#settler universities

[readingsquotes]

Rashid Khalidi turns 76 this year; he is the same age as the state of Israel, and this incident was the latest example of what has been happening to Palestinians since the founding of Israel: in his words, “systematic, massive dispossession and theft”.

..The book [The Hundred Years’ War On Palestine] presents a persuasive framing that what has happened to Palestine is the consequence of a settler-colonial project, and the resistance that that has prompted.

..His next book will focus on Ireland, and how it was a laboratory for Palestine. It stems from a fellowship he had recently at Trinity College, Dublin. He says that to understand Palestine, you have to understand British colonialism more broadly. He is hoping to examine key figures in the British aristocracy whose Irish experience was central to everything they did afterwards – people such as Arthur James Balfour, Sir Charles Tegart and Gen Sir Frank Kitson. He is hoping to show how the Irish experience was exported to India, Egypt and Palestine, and then returned to Ireland again during the Troubles, having been magnified in the colonies. “It is astonishing how personnel and counter-insurgency techniques, like torture, assassination, find their roots with the British in Ireland,” Khalidi says.

...When he looks back at the 1990s, he is reminded of what the Palestinians were up against, and why they didn’t stand a chance. And why the peace efforts of the time were destined for failure. Not only did Israel have its own lawyers, combing over every detail, it had the backing of the US too. Khalidi understands that it was a fundamental error on the part of Yasser Arafat and his team to think that the US could be an honest broker.

“That is what drives me: Israel cannot do any of this – killing this number of Palestinians [more than 40,000 at the time of writing] without the US and western European countries. The US gives Israel the green light. It is a party to the war on Palestine. That is what drives me as an American. I am not just at this because I am a Palestinian. It is because I am an American. Because we are responsible.”

[drsonnet]

Gadzooks Bazooka

@GadzooksB

Here’s a drawing in my sketchbook of NYPD beating people protesting in solidarity with Palestine yesterday. They violently attacked people and press members at random on the Nakba day protest in Brooklyn, punching and choking them for protesting genocide.

[sscarletvenus]

today protesters for Palestine interrupted jimmy kimmel's subpar talk show segment with the war criminal kamala harris, rightfully calling the VP a "murderer" for her relentless championing of the dehumanisation of Palestinians and playing active accomplice in catalyzing the genocide of Gazans by the US-backed zionist entity.

this clip is horrifying in more aspects than one, absolutely jarring beyond all reasonable comprehension.

one day after the zionist entity dissipates into dust and defeat, our children will ponder why when people begged the Vice President to stop the beheading of Palestinian babies, kimmel joked that they're "ruining his flow," while simultaneously cueing the band to play off the protesters.

deplorable too are those in the audience, sitting quietly or trying to quiet the voices of sensible and moral dissent. then there's the rent-a-cop on a power trip, as always involved on extra-judicial brutalization, assaulting and kidnapping civilians.

i am forever flummoxed by the liberal elite's capacity for cruelty and yet.

[sentientsky]

can't believe i just said aloud, in complete seriousness "i need to break into the québec national archives"

cause what the FUCK is this shit

(super rough translation: u can only access this from a secure computer in the physical archives themselves and also u can't take any photos or printouts of the document)

[her-moth]

Ten years ago Mick Tausing's astonishing piece, ‘Two Weeks in Palestine: My First Visit’ was published in Critical Inquiry.

As much about storytelling and reading as it is about the ethics of them is one reason I love it, and another it took me months to get through.

[palestinegenocide]

How Israeli universities are an arm of settler colonialism

Maya Wind's new book meticulously demonstrates how Israeli academic institutions were created to serve the Zionist colonization of Palestine. They continue to do so to this day while fueling Israel's university-military-industrial complex.

