How can it be that immediately after Holocaust Remembrance Day, the Israeli military is preparing a ground invasion of Rafah? The invasion will cause the senseless deaths of tens of thousands of Palestinian children. Many figures in the Israeli government have emphasized that their chief goal is to render Gaza completely uninhabitable.

"The entire Gaza Strip should be emptied and leveled flat, just like in Auschwitz."

-David Azulai, head of the City Council of Metula

"The idea that an understanding of the genocide, that a memory of the holocausts, can only lead people to want to dismantle the system is erroneous. The continuing appeal of nationalism suggests that the opposite is truer, namely, that an understanding of genocide has led people to mobilize genocidal armies, that the memory of holocausts has led people to perpetrate holocausts. The sensitive poets who remembered the loss, the researchers who documented it, have been like the pure scientists who discovered the structure of the atom... Nationalists used the poetry to split and fuse human populations, to mobilize genocidal armies, to perpetrate new holocausts."

-Fredy Perlman, Jewish anti-Zionist and anarchist, one of the few members of his family who survived the Holocaust

https://crimethinc.com/GazaGenocide

Hey friends, a new post for your weekend reading 😘

"Twitter is dead. It has been replaced by something we have never seen before: a blend of highly engaged, influential media/political accounts posting happily inside the newly formed infrastructure of a seething, hate-soaked racist right-wing fever swamp.

My late-2022 assumption that moral disgust would cause a rapid collapse in X’s user base was wrong. I should have predicted this, knowing that assumption is the mother of all fuckups. X has become as mean-spirited as predicted, but it hasn’t collapsed, and it hasn’t suffered a major loss of its user base"

Featuring an update of my 2023 analysis of climate deniers and pro-climate-action accounts, and some thoughts on why X has retained such a massive user base, despite months and months of ever-worsening problems.

Please share it around if you like it :)

https://ketanjoshi.co/2024/04/19/you-are-the-fuel-that-energises-elon-musks-hate-machine/

We call on all Jews to reject the politics of Jewish exceptionalism and to hold our communities accountable for supporting and enabling Israel’s genocidal and wholly unjustifiable war.

https://mondoweiss.net/2024/01/israels-war-on-gaza-and-our-jewish-communal-institutions/

#Palestine #Israel #Gaza
@palestine @israel

As Egypt builds a five-meter-high concrete wall to seal off a five-square-kilometer area along the border with Gaza, we cannot help but think of the "no-go zone" on the border between Poland and Belarus, in which thousands of refugees have been enclosed over a period of years, trapped between countries and left to die.

https://crimethinc.com/NoBordersTeam

Since 2021, the government of Belarus has cynically used thousands of refugees displaced by wars in Syria, Afghanistan, Iraq, Ethiopia, and elsewhere as a weapon with which to exert pressure on the European Union. EU governments have callously left these refugees in limbo between two militarized borders, establishing a restricted zone so that observers cannot see them die.

The majority of the inhabitants of Gaza were already refugees from other parts of Palestine. The world has already turned a blind eye while the Israeli government has set about ethnic cleansing in Gaza. If we permit them to complete that process by forcing the survivors into a containment zone across the Egyptian border, it will set a gruesome precedent that will be repeated elsewhere around the world.