Israel/Palestine post 10/7 - follow-on events/thoughts as relate to other countries

I long for the day when Israelis and Palestinians only ever beef one another about hummus.

BREAKING: Yesterday, the Presbyterian Church (USA) voted to divest from Israel bonds and denounce Christian Zionism, citing human rights abuses against Palestinians.https://t.co/2g4wtEMqor

— IMEU (@theIMEU) July 2, 2024

Allright!

An unsurprising if trenchant essay on PEN America’s imperialist fantasia.

https://www.communitymausoleum.org/coma-journal/pen-america-cultural-imperialism-avant-garde

This is excellent https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4m1aDlglA-k

These are just claims but it seems totally plausible and totally fucked up!!

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cger582weplo

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/7/19/adidas-drops-bella-hadid-from-campaign-referencing-1972-munich-olympics

"In 2020, Instagram was forced to apologise to Hadid after she criticised the social media platform for removing a post she shared that showed a picture of her father’s passport with his birthplace listed as Palestine."

adidas dropping her is unbelievably stupid

Six national unions with a combined membership comprising nearly half of all union members in the US have made public a letter sent to President Biden calling for an embargo on delivery of all military aid to Israel because of its continued violation of international law pic.twitter.com/xFTuK3ZOHp

— Jamie Partridge (@jamiep72061) July 23, 2024

love to see it

AFL-CIO needs to be on that letter imo but not bad

this is p trivial but also super enraging: https://hyperallergic.com/936751/tv-show-fbi-most-wanted-bizarre-mock-gaza-encampment-draws-protests-in-nyc/

(the url is slightly misleading in that the for-TV staged protest is about climate change; even the copaganda tv series won't say Palestine lol)

lol at the "Make Earth Great Again" banner

tbh I would join the MEGA movement

Joining me in the chamber today is Hani Almadhoun, who has lost over 150 members of his extended family in Netanyahu’s genocide. After witnessing his sister forced to eat animal feed, he and his family were determined to start a soup kitchen to feed their starving neighbors. pic.twitter.com/H5Wtj2N1Ql

— Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib (@RepRashida) July 24, 2024

https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/uk-says-they-wont-object-icc-arrest-warrant-netanyahu

"British Prime Minister Keir Starmer will drop the UK's objection to an arrest warrant being issued by the International Criminal Court (ICC) for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, saying it was a matter for the court."

https://nationalpost.com/news/cra-jewish-national-fund-charitable-status

The Canada Revenue Agency has notified the century-old Jewish National Fund that it plans to revoke the group’s charitable status in Canada over support for military infrastructure in Israel, a decision the JNF says it will challenge in the courts.

The JNF claims the CRA changed the rules for charitable donations, long after the organization’s work had been approved.

I was reading about Harris's statement about the anti-Netanyahu protests in DC here: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/kamala-harris-american-flag-burning-union-station-dc-hamas-israel/

That article says "Vice President Kamala Harris condemned demonstrators who voiced support for Hamas and burned an American flag near the U.S. Capitol to protest Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's address to Congress." The bolded part is a link to this article, which contains zero references to anyone voicing support for Hamas. A Reuters piece mentions pro-Hamas "graffiti" but has no photos -- is there a credible source for this somewhere?

Not that it particularly matters given what was happening inside the Capitol tbh, but I'm curious how disingenuous her statement was and, beyond KH, how much effort is going into whitewashing Bibi's repugnant speech and Congress hosting a baldly dishonest justification and grotesque celebration of genocide normal

missed the link to the second article: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/netanyahu-address-congress-police-deploy-pepper-spray-washington-dc/

I also think the fact the people arrested inside the gallery were hostage family members has been overlooked: https://www.axios.com/2024/07/24/netanyahu-speech-guests-arrested-charged-t-shirts

There was a graffiti on a statue that said “Hamas is coming” or something dumb.

ah

Two of my friends have daughters with Capitol Hill internships; one of the girls went to the protest and reckons the US flag burners were agents provocateur because nobody saw them at a march before and nobody’s seen them since.

who cares? the flag should be burned more!

people don't like it? fuck em

So many people on either side of the water who are involved in planning demonstrations and marches supporting Palestinians are very careful about having all their ducks in a row so that when someone ‘new’ turns up with a flag and a can of lighter fluid to burn it with, it is rightly seen as possible cop behaviour.

IOW the NYPD that were shipped in to cover the protests alongside the DC Park Police are at least as devious as the Metropolitan Police here in London :)

i've been involved in movements for years, i get it, but snitch-jacketing is also a thing that happens. not every new person is a cop.

pic.twitter.com/XvvfB51cGN

— Anwar El Ghazi (@elghazi1995) July 31, 2024

Japan: Ambassadors of U.S., U.K., France, Italy and Australia will skip the August 8 Nagasaki peace ceremony after the mayor disinvited Israel. https://t.co/WQYwiPnIkE

— 🇵🇸🇯🇵Thoton Akimoto (@AkimotoThn) August 7, 2024

Skipping the celebration/remembrance of the past victims of one of last century's greatest crimes against humanity... over the exclusion of the perpetrators of THIS century's genocidal crime against humanity. The sheer, hypocritical evil of all this is so suffocating man.

is that picture AI generated or an illustration?

