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Lose your illusions about this regime. They are the ruling class who don’t care about your ‘ant’ life.

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Anyone still remotely conscious have already realized now:

This is not just one country one region.

This is the entire world.

Our entire world.

"End the genocide. End the occupation." [@/theslowfactory on X. May 16, 2024.]

Slow Factory created an infograph attached above in this X post with pictures/icons above the following information: zionism is: genocide, starvation as a weapon, 3 million displaced since 1948, ethnic cleansing, state sanctioned terrorism, ecocide, supremacy, rupture of International Law, domicide, scholasticide, settler colonialism, 40,000 plus murdered since October 7th, crimes against humanity, 9,000 Palestinian hostages held with no charges, illegal land annexation, battle-testing murder tech on sieged and concentrated population, facism, torture and abuse of Palestinian hostages, segregation, 300 Palestinian children in cages/year.

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One most stupid thing they said today is collectivism overs individualism

As if sacrificing a smaller number of people for the greater good of larger numbers of people would be their version of Justice, a real travesty.

Justice is undeniably rooted in individualism, as well as in the collectives. People will support a just cause, even at their own detriment, but as soon as you stopped respecting their personal values, they don’t have to support you.

There is nothing wrong in “selfishness” as a fundamental nature of life, which coexist with our empathic and Justice-seeking nature. People band together when they realized they share fates regardless of where they are, who they are. Even our higher pursuits too are our own self-actualizing pursuits.

It is laughably yet not surprising, that some confuse chasing a shared goal, respecting the mass, equates to brazen collectivism, since neoliberalism is seen failing and there is a rediscovering of values of Marxism. But did they truly think about it enough? Obviously no, as humans often think not enough to innovate and come up with new solutions, once they found one extreme not working, they but fall back to old traps of the polar opposite.

Because if they do think instead of repeat, they’d realize respecting the mass requires the exact opposite of collectivism, and if they are smart, they’d realize they should not be antagonizing individuals but instead try to gain from them support.

Real socialism should not be a doctrine of collectivism or it will always fall apart.

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“No one came to Google to work on offensive military technology” 

- Vidana Abdel Khalek wrote in her mail resigning from Google on March 25 addressing to company leaders, including CEO Sundar Pichai, announcing her decision to quit in protest over Project Nimbus.

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"At least 27 children have died because of dehydration and malnutrition in the Northern Gaza Strip. These tragic and horrific deaths are man-made, predictable and entirely preventable." -UNRWA

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Don’t forget Biden is in it from the beginning.

And no major US news tagline has the children’s murders mentioned.

You are right. It is deprived.

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The genocide taking place in Gaza is the first AI-powered genocide. Big Tech is facilitating this genocide against Palestinians.

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students are continuing to show up and occupy lawns even as mass arrests are continuing to unfold. something is shifting drastically in america, especially in our younger generations. we are rejecting complicity in the us and israel's genocide entirely. these students are not backing down. locals once again, show up if you can.

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A post shared by Columbia University Apartheid Divest (CUAD) (@cuapartheiddivest)

students are continuing to show up and occupy lawns even as mass arrests are continuing to unfold. something is shifting drastically in america, especially in our younger generations. we are rejecting complicity in the us and israel's genocide entirely. these students are not backing down. locals once again, show up if you can.

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These murderers are admitting they lied only after the damage has been done and is STILL ongoing, and I am beyond pissed.

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In November, displaced children in Al Shifa posted a video pleading in English to be protected. It was the first of four raids that were conducted on the hospital before Israel burned it down this week. Gaza's Civil Defense Office says all departments and buildings were purposefully destroyed. According to verified reports, two vendors who sold water and food to the refugees at Al Shifa revealed themselves to be IDF soldiers as the raid began and instructed the troops to start the massacre. Anybody who didnt flee was indiscrimately executed. Euro Med Human Rights Monitor estimates that 1.500 people were injured or killed, of which at least 13 were children and 22 were shot in their hospital beds. Some of the bodies found after the carnage were zip tied. Doctors report that some of the victims were buried alive. We have graphic videos of bodies crushed and buried by bulldozers. Al Shifa is the site of a mass grave. I keep thinking how many of those children are still alive.

The official narrative by Israel is that not a single civilian was killed. It is laughable that they expect us to believe this shit. They lie to our faces, against a barrage of videos showing they are conducting a very clear and unapologetic extermination campaign in Gaza, and yet every single western media outlet hems and haws around their intent like there's plausible deniability. Biden approves unconditional military aid for Israel and Gazzans show us the remains of missiles with name and address of the American factories that produced them but he can mumble through phlegm about red lines and no newspaper calls bullshit. Hillary Clinton can come on national television and condescendingly tell voters to get over themselves like they're doing you a fucking favor by putting up a serial killer for you to vote, and nobody calls bullshit on her manipulation. Ursula Von Der Leyen can smile cynically at a protester who calls her a war criminal and nobody calls bullshit. And we know why. The New York Times said they found no anti Palestinian bias in their reporting of October 7th only for a memo to come out showing they instructed reporters to not show any ounce of sympathy for Palestinians, even avoiding the word Palestine. Why are those people up there? Why do they act like we are children, when they are the ones who damned their souls? I refuse that narrative.

Palestinians are not more resilient to atrocities. Do not let the world dehumanize them. The terror Palestinians feel is the same you would feel if babies were killed in your neighborhood. If a crazed maniac started shooting at a family as they walked down the main avenue of their city, it would be national news. War is not an extenuating circunstance for these actions. The people who are conducting these massacres are serial killers who live among you by justifying their murders as acts of war, like Nir Maman, USAmerican cop and Bernaya Cherlow, who was invited to Congress. They should not know peace.

