#Ramallah Lynching

[angrybell]

So Hamas allies in the US attended the hearings today on Capitol Hill about aid to Israel. It looks like they attended in costume because it was Halloween.

Now, most likely they using as an inspiration the photo on the right with the man, hands bloodied, in the window. Who is he? How did his hands get that way?

That man’s name is Abdel Aziz Salha. He is a “Palestinian” originally form Ramallah.

The photo was taken on October 12, 2000. On that day, two Israeli reservists took a wrong turn and ended up in Ramallah. Ramallah, then as now, was under PA control. Since the two men were Israeli Jews, they were taken into custody by the PA Police and taken to the police station under arrest.

The man in the left picture below is Vadim Norzhich was a truck driver who had made Aliyah from Russia ten years earlier. The man on the right is Yossi Avrahami, a toy salesman in civilian life. On the day in question, they were reservists in the IDF being called to report to an IDF base at Beit El.

While arrested and in custody, Salha and crowd of Arabs formed. This was just over 2 weeks into the Second Intifada, an uprising that occurred because a Jew had the temerity to go up to the Temple Mount (side note, I did it seven years before and they didn’t care). Salha, and his buddies, were angry that the Israelis had not just let his compatiots riot and destroy everything they could. So when they heard that 2 Israelis were in custody, it was time for pay back.

In the US, if this were to happen, we’d call it a lynch mob.

Rather than disperse the crowd and retain control, the PA Police were happy to let Salha and his buddies “storm” the police station and pull the two Israelis out of the cells. The group that actually entered the police station were made up of 2 Tanzim members (part of Fatah/PLO) and 2 Hamas members. It appears that Salha was the only who wasn’t a member of either terrorist groups.

They were beaten.

They were stabbed.

Their bodies were mutilated.

And Salha was part of that. He choked one of the Israelis while others beat and then butchered them with knives.

Salha was pursued by the Shin Bet for 11 months before he was finally caught. At trial, he was convicted of murder of Norzhich. He was supposed to spend life in prison, the harshest penalty israeli courts can impose on anyone who isn’t a member of the Nazi party form 1933 to 1945.

But instead of spending lift in prison, he was exchanged as part of the prisoner swap for Gilad Shalit.

When asked if he had any regrets about murdering Norzhich by the Eletronic Intifada, he replied

“I believe it is not the right thing to speak about such incidents because ti is nto going to make a difference whether people know the details or not. … “ Salha said. “It will harm us [those who killed Israeli soldiers] if we keep speaking and boasting about what we did, and also it will be used agaisnt us by Israeli media.”

“Does that mean you regret what you’ve done?” I ask him

Looking ponderous, Salha remained silent for a moment before replying, “It just means we should not speak about how we feel about what we did.”

So the Left is celebrating an unrepentant murderer of Jews for being Jews in the “wrong” place. They’re probably claim its the equivalent of another lie that the intersectional left pushed to the point where people forgot the truth: Hands up, don’t shoot.

Kind of par for the course these days.

[blunderpuff]

fuck Jonathan Glazer and fuck everyone cheering him on

[matan4il]

Daily update post:

I don't have an online source yet other than a tweet in Hebrew, but I heard a report about at least two Hamas divers who tried to invade Israel through the sea. The threat has been neutralized, but this shows once again, that as long as Hamas exists, the civilians in southern Israel are NOT safe. That's along with Hamas still firing rockets at Israeli civilians whenever they can.

This morning also saw another independent Palestinian terrorist attack, this time on one of the major roads leading into Jerusalem. Two Israelis have been stabbed and injured, a 25 years old man, and a 19 or 20 years old woman (I heard contradicting reports, so I'm citing both options). The terrorist was 15 years old, and has been neutralized. He reached the scene of the attack riding on electric bicycles. Just a reminder, inciting and recruiting a teenager to carry out a terrorist attack is morally wrong, if not downright criminal, and it should be where everyone's ire is directed.

The IDF has confirmed that it has killed a Hamas leader in Lebanon, Mustafa Hadi. He was in charge, among other things, of promoting terrorist attacks against Israeli and Jewish targets outside of Israel.

I've heard a journalist saying that there are enough aid trucks entering Gaza, the issue is that Hamas is confiscating about 60% of the humanitarian aid brought in. The info is confirmed in this article, about a new pilot the IDF is trying, to try and bypass Hamas. If the last attempt (which backfired) was to bring aid in from the south, and the IDF would secure it as it's transferred to the north (instead of handing it to local elements for the transfer), now they're going to check the trucks in the south, but bring them into Gaza directly in its northern part.

I've already expressed my POV about what is probably the worst speech given at the Oscars this year, maybe ever. Now, the Holocaust Survivors' Foundation has denounced the Holocaust-hijacking, anti-Israel speech at the Oscars as "factually incorrect and morally indefensible." The ADL sent out the same message.

