Edward Said, and the Palestine that was never an empty desert
[from FB post by We Stand With Francesca Albanese]
#EdwardSaid was born on November 1, 1935, in Jerusalem, Palestine.
He dedicated his work to dismantling the false historiography used to justify the founding of the State of Israel.
Before the first Aliyot, Jews made up barely 3% of the population.
#Palestine was not an empty desert. It was a prosperous territory of the Ottoman Empire, with banks, industry, and agricultural exports that rivaled those of Italy.
Its population grew endogenously precisely because it was a thriving place.
Much of the population living today in #Gaza and the #WestBank descends from the families expelled from the lands that now make up #Israel.
#FreePalestine #SanctionIsrael
#AntiZionismIsNotAntisemitism #BDS #DivestFromIsrael #SolidarityWithPalestineIsNotAntisemitism #EqualRightsForAllFromTheRiverToTheSeaIsNotAntisemitic
#JewHatredHurtsPalestine
#news #politics
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in which Dunt outs himself as a zio-apologist.
So much coded and inflammatory language in the quoted part of the Politico article (which wasn't provided by Dunt).
Dunt: "I find myself getting quite frustrated with this 'well it's a contested definition'. It's only contested if you think the views of ignorant people are as valid as those who know what they're talking about."
FFS.
#ZionismIsRacism #FreePalestine #AntizionismIsNotAntisemitism #UKPolitics #CentristMelts
𝐀𝐍 𝐎𝐋𝐃 𝐒𝐎𝐂𝐈𝐀𝐋𝐈𝐒𝐓 𝐉𝐄𝐖 𝐓𝐇𝐈𝐒 𝐘𝐎𝐌 𝐊𝐈𝐏𝐏𝐔𝐑
[#Poem posted on FB by Pete Seidman, a #socialist activist since the late 60's.]
“𝘛𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘴𝘩𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘣𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘢 𝘭𝘢𝘸 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘦,” 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘉𝘰𝘰𝘬 𝘰𝘧 𝘓𝘦𝘷𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘶𝘴 𝘥𝘦𝘤𝘭𝘢𝘳𝘦𝘴. “𝘠𝘰𝘶 𝘴𝘩𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘱𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘦 𝘴𝘦𝘭𝘧-𝘥𝘦𝘯𝘪𝘢𝘭 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘥𝘰 𝘯𝘰 𝘮𝘢𝘯𝘯𝘦𝘳 𝘰𝘧 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘬 … 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘰𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘥𝘢𝘺, 𝘢𝘵𝘰𝘯𝘦𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘴𝘩𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘣𝘦 𝘮𝘢𝘥𝘦 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘵𝘰 𝘱𝘶𝘳𝘪𝘧𝘺 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘰𝘧 𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘴𝘪𝘯𝘴.”
The moral sense in my old bones
Compels no need in me to atone
I feel furious anger
not any shame
For the genocide that’s being waged in my name.
And I’ll not own it if it’s all just the same
I will work at rage against it this and every other day
Something very plain I’ll say:
To the god those war criminals invoke in vain
If you’re up there in the sky
Idly watching more than seventy thousand Palestinians die,
Wash your hands of that Zionist rot!
Whose outrages make the world’s finest cry
And on our pages smear a bloody blot.
—Pete Seidman, 9/20/26
#AntiZionismIsNotAntisemitism
#Israel #Palestine #Gaza #Jewish #Jew #politics #poetry
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Masafer Yatta, West Bank - ‘Everything necessary for human life was erased’
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/53106089
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/53106049
from +972’s Sunday Recap
972Magazine [published in Israel]
September 20, 2026
At the beginning of September, in the span of a week, Israeli bulldozers demolished Al-Taban and northern Fakhit, two neighboring Palestinian communities in Masafer Yatta. After witnessing the demolitions, Basel Adra spoke to residents who described how “everything necessary for human life was erased”; when they tried to help each other stay on the land, soldiers came to make arrests.
Also:
+972 condemns escalating threats against ‘NAZA’ directors
A West Bank-style settler outpost comes to northern Israel
UK settlement sanctions are an opening gambit. Here’s what should follow
Why Latin America is key to Israel’s diplomatic impunity
#SanctionIsrael #AllEyesOnWestBank
#SettlerTerroristsOut #StopStarvingGaza #FreePalestine #StopArmingIsrael #AntiZionismIsNotAntisemitism
#RestoreFundsToUNRWA
“Atrocities without any fear of consequences.”
https://www.jewishvoiceforpeace.org/2026/08/12/israels-targeting-of-journalists-in-gaza-and-beyond/
from #TheWire
[online publication of #JVP #JewishVoiceForPeace in #USA]
August 12, 2026
Intentionally targeting journalists is a war crime, and doing so on this scale is unprecedented. But over the last three years, as the world stood by, #Israel has turned its war on the press into a hallmark of its genocidal strategy, expressly targeting and murdering #Palestinian journalists in an attempt to silence their reporting from the depths of the #genocide. In both 2025 and 2024, more than two-thirds of journalists killed globally were killed by Israel — and more journalists have been killed in the #Gaza genocide, by far, than in any conflict in modern history.
Also:
Act now: Demand Western media recognize Israel’s war on the pressWhat we’re reading: “Remembering Anas, Mohammed and Gaza’s other slain journalists”
#FreePalestine
#AntiZionismIsNotAntisemitism
#news #politics #USpol #Palestine @palestine
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