#south lebanon solidarity with palestine

[kaorvv]

there is no place on earth like south lebanon. no place on earth that can replace the space in my heart carved specifically for this land its people

[vyorei]

Live coverage of the 11th of January 2024 is now closed.

Here is a recap of today's major events.

It is 12am in Ireland now so I have to go to bed.

I'll be back to resume live updates on Sunday as I'm working, I'm gutted I can't watch the livestream tomorrow. It's at 10AM as far as I can remember. You can find it on YouTube, be sure to watch Apartheid Israel's predictable response and watch out for gore given they'll definitely play shock value.

For continuous updates while I'm gone, click the link below:

[clottoncandiezz]

Don’t worry, no one else seems to care either. Why does no one respond to my messages?

I’m not asking you to donate, nor do I ask anyone else to donate.

All I want is for you to ask about me and my family. Why have you left us?

Have you considered my family and me dead? Everyone has ignored my messages.

Just ask about us so we know we’re still alive! I’m starting to lose hope for the sake of my family.

i get the fact that you have no hope left. if we keep trying hard enough we could do it. we could finally get the pariah state named "israel" to finally stop fucking killing humans JUST because they are palestinian. we could do it.

[asianamseeds]

Hello!

My name is Miah and I’m a Filipinx American 2nd year Clinical Psych PhD student at UMass Boston. 

Would you help share or take our survey (if eligible) on racialization and resisting racism’s impact on mental health for people of color pls?

I’m working with Dr. Karen Suyemoto (Psychology and Asian American Studies) and Dr. Tahirah Abdullah (Psychology).

Study link: https://tinyurl.com/REAR24MS 

Password: REAR2024

Here are our two Lab Instagram accounts as well: @BAREmhw @AsianAmSeeds

Any questions can be sent to AART@umb.edu

[reasonsforhope]

Where can I find Free Palestine protests and Ceasefire protests?

A super international and continually updated list of actions can be found at Samidoun: Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network's:

Calendar of Resistance for Palestine 2024

They list events by date, then alphabetically by country, then by city - and it's common for them to have dozens of actions listed for a single date, especially on the weekends.

The United States especially often has 40+ events on a single day, especially on the weekends.

Events are posted with links to the event info posted by whoever's hosting the vast majority of the time.

Look blow the read-more for a list of many of the countries that have been on this protest calendar, in alphabetical order, since I know so many websites/lists of actions are country-specific

*Obviously this isn't the only good source of listings for protest events - there are many others. This is by far the biggest/most international roundup I've found, though, so I started with this. If you know another good place for finding ceasefire protests/events, please feel free to add it in the notes, bc I'm planning to put a bigger roundup together once I find enough other sites

Countries that Samidoun has listed/does list protests for include (in alphabetical order):

North America:

United States

Canada

Mexico

Puerto Rico (listed separately in anti-colonial solidarity)

Hawai'i (listed separately in anti-colonial solidarity)

Europe:

Austria

Belgium

Bulgaria

Denmark

England

Finland

France

Germany

Greece

Hungary

Iceland

Ireland

Italy

Netherlands

Norway

Portugal

Romania

Scotland

Serbia

Spain

Sweden

Switzerland

Wales

SWANA Region (Southwest Asia/North Africa)*:

Bahrain

Iraq

Jordan

Kuwait

Lebanon

Palestine

Tunisia

Turkiye (Turkey)

*Samidoun notes that "We know that these events are mainly international and that the Arab people are marching everywhere for Palestine – we will be honored to add more Arab events whenever we are informed!"

Asia:

Bangladesh

India

Indonesia

Japan

Malaysia

Maldives

Pakistan

South Korea

Africa:

Kenya

Mauritius

Nigeria

South Africa

Tanzania

Tunisia

*Duplicating North African countries (well, Tunisia) here from the SWANA list btw

South America:

Brazil

Colombia

Chile

Peru

Venezuela

Australia and Oceania:

Aotearoa (New Zealand)

Australia

[opencommunion]

"Everywhere around the world, the broad masses of the people, from the heart of the Global South to the center of the imperial core, are expressing a clear and thorough rejection of the ongoing genocide that has quickly accelerated to a firm revulsion to the Zionist ideology and Zionist project as a whole and to solidarity with and inspiration by the Palestinian people and their heroic resistance in all forms, particularly the armed resistance. The 'red triangle' over targets featured in the resistance videos of Al-Qassam Brigades, Saraya al-Quds and other resistance forces has become an online shorthand for the triumph of the people, their determination, their love for their land and their community over the automated, technologized forces of death and destruction represented by the Merkava tanks and military bases of the US/Israeli war machine.

