no one colonizes innocently…no one colonizes with impunity either…a civilization which justifies colonization—& therefore force–is already a sick civilization
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Really wanted to stop this individual and ask how I, a Native American who believes in Israel’s right to exist as a Jewish and Democratic State alongside its Arab neighbors, inclusive of a future Palestinian, am racist. But alas, not sure he’d have any thoughtful responses. 🤷🏾♂️
Israeli forces are flooding Gaza with seawater, under the pretext of destroying the tunnels. This will result in the long-term destruction of groundwater & aquifers, rendering agriculture & drinking water impossible, eliminating life for decades. This is a crime against humanity
THIS IS HUGE!
“Maritime shipping giant OOCL, which is based in Hong Kong, has announced that it will immediately cease handling Israeli shipping of any kind and to any port, whether importing or exporting.”
Israel didn’t just target the World Central Kitchen workers once. The survivors of the first drone attack got into another car and were attacked again. The survivors of the second attack were finally killed in a third vehicle. There’s nothing unintentional about this.
🚨Zomi & Chef Oli's last video shows them cooking meals for Gaza's hungry in
@WCKitchen
.
They were killed today by Israeli warplanes in
#Gaza
, in disregard of international laws, echoing the daily killings of Palestinian civilians in Gaza over the past 177 days.
#GazaGenocid
European colonialism is apparently over yet France receives a "colonial tax" from 14 former colonies in Africa to then loan them back their own money with high interests so they can give gov't contracts to French companies. If this isn't neo-colonialism, then what do we call it?
Hitler is knocking on the doors of the homes of the European and North American middle class—and many have already let him in.
—Gustavo Petro, President of Colombia
If you downplayed the queen's power, here's a reminder she successfully lobbied to be exempted from the law of transparency. Parliament also needed the "Queen’s consent" before legislature that would affect private interests could be approved. She had more than symbolic power.
On Jan 26, '2024, the
@CIJ_ICJ
ordered Israel to take “all measures in its power” to prevent acts of genocide. Since then:
March 13-14: Israel murdered 69 Palestinians
March 12-13: Israel murdered 88 Palestinians
March 11-12: Israel murdered 72 Palestinians
March 8-11:…
We shouldn’t only focus on those who have been fired for being in solidarity with Palestine. Here’s an important thread of all the people who have been fired for being pro-Israel. 🧵1/
Israeli officials say Netanyahu wants Alan Dershowitz to represent Israel at the
@CIJ_ICJ
hearing next week about South Africa's accusation that it is conducting genocide in Gaza. I called
@AlanDersh
who didn't deny and said: "I can't comment about it at this time"
Destroying Islamic universities and Mosques isn’t considered Islamophobic or a war crime but the word intifada is considered anti-Semitic and genocidal.
I repeat, decolonization is not about making room for historically excluded people to have a seat at the same table. It's about destroying the damn table to change the terms of the conversation to change the colonial order of things.
WATCH: Israeli President Isaac Herzog arrived Sunday morning in Kigali, where he will join Rwandans and friends of
#Rwanda
at the 30th commemoration of the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi.
#Kwibuka30
Palestinians have the right to resist colonialism!
Palestinians have the right to resist occupation!
Palestinians have the right to resist apartheid!
Palestinians have the right to resist displacement!
Palestinians have the right to live with dignity in their own land!
Academia loves to decolonize everything besides occupied land. Its silence on Palestine is enough to know how decolonization has become a metaphor signifying everything besides material change and collective resistance.
Shai Davidai has 50 official complaints filed against him and is currently under investigation but he was never suspended. Meanwhile, I was suspended yet there was never a complaint filed against me. It was never about protecting students but about silencing those who speak out.
"This is not Iraq or Syria, this is a civilized and European country," as
@CBSNews
reports, parallels what was said about the floods in Germany. Bad things aren't supposed to happen to the socalled civilized first world. The coloniality of these discourses is clear.
