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"As long as there is oppression, there is resistance." Simple as.
November 14, 2023 at 1:03 AM
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Inspiring words from the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine 🫡🇵🇸
This heroic epic, written with pure blood, living flesh, and the Palestinian dream, with its consequences and daily life, has posed an existential threat to the entity, revived hope for the Palestinians and Arabs to restore the Palestinian liberation project, and shattered the image of the invincible army. The Political Bureau confirms that the battle is ongoing, the resistance continues, and the ground invasion will be the decisive factor in shaping the upcoming developments, especially after the fall of the occupation state's scarecrow, whose image has been shattered and will never return as it was before. The aggression continues, and the battle with the occupation is not over yet. The challenges and responsibilities are great. Let us embark on the battle for freedom together. Let us triumph together. Our destiny is one, our future is one, our enemy is one. What is coming might be fiercer, but the will to victory is great. PFLP logo
October 24, 2023 at 2:36 PM
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Steve Salaita's new essay is the best I've read this decade, nothing else comes close.

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Israel’s trance community had gathered in the desert near the settlement of Re’im a few miles from the Gaza Strip.  They were there to enjoy a psychedelic festival of techno-electronica music, Nova, one stop among an itinerant lifestyle of sensuality and peaceful vibes.  Nova.  The name evokes stargazing, wanderlust, possibility.  It is mysterious and fascinating, a portal to a different world, one that promises escape from the drudgeries of this deteriorating planet.  Just out of the ravers’ view were two million people of the Gaza Strip, consigned to the drudgery of sanctions, immobility, and military occupation.  They too dreamed of another world.  But that world didn’t exist in the cosmos.  It is already here, on this earth, in the homeland from which they were expelled. There is plenty of temptation to wag fingers in the aftermath of the operation, but surely that task is not the domain of academics and activists in the metropole.  Nor should it be the priority of diaspora Palestinians (among whom I include myself).  In our environs, filled with their own kind of hostility, the priority should be to defend Palestinians against the torment to which they have been subjected by the entire industrialized world.  Among politicians, artists, celebrities, and intellectuals, Palestinians have no shortage of critics happy to cosign Zionist genocide.  Those critics don’t need or desire our validation, anyway.  Abandoning our brethren in order to appease the Zionist establishment will deliver no accolades.  In the end, the aspirant to respectability is left only with the shame of conciliation. Palestinians are perfectly capable of formulating strategy and thinking through complex problems without the guidance of outsiders; they certainly don’t need half-baked moralism from dorks and social climbers in the West.  The Palestinian story isn’t esoteric or inaccessible.  In fact, one can discover the rationale for Palestinian violence anywhere in the great mass of revolutionary writing from Amilcar Cabral to Bassel al-Araj.  That intellectuals who have made lucrative careers with tough-sounding buzzwords were so eager to condemn an actual instance of Indigenous resistance is a damning (and in my mind permanent) indictment of Western academe. Thus it is a cause for jubilation.  A few months ago, a group of unruly white revelers jumped a Black dock worker on the Montgomery (Alabama) waterfront.  It was a familiar scene:  a bunch of Southern preppies with enormous entitlement visiting aggression on a scapegoat for their racial animus.  The worker fought valiantly but was badly outnumbered.  Soon, though, dozens of bystanders came to his defense, by land and water.  They walloped the white offenders in a chaotic scene captured by multiple camera angles.  Their resistance was intense.  One white woman was whacked on the head with a folding chair.  One of the white men ended up in the river.  On social media (and beyond), there was great celebration by Black users.  They quickly made memes of the violence and handed out nicknames to participants in the brawl.  This mass of users was, in a word, jubilant.
October 19, 2023 at 4:15 PM
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Freyja (recently sans-pyometra) and Vanna (perpetually spirited and frequently disgruntled). Sweetest littles alive
October 12, 2023 at 12:59 AM
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With power now cut in Gaza and medical supplies, water, food and fuel blocked from entering, the situation at Gazan hospitals becomes even more dire than it already was. 5000+ wounded and now how are they supposed to be treated? The Israeli military is creating a Hell on Earth.
Gaza's only power station runs out of fuel; massacre reported at Kfar Aza kibbutz Gaza's energy ministry says plant has shut down after Israel cut off fuel supplies; media visit Israeli border community attacked by Hamas "The situation in Gaza is catastrophic; the hospitals are overwhelmed. The number of wounded is extremely high - there is a constant influx into all the hospitals in the Gaza Strip. The medical teams are exhausted, working around the clock to treat the wounded. The bombardments are very intense. Entire buildings are being destroyed, including one last night right next to the MSF office. Sometimes people receive a text message in the middle of the night telling them to evacuate their homes, as happened to some of our team members in Gaza. You have to wake up your children in the middle of the night and leave your house, without taking any of your belongings, to get to safety. But very often people don't know where to go; they find themselves outside in the middle of the night, under a hail of bombs. Where can they find safety? The latest estimates put the number of displaced people at around 200,000, mainly people who have received those SMS messages and whose homes have been destroyed.
October 11, 2023 at 3:12 PM
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October 10, 2023 at 10:53 PM
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🇵🇸Long live the Palestinian resistance and glory to its martyrs🇵🇸
October 11, 2023 at 2:04 AM