#western political hypocrisy

[focusonmy]

[hussyknee]

I woke up to the news about Refaat Alreer. I still feel cold. Imagine seeing someone talking on your TL every day, narrating what the genociders are doing, counting the dead and telling their stories, amplifying his colleagues in Palestinian activism and academia, advocating and pleading endlessly for a ceasefire, delivering blistering witticisms about Zionist propaganda and then...he and his whole family are dead.

Two of my favourite tweets by him, calling out the craven Western media for never naming Israel.

It feels like a funeral today. My whole TL full of his students and Palestinians mourning Refaat alongside writers and journalists and academics from all over the Global South. The only people who matter to us is us.

Meanwhile, Zionists are attacking us under our mourning tweets, circulating the tweet where he laughed at the monstrous lie of Hamas cooking a baby in an oven during Oct 7th, one of the lies that fuelled the slaughter that eventually killed him too.

This was his last tweet.

USAmerican disability activist Imani Barbarin's tweet today was partially motivated by Refaat's death.

I need to go offline for a while.

I leave you with Refaat's last poem that was his pinned tweet for over a month. When a storyteller dies, generations are robbed of universes. When a poet dies, the world loses a piece of its soul.

You can find Refaat's book "Gaza Writes Back" in my gdrive folder of Palestinian literature. I don't know where the royalties will go now, but please also try and find it in a bookstore or library.

[sonyaheaneyauthor]

13th July 2014: Vladimir Putin and German Chancellor Angela Merkel chat at the World Cup final.

russia had invaded Ukraine five months earlier.

Four days after this picture was taken russia shot down civilian flight MH17 over Donbas.

Merkel still refuses to express regret over her years of close ties to russia.

[ohsalome]

[simplegenius042]

https://www.instagram.com/p/DDxBCu-taWf/?img_index=5&igsh=MTBqOXNkbGpzdng2Nw==

[lavender-not-fruit43]

Can twitter like… Don’t fucking treating Ukrainians and Syrians like a punching back for five minutes??? Or do they live in world where palestine is the only country that exists in their minds and eyes??? God dammit I’m so so tired of this shit if it will getting happening again and again then I’ll just fucking straight up deleting all of my accounts here. Hospital literally got bombed days ago and y’all still think ukraine getting bazillion support of it??? I fucking hate y’all I can’t take this shit anymore

[nastylittleman]

One of the best explanations as to why the whole "US is threatening poor russia by expanding eastwards" narrative is a complete bs and an extremely harmful, egocentric and hypocritical take.

[troythecatfish]

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[nando161mando]

stonetoss is still Hans Kristian Graebener and he still lives at 4910 Hennington Drive, Spring Texas 77388

spread the word

[workersolidarity]

Oh the hypocrisy of the West knows no bounds!

[blackpilledkremlintsarina5294]

Former Israeli Government Minister Shulamit Aloni on Democracy Now

On 14 August 2002, former Israeli minister, Shulamit Aloni, said this on the US news program, Democracy Now:

"It is a trick; we always use it. When, from Europe, if someone is criticizing Israel, we bring up the Holocaust. When, in this country (USA), people are criticizing Israel then 'they are anti-Semitic'..

"And the organization is strong and has a lot of money and the ties between Israel and the American Jewish establishment are very strong and they are strong in this country..”

She continued, “They have power, money, media and other things and their attitude is Israel my country right or wrong... They are not ready to hear criticism. It is very easy to blame people who criticize certain acts of the Israeli government as anti-Semitic and to bring up the Holocaust and the suffering of the Jewish people and that 'justifies' everything we do to the Palestinians...."

[hussyknee]

Over the last 11 months, the US Biden-Harris Administration has funded and facilitated the murders of more UN employees than Al-Qaeda, ISIS, Boko Haram, and JNIM combined.

[sonyaheaneyauthor]

[ohsalome]

[supremechancellorrex]

I feel like the terms "illegitimate state" and "legitimate state" are misleading. I can't think of a single state that isn't built on some kind of bullshit. It's all essentially drawing lines on a map that "create" invisible, intangible ones on the ground, and playing geopolitics with annexed territory and history, from now to hundreds of years ago.

I'm not saying to not call out a state for unethical behaviour. But, if we single out one state for unethical behaviour by calling them an "illegitimate state" while pretending others with atrocities are "legitimate", we become hypocrites.

[lavender-not-fruit43]

I fucking swear to god if I’ll see someone again saying that ruzzia is a real country and saying israeli is not then I’ll just cut of my hands and jump from balcony and I’m not joking I am dead serious