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Carved Grooved Clam Shell (700-600 BC), Vulci, Italy. A woman's face peeks out from this clam shell, and the waves on the shell's back are swirling like the woman's cloak blowing in the wind. The bark once held perfume or was used to mix makeup. The approximately 2,700-year-old shell was found in Italy. It wasn't made in Italy; the face and other decorations were carved in what is today Syria, Lebanon, Israel or Palestine. Decorated shells were sold to Italy in the west and Iraq in the east. But the scallops were actually brought from elsewhere, from the warm clear waters of the Red Sea or other parts of the Indian Ocean. On the lower edge of the shell you can see faint patterns that were once black. There are water lilies in the middle and on both sides, an Egyptian-looking sphinx, and a lion with a human head and bird wings.  British Museum~~~~~~~ The Middle East and EgyptIn the Middle East of the early Bronze Age the two great civilizations of ancient Mesopotamia and Egypt are flourishing. They have sophisticated writing systems, bronze technologies and highly developed public administrations. The first literatures are flowering, and already some of the most spectacular structures in all world history, the Great Pyramids, have been built in the Nile valley.  What is happening in Syria in 2500 BCE Agriculture has probably been practiced for longer here than anywhere
else in the world. By this time, important trade routes run through
Syria and Canaan between Mesopotamia to the east and Egypt
to the south, both by land and sea. These trade routes have brought the
influences of Mesopotamian and Egyptian civilizations into the region,
and small city-states now scatter the region. The city of Byblos, on the
Syrian coast, is an important port, is home of a thriving shipping
trade with Egypt and other Mediterranean regions. |
Sunday, April 28, 2024
2,700-year-old carved shell found in Italy - but made in Syria, Lebanon, or Palestine ... trade & trade routes- civilization #art #beauty
It's an open book test #FreePalestine
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| LIBERTY & free speech today |
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| Chants of ‘shame on you’ greet guests arriving for the annual White House correspondents’ dinner |
CBS News: White House Correspondents' Dinner overshadowed by protests against Israel-Hamas war
"..... With hundreds of protesters rallying against the war in Gaza outside the event and concerns over the conflict and humanitarian crisis in Gaza and the perils for journalists covering the conflict, the war hung over this year's event. But speakers inside made only passing mention of the conflict despite some having to run a gauntlet of demonstrators. Mr. Biden's speech, which lasted around 10 minutes, made no mention of the ongoing war or the growing humanitarian crisis in Gaza.
"Shame on you!" protesters draped in the traditional Palestinian keffiyeh cloth shouted, running after men in tuxedos and suits and women in long dresses who were holding clutch purses as guests hurried inside for the dinner.
Chants accused U.S. journalists of undercovering the war and misrepresenting it. "Western media we see you, and all the horrors that you hide," crowds chanted at one point.
Other protesters lay sprawled motionless on the pavement, next to mock-ups of flak vests with "press" insignia.
Ralliers cried "Free, free Palestine." They cheered when at one point someone inside the Washington Hilton — where the dinner has been held for decades — unfurled a Palestinian flag from a top-floor hotel window.
Criticism of the Mr. Biden administration's support for Israel's six-month-old military offensive in Gaza has spread through American college campuses, with students pitching encampments in an effort to force their universities to divest from Israel...." https://www.cbsnews.com/news/white-house-correspondents-dinner-overshadowed-protests-israel-hamas-war/
Pro-Palestinian protesters target White House Correspondents Dinner
Protesters greeted administration officials, journalists and celebrities as they arrived at the annual White House Correspondents Association dinner in D.C. on Saturday, demanding that President Biden do more to protect Palestinian lives in Gaza.
Why it matters: The Democratic Party is divided over Biden's approach to the war in Gaza, with some Arab Americans threatening to withhold their support for Biden until he puts more pressure on Israel to minimize Palestinian casualties and allow more humanitarian aid to enter Gaza.
- With tensions flaring at university campuses across the country, Democrats are concerned that division over Gaza will fracture the winning coalition that Biden assembled four years ago.
- More than 30,000 Palestinians have been killed since Hamas launched a surprise attack on Israel on Oct. 7.
