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A community for everything related to Palestine and the occupation currently underway by the occupying force known as Israel.
Anti-Zionism is not anti-Semitism. Existence is resistance for Palestinians.
Please refer to Israel as Occupied Palestine, or occupied territories. The IDF is a fascist and ethnonationalist occupying force. Israelis are settlers. We understand however that the imperial narrative (which tries to legitimise Israel) is internalised in the imperial core and slip-ups are naturally expected.
We always take the sides of Palestine and Palestinians and are unapologetic about it. Israel is an occupying power whose "defence force"'s (note the contradiction) sole purpose for existing is to push Palestinians out so they can resettle their rightful land. If you have anything positive to say about Israel we do not care.
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One thing that struck me at this protest is how most of the people there are getting dehumanized in the media. And for what? Just because they want a place to call home. Just because that place is taken away by a genocidal fascist regime.
Anger is not enough of a word to describe what I feel right now. It's pure rage at this point. A protest is nice, but at the same time Israel is committing a war crime bh cutting of all life supplies from Gaza. It feels like watching a genocide unfold and I don't know what to do to help. At the same time our leaders are showing crocodile tears about the sad little Israelis who died, calling the uprising antisemetic and barbarism. Many of the Palestinian comrades our party works with are missing and we haven't heard from them in days.
If in the end Israel wipes out Gaza after this, I don't know what I will do anymore. Living in a part of the world that actively enables this is not something I want. Ukraine was bad, but manageable. But after this I just don't know anymore. I feel like living in a fantasy world where reality does not matter anymore.
Thanks for writing this. I've reached similar conclusions. I'm feeling a lot of self loathing this week. My work had a big song and dance as soon as Russia invaded Ukraine. You could hear a pin drop at the moment; not a single fucking word about Palestine. I'm optimistic that Palestine will survive this. But it's getting hard to rationalise my own complicity in the whole thing.
I feel you comrade. No words. Anger beyond belief, but equal if not greater sadness. Ashamed that so many in my circle continue to uncritically swallow US state department propaganda while in the same breath calling themselves "anticapitalist."
I have friends coming from overseas this weekend. I'm supposed to hang out, live it up, show them around town. It all feels so wrong.
I'm really grateful for this online space. Some days it's the only thing that gets me through the day.