the victims of genocide since it implies that they are just dirt that has to be cleaned from an area."
Israel's attacks on the hospitals in the Gaza Strip violate international law, they are part of a pattern that goes back to 1948.
Hospitals are supposed to be immune from attack in times of war but Israel has repeatedly bombed and shelled them since Oct.7.
This film looks at Israel’s destruction of Gaza’s hospitals in the context of its historical expansion at the expense of the Palestinian population, going back to 1948.
Israel is attacking Gaza’s hospitals in violation of international law, but is it part of a pattern going back to 1948? Hospitals are supposed to be immune f...
"Israel's conditions for ending the war have not changed", said Benjamin Netanyahu on Saturday (June 1).
"Netanyahu is saying that Israel would never agree to the permanent ceasefire until its conditions have been met", reports FRANCE 24's Chief Foreign Editor Rob Parsons.
"Its conditions are the total defeat of Hamas so that they could no longer function in a military sense or in a governmental sense", he added.
Officials at UCLA are threatening to withhold degrees of 55 pro-Palestinian student protestors, despite reports showing that violence was initiated by counter-protestors.
Students who were arrested on 2 May when police forcefully raided the Gaza solidarity encampment received letters on Friday from administrators accusing them of violating the student code of conduct and warning them of a range of potentially serious sanctions.
House Speaker Mike Johnson, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnel have invited Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu to address Congress.
We join the State of Israel in your struggle against terror, especially as Hamas continues to hold American and Israeli citizens captive and its leaders jeopardize `regional stability`,” the letter from the congressional leaders reads.
NBC News filmed the sad scene as PRCS staff bid farewell to two colleagues killed when their ambulance was targeted while trying to reach casualties from an earlier attack.
Yesterday at the University of Toronto's People's Circle for Palestine, a woman carrying an Israeli flag pulled out a knife on one of the protesters. Toronto police did not arrest her, did not take her knife, nor make her leave the space.
Why do all these crazies have that weird smile as they threaten and insult people, and why are TO cops so gentle with them?
The zionist also asked a Black woman at the gates if her ancestors were originally from Canada. Why do all these crazy zionists have that weird smile on their face as they threaten and insult people, and why are Toronto cops so gentle with them? Of course not a peep from Mayor Olivia Chow, or Premier Doug 'it's the immigrants' Ford, or PM Justin Trudeau. No surprise there.
Today, Israel's president, Joe Biden, held a press conference in which he piously regurgitated the major points of a ceasefire deal -- accepted by Hamas and rejected by the Israelis earlier this month.
The linked thread (see below) details the exact points made by Biden today.
You can see the thread's timestamp is 6 May 2024.
You can also clearly see that each of the three points belong to a Hamas ceasefire plan, unchanged over at least two months.
Hamas consistently repeated for weeks: there are three key prerequisites to serious negotiation.
1. Permanent ceasefire
2. Complete withdrawal of Israeli military from Gaza
3. Return of displaced Palestinian civilians to their homes.
Pro Palestine activists protest at the Deputy Premier, #BenCarrol's, office in the #Victorian government's parliamentary and treasury office building in Treasury Place.
While MP #NatalieHutchins was hosting a weapons expo in Collins St., activists took the protest to Deputy Premier, Ben Carroll's, office building to demand that the Victorian government cancel its Memorandum of Understanding with the Israeli Ministry of Defence. They also demanded that the VIC government cancel all contracts with Israeli weapons company and war profiteers, #ElbitSystems. Ben Carroll recently returned from a junket trip to Israel where he further cemented the Victorian government's complicity in Israel's genocidal war against the people of the occupied territories of #Palestine.
The Victorian #government is courting weapons company investment when it should be investing in Victorian manufacturing for climate solutions and public transport, not in tooling up for the war machine of death and destruction.
