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[i-am-aprl]

"People were hanged in front of patients."

Bisan Owda (@wizard_bisan1) spoke to Palestinians in December who survived Israel's dayslong siege of the Indonesian Hospital, one of northern Gaza's largest health care facilities. Eyewitnesses say Israeli forces tortured and killed wounded people. A nurse told AJ+ that people inside the hospital were forced to sleep in the same rooms as corpses.

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TikTok from AJ+

Over 70,000 tons of bombs dropped on Gaza and easily over 30,700 Palestinians murdered by the Zionist government of Israel and the IDF. This is a Genocide

Free Palestine and CEASEFIRE NOW

[an-onyx-void]

The origins of the "From the river to the sea" chant.

Disclaimer: I am not the original owner or creator of this content. The source is listed below.

[hummussexual]

How Israeli TV Sells Gaza’s Destruction

 Mar 20, 2024

Many journalists on Israeli TV are either ignoring or even glorifying the suffering of Palestinians during Israel’s monthslong assault on Gaza. Even those trying to show a fuller picture of the damage being done are doing so while amplifying military talking points. AJ+ spoke to veteran Israeli journalist Gideon Levy about the state of the country’s media and its relationship with the public — and the Israeli military.

[vyorei]

Pregnant people continue to be at risk in Gaza as conditions worsen, this is a short clip of a Palestinian woman named Hidaya

Video from Twitter:

[aci25]

How Israeli Apartheid Destroyed My Hometown

Segregated streets. Settler violence. Military harassment. This happens all over the occupied West Bank, but perhaps nowhere are these scenes more concentrated than in the Old City of Hebron. The once vibrant Palestinian cultural center is now ground zero of Israeli apartheid. It’s also where AJ+‘s Dena Takruri’s family calls home.

In this deeply personal documentary, Dena spends a day in Hebron retracing the footsteps of her father, who was born and raised in Hebron. She talks to Palestinians who are subjected to daily harassment from the Israeli military and settlers. And she is guided through the city by former Israeli soldiers, who tell her why their conscience is now forcing them to speak out against the occupation.

[racheldi]

The number of my fellow lefties who don't know AJ+ is literally Qatari state-run media is extremely concerning.

Y'all, we need to do better. Check your sources. Dig a tiny bit deeper than what you're told to think on TikTok.

[foulwitchknight]

CW: graphic descriptions, police brutality

[dontmeantobepoliticalbut]

After the NRA’s wildly successful lobbying to turn the Second Amendment into an absolute individual right was emboldened by the Bruen decision, several states have been toeing the line to determine what prohibitions, if any, stand in the way of gun ownership. One of them, Missouri, passed a law that put a chilling effect on state and local law enforcement from enforcing federal gun laws in Missouri. The Show Me State just got shown that it can’t do that. Not for now, anyway. From Reuters:

“A Missouri state law that declared several federal gun laws 'invalid' is unconstitutional, a U.S. federal judge ruled on Tuesday, handing the U.S. Justice Department a victory in its bid to get the law tossed out.

At issue was a measure Republican Governor Mike Parson signed into law in 2021 that declared that certain federal gun laws infringed on the rights of individuals to keep and bear arms under the U.S. Constitution’s Second Amendment.

U.S. District Judge Brian Wimes in Jefferson City, Missouri, said the state’s Second Amendment Preservation Act (SAPA) violates the U.S. Constitution’s Supremacy Clause, which holds that federal laws take priority over conflicting state laws.”

The Supremacy Clause of the Constitution is like the Commerce Clause and the Insurrection Clause in some ways — they are some of the threads that bind together an otherwise mostly independent series of states. And as neat as it is to think of the states as individual laboratories of democracy, there has to be some overlapping and enforceable code of conduct that can separate otherwise good science from a bumbling series of OSHA violations in a lab coat.

“Wimes, an appointee of former President Barack Obama, in a siding with Democratic President Joe Biden’s administration called the practical effects of the Republican-led state’s law ‘counterintuitive to its stated purpose.’

‘While purporting to protect citizens, SAPA exposes citizens to greater harm by interfering with the federal government’s ability to enforce lawfully enacted firearms regulations designed by Congress for the purpose of protecting citizens,’ he wrote.”

It it pretty hard to argue against that — just take a look at this clip that goes into detail about how laws like SAPA would make it harder for the police who aren’t killing unarmed protestors to do domestic abuse calls.

As expected, Missouri has already announced that it will appeal the decision.

“Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey, a Republican, in a statement promised an appeal, saying he was committed to ‘defending Missourians’ fundamental right to bear arms.’

‘If the state legislature wants to expand upon the foundational rights codified in the Second Amendment, they have the authority to do that,’ he said.”

Sure would be nice if some Missouri representatives were more committed to defending Missourians’ fundamental right to live. Missouri has the fourth highest gun death rate in the nation, due at least in part to the vigorous defense of the Second Amendment by representatives like Bailey. As easy as it is to view this as a concrete example of the tension between state rights and federal authority, let’s not forget about the real consequences we have to stomach in the process.

[jloisse]

Le média AJ+ se moque de la Propagande d'Israel à propos de l'hôpital Al Shifa de Gaza. Comment justifier un nettoyage ethnique

[bixels]

There's no such thing as overpreparing for love.

Happy (late) Rarijack Valentine's.

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Answers to common questions of the Israel-Palestine "Conflict".

Disclaimer: I am not the original owner or creator of this content. The source is listed below.

[hummussexual]

Israeli Settlers Are Terrorizing Palestinians In Record Numbers

Feb 6, 2024  Just like in #Gaza, violence in the occupied West Bank didn’t start on October 7. But violent attacks by settlers or soldiers have reached record-high levels. We traveled to Qusra, where 6 people were killed in less than 24 hours by settlers. Al Jazeera English Digital Correspondent Zena Al Tahhan was harassed multiple times by the Israeli army while trying to report on this story. 

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Is it just me or does this line hit different when you remember that David Tennant actually has a non-binary kid who uses they/them pronouns, and has worn this non-binary rainbow pin to a bunch of interviews in support of them—?

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[Update] David Tennant continues his trend of being a trans ally respectful & supportive of non-binary people & gender neutral pronouns in the Doctor Who Special: The Star Beast (2023)