jolynecujohh
ubernegro

Yemen asked the West to stop aiding in the genocide of the Palestinian people and uphold international law. The West said no.

Then Yemen conducted sanctions and blockaded a sea bordering their nation to prevent the illegal sail of those funding and abetting genocide and did so nonviolently while upholding the very international law that West refused to uphold. The West bombed them.

Yeah.

fairuzfan
intersectionalpraxis

BREAKING| Israel kills journalist Muhammad Jamal Thalathini in an airstrike that targeted his house in Gaza. pic.twitter.com/hmPZDr3rMm — Quds News Network (@QudsNen) January 11, 2024ALT

The IOF killed yet another journalist while they're on trial for genocide. They're absolute monsters.

Journalists are protected under international laws (especially under areas of "armed conflict" and since the western world/media keeps calling this a "war" [even though this is a genocide, not a war] -that the IOF has been continuously breaking Geneva Conventions and has been committing war crimes because journalists in "war zones must be treated as civilians and protected as such"). The IOF has murdered over 100 of them -these are people with livelihoods, dreams, ambitions, hobbies, families, and friends, and so much more.

I read a post earlier that when Saudia Arabia murdered one journalist back in 2018 (his name was Jamal Khashoggi) there was global outrage -as there should be for MANY reasons whenever a government institution and/or power kills a person whose work is meant to collect information, and to investigate for publication and dissemination to the world -targeting and assassinating speakers and conveyors of news is beyond heinous. But the fact that over 100 PALESTINIAN JOURNALISTS, including their families -have been systemically targeted and killed by the IOF, is despicable. The occupation MUST end and Palestine must be free.

Rest in power and peace, Muhammad.

wizardcurse
librarycards

“But what about Hamas?” I grew up with this question whipped at my face every time I declared my people’s right to survive. “What about Hamas?” It didn’t matter if I’d just asked for clean water or the right to return to our stolen land. “What about Hamas?” they’d ask, holding my humanity hostage. Their smug smiles at this question, which they saw as a rhetorical coup. I gave them hours, pages of my words. I filled rooms with my hot breath, panting, “We are not terrorists—Hamas is a symptom of oppression—yes of course I condemn extremism—this is a struggle for human rights—Israel propped up Hamas for years—please look at our children—please, don’t you see our helpless elders?—please, if you don’t respect us as humans, could you spare some pity?”

Sarah Aziza, Doomsday Diaries.

[emphasis added]

urostakako
komsomolka

South Africa’s ambassador Max du Plessis at ICJ: "What's happening at Gaza now is not correctly framed as a simple conflict between two parties. It entails instead destructive acts perpetrated by an occupying power "Israel" that is subjecting Palestinian people to oppressive and prolonged violation of their right to self determination for more than half a century."

fairuzfan
fairuzfan

I've been listening a lot to Avi Shlaim the past few days and I really recommend these two interviews to learn about the.... homogenization (? for lack of a better word) of Jewish history with European Jewish history and Iraqi/Middle Eastern Jewish history.

He mentions at the 35 minute marker of this video (click) of how there is a narration of Jewish history as persecution culminating in the Holocaust, which he says, yes, that's true about Jewish history in Europe but it isn't necessarily true about Middle Eastern Jewish history throughout centuries and it would be inaccurate to say otherwise.

Here's another Avi Shlaim video that I learned a lot from (click), how the Israeli government played a part in the 50's in sowing seeds of discord among SWANA countries to try and get the governments to expel Jewish people, which unfortunately, was largely successful.

I'm sharing not to try and discount Jewish suffering regarding SWANA Jews, I think we should talk about it, but to pretend like antisemitism is uniformly manifested around the world denies that SWANA countries and regions.... had their own cultures and identities separate from European cultures and that's all erased in favor of portraying one singular narrative of Jewish peoples regardless of their interactions and contributions to their local communities.

Anyways, I haven't read Avi Shlaim's autobiography yet but he also talks about his experience growing up in Israel, his parent's expulsion from Iraq, and how Israel fundamentally played a part in this.