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Hostages tortured to death. Parents executed in front of their children. Doctors beaten. Babies murdered. Sexual assault weaponised. No, not Hamas crimes. This is part of an ever-growing list of documented atrocities committed by Israel in the five months since 7 October – quite separate from the carpet bombing of 2.3 million Palestinians in Gaza and a famine induced by Israel’s obstruction of aid. And yet while the western establishment media has been chock full of the most lurid allegations of savagery directed against Hamas, sometimes with little or no supporting evidence, Israeli atrocities are excused or quickly forgotten. Accusations against Hamas are endlessly reheated to paint a picture of a supremely dangerous and bestial militant group, in turn rationalising the slaughter and starvation of Gaza’s population to “eradicate” it as a terrorist organisation. But equally barbarous atrocities committed by Israel – not in the heat of battle, but in cold blood – are treated as unfortunate, isolated incidents that cannot be connected, that paint no picture, that reveal nothing of import about the military that carried them out. If Hamas’ crimes were so savage and sadistic they still need to be reported months after they took place, why does the establishment media never feel the need to express equal horror and indignation at equivalent or worse acts of cruelty and sadism being inflicted by Israel on Gaza – not five months ago, but right now? Israel's torture of doctors, its sexual assaults of Palestinian women, it's leaving premature babies to die after its forces stormed a hospital. Where is the outrage? This is part of a pattern of behaviour by the western media that leads to only one possible deduction: Israel’s five-month-long attack on Gaza is not being reported. Rather, it is being selectively narrated – and for the most obscene of purposes. Through consistent and glaring failures in their coverage, establishment media – including supposedly liberal outlets, from the BBC and CNN to the Guardian and New York Times – have smoothed the way for Israel to carry out mass slaughter in Gaza, what the World Court has assessed as plausibly a genocide. The role of the media has not been to keep us, their audiences, informed about one of the greatest crimes in living memory. It has been to buy time for US President Joe Biden to keep arming his most useful of client states in the oil-rich Middle East, and to do so without damaging his prospects for re-election in November’s US presidential vote. If Russian President Vladimir Putin was a madman and a barbarous war criminal for invading Ukraine, as every western media outlet agrees, what does that make Israeli officials, when every one of them supports far worse atrocities in Gaza, directed overwhelmingly at civilians? And more to the point, what does that make Biden and the US political class for materially backing Israel to the hilt: sending bombs, vetoing demands for a ceasefire at the United Nations, and freezing desperately needed aid? Worrying about the optics, the president expresses his discomfort, but he carries on helping Israel regardless. While western politicians and commentators worry about some imaginary existential threat those brief events of five months ago pose to the nuclear-armed state of Israel, Israel is quite literally wiping Gaza off the map day by day, quite undisturbed.

#free palestine #gaza #palestine #news on gaza #gaza genocide

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Help Hamza get his family out of gaza.

#free palestine #palestine #gaza genocide #palestine news #news on gaza #free gaza #gaza strip

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...'Cus after a point nodding and laughing it off kinda wears you down (and sometimes it's not enough to keep you safe).

#felt #with the sole exception of the sex joke one #as long as they're not aimed at me those are fun #asexual #aromantic #aroace #allonormativity

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Children in Gaza can tell an F-16 from an F-35 from a drone. They know a whole litany of things that are beyond their years. Things that they shouldn’t have to know. Over 10,000 children have been killed in Gaza. The children who have survived have seen their families, friends and neighbors killed by the Israeli army. They have seen near-death by starvation and death by suffocation, under the rubble and by explosion. Children in Gaza do not have the luxury of death being a mystery. It is a daily presence. If a child in Gaza is hungry, they know not to throw a tantrum. They have become used to feeling hunger. The same is true of the cold. Every child in Gaza now knows what it is to be unhoused, to sleep in a tent or on the streets in winter.

#yemen #current events #tel aviv #jerusalem #palestine #free palestine #gaza #free gaza #news on gaza #palestine news #war on gaza #children of gaza #genocide #gaza genocide

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The thing is... Israel admitted to this from the very beginning.

They said the confessions were obtained through 'interrogation' in the Shin Bet aka torture (Shin Bet is where they like to torture Palestinian prisoners for intel) so every country that cut funding to the UNRWA knew from the beginning that Israel was using false forced statements.

