If elected president, many believe that Kamala Harris will continue Joe Biden’s doomed policy in Gaza.
Harris has been a staunch supporter of Israel for years. In 2017 she addressed the American Israel Public Affairs Committee’s (AIPAC) annual conference and reminded attendees that the first resolution she co-sponsored as a senator was aimed at combating “anti-Israel bias” at the United Nations.
“Let me be clear about what I believe. I stand with Israel because of our shared values, which are so fundamental to the founding of both our nations,” she told the crowd.
In 2018 she gave an off-the-record speech to the organization, but eventually released her comments.
In that speech she claimed that she raised money for the Jewish National Fund as a Girl Scout.
“Having grown up in the Bay area, I fondly remember those Jewish National Fund boxes that we would use to collect donations to plant trees for Israel,” she told the audience. “Years later, when I visited Israel for the first time, I saw the fruits of that effort and the Israeli ingenuity that has truly made a desert bloom.”
For those unfamiliar with the Jewish National Fund (JNF), they're a Zionist organization that has been instrumental in the ethnic cleansing of Palestine.
See Stop the JNF for more information on their history, the way they operate, and their decades-long campaign of greenwashing (i.e. destroying native plants, crops, and agriculture under the banner of 'making the desert bloom').
Continuing, the Mondoweiss article goes:
“The vast majority of people understand the importance of the State of Israel,” she added later. “Both in terms of its history and its present in terms of being a source of inspiration on so many issues, which I hope we will talk about, and also what it means in terms of the values of the United States and those values that are shared values with Israel, and the importance of fighting to make sure that we protect and respect a friend, one of the best friends we could possibly have.”
While running for President in 2019, Harris was praised by the lobbying group Democratic Majority for Israel (DMFI) for running to the right of Obama on the Iran deal.
On the campaign trail Harris told Kat Wellman, a voter affiliated with DMFI, that she would reenter the agreement but “strengthen it” by “extending the sunset provisions, including ballistic missile testing, and also increasing oversight.”
“I was very impressed with her. I thought she gave an excellent speech, she gave a very detailed, responsive answer to my question,” Wellman told a local paper after the exchange. “I’m pro-Israel, so I was I was very concerned and all about making sure we limit nuclear missiles in any country that could possibly destroy us all. I thought her answer was very good.”
Harris has condemned the BDS movement and claimed that is “based on the mistaken assumption that Israel is solely to blame for the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.” However, she voted against an anti-BDS bill in 2019 citing First Amendment concerns.
For the full article, which includes Kamala's response to Israel post Al-Aqsa Flood, see Mondoweiss (July 22, 2024)
hi so i really need help with rent this month due to being in my unemployment era. i’m really trying hard to get a job but i’ve had no luck :// if anyone could help me out i would be eternally grateful (hopefully this month will be the only time i need to make a post like this). reblog if you can! (no d*nation tags pls)
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if you’d like anything in return, i make moodboards! my mb tag is newar.jpeg
hello, going through something over and over and it's killing me.
here's my Kofi
i despeartly need to buy a phone as mine doesn't work at all and that has resulted in me losing a job (cannot keep borrowing others laptops all the time?)
and I'm teaching tuition but it's a meagre fee and i can only pay for food, bills etc.
i can work,.freelance, assignments etc . pls thanks u and I'm sorry for being SOOOO .... this has to be the worst year fr fr
"I have resigned as poetry editor of the New York Times Magazine.
The Israeli state’s U.S.-backed war against the people of Gaza is not a war for anyone. There is no safety in it or from it, not for Israel, not for the United States or Europe, and especially not for the many Jewish people slandered by those who claim falsely to fight in their names. Its only profit is the deadly profit of oil interests and weapon manufacturers. The world, the future, our hearts—everything grows smaller and harder from it. This is not only a war of missiles and land invasions. It is the ongoing devastation of the people of Palestine, people who have resisted throughout decades of occupation, forced dislocation, deprivation, surveillance, siege, imprisonment, and torture.
Because our status quo is self-expression, sometimes all artists have left is to refuse. So I refuse. I won’t write about poetry amidst the ‘reasonable’ tones of those who aim to acclimatize us to this unreasonable suffering. No more ghoulish euphemisms. No more sanitized hell-words. No more warmongering lies.
If this resignation leaves a hole in the news the size of poetry, then that is the true shape of the present."
—Anne Boyer, in her resignation as poetry editor of The New York Times Magazine
here's a list of underrated books (with under 10,000 ratings on goodreads) that i recommend because i love them and think they deserve more attention than they've gotten!
and here's another, completely new, list of underrated books (science fiction and fantasy specifically) with under 10k ratings on goodreads because they're really good and more people should read them!
author of the sword of kaigen has a new adult dark academia fantasy coming out in a few days called blood over bright haven that literally everyone should check out. i received an arc for the book and boy was that a ride anyway here is my review
i have this new philosophy in life where i aim to be swift as the coursing river, with all the force of a great typhoon, with all the strength of a raging fire, and mysterious as the dark side of the moon
anyway! i love stories about disillusionment and bitterness and resentment and casual cruelty and senseless betrayals and festering grudges and lost causes and unhealed traumas and unbreakable cycles and all-encompassing and all-consuming conflicts that have been going on for so long that no one can even recall how they actually came to be. and also divorce.
& on a related note: i love thought experiments and ethical dilemmas and psychological gordian knots and exercises in value shifting and competent yet empathetic storytelling and narratives that don’t resort to handholding their audiences when engaging with darker and/more complex themes ❣️
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yousharknotpass
dailybridgerton
kianamaiart
dededos
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turnnoffyourmind
snowghoul
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