Don't think that small actions can't make a difference.
"Irish grapefruit story"
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@EndIsraeliApartheid I wonder what id do if I were a customer or employee. Would I trust myself to intervene? Would I make it worse somehow? Would I provide comfort to the aggressor, unwittingly or due to unexamined biases?
I'd like to think I'd know how to de-escalate but then there's such levels of injustice that efforts to maintain calm feel like supporting the status quo.
#UN / What is the purpose of continuing to send arms to Israel?
"Is it apathy, indifference, a head in the sand, continuation of business as usual?
Is it profits? The desire to make more profits no matter the cost, legal, moral or reputational?
Or is it ideology, emanating from a racist logic whereby different values are placed on different lives? People of the Global South, or of a certain skin colour or nationality are seen as more disposable, less deserving of life, empathy, outrage or respect for the law?
There is no diplomatic way of calling out racism. It is time to call a spade a spade."
"...If you choose to continue sending weapons to #Israel as it annihilates the Palestinian of #Gaza, then you do not get to ever pretend again that you support international law, care about human life, or have moral convictions that apply universally".
https://twitter.com/ousmannoor/status/1760595667641057720?s=20 or https://nitter.net/ousmannoor/status/1760595667641057720?s=20
Nada Tarbush is a diplomat at Palestine Mission to the United Nations.
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This speech by @Tarbush_Nada at a @UN conference yesterday will go down in history. In front of a room filled with states from around the world, she exposes the racist ideology that underpins Western support for Israel. What is the purpose of continuing to send arms to Israel,…