Sir FZ

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Last night Israel killed 80 children in 51 minutes

To be Palestinian today is to feel like you are caught in a fever dream—trapped in someone else's hallucination. It is to be interrogated about the hidden insidiousness of our chants while Israeli politicians boast about ethnically cleansing Gaza in newspapers and interviews. It is to be shouted over, silenced, by people who claim to fear for their lives from the safety of apartments that have never been blistered by white phosphorus, that have endured nothing fiercer than a US winter, while people in another corner of the planet dig for loved ones buried in the wreck of flattened buildings. Conversations about Palestine in the West are steered by abstractions, about the meaning of Zionism, about the threat level of words, about a logistically impossible yet impossibly imminent genocide of the Jewish people: Such details are not minor. In situating the Holocaust outside of history, in placing it not just in the past but in an eternal future, Zionism today has created a status quo in which the possibility of a second holocaust is given primacy over a holocaust happening in the present. I am certain some readers will find those previous lines uncomfortable or even incendiary, but that is precisely the point: language comparing Zionists to Nazis is scrutinized—even penalized—more than the government policies and military actions that beg for the analogy to be made. As long as this status quo persists, as long as Palestinians are subjected to colonial violence and erasure, we certainly can and should refuse indignity as a state of being, refuse to shrink ourselves and our aspirations, refuse to be silenced or shouted over, and refuse to assuage the hallucinations of our colonizers.

Dunno how I’m supposed to give a shit about democracy when I’ve seen pictures of kids with their heads blown off by Israeli bombs every day for over a year without any Western democratic leader expressing even mild concern

I am calling for a full, public, independent inquiry into the UK’s involvement in Gaza. We deserve to know the full scale of our government’s complicity in genocide.

A year ago today Aaron Bushnell gave his life to try to stop the US-backed genocide in Gaza. What he did was an extraordinary act of love and humanity, a sacrifice I wish he never felt he had to make. I wish we could have gotten to know him. Always remember and honor him.

This precious little girl was shot with 335 bullets by the Israeli army. Hind Rajab — never forgive, never forget.

THREAD: The three Israeli captives released on 8 February appeared emaciated, pallid, and in need of medical attention. The Palestinian organizations that held them were under an absolute obligation to treat them in accordance with international law. That includes a prohibition – also absolute – on taking captive civilian non-combatants, because such individuals are considered hostages rather than prisoners-of-war.

Even after the announcement of a ceasefire, reports indicate that the Israeli military is continuing to flatten the remaining residential blocks in northern Gaza, leaving displaced civilians with no homes to return to. Satellite images from January 2025 reveal widespread destruction in Jabalia, Beit Lahia, and Beit Hanoun, alongside expanding tent camps in Gaza City—highlighting the mass displacement caused by the recent Israeli ground operation in northern Gaza. If a final ceasefire agreement is not reached, Israel will likely target Gaza City next with the same tactics of systematic destruction and displacement. More updates: gaza.forensic-architecture.org

Israel flunkies genuinely outraged by images of Palestinians celebrating the potential end of Israel's genocidal campaign. Seems flunkies expect Gaza Strip to erupt in protests demanding intensified mass killings.

Remembering our fallen comrades killed by the Israeli genocidal army. Remembering Dr Ahmad Makadmeh executed in Shifa hospital. Remembering Dr Adnan Al Bursh tortured to death.

I've been challenged to provide evidence for the IDF sniping kids, and torture/rape of prisoners. Bear with me. 1/

Today, Israel killed the journalist that revealed this, Mohammed Balousha.

Have you noticed that, today, no one is talking about the ongoing genocide in Gaza? This is the greatest gift to Netanyahu and his merry genocide maniacs. Keep talking Palestine people!

Oops! This week @TimesofIsrael published, then removed, an article headlined "Lebensraum needed for Israel's exploding population." Lebensraum – German for "living space" – was Hitler's term for the land he wanted for German settlement and expansion. This is not the first time TOI have done this. Ten years ago, during "Israel's" 2014 massacre in Gaza, TOI published and then removed an article headlined "When genocide is permissible." Archived articles: archive.is/RPf3M archive.ph/2024.12.04-224…

REVEALED: Israeli Settler Company Specializing in West Bank Outposts Now at Work in Northern Gaza dropsitenews.com/p/israeli-priv… @ytirawi reports for @DropSiteNews

"Quadcopters were emitting baby sounds, playing sounds of screaming women." Palestinians in Gaza say Israel has been using small quadcopter drones, equipped with loudspeakers, to lure them out of their homes and then shoot them. #GazaCrimes

The @OxfordUnion has voted that Israel is an apartheid state committing genocide. Zionist disrupters failed to intimidate the participants or to stop the debate. The margin of votes was historic, with an overwhelming 278 in favor and only to 59 against. Decent people everywhere are standing up to Israeli genocide & apartheid and the complicity of corrupt western governments.