#aparthied

[blossom765]

The South African government has expressed concerns that Israel’s continued occupation of “significant portions of the West Bank” and the development of new settlements there “are glaring examples of violations of international law” as the longrunning Israel-Palestine conflict goes on.

Share. Reblog. Protest. Boycott.

A lot of people forget that boycott and sanctions helped rid South Africa of apartheid.

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As always Ham@s and UNRWA workers who works with Ham@s using the Gazans as pawns in their w@r against Israel.

We received reports that they (UNRWA/Ham@s UNRWA workers) opened the sewer pipes next to a populated area full of tents of the Gazans who are located at Rafah to create a new humanitarian crisis that will put pressure on Israel on the expense of the Gazans.

palestinianslovesisraeli

H/T @scartale-an-undertale-au

[we-belong-to-allah]

You're watching genocide live from the comfort of your home.

[saddayfordemocracy]

Peter Sexford Magubane OMSS (18 January 1932 – 1 January 2024)

Born in Johannesburg in 1932, Peter Magubane documented the brutality of apartheid and suffered from banning orders, solitary confinement and beatings as a result.

From teaching himself as a boy with a Brownie camera, he went on to work for the influential magazine Drum and became Nelson Mandela’s official photographer.

He died on New Year’s Day aged 91.

Rest in Power !

[protoslacker]

Hanif Abdurraqib's essay is so carefuly woven. The whole series of Lost Notes on 1980 looks great. I have only listen to this post. It moved me.

My memory seems unrealible, sometimes I check things out. Last Tuesday I was searching for the reports of the announcement that Nelson Mandela would be released from prison in February of 1990 because I remember.

In 1990 I had graduated and got my teaching credentials. I was doing an internship at an environmental learning center in western Pennsylvania. And I had signed up for a big job fair across the state near Philadelphia. At the environmental center, the night before the job fair the environmental center was hosting Damian Randle who had founded Green Teacher Magazine. I was especially excided to meet him because of his connection with Centre For Alternative Technolgy near Machynlleth Wales.

I stayed for Randle's presentation and drove the night through to the job fair. In my gut I knew teaching wasn't for me, but it still took a while for that realization to dawn on me. So I suffered bleary-eyed through multiple interviews at the job fair. I didn't click with anybody there. Leaving the conference center and retriving my car I turned on the radio as I tried to get my bearings. The news was that Nelson Mandela would be released from prsion. I was a bit incredulous, but the news shot electricity through my body.

There are reasons to hope and the struggle continues.

Hanif Abdueeaqib

[the-garbanzo-annex-jr]

The NGOs first step in the redefinition of racial is to claim that neither the Apartheid Convention nor the Rome Statute defined the term even though this is a gross misrepresentation. HRW states: ‘Both the Apartheid Convention and Rome Statute use the term “racial group,” but neither defines it’ and Amnesty writes: ‘the term “racial group” has not been defined in either of these instruments.’ With this assumption in hand, the NGOs then look to a third international statute known as ICERD or the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, which was adopted by the UN General Assembly in 1965. ICERD offers a more expansive definition of ‘racial discrimination’:

In this Convention, the term ‘racial discrimination’ shall mean any distinction, exclusion, restriction or preference based on race, colour, descent, or national or ethnic origin which has the purpose or effect of nullifying or impairing the recognition, enjoyment or exercise, on an equal footing, of human rights and fundamental freedoms in the political, economic, social, cultural or any other field of public life.

By including descent, national and ethnic based identity in the meaning of ‘racial’ for the purposes of defining apartheid it conveniently becomes applicable to the Israel-Palestine conflict. All the NGO reports therefore assert that they are using the ICERD definition of racial for purposes of defining apartheid. For example, Amnesty writes: ‘It is this subjective understanding of “racial groups” that is applied by Amnesty International in this report with regard to the crime against humanity of apartheid.’ The use of ICERD’s definition might seem reasonable on the surface but the NGOs deliberately obscure how the Rome Statute actually treats the meaning of ‘racial’ and dishonestly cherry-picks one clause from ICERD to override the language in the Rome Statute.

[bloghrexach]

“This happened after Israeli media and German politicians absurdly labeled my Berlinale award speech – where I called for equality between Israelis and Palestinians, a ceasefire, and an end to apartheid – as ‘antisemitic.’ The appalling misuse of this word by Germans, not only to silence Palestinian critics of Israel but also to silence Israelis like me who support a ceasefire that will end the killing in Gaza and allow the release of the Israeli hostages – empties the word antisemitism of meaning and thus endangers Jews all over the world.”

[igottatho]

I’m sure you’ve heard about Susan Abulhawa talking to media about what she’s seen in Gaza, but here is a longer, uninterrupted video.

[karevheritagehiphop]

Anyone wanna go there with me? All convo is strictly respected and if you want to go on camera with it we can. #religion #hatred #atheist #god #racism #aparthied #phylosophy #castesystems #war #money #economics https://www.instagram.com/p/ClCBrYqOuI-/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[blossom765]

“Gaza has witnessed four or five major conflicts over the last 15 years. We’re still talking about the reconstruction of the Gaza Strip. Gaza has never really recovered, it just lives from conflict to conflict”

[cloudtales]

A funeral brutalized

Israeli Border police officers attack Palestinian pallbearers carrying the coffin of slain journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, Jerusalem, May 13, 2022. (Oren Ziv) This article originally appeared in “The Landline,” +972’s weekly newsletter. Subscribe here.Oren Ziv provides a grim account of Shireen Abu Akleh’s funeral and the horrific, heartless, immoral and inhumane behaviour of Israeli police. Here…

[greencarnation]

scalding hot take here but maybe bombing and massacring more civilians isn't going to get rid of the resistant fighters radicalised by watching civilians and loved ones be bombed and massacred

[sprnklersplashes]

Israel's propaganda machine has turned brown people into the epitome of antisemitism and if you don't find this incredibly insidious you're not paying attention

[antizionazi]

All Zionists are the same. If you are against their way, they call you antisemitic.

No I call Zionism racism and not less than the Nazi. And I am against Zionists Nazi and Israel alike.

And I am that way because I am human, and I don't consider you Zionist as Jews.

You Zionist are murder , child rapist, the scum of the earth. ..

That is called human and not antisemitic

Jews do not identify with racial superiority. We are semits and we are proud to be for humanity and against Zionism.

Free Palestine

[alwaysbewoke]