give me an open window

Just stuff. Also Zena told me to.

[sashayed]

sitting motionless at my desk with three untouched work documents open thinking about how fire on earth requires biological material to consume. "wow how cool, is fire kind of a byproduct of life? did it exist on earth before life expanded to the terrestrial? did the algae mats burn if struck by lightning? surely not. too wet. did the lava from volcanoes touch anything that could 'burn'??" then i thought well fire in space does not require biological material, so i guess i'll go fuck myself and my Fire And Life Are Sisters theory, but then i started wondering if a star IS a fire in the way that a candle flame is a fire, which i know it isn't, but also isn't it? kind of? IS it? explain fire to me! explain fire!!!!!

[shoshmazik]

OH middle school science teacher time to shine! Fire is a chemical reaction called combustion that requires oxygen and biological material. A star is actually a 4th state of matter called plasma. There's also other stuff going on, like nuclear fusion. Both produce heat and light, which I think is where they get conflated, but lots of chemical reactions and processes produce heat and light. I think your original premise connecting fire and biological life is sound scientifically

[palistani]

let me say this as a Palestinian Minnesotan about Walz. do i “like” him generally? sure let’s say that for once the dems picked someone who won’t doom their blue fash brigade.

is he good for Palestine? no. I think he’s spineless in front of zionism and like usual he does not care about Palestinian lives.

i won’t forget how he refused to meet with Ghazawis who wanted to speak to him about what Minnesota can do to support their families and the Palestinians of Gaza. He wanted a photo op and to “hear their own personal stories” but the moment they had a list of demands as constituents he cancelled the meeting and shut them out. And i know these families personally, as I organize & advocate with them

Despite our constant pressuring to have MN divest from Israel, his government wants to pretend like they have to “prioritize returns on investments for Minnesotans who are trusting them with their money” despite seamlessly encouraging the state to divest from Russia & Belarus in 2022 AND he divested MN from Iran & Sudan. Besides, Minnesota had divested from Apartheid South Africa as well so clearly there was a precedent for divesting.

[palistani]

oop can’t forget that he called the national guard on the protestors in Minneapolis after George Floyd’s murder, strengthened and established a police force dedicated to targeting indigenous Anishinaabe and Dakota communities for protesting oil fracking (trained by the IDF), and aside from not divesting he’s doing damn photo ops with Israeli “Diplomats”

it’s crazy how much Minnesotan news (MPR & Star Tribune) focus on Walz’s education & family program wins to the point that all of this shit is covered up and erased from Minnesotan memory unless you personally were impacted by it.

Minnesota had sent delegates to Washington for the Uncommitted Movement. My friend (she’s Algerian) was one of the delegates and she cast her vote for her brother-in-law’s Uncle who was martyred in Gaza fleeing with his wife and children, and I just know Minnesotans and Midwesterners (aside from Michigan-specifically Detroit) will see Walz as an excuse and green light to vote for Harris

[recently-reanimated]

Listen, staning politicians is bad. We must remain critical of people in power.

However it is funny to watch Republicans act like this man is the devil incarnate.

This is democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Walz Gov. Of Minnesota. This man looks like if a capybara was a person. He looks like he'd pull over on the side of the road and help you change a flat tire. He looks like he'd offer you hot coco from his thermos if you were out ice fishing with him.

[rin-tezuka]

Womp womp

[rin-tezuka]

JCRC applauds Gov. Tim Walz’ pro-Israel record, stalwart friendship with Jewish community - JCRC

Gov. Tim Walz has spoken forcefully in support of Israel and against antisemitism. Read his quotes here.

Everybody in the notes is one of the dumbest fuckers alive.

[2spirit-1spoon]

Israeli weapons in Minneapolis?

CODEPINK is a feminist grassroots organization working to end U.S. wars and militarism, support peace and human rights initiatives, and redi

[shoshmazik]

As a person who lives in Minneapolis, the way people are talking about Walz is making me feel insane. 1) Walz crushed Line 3 water protectors and allowed Enbridge to build the pipeline. He did this brutally and violently, and mostly to Indigenous and Native people. 2) He was at best silent and at worst unsupportive when the Minneapolis Federation of Teachers went on strike for the first time in over 50 years. It was so demoralizing to us on the picket, especially after how much he's leaned into being a former teacher. 3) Most of the things he's being given credit for, like Universal Free Student Lunch, was the work of organizers and state legislators. 4) He's called in the National Guard multiple times since George Floyd was murdered. 5) He vetoed bills that would have given nurses more control over their work schedules and a bill that would have given Uber and Lyft drivers minimum wage because corporations threw a hissy fit. And, OP, the reason you can say things like "This man looks like if a capybara was a person" is because whiteness has conditioned you to see people like him as safe despite being someone at the helm of one of the most violent, destructive systems to ever exist. BIPOC in Minnesota know that people who look like and act like Walz are often the most dangerous, especially with the absolutely insidious racism that undergirds "Minnesota Nice". Is Walz the most "progressive" vp Kamala could have chosen? Probably. However, that is not saying much in a country as far to the right as the US.

