#anti palestinian bigotry

[alex-just-vibing]

Are you a student who is unable to donate to Palestine, but still want ways to show your support?

Me too! Unfortunately, searching up ways for students who can't drive, spend money, or drop school for a week to show solidarity for Palestine just comes up with "centrist" (if not blatantly pro-israel) articles for teachers telling them how to stay neutral during discussions with students. So! Here are some ways that I've thought of to bring pro palestine sentiment into your school and community! You are more than encouraged to add on any ideas of your own!

Wear shirts, pins, or anything outwardly pro palestine. If you can't find something, make it.

Email your representatives. Email Congress. Email the White House, or whatever your country's equivalent would be. Let the people in charge know you want a ceasefire

Talk to your local library about holding an educational night about the genocide, and/or about Palestinian culture.

Talk to your peers. Find people who share your views. Create a fuss together.

Talk to your teachers about it. Having an authority figure on your side could make things so much easier for you.

Make stickers, posters, pamphlets, etc to put up around your school, town/city, anywhere you can.

Educate yourself on anti-palestine talking points and how to refute them in a calm and logical manner. (Palestinian Toolkit is a great website for that)

Speak up! It's fucking scary, but if you can, don't let people's bigotry go unchecked. (You can use knowledge from the last point to make it easier to talk)

But also, know when to give up. It sucks, but not everyone is worth wasting your time debating. Some people won't change their mind no matter what.

[queer-scots-geordie-dyke]

"Today, the similarity between the worldview of modern leftists and Soviet falsification of the period is breathtaking. It is no exaggeration to say that almost all of the Israelophobic tropes in current circulation – that Israel is a racist state, that Zionism is colonialism, that genocidal Israelis are no better than the Nazis, that Israel practises apartheid, that the Holocaust was exaggerated, that diaspora Jews are a fifth column serving Israeli interests and so on – were disseminated by Soviet spin doctors, based on works of classic antisemitism like the Protocols of the Elders of Zion and Hitler’s Mein Kampf.

Largely because of Russian efforts, many otherwise well-meaning progressives don’t see what’s wrong with accusing Israel of subjecting the Palestinians to a Holocaust, despite, say, the lack of gas chambers, execution pits or Nazi-style racial discrimination laws in the Jewish state, not to mention the growing Palestinian population. They don’t see what’s wrong with using the slur ‘apartheid’, even though in recent years, an Arab Muslim judge imprisoned a Jewish former prime minister for corruption. (If you visit the West Bank, you will come across large, red signs outside Arab areas warning Israelis not to enter for their own safety. It is hard to sustain the argument that Israel – rather than its neighbours – is the apartheid state.) They happily compare Zionism to imperialist colonialism, ignoring the fact that the Jewish pioneers were not an invading army but a ragtag collection of refugees, dreaming of self-rule in their ancestral home after millennia of life at the mercy of the mob. (As Herzl put it, they simply wanted a place ‘where it is all right for us to have hooked noses, black or red beards, and bandy legs without being despised for these things alone. Where at last we can live as free people on our own.’93 Hardly the sentiments of white supremacist imperialists.)

They take for granted that ‘Zionism is racism’, unaware that this phrase was cooked up in Cold War Moscow and does not survive contact with reality. Even the fact that ‘Zionist’ has become a dirty word in certain quarters today points to the skill of the Soviet propaganda apparatus and the KGB. In the minds of millions around the world, Soviet agitprop succeeded in redefining Zionism from an answer to millennia of persecution to a bourgeois, imperialist project. In this way, it wiped antisemitism clean, allowing progressives to indulge an old hatred by convincing themselves that they were merely taking a principled stand against Israel. Across the decades, the Cold War communists and contemporary Israelophobes both say: we’re not antisemitic, just anti-Zionist. But theirs is a deep and ancient bigotry, resting on disinformation and paranoia. Nearly six decades on, Soviet Israelophobia continues to grip the modern left. It finds an easy target in those lacking knowledge about Israel, Zionism and Jews, and possessing impulses inherited unchallenged from previous centuries."

- Israelophobia: The Newest Version of the Oldest Hatred by Jake Wallis Simons.

[girlactionfigure]

Lies fuel hate—and everyone loses.

It’s time to cut through the distortions and fight for truth.