I've already pointed out that the absolute majority of survivors were and are Zionist (as were many of the Jews murdered in the Holocaust), but I think it really matters that the survivors who are still around are using their own voices to speak out against this distorted narrative. Will this director and others like him, who have hijacked the Holocaust for their political messages, actually listen and apologize? I kind of doubt it. Holocaust survivors are to be listened to! ...But only if they're one of the 5 or so who hate Israel.

And while we're at it, it should also be mentioned that the red hand pin that many stars wore at awards ceremonies this year stems from a symbol featured in many anti-Israel protests, leading back to the 2000 brutal lynching and murder of two Israelis who took a wrong turn into the Palestinian city of Ramallah. I think it says a lot in itself, that Arabs in general and Palestinians in particular SAFELY walk around Jewish majority Israeli cities every day, or live in them, but Jews have to fear for their lives when they enter, even accidentally, Arab areas that have been ethnically cleansed of Jews. Regarding the red hand symbol, I'm not saying that every person using it fully understands its origin, that it became a feature of anti-Israel demonstrations only after the lynching, it was never spotted at them before that, it became a prominent feature of the Second Intifada (2000-2005), I'm also not saying this is the only use of a red hand as a protest symbol ever, so people who saw the pin would have easily been unaware of its origin in this context. But it feels like another sign of the same problem: people are ignorant about this conflict, yet they allow themselves the freedom to talk about it, or use its symbols and terms, without truly understanding them, and without seeming to care about the consequences. It's a bit like someone who might have watched Dukes of Hazard, and started wearing a pin of the Confederate flag, initially not knowing (but later also not showing any care for) why this would hurt the feelings of many African Americans.

Here's another reminder from November 2023, that informed people knowing about the origin of this symbol pre-dates the Oscars:

BTW, I should probably mention that the Italian press crew, which documented the lynching and the proudly presented bloodied hands of one murderer, shared the footage despite threats to their lives from Palestinians (while another Italian film crew threw that one under the bus, promising that their TV station abides by the rules of the Palestinian Authority, implying they comply with the PA's censorship of Palestinian-committed violence). An American news team from ABC, was attacked and prevented from documenting the lynching. A British photojournalist, Mark Seager, who tried to document the lynching as well, was attacked by Palestinians, his equipment was destroyed, and he said he would have nightmares for the rest of his life. Back in 2009, Fatah (the ruling party of the PA) used the lynching to claim they were more deadly towards Israelis than Hamas. ANYONE who lived through this, as many Israelis and Jews did, or even just heard about it growing up, would not easily forget the symbolism of the red hand in this context.

This is 13 years old Mai Zuheir abu Subeich.

She was an Israeli Arab Muslim Bedouine. She excelled as a student, and dreamed of being an English teacher. Family members say she was even already teaching her siblings and cousins. On Oct 7, she was killed when a Palestinian rocket from Gaza hit her home, in the Negev desert. This Ramadan, as IDF soldiers continue to fight in Gaza, Jews, Christians, Muslims, Bedouins and Druze, please remember they're fighting to keep the Muslim citizens of Israel safe from Hamas, too.

(for all of my updates and ask replies regarding Israel, click here)

[unbidden-yidden-deactivated20240]

Okay so I wasn't saying anything about this until the dust had settled a little, but it seems extremely unlikely that the weird red hands 'ceasefire' pins were intentionally referencing the Ramallah lynching, but were meant in a similar way as the missing and murdered indigenous women red handprint. I.e., "people are dying and their blood is on our hands if we don't help stop it."

That said, it absolutely has Unfortunate Implications and I hope that the people wearing them acknowledge this and apologize. (They won't, probably. But they should.)

It also has the ironic effect of teaching people about that incident - I happened to have read about it prior to this, but a lot of people (including plenty of Israelis, actually) learned about it specifically because of this.

[girlactionfigure]

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To anyone wearing these pins - you’ve got blood on your hands (literally). Watch this video for some clarity on what the red hand really means. Still not convinced? Search 2000 Ramallah lynching.

noyleyb

[chanaleah]

I'm asking because I'm genuinely not sure what to think.

Reblog for sample size

If you are unfamiliar, read about the ramallah lynching here

[hero-israel]

Is the "red hand" button from the Oscars really, by artistic choice, based on the Ramallah lynching? Or is it someone using the extremely common imagery of being caught red-handed? I feel like this could be a case where Jewish people, their nerves at the brink, are doing their own version of "those blue stripes on the flag mean the Nile and the Euphrates".

[criptochecca]

Have you seen this picture?

It’s making the round again between zionists, especially those racists enough to want as many possibilies to label Palestinians as violent subhumans who deserve no mercy.

If you see it passed around within those circles, you’ll probably see it captioned something like “October 2000. Two innocent Israelis who entered Ramallah by mistake were murdered and brutalized by a mob of thousands of Palestinians who killed them with their own hands".

