Latest Posts by gooeydecimal - Page 4
ilan pappé is so surgically precise in his criticism of zionist liberals and leftists and he has really highlighted what frustrates me the most about their allyship (which largely revolves around the sanctimonious stance of not wanting palestinians dead, otherwise known as the bare fucking minimum)
What is most illuminating – in the dialogue the liberal Zionists have with themselves on the pages of Haaretz – is their vicious attack on any one associating colonialism with Israel. [...] The Global Left is guilty of two ‘sins’, in the eyes of the liberal Zionists: one, it refers to Israel as a settler-colonial state and two, it provides a context for the Hamas attack on October 7.
There is no middle ground anymore. There is no way of supporting the liberal occupier, the progressive ethnic cleanser and the leftist genocider. The attempt to frame the stance I am calling for as racist or antisemitic will not hold water. It is a matter of where you would see yourself at this critical juncture in history, and how you value your own sense of self respect.
many of them are willing to criticize everything about israel but fall just short of admitting their role as settler colonizers or its existence as a settler colonialist state. its a very telling stance, because it keeps them defensive instead of apologetic. and i do believe the first step to any progress is real acknowledgement of what zionism has taken from palestinians and how to repair this. it's not tangential, it's central.
i also think without acknowledging or understanding the settler colonialism paradigm, any and all solidarity with palestinians is inherently frightening to them because they don't understand that all previously and currently colonized peoples see themselves in the palestinian struggle. instead they see solidarity with palestinians as anti-semitism (solidarity against israel instead of solidarity with palestine) because they misunderstand the palestinian cause and their role within it.
its an intellectual weakness that comes from either willful ignorance, brainwashing or a lack of real empathy. their allyship and their role will always be conditional until they fully understand this. until they do both palestinian resistance and solidarity will continue to feel more threatening to them than the violent apparatus of the israeli military state that is literally keeping them in a perpetual state of war. all their attempts to seek peace without confronting this are either naïve and ineffectual or serve to obfuscate their own brutal military regime even as it perpetuates horror in their name.
The Al Jazeera journalists dreading having to pass the microphone to Abu Jamal every time
u either chill with me or without me.. but u have to chill either way. that's what i always say.
i want us to preserve this moment, right now. where we are. what we are doing. i want you to know the answer to the question 'what were you doing when you found out henry kissinger died?'
got to chant allahu akbar with some palestinian teens today pull up the tweet
Today's Seal Is: Ceramic Craft
i can't stop thinking about this pic.. it's the most romantic pic I've seen in a long time. pure perfection
The Biting Book. Written by Judi Friedman. Illustrated by Kees de Kiefte. 1975.
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Submitter comment: "I think you'll appreciate this paper from Zeng et al. 2019, Growth model interpretation of planet size distribution.
"It's. a lot."
This is one of those videos you can’t watch without feeling as though the very fabric of reality is coming unraveled
honestly big shout out to snoopy to be honest
What’s up late night folks? Here’s an eerie shot I took down a pitch black road in the middle of the night
Edmund Weiss (Edmund Weiß), Illustration of Leonid Meteor Storm, as seen over North America on the night of November 12-13, 1833.
The Weiss Crater is named after him.
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