Hate and bigotry only deepen the divide between Israelis and Palestinians. We must reject these toxic tactics and start working toward real peace.

This post was created with @telavivinstitute President Dr. Ron Katz, an expert on rhetoric and propaganda from UC Berkeley. Together we looked at anti-Israel rhetoric online and these logical fallacies, and created an easy way to understand and debunk them.

If you’ve seen any of these before and you are done with the hate, share this—because only truth can break the cycle.

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Christopher Mathias at HuffPost:

A coalition of 185 social justice and religious groups published an open letter Monday expressing support for the campus protest encampments sweeping the country in opposition to Israel’s siege of Gaza, and calling on university administrators to end the brutal crackdowns of the student-led demonstrations. “We commend the students who are exercising their right to protest peacefully despite an overwhelming atmosphere of pressure, intimidation and retaliation, to raise awareness about Israel’s assault on Gaza — with U.S. weapons and funding,” the letter states. “These students have come forth with clear demands that their universities divest from corporations profiting from Israeli occupation, and demanding safe environments for Palestinians across their campuses. ” Groups that signed the letter include Gen-Z for Change, Working Families Party, IfNotNow Movement, Young Democrats of America Black Caucus, Movement for Black Lives, Sunrise Movement, MPower Change, Jewish Voice for Peace, Palestine Legal, and the Unitarian Universalist Association.

Some 900 students have been arrested during anti-war encampments and demonstrations at American universities in the last 10 days, per a tally from Al Jazeera — a tumultuous period that mirrors volatile demonstrations against the Vietnam War in 1968, when police arrested at least 700 students. The open letter Monday represents one of the largest shows of support among progressive groups for the burgeoning student protests, and makes clear the divide between establishment Democratic figures and social justice groups when it comes to U.S. support for Israel. President Joe Biden has refused so far to condition the sale of weapons to Israel. “Our communities have been horrified to see the militarized and violent response to students protesting an ongoing genocide funded and supported by our government, and our coalition of organizations join millions of our members across the country in standing in solidarity with the students’ efforts in support of the people of Gaza,” Yasmine Taeb, one of the main organizers of the letter, told HuffPost. Taeb is a human rights lawyer and political director at MPower Change, a Muslim social justice group.

“Instead of attacking young people mobilizing for Palestinian human rights, President Biden needs to listen to the majority of Americans who have been calling on him to stop funding and supporting the atrocities committed against the people of Gaza,” Taeb said.

[...] Israel has killed over 33,000 Palestinians since Oct. 7, when the Gaza-based militant group Hamas launched an attack in which nearly 1,200 Israelis were killed. In January, the International Court of Justice ruled that Israel’s siege of Gaza — which has displaced 85% of the population and put the occupied territory on the cusp of famine — left Palestinians at risk of experiencing a genocide. Last week, health officials in Gaza said medics had discovered mass graves at hospitals raided by Israeli troops. “We join [the students] in calling for an immediate and lasting ceasefire and an end to the U.S. government’s and institutions’ role in the ongoing genocide of Palestinians in Gaza,” Monday’s letter states. “As we stand in solidarity with the students protesting in encampments across the country, we reaffirm our commitment to amplifying their voices, condemn the university administration officials’ violent response to their activism, and demand that universities remove the presence of police and other militarized forces from their campuses,” it continues.

[...] Meanwhile, Republican Party officials and right-wing media figures have accused the demonstrations of antisemitism, falsely equating criticism of Israel with bigotry towards Jews. Although there have been scattered reports of actual antisemitic incidents at or near the encampments, many were not perpetrated by students but by interlopers. Many of the student protesters across the country are Jewish. Far-right agitators, including Christian nationalist activists, have also targeted the encampments, with MAGA pastor Sean Feucht leading hundreds of Christian and Jewish Zionists on a march around the Columbia campus on Thursday. The rally ended with pro-Israel demonstrators yelling through the gate at pro-Palestinian Columbia students. “Go back to Gaza!” they screamed.

More than 185 groups, including IfNotNow, Jewish Voice For Peace, MPower Change, and Working Families Party, signed a letter in support of the campus protests against Israel Apartheid State's genocide against Palestinians in Gaza.

