#intifada revolution

[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.

[eretzyisrael]

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

By: Hamza Howidy, Palestinian from Gaza City

Published: Apr 25, 2024

Protests are spreading across the United States at college campuses, where university students are gathering in the name of Palestinian rights and occupying campus spaces with tents. Sadly, not everyone who purports to support Palestinians is truly interested in safeguarding our rights.

It pains me to say this as a Palestinian from Gaza. As my home is destroyed and too many killed, I never thought I would find myself criticizing those speaking up. And yet, I cannot be silent about what I am seeing. The truth is that the manner in which many gather to voice their support for Palestinians does more to hurt our cause than help it.

You know what would help the Palestinians in Gaza? Condemning Hamas' atrocities. Instead, the protesters routinely chant their desire to "Globalize the Intifada." Apparently they do not realize that the Intifadas were disastrous for both Palestinians and Israelis, just as October 7 has been devastating for the people of Gaza.

They should be speaking up for the innocent victims of Hamas—both Palestinian and Israeli. Instead, they endorse Hamas's ideology with posters announcing resistance "by any means necessary" and chants of "from the river to the sea," effectively glorifying the Al-Qassam brigades, Hamas' military wing, whose ideology is entirely based on the elimination of more than 6 million Israelis from the land.

I assumed individuals who initiated these slogans were uninformed about what they were advocating for. I saw the LGBTQ flag frequently flown among people chanting lines from Hamas's charter, and I initially wanted to educate them, to warn them that the group they are honoring would most likely toss them from the top of a building or murder them like they did to Mahmoud Ishtiwi, a Hamas commander accused of homosexuality. Hamas harasses women who don't cover their heads. Hamas tortures those who demonstrate against their authoritarian rule, as they did me when I protested.

All of this seems to be lost on the people who have named themselves our allies, to our misfortune.

Hate speech on college campuses starting with the one at Columbia has recently reached a frightening pitch. I've seen people yelling antisemitic things at Jewish students, including "Jews go back to Poland" and other horrible phrases. It has deteriorated to the point that Jews are no longer attending university classes due to the current hostile environment, and they are attending their classes online to avoid the demonstrators.

It's unconscionable. But it's not just the antisemitism that has me despairing. It's the hypocrisy. Where were these caring young people when Hamas took over Gaza and slaughtered hundreds of Gazans, or when Hamas held 2 million Gazans captive for more than 17 years? Why didn't they speak out about the fact that Hamas led Gazans into this conflict, which resulted in more than 30,000 dead and 80,000 injured, according to Gazan municipal authorities? Where were they when Hamas's failed missiles claimed the lives of hundreds of Gazans on October 17, or when Hamas murdered young people in order to steal aid and resell it to Gazans at massively inflated prices?

The only conclusion that can be drawn from these demonstrators' silence concerning Hamas' atrocities and their antisemitic chanting is that they are not concerned with protecting Palestinians. They are out in their tents because of a hatred of Jews and Israelis.

As a Gazan and as a Palestinian, I want the protesters and the organizers of these protests to know that their hateful speech harms us. The Jewish person or Israeli you are intimidating during your rally may be the granddaughter of a Holocaust survivor or a family member of an Israeli slain or abducted by Hamas on October 7. These folks would be your partners if the protests were about achieving lasting peace and justice for Palestinians and Israelis.

I do not accept hateful speech or terrorist chants, and all of these foolish dreams about eradicating Israel are disgusting—and will never be achieved. Both of us—Palestinians and Israelis—are here to stay.

But the protesters aren't interested in peace. Some of the groups have been blocking Palestinian peace activists like me—and I am from Gaza, the very place they claim to care about! Instead of blocking peace activists, they should be inviting us to join these protests and guide them in the right direction—a place without hatred with a focus on calling for the release of the hostages who have been held captive by Hamas for more than 210 days.

If the protesters cared about Palestinians, they would have one central demand: Hamas must surrender, because we have all suffered from Hamas and can no longer live under the rule of a terrorist group. Only then can a ceasefire be achieved.

Hamza Howidy is a Palestinian from Gaza City. He is an accountant and a peace advocate.

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Told you so.

I've been calling these protestors "pro-Hamas" not "pro-Palestine" for months. I've invited dozens to condemn Hamas and none of them will. The "ceasefire" they want is for Israel to surrender so Hamas can murder them all, as they've consistently promised to.

Imagine people who pretend to want a "ceasefire" not just chanting for "intifada" (violence) and celebrating barbarous Islamic terrorism but blocking actual Palestinian peace activists. This was never about peace. It still isn't. They're useful idiots whose antisemitism is being used by Islamic supremacists to undermine western society.