Driving the news: "Why are you attending a party when people are dying," one of the protesters shouted.
https://www.axios.com/2024/04/27/palestinian-protesters-white-house-correspondents-dinner
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| NPR: A demonstrator with red paint on their hand and face is seen behind a police barricade during a pro-Palestinian protest over the Israel-Hamas war at the White House Correspondents' Association Dinner, Saturday April 27, 2024, in Washington. photo Terrance Williams/AP |
SEE and SHARE: Zionists objecting to the Palestine Flag & a sign for CEASEFIRE break the display window of Women and Children First Bookstore in Chicago this week
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Mosab Abu Toha This happened to Women and Children First Bookstore in Chicago. My poetry book was featured along with other important books. See and share. |
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Window displaying Palestinian flag, sign for ceasefire damaged at bookstore on Chicago's North Side
Chicago police said an unknown number of people broke the window – classifying it as criminal damage to property.
No injuries were reported.
In a post on X, formerly Twitter, the store said the window displayed a Palestinian flag with a sign calling for a ceasefire.
Enlightenment ripples out online thanks to little things such as a forwarded photo of the Educate & Protest for Palestine College Campus Campaigns: The University of Pennsylvania encampment has set up a Refaat Alareer memorial library
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| The University of Pennsylvania encampment has set up a Refaat Alareer memorial library |
Mosab Abu Toha
Refaat and I were supposed to attend the Pal Writes literary festival at UPenn in September 2023.
Refaat very much wanted to travel and take part but he couldn’t attend a visa interview at the US embassy because of the siege and occupation.
I went, however, and I attended the event which Refaat was supposed to participate in.
These days, the University of Pennsylvania encampment has set up a Refaat Alareer memorial library.
I can see the photo I took of Refaat posing for a picture with the strawberries we picked together.
I can see on a shelf my own poetry book.
I can see love and humanity in this picture.
Saturday, April 27, 2024
Kamal Nasir poem: "The Story"
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It's nothing new for Israel to murder poets. From my blog 18 years ago:
Kamal Nasir , Palestinian poet , killed by an Israeli death squad on April 10, 1973 during a time when 1570 Palestinian educators, doctors, and professionals were deported from their homeland as well as assassinated and maimed in botched assassinations. Their crimes: intellect , resistance , leadership.
This poem "The Story" by Kamal Nasir was written in 1961.
I will tell you a story
A story that lived in the dreams of people
A story that comes out of the world of tents
Was made by hunger and decorated in the dark nights
In my country, and my country is a handful of refugees
Every twenty of them have a pound of flour
And promises of a relief...gifts and parcels
It is the story of the suffering group
Who stood for ten years in hunger
In tears and agony
In hardship and yearning
It is a story of people who were misled
Who were thrown in the mazes of years
But they defied and stood
Disrobed and united
And went to light, from the tents
The revolution of return
in the world of darkness.
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| Kamal Nasser |
umkahlil "I first heard of Kamal Nasir from my late father, Baseel, who knew Nasir
in Ramallah. My father was born in 1922. Nasir was born in Gaza in
1925, but his family lived in Bir Zeit. I was somewhat annoyed that my
father, long since living in the states, had not heard of Mahmoud
Darwish, famous contemporary Palestinian poet. "Do you know Kamal
Nasir?" he challenged. "He was killed in front of his wife by Ehud
Barak," he said angrily.
Musician Rima Nasir Tarazi, President of the Administrative Board of the General Union of Palestinian Women, recalls
"Between 1954 and 1956, Kamal Nasir was staying at his home in Birzeit and would pour his soul out in passionate verses singing praises to the beautiful lostTarazi writes that Nasir "was writing an elegy to a friend" when he was killed. "His body was found with hands outstretched, his mouth and right hand riddled with bullets."
homeland and calling on the masses to stand up for their rights. He would put
his poems before the three of us and we would decide amongst ourselves which to choose. His song, 'Ya Akhi El-Lajea,' (Oh, My Refugee Brother) adapted to the music of Fleifel immediately after the Catastrophe, had already become a
landmark song widely known all over Palestine. It was a call to rise and to act
against injustice and to stand up against attempts at humiliating our people and
bartering their rights for meagre food rations: 'They offered us poison in our
food / turning us into a docile and silent flock of sheep.'"
