This photo shows the utterly gratuitous & aggressive character of the Israeli occupation which denies civil liberties to Palestinians. It’s a picture worth a thousand lies.

Build the economic, cultural, & academic boycott of Israel & demand no aid of any kind to Israel.

(Photo by Majdi Mohammed/AP)

An estimated 850,000 Blacks showed up in Washington, & not just men, but women activists & teens responding to the violence against their communities around the US. Whatever the conservative intent of the organizers, it was a massive show of Black power.

Serendipitously, the O.J. Simpson verdict was rendered on October 3rd, 1995–an innocent verdict that stunned mostly white people across the US. His guilt or innocence is not important here. The verdict ignited a media onslaught against Blacks declaring the irreconcilable polarity of Blacks & whites in the US. Many whites, whose racism was previously chastened by the Civil Rights & Black Power Movements of the 1960s, began to speak openly of their hatred & distrust for Blacks. Since the US remains largely segregated, they were expressing profound ignorance & prejudice gleaned from TV, film, & other media representations.

And then, the Million Man March took place, just one week after the Simpson verdict. The cacophony of emboldened racism in media & among many whites stopped on a dime. Such is the daunting affect of Black power!

Photos of the 2015 march show young activists in Black Lives Matter (BLM) hoodies. A new generation of activists is emerging. While many parse the BLM movement looking for its political achilles heel, experienced activists know building a movement is a process of mistakes, fumbles, misdirections. What alone matters is organizing the commitment of the Black community to defend itself & its youth & to build the political structures of Black power.

A salute to Black political power!

When we say “We are all Palestinians,” it is not only to render solidarity with them but to honor them as our teachers in what it takes to finally end colonialism, racism, exploitation, social hatreds of all kinds & to make this world suitable for human beings to live & love in, a world where we live as brothers & sisters.

Build the economic, cultural, & academic boycott of Israel & render every possible solidarity to the Palestinian struggle.

(Top photo by Mussa Issa Qawasma/Reuters; bottom photo by Yasser Gdeeh/Reuters/TPX)

The caption goes on to say that “increasing protests by Israel’s own Arab minority has raised fears of the unrest spiraling further out of control.” You see how that works? The Israeli military & extremist thugs lay siege for weeks to the Noble Sanctuary & attempt to vandalize Al-Aqsa mosque; assault Palestinians with rubber-coated metal bullets, stun grenades, pepper & tear gas all over East Jerusalem & the West Bank; shoot down at least 20 Palestinian protesters & injure 1,000; fatally shoot protesters across the apartheid fence in Gaza–but when Palestinians protest the violence & aggression, they are ‘spiraling out of control’.

Emergency rallies are imperative across this globe demanding no aid of any kind to Israel & that Israel end the occupation. Build the boycott of Israel to stand solidly with our Palestinian brothers & sisters. We are all Palestinians!

(Photo by Nasser Shiyoukhi/AP)

But it doesn’t matter whether the Palestinians in Gaza threw rocks or not. They could stand there twirling hula hoops or doing pirouettes in tutus & the Israeli military would consider a gathering defiance because what they are trying to crush is Intifada–the spirit of popular rebellion against colonialism & apartheid. Since they haven’t been able to crush it in Gaza after three carpet bombing sieges, Israel recognizes it has a problem–especially in the face of growing BDS.

In an act that surely violates umpteen international laws governing occupation & dealing with unarmed civilians, Israeli troops began firing across the fence at protesters. An army spokesperson said the soldiers “fired at the main instigators in order to halt their advance & disperse the riot.” And Reuters ate that up & published it as the gospel truth.

Six Palestinians were killed & at least 13 more were injured. Reuters tried to soften the blow of shooting down unarmed people by saying “the Islamist movement Hamas is calling for more unrest.” And damn well they should! There needs to be unrest all over this planet against Israeli soldiers shooting down unarmed protesters giving the victory sign.

The photo is the protest fired on by Israeli soldiers.

We stand with our brothers & sisters in Gaza. We are all Palestinians!

Build the boycott of Israel & pull out the forces of solidarity in emergency rallies demanding no aid of any kind to apartheid Israel.

(Photo by Mohammed Abed/AFP/Getty Images)

On the same news day, Reuters had a headline saying: “US says it considers violent acts against Israel as terrorism.” John Kirby from the US State Department tried to talk out of both sides of his ass when he said the US “condemns in the strongest possible terms violence against both Israeli & Palestinian citizens.” But then he continued his flatulent condemnation by saying the US considers the violence, the “stabbings & killings there, particularly in East Jerusalem, as terrorism.”

After the bombing of the hospital in Afghanistan, does the US have a moral leg to stand on to condemn anything, anywhere, anyhow? More importantly, what about the killings & shootings & barbarisms against Palestinians at Al-Aqsa, in East Jerusalem, Gaza, the West Bank? What about the marauding death squads in the West Bank, the deputized thugs with assault weapons going after Palestinians with sling shots?

There’s only one way to cut the crap on all this & that is to hold emergency rallies around the world in defense of Palestinians demanding no aid to apartheid Israel & to build the hell out of the economic, cultural, & academic boycott of Israel (BDS).

(Photo by Mussa Issa Qawasma)