This event is known as the 2000 Ramallah lynching, but there is some very important context that is missing in this story, which is very easy to check by simply going into wikipedia.

The "two innocent Israelis" were IDF reservists, and they had entered Ramallah during a period of intense tension: more than 100 Palestinian civilians, two dozens of them minors, had been killed in the two weeks prior.

Ill quote wikipedia: The arrest and detention coincided with the conclusion of a funeral service, attended by thousands of mourners, for Halil Zahran (17), a Palestinian youth who had been killed in clashes with Israeli forces two days earlier. Tensions were running high: over 100 Palestinians, nearly two dozen of them minors, had been killed in the preceding two weeks in violent protests with Israeli forces in Ramallah, and four days earlier, the badly beaten body of Issam Hamad (36) had been dumped outside of the city after being run over by a car, an autopsy revealed.

[goingrampant]

In an early plotline in the webcomic College Roomies from Hell, back when it was a simple gag strip about a normal guy dealing with horrible roommates and not an epic drama about fighting Satan, one of the roomies from hell is sent to invite the cute girls next door out for dinner as a friendly gesture. However, the roomie in question, Roger, is extremely weird, and, finding the girls absent and having no pen to write a note, he utilizes a papercut to write in blood without realizing that makes the note he leaves look extremely threatening out of context: We are coming to get you...

This is what pro-Palestinian activists are doing when they think they're sending a message to Jews about not condemning Israel enough by spray painting a swastika in front of a synagogue and defacing a Holocaust memorial with red handprints.

There are a lot of people who think the messages are obvious, that the swastika obviously means that the Jews who support Israel in its current aggression toward Gaza are acting as Nazis did toward Jews and that the handprints (as a derivation of the condemnation of Canadian residential schools) reveal the dead Gazan children left in the wake of the pretentious Jews who cling to notions of victimization in the Holocaust while supporting the Israeli war. And they're Roger, the roomie from hell, too far into their own skulls to realize they're doing things that any reasonable person would read as a deadly threat. Whether or not Israel in its current presentation is comparable to Nazi Germany, spray painting a swastika on a synagogue is only going to be read the way it always has been, because people aren't going to look at a common use of semiotics and think, "Okay, but what if there's an artistic use this time?" As for the handprints, they're read as a reference to the 2000 Ramallah lynching.

There is a real problem with empathy here. The Rogers in the pro-Palestinian movement are convinced that the meaning of these messages are obvious. They think the swastika and other Nazi stuff presented as part of protests are obviously about Jews now acting like Nazis, and that when they shove Nazi symbols in Jews' faces and Jews react badly, it must be because Jews see that they act like Nazis and feel some kind of shame. The fact that this doesn't result in a condemnation of Israel and instead aggression toward the people revealing this shame with a claim of "antisemitism" then represents a commitment to evil, to Zionist fascism. That is the emotional logic that Rogers read into the situation. Meanwhile, on the other side, Jews just see threats of genocide hurled at them, and then they call that antisemitism and act against it.

In the comic, Roger just acts stupid on his own because he doesn't think things through. In this situation, I honestly think there are Nazis in the background manipulating things. The pro-Palestinian Rogers may be patsies, steered to certain behaviors regardless of internal rationalization. In a sense, it doesn't matter if Nazis have, at their disposal, a group of brutes who want to tear people apart or a group of humanitarian activists doing whatever they can to make the world a better place; as long as they can make them engage in behavior to terrorize the Jewish population, they're useful to the Nazi agenda. Nazis aren't restricted to overtly far-right communities; they float around; they're cozy with terfs; they're dancing through the pro-Palestinian movement, and they're manipulating people as they can. You are not immune to Nazi propaganda, and even if you have the best of intentions, you can be a Roger and contribute to spreading terror.

[mightyflamethrower]

The new Nazis and the coming genocide they are planning

April 29, 2024 3:37 pm Robert Zimmerman

Unless you have been badly educated at one of the so-called elite universities in the United States, Great Britain, or Europe, the genocidal goals of the terrorist organization of Hamas in Gaza are as plain as day.

These murderous thugs not only admire Hitler and wish to finish his effort to wipe out all Jews, they demonstrated that blatant evil goal on October 7, 2024, killing more than a thousand men, women, and children, torturing and raping many women and children in the process. Hamas’ victims that day had committed only one crime: being Jewish and living near Gaza. Many were from the leftwing secular Israeli community, and had worked hard to build good will ties with many in Gaza. The Gazans, working for Hamas, used those ties to gather intelligence that was then used to murder these Jews.

Soon after the massacre, Hamas officials went on television to celebrate these vicious murders. Ghazi Hamad of the Hamas Political Bureau proudly said said that the slaughter on October 7th “is just the first time, and there will be a second, a third, a fourth.” When asked if his position called for the anniliation of Israel, he immediately answered “Yes, of course,” adding “No one should blame us for the things we do, on October 7, October 10, October million, everything we do is justified.”