Sina Rahmani paraphrases Edward Said: "Another saddening story he [Said]
tells is that of the death of PLO spokesmen Kamal Nasir. Nasir was
babysitting for a relative of Said who had gone with Said to Jordan to
bury an aunt who had recently passed away. That very night that the two
of them had left for Jordan, Nasir was assassinated by an Israeli strike
team lead by Ehud Barak, who would become Prime Minister more than two
decades later. Exemplifying the vindictiveness of the Israeli attitude
towards Palestinians, the eloquent poet and writer Nasir was found
riddled with bullets in his mouth and his right hand."
"His poetic talents," Tarazi writes,
"which appeared early in childhood, were nurtured by the annual Suq
Okath (a traditional Arab poetry contest) held at the College [Bir Zeit]
and in which he always extemporized and excelled. He completed his
education at the American University of Beirut where he won the
prestigious poetry prize for his poem "The Orphan."
By
murdering Nasir, who was exiled from Jordan only to return and be
deported again by Israel along with hundreds of other Palestinian
intellectuals in 1967, Israel "was to demonstrate, once again,"
according to Tarazi,
"its commitment to destroying any embodiment of Palestinian identity
and any resistance to its attempts at establishing facts on the ground.
Thinkers and writers were viewed as a threat."
Ariel Sharon's legacy wrote Edward Said, will be that of an Arab killer,
as will that of Nasir's gleeful executor, Ehud Barak. Kamal Nasir was a
threat, but contrary to his rather stupid and short-sighted
executioners' expectations, he remains a threat to Israel's injustice;
it is in part from his painful experience of the "ugly side of
civilization," that he created a wealth of beauty that will inspire and
instruct "so long as men can breathe, or eyes can see." It is the legacy
which my late father, neither a poet, nor an intellectual, bequeathed
to me one day while we were talking in his Central California backyard.
"Nasir will always be remembered
as a man with boundless love for his people and for humanity as a
whole. His charm, compassion and tolerance won him several friends and
admirers among people from all walks of life. As a poet, he was widely
acclaimed for eloquently expressing the hopes and pains of his people,
and advocating their cause. His charismatic public appearances were a
source of inspiration to the masses that flocked to listen to him at
every possible occasion."
Kamal Nasir's Last Poem addresses exile and the longing for return as he admonishes his "beloved,"
Tell my only one, for I love him,
That I have tasted the joy of giving
And my heart relishes the wounds of sacrifice.
There is nothing left for him
Save the sighs from my song...Save the remnants of my lute
Lying piled and scattered in our house.
Tell my only one if he ever visits my grave
And yearns for my memory,
Tell him one day that I shall return --
to pick the fruits.
In Letter to Fadwa, Nasir anticipates his death, inspires hope, emits courage, and conveys beauty:
If my songs should reach you despite the narrow skies around me,
remember that I will return to life,
to the quest for liberty,
remember that my people may call on my soul
and feel it rising again from the folds of the earth.
Rahmani,
Sina. "Edward Said: The Last Interview, and: Selves and Others: A
Portrait of Edward Said, and: The Battle of Algiers (review)"
Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East, Volume
25, Number 2, 2005, Duke University Press, pp. 512-514.
Body
Friday, April 26, 2024
The now-famous poem “If I must die” by Refaat Al-Areer was written to his daughter Shaymaa, who Refaat foresaw as his continued presence on this earth, even after his departure from it. Today, Israel murdered Shaymaa, her husband, and their newborn child, in a deliberate assassination.
The now-famous poem “If I must die” by Refaat Al-Areer was written to his daughter Shaymaa, who Refaat foresaw as his continued presence on this earth, even after his departure from it. Today, Israel murdered Shaymaa, her husband, and their newborn child, in a deliberate assassination.
Shaymaa was an artist in her own right, whose calligraphy work was known to many in Gaza. She now joins Refaat as a martyr, along with her child who was not yet born at the time Israel murdered his grandfather Refaat. Shaymaa had maintained a WhatsApp group in loving memory of her father that included former students and readers of his works, and had shared in the group the pain of confronting the fact that her child would never know his grandfather.
As family and loved ones of Shaymaa and Refaat mourn yet another deep and shocking loss, we contend that Refaat and Shaymaa’s spirit live on in their people and in their nation. If they must die, then we must live. May their names and their memories be recalled at the hour of Palestine’s liberation.
