psychotrenny:

And people keep trying to justify Israel’s existence on the basis that it is somehow a safe place for the preservation of Jewish people and their culture and not only is that an awful argument for establishing a Settler Colonist Apartheid State but it’s not even true. Like the state is politically and economically dominated by Ashkenazi Jews from Northern Europe and their descendants. While not as severely mistreated as Palestinians, there is still a significant disparity between the European and Non-European Jews in terms of income and education. Non-European Jews are still regularly subject to interpersonal bigotry (hell earlier this year there was a news story about a viral video where Ashkenazi girls in a Purim made a skit mocking the Mizrahi) and Israel government policies towards non-Ashkenazi migrants have done severe damage to their social structure and cultural traditions. Not to mention the fact that the whole reason why many Mizrahi migrated in the first place was to escape the violence caused by European Jews committing atrocities in their name, tearing communities apart as neighbours that had peacefully co-existed for centuries found themselves on opposite sides of this new ethno-religious conflict

There have even been attempts in Israeli history at the forceful assimilation or even biological reduction of non-European Jews; the kidnapping and adoption of Yemeni Jewish children in the 1950s is significant example of the former while the forced contraception of Beta Israeli (Ethiopean Jewish migrants) with the explicit intention of reducing their population’s birth rate is an example of the latter. There’s also very clear favouritism when it comes to recent converts; white Afrikaner converts are given the right of Aliyah while Nigerian Igbos are not. Like the fact of the matter is that Israel’s fundamental nature is as a European Settler Colony, incredibly racist not only towards the indigenous Palestinians but the many Non-European Jews it claims to represent. It’s an outpost of Western Imperialism, not a haven for the Jewish people. If it was ever meant to be the latter than it has failed miserably

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“I look after about 700 olive trees around the valley. But I and others with groves have lost about 70% of them in the past five years. Some were taken by settlers; others have just been made impossible to cultivate.

These are our groves on our ancestral land, but we have to get permits from the Israeli authorities to nurture them and pick. Believe it or not, during last autumn’s olive harvesting, in some of my groves I was given permission to pick for only two days when it needed two weeks.

The day we started – 1 November – the settlers began their attacks. The next day I went to look to find that they had uprooted trees – some hundreds of years old. Others were cut down to their trunks with the olive branches taken.”

‘They ransack our village for sport’: one farmer’s story of Israeli settler violence

As an Israeli minister calls for a Palestinian town to be ‘wiped out’, an olive farmer tells of living with fear in the West Bank

the Guardian

3/5/23

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esyra:

In case you’ve missed: Israel getting confused with their narrative

First, they uploaded to Twitter (again, I don’t recognize anything named X) a transcription of Bibi Netanyahu’s latest statements regarding Israel’s attacks on Gaza, which included the following:

The quote was rightfully and heavily criticized, until they’ve decided to delete the entire thread regarding his latest statement.

A few hours later, the Al Ahli Arab Hospital was bombed. There was no survivors and between 500-1,000 victims, completely torn apart.

THEN, Israel’s “official digital influencer” Hananya Naftali officialized the attack came from Israel because, as convincingly as it always been, terrorist bases in Gaza are ALL located in hospitals, schools and mosques.

How would they even possibly launch something from inside a closed building to warrant bombing it in the name of self-defense, you might ask. Well, surely they storage bombs in it—and in all the times Israel invaded Gaza, they’ve never found them.

By the way, the Arabic IDF page posted this on Facebook then deleted it.

THEN, they decided to change the story. And say it was a Hamas misfire and provided “video evidence”.

The problem? The first report of the bombing came at 7:20PM. The video, which is a clip from a Livestream, is of a rocket launched at 8PM.

So, OF COURSE, they edited the video out!

MIND YOU: Hamas rockets NEVER caused that kind of destruction and explosion because they are not industrially fabricated, but hand-made. Qassam rockets are made from refurbished scrap metal. They’ve never even collapsed a building.

Now did they at least stick to the Hamas accusations? NO. They changed the narrative again, to now blame the Islamic Jihad organization. And my interpretation is that they are truly preparing to also commit genocide in the West Bank, and they need to change their narrative to focus on a group that actually operates in the West Bank, which is not Hamas but the Islamic Jihad movement.

THEN, the World Health Organization (WHO) confirmed the bombed hospital was one of the facilities ordered by the IDF to evacuate, despite being practically impossible to do so.

And they want you to believe they didn’t bomb that hospital. I cannot, for the life in me, understand how you can have the conscious to see your actions are so horrific they can’t be owned up to, but does not have the conscious to not do it.

Please spread this. Israel is the suspect and the investigator of their own war crimes. If that’s something they think it’s harmful to be associated to them, then please ASSOCIATE IT TO THEM.

By the way, the refugees nearby held a interview surrounded by the dead bodies. Two of them are holding children, one of them a literal infant.

Israel DOES NOT CARE ABOUT CHILDREN. They will kill a million children as long as they are killing Palestine as well.