So what does these goals tell us about the hoards of protesters now swarming on many of these same college campuses, screaming things like “Globalize the Intifa!” and “Kill the Zionists!”? The picture above tells us all we need to know. On October 7th Hamas not only killed more than a thousand, it kidnapped more than two hundred more to hold as hostages, many of whom were little childen and babies. When supporters of Israel began putting up these posters showing the actual hostages held and demanding their release, supporters of Hamas in America and elsewhere would routinely go around ripping those posters down. In the case of the poster above put up in London, they did worse, actually drawing Hilter mustaches on the faces of the babies.

On campuses now, these student protesters are daily telling us where they stand. They support Hamas unequivocally, and want it to survive to kill Jews. Like the Nazis in Germany, they work to harass and persecute any American Jews who happen to stroll by, sometimes acting to block their access to the university. In some cases they attack them violently.

At Pratt Institute in Brooklyn for example these pro-Hamas protesters painted red hands on a tree, a symbol used in a pogrom in Iran in 1941 to identify Jewish homes for the purpose of slaughtering them. Later, after two Israelis were lynched in Ramallah in the West Bank in 2000, one of the killers — after dismembering their bodies — proudly waved his bloody hands to the cheering crowd. Every Jew worldwide knows what that red hand symbol means: We want to kill you, and are eager to do it.

Now American student protesters are using that symbol, claiming that Israel is doing the same in Gaza, when even most shallow research of Israel’s actual war effort in Gaza will tell you it is doing everything it can to minimize civilian deaths. To accuse Israel of genocide here is to accuse it of the typical blood libel that anti-Semites have been using against Jews for centuries.

Meanwhile, these protesters take over campuses and buildings illegally, and then refuse to leave. Even after they are forcibly removed, with some arrested, they quickly and defiantly return (see the stories here and here for just two examples). Like Hamas, they make demands, and if their demands are not met, they use mob action to commit violence to get what they want. In their goals, their propaganda lies, and their actions they are identical in every way with the tactics of the 1930s Nazis.

Pay very close attention to the leaders of these protests. Many are soon going to become major players in the Democratic Party, which is closely tied to these pro-Hamas riots and clearly want them to continue. For example, Columbia University’s board of trustees has apparently acted to tie the hands of the university’s president to prevent any tough action to stop the occupancy of the campus. Instead of condemning this support for Hamas and the illegal mob take-over, they have kept silent. And when you take a close look at political alliances of the majority of that board, the reason becomes evident.

Among those trusted with governing the Ivy League college are a billionaire from the prominent Pritzker family; a hedge-funder who has donated well over $4 million to Democratic causes, including $775,000 just this election cycle; President Barack Obama’s former homeland security secretary, and a federal judge appointed to the bench by President Bill Clinton. “It’s no surprise that the board of trustees for a university allowing woke left-wing ideology and antisemitism to fester is made up of Democrat operatives and donors,” Rep. Nicole Malliotakis (R-NY) said. At least six of the board’s 21 trustees have direct ties to the Democratic Party, according to an investigation by The Post, which examined voter registration and political donation records as well as other public documents.

These new Nazis are clearly the future of the Democratic Party. It is the kind of leadership the present party power-brokers want. Worse, the Democratic Party rank and file want such leadership as well. Only two days ago in a Democratic Party primary in Pennsylvania, congresswoman Summer Lee, a proud member of the radical, Marxist, pro-Hamas “squad”, defeated a challenge from more moderate local Democrat. Moreover, Lee won handily, with about 60% of the vote.

Will this be enough to get Americans to vote against this increasingly bigoted, anti-Semitic, and Marxist Democratic Party? Not likely. The Democrats are unified in favor of this new Nazi movement, while many Republican voters seem glad to sit on their hands like petulant toddlers and not vote, because the Republican Party doesn’t give them what the want, every time.

I must emphasize that I am not talking about the presidential election. These same non-voters — whom I like to call this generation’s version of “the good Germans” in the 1930s — won’t vote in local elections either, thus giving power to the Democrats from the top to the bottom.

This is how Hitler gained power. And it is how the next Hitler, likely hidden among the leaders of those pro-Hamas protests, will gain power in the coming decade. And when that happens, say good-by to the Constitution, to the Bill of Rights, and say hello to a new Holocaust.