The 'Dahiyeh doctrine' of mass destruction of civilian lives and infrastructure failed in Lebanon in 2006 because the people were a popular cradle, a source of nourishment, growth and sustenance, of the resistance, because the resistance was of, by and for the masses; today, it is failing once again in its full genocidal furor in Gaza for the same reason. This Resistance emerges from the very camps of refugees, denied their right to return home for the past 75 years, that the Zionists seek to destroy and drive into a new displacement today. Globalizing the intifada today means developing the international popular cradle of the resistance – the growing recognition that the Resistance of the Palestinian people, joined by their comrades, brothers and sisters in Yemen, Lebanon, Iraq and beyond, today represent the hope of humanity on our collective front lines.

Like the great popular Intifada of 1987, today’s Palestinian, Arab and international globalized intifada is an anti-imperialist cause. It is a movement against colonialism, imperialism, racism and oppression everywhere. The Palestinian flag is not only a symbol of Palestinian national liberation, but of a commitment to anti-colonial principles, to Indigenous sovereignty, to the fight against exploitation, to the fight to end the extraction of wealth, labour and resources by the United States and its imperialist cohort in Europe.

The anti-imperialist nature of the Palestinian cause has perhaps never been more clear than in the present day, where every imperialist power has clearly aligned itself with the Zionist regime with unparalleled fervor, sending billions of dollars in weaponry for genocidal aerial bombing of the Palestinian people in Gaza; banning demonstrations and Palestinian and Palestine solidarity organizations, including Samidoun in Germany; arresting and prosecuting demonstrators and organizers in France, the United States, Canada and elsewhere; setting up new parliamentary and congressional bodies meant to silence and suppress the growing movement and releasing a torrent of deceptive propaganda; and unleashing a wave of social terror in the academy. It is clear that the imperialist powers are doing this because they see the events of October 7 and the rising regional and global resistance as a threat to their continued domination and extraction of wealth from the region and view the Zionist regime as their mechanism to hold on to such power through genocidal violence.

The imperialist powers, led by the United States, have always viewed Zionism as a mechanism to extract wealth from the people of the region while denying the Arab nation sovereignty over its land, wealth and resources. From the Zionist colonization of Palestine, directed by Britain, through the Nakba, the 1967 occupation, the Intifada to the Zionist genocide today, the imperialist powers have always been the central enemy of the Palestinian people, and every rock, every bullet and every strike that confronts 'Israel' also confronts imperialism.

Today’s international popular cradle of the resistance, this globalized intifada, stretches from Gaza, Sanaa, Beirut, Baghdad and Damascus to the streets of Havana, Caracas, Sao Paulo and Johannesburg to the heart of the imperial core, raising a collective voice and developing an international struggle against imperialism and its murderous wars, sanctions and siege, with Palestine at the center.

Also like the great Intifada of 1987, we are in a clear era of unity of the Palestinian cause despite the lingering near-afterlife of the collaborationist Palestinian Authority in Ramallah. The Palestinian people throughout occupied Palestine and everywhere in exile and diaspora are united to bring an end to the genocide, unified behind the Resistance, forming a global resistance front that also embraces popular mobilization, arts, culture, political engagement and grassroots organizing as central to the liberation struggle. On this 36th anniversary, we recall that the siege of the camps in Lebanon was finally broken by the eruption of the Intifada inside occupied Palestine in 1987. Today, we look forward to breaking the siege on Gaza, not only through the strength and resilience of the Palestinian people in Gaza, but through the uprising elsewhere and everywhere.

