#butler is themself a Jewish scholar who has committed much on their recent scholarly work to Palestinian liberation and antizionism

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"One way of posing the question of who “we” are in these times of war is by asking whose lives are considered valuable, whose lives are mourned, and whose lives are considered ungrievable. We might think of war as dividing populations into those who are grievable and those who are not. An ungrievable life is one that cannot be mourned because it has never lived, that is, it has never counted as a life at all. We can see the division of the globe into grievable and ungrievable lives from the perspective of those who wage war in order to defend the lives of certain communities, and to defend them against the lives of others—even if it means taking those latter lives."

—Judith Butler, Frames of War: When Is Life Grievable?

ALSO the way soooo many people are showing pictures of palestinian children locked in cages, palestinian men being stripped and whipped in public, pregnant palestinian women being brutalized, palestinian children looking up at air strikes, and labeling them israeli and circling them around online as propaganda to support an apartheid is ridiculous.

they call these acts evil when they think the victims are israeli, and yet stay silent when the reality is that those images are of palestinians being oppressed, displaced, and abused.