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How Israel Exports the Technology of Occupation Around the World
Israel’s military industrial complex uses the occupied, Palestinian territories as a testing ground for weaponry and surveillance technology that they then export around the world to despots and democracies. For more than 50 years, occupation of the West Bank and Gaza has given the Israeli state invaluable experience in controlling an “enemy” population, the Palestinians. @bookstodon #Israel #Palestine
🚨 FAO UK academics concerned about academic freedom and/or #Palestine:
Tory minister Michelle Donelan is trying to intimidate UKRI into silencing #academics who have expressed legitimate criticism of the genocide in #Gaza. She appears to be succeeding.
If you want UKRI to stand up for us, please sign this open letter.
1/2📚🇵🇸novels and memoirs to get to know #Palestine - the link below has great blurbs on each! Has a few i don't see recommended much and some I've read, so this is a great list.
🍉Pay No Heed to the Rockets: Life in Contemporary Palestine
🍉In the Presence of Absence by Mahmoud Darwish
🍉Salt Houses by Hala Alyan
🍉Palestine's Children: Returning to Haifa And other stories by Ghassan Kanafani
🍉The Drone Eats With Me: A Gaza Diary by Atef Abu Saif
Hey book people, I would like to read up on the history of the Israel-Palestine conflict and am looking for book recommendations. Either English or German would be fine, and preferably written fairly recently (aka not 30 years ago).
Pls notice when publishers, booksellers, book bloggers etc. shift from "books by Palestinians" to "books about Palestine" - these are very much not interchangeable terms.
(Fwiw the same thing happened with "by Ukrainians" and "about Ukraine" & I pointed it out back then too. It repeats.)
This seems like a new low, in my lifetime at least. A regime carries out ethnic cleansing in full view of the world - broadcasting its intentions in barely coded language - while our governments affirm their full support. The US sends aircraft carriers, vetoes calls for a ceasefire #Palestine#Israel (1/7)
Israel threatens to punish the UN for trying to protect human rights, blocks visas for its staff - who are trying to protect civilian lives. Talk about arrogance and hubris; talk about defiance of international law. #Palestine#Israel (2/7)
Israel has killed over 7,000 Palestinian civilians and this number is growing by the day. Some 'revenge'. Millions more face ruined lives, after decades of grinding, squeezing occupation. Some reporting slants this as a 'humanitarian emergency' - calling for a humanitarian pause. No - the air strikes must stop. #Palestine#Israel (3/7)
Clearly aid trucks and workers should be allowed in but this is not a natural disaster, not inevitable. Air strikes are intentionally killing civilians, engaging in collective punishment. These are war crimes. #Palestine#Israel (4/7)
That alone should be sufficient reason for journalists and media organizations to condemn Israel's acts. If our reporting is in the service of freedom and democracy, we have to make sure there is accountability for this. #Palestine#Israel (6/7)
It breaks my heart thinking about all the #students who were ready to start their new #MSc or #phd in foreign countries and now they have to give up because they cannot travel from many more countries other than #Israel and #Palestine
Massoud Hayoun’s “When We Were Arabs” (2019) is described as “A vivid account of Massoud Hayoun's grandparents' lives in #Egypt, #Tunisia, France, #Palestine, and Los Angeles, in which he reclaims his family's Jewish Arab identity".
They had not known names of US #CivilRights icons A. Philip Randolph, Thurgood Marshall, Mary McLeod Bethune, Marianne Anderson--yet presumed to understand the intricacies of one of the most tragic & intractable conflicts on earth
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Random talkback on Israeli news sites in response to current events.
This one in response to Foreign Minister Eli Cohen attack in UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres after his remark, in a speech to the UN Security Council, saying Hamas' attack did not happen in a vacuum.
“If our public face, advocacy and status rests on one sentence replete with historical truths and one sentence said by a redeemed female captive whose unhealthy husband and hundreds more are still held in Gaza - then we are the opposite of a wonderful nation. This is a weak, miserable, pathetic nation, managed by a gang of fascist garbage, that is more excited about volunteers feeding soldiers hamburgers than about human blood flowing like water with no hope.”
Zertal, Idith. "Israel's Holocaust and the Politics of Nationhood" (2005)
A book talk with the author in which she reflects on some of the issues around the use of the #Holocaust in political discourse in Israel, and the insistence of some on seeing the victimizers as victims.