Shaymaa was an artist in her own right, whose calligraphy work was known to many in Gaza. She now joins Refaat as a martyr, along with her child who was not yet born at the time Israel murdered his grandfather Refaat. Shaymaa had maintained a WhatsApp group in loving memory of her father that included former students and readers of his works, and had shared in the group the pain of confronting the fact that her child would never know his grandfather.
As family and loved ones of Shaymaa and Refaat mourn yet another deep and shocking loss, we contend that Refaat and Shaymaa’s spirit live on in their people and in their nation. If they must die, then we must live. May their names and their memories be recalled at the hour of Palestine’s liberation.
In my local paper: Dickinson students stage sit-in to show solidarity with arrested Palestine protesters "...organizer Diana Webb said she set up a folding chair by a “Free Gaza” sign and soon found other students came out to join her."
"... Friday’s protest drew Jewish and non-Jewish students who indicated they share a common view about the human rights violations against Palestinians happening in Gaza.
“I can absolutely empathize with the fact that anyone living in a war zone is afraid but [Israelis] have bomb shelters to go to,” said a Jewish student from Harrisburg who identified herself only as Hannah. “There’s a massive difference there in just like the quality of life and safety.”
Zoe Selig, a freshman from New Hampshire, said her Jewish values tell her to not stand for oppression and to fight against it.... " READ MORE https://www.pennlive.com/nation-world/2024/04/dickinson-students-stage-sit-in-to-show-solidarity-with-arrested-palestine-protesters.html
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| Dickinson College students gather to protest the war in Gaza |
Arresting students and banning Tiktok will not stifle the truth about Israeli crimes against humanity.
Dear Bide ...etc...
Concerned college students are raising U.S. awareness about the very real plight and suffering of Palestinian men, women, and children.
In response, billionaire businessmen on broadcast TV news here in America boast that they won't hire college students who protest for Palestine. Arrests are made, students are suspended... But even that is not stopping or silencing the passion for Palestine that has awakened in many young people today.
Arresting students and banning Tiktok will not stifle the truth about Israeli crimes against humanity.
Foolishly our mainstream media, religious leaders, and
politicians protect Jews-preferred Israel, empowering blatant
bigotry and genocide: FYI only reading echo chamber pro-Israel
distractions and fabrications serves Israeli interests- not America.
American money should not be funding Israel in any way, shape or form. But we should be fully funding UNWRA which was created
Israel has failed to provide evidence of UNWRA staff terrorist links
Please stop misusing American tax payers' hard earned money to fund
rampant Israeli injustice, religious craziness, home demolitions, and escalating war in the Middle
East.
Building a pier in Gaza for American aid for Palestinians is an expensive distraction, and not a good use of funds. UNWRA is already in place- already built thanks in a large part to American efforts after WWII. Use the right tool for the job to get the job done.
NOTES https://anniesnewletters.blogspot.com/search/label/Notes
Sincerely,
Anne Selden Annab
FYI the Israel/Palestine conflict did not start on Oct 7th 2023. To be fair and honest you must go back to 1917 when the British Empire and Occupation promoted the Balfour Declaration to create a
Israel has failed to provide evidence of Unrwa staff terrorist links: report
The Colonna report, which was commissioned by the UN in the wake of Israeli allegations, found that Unrwa had regularly supplied Israel with lists of its employees for vetting, and that “the Israeli government has not informed Unrwa of any concerns relating to any Unrwa staff based on these staff lists since 2011”.
The Nation: “The Bulldozer Kept Coming”: A Girl Stares Down Death in Gaza- The extraordinary story of a 14-year-old, her mother, and what happened when the Israeli military came to destroy their house.
CSM: Ken Makin Commentary on Columbia: History, protests, and humanity- After arrests at Columbia University and other schools, our commentator considers the legacy of civil disobedience. How and why does society’s lens on protests change over time?
Hundreds of Israeli extremists, under the protection of Israeli police, stormed occupied East Jerusalem's Al-Aqsa Mosque complex on Wednesday: Israeli authorities and settlers seek to strip East Jerusalem of its Palestinian Muslim and Christian character and turn it into a Jewish-Israeli area.
This Passover, we don’t need or want the false idol of Zionism. We want freedom from the project that commits genocide in our name. We need an exodus from Zionism- Naomi Klein
Israel has dropped almost 75,000 bombs and shells on Gaza in 200 days, twenty times more than the US aimed at Iraq in six years of war. It’s not war. It’s genocide.