[rahima-artwork]

Eid Al-Adha Mubarak to all 🇵🇸🕊️🫒

[the-univrse]

Technology has lost all creativity. Everything is a copy of a copy, all descending into a mass-produced hell. Interfaces are all the same; a bland population of pixels to draw in the people's attention and milk profit.

Micro trends pop up almost weekly; mob wife, office siren, and all the likes. It's always, "What's one more outfit?" and then two dollars into Shein and Temu for a tacky wear made from unfair labour. It's super cheap! Promo codes, discounts, and coupons; all built to lure you in.

Big tech born from genocide becomes big tech fueling genocide. One murder for hardware that births software for death. The billionaires only care for themselves and every note into their wallets. They flood rivers with uranium and exploit the poor for coltan. Large servers breed data for artificial intelligence to aid military violence.

The people cry while others relax, watching multiple insurgencies and diasporas grow from the comfort of their devices. While the elite play deaf, their eyes shut to the suffering, we the people grow upset at the injustice.

The revolution is coming. We shall be free, in this century or the next, before the wealthy monopolise our survival for their amusement. We shall watch at sunrise as our liberty is ours once again.

[nando161mando]

'Since the 1980s, the Israeli military has refused to disclose its open-fire regulations, despite various petitions to the High Court of Justice.

According to political sociologist Yagil Levy, since the Second Intifada, “the army has not given soldiers written rules of engagement,” leaving much open to the interpretation of soldiers in the field and their commanders.

As well as contributing to the killing of over 38,000 Palestinians, sources testified that these lax directives were also partly responsible for the high number of soldiers killed by friendly fire in recent months.'

[argaman01]

More nonsense today at my college. Students in our SJP group marched down the hill to an anti-Israel rally downtown. About a dozen. There were banners - one for Jewish Voice for Peace, a Palestinian flag, and one reading "ceasefire. "

Last night was the Iranian attack on Israel. Over 350 drones, cruise missiles and ballistic missiles were launched. Almost all were shot down, with most of the ballistic missiles being taken down by Israeli forces. US, UK, France, Jordan, and perhaps Saudi Arabia intercepted them. One Bedouin girl in the south was gravely injured by falling shrapnel. No one was killed, minimal damage, all due to the incredible cooperation led by the US. Our president definitely saved many lives last night.

Back to the students. These were their chants on campus and going down the hill: "Genocide Joe, whadayya say, how many kids did you kill today?"

Of course, Biden's steadfast support of Israel last night meant that no children were killed by Iranian missiles.

Next set of chants as they walk down the hill: "We are all Palestinians. From the River to the Sea, Palestine will be free. There is only one solution: intifada revolution."

So which is it? A ceasefire, which would save the lives of Palestinians in Gaza from the terrible Israeli attack? I support that. The war needs to end.

Or intifada revolution? The second intifada killed over a thousand Israelis, and at least twice that many Palestinians. Most revolutions are violent too - American, French, Russian. Do these students want more people to die?

I am convinced that most of them have no idea what happened during the intifadas or the revolutions. They are not thinking about what would happen if their slogans were acted upon. They, like me, would recoil in horror if they saw the body of someone who died from a suicide bombing or from being shot by a soldier. But that is not the image on their minds.

This is performative activism, and they need to learn the real meaning of the slogans they chant.

[beatrix-morrigan]

Open Letter to My Computer Science Students In the Wake of the Temporary Restraining Order

A TA at UCSD reflects on the unprecedented temporary restraining order granted against UAW 4811 's spring 2024 strike, and how CS is fueling modern genocide.

https://beatrix-morrigan.github.io/writing/in-the-wake-of-the-TRO.html

[comrade-onion]

Some more advice to the students ❤️🇵🇸

[greencarnation]

When will the revolution come?

I think it's here. A revolution isn't when everyone collectively wakes up one day and goes "time to destroy the government", a revolution is just a series of events grouped together that we will call a revolution later. They take time. French revolution? 10 years. American revolution? 7 years. We're already underway - maybe we have been since as early as the BLM protests in 2020. What we need to do now is just do our part and build momentum

[saddayfordemocracy]

Kader Attia, Intifada: The Endless Rhizomes of Revolution (2016) 

A forest of leafless trees of iron rebar emerged from piles of rubble, slingshots bound to their bifurcated branches. The makeshift weapons recall those used by Palestinians against Israelis during the First Intifada in 1987, in protest against Israel’s occupation of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip.

 “It is an artwork about the history of violence and the agency of resistance as a form of existence, and does not call for violence in any form,” Attia said.

