How casual you treat brown people being murdered. How casual you treat the torture of brown men. May the earth swallow you. One day these decades of oppression will end and Arab boys will sing.

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is this what it was like in 9/11. trying to reason with people whose entire concept of human decency flies out the window when presented with the possibility of causing the smallest amount of harm to a "terrorist", no collateral damage is too large, no civilian too innocent, no connection too murky for people to deserve to die or be permanently crippled. people citing world war two urban warfare statistics to try to make a bad situation seem less worse and not balking at how fascist they sound

Americans are obsessed with punishment to an insane degree. people DESERVE to die if they support on hezbollah or hamas, regardless of whether their actions bring harm to anyone. if you're a nurse or a courier or a fucking security guard in a place where the only political entity in the region has been designated a terrorist organization by the United States your life is forfeited. if your child or wife or siblings happened to be mutilated it's your fault for existing. collective punishment and collective responsibility only exists for third world nations.

if you plant bombs in equipment you know with a high degree of certainty will enter civilian hands and be used around civilians, and you kill them or seriously maim them, this isn't terrorism, only Arabs commit terrorism

i'm a millennial who graduated from a texas high school in 2008. this is 100% exactly what it was like in the bush years. manufactured consent, omnipresent jingoistic nationalism, abject refusal to question the good vs evil narrative peddled by the government. i remember having conversations with friends about the unconscionable death toll of the iraq war and how we needed to get out, to which the response was often "and just abandon those citizens to the whims of violent dictators? we're there to spread democracy, this is about freedom." you'd tell someone about the unjust murders of Sikh people by riled up USAmericans and they'd be like "well obviously that's wrong, but the victim should've taken better precautions to not be viewed as a terrorist." i mean, this was the era when The Dixie Chicks, one of the most popular country bands in the states, had their entire career nuked from orbit for mildly criticizing Bush at a concert. the hysteria simply cannot be overstated.

and then obama got elected on the back of young people horrified at the war and its supporters. suddenly the critics all went quiet because The Good Guys Are In Charge, even though Obama was pretty much more of the same and in some cases worse. this was an equally impenetrable wall of ideology. any criticism of the Obama administration was met with "he's facing an immense uphill battle and anyway the GOP are putting up roadblocks everywhere." even though they dems had control of the house and senate for Obama's first two years, and wasted it. Obama's team dismantled the national infrastructure that got him elected and then he got a bunch of establishment guys in his cabinet. he increased drone strikes and all but declared war on whistle blowers. ah but it's okay because The Good Guys Are In Charge and they're trying their best despite the opposition, and anyway do you see how crazy the Other Guys are??? would you really rather have THEM in charge?!

then Trump got elected and suddenly everyone was criticizing the policies again. oh the border detention is so bad, the wall is evil, the trade war with China is stupid, he's gutting the USPS, he's given billionaires a tax break, we Have To Stop This Man....... and when Biden replaced him, all those criticisms went quiet despite the fact that he did not reverse any of those policies, and in fact made many of them worse. but you can't criticize him because at least The Good Guys Are In Charge and they're trying their best despite the opposition, and anyway do you see how crazy the Other Guys are??? would you really rather have THEM in charge?!

and here comes Kamala repeating debunked claims about why Palestinians deserve to be genocided, talking about "I will ensure America always has the strongest, most lethal fighting force in the world." Biden ran on stolen Medicare For All valor and has since presided over the largest disenrollment of people from Medicaid in American history. now Medicare For All isn't even on the table. she's riding in on a wave of exhaustion and despair through a system which has over decades eradicated material policy and the needs of constituents from the equation. this cycle has been happening and will continue to happen because the two parties of this country are two sides of the same coin, both representing their primary constituency of Filthy Rich Motherfuckers. and the whole cycle is there to simply maintain the necessity of war and violence and genocide, because it's where all the money is. and it's all the American media talks about. the insanity of the Bush era has seeped into the drinking water and has become a miasma from which we have yet to escape. it's disgusting, maddening, and heartbreaking to witness year after year, as the many lied-to rationalize violence they've been deliberately taught not to understand.

these people will never change what needs changing, no matter their party affiliation, unless forced to under massive social pressure. this is why they're investing so much in cop cities and surveillance and anti-protestor measures. they'll sooner wage war against working people on their own soil than accede the merest sliver of welfare, put even the mildest check on the violence of their allies. we've been living in a fascist dystopia for a long time already, we just don't call it that because our catastrophically rigged democracy has been normalized not as a tool for representational governance, but as a moral battleground of personal expression. idk man, it's pretty fucking bleak!!

