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bassem 𓂆

3 months

I wrote about the apparent incompatibility between human rights and martyrdom in Palestine, as exemplified by the ongoing Gaza genocide—for @proteanmag

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Palestine's Martyrdom Upends the World of Law • Protean Magazine

Bassem Saad writes on the contradictions of human rights discourse and international legal structures and the meaning of martyrdom. Hypocrisy is all too clear in the "Palestine exception."

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bassem 𓂆

2 years

170 arrests made today in Berlin, of individuals carrying flags or wearing anything referencing Palestine. Any two people or more found saying Free Palestine in public were considered as forming a protest and arrested—simply, this is how Germany's Nazi past is being dealt with

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Is anyone checking up on Sisi's Egypt

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have you thought of how full a room feels when there are two children in it? what does 12,400 children mean?

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one of the countless tragedies of the genocide in Gaza is that barely any attention is left for the land theft and colonial settlement being perpetrated in the occupied West Bank (not to speak of the thousands of hostages taken there since October)

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Itay Epshtain

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BREAKING: Next week #Israel is to approve #Jerusalem periphery #E1 South and East spatial plans, which would allow for the addition of 3,401 settlement housing units and the transfer - in grave breach of international law - of an additional 14,500 settlers to the heart of the…

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imagine losing a son and becoming a face for the massacre of Palestinians by the Israeli state to an entire generation, only to lose two more this week. who knows what Jamal al-Durrah has been through since 2000. Unimaginable cruelty

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Hanine Hassan حنين

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Jamal al-Dura, the father of 12-year-old Muhammad al-Durrah who was murdered by #Israel during the Second Intifada, bids farewell to his brothers.

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6 months

draft law being discussed by the German Bundestag this Friday would make "commitment to Israel's right to exist" a requirement for citizenship—every week is a new beast!

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urgent appeal from a doctor in Shifa Hospital near Gaza City, which has once again received orders to evacuate: doctors and staff refuse to leave patients and others who cannot evacuate behind, knowing well that the hospital will be bombed if they do

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with Gaza being parceled off into patches and targeted by number, we must understand that the IDF has transfomed the Strip into a giant computer grid for the extermination of the Palestinian people. this method will be an object of study for years to come

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anyone referring to Dahiyeh as a "Hezbollah stronghold" is, consciously or not, contributing to the exclusion of its residents from the category of "civilian" and legitimizing their targeting, as well as sowing division within the Lebanese populace

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More info on the arrests today following the ban on Palestine solidarity protests in Berlin:

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Hebh Jamal

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The situation in Berlin is extremely tense. Police are literally arresting anyone they seen on the street who even says “free palestine” or wears a keffiyah. An hour ago German police arrested one of the most important Palestinian activists in Germany, @RamsyKilani

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what cannot be forgotten is that Hezbollah has stated earlier that any assassination on Lebanese soil will be considered a qualitative escalation on the Lebanese front. this is not just a high-profile assassination, but also a decision to escalate on the Lebanese front.

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since all Palestine solidarity protests were shut down in the past few days, Berlin police have taken to installing themselves by the dozen in different spots in Neukolln where young Arab people hang out. Racial profiling, staring down everyone on the street

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i love the DJs who are withdrawing from Germany in support of palestine so much because it'll be like: S$LOTTY, Daggercunt, PunaniXHunter, bwöbwö, JOJOBAdripdrip will NOT be joining us tonight free palestine

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after the fig leaf of those 20 humanitarian aid trucks, as we drown in meta-discourse on the war, Gaza is experiencing its WORST night of bombing in all three weeks. 42% of all housing units have been destroyed. They are succeeding at eradicating all bases of life in Gaza

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i'm sorry but how is Israel's proposal for the Venice Biennial actually the worst, most comically villainous thing i've ever heard? a "FertilityPavilion" for a nation that has killed 15,000 Palestinian children in 5 months. SHUT IT DOWN, sign here:

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New draft law in Germany would secretly inform on (political) suspects to other citizens: "if a Muslim, whom the Federal Office for Islamism suspects, tries to find an apartment - then the agents should be allowed to contact the potential landlord"