[akajustmerry]

important to note than there are also gofundmes for Palestinians who need funds to rebuild their homes and businesses that need as much attention as gofundmes for those fleeing genocide. I feel like helping Palestinians shouldn't be synonymous with displacement.

[tamarrud]

While we continue to donate to personal evacuation funds, I think it is crucial to keep in mind that these individuals as well as millions more in Gaza are currently actively in need of basic necessities like food, water, shelter, and medical care. Keeping this in mind, and recognising that there is no way to know when the border crossing with Egypt will reopen, I think our attention should also be on raising funds for organisations currently on the ground who will have the widest impact on the lives of Palestinians who are still enduring the genocide in Gaza.

Below are some verified donation links of organisations that are currently providing assistance for the people in Gaza directly:

Food, water, and shelter

Taawon has launched a campaign to provide support in Gaza through food parcels, shopping vouchers, fresh produce, water bottles and shelter tents.

Watermelon Relief is a project initiated and implemented by a group of activists in Gaza, who work to provide aid to displaced families in Gaza through meals, support and activities.

World Food Programme (WFP) managed to provide assistance to more than 1 million people in Gaza in May by delivering food in shelters, makeshift camps and shops.

Life for Gaza is an initiative through which the Municipality of Gaza aims to provide basic necessities for the people of Gaza such as water projects, waste collection and the reconstruction of roads.

Arab Group for the Protection of Nature (APN) is working to plant farmlands in Gaza through their "Revive Gaza Farmlands" project, through which they had already started planting vegetables, fruits and leafy greens in Gaza.

Purchasing eSIMs is one of the only remaining ways to keep Gazans connected with the outside world, to get their stories out or even enable them to call for help after Israeli strikes.

The Sameer Project is a donation based aid initiative that provides tents, cash aid, diapers and formula for displaced families in Gaza.

Care For Gaza is an organisation that works to provide essential aid such as food packages and cash to deliver to displaced families in Gaza.

Palestine Children's Relief Fund, through their "Gaza Relief and Recovery" campaign, plan to provide essential medical supplies and treatments, as well as food and clean water.

Mutual Aid for the People of Gaza is a fundraiser managed by Mona in Gaza, who personally purchases and distributes basic supplies including food parcels to families in Gaza.

Help Gaza Children is another grassroots effort operating on the ground in Gaza to support families with food, water and clothing.

Medical care

Medical Aid for Palestine (MAP) provides medical supplies and supports healthcare services in Gaza.

Gaza Wound Care is a medical team in a tent in Nuseirat, providing care to children and supporting pregnant women.

Children Not Numbers is an NGO dedicated to providing medical care for the children in Gaza including delivery of medical aid and medical evacuation for children.

[gothhabiba]

🍉🇵🇸 eSims for Gaza masterpost 🇵🇸🍉

Which eSims are currently being called for?

As of January 29:

Nomad (regional Middle East plan): code NOMADCNG

Holafly (Israel and Egypt plans): code HOLACNG

Be sure you're looking at the original post, as this will be continually updated. Any new instructions about replying to emails for specific types of unactivated plans will also appear here.

Check the notes of blackpearlblasts's eSim post, as well as fairuzfan's 'esim' tag, for referral and discount codes.

How do I purchase an eSim?

If you cannot download an app or manage an eSim yourself, send funds to Crips for eSims for Gaza (Visa; Mastercard; Paypal; AmEx; Canadian e-transfer; or to me (venmo @gothhabiba; paypal.me/Najia; cash app $NajiaK; check the notes of this post for updates on what I've purchased.)

You can purchase an eSim yourself in an app, or on desktop (with the exception of Simly, which does not have a desktop site). See this screenreader-accessible guide to purchasing an eSim through each of the five services that the Connecting Humanity team is calling for (Simly, Nomad, Mogo, Holafly, and Airalo).

Send a screenshot of the plan's QR code to [email protected]. Be sure to include the app used, the word "esim," the type of plan (when an app has more than one, aka "regional Middle East" versus "Palestine"), and the amount of data or time on the plan, in the subject line or body of your email.