[kick-a-long]

Leftists and tankies talk about Israel like maga and republicans talk about trans people. They hyperventilate about shit that doesn’t affect them that they do not understand and only want more harm to fall on not just Israelis and Israel but also Jews and anyone that doesn’t exactly participate in their hierarchical bullshit. Just like bigotry against trans people spills over to hurt all gender identities, sexual orientations, women generally as well as men who don’t perfectly perform gender no matter how cishet they are, the far left’s antisemitism has fucked over any goyim who doesn’t want to live under christofascism or throw themselves or their community into the fire (literally, anti Israel ppl ask ppl to light themselves on fire) for the sake of a complex subject that the far left actively avoids learning about themselves. Oh! And let’s not forget the terrorism. Both domestic, foreign, and hate crimes that trans ppl and Jews have been facing for just doing community service/outreach or living their lives.

On top of that, the hate has a hugely negative impact on the groups the hate is meant to be “defending.” Hating Jews and Israelis makes life worse for Palestinians and hating trans folks makes live worse for kids. Gender has become MUCH more controlled since I grew up and more kids kill themselves because with trump in office they don’t see a future where they can live truthfully, not just trans kids. Palestinians are now glued to Hamas in the minds of their “advocates” as terrorist raping and suicide bombing asses. Trump is in office. He wants to erase trans people or jail them, wants to nuke the whole Arab world, with max civilian casualties, and deport any left in the us. And there’s less chance than ever of authoritarianism in America or the Arab world being replaced with human rights, stability and self governance.

I only see a lot of harm and bigotry and messing with minorities for the power trip of it. I’m sick of coddling these presumptuous deluded power tripping assholes. That’s my “both sides” take.

[unbidden-yidden-deactivated20240]

I have a post that I'm not sure how to write (but am going to try anyway) about how the valid fight for the equal rights of Palestinians is directly tied to the fight against antisemitism; they are, in fact, the same fight.

Because the truth is that many of the worst Israeli policies and certainly Jewish support for them, comes directly from Jewish fear. And unless and until that fear stops being valid, those ideas will continue to have power and support for them within the community will continue. It's not paranoia or bigotry wearing the skin of fear if people the world over have, in fact, carried out numerous genocides and ethnic cleansings against your people. The Holocaust was just one of the worst in recent memory, but it is far from the only extreme mass violence against Jews. It is simply the culmination of 2000 years of anti-Jewish hatred and institutional oppression.

There MUST be a real, concrete answer to Jewish safety.

Anything less is sanctioning the violence already done to us and passively accepting more in the future, if not actively calling for it or starting those wheels turning yourself.

There are no ifs, ands, or buts about this.

Palestinians deserve an answer and justice. You will not get any argument from me about that. (Quite the opposite, in fact.) However, any answer to their safety that callously ignores the need for Jewish safety and self-determination is doomed to end in either another genocide against Jews or failure. It is as wrong as any form of Zionism-as-an-answer to Jewish safety that callously ignores Palestinian safety and self-determination.

Any answer that treats either people as lesser, as unimportant, that values their lives less, and does not flow from a place of truth, reconciliation, peace, and mutual respect is doomed to fail and likely to devolve into more bloodshed.

If you want to fight for Palestinian safety, freedom, dignity and self-determination, you must also fight antisemitism. If you want to fight for the safety, freedom, dignity, and self-determination of our brothers in Israel, we must also care about our Palestinian cousins. There is no other way. You cannot care about only one side and expect peace.

That's why I'm really drawn to organizations that have both Israeli Jewish and Palestinian leadership and fight for a shared vision of the future. They see that the only way forward is together, and those of us outside the land would do well to listen and adjust our advocacy and message accordingly.

[historicity-was-already-taken]

I want to make something very clear: If you've seen my url floating around on any list of "Known Zionist* Users," what you're seeing is a list of Jews who refuse to officially declare themselves as Good Jews before a subgroup of Western leftists who do truly believe that all Jews are complicit in Israeli government and military oppression of Palestinians until proven innocent.

The existence of this list is disturbing, malicious, and virulently anti-Semitic. I encourage any of you who have seen it to report it immediately for bigotry and incitement of violence. Further, I urge you to question anyone who insists that a) any issue can be fit into a clear, easy "Good Guy, Bad Guy" dichotomy, and b) casts anyone who introduces historical nuance and complications into discussions of these issues as an oppressor; anti-intellectualism is not restricted to the political right.