Giving up hope is not a choice for us to make. For 75 years, Palestine has resisted and it will be free within our lifetimes.

I have said this before and I will say it again, The South African apartheid collapsed due to boycotts. We have to do everything in our power to stop Israel's hegemony. Even talking to a group of friends about Palestine changes the status quo. There's no world where we can live peacefully if Israel accomplishes their goals.

If you have Israeli citizenship and wish to denounce it, a group of Jewish anti zionists have organized a guide on how to.

Keep yourself updated and share Palestinian voices. Muna El-Kurd said every tweet is like a treasure to them, because their voices are repressed on social media and even on this very app. Make it your action item to share something about the Palestinian plight everyday. Here are some resources:

Al Jazeera, Anadolu Agency, Mondoweiss

Boycott Divest Sanction Movement

Palestinian Youth Movement is organizing protests and direct action against weapons factories across the US

Muhammad Shehada (twitter)

Hind Khoudary - reporting directly from Gaza.

You can participate in boycotts wherever you are in the world, through BDS guidelines. Don't be overwhelmed by gigantic boycott lists. BDS explicitly targets only a few brands which have bigger impact. You can stop consuming from as many brands as you want, though, and by all means feel free to give a 1 star review to McDonalds, Papa John, Pizza Hut, Burger King and Starbucks. Right now, they are focusing on boycotting the following:

Carrefour, HP, Puma, Sabra, Sodastream, Ahava cosmetics, Israeli fruits and vegetables

Push for a cultural boycott - pressure your favorite artist to speak out on Palestine and cancel any upcoming performances on occupied territory (Lorde cancelled her gig in Israel because of this. It works.)

If you can, participate in direct action or donate.

Palestine Action works to shut down Israeli weapons factories in the UK and USA, and have successfully shut down one of their firms in London.Some of the activists are going on trial and are calling for mobilizing on court.

Palestinian Youth Movement is organizing direct actions to stop the shipping of wars to Israel. Follow them.

Columbia students are organizing in coalition with Jewish Voices for Peace to divest from Israel. Support them if you are on site.

Educate yourself. Read into Palestinian history and the occupation. You can't common sense people out of decades of propaganda. If your arguments crumble when a zionist brings up the "disengagement of Gaza", you have to learn more.

Read Decolonize Palestine. They have 15 minute reads that concisely explain the occupation (and its colonial roots) and debunk popular myths, including pinkwashing.

Read on Palestine. Here's an amazing masterpost.

Verso Book Club is giving out free books on Palestine (I personally downloaded Ten Myths about Israel by Ilan Pappe. If you still believe in the two states solution, this book by an Israeli professor debunks it).

Call your representatives. The Labour Party in the UK had an emergency meeting after several councilors threatened to resign if they didn't condemn Israeli war crimes. Calling to show your complaints works, even more if you live in a country that funds genocide.

FOR PEOPLE IN THE USA: USCPR has developed this toolkit for calls, here's a document that autosends emails to your representatives and here's a toolkit by Ceasefire in Gaza NOW!

FOR PEOPLE IN EUROPE: Here's a toolkit by Voices in Europe for Peace targeting the European Parliament and one specific for almost all countries in Europe, including Germany, Ireland, Poland, Denmark, Sweden, Netherlands, Greece, Norway, Italy, Portugal, Spain, Finland, Austria, Belgium Romania and Ukraine

FOR PEOPLE IN THE UK: Friends of Al-Aqsa UK and Palestine Solidarity UK have made toolkits for calls and emails

FOR PEOPLE IN AUSTRALIA: Here's a toolkit by Stand With Palestine

FOR PEOPLE IN CANADA: Here's a toolkit by Indepent Jewish Voices for Canada

Join a protest. Here's a constantly updating list of protests:

Global calendar

Another global calendar (go to the instragram of the organizers to confirm your protest)

USA calendar

Australia calendar

Feel free to add more.

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Jerusalem is concerned that the International Criminal Court in The Hague could soon issue arrest warrants against senior officials, including Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, over the Israel Defense Forces operation against Hamas, Channel 12 News reported Thursday. According to the report, an emergency meeting was held at Netanyahu’s office on Tuesday in the presence of Minister of Strategic Affairs Ron Dermer, Justice Minister Yariv Levin and Foreign Minister Israel Katz. The four decided to take “urgent action with international authorities” to prevent the arrest of Israelis abroad, Channel 12 added.

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Look I told you Evil will not stay in one place.

If you dare resist, it will come to you. So GIVE UP YOUR FREEDOM! Your INDIVIDUAL mind.

Or fight.

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Why US vetoed the UN action to restore full Palestinian Statehood?

Because they ask for your full and unconditional submission.

And by ‘you’ I do not just mean Palestinians, not even just brown people. You know whites are also not exempt from their 1984.

it’s heading there.

The imperialist monster will not be stopped by submission. If submission worked, the world would be at peace for years, but no, you cannot cut down the Human Spirit.

Without correcting the Wrong first, all else calls for peace will not work. You are asking the butcher to spare the lamb, when he clearly benefits ‘staunchly’ by it.

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How is the war on Gaza NOT a war on Palestinian children - Palestine's future?

The UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNWRA) says it found the massive explosives inside schools after Israeli forces withdrew from Gaza’s city of Khan Younis.

Punching down is all Israelis can rise to, as they benefit from US cover. Israelis planted bombs inside kids schools.