Here's hoping Duke's fist pump comes WAY WAY after you've all been let off that gd plane. (And feel better and gather strength to take down the gd prisons.)
Thank you for sharing! On 4/19, after the DC hearing and NYPD was invited to arrest students, Columbia U faculty released a statement, concluding: "We have lost confidence in our president and administration, and we pledge to fight to reclaim our university." drive.google.com/file/d/1rciM...
Excellent letter by Jewish faculty of Columbia U, exposing, analyzing, and calling for resistance to the weaponization of antisemitism in the service of a right-wing, white supremacist agenda docs.google.com/document/d/e...
Ending paragraphs to Gideon Levy's opinion piece in today's Haaretz, link: www.haaretz.com/opinion/2023...
"There’s a clear connection between the corruption trial, the government’s judicial overhaul, and the greatest failure [for Israel] since the 1973 Yom Kippur War, perhaps even since the establishment of the state." This opinion piece is even more precise & damning: www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
Haaretz offensively ranks humanity, here. Yes, Netanyahu and his fascist maneuvers to retain power and avoid criminal conviction squarely allowed Hamas to invade. But "the price was paid by the victims of the invasion in the Western Negev" AND the victims of Israel's retaliatory genocide in Gaza.
This Haaretz editorial lays the blame for the war in Israel squarely at the feet of Netanyahu, where it damn well belongs:
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I'm glad your cousin wasn't harmed. My two teenage nieces were in the south just days before. It's easy *and* harrowing to empathize with families in every area under attack.
Old Twitter thread going viral so reposting here: I grew up in a Zionist household, spent 12 years in a Zionist youth movement, lived 4 years in Israel, and have friends and family who served in the IDF. When that is your world, it's hard to see apartheid when it's happening. 1/16