"More than 9,600 Palestinians are currently held in the Israeli regime’s detention facilities. Of these, more than 3,500 are held under administrative detention, imprisoned indefinitely without charge or trial."

By Yara Hawari, co-director of Al-Shabaka, the Palestinian Policy Network: https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2026/5/21/this-is-the-face-of-israel @palestine

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Palestinian women in Israeli prisons have forged a remarkable unity, particularly around educational initiatives.

Subscription required, by Hélène Servel and Asja Zaino: https://mondediplo.com/2025/01/01palestinian-women @palestine

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The EU has nominal limits on members' spending.

It enforces budget limits for nurses and public services; and authorizes overreach for the military.
It enforces budget limits on countries like Greece and Portugal; and authorizes overreach of Germany:
https://www.politico.eu/article/brussels-approves-germanys-mega-spending-plan/

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"We should first examine how colonisation works to decivilise the coloniser, to literally dumb them down, to degrade them, to awaken them to buried instincts, to greed, to violence, to racial hatred, to ethical relativism."

Aimé Césaire in "Discours sur le colonialisme", 1950

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"The Zionist produces and defines itself through the animalization of the Palestinian."

"Palestinian liberation is an impossibility in the current ordering of knowledge and being, similarly demanding through its realization the end of […] this world, and modernity."

This paper "posits that Palestinian freedom necessitates the creation of new worlds and [the getting rid of encumbering] constructs such as modernity and the Human."

https://fallingintoincandescence.com/2025/05/18/afropessimism-and-palestinian-liberation-an-essay/ by Scott Campbell @susurros

@philosophy 🧶

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"The attack on Iran is just the latest crime in the Israeli regime’s path of destruction across the Middle East. Its Western-backed impunity has become a global threat."
by Craig Mokhiber : https://mondoweiss.net/2025/06/rogue-states-the-illegality-of-the-u-s-backed-israeli-attacks-on-iran/

@israel

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