you say it's hard enough to live

What actually "proves" anything is a male in his 40s with an unaccomplishing, ordinary career on the male league somehow becoming an olympic-worth athlete in the female league even after years of not competing. An ordinary man is now an extraordinary woman, that by some obscure unknown reason happened to beat all hard working women who have trained non-stop just to be overthrown by someone whose only merit is...being born male.

This is a non-exhaustive list of brands to boycott if you would like to participate in the Palestinian call for global Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) against the Israeli occupation. I've excluded security, construction, etc. firms that cannot be boycotted in an individual capacity. However, pressuring governments & other organisations to refuse contracts to those firms is an integral part of the BDS movement. Will also try to make seperate posts on how to add your voice to the academic and cultural boycott of Israel.

On another note, Coca-Cola and Nestle belong on every boycott list. Not just because they are complicit in the Israeli occupation but also because they have committed some of the worst human rights violations the world over. Coca-Cola has gone as far as having Union leaders murdered. Both Coca-Cola and Nestle steal water supplies and create water insecurity in already marginalised regions among many, many other crimes. I did not include them in the list because I am aware of how overwhelmed people become when they see those two companies and all their endless subsidiaries and I wanted to keep the list targeted on companies that have been the specific focus of the Palestinian BDS movement.

I have also excluded some brands that are often on older BDS lists, like McDonald's, because over the years they have stopped engaging in the activity that resulted in their boycott or have simply fallen to a lower priority because their relatively lower level of involvement compared to the brands that are our focus.

Holy.Shit.

The official Israel Arabic Twitter account just quoted the QURAN Surah on that reads: “For He sent against them flocks of birds, that pelted them with stones of baked clay,” (The Quran is the holy text of Islam, the dominant religion of Gaza)

the unquote passage that follows reads “leaving them like chewed up straw.”

All over a photo of an Israeli missile strike in the Gaza Strip, where over 200 civilians have died with a THIRD being children.

Persecuted people, including victims of ethnic cleansing and colonialism, utilize nationalism to maintain a cultural identity in spite of the forces trying to stamp out said identity or dilute it as part of the colonialist agenda. Nationalism, in this case, is a necessity for survival. The French anarchist stating “let chaos reign” in the presence of a freaking Palestinian revolutionary is just so very backwards, as Palestinian life had been utter chaos as it were, and anarchy is not a solution to settler-colonialism. As Leila Khaled states, it’s a common trait amongst Western leftists to just not really understand the struggles of colonized or persecuted people, despite claiming to be on the same side fighting the same fight.