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In a world full of cowards, Thanks for the Grandsons of Mandela 🇵🇸🇿🇦❤️

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An IDF soldier filmed himself repeatedly slapping a kidnapped, tied, blindfolded Palestinian man in the West Bank, forcing him to sing ‘everything is good’ in Hebrew for a TikTok post.

So this’s the West Bank, that has nothing to do with the attack of October .

And they blame Palestinians for resisting these disgusting savages.

Via wissamgaza

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Stupid israeli propaganda

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this time of year i would've been so looking forward 2 my Spotify wrapped ://

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Whyyyy would you silence your own people like this, what are you afraid of? Is this release being shown on media?

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He left from Israel prison with broken arms and fingers, with a broken soul.

She left Gaza with a pet.

Do you guys understand the difference?

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here’s your reminder that israel has indeed violated the truce. their warplanes have entered the sky space of gaza (reported by hind khoudary & muhammad smiry)

and oppressive forces have also shot at a palestinian man and left him to bleed. then opened fire on anyone who approached the man to help (reported by motaz). there are also testimonies from palestinians that the israeli forces themselves encouraged the people to go help the injured man and then opened fire at them (motaz).

israeli forces have also blocked the entrance of a hospital in jenin, and have killed 3 people and injured 6 others in an open fire during their raid of jenin in the west bank (QudsNews)

meanwhile, israeli hostages that have been released had been forbidden from giving interviews (QudsNews) and there have since been reports that the hostages confirmed they were treated humanely and were not assaulted (source 1, source 2, more healthy israeli hostages)

this ceasefire truly didn’t mean anything. and israel and palestinian resistance clearly do not operate on the same field nor with a balance in power. even during a “truce” they are still oppressing victims.

keep speaking up. contact your reps. protest. boycott following bds guidelines. publicly condemn israel. start conversations and raise awareness. educate yourself and educate others. listen to palestinian voices.

amplify palestinian voices.

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i do not pity israel. never have, and never will.

each night that gaza experiences is deadlier than the last, as idf soldiers record propaganda tiktoks, make rave parties and grwms and fit checks, gloat over having food and water, and film themselves deriving sadistic pleasure from torturing their hostages and victims and desecrating the dead.

Palestinians have to display their martyred before the camera for you to believe the atrocities that the zionist entity has subjected them to. they cannot even mourn in private. the apartheid entity murders them in cold blood, and you deliver the killing blow by doubting them.

babies whose families have been killed will never get to know their own name.

i can't reshare a tenth of the videos and photos that cross my timeline. i have seen more dead children in the past month than i have known death my entire life.

israeli settlers burn olive trees, bomb bakeries and fishing boats, shower white phosphorus and earthquake bombs on the captive civilians of gaza. you already know about the disastrous effects of white phosphorus, but earthquake bombs were last used during ww2 to wipe out entire cities.

how holy is the land that seeks to be built over the mass graves of thousands of children? is it holier than the miracle of a child being born in this hypocritical world?

all 11 universities in gaza have been bombed. academics should be agitating right now, especially those who call themselves "decolonial thinkers." destruction of universities is a sinisterly deliberate act to sabotage the Palestinians who will survive this great catastrophe.

the act of cleansing your hands before prayer is extremely important to muslims. no part of us can remotely comprehend the grief of the mother who refused to wash her hands from the blood of her children after losing them in a zionist airstrike over gaza. "I swear I won't wash them, I won't wash my hands, how else am I supposed to sleep near my kids."

it is only both moral and right when one side defends itself. the other side are the price of war, no better than insects and cattle and sheep left to die within the four walls of the slaughterhouse.

this situation should not be up for debate, but let me finish with one final thing : do your research about Palestine. HOWEVER. you do not need a degree in middle east studies to object to an ongoing genocide. if someone outwits you in a debate about historical details and every nuance of a subject, you were and will remain entirely correct in objecting to a genocide.

may those martyred rest in peace and be reunited again with their loved ones in heaven's eternal vastness.

DO NOT STOP TALKING ABOUT PALESTINE.

glory to Palestinian resistance. from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free.

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A mother bids farewell to her children, arranging them and gently wiping their faces as they depart on their final journey.

Just keep in mind that what appears as cruelty and beyond your capacity to see or even imagine, they experience and endure it every single day.

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"Why is there no doctors or scientists or educated people in gaza?" Because Israel is killing them all. The majority of the population in gaza are under 18, Israel kills them before they get to college, and also kills the ones who do.

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"You're missing context"

Rathbone

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The first book I am reading is "Socialism: Utopian and Scientific," by Frederick Engels. I will share my thoughts on the work tomorrow. In the meantime, if anyone has any thoughts on the text, please let me know.

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My journey begins today. I have read texts prior. But I succumbed to the propaganda of capitalism for 15 years. After the pandemic, I was confronted with the undeniable reality that my reactionary worldview was in direct contradiction with reality.

It took me sometime to right the ship, finding myself in a dizzying miasma of worldviews to sift through. Eventually, I began to see that Marxism-Leninism was likely the most valid of these, having liberated many peoples from the brutality and alienation of modern capitalism.

I will begin to read and re-read theory, using a list from Marx2Mao.com, starting with the beginners section. I will try to summarize and share my thoughts on each book, along with questions I have. I hope that in posting my mistakes and misunderstandings for the world to see, I can help make the process of learning Marxism-Leninism less intimidating for newbies like me.

I will leave this post with an image I made, along with an inspiring quote from Vladimir Lenin.