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the extent to which we are normalizing the idea that direct violence by gun/by an Islamist militia is inherently worse than violence rained through aerial bombardment over decades—while ignoring the actual number of dead infants or civilians—is chilling

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the way in which German officials and press are falling over themselves because of the overwhelming solidarity with Palestine at Berlinale and activist Basel Adra's speech is an indicator of the levels of censorship which those in power expect of cultural platforms in Germany 🧵

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Israel targeting the Gaza Strip by city block, in parcels that follow the outlines of the existing urban grid, means that it has effectively manufactured enough consent from US and other elite opinion to slaughter Palestinians beyond any rhetorical pretense of military targets

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3 years ago, my father, a retired public school teacher in Beirut whose pension now amounts to 200$ a month, took this photo when he received humanitarian aid after the August 4 port explosion in the form of a lot of Chex Mix bags

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2 years

it was really not the best week for this Tel Aviv festival to try to invite me to have an "Israeli premiere" for my film—

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new level of perversity: Berlin police cancelled the one NYE Palestine solidarity demo, but is allowing two demos which will be full of Israeli flags to pass through Arab majority neighborhoods—perfect alibi to portray Arabs as antisemitic and manufacture more consent for the war

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a historical fact that cannot be repeated enough is that successive Israeli governments have NEVER ONCE engaged in good faith negotiation with a Palestinian representative—secular or Islamist, accommodationist or not, regardless of demands, borders, forms/tactics of resistance

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6 months

What a night ahead. We are reduced to prayer, when we've never believed less in God

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2 years

Mahmoud Darwish in Godard's Notre Musique (2004) — on the Trojan poet

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6 months

the German ultraleft summed up in one graffiti series freshly sprayed in a bathroom stall at the public library: Punch Nazis / Freedom for all Antifascists / Long Live Israel

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Berlin police continuously harassing people wearing the Palestinian kufiye while sitting in an outdoor café near the square where a gathering for Nakba Day was meant to take place

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Glory to the martyr Walid Daqqah, who was made to die in Israeli prison, being denied adequate care for his cancer, long after his sentence was finished. In 2020, his daughter Milad with wife Sana Salameh was born through smuggled sperm. Read below some of his writing:

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They wanted to displace the residents of #SheikhJarrah , what they got was the liberation of Al- #Lod #اللد

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as I typed my last tweet on racism in German media, a white German standing behind me 1) read my screen 2) started harassing me and told me to leave if I think it's racist 3) said my tweet is public so why wouldn't he read it, as I repeated that he should be ashamed of himself

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6 months

"In addition, those affected would not even know what is being said behind their backs. So they couldn't defend themselves." — words often do fail!

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6 months

full solidarity with David Velasco, this is the real cancel culture: anti-Palestinian crackdown and censorship. The "peace" that Amalia Dayan—granddaughter of mythic IDF chief Moshe Dayan—speaks of is just eternal subjugation of Palestinians

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bassem 𓂆

4 years

Please support and donate to @EgnaLegnaDWU who are doing excellent work supporting migrant domestic workers who are subjected to terrible labor conditions in Lebanon!

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bassem 𓂆

4 months

six martyrs so far, including Al-Arouri. today it's a targeted assassination of a Hamas leader, tomorrow it's full-scale bombardment in Beirut. Israel knows no limits, and no sovereignty or stability is possible in the region without its dismantling. we are all collateral.

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the time has come for a principled, open strike against German cultural institutions who have been silent and fully complicit with German state support for Israel's genocide, ethnic cleansing, and settler-colonialism. STRIKE NOW!

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STRIKE GERMANY

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STRIKE GERMANY is a call for international cultural workers to strike from German cultural institutions. It is a call to refuse German cultural institutions' use of McCarthyist policies that suppress freedom of expression, specifically expressions of solidarity with Palestine 1/x

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learning from Fanon means understanding that it is not about defending or condemning Hamas' actions but about understanding that the Manichean divisions of the settler-colony are what compels the colonized themselves to see only in black and white, us vs. them

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in every moment, we are torn between mourning the countless thousands dead, and recognizing that this is a veritable, and likely revolutionary, turning point—the polarization in public opinion everywhere + delegitimization of the Zionist project are unprecedented

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1 year

what are examples of essayistic passages inside a novel or longer work of fiction that you appreciate and think are not overbearing? contemporary or historical, who does it best?

