Anna Gunin
@annagunin.bsky.social
Translator from Russian of Svetlana Alexievich, Pavel Bazhov, Oleg Pavlov and others
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There are more and more Israelis horrified at what’s happening in the OPT, but sadly they remain a sliver of the general population.
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May 23, 2025 at 7:40 PM
There are more and more Israelis horrified at what’s happening in the OPT, but sadly they remain a sliver of the general population.
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4/ by the colonized and (this part implied) the descendants of the colonizer, that what happened was wrong.
— Omar El Akkad, One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
— Omar El Akkad, One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
May 23, 2025 at 3:44 PM
4/ by the colonized and (this part implied) the descendants of the colonizer, that what happened was wrong.
— Omar El Akkad, One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
— Omar El Akkad, One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
3/ I tell stories for a living, and there's a thick thread of narrative by well-meaning white Westerners that exalts the native populations in so many parts of the world for standing up to the occupiers, makes of their narrative a neat reflexive arc in which it was always understood,
May 23, 2025 at 3:44 PM
3/ I tell stories for a living, and there's a thick thread of narrative by well-meaning white Westerners that exalts the native populations in so many parts of the world for standing up to the occupiers, makes of their narrative a neat reflexive arc in which it was always understood,
2/ any form of opposition is terroristic and must be crushed for the sake of civilization. But decades, centuries later, when enough of the land has been stolen and enough of the natives killed, it is safe enough to venerate resistance in hindsight.
May 23, 2025 at 3:44 PM
2/ any form of opposition is terroristic and must be crushed for the sake of civilization. But decades, centuries later, when enough of the land has been stolen and enough of the natives killed, it is safe enough to venerate resistance in hindsight.
1/ One of the hallmarks of Western liberalism is an assumption, in hindsight, of virtuous resistance as the only polite expectation of people on the receiving end of colonialism. While the terrible thing is happening — while the land is still being stolen and the natives still being killed —
May 23, 2025 at 3:44 PM
1/ One of the hallmarks of Western liberalism is an assumption, in hindsight, of virtuous resistance as the only polite expectation of people on the receiving end of colonialism. While the terrible thing is happening — while the land is still being stolen and the natives still being killed —
Perhaps to the ethnic cleansing of 750,000 native inhabitants of Palestine in 1948?
Perhaps it is time to acknowledge that crime and grant Palestinians the right of return which they maintain under international humanitarian law?
Perhaps it is time to acknowledge that crime and grant Palestinians the right of return which they maintain under international humanitarian law?
May 20, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Perhaps to the ethnic cleansing of 750,000 native inhabitants of Palestine in 1948?
Perhaps it is time to acknowledge that crime and grant Palestinians the right of return which they maintain under international humanitarian law?
Perhaps it is time to acknowledge that crime and grant Palestinians the right of return which they maintain under international humanitarian law?
You genuinely didn’t know the part where 750,000 indigenous Palestinians were violently expelled?
Or you chose to omit it?
Or you chose to omit it?
April 2, 2025 at 12:30 AM
You genuinely didn’t know the part where 750,000 indigenous Palestinians were violently expelled?
Or you chose to omit it?
Or you chose to omit it?
This is an essential read.
February 16, 2025 at 1:37 PM
This is an essential read.
February 4, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Why is the systematic use of sexual violence against Palestinians not deemed newsworthy?
Because of the systematic dehumanisation of Palestinians in our media and by our politicians.
Because of the systematic dehumanisation of Palestinians in our media and by our politicians.
January 22, 2025 at 11:53 PM
Why is the systematic use of sexual violence against Palestinians not deemed newsworthy?
Because of the systematic dehumanisation of Palestinians in our media and by our politicians.
Because of the systematic dehumanisation of Palestinians in our media and by our politicians.
Those people who claim it is provocative to call this genocide, kindly explain what word you think would be more accurate. This is a genuine request.
January 15, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Those people who claim it is provocative to call this genocide, kindly explain what word you think would be more accurate. This is a genuine request.
Not sure who to credit for creating this meme, but it’s 🎯.
January 14, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Not sure who to credit for creating this meme, but it’s 🎯.
> When the state you want to build requires, by your own acknowledgement, the ethnic cleansing of masses of people, that is pretty much the definition of a “racist endeavor.” It certainly qualifies as “a state founded on ethnocentric superiority,” to borrow Dr. Barakat’s phrasing.
January 8, 2025 at 3:46 PM
> When the state you want to build requires, by your own acknowledgement, the ethnic cleansing of masses of people, that is pretty much the definition of a “racist endeavor.” It certainly qualifies as “a state founded on ethnocentric superiority,” to borrow Dr. Barakat’s phrasing.
To my amusement, I was once tagged in someone’s tweet about Breaking Bad actress Anna Gunn.
January 7, 2025 at 12:31 AM
To my amusement, I was once tagged in someone’s tweet about Breaking Bad actress Anna Gunn.
*Translation*
Alien 1: What are they so excited about?
Alien 2: The Earth has completed a full orbit around the sun.
Alien 1: I told you they are bonkers.
Alien 1: What are they so excited about?
Alien 2: The Earth has completed a full orbit around the sun.
Alien 1: I told you they are bonkers.
January 1, 2025 at 4:00 PM
*Translation*
Alien 1: What are they so excited about?
Alien 2: The Earth has completed a full orbit around the sun.
Alien 1: I told you they are bonkers.
Alien 1: What are they so excited about?
Alien 2: The Earth has completed a full orbit around the sun.
Alien 1: I told you they are bonkers.
I have a fascination for how colours are expressed in different languages and have noticed that Russian colour names don’t neatly align with their English counterparts.
December 30, 2024 at 11:26 PM
I have a fascination for how colours are expressed in different languages and have noticed that Russian colour names don’t neatly align with their English counterparts.
I remember @mosababutoha.bsky.social posting about his neighbours’ baby girl dying of hypothermia eleven months ago. Horrifying.
December 30, 2024 at 8:08 PM
I remember @mosababutoha.bsky.social posting about his neighbours’ baby girl dying of hypothermia eleven months ago. Horrifying.
Uri Davis detailed very clearly why it was appropriate to term Israel an apartheid state. Sadly, few people seem to have read his work.
December 30, 2024 at 4:08 PM
Uri Davis detailed very clearly why it was appropriate to term Israel an apartheid state. Sadly, few people seem to have read his work.
Did anyone else have this book as a child? Raymond Briggs was quite brilliant at injecting personality into his drawings. The dialogue helps, of course, too. By the end of the book, you felt you knew this fuzzy-bearded old man and his charming assortment of animals.
December 25, 2024 at 4:50 PM
Did anyone else have this book as a child? Raymond Briggs was quite brilliant at injecting personality into his drawings. The dialogue helps, of course, too. By the end of the book, you felt you knew this fuzzy-bearded old man and his charming assortment of animals.
Here is Jonathan Cook complaining that Vanessa Beeley and Eva Bartlett are not invited to appear on the BBC as Syria specialists. Yes, really!
December 11, 2024 at 12:13 PM
Here is Jonathan Cook complaining that Vanessa Beeley and Eva Bartlett are not invited to appear on the BBC as Syria specialists. Yes, really!