Message me if you have any questions or if you need help purchasing an eSim through one of these apps.

Which app should I use?

Try to buy an eSim from one of the apps that the team is currently calling for (see above).

If the team is calling for multiple apps: Nomad is best in terms of data price, app navigability, and ability to top up. Mogo has the worst user interface in my opinion. Holafly has the most expensive data, but plans can be topped up. Simly Middle East plans cannot be topped up; Simly Palestine ones can.

How much data should I purchase?

Mirna el-Helbawi has been told that large families may all rely on the same plan for data (by setting up a hotspot). Some recipients of eSim plans may also be using them to upload video.

For those reasons I would recommend getting the largest plan you can afford for plans which cannot be topped up: namely, Simly "Middle East" plans. Note that Holafly plans can only be topped up on desktop, not through the app.

For all other plans, get a relatively small amount of data (1-3 GB, a 3-day plan, etc.), and top up the plan with more data once it is activated.

Is there anything else I need to do?

Check back regularly to see if the plan has been activated. Once it's been activated, check once a day to see if data is still being used, and how close the eSim is to running out of data or to expiring.

If the eSim hasn't been activated after three weeks or so, reply to the original email that you sent to Gaza eSims containing the QR code for that plan.

If you purchased the eSim through an app which has a policy of starting the countdown to auto-expiry a certain amount of time after the purchase of the eSim, rather than only upon activation (Nomad does this), then also reply to your original e-mail once you're within a day or so of this date.

How do I top up a plan?

See this guide on how to tell if your plan has been activated, how to top up plans, and (for Nomad) how to tell when the auto-expiry will start. Keep topping up the eSim for as long as the data usage keeps ticking up. This keeps a person or family connected for longer, without the Connecting Humanity team having to go through another process of installing a new eSim.

If the data usage hasn't changed in a week or so, allow the plan to expire and purchase another one.

What if I can't afford a larger plan, or don't have time or money to keep topping up an eSim?

I have set up a pool of funds out of which to buy and top up eSims, which you can contribute to by sending funds to my venmo (@gothhabiba), PayPal (paypal.me/Najia), or cash app ($NajiaK). Check the notes of this post for updates on what I've purchased, which plans are active, and how much data they've used.

Crips for eSims for Gaza also has a donation pool to purchase esims, but I don't know about their practices regarding topping them up.

What if my eSim has not been activated, even after I replied to my email?

Make sure that the QR code you sent was a clear screenshots, and not a photo of a screen; and that you didn’t install the eSim on your own phone by scanning the QR code or clicking “install automatically."

Possible reasons for an eSim not having been activated include: it was given to a journalist as a back-up in case the plan they had activated expired or ran out of data; there was an error during installation or activation and the eSim could no longer be used; the eSim was installed, but not activated, and then Israeli bombings destroyed the phone, or forced someone to leave it behind.

An eSim that was sent but couldn’t be used is still part of an important effort and learning curve. Errors in installation, for example, are happening less often than they were in the beginning of the project.

Why should I purchase an eSim? Is there any proof that they work?

Israel is imposing near-constant communications blackouts on Gaza. The majority of the news that you are seeing come from Gaza is coming from people who are connected via eSim.

eSims also connect people to news. People are able to videochat with their family for the first time in months, to learn that their family members are still alive, to see their newborn children for the first time, and more, thanks to eSims.

Some of this sharing of news saves lives, as people have been able to flee or avoid areas under bombardment, or learn that they are on evacuation lists.

Why are different plans called for at different times?

Different eSims work in different areas of the Gaza Strip (and Egypt, where many refugees currently are). The team tries to keep a stockpile of each type of sim on hand.

[pawberri]

I'll be supporting the strike and avoid posting art this week, but I'm hesitant to share donation links as we know most aid is stuck outside palestine even according to Bisan. Call reps and strike and protest all you can in any way you can

[pawberri]

I wanted to share the information I found on eSims. This article lays out the pros and cons and explains the complexity, but also makes it clear eSims really can reach Gaza.

Gazans Are Trying to Stay Online Under Siege. New Tech Is Struggling to Help.

Amid blackouts and wrecked infrastructure, eSIMs are being used to try and stay in contact with the outside world.

Mirna El Helbawi is one of the journalists who began eSim fundraising. Here's the newest info she posted on what eSims they are needing the most.

From Jan 24th

They need sims from these sources more than the Simly app currently, it seems.

Here are further info graphics from El Helbawi

Original post

I am someone who is very paranoid but I believe this is verified and reliable. If you send proof of donation, I'll do my best to draw a doodle for you. Ill also make my own donations.