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[internutter]

Challenge #04073-K055: Lucky Neighbours

In self-imposed exile, even with a beloved pet, a person can go slowly mad from loneliness. The world is lush, perfect for colonies. The first colonists to come down? A boat-load of GOOD luckers. Bad luck doesn't stand a chance.

https://peakd.com/fiction/@internutter/challenge-03192-h283-a-bad-luckers-best-friend -- Anon Guest

In all the universe, there is a form of balance. For good luck, there is also bad luck. And, as many Humans know, some people have all the luck.

Those people are called Luckers.

Lucker Phy had the worst kind of bad luck. Everything she loved and held dear came to a horrible end. Except her gengineered pet, Porgy. The Mycojelly Dog was literally made to be immortal, as well as balancing out Phy's personal luck field.

All that said, exile is not always good for the psyche.

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[immaculatasknight]

Opposing Canada's death cult

[readingsquotes]

genocide gentry [jen-uh-sahyd jen-tree]: members of the ruling class who hold prestigious positions at cultural & educational institutions despite their connections to warfare amidst an ongoing genocide.

About the project

Many board members of weapons companies also have significant ties to other neoliberal institutions and extractive industries such as fossil fuel corporations, think tanks, and philanthropy. We make particular note of individuals in this dataset who hold ties to fossil fuel corporations as a way to highlight that Palestinian liberation and climate justice are linked struggles, often having in common corporations fueling the ongoing genocide in Gaza as well as the broader climate crisis.

We hope our research will inspire others to uncover further connections between weapons manufacturers’ executives and directors and prominent cultural and educational institutions in your cities and states.

Key Findings:

We found 54 museums, cultural organizations, universities and colleges that currently host these individuals on their boards or in other prominent roles. 

Many of the board members of weapons companies also have significant ties to the fossil fuel industry, neoliberal think tanks, and philanthropy.

[drsonnet]

Today's photos from @OxAct4Pal Encampment by the Radcliffe Camera.

Oxford Action for Palestine (OA4P) is a collective of members of the University of Oxford community who are dedicated to Palestinian liberation.

Credit: Madeleine Jane (@_MadeleineJane) / X

[agentfascinateur]

Gaza children hear US students 💜

[rebelwithacauze]

[lawfuljude]

It is crazy to me how Obama(a notorious war criminal) can only now pathetically & vaguely admit to being complicit after funding the Zionist settler-colony and dropping thousands of bombs in the Middle East, Afghanistan and Somalia throughout his entire presidency. he can burn in hell!

[cairamelcoffee]

Colonialism and genocide are always accompanied by epistemicide. This is the video and evidence of Israel’s bombing of Al-Azhar University—Gaza. I can only imagine how much knowledge and history was immediately lost.

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[99snse]

the fact that george santos is still sitting in congress should tell you everything you need to know about the sketch comedy sitcom that is our national government

[if-you-fan-a-fire]

"Fund Gives Aid To German Jews," Kingston Whig-Standard. June 24, 1933. Page 20. ---- Thousand Acres of Land in Palestine Given for New Settlement ---- MONTREAL - Twenty-three thousand children are being educated in schools of Palestine with £185,000 budgeted for the cause of education. There are kindergarten, public, high and technical schools but the crowning achievement, according to Leib Jaffe, managing director of the Palestine Foundation Fund, is the Hebrew University on Mount Scopus, the cornerstone of which was laid while guns were being fired in Palestine during the Great War. Art, philosophy, biology and mathematics are some of the subjects taught along with studies in tropical diseases, oriental knowledge and Semitics.

Mr. Jaffe made reference to the Wolfsohn library with its 260,000 volumes and to the 42 periodicals in Hebrew which are existent in Palestine. The Hebrew theatre, "Habimah," where as many as 3,000 gather to listen to noted musicians and to actors filling their roles in such operas as Samson and Delilah, plays an important part in Jewish Palestine. The great miracle of all, believes Mr. Jaffe, is the revival of Hebrew with 95 percent of Jewry in the country able to speak the language.

It is planned to settle German Jews on 1,000 acres of land which the Jewish National Fund is ready to set aside for the purpose, Mr. Jaffe said.