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Abolitionist of all authoritarianisms
Banner pic: Nina Simone and James Baldwin. PP art by Molly Crabapple.
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Refaat Alareer, the poet and founder of We Are Not Numbers, was killed alongside his family by an Israeli strike. He was an old acquaintance and I will be mourning him and his loved ones today.
Refaat was recently interviewed on Popular Front, a very difficult interview to listen to. As he's talking to Jake you can hear the bombs in the background getting closer, and his children screaming.
Israel is exterminating everyone.
This is genocide.
"from Idlib to Gaza, the wound is one."
Syrians in Idlib are fundraising for Gazans
https://www.newarab.com/features/wound-one-northwest-syria-rallies-aid-gaza
Syrians in isolated rebel-held northwest Syria have rallied to support Gaza, fundraising in mosques and holding protests and vigils, even in the midst of an escalating regime bombing campaign, as they say, "From Idlib to Gaza, the wound is one".
Palestinian poet, scholar, and librarian Mosab Abu Toha was beaten up by the Israeli army, his passports (including the American one) and all his documents taken away.
Mosab is the founder of the Edward Said library in Gaza. He's a National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist & Palestine Book Award Winner.
The army of thugs with access to billions of $ of Western money beat up a librarian.
German panic continues.
Greta has done more for the climate movement than the entirety of the German establishment, especially given German's carbon footprint.
And there has been no evidence of a 'rift' beyond Germany. The German 'left' is the main one losing its brains over Palestine. They're the ones who have to sit with the fact that their nation is on the side of genocide, again.
My mom made this out of destroyed glass from the August 4th 2020 explosion in Beirut.
Middle glass is from the 19th century, from a house she had renovated.
The figure is that of a Lebanese person on traditional clothing.
White Germans calling Jews they don't like "alibi Jews" is the new thing now. They're going after Judith Butler the same way fascists went after Soros. They're going after Greta and saying she's basically worse than the literal Nazis.
Germany's public meltdown continues. And not a single thing the state has so far done has been about protecting Jewish people. It's almost like they think about Jews as if they're not really there. It's all abstract for them.