... From members of U.S. Congress, to university officials, to German security services, to British police, to the French interior ministry, imperialist forces are attempting to criminalize, suppress and silence clear speech for Palestine. They seek to turn reality inside out, whereby 'intifada' – the term reflecting resistance to genocide and oppression – is redefined as itself 'genocidal.' These propaganda campaigns aim to empty the term 'genocide' of meaning and legal weight and to attempt to reclaim control over the discussion of the Palestinian cause, a control that has been swept away by decades of struggle, and has been rendered unrecoverable after October 7. They also seek to target the growing role and organization of Palestinians in exile and diaspora, reclaiming their role in their national liberation movement stripped from them through the years of the Oslo liquidation process.

From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free. Long live the Intifada. Victory to the Palestinian Resistance. Stand with the Palestinian armed struggle. Zionism is racism. Imperialism will be defeated. These slogans are ringing out everywhere around the world, and now is the time to declare them, more loudly and clearly than ever. There are no slogans or statements that will satisfy Zionism and imperialism – on the contrary, they wish to strip our movement of our most effective advocacy and our most unifying vision, the vision and promise that enables people to continue to fight, to resist, and to move toward victory in the most extreme conditions of genocide and deprivation."

Samidoun Network, Globalize the Intifada: Regional resistance, international struggle and Palestinian liberation on the 36th anniversary of the great Intifada

[akajustmerry]

I'm Lebanese. I'm not Palestinian and will never know what it's like to be Palestinian and have never claimed otherwise. But I care so much because so many members of my extended family fled Lebanon to Australia when Israel invaded the south, and family I'll never meet died trying to fight them. I grew up with those stories, with a fraction of the pain I can only imagine Palestinians know. so I will, like my family, always stand in solidarity with Palestinians. because it's right. because, while I don't what it's like to be Palestinian, I know how monstrous Israel is. I know how they see us as animalistic faceless NPCs to mow down on the way to stealing homes and history and it must be stopped. My heart, broken as it is, is always with Palestinians enduring Israel's brutally. There is not and never will be a version of me who sympathises with a colonial state that murders and displaces families and ethnically cleanses for decades out of pure entitlement. Palestine should be free of Israeli occupation and every Israeli. Land back means land back!! Decolonisation means DECOLONISING!! If anyone who follows me has a problem with that then block me!!!

[magz]

Palestine summary for April 24 to April 26, 2024 from LetsTalkPalestine.

[Lets Talk Palestin Link Tree, with ways to help and sources.]

April 24, 2024.

Day 201:

• 79 Palestinians killed, 86 injured in Gaza in last 24 hours

• IOF bombed home in Gaza City, killing a mother & her child and injured 6

🇪🇬 Egypt detained 10+ women, among them lawyers, journalists & civil society leaders, protesting in solidarity w/ Gaza & Sudan

• Beit Lahia, Beit Hanoon & Jabalia in north Gaza under continuous Israeli strikes since ordering evacuation in Beit Lahia, giving them minutes to flee

🇯🇲🇧🇧 Jamaica & Barbados officially recognize a Palestinian State

• Israel built 6 new military outposts since Jan, totaling 9 outposts each within 3 miles of Gaza + plan to transfer 2 combat brigades (4-10 thousand soldiers) from Lebanon’s border down to Gaza — fueling fears of a looming Rafah invasion

🇩🇪 Germany to soon resume coordination w/ UNWRA after Israel failed to provide evidence on its allegations against the agency’s employees

🇺🇸 Biden signed to law aid bill giving $26bn to Israel

• IOF abducts 15 Palestinians including former detainees overnight in West Bank

April 25, 2024.

Day 202:

• 43 Palestinians killed, 64 injured in the last 24 hours

🇺🇳 UN to investigate Nasser Hospital mass graves as Israel denies reports of 392 bodies showing severe signs of torture and mutilation

• Hundreds of Israeli settlers storm Al-Aqsa Compound under IOF protection as raids across West Bank cities intensify

🇧🇪 Belgian aid worker & his 7-year-old son killed among 7 others in targeted bombings on Rafah despite disclosing his location to Israeli forces; 6 aid groups affected by recent attacks

🚢 Freedom Flotilla Coalition delays from departing Turkey due to Israeli pressure on Guinea Bissau in an effort to prevent aid delivery to Gaza

• Israeli forces abduct three 13-year-olds from Ramallah, West Bank as 200 children remain captives in Israeli jails

🇫🇷 France to expand sanctions on Israeli settlers involved in violence against Palestinians, with recent EU sanctions imposed on settlers and organisations for similar reasons

April 26, 2024.