[brandonshimoda]

THE BOOKS I READ IN 2023

*I read it before

**I read it more than once this year

Aaron Caycedo-Kimura, Common Grace

Adania Shibli, Minor Detail, translated from the Arabic by Elisabeth Jaquette

Ahmad Almallah, Bitter English

Alison Lubar, It Skips a Generation

Atef Abu Saif, The Drone Eats With Me: A Gaza Diary

Brynn Saito, Under a Future Sky

Camonghne Felix, Dyscalculia: A Love Story of Epic Miscalculation

*Carolina Ebeid, You Ask Me to Talk About the Interior

Chanté L. Reid, Thot

*Christina Sharpe, Ordinary Notes

Christine Shan Shan Hou & Vi Khi Nao, Evolution of the Bullet

Christopher Okigbo, Labyrinths (with Paths of Thunder)

Cristina Rivera Garza, Liliana’s Invincible Summer

Dionne Brand, Chronicles of the Hostile Sun

*Dionne Brand, No Language is Neutral

Dionne Brand, Primitive Offensive

Édouard Louis, Who Killed My Father, translated from the French by Lorin Stein

**Emily Lee Luan, 回 / Return

Erin Marie Lynch, Removal Acts

Fady Joudah, Footnotes in the Order of Disappearance

Farid Tali, Prosopopoeia, translated from the French by Aditi Machado

Gabriel Palacios, A Ten Peso Burial For Which Truth Is Sign (coming out 2024)

Ghayath Almadhoun, Adrenalin, translated from the Arabic by Catherine Cobham

Hauntie, To Whitey & The Cracker Jack

Hervé Guibert, To the friend who did not save my life, translated from the French by Linda Coverdale

Hiromi Ito, Tree Spirits Grass Spirits, translated from the Japanese by Jon L. Pitt

*James Baldwin, No Name in the Street

*James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name

*James Baldwin, The Devil Finds Work

James Fujinami Moore, Indecent Hours

Jami Nakamura Lin, The Night Parade

Jawdat Fakhreddine, Lighthouse for the Drowning, translated from the Arabic by Huda Fakhreddine and Jayson Iwen

Jed Munson, Commentary on the Birds

Jennifer Hayashida, A Machine Wrote This Song

Jenny Odell, Inhabiting The Negative Space

Jenny Xie, The Rupture Tense

*Joy Kogawa, A Choice of Dreams

Joy Kogawa, A Garden of Anchors: Selected Poems

**Joy Kogawa, From the Lost and Found Department: New and Selected Poems

Joy Kogawa, Gently to Nagasaki

*Joy Kogawa, Jericho Road

*Joy Kogawa, Obasan

Joy Kogawa, The Rain Ascends

Joy Kogawa, The Splintered Moon

*Joy Kogawa, Woman in the Woods

Juan Felipe Herrera, Akrílica, eds. Farid Matuk, Carmen Giménez, Anthony Cody

Kamo-no-Chomei, Hojoki: Visions of a Torn World, translated from the Japanese by Yasuhiko Moriguchi and David Jenkins

Keorapetse Kgositsile, Collected Poems, 1969-2018

*Kiku Hughes, Displacement

Kōno Taeko, Toddler-Hunting, translated from the Japanese by Lucy North

Leila Khaled, My People Shall Live: Autobiography of a Revolutionary, as told to George Hajjar

Lena Khalaf Tuffaha, Kaan and Her Sisters

**Lindsey Webb, Plat (coming out in 2024)

Lisa Hsiao Chen, Activities of Daily Living

Liyana Badr, A Balcony over the Fakihani, translated from the Arabic by Peter Clark with Christopher Tingley

Lucille Clifton, An Ordinary Woman

*Lucille Clifton, Blessing the Boats

Lucille Clifton, Good News About the Earth

Lucille Clifton, Good Times

Lucille Clifton, Two-Headed Woman

Mahmoud Darwish, The Butterfly’s Burden, translated from the Arabic by Fady Joudah

Mahmoud Darwish, If I Were Another, translated from the Arabic by Fady Joudah

Mahmoud Darwish, Palestine as Metaphor, translated from the Arabic by Amira El-Zein and Carolyn Forché

Maya Abu Al-Hayyat, You Can Be The Last Leaf, translated from the Arabic by Fady Joudah

Maya Marshall, All the Blood Involved in Love

Michael Prior, Model Disciple

*Mitsuye Yamada, Camp Notes and Other Poems

Mitsuye Yamada, Full Circle: New and Selected Poems

Mohammed El-Kurd, RIFQA

**Mosab Abu Toha, Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear

Mourid Barghouti, I Saw Ramallah, translated from the Arabic by Ahdaf Soueif

Mourid Barghouti, I Was Born There, I Was Born Here, translated from the Arabic by Humphrey Davies

Mourid Barghouti, Midnight, translated from the Arabic by Radwa Ashour

Na Mira, The Book of Na

Najwan Darwish, Nothing More to Lose, translated from the Arabic by Kareem James Abu-Zeid

Natsume Sōseki, Kokoro, translated from the Japanese by Edwin McClellan

Nona Fernández, Voyager: Constellations of Memory, translated from the Spanish by Natasha Wimmer

Noor Hindi, DEAR GOD. DEAR BONES. DEAR YELLOW.

Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human, translated from the Japanese by Donald Keene

Osamu Dazai, The Flowers of Buffoonery, translated from the Japanese by Sam Bett

The Palestinian Wedding: A Bilingual Anthology of Contemporary Palestinian Resistance Poetry, edited and translated from the Arabic by A.M. Elmessiri

R.F. Kuang, Yellowface

Ryunosuke Akutagawa, Kappa, translated from Japanese by Lisa Hofmann-Kuroda and Allison Markin Powell

Salim Barakat, Come, Take a Gentle Stab: Selected Poems, translated from the Arabic by Huda J. Fakhreddine and Jayson Iwen

Samih Al-Qasim, All Faces But Mine, translated from the Arabic by Abdulwahid Lu’lu’a

Samih al-Qasim, Sadder Than Water: New & Selected Poems, translated from the Arabic by Nazih Kassis

*Saretta Morgan, Alt-Nature (coming out in 2024)

Satsuki Ina, The Poet and the Silk Girl (coming out in 2024)

Sawako Ariyoshi, The Twilight Years, translated from the Japanese by Mildred Tahara

Shailja Patel, Migritude

Sham-e-Ali Nayeem, City of Pearls

Sharon Yamato, Moving Walls

Shivanee Ramlochan, Everyone Knows I Am a Haunting

**shō yamagushiku, shima (coming out in 2014)

Shuri Kido, Names and Rivers, translated from the Japanese by Tomoyuki Endo and Forrest Gander

*Solmaz Sharif, Customs

Stella Corso, Green Knife

*Taha Muhammad Ali, Never Mind: Twenty Poems and a Story, translated from the Arabic by Peter Cole, Yahya Hijazi, Gabriel Levin

Terry Watada, The Game of 100 Ghosts (Hyaku Monogatari Kwaidan-kai)

Victoria Chang, Obit

*Wong May, Superstitions

THE BOOKS I'M CURRENTLY READING, THAT I HAVEN'T FINISHED YET

Chi Rainer Bornfree and Ragini Tharoor Srinivasan, The Portal (not yet published)

Elaine Castillo, How to Read Now

Eqbal Ahmad, The Selected Writings

Essays, ed. Dorothea Lasky

Fadwa Tuqan, A Mountainous Journey: A Poet's Autobiography, translated from the Arabic by Olive Kenny

James Welch, Winter in the Blood

Lan P. Duong, Nothing Follows

Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore, Touching the Art

Preti Taneja, Aftermath

Wanda Coleman, Wicked Enchantment

[survivorsfm]

*       ANONYMOUS   ASKED       :       hi  there !  I  am  in  the  group  and  read  the  everyone  message  and  I  am  confused.  Where  was  tlou  based  on  Zionist  invasion ?  There  is  nothing  in  the  game  about  Israel / Palestine  at  all.

oh,  i  realized  i  may  have  misused  the  word  “ based ”  in  the  discord  announcement.  what  i  meant  was  that  tlou  is  inspired  by  the  invasion  and  neil  druckmann  has  said  it  himself.  you  can  find  anything  related  to  this  by  googling  “ neil  druckmann  zionist ” ,  even  screenshots  of  the  ( now  deleted )  tweet  that  let  us  know  he  supports  israel’s  invasion  on  palestine  lands.  nonetheless,  under  the  cut,  i’ll  leave  you  some  links  for  you  ( and  anyone  interested )  to  check !

israeli  politics  in  tlou  2.

here  in  paragraph  twenty  five  ( 25 )  you  can  read  how  he  shares  ellie’s  darkness  was  inspired  by  the  2000  ramallah  lynching.  you  can  also  find  it  by  ctrl  +  f  the  word  “ formulation ”.

here  you  can  find  a  quicker  approach  to  the  quote  i  addressed  in  the  point  above.

here  you  have  the  tweet  ss,  altho  you’ll  need  a  reddit  account  to  see  the  full  article.

here  is  an  ig  post  in  which  he  shows  his  support  for  israel  +  more  info  in  the  op’s  comment.

evidence  he  donated  to  both  israeli  and  palestinian  forces,  which  would  be  fair  if  this  was  a  conflict,  but  it’s  not.  israel  invaded  palestine  and  imprisoned,  violated,  and  killed  its  people  to  secure  their  position  in  a  land  that  did  not  ( and  still  does  not )  belong  to  them.

here  is  the  full  list  of  celebrities  asking  for  the  release  of  hostages  taken  by  hamas.  neil  is  among  them.  

here  is  more  about  neil’s  inspiration  +  naughty  dog’s  jewish  origins  ( which  aren’t  inherently  bad,  i’m  just  giving  it  for  context.  our  changes  aren’t  based  on  anti - semitism  but  anti - zionism ) .

neil  talking  about  his  inspiration  for  dina  from  tlou  2  and  i  link  this  because  it’s  interesting  to  read  about  his  inspiration,  which  is  valid  and  very  tied  with  his  religion  and  spirituality,  something  i  deeply  cherish.  but  you  can  also  read  several  times  how  he  considers  israel’s  invasion  an  actual  “ conflict ”  between  israel  and  palestine  and  how  it’s  about  “ perspective ”.  when  it’s  not.

you  can  find  all  of  this  and  more  by,  as  i  said  in  the  beginning,  googling  “ neil  druckmann  zionist ” ,  so  i  hope  this  clarifies  any  of  your  doubts,  my  nonnie  member !