*I'm actually not a Zionist, as I fundamentally reject nationalism(s). But, I have asked people to be cognitive of how their language on the issue intersects with anti-Semitic tropes and issues of historical erasure. So ya know, Bad Jew.

[littlestpersimmon]

Most movements that center on exclusion and separatism will always fail to see (and therefore fail to dismantle in any meaningful way) systems of oppression. T3rves will complain about trans women in women's prisons and will never, ever complain about the existence of prisons in the first place, Transmeds will completely isolate themselves from any iteration of transhood that does not medicalize itself, therefore leaving the thousands of trans identities of various cultures as totally invalid, and having the medical industry be the end all be all of arbiters on the matter. Do u get what I'm saying. Any conversation around oppression that frames an oppressed demographic as exceptionally oppressed often turn into echo chambers where it becomes impossible to talk about the intricacies and intersectionalities of bigotry, often resulting into demands of unconditional support; guilt tripping and weaponized marginalization only a few of its apparatus. Being an antizionist jew has been, actual, literal hell when I know by heart every single liberal zionist Jewish argument that every moderate on this website falls for. I have to make myself clear that I put anti imperialism over my own feelings, that many many others before me have pointed out how callous it is to center jewish feelings, to invoke the millenia of our peoples suffering, to speak of antisemitism in tandem with palestinian resistance, as if speaking of palestine insinuates a steady slope onto hatred of Jews. Many cliques on this website have a bunch of enablers to exploit their own status as part of a marginalized and oppressed group to silence any criticism of Israel and America, which is to me is incredibly perverse and manipulative. If you are a true ally to Jews, any place in the world should be a safe place for us, and it should not be at the desire to build ethnostates on the expense of an indigenous population made to reckon with crimes they did not commit. I don't know.

[highlyillogicalandroid]

Today I was helping my friend check people in at a hobby event and I saw a teenaged boy wearing a Star of David, and I had this moment of panic in my gut, like, “Is he safe here?” And I’m so fucking tired of that feeling. I’m so tired of not wearing my own Star of David. I’m so tired of people assuming my politics and harassing me over that assumed stance simply because I’m Jewish. I’m so tired of being afraid of being alone on subway platforms because my Jewish friend had to intervene when some “anti-Zionists” tried to push a Hasidic man onto the tracks earlier this year and NO ONE ELSE HELPED HIM. I’m tired of flashing back on the “denounce Judaism” sign being held proudly and freely at a pro-Palestine march. I’m tired of seeing “Hitler was right” and “gas the Jews” graffitied around the city. I’m tired of Jewish businesses being boycotted and Jews being refused service. I’m tired of us being put on FUCKING LISTS and divided into “the good ones” and “the bad ones.” The amount of people who can’t or won’t see the difference between antisemitism and anti-Zionism is staggering. The amount of people harassing Jews in our community spaces, in our places of worship, in the name of the pro-Palestinian movement is staggering. There is so much willful ignorance and so much outright bigotry, and so many people telling Jews we’re crying wolf, that antisemitism doesn’t exist anymore. But it does. It does, and it’s here. It’s on subway platforms and at protests and on social media, and it is detracting from true pro-Palestinian activism. It is hurting everyone and helping no one, and it’s going to get innocent Jews killed.

[a-very-tired-jew]

Watching goyische anti-Zionists complain about the lack of Palestinian and/or ProPal speakers at the latest DNC has me thinking: what did you actually expect?

Separate yourself from the movement for a moment and think about the rhetoric and how it is perceived. Would it have been welcome? Would people actually accept your messaging? Would people accept the radical maximalist messaging that is prevalent? Clearly not.

Biden acknowledged that the protesters do have a point, and that point is civilians are dying and suffering and they shouldn't be. We all agree on that. But the other stuff? Yeah, you'd be hard pressed to convince the DNC to allow antisemitic rhetoric up on their stage.

Everyone knows the rhetoric and talking points for what they are. It doesn't matter how many times you say "it's anti-Zionism, not antisemitism", the actual content of the statements and the actions say otherwise. Denial of hatred and bigotry only suits to convince you, the speaker, that you're not actually a bigot. The rest of us see it for what it is. At best they would have had Tlaib up there giving a speech, and it still would have been filled with antisemitic dog whistles disguised as "anti-Zionism".