University encampments going global 🌍🔥

🎓 Encampments for Palestine which started in US universities have now spread to France, Australia, and the UK, advocating for divestment from companies & arms manufacturers complicit in the Israeli occupation.

The 42 encampments are mostly in the US, but include 2 in Australia, 1 in France, and 1 in the UK, with more expected.

🤐 Arrests at Columbia (100+), Yale (50), Emerson (100+), NYU (dozens), USC (93), Uni of Texas in Austin (55) & more as US political & corporate elites fear the surging power & popularity of the Palestine solidarity movement.

Columbia canceled in-person classes, NYU built a wall around the encampment.

👩‍🏫 Many faculty have joined in protest of their administrations’ Zionist stances.

Biden admin. & Netanyahu, a foreign leader, released statements condemning the students.

🔥 In 1985, students forced University of California to divest $3.1bn from South African apartheid

Inspired? @ pal_actionus posts advice on starting one 🫡

Day 203:

•⁠ 51 Palestinians killed, 75 injured in the last 24 hours

•⁠ ⁠Rising temperatures in Gaza worsens condition of displaced Palestinians in tents, UNRWA added 2 kids so far killed by the heat

•⁠ Former head of HRW accuses Israel of obstructing investigation into Nasser Hospital mass graves

🇳🇱 Netherlands to consider resuming UNWRA funding after Israel failed to provide evidence on its allegations against the agency’s staff’s complicity in Oct 7

•⁠ Eastern Rafah under continuous Israeli shelling, targeting homes, injuring at least 2 Palestinians

🇺🇸 US puts halt on potential sanctions against 1 Israeli military unit, despite allegations since before Oct 7 of severe human rights abuses in West Bank

🇱🇧 2 killed in Israeli strike on a car in south Lebanon

🇪🇺 EU announces $73m in essential aid to Gaza despite refusing to sanction Israel

⚖️ ICJ to soon announce ruling on Nicaragua’s case against Germany, seeking emergency measures to halt German military assistance to Israel

[sylvia-on-the-run]

The Popular Front Commends the Heroic Operation South of the Dead Sea and Stresses Escalating Confrontation Against the Occupation Across All Arenas

The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine commends the heroic and daring operation carried out by Jordanian resistance fighters south of the Dead Sea, which targeted gatherings of occupation soldiers south of the Jordan River.

This exceptional operation represents a legitimate response to the crimes of the occupation and comes as part of the struggle to support the Arab nation’s sons and their solidarity with the resistance in Palestine, Lebanon, Yemen, and Iraq.

The execution of this operation from Jordanian territory carries deep national and pan-Arab significance, reflecting the unity of destiny and struggle among the Arab nation in confronting the zionist-settler project, which not only targets Palestine but also threatens the security of the entire Arab region. The location of the operation near the Wadi Araba area is a testament to the rejection of the peace treaty, affirming the steadfastness of the Jordanian people, who have never hesitated to provide the Palestinian resistance with resources, arms, and fighters.

This heroic act confirms that every inch of the Arab world, from the Atlantic Ocean to the Gulf, is a battleground to respond to zionist aggression. Free nations will continue to support armed resistance until the occupation is expelled and complete victory is achieved.

In light of continued international complicity and official Arab betrayal, the only true bet remains on the hands of heroic resistance fighters and the free Arab peoples, who refuse to accept humiliation and subjugation.

The Popular Front sends a salute of reverence and pride to the souls of the martyred Jordanian resistance fighters, who boldly took up arms and headed courageously toward the zionist enemy, setting an outstanding example of sacrifice and resistance. The Front reaffirms that their pure blood will not be in vain and will remain a beacon lighting the path of confrontation until liberation and return.

Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine Central Media Department October 18, 2024

[workersolidarity]

[📷 Ambulances are scanning the village of Kfarkila, southern Lebanon for casualties, after the very violent Israeli airstrikes on the houses there.]