Most of us will never know the agony of being a parent that does everything to provide for their child, only to keep coming up empty. Of the immense suffering and self-loathing that comes with being responsible for this little life, and feeling like you're failing: to keep them safe, warm, sheltered, fed. Of holding your child, your toddler, your newborn, watching them slowly waste away from that relentless, gnawing hunger you can't stop (one that you feel yourself). Watching as they howl in pain, and the hollowness that comes when your child becomes too weak even to do that. All the while being totally helpless to stop it because it's not up to you.

Most of us will only see the aftermath of such a thing: a parent carrying the far-too-light shroud of their child, pictured under a headline that details how starvation has taken hold of some given population. Distant and removed from us.

Except that it isn't. There are so many desperate parents who've run out of options, for whom this isn't some abstraction, who are asking—begging—us for our help. Just so they'll be able to buy some of the shit canned food left from the last aid delivery, and a couple loaves of bread to feed their children with. Extortionately pricey because of scarcity, but it's enough to keep their children in a state of "acute malnutrition" rather than "catastrophic hunger", so they'll pay anything for it.

Attacks on NGOs & prevention of aid into Gaza puts every single person there at risk of a slow death due to starvation. Especially children, like Samah's newborn baby boy, her little 2 year-old girl, and their big sister (who's only 9). But we can help. What's pocket money for us, is an invaluable lifeline to parents like Samah. At a time when so many seem to have decided to live in an alternate universe in which deliberate starvation and mass slaughter of civilians is acceptable, we have to do what we can to oppose it. Not to push it away, to ignore it, to decide it's been going on so long we don't care or that it's hopeless so give up, but to grit our teeth, dig our heels in, and say "no, seriously, what the fuck are we doing here?"

tldr: donate to Samah so she can buy food for her kids so they don't starve to death. please. and thank you. :)

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$4,156 / 5,000 USD.

WE ARE SO CLOSE TO THE GOAL. KEEP IT KICKING AND KEEP IT COMING. SAMAH AND HER FAMILY DEARLY NEED HELP.

hey what the fuck

this is not true. i dont know why people think this. the nazi soldiers wholeheartedly believed what they were doing was the right thing and that mechanizing genocide just made it easier. they did not think it was bad at all. they also destroyed hundreds of villages on the eastern front and tortured and murdered countless civilians to boost morale.

Some of the most instantly recognizable images of the Holocaust are from something known as the Stroop Report, a Nazi document detailing the liquidation of the Warsaw ghetto. In that report were images such as this one, which I'm sure you all have seen before:

The only reason we have these images is because souvenir photo albums were produced for Heinrich Himmler, head of the SS, Friedrich-Wilhelm Krüger, chief of the SS police forces in the General Government (occupied Poland), and SS-Gruppenfüher Jürgen Stroop, who wrote the report. The albums were described in the Nuremberg trials as "the finest example of ornate German craftsmanship, leather bound, profusely illustrated, typed on heavy bond paper". The Nazis absolutely bragged about what they were doing, they celebrated the "liquidations" and "eliminations" of Jews, Poles, Romani and other groups, they made souvenirs. The outside world knew what was going on too, maybe not as to the extent of the slaughter, but they knew. There are British intelligence reports from as early as February 1942 noting that there were mass scale killings being conducted on the Eastern Front, and there are newspaper articles all throughout 1942 and 1943 concerning rumours of mass executions taking place. Everyone knew what was going on, the whole "the German people were kept ignorant of the Holocaust" is a post war fabrication authored by former SS members (cf. "the clean Wehrmacht" myth). Fascist groups can't keep quiet about things like this, why would they? It's their entire raison d'etre, why would they admit to being ineffectual?

if anyone is trying to donate to help in Gaza through orgs, these ones were just banned by the Israeli government with no reason given and can no longer operate in Gaza (at least for now).

these are the orgs: Palestinian Australian New Zealand Medical Association, Glia Project, Palestinian American Bridge, PalMed, Baitulmaal, FAJR, Palestinian American Medical Association, Palestinian Children’s Relief Fund

from what i’ve been told by people who have been working in/coordinating aid in Gaza, Palestinian Red Crescent Society, World Central Kitchen, and Anera are unaffected by this order, but everyone has been limited in what they can bring in. while the middle two aren’t medical orgs, they have been bringing in some medicine. PRCS is a red cross affiliate providing medical care.

