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white british guy marxist-leninist opinion haver and tankie sympathiser. everytime you call me a usamerican you owe me £50. Decolonize Palestine

[ibtisams-deactivated20240709]

It has been hard for me to talk about how what is going on with Israel and Palestine is affecting me personally, but I grew up in Gaza and most of my family still lives there. My father did not survive the bombings last week and I have not been able to contact my younger sister in days. I am try to being understanding that most people do not have personal connections to what is happening and therefore are justifying their silence, but is heartbreaking to see this misinformation being spread. What’s happening there is a genocide, not a war. It is not antisemitic to support Palestine, it’s not even antiemetic to criticise Israel. There is no grey area or neutrality regarding this, and it is so easy to find resources that will educate you on the subject. It is my people and my home being destroyed so I will never be silent about this, but I please urge everyone to get informed and start speaking up and finding ways they can help.

decolonizepalestine has tons of information on Palestine’s history/propaganda that has been spread throughout the years

UK citizens can email their MP asking for a ceasefire

US citizens can call/email their local government officials asking for a ceasefire

Jewish Voice for Peace also has many resources for ways for US citizens to get involved, including protests

Donate to Palestine Children’s Relief Fund

Donate to Medical Aid for Palestine

Donate to help get food and hygiene kits to Gaza

[papasmoke]

Reporter: Are the airstrikes in Yemen working?

Biden: Well, when you say 'working' are they stopping the Houthis? No. Are they going to continue? Yes.

[zoesupreme]

Biden's offered republicans such a restrictive right wing immigration deal in exchange for more war funding in Ukraine and Palestine that Lindsey Graham and the minority whip are calling it a historic opportunity and saying they'd never get a deal this good under Trump but vote blue no matter who right? lesser evil!

[sesshomoru]

support gaza and yemen 🇵🇸 🇾🇪 jan. 15, 2024

direct support to gaza:

esims for gaza - help keep gaza connected! plus, a purchase guide for buying esims

help ahmed (@90-ghost) evacuate his family from gaza (via paypal, kofi). gfm did not honor his successful fundraiser and he is starting from scratch.

help shayma evacuate her family (via paypal)

"I am Shayma and I’m a part of a 16-person Gazan family hoping to relocate to safety as soon as possible. Our house was bombed on November 4th and my sister martyred and left two orphans behind. I am hoping to raise enough money to get everyone out of this war-zone in hopes of building a better life abroad. Right now, due to the IOF’s constant threats, the Rafah border is closed. However, they take bribes that reach up to $7k per person to allow us out. I’ve already collected $31k outside of GFM and now am in need for a $85k more. Please help me reach my goal. Your help is much appreciated." (Text taken from gfm*)

*out of concern that gofundme may cancel fundraisers like they cancelled ahmed's, links to gfm will not be added unless any successful campaigns for palestinians are fulfilled.

charity aid: gaza and yemen

care for gaza provides on the ground food and aid to the gaza strip (via paypal)

feed yemen - the un world food program has cut food aid to yemen, a country that has been under enforced starvation for nine years. donate to: islamic relief usa, mona relief (based in yemen)

the palestinian children's relief fund: the Gaza Relief and Recovery campaign aims to address urgent humanitarian needs and support long-term recovery efforts in Gaza.

i am including the un world food program which has been distributing aid in gaza but please note they have paused food aid to yemen. while this does not appear to be a retaliatory measure, you may consider this when choosing where to donate.

Legal aid for protesters:

Palestine Action targets arms manufacturers in the US and UK

Palestine Legal offers legal defense in the US for those who are arrested in the course of protest or sabotage on behalf of Palestine

this list will be updated

[elbiotipo]

When South Africa dismantled apartheid, it did not end with the expulsion of all white South Africans. They became part of the new South Africa, just without the criminal discriminatory oligarchic powers the apartheid goverment had. When Bolivia recognized its indigenous heritage and became a plurinational state, it did not mean that people of European descent were expelled in masse. It meant the recognition of the previously discriminated indigenous and mestizo people of Bolivia and the beginning of a path of integration and revalidation.

What I mean is that it's ridiculous to think that decolonization inherently means mass suffering and relocation, that's what colonization does. Decolonization is recognizing the crimes of colonization, but more importantly, material, political and social steps to give power and self-determination to the exploited native people who were victims of colonialism and imperialism.

In multicultural societies, you don't go like in that Peter Griffin meme with a skin tone chart and saying 'well, you go back to Europe, you go back to Africa, you stay here'. You build a new society on the paradigm of dignity for exploited people and equality under the law. People are acting like this is some sort of fantastic utopia instead of real initiatives that were done in living memory, with successes and failures, as all such initiatives have. One must ask why are some so insistent that multicultural societies can't thrive, especially when for most of history, societies were indeed like that. Consider why you think like that.

[acepumpkinpatrick]

Since western media (especial American) are working overtime to suppress South Africa's hearing and Yemeni voices I want you to keep these 3 points in mind:

Not 1 major American news outlet broadcasted the South Africa case hearing on Thursday, but they broadcasted Israel's case hearing, today, Friday 12/1/2024.

Yemen has repeatedly said that the Red Sea blockage is because it's following its duty to upload "Article 1 on the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the crime of Genocide" and IS NOT to "endanger the freedom of navigation in one of the world's most vital waterways" like Biden put it, in his statement.

Gaza Strip is still under severe bombardment. Don't allow yourself to get used to it. They just bombed an entire neighborhood in Khan Yunis which is a southern city! And as of recently the electricity has gone off in a hospital because gas has ran out.

[fromcydonia]

When a blog that says "reclaming judaism from zionism" also says glory to people that use the slogan "a curse upon the jews", your only hope is that the people running this blog arent jewish, otherwise we have a very sad problem.