Let's continue to fight for human rights 🇵🇸 Millions of people are trying to survive and need our support

[pawberri]

Anyone who sends proof of donation to Nomad or Holafly can recieve a drawing like these!!

[khizuo]

when can we talk about the fact that jvp is funded by a liberal zionist org and the founder is married to someone who literally works for an israeli cybersecurity tech company

[fairuzfan]

wait pal legal? really?

[khizuo]

unfortunately yeah, here's the full list of orgs funded by fmep for those curious

[shoshmazik]

If anyone has more sources on this, I'd be very interested. FMEP is clearly not great but also don't seem to include gag orders on Israel in their funding, which pretty much all other Jewish funders do. I wonder if there's a copy or text from what their application or RFP looks like to see what stipulations or restrictions are included around policy and political ideology.

I'm personally uncomfortable with the space JVP takes up. Palestinians should be the center and leaders of the resistance movement and it's frustrating that Jews are being given so much airtime when we are not the people directly harmed.

On the other hand, JVP is one of very few explicitly anti-Zionist Jewish organizations and useful for anti-Zionist Jews to broadly base-build with each other. Which is not to say that anti-Zionist Jews can't be part of coalition or multicultural groups, that's mostly what I've been involved in. I've also seen that JVP can be moved left when their membership has demanded it. These issues around funding are the underlying problem with the entire non-profit model imho and why I don't expect much from any non-profit in general. However, if there's more stuff that makes JVP dangerous or potentially harmful to the broader movement, I'd like to know. In other words, is this a resource that can be used with an understanding and suspicion of its limitations or does it need to be divested from entirely

[tamarrud]

Israel is obsessed with playing the victim yet they routinely abduct children and prosecute them in military courts...

[tamarrud]

Israel has the dubious distinction of being the only country in the world that automatically and systematically prosecutes children in military courts that lack fundamental fair trial rights and protections. Israel prosecutes between 500 and 700 Palestinian children in military courts each year.

3 out of 4 Palestinian child detainees experience physical violence at the hands of Israeli forces.

59% were arrested at night

86% were not informed of the reason for their arrest

97% had their hands bound

89% were blindfolded

75% were subjected to physical violence 

58% were subjected to verbal abuse, humiliation, or intimidation during or after their arrest

54% were transferred from the place of their arrest on the floor of a military vehicle

80% were strip searched

42% were denied adequate food and water

31% were denied access to a toilet

66% were not properly informed of their rights

97% were interrogated without a family member present

55% were shown or made to sign a paper in Hebrew, a language most Palestinian children do not understand

36% were threatened or coerced

25% were subjected to stress positions

23% were detained in solitary confinement for interrogation purposes for a period of two or more days

– DCI Palestine

[tamarrud]

Israel is obsessed with playing the victim yet they routinely abduct children and prosecute them in military courts...

[tamarrud]

Israel has the dubious distinction of being the only country in the world that automatically and systematically prosecutes children in military courts that lack fundamental fair trial rights and protections. Israel prosecutes between 500 and 700 Palestinian children in military courts each year.

3 out of 4 Palestinian child detainees experience physical violence at the hands of Israeli forces.

59% were arrested at night

86% were not informed of the reason for their arrest

97% had their hands bound

89% were blindfolded

75% were subjected to physical violence 

58% were subjected to verbal abuse, humiliation, or intimidation during or after their arrest

54% were transferred from the place of their arrest on the floor of a military vehicle

80% were strip searched

42% were denied adequate food and water

31% were denied access to a toilet

66% were not properly informed of their rights

97% were interrogated without a family member present

55% were shown or made to sign a paper in Hebrew, a language most Palestinian children do not understand

36% were threatened or coerced

25% were subjected to stress positions

23% were detained in solitary confinement for interrogation purposes for a period of two or more days

– DCI Palestine

[jackietaylorsghost]

[callese]

[chrisdornerfanclub]

do you have any book recommendations on zionizm or israel/palestine conflict

I had a screenshot of my reading list going around for awhile but I’ve updated it since. Here’s what I have so far:

- The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine. Ilan Pappe

- The Jewish State. Theodore Herzl

- The Iron Wall. Ze’ev Jabotinsky

- Lethal Theory. Eyal Weizman

- The Returns of Zionism: Myths, Politics and Scholarship in Israel. Gabriel Piterberg

- Palestine: A Four Thousand Year History. Nur Masalha

- Legacy of Empire: Britain, Zionism and the Creation of Israel. Gardner Thompson

- Land, Labor and the Origin of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, 1882-1914. Greshon Shafir

