#intifada is not peaceful

[jewelleria]

you don’t want a global intifada.

this is intifada:

but wait, isn’t it “polite resistance to occupation”?

what the fuck is an “aggressive nonviolent resistance”? it’s an oxymoron is what it is.

stop calling for violence. it will end in violence against everyone, not just the people you want it to be directed at. including you.

[amaditalks]

There are four possibilities for the people chanting “globalize the intifada” and “intifada everywhere” and none of them are any good.

They don’t care that they’re calling for mass terrorist violence and deaths because they don’t care who lives or dies. (The nihilist option.)

They assume that anyone who’d be killed in such violence deserves it and haven’t considered that it could easily be someone they claim to care about. (The true terrorist option.)

They’re willing to sacrifice the people they care about for “the movement.” (The true terrorist plus volunteering others for martyrdom option.)

They’re happy to chant whatever the loudest person tells them to, and they have no idea what the intifada even is. (The ignorant lemming option.)

People have to do better.

[phobic-human]

Four Phases of Struggle

Translation / Interpretation: The four phases detailed in this poster are: 1) Occupation 2) Intifada/Uprising 3) Resistance 4) Liberation

Artist: Marc Rudin/Jihad Mansour (1945-2023)

Circa 1990

[eretzyisrael]

[anchorsnreignbows]

More details

[gamer2002]

Treat them like you would Christians if they did the same over what Arabs did to Christians in the Middle East. With hate crime charges

[lets-listen]

The words of Elica Le Bon, Iranian attorney, activist and musical artist.

From her Instagram: @elicalebon

[bloodycoolfrye]

Massive crowds of Iranian mourners accompany the bodies of assassinated Hamas's Political Bureau Chief Ismail Haniyeh and his bodyguard, identified as Wasim Abu Shaaban, to Azadi Square in Tehran on August 1, 2024.

[bisexualfaggotry]

and are the “peaceful protesters” in the room with us right now

[eretzyisrael]

[lemedstudent2021]

they israeled the food

[lestbian]

this day (march 16th) 21 years ago (2003), american activist rachel corrie was crushed to death by an israeli bulldozer while she protested the demolition of palestinian homes in rafah. she was 24. this april, she would have turned 45.

Sandra Jordan wrote in The Observer that because Corrie was American her death attracted more attention than the deaths of Palestinians under similar circumstances: "On the night of Corrie's death, nine Palestinians were killed in the Gaza Strip, among them a four-year-old girl and a man aged 90. A total of 220 people have died in Rafah since the beginning of the intifada. Palestinians know the death of one American receives more attention than the killing of hundreds of Muslims." (Wikipedia)

while we honor corrie's sacrifice, we must remember what she fought for. you can read her emails from rafah about her experiences in palestine at the rachel corrie foundation for peace and justice, organized by her parents cindy and craig who continue her work.

donate to UNRWA donate to Help Gaza Children donate to PCRF buy e-sims for Gazans

ramadan kareem and may we see a free palestine in our lifetimes.

[zvaigzdelasas]

Do you have an analysis on Sinwar being the new politburo chief? Very unexpected choice.

Have a couple thoughts:

Dissolving more of the barrier between Hamas as a political organization & as an insurgent organization

Spitting in Israel's face who was hoping that a decapitation strike would leave hamas with a leader lacking broader political legitimacy in the organization or create divisions/deepen divisions between civilian governance & militant organization

Lessens the leverage Qatar has over Hamas as they were providing Haniyeh with refuge

Since Sinwar is (presumably) in Gaza, his presence will likely be used to justify decreasingly discriminate attacks even moreso than it was before

Likely much more uncompromising (not to imply Haniyeh was) in negotiations

Israel and the US will have to directly negotiate with someone they despise

Dropsite News describes sinwar as such:

Despite the sinister portrayals, Sinwar’s writings and media interviews indicate he is a complex thinker with clearly defined political objectives who believes in armed struggle as a means to an end. He gives the impression of a well-educated political militant, not a cult leader on a mass suicide crusade. “It's not this black image of Sinwar as a man with two horns living in the tunnels,” said Hamad, the Hamas official who worked directly with Sinwar for three years. “But in the time of war, he's very strong. This man is very strong. If he wants to fight, he fights seriously.”

In 1988, just months after Hamas was founded, Sinwar was arrested by Israeli forces and sentenced to four life sentences on charges he had personally murdered alleged Palestinian collaborators. During his 22 years in an Israeli prison, he became fluent in Hebrew and studied the history of the Israeli state, its political culture, and its intelligence and military apparatus. He translated by hand the memoirs of several former heads of the Israeli intelligence agency Shin Bet. “When I entered [prison], it was 1988, the Cold War was still going on. And here [in Palestine], the Intifada. To spread the latest news, we printed fliers. I came out, and I found the internet,” Sinwar told an Italian journalist in 2018. “But to be honest, I never came out—I have only changed prisons. And despite it all, the old one was much better than this one. I had water, electricity. I had so many books. Gaza is much tougher.”[...]

