âVictims of genocide die twice: first in the killing fields and then in the texts of denialists who insist that ânothing happenedâ or that what happened was something âdifferentâ.â
â Panayiotis Diamadis, Australian genocide scholar.
100 years ago, the Armenian Genocide began. (via verticalbarmatt)
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Children buried alive.
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Berlin announced on 23 April that it will resume cooperation with the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) in Gaza.
Germanyâs move came after an independent investigation headed by former French diplomat Catherine Colonna that found âneutrality-related issuesâ in implementing UNRWAâs procedures to âensure compliance with the humanitarian principles of neutrality.â
Colonnaâs report made note that Israel provided no proof of whether UNRWA staff were involved with the Palestinian resistanceâs Operation Al-Aqsa Flood on 7 October.
âThe German government has dealt intensively with the allegations made by Israel against UNRWA and has been in close contact with the Israeli government, the United Nations, and other international donors,â a joint statement by the German Foreign Office and the Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development read.
The former French diplomatâs investigation proposed reforms to UNRWA to increase the neutrality of staff and behavior, education, and governance, including methods to achieve these goals through engagement with donors.
Germany pushed UNRWA to implement these recommendations, strengthen its internal audit functions, and improve the external surveillance of project management.
âIn support of these reforms, the German government will soon continue its cooperation with UNRWA in Gaza, as Australia, Canada, Sweden, and Japan, among others, have already done so,â the joint statement continued.
Germany gave the UN agency over $200 million in 2023 and is the organizationâs second-largest donor after the US.
In an interview with Al-Jazeera, UNRWA chief Philippe Lazzarini said the attacks on the agency âhave nothing to do with neutrality issues but in reality, they are motivated by the objective to strip the Palestinians from the refugee status.â
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It was written by my friend.
SHĹGUN (2024)
Chapter Ten: A Dream of a Dream
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This is different from Al-Shifa:
There are images of decomposed bodies wearing what appear to be scrubs... with their hands tied. Meaning they were executed while bound. I will not be sharing them because I'm tired of showing our martyrs' bodies to people.
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"Famine is a useful word when you do not wish to use words like 'genocide' and 'extermination'."
- Frank O'Connor, Irish author.
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The US House of Representatives passed a series of pivotal policy bills on Saturday that would see $95 billion in foreign war and military funds, a potential ban on TikTok in the country, the seizure of frozen Russian sovereign assets, and new sanctions on Iran.
The Israel Security Supplemental was approved with an overwhelming vote of 366-58.
This bill includes a prohibition on sending funds to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency UNRWA as the genocide in Gaza nears its 7-month mark.
The funding package allocates $26.4 billion in aid to the occupation entity, $4 billion for the Iron Dome and David's Sling missile defense systems, and $1.2 billion for the Iron Beam defense system. Additionally, $4.4 billion is allocated to replenish military items and services provided to "Israel," while $3.5 billion is earmarked for the procurement of advanced weapons systems and other items through the Foreign Military Financing Program.
Furthermore, it includes $9.2 billion in public assistance, including emergency food, shelter, and basic services, to populations experiencing crises. It also provides additional flexibility for transfers of military hardware to "Israel" from US stockpiles held in other countries.
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Columbia is unhousing students of color after suspending them:
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Why do people need subtitles to watch a show in English? I don't get it. What is wrong with the ears of young people?
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taylor saying she'd go back to the 1830s but 'without all the racists' after she made an entire album about how much she loved one and excused/enabled his behavior
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"BREAKING| Israel's national security minister, Itmar Ben Gvir, said he believes that death penalty is the right solution to the prison overcrowding problem that Israel is having.
"I'm glad that the government approved my proposal that will allow the IDF to build 936 (in total 1,600) additional detention sites for security prisoners. The additional construction will allow the prison service to take in more terrorists, and will bring a partial solution to the prison overcrowding crisis", he added."
If you read this without context (without Genocide Ben Gvir's name and Isreal/IOF in the title -we could blur that out) what era would you think this was stated in -would Nazi Germany come to mind? Or maybe a scene from a dystopian novel?
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