Worst case, they have some big name activist like Nerdeen Kiswani who just goes mask off "Death to America, Death to Israel, Death to Jews" on stage. Neither one of those would have worked out well.

[vague-humanoid]

Though calling out antisemitism is central to the commissioners’ role, it’s unclear what qualifies these officials to adjudicate anti-Jewish bigotry. Klein, for instance, came to his current position after a stint working as the German government’s representative to Jewish organizations, but prior to that, he spent most of his career in Germany’s foreign service working on unrelated issues, stationed in places like Cameroon and Italy. When I visited him in his office in Berlin last April, only a menorah decal pasted on one of the windows hinted at the nature of his position. Klein told me that there are no standardized training programs for the commissioners or educational requirements that they must fulfill before their appointments. Schüler-Springorum pointed out that, though references to the Holocaust underlie every aspect of Germany’s antisemitism system, many of the commissioners are far from experts on the history in question. “It’s amazing how little they know about National Socialism,” she lamented. None of the antisemitism commissioners for either the German Federal Government or its Bundesländer, or states, is ethnically Jewish—which, according to Klein, is by design. “The fight against antisemitism is a problem for the whole of society. It isn’t a problem for the Jewish community to face by itself,” he told me. “I mean, it’s not as though the most pressing problem with antisemitism in Germany is among Jews.”

Indeed, when Jews interact directly with the system, it is often as its targets: Klein told the Berliner Zeitung in a January 2021 interview that “tendentially left-leaning Israelis in Berlin” should “be sensitive to Germany’s special historical responsibility” when they criticize Israel. In the eyes of the commissioners, this seems to be all the more true of Muslims and Arabs—especially Palestinians—who voice support for the Palestinian cause. “Palestinians are like a thorn in the side of Germany’s memory culture,” Palestinian German lawyer Nadija Samour told Jewish Currents. They’re “disposable,” but also “crucial for the German identity . . . If you really want to prove how civilized you are, and how philosemitic or pro-Israel you are, you get the chance to prove that by throwing Palestinians under the bus.”

This commitment to Israel advocacy—which requires disciplining the state’s Jewish critics as well as suppressing Palestinian speech—has led observers to argue that the system of antisemitism commissioners exists less to ensure the safety of Jews than to placate Germans’ feelings of guilt for the Holocaust. Indeed, last summer, in the course of admonishing Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas for comparing Israel’s crimes to the Holocaust during his visit to Germany, Klein emphasized the way that antisemitism hurts Germans. “By relativizing the Holocaust, President Abbas lacked any sensitivity towards us German hosts,” Klein said. Emily Dische-Becker, a left-wing Jewish curator and journalist in Berlin, told Jewish Currents that German antisemitism efforts are ultimately not driven by a concern for Jews. “It basically is an issue of German identity politics at the end of the day,” she said. Neiman—whose 2019 book Learning from the Germans argues that the nation provides a model for other countries struggling with the weight of collective memory—told me that the creation of the commissioner system, and the passage of the anti-BDS resolution the following year, had caused her to question her previous evaluation. “Things have changed really dramatically since the book came out,” she said. “I still think that Germany did something historically unique by putting its crimes in the center of its national narrative, but I also think it’s gone haywire in the last three years. This system of antisemitism commissioners basically went in all the wrong directions.”

[xclowniex]

musk wants defund Wikipedia which i find idiotic

I wasn't sure if it was true as I know elon is fucking brain dead from neurolink but I didn't think he was that brain dead but I found the tweet. I'll include it at the end

Firstly the government doesn't even fund Wikipedia. It's rich donors who fund most of it with your average people also donating some money.

Secondly, the right has had more instances of extremism than the left, which is why it is mention more.

There is an issue of bias surronding Wikipedia, however better controls in who can edit it would be a lot better instead of just defunding it.

Like a lot of pages surronding judaism and israel have been edited and a lot of the edits break the rules of Wikipedia surronding reputable unbiased sources too. And you have the changes of jews people like being labeled as being "of jewish descent" and jews people don't like labeled as "jewish". Like people are legitimately erasing the jewishness of jews they like because apparently being jewish is bad.