Sinwar, unlike leaders of Al Qaeda or ISIS, has regularly invoked international law and UN resolutions, exhibiting a nuanced understanding of the history of negotiations with Israel mediated by the U.S. and other nations. “Let's be clear: having an armed resistance is our right, under international law. But we don't only have rockets. We have been using a variety of means of resistance,” he said in the 2018 interview. “We make the headlines only with blood. And not only here. No blood, no news. But the problem is not our resistance, it is their occupation. With no occupation, we wouldn't have rockets. We wouldn't have stones, Molotov cocktails, nothing. We would all have a normal life."

Throughout 2018 and 2019, Sinwar endorsed the large-scale nonviolent protests along the walls and fences of Gaza known as the Great March of Return. “We believe that if we have a way to potentially resolve the conflict without destruction, we’re O.K. with that,” Sinwar said at a rare news conference in 2018. “We would prefer to earn our rights by soft and peaceful means. But we understand that if we are not given those rights, we are entitled to earn them by resistance.”[...]

After the end of Israel’s 11-day bombing campaign against Gaza, Sinwar spoke to VICE News and sought to frame the Palestinian struggle in a U.S. context, using recent cases of lethal police violence against African Americans. “The same type of racism that killed George Floyd is being used by [Israel] against the Palestinians in Jerusalem, the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood, and in the West Bank. And by the burning of our children. And against the Gaza Strip through siege, murder, and starvation.”

And additionally (echoing the words of Hagari)

Support among Palestinians for Hamas and its Gaza leader Yahya Sinwar, according to the recent poll, “remains very high” and has increased during the past three months. At the same time, while two-thirds of Palestinians polled in the occupied territories believe that Hamas will “win the war,” only 48 percent of those in Gaza agreed.

Hamas has insisted the war cannot destroy its movement and will remain part of the tapestry of Palestinian factions governing its besieged and occupied territories. “What matters is that you finally realize that Hamas is here. That it exists. That there is no future without Hamas, there is no possible deal whatsoever, because we are part and parcel of this society, even if we lose the next elections,” Sinwar warned in 2018. “But we are a piece of Palestine. More than that, we are a piece of the history of the entire Arab world, which includes Islamists as well as seculars, nationalists, leftists.”

Daniel Hagari has also echoed this last bit [TimesOfIsrael is Israeli Private Media]

“Hamas is an idea, Hamas is a party. It’s rooted in the hearts of the people — anyone who thinks we can eliminate Hamas is wrong,” he continued.

Rumors are that Netanyahu is trying to figure out necromancy in order to bring Haniyeh back

Also check out this interview conducted by Vice

[bioethicists]

i'm sure it will hit the news soon but today brandeis university had several students arrested at a peaceful protest based solely on the insistence that shouting "from the river to the sea, palestine will be free" + mentioning the word intifada is hate speech. our president is prioritizing short-term funding from wealthy israelis + wealthy supporters of israel by condoning a genocide + suppressing free speech on campus, even as IDF soldiers give talks to our student body. our chapter of sjp was suspended due to unsubstantiated accusations that it "supports hamas" after a palestinian student who has lost her entire family in this atrocity tried to organize a vigil for the lost. there is a huge contingent of the student body, including the entire anthropology grad department, who supports a liberated palestine + we have been threatened, condescended to, + censored in order to give off the impression that the university "stands with israel".

tikkun olam means palestinian liberation. never again means never again.

[bloodycoolfrye]

We, Iranians are proud of this animosity😉🇵🇸🫂🇮🇷🇾🇪🇱🇧

[gaelic-symphony]

Six hostages were found murdered in Hamas tunnels under Rafah, and initial IDF reports say they were likely killed only a day or two before their bodies were recovered. These six precious souls managed to hold on for almost an entire year in the horrors of Hamas captivity, counting on Israeli and Palestinian leaders to end the war and bring them home to their families, but for eleven months, the world has instead turned its backs on the hostages in Gaza and emboldened their captors. Netanyahu and his cronies have blood on their hands. Sinwar, Abbas, and every other Palestinian leader who continues to promote false narratives about Israel and encourage violence against Jews have blood on their hands. The UN, the Red Cross and other so-called “humanitarian” NGOs who have aided Hamas terrorists have blood on their hands. Privileged western leftists who have emboldened Hamas with their unabashed Jew hate and calls to “globalize the intifada” have blood on their hands.

In Judaism, the phrase we usually say for those who have died is zichronam livrachah, may their memories be a blessing. But there is another phrase which we use when our people are murdered so brutally and senselessly like these six hostages whose loved ones will never get to hold them again. We say: Hashem yikom damam. May Hashem avenge their blood.

Hersh, Eden, Carmel, Almog, Ori, and Alexander, we will never forget you. You were loved, you were valued, and you deserved so much better. You should be alive and home with your families. May your captors and your murders face swift justice and never know a minute of peace. May no more families experience the enormity of devastation and grief that your families are feeling today after nearly a year of screaming and fighting to bring you home.

Fuck Hamas. Fuck Netanyahu. End this war and bring the hostages home. 🎗️