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for a few days now, it feels like we've entered a new phase: one of summary field executions, with IDF scouring the bombed out districts and executing lone families, largely without witnesses—such is the level of consent that's been manufactured, right around the holidays

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The Antideutsch alumni at Der Spiegel are now going full racist anti-natalism by casually mentioning the high birthrate in Gaza alongside obviously fake claims by the IDF about finding suicide belts for kids (!!!)

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Mehr als 180 Geburten, jeden Tag, mitten im Krieg: Die Uno mahnt eine humanitäre Feuerpause in Gaza an. Die israelische Armee hat dort derweil Sprengstoffgürtel gefunden – offenbar für Kinder angepasst.

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i struggled for a while to counter Adam Shatz's stultifying and disempowering revisionism of Fanon, and felt like a rebuttal needed a lot of work, but it is as simple and categorical as Dabashi does it here: by just saying NO to the vanilla sophistry

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War on Gaza: How critics are twisting Frantz Fanon's legacy

No amount of verbal gymnastics can escape the simple truth that indigenous resistance is crucial to ending colonial atrocities

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everyone should be on the lookout for an upcoming Strike/Boycott Germany campaign, i know from reliable sources that this is being prepared and it's going to be HUGE

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What are non-morally bankrupt film people thinking about Berlina*e given the gross, censorious behavior of the sponsoring government? Boycott, disrupt, or business as usual?

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bassem 𓂆

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some of the most tragic media coming out of this war has to be the snapchats from Gaza by Palestinian youths, as they grapple to find any relief amidst the ongoing genocide. one of the screenshots here says: "very high traffic on the road from Gaza to heaven at the moment"

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Jodi Dean was given the chop because she concretely and historically dealt with Palestinian resistance rather than abstract the different factions away, refusing to assume epistemological, political, moral distance. A lesson to all: no more vague wishy-washiness going forward

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6 months

to correct a bad translation from German: the sentence should be: "if a Muslim, whom the Federal Office suspects of Islamism..."

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bassem 𓂆

6 months

this imbecile just single-handedly made it infinitely more difficult for queer and trans people almost everywhere in the world. no, i'm not exaggerating

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Danel Ben Namer | דנאל בן נמר

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The picture you won’t see in P******e #IsraelFightsForLove

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the Max Planck Institute is "separating from" (silencing, punishing, attempting to jeopardize the livelihood of) Ghassan Hage @anthroprofhage , one of the most renowned anthropologists of racial-colonial society, because of his vocal opposition to Zionist genocide

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Why we separated from Ghassan Hage

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bassem 𓂆

6 months

they're coming for EVERYONE because they're losing it

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Natasha Lennard

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Artforum editor David Velasco has been fired over a letter calling for a ceasefire in Gaza. Here’s the story on the shadow campaign to pressure the art world into compliance… from @DRBoguslaw & me. @theintercept

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the human toll of Israel's genocide has been so world-shattering that only in this brief pause can we reflect on the destruction that Israel has wreaked on the civil fabric, infrastructure, and architecture of Palestinian society—this is politicide, again and again

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6 months

some thoughts about Hezbollah, for my own sanity, after Nasrallah's speech. here goes: Nasrallah stressed that this is a "Palestinian war" which underlines (among other things) the huge structural differences between HA & Hamas IRT Israel, Iran, Lebanon

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only in Germany will you find a self-proclaimed leftist politician, director of an organization tasked with the legacy of Rosa Luxemburg, criticizing the government for not doing enough to ethnically cleanse Palestinians out of Gaza

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This jerk, deputy director of the Rosa Luxemburg Stift, thinks the German government isn’t critical enough of the Egyptian regime for not colluding directly in the expulsion of the Gazans into Sinai.

