These deeply poignant photos are the mother of baby Laila Al-Ghandour, the 8-month-old infant who died of tear gas suffocation at the Great Return March. The Zionist vilification machine has moved into action attempting to deflect the massacre of unarmed civilian protesters by Israeli snipers into a Hamas provocation. Instead of firing rockets into Israel, Hamas is now urging Palestinians to throw themselves against the apartheid barrier that makes Gaza a penitentiary. There are never new lows in Zionism’s racist attacks on Palestinians. To stand steadfast in defense of Palestinians, think of this mother’s grief in the face of those monstrous lies.
Now there are voices protesting because Palestinians brought their children to the march. It isn’t just that genocide denies childhood to Palestinians. But who would have expected, even of genocidal Israel, that snipers would stand across the barrier & mow down unarmed protesters, including children, medics, journalists?
Stand with Palestinians by building the economic & cultural boycott. Check every label to make sure its country of origin is not Israel.
Just so we never get confused about the problematic political character of Human Rights Watch, its executive director Kenneth Roth said: “Yes, Hamas is at fault for encouraging protesters to rush the fortified Gaza border fences. Well entrenched Israeli snipers blithely played along by killing 58 of them. Which is the more severe crime?” There is so much objectionable about this but the worst is dehumanizing Palestinians as though they were lemmings throwing themselves against a fence when Hamas barks an order. To make a parity between unarmed peaceful protesters & snipers shooting them down is simply unspeakable. Shame on that stupid fool who presumes to understand human rights but dares not call out Israel for a massacre.
Only an Assadist like Carla Ortiz would go to Yarmouk refugee camp to gloat over a horrific slaughter in full makeup & false eyelashes. There’s something so unseemly about that.
The boogieman tripe of Assadist propaganda could not be highlighted more than in contrast with the brilliant political thought presented here by Sadik Abdul Rahman & Yassin Swehat.
The silencing of Arab voices, specifically Syrian voices, in deference to white hired propagandists also silences the voices of Palestinian refugees in Syria. Their refugee camps have been bombed, they are locked out of Jordan, treated shabbily in Lebanon, vilified as terrorists elsewhere. We don’t know what has happened to most of those refugees. They were already locked out of Palestinian political life by the Oslo Accords which legitimized occupation & expropriation. As Israel continues to take Palestine, there is obviously no place for refugees to return & it is reported that Syria has developed plans for Yarmouk & other refugee camps once they are cleared of Palestinians. That makes the demands of the Great Return March monumentally important.
Refugee rights, as the Great Return March posited, is a central issue of Palestinian justice.
Assad propagandists who leech off Palestinian solidarity for credentials don’t give a damn about freedom for Palestinians. Not any more than KKK guy & white supremacist David Duke does though he has made videos on the issue. Their sole motivation is credentials for aligning with fascism & Assad & for a way to have a go at Jews. That is written all over their propaganda & diatribes.
South Carolina just passed a bill which defines criticism of Israel in public schools & universities as anti-Semitism. Palestinian solidarity is now a civil liberties issue in the US.
Syrian & Russian “liberation” of Eastern Ghouta: those who do not stand against Syrian, Russian, & US-coalition bombing of civilians have no right to call themselves antiwar. There are no humanitarian or progressive military interventions & those who claim there are have rocks in their heads or are morally & politically bankrupt.
A word to Assad propagandists & their guppies: if you claim you support Palestinians against Israeli genocide but support or remain silent on Syrian extermination of Palestinians in Yarmouk refugee camp because it is for the greater good of Assad’s national sovereignty & anyway they were either Hamas or ISIS, do consider that a braying jackass does not make good political commentary.
(Where are Beavis & Butthead on this question? Bartlett & Beeley are too busy denouncing the White Helmets as terrorists to comment on the annihilation of Palestinians at Yarmouk. Although Bartlett claimed a while ago that Yarmouk is all ISIS.)