I appreciate the moral clarity of those countries taking this stand: their allegiance to Israel cannot be diminished for any reason whatsoever, Israel has carte blanche to commit any atrocity, and any public statement of regret about these countries' own historic acts of mass violence are complete bullshit. yes, I already knew all that, but it's instructive to see it at work in something as relatively small and symbolic as a peace ceremony to which the US prob shouldn't be invited in the first place

@tomD

Palestinadelica - joyful resistance in the game of football

Only available at https://t.co/EJglBfssW8 pic.twitter.com/C08Kk8f8Ss

— Primal Scream (@ScreamOfficial) August 8, 2024

Who better to embody joyful resistance than Boaby G?

Yet the heart of the Palestine exception is not simply the crude denial of Palestinian history and humanity. More significant is the constant overwriting of this history by a different one: that of modern European antisemitism, with which the Western academy is deeply familiar (Jewish scholars were, of course, once barred from many of the same Ivy League institutions that now crack down on Palestine solidarity encampments). With this act of substitution, the ongoing reality of Palestinian slaughter is erased from ethical consideration. Palestinians and allied students, including Jewish anti-Zionists, protesting apartheid and genocide are presented as anachronistic ‘antisemites’ by a liberal (and, interestingly enough, by the increasingly ‘conservative’ and right-wing) West which has supposedly outgrown its historic Judeophobia. By the same token, supporters of the state that carries out genocide, or those who identify with its ideology, are cast as victims in need of institutional and police protection.

Beneath this distorted discourse is the West’s selective commitment to philosemitism: its professed love of Judaism and the Jewish people, which it views as necessary to atone for its record of racism and prejudice against them. Philosemitism has, in turn, been conflated with philozionism: support for Israel’s ethno-nationalist state ideology. As a result, contemporary Palestinian subjugation has been obscured by a narrative that presents historical Jewish victimhood as more consequential, and the state of Israel as a safeguard against it. By this means, ‘fighting antisemitism’ often implies erasing Palestine, not talking about Palestinians, not acknowledging that there can be no ethical consideration of contemporary Zionism without centring the Palestinian experience of subjugation at the hands of the self-proclaimed Jewish state of Israel. This is a disastrous outcome for anyone invested in the genuine and conjoined struggle against anti-Jewish and anti-Palestinian racism.

https://newleftreview.org/sidecar/posts/overwriting-palestine?

Another attack at a school. Billions more in arms sales to Israel approved.

https://www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty-issues/academic-freedom/2024/08/12/aaup-ends-two-decade-opposition-academic-boycotts

oof fall is going to be really stupid isn't it: https://www.universityherald.com/articles/79188/20240812/columbia-barnard-college-deletes-post-israel-palestine-summer-internship-student-backlash.htm

two headlines, same day:

US approves $20 billion Israel weapons package, including fighter jets:
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/blinken-approves-sale-israel-military-equipment-worth-over-20-bln-2024-08-13/

Gaza's girls cut off their hair for lack of combs:
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/gazas-girls-cut-off-their-hair-lack-combs-2024-08-13/

Audience members at the DNC in Chicago unfurl banner that says “Stop arming Israel.”

After audience sees the banner, they begin chanting “We love Joe.”

Man tries to rip banner away.

Stadium lights over this spot then dimmed and banner was ripped away. pic.twitter.com/3RfK1aUSV4

— Prem Thakker (@prem_thakker) August 20, 2024

https://www.jta.org/2024/08/21/united-states/george-washington-u-suspends-jewish-voice-for-peace-chapter-as-colleges-prepare-for-resurgence-of-israel-protests

the DNC is wild for this one. just racist to the core. i mean they let trump’s former press secretary up there ffs https://t.co/ovhulhczVP

— vibe instructor✌🏾🐝 (@Vanessa_ABee) August 22, 2024

the lowest bar possible and they won't step over it

Is Kamala's strategy just going to be to pretend Palestine doesn't exist for the next three months

That sounds about right.

The few ppl that have done anything

BREAKING: Five actionists were sentenced to prison today after they occupied and cost Thales' weapons factory in Glasgow over £1million.

For disrupting Scotland's complicity in colonialism and genocide, three were given 12 months and two were given 14 and 16 month sentences.… pic.twitter.com/5Uef9v6sxa

— Palestine Action (@Pal_action) August 20, 2024

Callous.

DNC attendees cover their ears as the names of dead Palestinian children are read as they leave the convention pic.twitter.com/9bueCbFeEr

— BreakThrough News (@BTnewsroom) August 22, 2024

whenever I see someone post something like "we have all seen the photos of dead Palestinian children every day," it occurs to me that a huge factor in how people perceive the salience of the war in Gaza is whether this is true for them. personally, I have not seen a single photo of a dead Palestinian child (although admittedly I am not looking for them). this doesn't mean I don't care about the war at all, but if I were regularly confronted with photos, I imagine it would be much more front of mind for me.