Elite colleges are frantically poring over their multibillion-dollar endowment investment portfolios. They urgently need to appease their elite, privileged, tacitly or overtly anti-Semitic students…
"But even if there were legitimate doubts about Israel’s genocide, there is no doubt that Israel is committing atrocity crimes of the most barbaric kind. Israel must be stopped. Israel must be stopped now."
![Solo Monk @JJKALE2 · May 30
“The issue was 1200 people were slaughtered on Oct 7”
I dont understand how after 7 months of watching Israel indiscriminately bomb & kill 10's of thousands of children in Gaza, this for her is the "issue".
Absolutely disgusting.
@abcnews @RadioNational @PatsKarvelas
[image of TV screen, displaying Patricia Karvelas]
Valentenya the climate cat 🍉☮️
@Valentenya11
It’s all in the word “people” and the unspoken understanding that it doesn’t include Palestinians.
2:54 PM · May 31, 2024 · 52 Views](https://friendica.hellquist.eu/photo/preview/640/2791509 "Solo Monk @JJKALE2 · May 30
“The issue was 1200 people were slaughtered on Oct 7”
I dont understand how after 7 months of watching Israel indiscriminately bomb & kill 10's of thousands of children in Gaza, this for her is the \"issue\".
Absolutely disgusting.
@abcnews @RadioNational @PatsKarvelas
[image of TV screen, displaying Patricia Karvelas]
Valentenya the climate cat 🍉☮️
@Valentenya11
It’s all in the word “people” and the unspoken understanding that it doesn’t include Palestinians.
2:54 PM · May 31, 2024 · 52 Views")
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Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention
@LemkinInstitute
The Lemkin Institute has had it with the cynical lies and propaganda from Israel and the USA. One can have different views about the definition of genocide, but one may not use definitional disputes to deny genocide. If a genocide may be occurring, every nation is compelled by customary law to try to stop it.
Let us be clear: Israel is committing genocide in Gaza. The US is complicit in genocide. These are not political statements. They are statements that are made from knowledge and experience. Nevertheless, you do not need a PhD , a law degree, or X-ray vision to see the genocidal dimensions of Israel’s carnage in Gaza. It is clear in the behavior of the state and its military, on full display in yesterday’s horrific bombardment of a Rafah camp.
But even if there were legitimate doubts about Israel’s genocide, there is no doubt that Israel is committing atrocity crimes of the most barbaric kind. Israel must be stopped. Israel must be stopped now.
We are disgusted by Western leaders, especially in the USA, Germany, and the UK. They have demonstrated not only that they don’t care one bit about genocide prevention and human rights, but also that they are willing to allow an ally to commit atrocity crimes while they offer material and diplomatic support. It is reprehensible and the individuals involved in this gaslighting campaign should be deeply ashamed. They should also be put on trial.
[...]](https://friendica.hellquist.eu/photo/preview/640/2790390 "screenshot of tweet:
Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention
@LemkinInstitute
The Lemkin Institute has had it with the cynical lies and propaganda from Israel and the USA. One can have different views about the definition of genocide, but one may not use definitional disputes to deny genocide. If a genocide may be occurring, every nation is compelled by customary law to try to stop it.
Let us be clear: Israel is committing genocide in Gaza. The US is complicit in genocide. These are not political statements. They are statements that are made from knowledge and experience. Nevertheless, you do not need a PhD , a law degree, or X-ray vision to see the genocidal dimensions of Israel’s carnage in Gaza. It is clear in the behavior of the state and its military, on full display in yesterday’s horrific bombardment of a Rafah camp.
But even if there were legitimate doubts about Israel’s genocide, there is no doubt that Israel is committing atrocity crimes of the most barbaric kind. Israel must be stopped. Israel must be stopped now.
We are disgusted by Western leaders, especially in the USA, Germany, and the UK. They have demonstrated not only that they don’t care one bit about genocide prevention and human rights, but also that they are willing to allow an ally to commit atrocity crimes while they offer material and diplomatic support. It is reprehensible and the individuals involved in this gaslighting campaign should be deeply ashamed. They should also be put on trial.
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