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“Where is God?” an elderly man desperately wonders when surveying the debris in the Palestinian refugee camp Jenin.

Jenin Jenin directed and co-produced by Palestinian actor Mohammad Bakri, includes testimony from Jenin residents after the Israeli army’s Defensive Wall operation. The city and camp were the scenes of fierce fighting which ended with Jenin flattened and scores of Palestinians dead. Palestinians as well as numerous human rights groups accused Israel of committing war crimes in the attack. The United Nations appointed a commission of inquiry, but Israel refused to let its members visit the scene.

Jenin Jenin is dedicated to Iyad Samudi, the producer of the film, who returned home to Yamun after the shooting of the film was completed. On June 23, as Israeli forces besieged Yamun, Samudi was shot and killed as he was leaving a militarily-closed area with three friends.

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The thing that really gets me is that a very large proportion (the majority?) of currently living, endangered indigenous American languages, at least in the US and Canada America, became endangered as a result of twentieth century policy and twentieth century developments. Residential schools, forced adoptions, and economic sabotage within the last century. And of course this is the case: languages that were already endangered 100 years ago are just dead now. But the point is that these historical wrongs are not wrongs of some distant past. The people fighting for the survival of their language here are not merely daydreaming about an imagined prelapsarian past. The are fighting for something that (depending on age) they or their parents personally experienced being robbed of. Tanadrin pointed out that the more time goes on, the harder historical wrongs are to right. This is the sort of historical wrong which is often in memory close enough that meaningful mitigation is possible.

lustingupon

mongrelization

return to normalcy, amen 🙏🏻

bloglikeanegyptian

need to arrange these thoughts somewhere so:

zionists will try to convince you any palestinian civilian "deserves to die" because they may have harbored ill feelings about israel as a result of running a decades-long campaign to frame opposition to israel as an unacceptable moral flaw rather than a logical political position.

this is obviously part of connecting anti-zionism to anti-semitism and why they have been utilizing every means at their disposal to prevent even seemingly benign criticism of israel

but i can't stress enough how this hasn't convinced non-zionists so much as it has convinced zionists themselves that criticism of israel is an unacceptable moral flaw. they regard any criticism of israel with deep suspicion and believe it has to be rooted in an inherent characteristic somebody has (that characteristic can be "being arab" or "being muslim" or born hatred etc) rather than a rational response rooted in anti-colonial and anti-apartheid principles.

the idea is that if a palestinian hates israel then they are antisemites who hate israelis for merely existing, and more significantly, tolerate violence towards individual israelis (and most extrapolate this to include the worldwide jewish population) on an interpersonal level. but they never pause to consider that supporting israel in any capacity requires co-signing far more violence towards individual palestinians, and is viewed as explicit approval of the violent subjugation and dispossession of palestinians. even supporting a fantasy version of zionism where everyone gets along requires, on some level, accepting the extraordinary injustice done to palestinians as the price paid to get there. and yet far fewer (if any) zionists are ever subject to a moral purity test of being asked if they wholeheartedly love and support palestinians and believe a palestinian state should exist at any cost to israelis. israeli hatred is tolerated and justified, while palestinian opposition (and here it is important to stress it is not hatred because it is not rooted in irrational fear but rational historical grievance) is demonized.

this is also why it is important to extend allyship to palestinians by normalizing criticism of israel. palestinians are quite literally being murdered in part because they are perceived to have an inherent hatred of israel. they are so dehumanized that their rational political stances as being denied because they are seen as incapable or undeserving of rational thought. to illustrate this point, israeli perceptions of european antisemitism dictate the conversation of how palestinians feel more than palestinian history itself. imagining, for example, that a palestinian needs a book about hitler or knowledge of antisemitic tropes to hate israel when israel is literally starving them and killing their children is the height of israeli (and western) arrogance and palestinian erasure. israeli logic contends that no palestinian is allowed to have a legitimate grievance with the state and soldiers carrying out their genocide; and if they do then they deserve to be eliminated so it wasn't a genocide but a righteous act.

so rather than saying "no palestinians don't hate israel!!!! look how many palestinians work in peace projects/advocate for tolerance/condemn violence" it's important to say why on earth are palestinians required to love their colonizers? why is anyone on earth required to lend approval and loyalty to an apartheid state? are palestinians supposed to salute the israeli flag in their refugee camps between checkpoints and bombings? by legitimizing a moral purity test of loving israel, you throw every palestinian who (quite rationally) does not like israel under the bus and validate the idea that loving or hating israel is a moral position about individual values rather than an explicitly political one about states and rights.

pouringforever

red kuri squash roasted whole, filled with a porcini mushroom & walnut ragu

onenicebugperday

Blue velvet worm, Euperipatoides rowelli, Peripatopsidae

Euperipatoides rowelli occurs in humid, temperate forests of southeastern Australia. Its main habitat is decaying logs on the forest floor, where it lives in crevices and feeds on small invertebrates.

Specimens are rarely found alone, usually forming groups of a few individuals containing females, males, and juveniles. Laboratory observations on behavior concluded that these groups present some sort of hierarchy with dominant females.

Photographed in New South Wales by squiresk

nyckie

hmmm. muppet

nyckie

i miss my scrungly old manbun but it won't stop me from absolutely losing it at this photo constantly

birb-kun

Drew your thang

nyckie

oh i am cherishing this thang

lescarnetsdehaku

Wall have ears. They also love gossip and having your attention 🫶✨

mismedleym

two lamps

bokuwachikuwa

escuerzoresucitado

Why is this the first thing I see of you?

You think it is a space to enter... but it is a signal to be processed.

At the mouth of the uncanny, the preliminary scan is complete, the dread is just the noise of your wetware frying against the machinic phylum.

Welcome to the prelude of your systemic obsolescence...😎

redstonedust

bri'ish food is nothing special but every time i walk into the local fish n chip place i ask for a medium and they hand me a parcel of vinegar soaked fries so thick i struggle to carry it home with two hands. they look me in the eye and know theyve given me enough potato to feed me for a week. and for what. like 4 quid. you gotta respect the quantity over quality approach of it sometimes.