a person.

Senators have been proposing a law that'd punish any criticism of Israel with as far as five year of prison and 100000€ of fining.

It is very wrong and bad because the pro-palestine protests have already been subjected to mass fining of 135€ for the people who attended.

It tries to conflate holding Israel accountable with antisemitism, but these two things are very different.

A lot of jewish people are against the actions of Israel, and conflating a genocidal, colonial, apartheid governement with a group of people is the true error there.

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You can translate the petition if you want more information.

people are also currently asking board to ban saying that the founding of israel was colonialism—equating this to saying racial slurs—and were complaining about my status back when it was "palestine will be free", too

suffice to say, fuck that place, don't give the OTW your money, and don't fucking volunteer there

Liberation for Palestinians 🇵🇸 and Sudanese 🇸🇩 and all

Anyone perpetually posting solidarity and raising awareness is doing some good, but if your posting consists only of shocking people with very explicit images of violence, and then shaming and guilt-tripping anyone who can’t stand to look at it…

I dunno. I don’t think this is going to be very productive. Like, I get being frustrated by apathy and disliking the way mental health can be weaponised to be selfish etc.

But accusing anyone not covering their socials in news about Palestine + Sudan + Congo + others of being an imperialist accomplice or some such is just going to turn more people away. It’s also shockingly myopic. Capitalism, its soul deadening work culture, its precarity, its consumerist escapism, its climate nihilism, its reactionary resurgence… all of it hasn’t stopped. Anyone but the actual bourgeoisie, i.e. anyone who has to work for a living, no matter how middle class or privileged, is feeling the deadly bite of capitalism’s collapse. Material conditions have not changed. Let’s not pretend that people’s need to withstand this onslaught of horror is incompatible with solidarity or making a meaningful difference.

Stop with this ‘ we are the true allies/empaths/activists’ posturing. If your tactic is to decry all outsiders to your movement as moral cowards and genocide enablers then you are not aiding your cause. Enough with this egoistic self-aggrandisement. This activism of shame is not sustainable. Guilt cannot keep people on board without burning them out.

In activism, as in anything, we should act by the values we hold. No the ends justifying the means bullshit (antisemitism, Islamophobia and dehumanisation are always wrong btw).

May the worshippers of power choke on their prize.

May the forgotten people find freedom and peace

[left: Anam is 90 years old. She lived through the Nakba in 1948, and today she was displaced again from the city to the south of the Gaza Strip.]

via ig: belalkh

[right: Amalia born in Martakert, Artsakh in 1920. Older than the borders of her region. She has experienced genocide all her life. She is now a refugee.]

Baby boy reunited with his Mama.

This is a picture of Montaser Al Sawaf, another Palestinian journalist killed by the IOF:

I am continually enraged by the normalization of Palestinian people's deaths in mainstream western media, and the constant dehumanization of each of their lives. They are not just numbers -they are people who have dreams, ambitions, livelihoods, families, friends, hobbies, and interests.

images I screenshotted towards the end of this video clip:

Original Tweet/X Post states: Presenting, "your sustainable future with eV batteries" Brought to you by: Cobalt Mines of Congo. Twitter/X User Response to this video, originally: What scares me is so much "green" technology and products and such are built off human suffering. The entire world is built on this. The entire world is irrevobaly tied to mass exploitation and I desperately hope that changes in my lifetime. #CongoGenocide #CongoIsBleeding

I have attached a video below these Tweet/X images of Congolese people in Cobalt mines. Video Description: Men, in front of a large, dark brown and muddy area of the mine are digging other men out of a hole that have been inside, excavating for Cobalt. These men are not wearing any protective equipment; other than something to cover their eyes, like goggles and lights attached to them. There is a crowd of people surrounding this area and many are cheering them on; a few men are pulled out due to the velocity/force of being pushed out of the mine area they are coming out from. It looks like the mine is opening up and down like the entrance of a beast's mouth. The exit of this part of the mine opens and closes several times during this video. I took a screenshot at the end of the video to showcase how many people have gathered, and there appears to be hundreds.

“Marah Bakir, who was been imprisoned for eight years since she was 15 years old, embraces freedom at these moments after being held in solitary confirment for over 40 days. Marah is the representative of the women prisoners' movement.

She is one of 11 prisoners from Al-Quds who were released moments ago.”

Don't panic or try to dart around us as fast as you can if we're coming your way. Try saying hi and telling us what side you're yielding on instead. Edit: if you can't move out of the way, that's fine, please give a verbal heads up! We don't mind accommodating other disabled people at all .

Don't do that thing where people try to go completely silent and unnoticed. It's more helpful if we can know where other people are in a space, and it's pretty freaky when people intentionally try to hide from us.

Don't touch our canes without asking, especially if we are actively using it. Our canes are our way of interacting with the world and staying safe, interruptions are disorienting and dangerous. It would be like getting poked in both your eyes.

Don't ask us if we're lost just because we have a cane.

Politely offering help for things like crossing a street is great, but always respect it if we say no and never just grab us.

If we have a funky coloured cane or decorations on it, compliments are definitely welcome!

Watch your toes for your own sake. We don't want to whack you but it happens sometimes!

Be patient if we take longer to navigate or explore things. Sometimes it's necessary and other times it's our way of making up for what we can't see with what we can feel and hear.