- Comrades and Enemies: Arab and Jewish Workers in Palestine, 1906-1948. Zachary Lockman

- The Revolution of 1936-1939 in Palestine. Ghassan Kanafani

- Palestinians: From Peasants to Revolutionaries. Rosemary Sayigh

- The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917-2017. Rashid Khalidi

- Zionism During the Holocaust: The Weaponization of Memory in the Service of State and Nation. Tony Greenstein

- Zionism in the Age of Dictators. Lenni Brenner

- The Transfer Agreement: The Dramatic Story of the Pact Between the Third Reich and Jewish Palestine. Edwin Black

- In the Shadow of the Holocaust: The Struggle Between Jews and Zionists in the Aftermath of World War II. Yosef Grodzinky

- What Must Be Forgotten: The Survival of Yiddish in Zionist Palestine. Yael Chaver

- Hebrew Fascism in Palestine, 1922-1942. Dan Tamir

- The Jewish Radical Right: Revisionist Zionism and its Ideological Legacy. Eran Kaplan

- The Iron Wall: Zionist Revisionism from Jabotinsky to Shamir. Lenni Brenner

- The Making of Israeli Militarism; War Over Peace: One Hundred Years of Israel’s Militaristic Nationalism. Uri Ben-Eliezer

- Fortress Israel: The Inside Story of the Military Elite Who Run the Country - And Why They Make Peace. Patrick Tyler

- The Dark Side of Zionism: Israel’s Quest for Security Through Dominance. Baylis Thomas

- Evangelicals and Israel: The Story of American Christian Zionism. Stephan Spector

- Hollow Land: Israel’s Architecture of Occupation. Eyal Weizman

- Israel: A Settler Colonial State. Maxime Rodinson

- Israel and Settler Society. Lorenzo Veracini

- Israeli Exceptionalism: The Destabilizing Logic of Zionism. M. Shahid Alam

- Imperial Israel and the Palestinians: The Politics of Expansion. Nur Masalha

- The Iron Wall: Israel and the Arab World. Avi Shlaim

- War Against the People: Israel, the Palestinians and Global Pacification. Jeff Halper

- Disappearing Palestine: Israel’s Experiments in Human Despair. Jonathan Cook

- The Palestine Laboratory: How Israel Exports the Technology of Occupation Across the World. Antony Loewenstein

- Palestinian Identity in Jordan and Israel: The Necessary "Others" in the Making of a Nation by Riad Nassar

- We Look Like the Enemy: The Hidden Story of Israel’s Jews from Arab Lands. Rachel Shabi

- On the Arab Jew, Palestine, and Other Displacements. Ella Shohat

- The Mizrahi Era of Rebellion: Israel’s Forgotten Civil Rights Struggle 1948-1966. Bryan Roby

- Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Makings of a Movement. Angela Davis

- Zionism and its Discontents: A Century of Radical Dissent in Israel/Palestine. Ran Greenstein

- Rebels Against Zion: Studies on Jewish Left Anti-Zionism. Jack Ross

- Strategy for the Liberation of Palestine

- After Zionism: One State for Israel and Palestine. Antony Loewenstein, Ahmed Moor

- Decolonizing Israel, Liberating Palestine: Zionism, Settler Colonialism, and the Case for One Democratic State. Jeff Halper

- Zionism from the Standpoint of its Victims (1979). Edward Said

- Sephardim in Israel: Zionism from the Standpoint of its Jewish Victims (1988). Social Text. Ella Shohat

- Zionism’s Internal Others: Israel and the Oriental Jews (1996). Journal of Palestine Studies. Joseph Massad

- The Great Chain of Orientalism: Jewish Identity, Stigma Management, and Ethnic Exclusion in Israel (2003). American Sociological Review. Aziza Khazzoom

- Zionism in National Socialist Jewish Policy in Germany, 1933-39 (1978). The Journal of Modern History. Francis Nicosia

- Ethnoreligious Fundamentalism and Theoethnocratic Politics in Israel (2014). Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism. Nissim Leon

- The Hebrew Reconquista of Palestine: From the 1947 United Nations Partition to the First Zionist Congress in 1897 (2009). Journal of Palestine Studies. Walid Khalidi

- Settler Colonialism and the State of Exception: The Example of Palestine/Israel (2012). Settler Colonial Studies. David Lloyd

- The Surrogate Colonization of Palestine, 1917-1939 (1989). American Ethnologist. Scott Atran

- Zionism and Imperialism: The Historical Origins (1977). Journal of Palestine Studies. Abdul-Wahab Kayyali