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thefingerfuckingfemalefury:

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arctic-hands:

Hoopla, Overdrive/Libby Now Banned for Those Under 18 in Mississippi

Public libraries in Mississippi have cut off access to digital platforms like Overdrive and Hoopla to those under 18.

BOOK RIOT

I never want to hear conservatives go on about repressive censorship in China, North Korea, and Iran ever again

To be clear to those unfamiliar: these are the companies that libraries use to lend ebooks.

They are literally cutting off library access to minors.

If you are affected by this or other bans and restrictions in the United States, be aware that the Brooklyn Public Library is offering free digital library cards to anyone age 13-21 nationwide as part of their Books UnBanned initiative:

Books Unbanned

Brooklyn Public Library joins those fighting for the rights of teens nationwide to read what they like, discover themselves, and form their

bklynlibrary.org

BOOOOOST

Seattle has joined them:

The Seattle Public Library Joins Brooklyn Public Library’s Books Unbanned Initiative to Fight Censorship

spl.org

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sanjispudding:

EVERYBODY SHUT UP NEW JEFF WARD BTS DROPPED

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celestialmega:

Shiawase Kanako no Koroshiya Seikatsu, 幸せカナコの殺し屋生活, Happy Kanako’s Killer Life by wakabayashi toshiya.

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writeswrongs:

They followed evacuation orders. An Israeli airstrike killed them the next day. — CNN

When Palestinians in north Gaza heeded the warnings issued in the Israeli military's phone calls, text messages, and fliers advising them to

apple.news

The IDF rounds up Gazans and deliberately bombs them where civilians were told to “evacuate to.” Israel has created an extermination camp.

Concentrating a people into an enclosed prison they can’t escape so you can drop bombs on them is explicitly genocide.

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celestialmega:

Shiawase Kanako no Koroshiya Seikatsu, 幸せカナコの殺し屋生活, Happy Kanako’s Killer Life by wakabayashi toshiya.

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Happy Kanako’s Killer Life/幸せカナコの殺し屋生活 by Toshiya Wakabayashi

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afloweroutofstone:

Amnesty International has pointed out that some of the Israeli white phosphorus shells being used in Gaza and Lebanon came from the United States government

Human Rights Watch: “Upon contact, white phosphorus can burn people, thermally and chemically, down to the bone as it is highly soluble in fat and therefore in human flesh. White phosphorus fragments can exacerbate wounds even after treatment and can enter the bloodstream and cause multiple organ failure. Already dressed wounds can reignite when dressings are removed and the wounds are re-exposed to oxygen. Even relatively minor burns are often fatal. For survivors, extensive scarring tightens muscle tissue and creates physical disabilities. The trauma of the attack, the painful treatment that follows, and appearance-changing scars lead to psychological harm and social exclusion.

The use of white phosphorus in densely populated areas of Gaza violates the requirement under international humanitarian law to take all feasible precautions to avoid civilian injury and loss of life, Human Rights Watch said. This concern is amplified given the technique evidenced in videos of airbursting white phosphorus projectiles. Airbursting of white phosphorus projectiles spreads 116 burning felt wedges impregnated within the substance over an area between 125 and 250 meters in diameter, depending on the altitude of the burst, thereby exposing more civilians and civilian structures to potential harm than a localized ground burst.”

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despazito:

Actually your society is the freaks for shooting everything that moves and burning half your “nature reserves” every year so that upperclass dandies can eat leaded pheasant. North Americans are the well adjusted ones here, your country has become a desolate suburban lawn in island form

my opinion as an american is that we spend way too much time trying to save african megafauna and nowhere near enough time making fun of the english for turning an entire island–which was once a hazelnut food forest–into a goddamn lawn.

bill bryson once actually wrote down in a whole book and got published that the english were superb gardeners and i about threw the book out the window i was that outraged. the english!!! the fucking ENGLISH. them? that’s who you want to laud? the english

the

THERE ARE A GRAND FUCKING TOTAL OF ZERO STAPLE CROPS ORIGINALLY OR EVEN PRIMARILY CULTIVATED BY THE ENGLISH. NONE OF THEM. NOT POTATOES NOT WHEAT NOT TURNIPS NOT RYE. THEY GNAWED THEIR ISLAND DOWN TO A NUB FOR NOTHING. THE WOLVES AND BEARS ALL GONE FOR NOTHING. THE WILDCATS AND BIRDS AND MUSTELIDS AND INSECTS, GONE IN THEIR THOUSANDS, FOR NOTHING. FOR SOME SHEEP. FOR

THEIR MAIN AGRICULTURAL EXPORT IS FAMINE

anyway the english approach to agriculture, biodiversity, and environmentalism is roughly on par with a dog’s approach to someone else’s homework and everywhere in the world that has inherited their cack-fisted disdain for nature has suffered immensely. i can’t overstate enough how bad things have been and still are.

please make fun of them. it’s the least they fucking deserve.

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zigdirty:

toshootforthestars:

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Some very humbling information here that I have not actually heretofore seen.

Spread the word.

Spread the word.

And wear your damn masks.

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