And this isn't even a problem solely with jewish and Israel pages. If you search my blog you can find the post, I would search myself but I've had a long day and can't super be bothered, but a while ago I reblogged a post exposing similar edits being made to native amercian pages and aborigine pages too. There was even proof of a crossover where an editor editing jewish pages in an antijewish way was also editing indigenous amercian pages in an anti indigenous way.

I remember when the purim page was edited to add that it was a Palestinian holiday. Like ah yes, Palestinians celebrate a holiday where jews survived a genocide attempt where we were attacked for being jewish 🙄.

The data of both right wing and leftist extremism is probably not accurate to how many instances there actually are of both, and definitely leftist antisemitism extremism is left put, but it's honestly not enough to make a huge change in the data as it's in the thousands. Like the gap would likely close a bit but not by much relative to the data amount.

Like Wikipedia very much has a bigotry problem, but that's very much not what elons issue is. He's just mad because it paints the ideology he believes in as this super violent ideology, which is correct. Smelon musky does believe in violent ideology.

Fuck elon musk

[thebrightestwitchofherage]

Is the UN antisemitic for insisting that refugees should be allowed to right of return?

No, they are antisemitic for decades of ignoring attacks on Israeli civilians , being extremely biased and literally supporting terrorists . And i think you know that… do a google search or I don’t know, listen to Jews.

Anyways, Here are a few reasons:

-calling out Israel more than any other country, while there are countries in their board that are actual dictatorships with apartheid & genocide .

They’re fixated on Israel.

-only holding Israel for agreements made while ignoring the fact that other parties have been violating the terms (aka harming Israeli civilians, amassing an army& weapons , moving past certain borders, etc).

*Aka what’s happening with Hezbollah& Hamas over the last 20 years ,,,

-ignoring the events of October 7th for almost a year: kidnapping of civilians, mass murder and torture , women being raped as a weapon of war , etc.

The UN has a long history of being antisemitic and anti- Israel.

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Instead of actually helping Palestinian refugees, the UN donated money and resources to literal terrorists. It perpetuates the narrative that they are refugees instead of actually resolving the issue.

Hell they let a terrorist organisation control the Gaza Strip for years. Said terrorists are higher ups in UNWRA…

Some reading:

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[caparrucia]

I understand the impulse behind loud reminders that your blog does not welcome certain people in light of recent events, but I'm instead sitting here wondering if we're finally going to have a conversation about being actively unwelcoming to bigotry and fascist rhetoric?

Your blog doesn't welcome Those Voters, but are you still unironically reblogging shit about "degenerates" and "porn addicts"?

Your blog is a safe space for the LGBT+ community, but do you consistently tag posts about queer history with "q-slur"?

Your blog decries JKR and her TERF bullshit, but are you still policing trans bodies and trans experiences by mocking people speaking out about their experience as transmen?

Your blog is an anti-racism oasis, but are you still platforming white voices speaking about racism over POC speaking up about their experiences?

Your blog is staunchly pro-Palestine, but do you earnestly believe that sending antisemitic hate to Jews living outside Israel is doing anything to benefit Palestinians?

Like, I want you to internalize this, if nothing else:

It doesn't matter what you say or how loud you say it, okay? What matters is what you do.

And given what your country just did, to itself and the rest of the world, you're damn right people do not give a shit about what you say.

[papasmoke]

If you are white, if you are a gentile, you should be willing to be a target for zionist harassment because every second they spend targeting you is a second they aren't going after palestinians, after anti-zionist jews, after anyone who is far more vulnerable to white supremacist bigotry and ruinous slander than you.

[socialistexan]

^ ^ ^

Don't let your rush to rightfully defend the Palestinian people and the right for Palestine to free itself from occupation and oppression cause you to hastily and carelessly be misdirected into bigoted ends.

Be knowledgeable about antisemitic tropes and how not to fall into them

Be on the look out for bad actors who are using anti-zionism as a cloak for antisemitism and to misdirect righteous anger into bigotry

Do not harass, interrogate, blame, or attack random Jews (this should be obvious) or dismiss the oppression we still face globally; remember that Zionist=/=Jew, there are far more Christian zionists than Jews alive today

Constantly check your sources and biases

Not doing so only helps the Zionist cause and weakens the cause of Palestinian liberation.