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September 2, 2024 - On the first day of fall classes the Alma Mater statue on the steps of the library at Columbia University was drenched in red paint, as protests continue against the school’s financial support for Israel and the repression of pro-Palestine voices while Israel's barbaric USA-supported genocide goes on unabated. [link]

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Aamer Rahman: "A colonizer’s favourite trick is to start the timeline when it's convenient for them."

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A Palestinian refugee. She is wearing a T-shirt imprinted with the image of the revolutionary Palestinian author Ghassan Kanafani.

Ein El Hilweh Camp, 1982- 1989

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i really think one of the reasons the democrats don't really want to work on a ceasefire (and one of the reasons the israeli public is by a majority opposed to one) is that once the war ends, the extent of the damage becomes clear. you know the quote about how liberals are opposed to every war except the current one? once the war in gaza is hindsight, it will be impossible to deny the genocide. the war prevents international observers, it prevents foreign journalists, it prevents counting bodies under the rubble, it prevents saving lives and rebuilding hospitals, all under a security pretext. the 40,000 number will likely triple. the annexation of the west bank will be more noticeable. the obituaries will finally be written, the mass graves finally marked.

above all, the war prevents mourning. it prevents the world—the leadership of the world in particular—from humanizing palestinians. they are only humans when they are victims, and the war allows israel to maintain the illusion that this is a war with two sides, that these soldiers are fighting a symmetrical war with an opposing army, rather than a war of extermination against an entire people. you end the war, you end the illusion.

the idea that continuing the war will allow hamas to recoup or launch another attack is a joke—hamas don't need to. the damage israel will take once this is assessed in sober hindsight will be astounding. not just for the international community, but for israelis themselves. all those idf soldiers sniping babies in the head will have to go home and think about what they've done. and they'll talk about what they've done. they've filmed it, they've recorded it, but it will look very different when the war ends. this is also why israel continues to escalate. they are the only ones who benefit from a regional war. lebanon and iran know this well. so does the united states. politically and tactically, israel will not be the same once the war is over. this has always been true, and it has always been why it needed the occupation in the first place—it is a country that requires perpetual war to maintain itself. how can israelis live if they do not feel threatened? what is israel if it is not surrounded by enemies, but by victims and allies?

as the US knows, israel only switches from "high intensity war" to "low intensity war" with palestinians, but it has never actually chosen peace nor has it ever seriously engaged in a peace process. this choice has never been more obvious than it is today, but it will only become more obvious once the war ends.

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saw some ppl full chest using the argument that "seeing so much human suffering is unnatural" and it's like do you know what's even more unnatural??? seeing so much human suffering and doing nothing about it bc you've been coddled your whole life and think lives outside of the global north don't mean anything. that's extremely unnatural to me . but a lot of you are shameless enough to be doing it rn.

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I really do understand, even empathize with people who are voting for kamala/dems but I really wish you guys wouldn't say this is for Palestine/Palestinians because there's not a reality in which that's true. I live in the US as a citizen so I'd suffer under a Trump presidency too (which I already experienced) so it's not like I have no stakes in the matter, I just abhor the thought of voting for the people who are directly involved in my people's slaughter.

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All you were begging for “tangible ways” to help Palestinians. Now that they’re literally in your inboxes telling you exactly how much they need to live, you’re calling them scammers and a nuisance.

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grown american adults when you tell them that they cant blame the education system for their own ignorance and that they have a duty and moral obligation as a grown adult to learn about the world around them so they can better the state of the world that they keep complaining about

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Sliman Mansour, The Flight to Egypt (1984)

Donate to Palestinian refugees

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The United States is occupying Gaza and taking part in the genocide

We keep repeating this but it needs to sink in. Palestinians have seen American troops fighting in Gaza. America is not just complicit but an active partner in the annihilation of Gaza

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This is like.... such a cruel thing to say. As if Palestinians in America aren't also concerned about these things? Do you think us refusing to vote for our butchers is us having a luxury??

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Posted by Palestinian Youth Movement:

Human remains were so scattered at the site of Al-Tabeen School Massacre that the parademics counted each 70kg remains as 1 martyr and returned a 70 kg of remains to the surviving family members of each martyr, asking them to bury the bag and pray over it as though it were the whole body of their loved one.

Why is Gaza not one issue, but rather the issue, of our time? Because the reports emerging, today and every day for the last 10 months, tell of horrors at a scale and degree that are impossible for any human being of conscience to witness and not feel spurred by to take immediate action. These senseless crimes are filled with such depravity, that there is no fathomable way to forget or turn a blind eye to the suffering inflicted upon our people. Such horror was on full display yesterday at the site of the Al Tabaeen Massacre in Gaza City, where after several hours of removing mangled and unidentifiable human remains, paramedics made an almost incomprehensible decision. The bomb dropped by Israel on the school, which instantly martyred over 100 Palestinians who had been mid-prayer there, split the ground beneath them and scattered their bodies to such a degree that not a single body of a martyr was found in its entirety.

Confronted with a massacre that claimed 100 lives, without a single whole corpse to identify, paramedics began to gather and weigh the human remains, splitting them into bags that weigh the average human weight of 70 kg. They then handed one bag of remains to each family of a martyr and asked them to bury the bag and pray over it as though it were the whole body of their loved one.

The bombs used in these massacres in Gaza are manufactured in the USA, Canada, and the UK. Their component parts are developed by Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman, assembly completed by US engineers, and transportation to Gaza completed by European shipping giant Maersk. These bombs, that leave our martyrs limbless and unidentifiable due to the incomprehensible amount of destruction they were created to cause, are all co-signed and cheered for by the US Congress and UK and Canadian parliaments.

In an election year no less, Gaza is the issue of our time because our complicity should not, and cannot, allow us to sleep peacefully at night. Not only our complicity, but our collective ability to put a stop to the pipeline of these horrors, should shake each and every one of us to our very core, every day until this nightmare ends. The struggle continues.

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Seeing headlines like “x Palestinians killed in the last hour alone!” every time I look up the news fills me w so much anxiety for the families whose campaigns have gone completely stagnant. And literally none of the western media outlets give it the depth it deserves — it’s always “the war between Hamas and Israel” “a crisis in the Middle East!” “how the war has torn families apart” what war. What crisis. You know perfectly well what is happening (genocide). You know perfectly well it’s not a war (it’s Israel vs innocent Palestinian youth). It’s not war. It’s just not some nebulous crisis. I cannot believe we’re not calling it for what it is almost one year into this.

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small horror i am today thinking about: palestinian detainee testifying that israeli soldiers were filming them on camera while torturing them (including rape)—one heard the soldier recording mention it was for ben gvir. unclear if they were directly livestreaming for him, under instructions to film from him, or were taking videos to show him later. but what a country. i can't think of a single dictatorship where the top brass was so openly implicated in crimes against humanity. they usually pretend that stuff isn't happening

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