🇮🇱⚔️🇱🇧 🚨

ISRAELI OCCUPATION FORCES CONTINUE BOMBING LEBANON WHILE OPPOSITION ISRAELI LAWMAKER CALLS FOR OCCUPATION OF THE SOUTH FOR 50 YEARS

Israeli opposition lawmaker Avigdor Liberman called for a 50 year-long occupation of southern Lebanon in response to attacks by Hezbollah resistance forces.

Liberman, an Israeli lawmaker, long-time occupation hawk, and zealous Zionist, told reporters that Lebanon has to “pay in territory” for strikes launched by Hezbollah forces on Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) along the shared border in the north of occupied Palestine.

Previously, Israel occupied the south of Lebanon for 15-years, from 1985-2000, during which the Hezbollah resistance movement was formed, fighting a guerilla war with the Israeli occupation and eventually liberating the south of the country from occupation.

Now Israeli opposition lawmaker and former Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman is issuing fresh calls to re-occupy southern Lebanon for an additional 50-years as punishment for Hezbollah's solidarity with the Palestinian resistance.

Liberman said Israel must "close off" a large section of southern Lebanon to push the Resistance north of the Litani River, even if it means 50-years of occupation.

“It can’t be that there are entire towns where close to half of the buildings were simply destroyed,” Liberman told reporters at Yisrael Beytenu's opposition faction meeting.

“We will not annex anything, and we will not build settlements, but we will release the territory only when there is a government in Beirut that knows how to exercise its sovereignty," Liberman added.

“Everything between the Litani and Israel must be under the control of the IDF,” Liberman demanded of the occupation forces, comparing the situation to the Post-WWII occupation of Germany. “If Lebanon won’t pay in territory we haven’t done anything,” he added.

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@WorkerSolidarityNews

[degeneratedworker]

“Solidarity with Palestine: Every day Zionist bombs fall on civilian victims in south Lebanon” Kamal Boullata General Union of Palestine Students & Union Générale des Etudiants Libanais France 1982

[vyorei]

Live coverage of the 4th of December 2023 is now closed.

Here is a recap of today's major events.

It is 12am in Ireland now so I have to go to bed.

I'll be back to resume live updates in the afternoon.

For continuous updates while I'm gone, click the link below:

[tieflingkisser]

Do you condemn Hamas?

The question we have to ask ourselves is not whether we condemn Hamas, but whether we condemn a settler colonial regime that makes armed struggle necessary for survival.

This question became seemingly ubiquitous following October 7. As Palestinians defied the imagination, breaking out of Gaza after over a decade and a half of living under total air, land, and sea blockade, many found themselves having to face this question. Whether it be from Zionists using the violence we witnessed on that day as a means of creating story after story of atrocity propaganda — to force well-meaning allies into a corner or even those who genuinely considered themselves pro-Palestine who struggled with the reality of decolonial violence — the question of whether or not Palestinian armed resistance factions deserved support or criticism became a major point of contention. It was easy for many to support the cause of Palestinian liberation when they viewed Palestinians as perfect victims, but when Palestinians fought back, suddenly the question of solidarity became muddled. Months later, after tens of thousands of Palestinians have been murdered by Israeli Occupation Forces in Gaza amid an ongoing genocide, and after thousands in the West Bank have found themselves imprisoned or under regular attack, sympathy for those resisting their own annihilation has grown, with the conversation becoming more clear than it was in the days proceeding October 7. As videos spread by resistance factions across Gaza and Lebanon find a regular and enthusiastic audience and chants in support of those putting their lives on the line take root in protests nationwide, it is clear many have grown to accept the necessity of armed struggle in the Palestinian context, though a true consensus has yet to be achieved. To that end, the answer to the question “Do you condemn Hamas?,” particularly for those of us on the Left as we analyze the history of Palestine and why resistance occurs in a colonial context, should have always been clear.

