The burning of tires to thwart the movement of Israeli troops in the West Bank protecting the aggressions of illegal settlers is probably considered violent Palestinian resistance to occupation. It’s actually a brilliant way of working with what you’ve got to fight expropriation & ethnic cleansing.
Long live Palestinian Intifada. Their struggle is our struggle because suffering humanity around the world are heartened by such fearless commitment to justice & freedom.
(Photo from Twitter)
Neturei Karta USA is an Orthodox Jewish group opposed to Zionism & long active in solidarity with Palestinians all over the world although they originated in Palestine before the establishment of Israel. They are well aware of their important role in refuting the belief promoted by Zionist organizations that anti-Zionism–that is opposition to a Jewish-only state–is a form of hating on Jews.
Many activists have been disoriented by demonizing Zionists & hating on Israelis; some of these have found their way into Assadist politics since venom toward anyone is a poor guide in politics. Political wisdom is trying to understand what it is about Zionist ideology that has a hold on so many without making a single concession to its malignancy as an elitist, supremacist alternative to joining with the international fight against racism & colonialism, & a strategy of taking the easy, rightwing way out by becoming colonizers rather than freedom fighters against the persecution of Jews.
Our deepest respect to NKUSA.
(Photo from a NYC rally)
Two Israeli women soldiers “manhandling” a Palestinian woman: a rebuttal to the claim that women soldiers will humanize war & occupation. Who stands for women’s liberation here? The ones packing assault rifles with a mandate to kill? Or the woman standing unarmed against colonialism, occupation, ethnic cleansing?
Long live Palestinian Intifada.
(Photo from Twitter)
Since Palestinians & Kashmiris are vilified as terrorists to discredit their freedom struggles, a comment on one of my posts is particularly cogent. They stand unarmed against brutal military occupations & have a right to defend themselves & their children by any & every means necessary–whether two-bit moralists like it or not:
“In 1936 Palestinians held the longest strike in history against the British mandate & the Zionist program in Palestine. Our history is full of examples of nonviolence resistance. And, Palestinians have used violent resistance as it is their legitimate right & clearly a necessary form of resistance against this fascist force. Questioning the methods of resistance of the colonized & dispossessed, & attempting to constrain it are always done by those on the side of the oppressor.”
–Wael Buhaissy
The grieving pregnant wife of Firdous Ahmad who was murdered by Indian occupying forces August 1st, 2017.
The 4-star general is now running the White House. Call it a “soft coup” if you like, as the libertarians do, but Trump is no longer in charge of the West Wing. The guy who thought he could bully & bravado his way through power will now learn how ruthlessly US capitalism is really run.
It’s the libertarians who defend Trump & blither about Russiagate who are being left in the dust.
What do you bet those who really run the US moved in the 4-star general as Trump’s chief of staff? Enough fiasco! He’s there to straighten Trump out. Or else. The imaginary deep state triumphs. We await the day they escort out Kellyanne Conway, that Scarmucci creep, & eventually the dipshit-in-chief.
We have to do a Facebook wall appealing to or shaming Bryan Adams to honor the cultural boycott of Israel. The Palestinian BDS committee would put it in a more diplomatic way but we have several months to build a campaign to put the screws on him. Just so we don’t duplicate efforts & come up with more than one page, we can take a while to see what leading BDS organizations come up with to convince him to honor the boycott.
Radiohead front man Thom Yorke is an amoral meathead so when he calls the cultural boycott of Israel offensive & performs in Tel Aviv, that’s to be expected. But what do we call Bryan Adams who has scheduled two performances in Israel next December?
In August 2014 after seven weeks of Israeli carpet bombing laying waste to Gaza, Adams tweeted: “I can’t speak for others, I only speak for myself: I say the war against Gaza was a crime against humanity.” In the same thread he added: “The Israeli blockade of #Gaza just entered its 8th year, leaving its 1.7 million inhabitants destitute” & he went on to protest Israel “for murdering 2000+ people…541 kids” in Gaza.
A few weeks earlier he tweeted to protest then Canadian prime minister Stephen Harper’s support for Israel: “Still waiting for the Canadian PM to denounce Israel’s disgraceful war against Gaza.” & “The UK PM is sending 20M in aid to #Gaza. Where is Canada’s support for the Palestinian people? #gazachildren.”
Three years later, with Gaza on the point of collapse, Adams announced two performances in Israel, one in Jerusalem where Israeli soldiers have been laying siege to the Al Aqsa compound & one in Tel Aviv which is close enough to Gaza that it will provide the sound track to ethnic cleansing of Palestinians. Appropriate epithets to describe Adams fail. Meathead doesn’t cut it. Neither does contemptible. What can possibly suffice to describe a man who knows what Israel is doing in Gaza & the West Bank & chooses to cash in on it? Even dirtball falls shy.
Support the cultural boycott of Israel in defense of Palestinians.
(Photo is the dirtball Adams)
The Forward, a liberal Zionist publication, published an article titled “The Al Aqsa Protests Prove That Palestinian Nonviolence Has Arrived” by Palestinian Issa Amro. Amro begins the article: “My dream has always been to see my people in a mass movement of nonviolent resistance” & he describes the prayer protests in East Jerusalem against the occupation of the Al Aqsa compound. It’s an article worth reading from an activist in the West Bank but it is deeply misguided & conciliatory. It is not unarmed Palestinians who are violent but the Israeli military.
Amro apparently wants Palestinians to adopt the civil disobedience politics of Gandhi & Martin Luther King, Jr. How would that work out in Gaza with the blockade putting it on the point of collapse, without medical care, electricity, sewage systems, & living amidst rubble because the homes are all bombed to smithereens? How would that work out during Israel’s frequent carpet bombing sieges?
How would that passive stuff work out when settlers contaminate water wells, torch mosques, pull up olive trees, or when Israeli bulldozers mow down entire villages?
How does self-defense come across as violence to Amro? What are protesters in the West Bank supposed to do when Israeli soldiers come at them with bulldozers, tear gas, stun grenades? Stand in the path of those bulldozers peacefully? Like Rachel Corey did?
Get real! Palestinians have a right to defend themselves by any means necessary.
This young man is one of 160 Palestinian (30 under the age of 18) prayer protesters arrested during Al-Aqsa protests.