- The Political Economy of Israel’s Demand for Palestinian Labor (1998). Third World Quarterly. Ali Kadri, Malcolm McMillen

- The Political Economy of Israeli Occupation: What is Colonial About It? (2008). Electronic Journal of Middle Eastern Studies. Leila Farsakh

- Communism versus Zionism: The Comintern, Yishuvism, and the Palestine Communist Party (2007). Journal of Palestine Studies. Johan Franzen

- The Nakba Did Not Start or End in 1948 (2017). Al-jazeera. https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2017/5/23/the-nakba-did-not-start-or-end-in-1948

- Zionism, Anti-Semitism and Colonialism (2012). Joseph Massad. Al-jazeera. https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2012/12/24/zionism-anti-semitism-and-colonialism/

- Anti-blackness and the Core Logic of Zionism (2017). Devyn Springer. Mondoweiss. https://mondoweiss.net/2017/10/blackness-logic-zionism/

- Blowback: How Israel Went From Helping Create Hamas to Bombing It (2018). Medhi Hasan, Dina Sayedahmed. The Intercept. https://theintercept.com/2018/02/19/hamas-israel-palestine-conflict/

- Zionist Role in 1950s Attacks on Iraqi Jews ‘Confirmed’ by Operative and Police Report (2023). Rayhan Uddin. Middle East Eye. https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/iraq-jews-attacks-zionist-role-confirmed-operative-police-report

- How Benjamin Netanyahu Became a Holocaust Revisionist (2018). Anshel Pfeffer. Ha’aretz [Zionist publication] https://www.haaretz.com/world-news/2018-12-13/ty-article-opinion/.premium/how-netanyahu-became-a-holocaust-revisionist/0000017f-ded1-d3ff-a7ff-fff1b72a0000

- Scholars Call Bullshit on Netanyahu’s Speech Blaming Palestinians for the Holocaust (2015). Avi Asher-Schapiro. Vice News. https://www.vice.com/en/article/vb83gm/scholars-call-bullshit-on-netanyahus-speech-blaming-palestinian-for-the-holocaust

- Trump Accuses ‘Liberal Jews’ of Voting to ‘Destroy America and Israel’ in Rosh Hashanah Message (2023). Summer Concepcion. NBC News. https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-goes-liberal-jews-israel-rosh-hashanah-message-rcna105540

- Majorie Taylor Greene Calls Israel-Gaza Ceasefire Protest an ‘Insurrection’ (2023). Heather Hunter. MSN News. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/marjorie-taylor-greene-calls-israel-gaza-ceasefire-protest-an-insurrection/ar-AA1itAHG

- Government Said to Use Canary Mission Blacklist to Bar Visitors (2018). The Times of Israel [Zionist publication]. https://www.timesofisrael.com/government-said-to-use-canary-mission-blacklist-to-bar-visitors/

- Jewish Establishment Needs to Take on ‘Islamo-leftist’ Jews Who Are Undermining Israel’s Security - Zionist Thinktank (2022). Phillip Weiss. Mondoweiss. https://mondoweiss.net/2022/01/jewish-establishment-needs-to-take-on-islamo-leftist-jews-who-are-undermining-israels-security-zionist-thinktank/

- Israel Lobby Group ADL Rehabilitates Hitler’s Accomplices in Ukraine (2022). Ali Abunimah. The Electronic Intifida. https://electronicintifada.net/content/israel-lobby-group-adl-rehabilitates-hitlers-accomplices-ukraine/35021

- San Francisco Federation Funds Far Right U.S. Groups, Not Just Canary Mission (2018). Allison Kepler Sommer. The Forward. https://forward.com/israel/411787/san-francisco-federation-funds-far-right-us-groups-not-just-canary-mission/

- Israel is Arming Neo-Nazis in Ukraine (2018). Asa Winstanley. The Electronic Intifada. https://electronicintifada.net/content/israel-arming-neo-nazis-ukraine/24876

- Israel is Still Arming Ukraine’s Nazis (2022). Asa Winstanley. The Electronic Intifada. https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/asa-winstanley/israel-still-arming-ukrainian-nazis

- Anti-Semitism and Orthodoxy in the Age of Trump (2019). Eliyahu Stern. Tablet Magazine [Zionist publication] https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/arts-letters/articles/anti-semitism-orthodoxy-trump

- The New Heimish Populism (2020). Joshua Leifer. Jewish Currents. https://jewishcurrents.org/the-new-heimish-populism

[bisexualmoses]

If there are people who are following me who are asking me for my opinion this is all you will get from me. My opinion is do some reading, and start here.

