#anti-genocide

[liberalsarecool]

How is this different from IDF? Masked man, no credentials, hauling off middle-aged middle-class women for observing a peaceful protest. A professor, no less. The Chair.

Women on the front lines while men play barbaric dress-up. Says it all.

[originalleftist]

How hard is it to understand: "No people should ever die, suffer, or lose their homes because of what ancestors they had or where they were born?"

Apparently really hard.

[veluigi]

an incredible interview with Holocaust survivor and anti-genocide activist Stephen Kapoś, he is truly living history.

[solitaire-06]

A compilation of some of the most horrific genocides in Star Wars (canon and legends):

The Great Jedi Purge (19 BBY - 3 BBY)

The Ghorman Massacre (2 BBY)

The Genocide on Dac (137 - 138 ABY

Pius Dea Crusades (11,965 BBY - 10,966 BBY)

[i12bent]

It’s 4th of July - Independence Day in the US. In Denmark, this day is celebrated with a rally and pro-US speeches in Rebild Bakker every year, esp. since Denmark provided a fairly large number of immigrants to the land of the free over the centuries.

The US, however, has always had its war mongering ways and is built on the genocide of the Native American population, and left wing theater activist group Solvognen, marked this with a happening in 1976 when the Danish Queen Margrethe was giving the speech. The Danish police chose to escort the activists off the premises - 56 were arrested...

Btw., in 2004 Solvognen became part of the Danish Cultural Canon for their happening “Julemandshæren” from 1974!

[originalleftist]

When I say that Jews are indigenous to the Levant, and have a right to self-determination there, do not mistake that as saying Palestinians aren't, or don't.

Many Palestinian peoples' ancestry can be traced back to the Canaanites as well, and they and their ancestors have lived in the region for a very long time. It is their home. Adopting aspects of Arab culture or language or the Islamic religion does not negate that or make them "colonizers" either, any more than a Native American speaking English or being a Christian makes them a colonizer.

I support peaceful coexistence, not the murder, expulsion, subjugation, or disenfranchisement of ANY people.

Also: the Palestinian people are not Hamas, any more than the Israeli people are Netanyahu and Likud. I do not support collective guilt or punishment of any racial, ethnic, religious, or national group.

[originalleftist]

You know what?

It pisses me off that it seems most of Tumblr is incapable of supporting Palestinians without also a) denying Jews are indigenous to the Levant (this is supported by overwhelming archaeological, cultural, historical, and genetic evidence), b) attacking "Zionists" (those who support the Jewish peoples' right to self-determination in their homeland), or c) engaging in thinly-veiled or open calls for violence.

I really, truly want to like and reblog more posts supporting the rights of Palestinians, and sharing and empathizing with the perspectives of Palestinian people. That DOES matter. It SHOULDN'T, MUSTN'T be ignored or forgotten or dismissed. Because people are people. But it seems difficult to even find posts that do any of that without ALSO peddling anti-semitic conspiracy theories/misinformation, or outright calling for the death or expulsion of Jews, which is not something that I can support. And what really pisses me off is, a lot of this isn't even coming from Palestinians. Its coming from white Westerners, who think they've found an acceptable target for a new (or very old) witch hunt.

Sometimes it seems like the only posts I can find that do avoid this, aside from my own, are... ones by Jewish/Israeli Leftists. Or as the (often white western) "Pro-Palestinians" on Tumblr would call them, "genocidal Zionists".

[originalleftist]

A Reminder:

This blog opposes collective guilt or punishment based on race, ethnicity, religion (or lack thereof), or national origin.

Accordingly, it opposes vilification, conspiracy theories, threats of violence, violent attacks, and other forms of collective punishment directed Israelis or Jews, including calls for the destruction of Israel. It also acknowledges that Jews are indigenous to the Levant, based on overwhelming historical, cultural, archaeological, and genetic evidence, and basic fucking sense.

This DOES NOT mean that this blog endorses collective guilt or punishment of Palestinians, denying that Palestinians are a "real" people or nationality*, attempts to portray all Palestinians, Muslims, or Arabs as terrorists, or advocating their destruction or expulsion from any territory.

In particular, any comments or reblog advocating or excusing the destruction or expulsion of any group of people based on race, ethnicity, religion, nationality or national self-identification WILL be reported for violating Tumblr's policies against hate speech, and WILL result in a block, regardless of who does it or who it is directed at.

*I am aware that "Palestinian" as a national identity is fairly recent. However, new nations and national identities have formed throughout history. As far as a claim to being indigenous to the Levant is concerned, I am of the view that a land can have more than one indigenous group, that neither Jewish nor Palestinian indigenousness inherently invalidates the other. And while it is correctly pointed out that neither Arabic nor Islam nor the name "Palestine" originated from the Levant (Arabia, Arabia, and Rome, respectively), genetic studies trace Palestinians' ancestry back to the Canaanites, along with other groups.