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@agrenell when Palestinians are vindicated, you will enjoy having to live with the indelible fact that you defended genocide while it was happening

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At the start of the Mahsa Amini protests in Iran, I started writing a (quite circuitous) text in memory of Amini and two other young people who moved many when they died or were killed (Mohamed Bouazizi and Sarah Hegazi) @newinquiry

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Exporting the Revolution

Youth is provisional. The stuff of market pictures, loans and auctioned prospects, finance and gentrification, enhancement and anxiety. Or else it is, away from the metropole, the material of the …

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A dear friend who’s a queer Palestinian refugee in Germany has been hit with a series of extreme hardships in recent weeks, on top of the rapidly deteriorating climate in Germany. He’s in great need of support. Please donate if you can and share! ❤️‍🩹

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Support Needed for a Palestinian Refugee in Berlin, organized by Ahmedat Bachir Abbah

A 26-year-old queer Palestinian Lebanese refugee and sex worke… Ahmedat Bachir Abbah needs your support for Support Needed for a Palestinian Refugee in Berlin

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bassem 𓂆

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notice how the lie that "it may have been a Hamas rocket which hit the hospital" lasted for like an hour before Israeli allied media pivoted to the excuse that the hospital was warned. AS IF HAMAS ROCKETS CAN DO SUCH A THING. AS IF YOU CAN/SHOULD EVER EVACUATE A FULL HOSPITAL

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the joy of watching countless coalitions, alliances, student groups, and other organized groups for Palestine springing up in every city feels like such a pyrrhic victory in the face of the mounting, escalating massacre in Gaza

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bassem 𓂆

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Red Scare, New Models, Spike Art, Strelka Institute (without reducing one to the other) are not un-influential among a specific segment of the disenchanted anti-idpol online art left in cities in the Global South, particularly in the Arab-speaking world

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7 months

more than 100 businesses are currently on strike in Sonnenalle/Neukolln calling for an end to the genocide in Gaza now! @BEMigrantifa

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@mpgpresident @anthroprofhage may you self-provincialize to the point of total oblivion. you're doing great sweetie!

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insanely important new investigative story by The Intercept revealing the grotesque lies propagated by ultra-Orthodox Israeli group Zaka about Hamas beheading and rapes, used to manufacture consent for genocide since the first week after October 7

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1 year

What is to be gained when prominent intellectuals make sweeping, slapdash statements about the "LGBTQ+ movement" or "feminist movement", each construed as one tangled monolith? This is how thought dies, this is how your analysis reveals its laziness and utter failure.

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"In the LGBTQ+ movement I perceive a similar general course or destiny as in the feminist movement, that is a shift from struggle aligned with political struggle for social transformation, to identity movement and struggle for recognition." -- Zupančič

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this is a maritime news article from 2014 describing a ship carrying ammonium nitrate that had been docked/abandoned at the Beirut port since 2013, this is what exploded today. words fail to describe organized negligence at this scale.

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Comrades in Berlin on repression of Palestine solidarity: "This state-sponsored attempt to banish fascism and present Germany as a special haven for Jewish cultural life has, in a historical paradox, hardened into another form of national chauvinism."

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A Statement from Berlin Culture Workers for Palestine

This statement on behalf of Berlin Culture Workers for Palestine was first published here. As we write, the Gaza Strip is under a daily rain of Israeli missiles and white phosphorus. One Israeli...

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the writer of this slanderous piece, gloating at Refaat Alareer's death and attempting to degrade the martyr-poet, will be remembered in some wretched, minor footnote as both utterly ignoble and rabidly genocidal. enjoy the dustbin of history @MaximDShrayer !

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"Alareer’s work, tenderly keening at its best and banal and formulaic at its average, relies on strained cultural and historical transpositions." On the intifada generation that sacrificed its poets, from @MaximDShrayer .

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germany: never again! everyone since oct 7: never again is NOW germany: never say never

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amen to brooklyn girlboss value-form theory!!

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Serious analysis of the war on Gaza, realistic about where the resistance stands

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were the Israeli hostages wearing kuffiyehs? were they speaking in Arabic? were they crouched in prayer in the direction of Mecca? HOW THE FUCK IS THE IDF KILLING ISRAELIS IN GAZA IF IT'S NOT INDISCRIMINATELY FIRING AT ALL CIVILIANS

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German landlords came to inspect the apartment they were evicting us from after we spent 2 weeks repairing & cleaning it for handover: they threw a fit, refused to take the keys, said everything in the apartment was bad, so we asked if anything was good? they said the weather

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can you, @joshualeifer , name the groups that reject Jewish presence that the "diaspora left" is supposedly marching with? 15,000-20,000 Palestinians have died and you're still harping on about the crucial standpoint of the Israeli left. delete your account.