UN NEWS 23 April 2024 Mass graves in Gaza show victims’ hands were tied, says UN rights office...200 days of horror... “Every 10 minutes a child is killed or wounded. They are protected under the laws of war, and yet they are ones who are disproportionately paying the ultimate price in this war,” said the High Commissioner.
Colleges should not be using students' tuition money to invest in companies supporting Israel's war in Gaza... "I Am a Jewish Student at Columbia. Don’t Believe What You’re Being Told About ‘Campus Antisemitism’. Smears from the press and pro-Israel influencers are a dangerous distraction from real threats to our safety."
Student activists have been calling for universities to "divest from genocide".
Colleges should not be using students' tuition money to invest in companies supporting Israel's war in Gaza.
Mosab Abu Toha: "If you want to learn about the truth about our lives, at least for the past 30 years, not only for the past 200 days as many want others to understand, read these poems..."
A Dream of Palestine ... A children's book written by Wafa Shami illustrated by Christina Qahoush: Noor, a young school-aged girl, is curious to learn about what happened to her Palestinian grandmother (Teta) during the infamous 1948 Nakba (The Catastrophe) that befell the Palestinian people, and why her family was forced to leave their home in al-Quds (Jerusalem). Why were they pushed out of their homeland? Where did they go? And how did they become refugees?
Disinformation Warfare: Journalistic Cover for Israel’s Genocide- For decades, Israel has recognized the importance of information warfare in justifying the everyday violence of occupation, apartheid, and settler colonialism. Now they are using the same tactics in overdrive to justify and facilitate genocide. In just six months, Israeli forces have killed more than 33,000 Palestinians and left most of Gaza uninhabitable.
Mona Chalabi: Settler violence against Palestinians in the West Bank – visualized... International attention is on Gaza, but attacks by Israelis who live on Palestinian land have been increasing
Falastine Saleh: By weaponising settlers, the Israeli government not only perpetuates violence, but also lays the groundwork for further domination, displacement and ethnic cleansing of Palestinians
April is Arab American Heritage Month!✨ ... GOOD BOOKS!
CSM In West Bank, wave of settler violence creating feel of a war zone
There are enough weapons of war and destruction already on planet earth.
Where, after all, do universal human rights begin?
The UN Mediator for Palestine, Count Folke Bernadotte, believed that the Palestinians displaced had a right to return to their homes and wrote several UN reports to that effect.
"It would be an offence against the principles of elemental justice if these innocent victims of the conflict were denied the right to return to their homes while Jewish immigrants flow into Palestine, and, indeed, at least offer the threat of permanent replacement of the Arab refugees who have been rooted in the land for centuries."
Bernadotte was assassinated on Friday 17 September 1948 by members of the group Lehi, a Zionist terrorist organization, commonly known in the West as the Stern Gang
The Nation: “The Bulldozer Kept Coming”: A Girl Stares Down Death in Gaza- The extraordinary story of a 14-year-old, her mother, and what happened when the Israeli military came to destroy their house.
Lujayn describes an increasingly common tactic of the Israeli military in her narrative: bulldozing buildings
with people still inside. In addition, Lujayn’s story serves as a
warning to the world about the dangers of Israel’s threatened invasion
of Rafah. If she were displaced again, she and her family would have
nowhere to go.
Lujayn is a brilliant student. She had been planning to go to university to study mathematics. But there are no more universities
left in Gaza, and Lujayn has no permanent home. All she can do right
now is survive and tell her story. For Lujayn as for many Palestinians,
storytelling is a form of resistance.
“The Bulldozer Kept Coming”: A Girl Stares Down Death in Gaza
The extraordinary story of a 14-year-old, her mother, and what happened when the Israeli military came to destroy their house.
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| This picture taken during a media tour organized by the Israeli military on February 8, 2024, shows Israeli soldiers standing near a bulldozer inside Gaza City. (Jack Guez / AFP via Getty Images) |
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CSM: Ken Makin Commentary on Columbia: History, protests, and humanity- After arrests at Columbia University and other schools, our commentator considers the legacy of civil disobedience. How and why does society’s lens on protests change over time?
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When I saw students at Columbia University engaging in a pro-Palestinian protest last week, I thought about South Carolina State University, about Kent State, about Jackson State, and about Southern University. When more than 100 students were arrested in New York City after said protest, my concerns went to the natural escalation that occurs when the people clash with the police, when people push back against war.
