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I have doubts about anarchism. If my parents (who are Jews) had stayed in Ukraine, I would not have felt the need to go against the Ukrainian army and state during the Russian invasion. I would go out to protect others who are oppressed. And I feel that my wellbeing is a sin...

Since early morning, my family and I have been living in a state of total psychological collapse. Today we learned that our homes, our land, and our entire neighborhood, every house belonging to our family and our neighbors, have been completely erased. Bulldozed. Flattened into a barren stretch of yellow dust. From the first light of day, we have been living the full meaning of defeat. We have lost more than seventy members of our family. We have lost our land. We now have no home to return to, no walls to protect us, no place left to call our own. And then, one of Hamas’s leaders appears on television declaring that “the people have not been defeated,” that “Gaza has stood firm and fought a historic war.” So let history record this: I, Dr. Ezzideen Shehab, from Gaza, together with my family, my friends, and their families, did not fight any war. We were the victims of an annihilation ignited by Hamas from within our homes, only for the Israeli army to descend upon us and unleash its full cruelty on the civilians of Gaza, while Hamas’s fighters vanished into their tunnels. Let history record the truth: we were defeated, utterly, painfully, and completely defeated. And it is we, the people of Gaza, who have the right to say whether we were defeated or not, not those who sit comfortably in Qatar or Turkey. We were crushed, humiliated, and broken after our city was destroyed, occupied, and erased from existence. We were displaced, stripped of everything we had built, left to wander through the ruins of our own lives. And somewhere amid all this, I understood something simple and terrible: My mother’s tears are holier than the homeland itself, and my father’s brokenness matters more to me than any flag. Because what meaning does a homeland hold when it devours the ones you love, when it glorifies death but forgets the living? We were not steadfast. We were held hostage in our own land. We could not leave. We could not change those who claimed to rule us. We were trapped between a merciless occupier and rulers who feed on our suffering. And if there is one moment in my life when I must speak the truth, without fear, without hesitation, then this is that moment. Let it be written clearly: We were not soldiers in a war. We were the bodies buried beneath it. #GazaGenocide

You won't blame Sinwar for the deaths of Palestinians in a war he started but you will blame Netanyahu for the deaths of British Jews thousands of miles away? I genuinely don't have the words to express my contempt.

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@saintwalker98 @threadreaderapp

Many such cases

Any anti-lgbtq leader, junta, or politician that is invested in the penalization of black queer life on the continent (or anywhere in the african diaspora) is not truly interested in black liberation.

@michael_mils אני מכירה מקרה אחד יוצא דופן - יהודים רבים במדינות שרוסיה הסובייטית כבשה

שום עם לא אימץ את המסר השיווקי הזה, ולא תפס את הכובש כמשחרר. העזתים שעוינותם לישראל מגיעה לשיא בעקבות המלחמה הקשה ביותר אי-פעם בין ישראל והפלסטינים, לא צפויים כנראה לנהוג אחרת.

נתניהו אינו ראש הממשלה הראשון שנדרש להתמודד עם דילמת כיבוש עזה. כמעט כל ראשי הממשלה מאז הקמת המדינה ניצבו בפני התלבטות אסטרטגית מורכבת: מצד אחד, חשקו בטריטוריה של עזה, לרוב מטיעונים ביטחוניים, בתוספת הבהרה שמדובר בחלק מארץ ישראל, אבל מהצד האחר,כולם נרתעו מרעיון השליטה על המוני>>

“… For decades, the Islamic Republic of Iran has made the elimination of Israel a cornerstone of its foreign policy. By adopting slogans like “destroy Israel,” the regime positioned itself as a direct threat—not only to Israel but to regional peace and stability…”

Spoke with Siamand Moeini, former #PJAK co-chair and member of the Leadership Council, who shared that after #Israeli strikes, in Iran, especially among the Kurdish people there is growing hope linked to the weakening of the brutal dictatorship of the Islamic Republic of #Iran. “For the #Kurdish people, the regime’s decline signals a crucial step toward freedom and democracy.”

There's a social media revolt among Palestinians in Gaza who are furious with remarks made by Hamas's chief Khalil al-Hayya about Eid al-Adha. He sent Eid wishes and said that Gaza has presented itself as "sacrificial Qurban" or "sacrificial lamb" for all Arab and Muslim nations! I've said this time and again: Hamas is a death cult that's engaged in human sacrifice and must be stopped from being allowed to sacrifice what's left of Gaza!

@LexiTalksComix When one combines the murders & man made/exacerbated famines with the disappearances, imprisonment & forced relocation, along with the forced assimilation + stolen children, I believe it meets the threshold for genocide. See: Ukraine & Kazakhstan in particular.

@Xampidamaxfann3 @ifartfrommybutt Wouldn’t it have been better to give those rural communities the rescues and tools needed to empower themselves without completely destroying their culture?

@Xampidamaxfann3 @ifartfrommybutt Our culture doesn’t disempower us and we don’t want fucking Europeans expecting us to be grateful when they try to take it away from us.

@Xampidamaxfann3 @ifartfrommybutt So yes, I will call someone who support the cultural genocide of their own people a self hating Jew.

@Xampidamaxfann3 @adsankl147082 @ifartfrommybutt Actually, Ashkenazi Jews do tend to be more closely to other Jewish diasporas than their host populations which is a phenomenon that occurs amongst other Jewish diasporas. It’s why most of the people in my Ashkenazi synagogue look almost indistinguishable from the one Sephardi-

@Xampidamaxfann3 @Lizardo_Jones @ifartfrommybutt How is forcibly assimilating colonised peoples and vulnerable minorities and resettling them against their will ever a good thing? How is it a good thing that Jewish culture in the former USSR has been almost completely decimated with an assimilation rate of almost 90%?

@Xampidamaxfann3 @Lizardo_Jones @ifartfrommybutt Repressing our languages and religion, sending Jews to a backwater swamp in disputed territory and arresting Jews for teaching their brothers and sisters about their language and culture isn’t fighting for liberation or self determination.

@Xampidamaxfann3 @Lizardo_Jones @ifartfrommybutt Just because the antisemites had collabators, doesn’t make them not antisemites. And the Soviets did nothing for Jewish liberation or self determination. And please tell me what is regressive about Jewish culture?