finished reading thru The Hundred Years' War On Palestine: A History of Settler Colonial Conquest and Resistance by Rashid Khalidi and I cannot recommend it enough. A lot of people and, very likely, the average, person not completely blinded by Islamophobia and/or USamerican/European/British exceptionalism are probably at least moderately sympathetic to the Palestinian cause but I don't know how many of us actually understand the degrees by which Israel is based in settler colonial ideology, how it has continually attempted to subjugate and ultimately eradicate the Palestinian people, and the degree by which the US and Britain (but mostly the US ever since the Six Day War in 1967) have been complicit in this continual genocide.
This book is an amazing comprehensive guide on understanding the conflict and I genuinely think you should give it a read (or listen) if you want to learn more. It is one thing to feel sympathy and to declare support for a cause, but I think it is important to take a step further and educate yourself more on it. A ploy I have seen frequently by zionists is to tell people to "educate themselves" before commenting on this genocide, hoping to instill doubt and encourage silence. Well, here is your chance to educate yourself! I'm obviously biased in favor of this one as it is the first major text on the Palestinian genocide that I have read, but I fully believe in its quality.
You can find this book online in PDF format or, if you prefer, you can purchase a physical copy from many of the large retail bookstores; Barnes & Noble in the US sells it, and so does Waterstones in the UK. There is also an official audiobook that you can either purchase through many of the major audiobook distributors (though I recommend avoiding Amazon if it can be helped), but you can also obtain it via other means if necessary. It's actually currently up on YouTube in its entirety, though I won't link it here in case it gets taken down. (It's really easy to search for, just type in the books title + 'audiobook' into your preferred search engine or on YouTube itself and you'll find it. It's about 10 hours long which is a reasonable length for an audiobook). I'll include a link in this post to an overview/lecture/dialogue with the author Rashid Khalidi on the contents of the book conducted at Brown University in 2020.
I do ask you read this book. I think a lot of people already are. I checked a couple of online libraries that have a limited number of audiobook copies that had all been checked out and that to me implies that people do want to educate themselves. There's a sizeable stack of these books at the local bookstore I ocassionally shop at, front and center on the table in the history and world affairs section. It's not hard to find. I hope you all have a good day or evening and I know that if we all take the time to educate ourselves further and approach this genocide with a deeper understanding, we may be able to do something about it. Emotional pleas are not enough, they must be informed ones as well.
i also wanna say that this is probably the easiest academic read I've ever experienced. It is specifically designed to appeal to a more general audience beyond people in academia. it is of course cited and full of sources like any academic text should be but the prose has a good flow to it and it doesnt have that super dry analytical stuffiness that puts me off from a lot of academic writing. like i seriously cannot recommend this enough. if you are looking for an introduction to the history of this genocide, here is something tailor-made for you
Every time I hear mention of a youtube celebrity it’s a new one of these stock image looking people who seemingly appeared out of the void two weeks ago, fully formed with five million followers and the capacity to commit horrible crimes against another youtube celebrity which they will tearfully apologize for in a fifteen minute video
Mylar truly wishes he could take back what he has done and only hopes that you, the fans, can forgive him.
Here’s the thing: I made this post with nobody in particular in mind and people keep reblogging me and saying that it’s in direct reference to [_____] or asking me if it’s about such and such and it’s someone new each time which probably means that there’s, like, a problem.
This is the shortest video of all time. But regardless we got like half of one song recorded from the show. Shane (our new bassist and vocalist) fucking killed it. Hiatus is over bitches. Get ready to get your teeth kicked in.
Well, today is Kevin Brum’s birthday, today is also throwback thursday. Jam out to one of the earlier MFB songs and laugh at how stupid conservative christians are
You piece of shit
Jesus fucking christ
I hate your guts
Its time to die
Your words all suck
You're ignorant
Dont talk to me
Im not your friend The revolution will soon come
And Ill tell you friend
You will be gone
That day will come
You'll be the first to go
Just dont forget
I told you so!
So Pigs Galore! opens with a sample of an activist/protester talking... Do you know their name? What's it from?
Pigs Galore and Smash It All have bits from a protests that I attended back in August against Urban Shield/police brutality as well as in solidarity with palestine and ferguson.
Unfortunately, I wasn’t able to get the names of those speaking, but that could be found out if someone was curious. The bit in Smash It All was from a speak with an organization called IJAN
are you still looking for a bassist? if so, what exactly would you be looking for in one (other than the ability to play bass)?
Other than the ability to play bass? Well hopefully someone who we can all get along with obviously, MFB needs someone who will actually take things seriously, who can deal with things not going the way they are planned to go ever, with chaos and unorganized knuckle heads and idiots. Someone who can put in a lot of time/energy/stress and not lose that drive. Especially considering all of us will live in the same area during summer.
Musically, we need someone who knows their scales. We need someone who I can show a song to and they can pick up at least what key its in, and (preferably) can pick things up on their on pretty easy. Someone who isn't going to simply follow the guitar riff, but is willing to steer off on their own and to work the scale and to actually have the bass be alive and doing stuff in the tracksIn short, if the songs on the This Is It split are way out of your league to play, doing try to play bass with us, if you can keep up a little bit, then maybe keep in contact.
What it comes down to is if you actually know what you're doing on bass or not, thats what I need from a bassist. Someone who knows and understands what their doing.
Also please keep in mind that we've had a lot of requests from people to play, just because we are talking, doesn't mean you've got the spot
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