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A day in the life of Palestinians ...just one day. Imagine living in a situation where there is no protection by the state or by the army 15.6.2022

From: natanyag@gmail.com Sent: Thursday, June 16, 2022 6:24 AM To: natanyag@gmail.com Subject: English after Hebrew. A day in the life of Palestinians ...just one day. Imagine living in a situation where there is no protection by the state or by the army 15.6.2022

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 Occupation forces

Six Palestinians, including a minor, were arrested during the night in Nablus, at Khirbet al-Misbah (west of Ramallah), the Aida refugee camp (north of Bethlehem)

1.Silwan

Wissam Dane was run over two days ago by settlers and even beaten. Occupation police arrived on the scene and he complained about being run over. They stopped him, beat him. After two days he was released on a two-day house arrest.

2. Issawiya

A few days ago, a lynching attempt was reported on police officers who accidentally stumbled into the neighborhood. But it was learned that the DIP were considering an investigation because the police were under the influence of alcohol, dressed in civilian clothes and fired 17 bullets near a mourning tent.

3. Beit Hanina

The al-Jabari family's home was destroyed by the occupation forces.

Al Jib northwest of Jerusalem

The occupying forces demolished a commercial structure

5. Contact Baher

The occupation forces destroyed the home of the Rabia family.

6.a-Rifaya East Lithuania

The occupation forces filed demolition orders for 6 residences and two shops.

7. Rebellion north of Salfit

The occupation forces issued a ceasefire order for 7 houses.

8. Bab to Page

The occupying forces raided hawker stalls at the entrance, destroyed, scattered and confiscated some of the goods.

9. Jilson Refugee Camp

North of Ramallah

The occupying forces are leveling Palestinian agricultural land in order to build

Separation wall around the settlement of Beit El.

10. Be'er Sheva

In the 170th hearing and after 6 years of detention. In his case, the employee of the humanitarian organization, Mahmoud al-Halabi, was convicted. The next hearing is set for 7.7.

Outside the court notices, human rights activists were attacked by right-wing activists.

11. Al Ram north of Jerusalem

Occupying forces have invaded the town in recent hours

12.Hars north of Salfit

The occupying forces invaded the village.

13. The village of Dan, northwest of Jenin

Maher Abad has spent 10 years over the last 20 years in administrative detentions. The day was released again after a year of administrative detention.

 Settlers

1. Susya from Saper Yatta

Settlers invaded the settlement and attacked Palestinian women.

2. A settler residence farm was slightly injured by stones being thrown

3. Camps southeast of Nablus

Evidence of a new outpost

      6 דף יומי/ עדי ארגוב

 כוחות הכיבוש

6 פלסטינים  ביניהם קטין , נעצרו במהלך הלילה בשכם, בחרבתא אל מיסבאח( מערבית לרמאללה) מחנה הפליטים עיידה (צפונית לבית לחם)

1.סילוואן

ויסאם דאנע נדרס לפני יומיים על ידי מתנחלים ואף הוכה.משטרת הכיבוש הגיעה למקום והוא התלונן על הדריסה. הם עצרו אותו, היכו. לאחר יומיים השתחרר למעצר בית של יומיים.

2.עיסאוויה

לפני מספר ימים דווח על נסיון לינץ׳ בשוטרים שנקלעו בטעות לשכונה. אך נודע שמח״ש שוקלים לחקור משום שהשוטרים היו תחת השפעת אלכוהול, לבושים אזרחי וירו 17 כדורים בסמוך לסוכת אבלים.

3.בית חנינא

ביתה של משפחת אלג׳אברי נהרס על ידי כוחות הכיבוש.

4.אל ג׳יב צפונית מערבית לירושלים

כוחות הכיבוש הרסו מבנה מסחרי

5.צור באהר

כוחות הכיבוש הרסו את ביתה של משפחת ראביה.

6.א-ריפאעיה מזרחית ליטא

כוחות הכיבושהגישו צווי הריסה ל 6 בתי מגורים ושתי חנויות.

7.מרדה צפונית לסלפית

כוחות הכיבוש הוציאו צו הפסקת בנייה ל 7 בתים.

8.באב אל עמוד

כוחות הכיבוש פשטו על דוכני רוכלות בכניסה , חרבו, פיזרו והחרימו חלק מהסחורה.

9.מחנה הפליטים ג׳ילזון

צפונית לרמאללה

כוחות הכיבוש משטחים אדמות חקלאיות של פלסטינים על מנת לבנות

חומת הפרדה סביב ההתנחלות בית אל.