A violent phenomenon

As Frantz Fanon’s oft-cited statement from Wretched of the Earth has made clear, national liberation, national reawakening, restoration of the nation to the Commonwealth, whatever the name used, whatever the latest expression, decolonization is always a violent event. Palestine is not an exception to this reality. The colonization of Palestine by Zionists, like all colonialism throughout history, brought with it widespread and constant violence levied in all forms against the Palestinian people. This was by design, as the very nature of settler colonialism is a necessarily brutal one given the end goal of the wholesale elimination of the Indigenous population in all forms but nostalgia. This violence does not simply manifest itself through the military campaigns waged by Zionist settlers and the Israeli occupation army, but through every part of the colonial endeavor itself �� an endeavor that can only be sustained through the suffering, exploitation, repression, and death of Palestinians and all else that the colony wishes to conquer.  Palestinians, whether in Occupied Palestine, in refugee camps in bordering nations, or in the diaspora around the world, are forced every single day to wrestle with the reality of this settler colonial violence. The very existence of the Zionist project poses an existential threat to the lives of millions, who have in some cruel twist of reality been deemed existential threats by the project for the simple reason that their existence undermines its legitimacy.  This violence does not occur without resistance. Throughout history, whether it be in Algeria, South Africa, Ireland, or Palestine, colonized people have risen up in the face of brutal violence to free themselves from the shackles of their own oppression. This resistance does not generally start as armed struggle, but through civil disobedience, protests, general strikes, and similar tactics. Yet when these tactics fail, as they often have, or when exceptional violence is waged against the people in response, armed struggle becomes a necessity. 

[keep reading]

[dzthenerd490]

News Post

Palestine

“No excuse” for FIFA, UEFA silence over Israeli fan violence | Israel-Palestine conflict | Al Jazeera

Palestinian villages threatened by new Israeli settlement drive (newarab.com)

Pro-Palestinian activists’ anger at Democrats hasn’t been dampened by Trump’s election | CNN Politics

In Poland, where criticising Israel remains taboo, Gaza solidarity rises | Israel-Palestine conflict News | Al Jazeera

Ukraine

Live updates: Ukraine-Russia war, US allows Kyiv to make long-range missile strikes into Russia | CNN

Moscow warns the US over allowing Ukraine to hit Russian soil with longer-range weapons | AP News

What we know about North Korean troops in Ukraine (bbc.com)

Sudan

Is there any way to stop the war in Sudan? | Sudan war | Al Jazeera

They fled war, now female Sudanese refugees say they’re being forced to have sex to survive | Africanews

Sudan's civil war forces women into Chad camps where they face sexual exploitation | AP News

The smugglers and miners running gold on the Egypt-Sudan border | Middle East Eye

Lebanon

Israeli forces blow up Shrine of Shimon in south Lebanon (newarab.com)

LIVE: Israeli forces kill 76 in a day in Gaza, ramp up attacks in Lebanon | Israel-Palestine conflict News | Al Jazeera

Israeli troops make deepest incursion so far into southern Lebanon as Hezbollah considers fresh ceasefire proposal | CNN

US awaits Lebanon response to Hezbollah-Israel ceasefire plan (bbc.com)

Syria

Assad is sitting tight as Syria burns (ft.com)

Syria: Fifteen killed in Israeli strikes on Damascus, state media say | CNN

Humanitarian situation in Syria remains dire - Vatican News

[allegraforchrist]

Lord I pray for Palestine. I pray for Israel. I pray for Congo, Sudan, Yemen, Syria, South Africa, Lebanon and America. I pray for the leaders who are wicked to be pull down, and leaders who are Godly to be raised up. I pray that the heads of these snakes be cut down, and the enemy be put to justice, and the evil be dealt under your hand of vengeance. I pray for those who are deceased, and the survivors to be rescued under you God. I pray for the grieved and lost, I pray for those fighting in arms. I pray for the protestors of all sides to seek solidarity in you. I pray for a ceasefire. I pray for the liberation of the oppressed and persecuted. I pray for the world to turn to you. In Jesus name, Amen.

[bloghrexach]

🇵🇸 … “From the olives of Palestine, we stand in solidarity with the cedars of the south of Lebanon.

Our enemy is one: the enemy of humanity and humankind, the enemy that kills children in Gaza and kills children in Lebanon.”— 🇱🇧

Art work/words by: @malik_qraiqea … @hrexach