Many media commentators are doing obituaries for the two-state solution. It’s about time for the obits since it was dead in the water from its inception. After this crisis has passed, they’ll resurrect its dead ass again because the delusion of two states as a solution serves so well to deceive & temporizes Palestinian justice. The only possible enduring solution is that proposed by Palestinian activists a long time ago: a democratic, secular state where Palestinians & Jews can live as brothers & sisters.

At least two more Kashmiri Twitter accounts (one using the ironic hash tag #Kexit) were notified by Twitter’s legal department of a formal complaint by the Indian government claiming their posts violate Indian law. The more India tries to shut down the voices of Kashmiris on social media, the more that solidarity activists have to stand in for them until we figure out how to combat censorship on social media.

Standing with Palestinians does not mean standing against Jews. The current provocations over Jerusalem do not justify a free-for-all of anti-Semitic comments–at least on my wall. If you post any aspersions about Jews, they’ll be cut after your 15 seconds of shame. You have to learn what to hate in politics & if it’s other people, you’re barking up the wrong tree. Most likely it means you don’t understand what the struggle against Zionism is all about since progressive Jews have always been a leading part of that struggle. The elaborations of Zionist ideology as racist & supremacist & the struggle of Palestinians against Israeli colonialism come precisely from Palestinian as well as Jewish American & Israeli activists. Both anti-Semitism & Islamophobia are a political syphilis that cannot be accommodated in the politics of social transformation.

A 6-month-old infant was seriously injured & 25 others, including children & elderly, were injured by Israeli bombing of Gaza today. There isn’t yet a final report on fatalities but one grief-stricken man whose son was killed by an airstrike cried over his son’s body “Please God, let me kiss him one more time.”

Shove that US-brokered peace process. Protest in solidarity with Palestinians & build BDS.

Moving the US embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem & declaring Jerusalem the capital of Israel is not just a symbolic & inflammatory gesture to support Israel. Nor does it catastrophically undermine the US-brokered peace process between Israel & the Palestinians. There is no such peace process but only an ongoing diplomatic dog & pony show to legitimize Israeli colonialism, settlements, ethnic cleansing. The US cannot talk about brokering a peace process while it bankrolls Israeli militarism to occupy the West Bank, East Jerusalem, & repeatedly carpet bomb Gaza.

The US negotiated the Camp David Accords to neutralize Egypt’s support for Palestinians in return for arming the Sadat regime against the Egyptian people. The US negotiated the Oslo Accords as a legal framework to legitimize colonialism & lay out the terms of Palestinian surrender. It sounds like sarcasm & mockery that Trump put Jared Kushner in charge of the peace process when his family bankrolls illegal settlements in the West Bank but it is fully in accord with US policy for Israel & the Palestinians. It is unlikely that Trump was acting on his own since Israel functions as a military fortress for the US against democracy in the Middle East.

Many commentators claim the Trump declaration was driven by lowbrow attempts to appeal to his political base of rightwing Christian evangelicals who support Israel, American Zionists, & Sheldon Adelson, the Zionist who donated $25 million to the Trump campaign. The move may coincidentally be to Trump’s advantage but it is most likely that US policymakers are using Trump’s venality & corruption to escalate the appropriation of the West Bank, East Jerusalem, & Gaza by Israel using the occupation & Oslo Accords.

Palestinians are not protesting a symbolic gesture but a deadly-serious escalation of Israeli colonialism in collaboration with the US. Our response to this maneuver must be to mobilize across the globe demanding the US, Europe, & Middle East regimes cease collaboration with Israel & end the funding of occupation & colonialism.

Photo is women in Gaza protesting Trump’s provocation.

(Photo is from AP Images/REX Shutterstock)

Protesters in Srinagar, Kashmir burn effigy of Trump to protest his provocation of Palestinians. Kashmiris know better than anyone about the living hell of military occupation & colonialism.

(Photo by Danish Ismail/Reuters)

There are protests all over the world in solidarity with Palestinians & burning the effigy of Trump & Netanyahu. Some of those cities identified are in Tunisia, Bahrain, Turkey, Kashmir, Pakistan, Jordan, Somalia, Ireland, Indonesia, the US, Egypt, Malaysia, Lebanon, Israel, UK, & more to come. Take Intifada international.

Palestinian version of the Black community’s “Hands up, don’t shoot.”

These are the Palestinians being accused of feverish, irrational violence when they rise up to protest occupation, the expropriation of lands & razing of whole villages to make room for illegal settlements, kidnapping & constant violence against youth, massive incarceration including of kids, attempts to expropriate & destroy Al Aqsa mosque compound in East Jerusalem.

What is irrational is the Zionist belief that if they maximize violence & repression of Palestinians, they will destroy Intifada.

Long live Palestinian Intifada. Build BDS.

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This is the older man threatened by an assault rifle while protesting near Al Aqsa mosque compound in occupied East Jerusalem. Intifada is ageless. But then so is the grieving from fighting one’s whole life for freedom from colonialism, apartheid, ethnic cleansing.

Long live Palestinian Intifada.