Watch a conversation with Diana Buttu (a Palestinian-Canadian lawyer and a former spokesperson for the Palestine Liberation Organization) about the support of the United States to the israeli escalations: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asETBWThM0g

(with Spanish subtitles)

UN expert Francesca Albanese spoke to the UN Palestinian Rights Committee on 31 October 2024. She called on all States to examine their relationships and avoid being #complicit in the crime of genocide being committed by Israel on the Palestinian people in Gaza.

UN report: "Genocide as colonial erasure": https://www.un.org/unispal/document/genocide-as-colonial-erasure-report-francesca-albanese-01oct24/

@palestine

"Israeli atrocities are nothing new. The only novelty is the scale"

Joseph Massad: https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/israeli-atrocities-are-nothing-new-only-novelty-scale

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ui2h_pHDDmk

oh gods. Fuck, man.

The most precarious place in the world to be a child: Israel’s year of war on children

by Tareq S. Hajjaj and Qassam Muaddi for @mondoweiss: https://mondoweiss.net/2024/09/the-most-precarious-place-in-the-world-to-be-a-child-israels-year-of-war-on-children/ @israel

[…]

"Thousands of children were killed? It’s the enemy’s fault. Our own children were killed? That is certainly the enemy’s fault. If Hamas carry out a massacre in a kibbutz, they are Nazis. If we drop 2,000-pound bombs on refugee shelters and kill hundreds of civilians, it’s Hamas’s fault for hiding close to these shelters. After what they did to us, we have no choice but to root them out. After what we did to them, we can only imagine what they would do to us if we don’t destroy them. We simply have no choice."

Omer Bartov: https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/aug/13/israel-gaza-historian-omer-bartov

"Unlike the majority of @israel -is these young people had seen the destruction of #Gaza with their own eyes. It seemed to me that they had not only internalised a particular view that has become commonplace in Israel – namely, that the destruction of Gaza as such was a legitimate response to 7 October – but had also developed a way of thinking that I had observed many years ago when studying the conduct, worldview and self-perception of German army soldiers in the second world war. Having internalised certain views of the enemy – the Bolsheviks as Untermenschen; Hamas as human animals – and of the wider population as less than human and undeserving of rights, soldiers observing or perpetrating atrocities tend to ascribe them not to their own military, or to themselves, but to the enemy."
…

Omer Bartov wrote about the need of Jewish Israelis to believe in their national morality and to nourish #victimhood:

"This is the logic of endless violence, a logic that allows one to destroy entire populations and to feel totally justified in doing so. It is a logic of victimhood – we must kill them before they kill us, as they did before – and nothing empowers violence more than a righteous sense of victimhood."

https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/aug/13/israel-gaza-historian-omer-bartov

"Of course, one day the indentured period would end and the servant would be free. That is one of the fundamental differences drawn between white indentured servitude and black slavery. One was a temporary condition; the other was perpetual. Except that huge numbers of white servants didn’t live to see the day of freedom. In the early days, the majority of servants died still in bondage. Moreover, the bulk of those who did outlive their servitude ended up no better than when they’d arrived. They would emerge from bondage landless and poor (p. 111)."
― Don Jordan and Michael Walsh, "White Cargo: The Forgotten History of Britain's White Slaves in America" (2007)