Elham Mireshghi الهام میرعشقی
@elhammir.bsky.social
Anthropologist, momma, buy-nothing aficionado
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I joined @democracynow.bsky.social to discuss today's ICC warrants & yesterday's historic Senate vote on US weapons for Israel.
"This isn’t just a decision about Israel. By extension, it fundamentally is a decision about the United States" & its role in Gaza.
www.democracynow.org/2024/11/21/i...
"This isn’t just a decision about Israel. By extension, it fundamentally is a decision about the United States" & its role in Gaza.
www.democracynow.org/2024/11/21/i...
ICC Issues Arrest Warrants for Netanyahu & Gallant over Gaza Crimes
The International Criminal Court has issued arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant for crimes against humanity and war crimes committed ...
www.democracynow.org
November 21, 2024 at 4:01 PM
I joined @democracynow.bsky.social to discuss today's ICC warrants & yesterday's historic Senate vote on US weapons for Israel.
"This isn’t just a decision about Israel. By extension, it fundamentally is a decision about the United States" & its role in Gaza.
www.democracynow.org/2024/11/21/i...
"This isn’t just a decision about Israel. By extension, it fundamentally is a decision about the United States" & its role in Gaza.
www.democracynow.org/2024/11/21/i...
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It’s so pretty.
November 21, 2024 at 5:29 PM
It’s so pretty.
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They're right about one thing: "There's no equivalence--none--between Israel and Hamas."
Between 10/7/23 and today:
Hamas has killed 766 civilians. (1)
Israel has killed around 300,000 civilians. (2)
Between 10/7/23 and today:
Hamas has killed 766 civilians. (1)
Israel has killed around 300,000 civilians. (2)
November 21, 2024 at 7:36 PM
They're right about one thing: "There's no equivalence--none--between Israel and Hamas."
Between 10/7/23 and today:
Hamas has killed 766 civilians. (1)
Israel has killed around 300,000 civilians. (2)
Between 10/7/23 and today:
Hamas has killed 766 civilians. (1)
Israel has killed around 300,000 civilians. (2)
Yet American-Israeli exceptionalism means they don't give a rat's ass what the International Criminal Court thinks when it runs against their imperialist interests.
November 21, 2024 at 2:37 PM
Yet American-Israeli exceptionalism means they don't give a rat's ass what the International Criminal Court thinks when it runs against their imperialist interests.
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"In the gray zone of collective starvation, people inflict unspeakable cruelties on their kith and kin to survive. It is societal torture, turning the biological survival instinct against the bonds of social solidarity."
Is Israel pursuing a strategy of starving Gaza, but just short of the level that would prompt a famine declaration?
Engineers of Calamity - Boston Review
Famine denial’s past and present, from Ukraine to Gaza.
www.bostonreview.net
November 15, 2024 at 4:23 AM
"In the gray zone of collective starvation, people inflict unspeakable cruelties on their kith and kin to survive. It is societal torture, turning the biological survival instinct against the bonds of social solidarity."
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Biden is issuing sanctions against settler groups responsible for carrying out violence against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank — but is not meting out any punishment for the top Israeli officials who are organizing and funding the settler attacks.
Biden Officials Sanction Israeli Settler Groups — But Not Politicians Backing West Bank Violence
Democrats previously urged Biden to sanction top Israeli officials for their backing of violence in the West Bank.
truthout.org
November 18, 2024 at 10:52 PM
Biden is issuing sanctions against settler groups responsible for carrying out violence against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank — but is not meting out any punishment for the top Israeli officials who are organizing and funding the settler attacks.
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our ancestors accomplished more, with less, against worse. stay locked in.
November 19, 2024 at 1:25 PM
our ancestors accomplished more, with less, against worse. stay locked in.
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Our healthcare worker colleagues in Palestine are being detained without charges, and brutally tortured to death.
Photo via journalist Hossam Shabat.
Photo via journalist Hossam Shabat.
November 19, 2024 at 3:26 PM
Our healthcare worker colleagues in Palestine are being detained without charges, and brutally tortured to death.
Photo via journalist Hossam Shabat.
Photo via journalist Hossam Shabat.
Lived in the US most of my life, and I still don't get how normal it is to pretend in public like you don't notice people you definitely know. No greetings, no smiles, not even a nod, just pure denial.
November 20, 2024 at 2:54 AM
Lived in the US most of my life, and I still don't get how normal it is to pretend in public like you don't notice people you definitely know. No greetings, no smiles, not even a nod, just pure denial.
Twitter/X never stuck. Let's see if this will. Who's here?
November 20, 2024 at 2:40 AM
Twitter/X never stuck. Let's see if this will. Who's here?