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The biggest gap is on 1 v. 2 states. But there's also one about the choice of comrades. The diaspora left marches with those who reject any Jewish Israeli presence in I/P — obviously that's not a position any Israeli leftist can accept

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the amount of Germans who have earplugs on in the Berlin public library (a place which is one of the quietest I have EVER been in, where even the softest of whispers receives the coldest stares) is truly frightening

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In addition to apologism for the 1956 Soviet invasion of Hungary, this answer by Prashad willfully ignores how "Tankie" is deployed by committed leftists (outside of the West, because they exist there too) to refer to "anti-imperial" genocide deniers and regime loyalists (thread)

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The anti-communist origins of the term “tankie” w/ @vijayprashad @The_Red_Nation Podcast

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how absurdly cruel and bitter that Palestinian doctors have to broadcast to the world the ongoing maiming and deforming of their patients in order to issue a plea against their ethnic cleansing

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the galling reality of our moment is that even UN international law, with all its liberal idealism and complicity and shortcomings, can still be suspended almost with a wave of the wand when Israel wants—truly horrific times ahead

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Chris Doyle

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Israel says it has refused a visa to UN humanitarian affairs head Martin Griffiths after comments at the UN by secretary-general António Guterres. This has to be condemned. It is challenging enough for the UN to do its vital role without Israel excluding UN humanitarian officials

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really a testament to how much a majority of German journalists are useless conformists who believe they're the ones being persecuted right now and so are perfectly content just parroting each other ad nauseam

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masha gessen

5 months

You'd think, with all the attention to the Arendt Prize debacle, I'd be inundated with media calls/texts. You'd be wrong. Not one German journalist has reached out for comment. One US journalist did. All reporting has happened with no input/reaction from me. Inaccuracies pile up

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bassem 𓂆

7 months

i took out the trash yesterday in preparation for my rabid Third Worldist phase <3

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bassem 𓂆

4 months

BERLIN DEMO ANNOUNCEMENT: this Monday, January 8th at 1pm at Abgeordnetenhaus. Berlin Cultural Committee will be discussing IHRA: we must disrupt and we must be legion. All progressive Berlin artistic and cultural communities say NO to IHRA

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bassem 𓂆

7 months

our worries about Israel not giving a fuck about the hostages taken by Hamas is basically true: it would rather genocide everyone in Gaza, by bombing, starving and cutting off medicine, than free any Palestinian prisoners. THE HOSTAGES ARE NOW MERELY AN ALIBI FOR GENOCIDE.

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bassem 𓂆

2 months

if you have not yet done so, please listen in full to Susan Abulhawa's words here: "it is a total denigration of society [...] of personhood"

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bassem 𓂆

2 years

The Japanese Red Army founder, Fusako Shigenobu, will soon be free. Read this by her daughter, May Shigenobu❤️ "For decades, the JRA performed the kind of work that NGOs have taken on. The only difference was its ideological framework and the fact that they were volunteers."

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The Funambulist

@TheFunambulist_

2 years

On May 28, 2022, Fusako Shigenobu will be released from the Japanese prison where she was forced to spend the last 21.5 years. To celebrate her commitment to the liberation of Palestine, we have placed the essay by May Shigenobu in open access. Read here:

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bassem 𓂆

1 year

happy valentine's day from walter benjamin—here he is emitting a little mousy bellow

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bassem 𓂆

3 months

if the rules of international law are practically made to be broken by Israel, then what's the point in celebrating a resolution that does not even make Israel's present and future violations of it that *explicit*?

