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Indonesia is  flirting with the  possibility  of formally recognising Israel

Algo in the genocide  Okay I won't use the word Jewish  And I won't use the word Zionist  And I won't use the word genocide  And I won't use the word apartheid  And I won't use the word settler  And I won't use the word colony  And I won't use the word killed  And I won't use the word watermelon  And I won't use the word Palestine  And I won't use the word resistance  And I won't use the word law  And I won't use the word moral  And I won't use the word men  And I won't use the word God  And I won't use the word river  And I won't use the word sea  And I won't use the word free And I won't use the word children For the young of _____ are always _____ What are we left with at the end? A murdered dictionary and field After silent field of unmarked graves. — Omar Sakr

When you have a good analysis , but you introduce illusion – illusion in 'a new Bandung', a ‘Bandung'/' South' where class, capital accumulation, repression and oppression and wealth are ignored . Related Dispelling the multipolar myth

Ilan Pappé

Kanafani was assassinated two years later Then as now the control of the narrative has always been crucial.

This not in defence of Maduro or the Nobel Prise winner

Loose translation/interpretation by  Michael R. Burch Hamza was one of my hometown’s ordinary men who did manual labor for bread. When I saw him recently, the land still wore its mourning dress in the solemn windless silence and I felt defeated. But Hamza-the-unextraordinary said: “Sister, our land’s throbbing heart never ceases to pound,  and it perseveres, enduring the unendurable, keeping the secrets of mounds and wombs.  This land sprouting cactus spikes and palms also births freedom-fighters. Thus our land, my sister, is our mother!” Days passed and Hamza was nowhere to be seen, but I felt the land’s belly heaving in pain. At sixty-five Hamza’s a heavy burden on her back. “Burn down his house!” some commandant screamed, “and slap his son in a prison cell!” As our town’s military ruler later explained this was necessary for law and order, that is, an act of love, for peace! Armed soldiers surrounded Hamza’s house; the coiled serpent completed its circle. The bang at h...

Next time you hear a British person, for example, especially a supporter of Winston Churchill, says ‘my country’, turn their argument/belief on its head by quoting their ‘hero’: I  do not admit that the dog in the manger has the final right to the manger, even though he may have lain there for a very long time. I do not admit that right.   I do not admit, for instance, that a great wrong has been done to the Red Indians of America, or the black people of Australia. I do not admit that a wrong has been done to these people by the fact that a stronger race, a higher grade race, or, at any rate, a more worldly-wise race, to put it that way, has come in and taken their place. I do not admit it. I do not think the Red Indians had any right to say, 'The American Continent belongs to us and we are not going to have any of these European settlers coming in here.' They had not the right, nor had they the power. —Winston Churchill  To the   Palestine Royal Commission   (1...

Palestinian liberation from below The book is published by Resistance Books

“The struggle for a Free Palestine is a fight against the same systems driving climate collapse: extractivism, militarism, and capitalism . Palestine's struggle mirrors every frontline community fighting to survive capitalism's fires and floods. From  Yemen  to  Niger Delta  to  Central India , the lesson is the same: our chains are linked.” Build more weapons

Solidarity with Palestine “Break relations with the genocidal state of Israel” Related The President of Chile Gabriel Boric has been described by  The Economist  as " woke " and as part of the  millennial left , "with a program focused on social justice, human rights, the environment and feminism". Boric has expressed support for the  State of Palestine  on multiple occasions. In 2019, after receiving a gift from the Jewish Community of Chile, he called for Israel to return the occupied Palestinian territories in a tweet.  He described Israel as a "genocidal and murderous state" that violates international treaties, stressing the importance of defending international principles and human rights regardless of a country's power.  Boric refuted accusations of  antisemitism , asserting his rejection of all forms of discrimination. He considers the Israeli occupation of territories beyond the  1967 borders  as a violation of international la...

Repression and arbitrary dismissal of professor and author Joseph Daher Related Ali Abuminah arrested in Switzerland

This war needs to be understood in a broader perspective, beyond its stated aims of destroying Hamas and/or Hezbollah. Historically, every resistance movement that has emerged—from leftist and nationalist to Islamist and religious—have been labeled as “terrorist organizations” before being targeted by Israeli violence. This war is no exception and can be understood as a deadly turn in a long and violent history of Zionist settler colonialism in the region—this time fully and openly backed, funded, and armed by the United States of America. There is also no doubt that Israel’s technological advancement and supply of the most sophisticated and lethal weaponry (provided by the United States and many European countries) made this war clearly disproportionate in terms of military power. Similarly, the unprecedented open political backing of Israel during its televised genocide by most Western governments and, importantly, by the Arab states that have signed the Abraham Accords, has tilted t...

A collection from the Transnational Institute (TNI)

Answering pressing questions about Palestine

Interview with Kevin B. Anderson Related A multi-polarity: a new alignment?

“The Western world’s last settler-colonial regime, committed to an ideology born in nineteenth-century Europe, remains remarkably adept at diffusing a story that erases Palestinian humanity,  including in the realm of higher education . Most students, however, no longer buy this Eurocentric erasure – nor does most of the global population.”

A report Related Largest UK pension fund

Political indoctrination for ideological uniformity

“ Tariq, explain to me how the neck negotiates with the sword.”