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“We pretend to be innocent victims. Of course the Arabs attacked us. Since they have no armies, they could not obey the rules of war. They perpetrated all the barbaric acts that are characteristic of a colonial revolt.” This was written in 1929. By a Zionist. 1/19 #Israel #Palestine #Zionism #Gaza

October 14 is the anniversary of the Qibya massacre, Israel's first large-scale state-sponsored murder. The way Israel planned & executed the massacre, and the way it lied about it, foretold what we're seeing today in Gaza In French below or in English here: www.onesmalldetail.blog/the-qibya-bl...

Aujourd'hui, 14 octobre, est la journée de commémoration du massacre de Qibya en 1953. À cette occasion, @orientxxi.bsky.social publie un texte de notre camarade @raphmim.bsky.social qui présente les circonstances de ce premier massacre de masse ordonné par l'État israélien et de son déni. 1/2

My three favorite things in Los Angeles: 1. Street fruit stands 2. @crosswalksla.bsky.social 3. @maximalistac.bsky.social's voting guide, which was just published for the upcoming election cycle. Check it out: actioncali.com/2026-los-ang...

Still in Harabat al Naibi. At 6am, a few settlers walked their flock of sheeps just down the hill. They come 3-4 times a day. At times they get closer, even walking into the hamlet. They look to provoke a reaction from residents so they can attack them or call the army. Nothing of the sort today.

I'm staying in the tiny hamlet of Harabat al Naibi in Masafer Yata. Two families live here. Last month, settlers stole all their sheeps in the middle of the night. In the past year or two, there's been settler attacks too. So the families have requested that a few activists stay here every night.

Oh and the few times this government almost collapsed was either unrelated to its treatment of Palestinians (mostly around the military drafts for Ultra Orthodox men) or because Netanyahu's line on Gaza was considered too SOFT by its coalition partners.

Israel's next elections are set for October 27. This means that the Netanyahu government, portrayed by liberal Zionists as "extremist" and unrepresentative of Israel, will be the first government in 50 years to finish its entire term. It doesn't get more representative than that.

It's old news but the radicalization of Israeli society remains shocking to me, perhaps because I see it from up close. Growing up, no one around me called the West Bank "Judea and Samaria". Now my SECULAR relatives in Israel exclusively say Judea and Samaria, and call out people who don't.

"Current and former Google and Amazon workers protesting Project Nimbus say it makes the companies complicit in Israel’s armed conflicts and its government’s illegal and inhumane treatment of civilian Palestinians..." www.wired.com/story/amazon...

✊ Respect to the folks from @notechforapartheid.bsky.social Let's keep going, make it impossible for those designers, engineers, managers to ignore what the tech they build is being used for.

In case the weekly images of pogroms and settler attacks weren't enough, a new report by Peace Now and Kerem Navot shows how since 2023 Israel has been de-facto annexing the West Bank.

One key myth of Zionism is that in the early 20th century, Palestinians opposed all Jewish immigration to Palestine--or even rejected Jews out of antisemitism. In reality, many Palestinians were initially open to Jewish immigration and only opposed it after the political aims of Zionism became clear

Reminder that the idea of a boycott targeting *only* Israeli settlements in the West Bank makes no sense. The government subsidizes the development of settlements & collects taxes on economic activity there, and Israeli society as a whole benefits from it. The boycott must be against all of Israel

Rather than ending never-ending wars, let's just... better process trauma

New rule: anyone who says "Israel has a right to exist" must explain what that means. A right to exist as an ethno-nationalist state? Or as a democratic state for all its citizens? Or as a binational federation? Or as something else? "Israel has a right to exist" is just lazy and unhelpful.

Rest In Power Marjane Satrapi

All AIs reproduce the biaises of their society => western society is deeply, violently anti-Palestinian => most AIs are deeply, violently anti-Palestinian

Ah yes, this is what our forefathers always yearned for: a Jewish state, where Jewish cops could grab Jews and cut up their yarmulkes. Miraculous times!

Repressing and erasing Palestinian identity always takes precedence over the respect for Jewish rituals and religion

Israeli police detained a Jewish man for wearing a kippa with the Israeli and Palestinian flags, then took the kippa and cut out the Palestinian flag. Because Judaism is part of the Zionist story, but the main thing is hyper-nationalism and colonialism.

A regular Saturday in the West Bank: Jewish terror and ethnic cleansing www.timesofisrael.com/settlers-set...

There's no such thing as "defensive weaponry". The Iron Dome means Israel is shielded from responses to its attacks and is embolded to bomb right and left without consequences. Any reasonable ban on weapons sales must include the Iron Dome jewishcurrents.org/in-democrati...

For Palestinian Prisoners' day, TINAU published a zine of Arabic protest chants with Hebrew and English translation and transliteration. If you're a student of Arabic or just curious, check it out!

Can't think of something more obvious to say but hey, there is at least one person in Israel who came up with it, better than zero

Love to hear Jewish leaders take stock of the genocide and reassess their relationship with Israel... or wait, they mean stopping to support unions fighting for higher minimum wages or civil rights orgs 🤦🏻

In @gabrielzucman.bsky.social's excellent historical background of Trump's overthrow of Maduro: "in 1957, US oil companies generated as much profit in Venezuela as all US companies across all industries in all Latin American & European countries combined" gabrielzucman.substack.com/p/comprendre...

The Bush admin took 2 years to go from "Saddam has weapons of mass destructions" to "he supports Al-Qaeda" to "Iraq needs democracy" & never admitted it was about oil Within 2 months, Trump went from "Maduro sends fethanyl to the US" to "Venezuela needs democracy" to "we're taking over for the oil"

"Gaza is also ours. We’re just letting them stay there as guests until a certain point, but Gaza is ours.” Not surprising from an overt Jewish supremacist, but it's better for them to say these things openly and explicitly so we can't pretend we didn't know. www.timesofisrael.com/culture-mini...

Disagreeing with the logic or strategy of BDS is fine, but it's always too obvious these critics have no understanding of the boycott: we don't claim that all Israelis as monsters, we simply know that Israeli academia is actively complicit in apartheid, and therefore should not be engaged with.

Germany keeps its spot on the podium of the states who are most responsible in the destruction of the Palestinian people