[ayin-me-yesh]

For the books.

[vyorei-deactivated20251211]

Beautiful display of solidarity ongoing right now from the US calling for a ceasefire in Gaza

Source: @jvplive on Twitter

[meshugenist]

really something watching other jews in this country be terrified that islamic terrorists are coming to get them while happily inviting nazi cops into their shuls and treating the rise of white supremacy in this country as a sideshow and lesser threat to us than antizionism. this is all going to blow up in our faces someday soon while we bury our conditionally-white heads in the sand and refuse to build significant solidarity and coalition with other racialized groups in a mistaken and delusional belief/course of action that the white supremacists will tolerate us bc of their zionism. and in the meantime we get to feel proud that our shuls and insitutions send money to a settler state committing genocide on the other side of the world in our names. that will definitely protect us for sure

[spidergvven]

queerness under apartheid

[habaebiti]

[re-the-bear]

I don't do this very often, so I'm not sure if this is the correct way to describe an image. I do think it's important to share.

[Image description: two pink colored maps of the Gaza strip with black location tags scattered across the region. The upper image is titled "Queering the Map" it has a tag selected near a place named Jabaha (spelling may be incorrect as the tag covers some letters). In a white text bubble, the tag says; "I've always imagined you and me sitting out in the sun, hand in hand, free at last. We spoke of all the places we would go if we could. Yet you are gone now. If I had known that bombs raining down on us would take you from me, I would have gladly told the world how I adored you more than anything. I'm sorry I was a coward." The second image is much the same selected upon a different tag that states; "Idk how long I will live so I just want this to be my memory here before I die. I am not going to leave my home, come what may. My biggest regret is not kissing this one guy. He died two days back. We had told how much we like each other and I was too shy to kiss last time. He died in the bombing. I think a big part of me died too. And soon I will be dead. To Younus, I will kiss you in heaven." /end image description]

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the transcript of this interview is available online from cnn

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Transcript of this bit under the cut:

ZAKARIA: According to reporting by Al Jazeera, the leader of Hamas has said the group is on the verge of a great victory after its incursion into Israeli territory. Political leader Ismail Haniyeh has blamed the violence squarely on Israel's he occupation of Palestinian land.

For another Palestinian viewpoint, I wanted to bring in Dr. Mustafa Barghouti. He's a former information minister for the Palestinian government which is in control of parts of the West Bank but does not control Gaza.

Welcome, Minister. I again want to just make sure that viewers understand that the Palestinian Authority has been an opponent of Hamas so you are not in any way affiliated with Hamas. You represent the Palestinian Authority which has control over parts of the West Bank.

[10:25:03]

All that said, what is your reaction to what you have seen so far?

MUSTAFA BARGHOUTI, LEADER, PALESTINIAN NATIONAL INITIATIVE: Well, first of all, I am not part of the Palestinian Authority. As a matter of fact I represent a democratic Palestinian movement called Palestinian National Initiative which is non-Fatah and non-Hamas. And we have -- of course I'm not affiliated with Hamas. But I think this situation that has evolved is a direct result of the continuation of the longest occupation in modern history.

Israeli occupation of Palestinian land since 1967, this is 56 years of occupation, that has transformed into a system of apartheid. A much worse apartheid that what prevailed in South Africa. Yes, maybe Hamas did not recognize Israel, but the PLO did. And the Palestinian Authority did. What did they get? Nothing. Since 2013, the Israeli government would not even meet with Palestinians.

And what you see today is a reaction to several things. First of all, settlers' terrorist attacks on Palestinians in the West Bank that has evicted already 20 communities in an act of ethnic cleansing. 248 Palestinians were killed by the Israeli army and settlers in the West Bank including 40 children. Attacks on the holy sites, the Muslim and Christian holy sites, by Israeli extremists, as well as declaration of Netanyahu that he will liquidate the Palestinian rights and the Palestinian cause by normalization with Arab countries.

And he dared even to go to the United Nations and carried in the United Nations a map of Israel which included the whole of the West Bank, all of Gaza, all of Jerusalem, as well as the Golan Heights. He declared the annexation of the occupied territories. So of course Palestinians turned to resistance because they see that this is the only way for them to get their rights.

The question here is not about dehumanizing Palestinians as is happening and calling them terrorists, it's about asking the question. Why the United States supports Ukraine in fighting what they call occupation, while here they are supporting the occupier who continues to occupy us?

ZAKARIA: But let me ask you if that is the analogy you wish to draw, what Hamas is doing is they are targeting Israeli civilians, women, children, grandmothers.

