Pal girl at GRM shot by Israeli sniper (Basem Naim) Sept 2 2018
The top photo is a Palestinian girl raising the Palestinian flag at the Great Return March last Friday; the bottom photo is the same young girl after being shot by an Israeli sniper. There is no report yet on her condition. A female medic named Shorouq Abu Mosameh who a sniper shot in the chest has died from her wound. Gaza’s health minister reports that Israeli snipers injured 180 unarmed protesters at the Great Return March on Friday, including a 10-year-old child & 59 others rushed to hospitals for serious injuries. The others were treated in field hospitals. Overall, 16 children were injured. Hundreds of others suffered tear gas inhalation. In the entire month of August, Israeli snipers killed 17 Palestinian protesters at the Great Return March, including four children, as well as one protesting settlements in the occupied West Bank & one Palestinian citizen of Israel.

Zionists have the official narrative so tied up that this kind of barbarism doesn’t even make the news & Palestinians continue to be depicted as terrorists, thus allowing genocide to accelerate at a ferocious pace. One of the primary reasons for the censorship binge on social media is to make sure the prevailing narrative is not contradicted by images like this & by the truth. As the genocide against Palestinians accelerates, so must our campaigns in their defense, particularly public protests & building the economic & cultural boycott of Israel.

(Photos from Basem Naim on Twitter)

Kashmiri disappeared poster Aug 31 2018

“Between 8,000 to 10,000 Kashmiris have been disappeared since 1989.
For years now we create photo montages & protests to let this world know about our agony. The test of patience and perseverance doesnt seem to end. We are left with hope only and our hope lies in justice. And the justice we seek lies not in forgetting the past but in remembering those who should never be forgotten.” #DisappearedOfKashmir
We protest forcible disappearances to stop the vile practice & to demand an accounting of every person disappeared by the Indian occupying army.”

–Zafar Iqbal

A Kashmiri friend reports that he was only 8-years-old the first time he was interrogated by Indian occupation authorities. Children’s resistance in war, occupation, & genocide terrifies the oppressors because every new generation must be violently inculcated into accepting inequality & tyranny. Solidarity isn’t a stinking noblesse oblige thing but a child protection issue.

88,000 American women & children go missing every year, the majority of them Black, Latino, & Native American. And now there is a backlash against the #MeToo movement called #HeToo which is litigating discrimination against men. There is no nice way to respond to such idiocy & misogyny except with ridicule & contempt. So long as women & children, Blacks, Latinos, Native Americans, other ethnicities, Muslims, oppressed castes, LGBT, & others are special targets of violence & social hatred, that is how long so-called identity politics will be necessary to formulate political & social defense against that oppression. If you don’t get that, contact the local #HeToo movement for a membership card. It comes with a sign you paste on your forehead saying “dumb-ass.”

Photo collage of disappeared of Kashmir
Today is International Day of the Disappeared 2018. Nearly 50 countries practice forcible disappearance & in the past several decades tens of thousands have been been abducted, tortured, murdered, dumped in mass graves, or stashed in secret prisons. It is a monstrous & deeply personal crime because there can be no resolution of the loss & grief until family members know what happened to their beloved. Going back as far as the thousands disappeared by the Franco regime in Spain during the 1930s & spreading across the globe during war, occupation, & genocide, including the Rohingya genocide in Burma, these photo collages have become a permanent form of protest & remembrance demanding regimes on every continent end forcible disappearance & make an accounting for the whereabouts of those disappeared.

This photo collage includes some of the nearly 10,000 Kashmiris, young & old, disappeared since 1989. Parveena Ahangar, Parvez Imroz, Khurram Parvez, & other Kashmiri activists play a leading role internationally in the political battles against forcible disappearance & we should take a moment to honor them for their work.

(Photographer not identified)

A Kashmiri family told Indian occupying forces to ‘get out’ after soldiers fired inside their family home. “Why did you fire inside,” one family member asked, “there’s no militant inside.”

(Tweeted by With Kashmir @WithKashmir)

School children in Musafer Yatta after Israel destroyed school Aug 30 2018
Another picture from occupied Palestine worth a thousand lies: after Israeli occupation forces destroyed their school, Palestinian school children in the town of Musafer Yatta begin their school year this way.

(Photo posted by Motasem A Dalloul @AbujomaaGaza on Twitter)

This is a lovely video tribute to Parveena Ahangar & to her work in Kashmir with other parents whose sons & other family members have been forcibly disappeared by the Indian occupying army. She is the co-founder & chairperson of the Association of Parents of Disappeared Persons (APDP). The disappearance of her own teenage son Javed Ahmad on August 18th, 1990 “changed everything” for her, transforming her from what she describes as a “shy person” into the leader of a movement. We should take a moment to honor her contributions in Kashmir & to the international campaign to end forcible disappearance practiced in nearly 50 countries.

https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-asia-india-45328329/the-woman-searching-for-kashmir-s-disappeared?SThisFB

Pope Francis (Reuters:Tony Gentile) Aug 29 2018
Pope Francis was just accused by an archbishop & former top Vatican official of covering up sex abuse in the Catholic Church for years, particularly that of serial predator US Cardinal Theodore McCarrick who was just forced to resign. The archbishop who served as an apostolic nuncio (papal ambassador) in Washington DC detailed his accusations in an 11-page letter published in an American Catholic newspaper & other media where he demanded the pope’s resignation. When asked by reporters about the accusations, Francis did the Vatican quick-step, a dodge & bob move that he is becoming so noted for when he isn’t doing his humble pie routine. The Attorney General of Pennsylvania also just reported that the cover-up of 301 priest sexual abusers in that state goes all the way to the Vatican.

Whilst in Ireland, Francis had the utter temerity to ask for forgiveness for prelate child sexual assault. What our man does not apparently understand is that he is in no position to ask for forgiveness for such monstrous crimes against children when he has done nothing worthy to address this crisis of criminality among priests & the highest prelates in the church. Before we ever get to the question of forgiveness, there is a matter of justice, of the Vatican stopping the cover-ups & turning its molesters over to authorities for prosecution. If the Vatican ever wants to clean up this mess of pedophilia, it will have to come to terms with the misogyny that has governed its attitude & policies toward women for decades, including the role of women in the church & its opposition to reproductive rights for women.

http://www.ncregister.com/daily-news/ex-nuncio-accuses-pope-francis-of-failing-to-act-on-mccarricks-abuse

(Photo of Francis by Tony Gentile/Reuters)