I understand that pushback, because I never met my uncle, my dad’s older brother. A few days after his 20th birthday, he was killed in Vietnam. The presidential election year of 1968 was a harrowing one that hit close to home for my dad, who would later decide to attend South Carolina State. Only three months before my uncle died, a student protest ended in tragedy during the events that are now known as the Orangeburg Massacre. Students from SC State and Claflin University sought to desegregate a local bowling alley, which led to an eventual clash with police. It was the first instance of police killing protesters at an American university....
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Hundreds of Israeli extremists, under the protection of Israeli police, stormed occupied East Jerusalem's Al-Aqsa Mosque complex on Wednesday: Israeli authorities and settlers seek to strip East Jerusalem of its Palestinian Muslim and Christian character and turn it into a Jewish-Israeli area.
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| The Al-Aqsa Mosque complex, located in occupied East Jerusalem, is the holiest Muslim site in Palestine [Nick Brundle Photography/Getty-file photo] |
The official Palestinian news agency Wafa reported that they numbered in the hundreds, and carried out rituals at site, the third holiest in Islam.
It comes after around 172 Israeli extremists raided the site and performed rituals on Monday, according to Wafa.
Under a longstanding status-quo agreement, prayer at Al-Aqsa is reserved for Muslims.
While Al-Aqsa is a highly revered holy site for Muslims, Jews consider the complex the most sacred site in their religion, believing it to be the location of their two ancient temples.
Many Israeli extremists seek to either divide Al-Aqsa between Jews and Muslims in terms of time and space available, or to replace the mosque with a new temple.
Al-Aqsa is located in the Old City, part of occupied East Jerusalem.
Israeli authorities and settlers seek to strip East Jerusalem of its Palestinian Muslim and Christian character and turn it into a Jewish-Israeli area.
Palestinians view the city's eastern sector, which Israel illegally annexed in 1980 after capturing it in 1967, as the capital of their future independent state.
Almost the entire international community rejects Israel's annexation and sovereignty claims over Jerusalem.
Across East Jerusalem and the rest of the occupied West Bank, there are more than 700,000 Israeli illegal settlers.
The construction and expansion of settlements are aimed at taking over Palestinian territory.
Settlements breach international law and are considered a key barrier to a workable two-state solution as they carve up Palestinian land.
Al-Aqsa is the holiest Muslim site in Palestine, followed by the Ibrahimi Mosque in the West Bank city of Hebron.
The Ibrahimi Mosque has been split into two parts – one side remains for Muslims while the other was transformed into Jewish space.
The site was the location of a massacre in 1994, when Israel-American extremist Baruch Goldstein opened fire on Muslim worshippers, killing 29 people.
A further 125 people [Palestinians] were also wounded in the attack.
https://www.newarab.com/news/extremist-israelis-storm-perform-rituals-al-aqsa-mosque
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This Passover, we don’t need or want the false idol of Zionism. We want freedom from the project that commits genocide in our name. We need an exodus from Zionism- Naomi Klein
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| ‘Too many of our people are worshipping a false idol once again.’ Photograph: Thalia Juarez/The Guardian |
The ecofeminist in me was always uneasy about this story: what kind of God is jealous of animals? What kind of God wants to hoard all the sacredness of the Earth for himself?
But there is a less literal way of understanding this story. It is about false idols. About the human tendency to worship the profane and shiny, to look to the small and material rather than the large and transcendent.
What I want to say to you tonight at this revolutionary and historic Seder in the Streets is that too many of our people are worshipping a false idol once again. They are enraptured by it. Drunk on it. Profaned by it.
That false idol is called Zionism.
It is a false idol that takes our most profound biblical stories of justice and emancipation from slavery – the story of Passover itself – and turns them into brutalist weapons of colonial land theft, roadmaps for ethnic cleansing and genocide.... READ MORE https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/apr/24/zionism-seder-protest-new-york-gaza-israel
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Wednesday, April 24, 2024
Israel has dropped almost 75,000 bombs and shells on Gaza in 200 days, twenty times more than the US aimed at Iraq in six years of war. It’s not war. It’s genocide.
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| Israel has dropped almost 75,000 bombs and shells on Gaza in 200 days, twenty times more than the US aimed at Iraq in six years of war. It’s not war. It’s genocide. |
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