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bassem 𓂆

6 months

the most despair-inducing thing is that—as Israel has killed more than 9000 people since Oct 7—we find ourselves desperately clinging to names such as "Al-Ahli Hospital massacre" and now "Jabaliya camp massacre," when the whole history of Israel has been ONE MOUNTING MASSACRE

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bassem 𓂆

7 months

have been saying it for years that if left-leaning nerds continue listening to bratton, they will just end up technocratically navelgazing and reading complexity into every political situation, without ever actually championing the oppressed or working towards liberation

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Benjamin Bratton

7 months

One way that apparently smart people show how stupid they really are is when they have intense feelings about something extremely tangled, ambiguous, paradoxical, futile, complex, horrible, and gray-upon-gray and so blurt out the first reductive performative demagogic…

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bassem 𓂆

6 months

CONSENT NOT TO BEING IN SOLIDARITY WITH PALESTINIANS ONLY WHEN THEY ARE VICTIMS OF HUMANITARAN CRISIS

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Hind Khoudary

6 months

Palestinian fighters are fighting back, we hear alot of live ammunition and fire exchange. These fighters are defending this ground invasion. They are not terrorists. They are freedom fighters.

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bassem 𓂆

9 months

remember that moment in the discourse a year into the pandemic when they said it was going to be the ROARING 20's... now it's here but it's just new yorkers wilding out in berlin and academics writing about raving

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bassem 𓂆

7 months

we keep asking ourselves how we will go on, but the Israelis, Americans, Germans are showing us the way: they're lying through their teeth and dragging us into this growing massacre of a future. tomorrow this rage will be different but today it is blinding

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bassem 𓂆

1 year

profoundly moving conversation with Fawwaz Traboulsi yesterday on his life's work and friendship, with a slideshow of photos from Castro and Arafat, to Mahmoud Darwish and Edward Said, to Etel Adnan—a life of insane range...!

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bassem 𓂆

4 years

I wrote about design labour, dis-identification with the professional class' technocrat ideals, and being in coalition with struggles within and beyond the labour movement @FailedArch

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Betraying the Profession: Design Labour Against Technocracy - Failed Architecture

In order to respond to current struggles unfolding within and beyond the labour movement, architecture and design workers need to betray professional ...

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bassem 𓂆

4 years

difficult to foresee what Beirut will look this coming week: incommensurable loss, mass rage, military-enforced state of emergency, and more privation, as pandemic and economic death spiral continue. to say that people are bloodthirsty is too little.

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bassem 𓂆

7 months

i literally couldn't make this up because it's desperately on the nose, to the point of being horrendous, corny fiction

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bassem 𓂆

2 months

while also publicly announcing that it is suing those who hacked its Instagram with posts calling out ethnic cleansing and genocide. The idiocy is on full display 🫶🏽

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bassem 𓂆

4 months

there seems to be an official Israeli website being set up, showing as the first result on Google, "responding" to the ICJ genocide case. the page doesn't load, but the preview of the Hasbara text, calling it a blood libel, is already beyond hilarious. they're losing it lol

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bassem 𓂆

7 months

most thorough and exhaustive questioning (effectively a debunking) of any theory claiming it was Hamas or PIJ rockets that bombed the hospital. Israel killed more than 500 civilians in one strike last night and this is our reality, we have to deal with it

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Francesco Sebregondi 🔎

7 months

About the #Gaza #hospital blast, The version saying it would have been caused by Palestinian rocket (mis)fire is gaining traction online and among #OSINT communities. A thread showing weaknesses in this version, and why an Israeli bombing is highly more plausible.⬇️ 1/x

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bassem 𓂆

2 years

happy to report that my friends have not internalized self-care ideology they are happily eating only pastries for weeks on end

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bassem 𓂆

6 months

we will never forget this day, when EU leaders made a farce out of all language, when the German Green Minister of Foreign Affairs said "we can't stem the humanitarian disaster if terrorism in Gaza continues"—as 5000 Palestinians lay dead and unburied

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bassem 𓂆

5 months

with every passing minute, a piece on the grid lights up and numerous civilians (qua civilians) are actively murdered. What more can we say

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bassem 𓂆

1 year

Nakba Day protests have already been banned, second year in a row now, and there were dozen more police members at Rathaus Neukolln than actual would-be protesters

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bassem 𓂆

6 months

@bobuqsayed i do think we should be very cautious about not advancing the ethno-religious category of "Muslims" as one that is inherently oppositional or anti-imperialist, and definitely not position it as countering the category of "Jews" which Israel presumes to speak for

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