Columbia University made a huge mistake calling the cops on student protesters. It has transformed the activism of hundreds of students into a student movement of thousands with millions around the world watching. Thank you Minouche Shafik!
New York University constructing a border around sites of popular support for anti-Zionism. All the walls will fall, free Palestine, end the genocide of Gaza, and may the students be victorious
It’s antisemitic for mainstream media to pretend that pro-Palestine protests don’t include Jewish people. It’s antisemitic to present Jewish people as a monolith supporting a genocidal settler colonial state. It’s antisemitic to disregard anti-zionist Jewish perspectives.
Atrocities of England and the British Empire
1. Colonization of Ireland
2. Colonization of 25 percent of the World
3. Transatlantic Slave Trade
4. Opium Wars
5. Violent Repression of the Mau Mau Uprising
6. Famine in India
Finish the list for Jeff Bezos.
People really believe colonialism is an event rather than a structure that needs to be dismantled through a decolonizing process. That's why people are so obsessed with the Queen's grace toward hasty decolonization, which left colonial arrangements in place.
"The colonizer did not simply design an education system. They designed an education especially to destroy Indigenous cultures, value systems and appearance."
Linda Tuhiwai Smith
A 🧵of Edward Said quotes that sound as if they were written today.
“In the West, Palestinians are immediately associated with terrorism, as Israel has seen to it that they are. Stripped of its context, an act of Palestinian desperation looks like wanton murder.” 1/
This is what the militarization of the most liberal university in Texas looks like. These fascist state troopers are back at UT Austin to disperse protestors.
The colonizer did not simply design an education system. They designed an education especially to destroy Indigenous cultures, value systems and appearance.
—Linda Tuhiwai Smith
Kill those who don’t accept you as their master, civilize them with your education, and tell them you only bring development to the poor & uncivilized ones - Musk speaking about Gaza to Israeli President in the language of a ‘South African’ colonizer
This tweet didn’t age well. After nearly seven months of harassing and doxxing students, Shai Davidai still hasn’t been suspended or fired, even though he has 50 official complaints made against him.
Since we’re always focusing on pro-Palestine professors and students who have been suspended or fired, I decided to create this thread of everyone who has been negatively affected for being pro-Israel. 🧵 1/10
It’s crystal clear that Black and Brown faces in high places will not save us. In fact, they won’t think twice to criminalize, arrest, torture, and kill us.
Colonial and racist logics expressed by news reporters, commentators, and analysts.
1. 'Now the unthinkable has happened to them, and this is not a developing, third world nation, this is Europe.'
2. “Europeans with blond hair and blue eyes are being killed..”
I repeat, Indigenous and negatively racialized peoples' knowledges are not "underrepresented". They are systematically excluded and invalidated from all spheres of social existence.
If the Israelis invade…to massacre us, I’m going to use that marker to throw it at the Israeli soldiers even if it’s the last thing I will be able to do.
—Refaat Alareer (killed by Israel)
When you read Fanon, you learn that during decolonization, some (not all) combatants commit terrible things. He doesn't justify these acts but situates them within the colonial, psychosocial, and asymmetrical power context in which they’re committed.
When Justice Alito says that “before the arrival of Europeans, the tribes were at war with each other”, he isn’t only saying that Indigenous people were “uncivilized.” He’s implying Europeans brought a peaceful civilization, which denies settler colonialism’s genocidal project.
While many of us are facing consequences for speaking out against genocide, professor Seth Crosby’s university never suspended him or initiated an investigation, despite his explicit support for ethnic cleansing.
I wish I could see my English honors high school teacher again to thank her for not believing in me, saying that this undocumented Cholo didn't belong in her class since, according to her assessment, I was apparently reading at the elementary level. Now I read/write for a living.
If Hitler would've won the war and became emperor, history would've been narrated in his favor, erasing Nazi Germany's atrocities. His heirs would be defended by Jeff Bezos and all the royalist trolls.
Colonialism isn't over and it isn't a past we'll forget!!!