BARGHOUTI: No, they are not.

ZAKARIA: Is that -- is that not a classic -- isn't that classic terrorism? They're not fighting the Israel government. They're fighting ordinary people.

BARGHOUTI: That's one way of putting it. But it's not true. I think Hamas mainly attacked military establishments, military installations, and most of the people there, they have arrested and taken as war prisoners are military people. I do not accept attacking any civilian. I do not accept that Israelis attack our civilians. But look at what Israeli planes are doing now in Gaza. They are bombarding houses. They are bringing down to earth and you've shown that on your screen, whole apartments, whole buildings, high-rise buildings are brought down to the ground.

And we already are reporting -- receiving reports about families who are killed. Nine people in one family, 10 people in another family including children. I do not want any civilian to be hurt. Neither by Palestinians or by Israelis. But the question is how to end that. Will it end by attacking Gaza Strip another time? Israel has already conducted five wars on Gaza. One of them lasted 51 days. They destroyed everything.

This did not stop Hamas, did not stop resistance. There is one way to stop any violence, and that is to end the Israeli occupation. And that is for the United States to be fair. They cannot say that Israel has the right to defend itself but we the Palestinians don't have the right to defend ourselves.

Let me remind you of the case of Shireen Abu Akleh, who was not only Palestinian but also an American, a very peaceful journalist. She was shot to death by an Israeli sniper. Was anybody indicted? Was anybody taken to court? No, no. 52 other journalists were also killed. Our first aid providers are shot at. Our doctors are shot at. This should stop. And the only way to stop it is to tell Israel, you have to respect international law.

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You have to end this illegal occupation and accept Palestinians as equal human beings.

ZAKARIA: Let me ask you about the practical reality of what's going to happen here, which you know because you have lived through this which is this is going to strengthen right-wing forces in Israel. It is going to strengthen the forces that say have no mercy, have a -- you know, huge military response. Presumably the life of Palestinians in the West Bank will get harder. More check points, more searches. Isn't the practical effect here of all of this going to be much worse for the average Palestinian?

BARGHOUTI: Unfortunately, Fareed, what have you described is exactly what we already have. Today the whole West Bank is paralyzed by 560 military Israeli checkpoints. And these checkpoints were there during the last 30 years.

We are suffering from a wall that is built on our land. The whole West Bank has been divided in 224 small ghettos, separated from each other. And the settlers are everywhere attacking Palestinians. You speak about right-wing government in Israel, already Israel is a right-wing government. Israel is already having fascists in its government.

Smotrich described himself as a fascist homophobe. And that man Smotrich who is also a settler said that Palestinians have one of three options only, either to immigrate, or accept a life of subjugation to Israelis or die. This is the Israeli minister of finance. Netanyahu never negated these statements. And both Smotrich and Bibi (ph) said that their plan is to annex the West Bank.

Can we stop what's going on now? Yes, of course. All these Israelis who are now in Gaza can be released tomorrow, including everybody if there are civilians, also the civilians, even the generals of the Israeli army can be released if Israel also accepted to release our 5,300 Palestinian prisoners who are in Israeli jails. Including 1,260 Palestinians who are in jail without knowing why under the so-called administrative detention.

They don't know why they are arrested. They are not charged. Their lawyers don't know why they are arrested and that is the life we have.

Look, Fareed, we have lived all our lives under occupation. My father lived under occupation. My daughter is living under occupation. We want a time when we, the Palestinians, will be free.

Hamas was not there 30 years ago or 40 years ago. But before that, we are all described as terrorists. Any Palestinian who struggles for his rights or for freedom is described as terrorist.

And the question here, do we have the right to struggle for freedom? Do we have the right to struggle for real democracy? Do we have the right to have normal democratic elections which unfortunately Israel and the United States don't support? I think we are entitled to that.

But the unfortunate thing if we struggle in a military force (ph) we are terrorists. If we struggle in an unviolent way we are described as violent. If we even resist with words we are described as provocateurs.

If you support Palestinian and you are a foreigner, they describe you as anti-Semite. And if you are a Jewish person, and there are many of those, who support Palestinian cause, they call him self-hating Jew.

This should end. It doesn't make sense. We should all have equal life. We should all have peace. We should all have justice and we should all live in dignity.

The main way to achieve that is to end occupation, end the system's apartheid that I am sure no Jewish person can be proud of. Time has come for that and time has come for justice and freedom. If we achieve that, there will be no violence and nobody will be hurt.

ZAKARIA: Mustafa Barghouti, thank you for giving us your time and your perspective.

BARGHOUTI: Thank you.