10.באר שבע

בדיון ה 170 ואחרי 6 שנות מעצר.בעיניינו הורשע עובד הארגון ההומניטארי  מחמוד אלחלבי. הדיון הבא נקבע ל 7.7.

מחוץ להתראות המשפט הותקפו פעילי זכויןת אדם על ידי פעילי ימין.

11.אל ראם צפונית לירושלים

כוחות הכיבוש פלשו לעיירה בשעות האחרונות

12.חארס צפונית לסלפית

כוחות הכיבוש פלשו לכפר.

13.כפר דאן צפונית מערבית לג׳נין

מאהר עבאד בילה 10 שנים במהלך 20 האחרונות במעצרים מנהליים. היום שוחרר שוב אחרי מעצר מנהלי של שנה.

 מתנחלים

1.סוסיא מסאפר יטא

מתנחלים פלשו לישוב ותקפו נשים פלסטיניות.

2.חוות מעון מתנחל נפצע קל מיידוי אבנים

3.קריות דרומית מזרחית לשכם

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The media love a strong image. But exactly 21 years to the day after the brutal, barbaric lynching of two Israeli reserve soldiers, this one wasn't republished yesterday.

This is the important story, so key to understanding modern Israel, the media failed to retell.

21 years ago yesterday, two Israeli reserve soldiers, Vadim Nurzhitz and Yossi Avrahami, took a wrong turn and ended up in Ramallah. The two reservists were detained by Palestinian Authority policemen and taken to a local police station.

Rumours quickly spread that Israeli undercover agents were in the building, and an angry crowd of over 1,000 Palestinians gathered outside the station calling for the death of the Israelis. Before long, enraged rioters overcame the police and stormed the building.

The soldiers were beaten, stabbed, had their eyes gouged out, and torn limb from limb. As this was happening, one man came to the window and triumphantly showed his blood-soaked hands to the crowd, which erupted in cheers.

The crowd clapped and cheered as one of the soldier's bodies was then thrown out the window and stamped and beaten by the frenzied crowd. One of the bodies was set on fire.

Soon after, the crowd dragged the two mutilated bodies to Al-Manara Square in the city center as the crowd began an impromptu victory celebration.

Only months earlier, Israel and the Palestinians had been negotiating a peace agreement at Camp David. Israel made massive concessions, offering the Palestinians far more land than ever before - but the unprecedentedly generous offer was rejected by Arafat, much to the intermediaries' dismay.

Instead of forging a lasting peace, the next few years were marked by horrific violence as waves of Palestine suicide bombers attacked Israeli buses, shopping centers, universities, restaurants and clubs.

The vicious lynching of two Israeli soldiers in a more liberal-minded Palestinian city showed Israelis that while peace is surely the objective, such hatred and violence on the Palestinian side remain massive obstacles to peace.

It is hard to overstate the profound effect this barbaric act had on the Israeli consciousness. Two decades later, this picture of a Palestinian showing off his blood-soaked hands to a joyous mob remains seared in the Israeli public's collective memory.

For many, this image is the most-recognized of the Second Intifada.It's a compelling photo and horrific story. But it's not consistent with the narrative that Israel mercilessly oppresses the helpless Palestinians. And so it's been totally overlooked by the media today.

Twenty-one years on, Israel has managed to totally staunch the waves of suicide bombings and shootings inside of Israel, pushing back Hamas so that its most effective attacks nowadays come in the form of intermittent, intense bursts of rockets launched into Israel from Gaza.

Meanwhile, the Palestinian leadership continues to glorify such vicious acts of hatred by naming public schools and streets after convicted murderers and paying murderers and their families generous salaries.

It is up to us to remember these stories and continue telling them so that journalists, common people and politicians alike do not forget the brutality Israel faces.

Honest Reporting

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Unfortunately, Israeli concessions and compromises in response to Palestinian demands have not reduced the bloodlust. Even the infamous bloody-handed Aziz Salha, who was arrested by Israel and sentenced to life imprisonment, was released in 2011 as part of the exchange for IDF soldier Gilad Shalit, who had been held prisoner by Hamas in the Gaza Strip. Salha now receives a generous monthly stipend from the Palestinian Authority in tribute for his murderous actions.

While the international community continues aiding Palestinian institutions that are involved in this incitement and dehumanization, it and many media outlets consider issues like settlements, territory, and Jerusalem the main obstacles to peace. Nevertheless, even if an agreement between Israel and the Palestinians were signed, the hatred instilled in generations under the PA would remain, virtually ensuring there would be no peace or cessation of bloodshed.

To achieve real peace, security, and an end to the conflict — good for all the peoples of the region — the international community and mainstream media must ensure that the PA ends its daily campaign of incitement and dehumanization.

Only when this is achieved and the horrifying images of Israelis being butchered recedes further into history — replaced with a Palestinian society that no longer sees Israelis and Jews as the sub-human enemy of humanity — can peace be attainable. That is why incitement remains the greatest obstacle to peace and must be remedied as a primary criterion for negotiations.