“6000 BOMBS IN 6. DAYS. ON A 140 SQAURE MILE STRETCH OF LAND.
for context, that is smaller than half of new york city. less than a third the size of LA. 6000 bombs dropped on something less than half the size of new york in the span of SIX DAYS.”
Adalah captures the stories of two Palestinian villages, Al-Araqib and Susiya – one in Israel, one in the West Bank – that share a single story of struggle against forced displacement.
This woman whose mother’s family were Palestinian Christians just posted this on her Instagram about the similarities between the 1948 nakba and what is happening now:
If you’re following the Israel-Palestine news at all you’re likely going to see stories from “i24 News” pop up a lot. They are not a legitimate source of information, and since 2017 they have operated primarily as a propaganda arm for Israeli PM Netanyahu.
really tired of seeing the idea that women & girls are less likely to be diagnosed with autism because it “presents differently” so widely accepted even in progressive spaces
it is also widely accepted that women get raises less often because they don’t ask as much as men. this is objectively not true.
it is also widely accepted that women are taken less seriously when speaking because their speech patterns are associated with a “lack of confidence”. this is objectively not true. [1][2][3]
every time we talk about gender discrimination, people look for an explanation that starts with women’s behavior.
and every fucking time, actual research shows that across the board, women actually don’t behave that differently from men.
women aren’t diagnosed less often with autism due to “presenting differently”. it’s gendered medical neglect, and weaponized diagnoses disproportionately applied to women (e.g. BPD, HPD, bipolar, etc.)
There is an unmistakable effort to push the pro-Palestinian left, including the Jewish pro-Palestinian left, beyond the pale by weaponizing grief, yielding such darkly comical scenes as German politicians refusing to speak to Bernie Sanders, whose family died in the Shoah, to mark sufficient deference to Jewish death. Such is the power of the Israeli grief machine: it authorizes Germans to tell Jews that they are mourning wrong. I joked, on the news about Sanders, that I could imagine a German stuffing me into a cattle car, weeping about the special German responsibility to ensure that the Holocaust never reoccur.
Across Europe, governments are attempting to crack down on any demonstrations against the occupation, while U.S. politicians libel Muslims en masse and call for censure of any vocal ally of Palestine. The significance of this fact is that, in the several days that we spent arguing about whether the left was sufficiently decent about Hamas’s victims, Israel geared up its genocide machine—which it now is releasing. Presumably sometime next week, Western leaders will begin to express concerns, by which time it will be too late. Decency in the abstract is quite different from the questions that press on us when hundreds of thousands more children are under the bomb sights.
beautiful. amazing. interesting. internet celebrity. hold up, who am i describing?