The famine in Gaza is partly due to this. Never forget that.

#current events #palestine #free palestine #gaza #free gaza #palestine news #news update #war on gaza #unrwa #gaza genocide #jerusalem #yemen #tel aviv

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This comment was in response to Israel accusing the ICJ court of "antisemitic biases" after they delivered their ruling.

#sigh #get a better excuse for your war crimes Israel #palestine #free palestine #israel #gaza #free gaza #human rights #icj hearing

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True and based.

#get her ass First Minister Nicola Sturgeon #this is exactly why I don't consider terfs real feminists #and don't even get me started on the blatant white feminism so many of them espouse

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important psa

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Happy Halloween from Pumpkin Sara, the babiest pumpkin of all!

Image ID: a toddler with brown skin and curly black hair stands smiling broadly with her hand resting on a brown tree stump. She is dressed in an orange pumpkin costume with a beanie that looks like a pumpkin top with four green leaves and a stem on her head. /endID

#I haven't posted in forever but I had to fit this #she is so adorable #and for what #zombies run #zr fanart #zrs4 spoilers

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#palestine #gaza #free palestine #free gaza #ceasefire #shame the kid even had to think about this #but I'm proud of him anyway

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Ramadan is coming up and I can’t stress enough how much Palestinians have never got the chance to experience one normal Ramadan for 75years

You may not have been subjected to this, but as a person from an Arabic country, every Ramadan from every year there’s always headlines of Israeli iof soldiers or Israeli extremist settlers attacking Palestinians during Ramadan, especially Palestinian worshipers trying to pray in the al aqsa mosque

It’s happens almost every single year

Ramadan is suppoused to be Muslim people’s month of worship, of Baraka and it is very important to Muslim people

But Palestinians never ever experienced a normal Ramadan because Israel attacks them Viciously

Almost

Every

Single

Fucking

Year

And I will dare and say that Israel does it on purpose, it does it every Ramadan on purpose

And now, this year, with Ramadan being only a few weeks away, I doubt that they’ll have a normal Ramadan, not in the West Bank, and not in Gaza

All what I have to say here is that Israel will still follow this trend, something bad is gonna happen this Ramadan, keep an eye on Palestine during Ramadan

#palestine #israel #news on gaza #free gaza #free palestine #from the river to the sea palestine will be free

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Mousetrapped #19: Generous

#oh shit #that got dark #and this is why labor unions are important #keeps our employers from doing this kind of stuff #steamboat willie #webcomic #comic #also please read the rest of this comic #it is so good #i just reblogged this page so I could add tags #but you gotta have the context for all of this #plus the story itself is just 🤌

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The ease in which Palestinian men are dehumanized. People saw those lineups of halfnaked men and there was relatively no international uproar. Is sexual violence against our men permissible for some reason as long as you write them off as "terrorists"? Humiliation is part of the colonizers' playbook after all. But this is a complex issue of two politically equal entities so don't worry about it.

That last line was sarcasm.

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J. K. Rowling and Neil Gaiman are such a funny contrast to me, like Rowling: Oh, and by the way, I put gay characters in my books. People: Is there anything... showing that? Rowling: No. Also trans women don't deserve respect People: wtf Gaiman: Here are some immortals that transcend all human concepts of gender and attraction who use a variety of pronouns, and also some clearly canon human queers. People: Are the immortals queer? Gaiman: That is an entirely valid way to view them. Other people: Ugh, pushing a modern woke agenda. It used to be- Gaiman: Fuck you

#makes me wish I'd gotten attached to Neil Gaiman books instead of Harry Potter when I was younger #my childhood nostalgia would hurt a little less now

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this is such vital information !! fight genocide by learning and only using the Palestinian words for the towns and cities of Palestine, because they are PALESTINIAN.

do not let Palestine be erased through language. the colonisation of language is just as deadly.

(edit with the link! please reblog this version instead!!!!)

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hey if you died right now whats your ghost outfit you cant change it be honest

#lilith czar hoodie #black fleece pants #green rain boots #i have a shirt on under the hoodie #but it would be irrelevant to describe #since ghosts can't change their clothes