Courtesy: Nagel-Draxler

[ramadan90s]

INTIFADA ❤️🤍

[feckcops]

The road to freedom runs through Palestine

“The road to Jerusalem, it has so often been said, runs through Cairo. Writing from a regime prison cell in the months after Palestine’s ‘unity intifada’ of 2021, the Egyptian revolutionary Alaa Abd El-Fattah modified this historic injunction: ‘The road to Jerusalem looked like it ran through Cairo — but what is certain is that it must pass through Gaza. Jerusalem is not too proud to ask for Gaza’s help. Maybe Cairo should now show a little humility and do the same.’  

“Here we have a lyrical articulation of a simple political truth: that the freedom struggle of the Palestinian people and the wider fight for democracy in the Arab world are one and the same. Only through the violent suppression of popular sovereignty across the region have the military dictatorships, the petro-monarchs, and the settler-colonial project in Palestine survived.

“As Alaa’s mediation suggests, this interconnected struggle is not one-way traffic, a matter of the Palestinians waiting for the Arab peoples to triumph over their autocratic rulers (American clients, more often than not). On the contrary, the Palestinian people often lead the way, generating space for struggle beyond the borders of their historic homeland, in places where the conditions of possibility for mass politics seem to have been crushed. Two weeks ago, it was a march in solidarity with the Palestinians of Gaza that saw Egyptian democrats surge back into Tahrir Square for the first time since the revolution ...

“From the West, action against the complicity of our governments has an indispensable role to play in the struggle to liberate Palestine. That is the most important thing, and the first purpose of an emerging mass movement. In Cairo two weeks ago, the chants quickly turned from Palestine to calls for ‘bread, freedom, and social justice.’ There are no such revolutionary horizons in Britain, but the significance of it being Palestine that offers us a glimpse of mass politics again cannot be overstated.

Not only the Egyptians: we, too, should be grateful to the Palestinian people. We stand with them, but it is the steadfastness of their popular struggle for universal freedom and dignity that shows the way.”

[the-univrse]

Hi! I got tagged by @smallfrysblog to take part in the Last Line Challenge. I haven't done anything like this before, so it'll be fun to step out of my comfort zone for once.

I haven't written much in a while, but here's the last line, or paragraph of the most recent work I have.

The revolution is coming. We shall be free, in this century or the next, before the wealthy monopolise our survival for their amusement. We shall watch at sunrise as our liberty is ours once again.

I don't have anyone in particular to tag, but this is my submission. Thank you, Emi!

Last Line Challenge

Rules: In a new post, show the last line you wrote (or drew) and tag as many people as there are words (or as many as you feel like). 

Got tagged by @thewildballyntynesgrow to do this! that was actually 10 days ago but I didn't check my socials so here it is a little late...

The last lines I wrote (not edited) is from a relatively new WIP and here it goes:

Ahsoka was concentrated on her bond with Anakin the whole time while helping the rescue team. And so she noticed, barely 10 minutes into shifting the rocks around, the flash of pain and helplessness leaking through the bright bond in the Force

“Anakin” She murmured in shock and tried to send some kind of message through the bond but as fast as the flash reached her, it went silent again. 

I'm tagging @astranite because honestly I don't know that many writers. And of course everyone who wants to participate anyways!

[flower-tea-fairies]

I take back any and all criticisms ive made toward any and all Palestinian resistance groups. I was so fucking wrong. Israel is to blame. End the genocide by any means necessary. Enough is a enough. End all israeli propaganda

[comrade-onion]

Encampments for Gaza: A Brief Analysis Through My Eyes

Starting as a small sit-in in Columbia University to protest the university's ties with Israel and other Zionist organizations, the student protest movement has spread across the United States and encampments have been established at numerous universities across the country, including MIT, NYU as well as the Universities of Michigan and New Mexico.

These student movements, reminiscent of protest movements against US intervention in Viet Nam in the 60s and 70s and more recently, the BLM protests in 2020, hold massive potential to not only cause divestment from Israel's genocide in Gaza, but can act as a much greater force in the disassembly of United States imperialism and capitalism.

These encampments are pivotal in highlighting disconent among the American youth as well as the brutality and inherently oppressive nature of the American system. If these students seek to bring about real, lasting change, they should embrace a higher degree of organization, participation in community organization, self-defense, and increasing militarization within their encampment movement.

If history has taught us anything, the boot of the US government will step down on these protesters if they are not ready. They need to be ready to fight for Gaza and the people of Palestine, they need to be ready to fight for themselves and their rights, and they need to be ready to fight for a future without imperialist and capitalist greed.