[tikkunolamresistance]

The Zionist victim complex is so interesting— every group or people that resists their oppressors are framed as anti-Semetic, among being a “threat to western democracy”, as a scapegoat to justify the continuation of oppression from the imperial core.

Even so, say, hypothetically a country is dictated by an antisemitic governance… why is the antisemitism within the United States, in the form of alt-Right white supremacists and neo-nazism, is consistently ignored in favour of bombing another suposed antisemitic country? And for decades, too.

You see, we at this organization do not cherry-pick antisemitism. We do not cherry pick which form of oppression we want to give a fuck about. White supremacy and neo-nazism has been on the rise in the USA and Europe, including Ukraine— but we don’t see America bombing and killing civilians over that? Do you wonder why that is? Has a lot to do with skin colour and geopolitical interests.

So, yeah, Glory to Yemen and every resistance force standing against the warmongering, neo nazi imperial core. Hope that helps.

[koloocheh]

all military groups opposed to yankees in mena are iranian proxies. also all information contradicting israel is hamas propaganda. anyone who tells you that dems suck is a russian bot. and there are no weather balloons in china, only spy drones. oh and dont forget about north korean brainwashing

[tikkunolamresistance]

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[feluka]

bombing a poor, starving country because of shipping delays. everyday the united states sinks closer to hell.

[ubernegro]

Biden “can’t” stop a genocide that he enthusiastically funds, “can’t” protect reproductive rights, “can’t” protect our voting rights, “can’t” not fund the police, “can’t” continue Covid relief era protocols in the most deadly surge since the pandemic began, “can’t” not continue to build the wall, “can’t” not keep kids in cages, “can’t” raise the minimum wage, “can’t” cancel student debt, “can’t” stack the conservative Supreme Court, but can bomb one of the poorest countries in the world without congressional authorization?

Okay.

[dickgirlsdaily]

Fundamentally, if the democrats lose the presidency in 2024, it will not be because of "voter apathy" or "the idealistic left" or Cornell West or whatever third party candidate the liberals end up blaming. It will be because the democrats have failed to meet the lowest standards of many Americans.

You can talk about strategic voting until you're blue in the face, but fundamentally, people need reasons to vote for a candidate. There are people in this country watching as their family members get slaughtered by American arms, sent to Israel by Joe Biden. The people watching their families get murdered in Palestine have no reason to support Joe Biden. How can you ask them to?

"Sorry your family got bombed, but I need you to vote for the man who is directly responsible, or *real* people are going to suffer too."

It was at this point While I was drafting this post that I heard he just started bombing Yemen. It's like he's doing everything in his power to sink his own fucking campaign, are you shitting me? This isn't a matter of "stupid commies not being realistic enough", he's not just working for the status quo; just about every action he has taken since October 7th has been an escalation of conflict in the Middle East and made it worse for everyone living there. This is exactly what I'm talking about.

You can scold people for voting wrong as much as you want, but fundamentally the way that democrats can win elections is by pursuing good policy. If the only argument you can come up with in favor of Joe Biden is that he won't do 1 or 2 of the terrible things that Trump wants to do, then that will simply not appeal to the people who are most intensely affected by Biden's failures (not to mention people who have moral objections to genocide, even when it doesn't affect them). You can scream and cry all you want, people are not going to just overlook his role in the ethnic cleansing of Gaza just because he is the Less Bad Genocider.

If a republican wins the presidency in November, you can blame the hundreds of thousands of voters/nonvoters who should've agreed with you and put aside every moral concern they ever had about the Biden administration... or you can blame the one fucking guy whose massive foreign policy failures are going to tank his re-election campaign.

[fairuzfan]

I think the people who are going to vote for Biden should sign a statement that says "I am voting for Joe Biden, a genocider who enabled the death and displacement of millions in sudan and palestine" before they cast their ballot.

[fairuzfan]

people in the tags of this post infantalizing this issue, saying "trump is worse" and willingly showing me that they don't care about palestinians and people in darfur. you people are the reason we are at this point, i want you to know. you'll always say vote blue no matter who and it got to the point where we're debating whether or not multiple genocides are a deal breaker for casting your ballot for a president.

you can vote for biden. just don't pretend you're doing anyone a favor is all i'm saying.

[intersectionalpraxis]

I also learned this today about her:

Palestine will be free!

[7amaspayrollmanager]

Seeing zionist israelis who have been totally insanely racist towards palestinians on here and post about the tel Aviv protests and standing together just solidified that these israeli groups do not have a real ideological anti zionist foundation. It's all "peace and love and no wars" to draw in some support but once u get into the ideological roots of the occupation and genocide then they'll fracture into a million zionist pieces.

[7amaspayrollmanager]

Pointing this out bc many israelis who identify as anti zionist go to these protests and defend their politics online saying "we talk about the Nakba etc" and you literally have israelis who deny the Nakba on here and talk about supporting these protests

[fairuzfan]

Also this article someone wrote about standing together that is incredibly insulting and anti-palestinian and seeing people on here pass it around like it is the height of intellectualism is so fucking annoying. I'm not going to forgive any of you for cosigning this by the way, especially when the article straight up denies genocide and apartheid (click). There are actual jewish anti-zionist orgs and this isn't one of them lol.

[fairuzfan]

"what are you going to do firebomb a walmart" is by far the most annoying, intellectually lazy response to people who aren't going to vote lol

[death-to-usa]

Post on here: "everything you hear about the DPRK is a lie manufactured to make you hate a country that was almost wiped off the planet due to the United States. Stop believing in Western propaganda about the DPRK."

Every single tag by people who Think they understood the post: #yeah!!! #hate the government not the people!!! #everything you've ever heard about north korea is true but you should pity them not hate them #fuck Kim John Uno