(not trying to sway anyone’s donations but wanted to put this out there since PCRF has been the org i’ve recommended several people donate to previously.)

They also explicitly ban medical workers of Palestinian descent from entering Gaza btw

In case you're wondering how responsible the US is for every murdered child, aid worker, and civilian in Palestine, it's 70%.

It's as much an American genocide as an Israeli one.

@fahedshehab-new is 30k away fromreaching his campaign goal and is trying to raise the funds needed since the 4th of May, and with winter approaching, the family needs to buy tent insolation which cost up to 300 dollars and The money they will collect will be allocated to cover the expensive travel expenses of my family , provide them with temporary shelter, and provide the necessary needs for the family during this difficult period please donate and reblog share the gfm link in your socials.

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@mohdiwais my dear friend, needs your help to get his family out of Gaza. Please donate and support his campaign.

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@ayeshjourney Mohamad Ayesh is the on-ground Gaza verifier of a lot of Gaza campaigns, and he needs our help to raise the necessary funds to help his younger brother Yasser, who is 10 years old and in urgent need to get his cochlear implant replaced and get back to his speech thereby and help his family rebuild their lives again.

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That’s a concentration camp, tho.

I posted something on this a few days ago, seems not many know the details:

@ahmedpalestine is feeling utterly devastated and hopeless. Ahmed was born and raised in the north of Gaza, but everything important to him has vanished and destroyed. It is devastating to read about your beloved city and neighborhood in the news and only death and displacement and suffering Ahmed wishes for the campaign to finish as quickly as possible and to get his family away from the genocide and with the news of the possibilities of the opening of the Rafah crossing we need to pick up the pace even more and give the khader family out of Gaza and reunite them again.

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UPDATE €6,015\€55,000 (11 October)

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Last Donation was an hour ago, and please keep donating and support my brother Ahmed.

PLEASE LET'S GET AHMED TO 7K TONIGHT

there's something very scary about the way we argue and entertain discourse on israel or on settler colonialism when, on the ground, israel has totally isolated northern gaza and is currently systemically liquidating jabalia (a refugee camp in northern gaza) just as they have, from the very beginning, said they would do. just as large swathes of israel came to be in 1948, to 1967, to the west bank today. there's something scary about watching indigenous people undergo a genocide in real-time in 2024 like they're squatters on some prime property while nobody moves except to argue about semantics. there's something scary about people being trapped and killed like fish in a barrel while you can text them and follow them on social media and watch their pleas in video as soldiers and tanks come closer. what the hell is this

jabalia in northern gaza has been under siege for over a week. no food aid in. constant bombing. journalists being openly targeted. the bbc describes israel's plan to use medieval siege tactics to ethnically cleanse and settle the north of gaza as a "controversial plan" while acknowledging that not only does israel not allow people enough time to use the humanitarian corridor to evacuate, they also shoot at people evacuating and are still targeting the south. they have also made it clear that whoever leaves will not be returning.

i don't really understand how the news can describe the process of genocide in such stark terms and call it a "controversial plan" instead of what it is: a horrifying crime against humanity.

i see they changed the headline after widespread condemnation with no apology or editor's note as usual. the BBC has done this multiple times over the past year:

everyone (including kamala harris) has acknowledged that aid isn't going into gaza and aid trucks are at the lowest they've been since the genocide began (and of the aid that enters, NONE reaches jabalia camp, currently under siege).

israeli reservists have confirmed that the so-called general's plan is, in fact, being acted out.

the biden admin issued a "thirty day notice" for israel to start letting aid in—people in jabalia have had no drinking water for ten days already. like rafah, the humanitarian pier, and all of biden's other "red lines" this is political theatre. the people of jabalia are being exterminated and have been for over a week.

as a side note, which many have forgotten: this happened with al-shifa hospital and the surrounding area. when israeli forces retreated (which will not happen if the general's plan is carried out) they found mass graves at the site, with nearly 500 people buried (some buried and bulldozed while still alive) in the courtyard.

10 October 2024

"In one year, 902 families have been wiped off the civil registry."

This is a genocide.