Casey/Puffin | She/Her | Biro Ace | Christian socialist I guess | Cancer survivor and chronically ill | Multifandom (Critrole, DND, Anime, Games) and a lil politik. Feel free to send me asks or dms about anything. I try not to post nsfw. Free Palestine! 🇵🇸
listen I ended up regretting saying anything about this on my old blog because people will interpret literally any and every statement maliciously on this hellsite but I want to start like. a helpline for people who are like “hey I pretty much only read YA but I’m like 22 now and don’t relate to teenagers as much, it’s such a shame that there are no fun books written for adults :(” because boy HOWDY are there some fun books for adults
Was blocking some zionists and this shit floored me with how casually racist and inhuman it is. Also just responding to the news from gaza with racist lies to deflect war crimes. Don’t engage with this shit and Block them if they pop up on a gaza post.
Israel is setting up a complex system of checkpoints that will prevent men of “military age” from fleeing Rafah in preparation for its offensive on the southern Gaza border city, a senior western official familiar with Israel’s plans has told Middle East Eye on condition of anonymity.
The checkpoints are designed to allow some women and children to leave Rafah ahead of an expected Israeli offensive, but unarmed, civilian Palestinian men will likely be separated from their families and remain trapped in Rafah during an expected Israeli assault.
The previously unreported disclosure of Israel’s construction of a ring of checkpoints around Rafah underscores how Israel is pushing ahead with plans to attack the city where over one million displaced Palestinians are sheltering in tents and makeshift camps.
The creation of gender-based checkpoints around Rafah would put a spotlight back on Israel’s practice of stripping and forcibly detaining male Palestinian men and children, as it faces rising scrutiny in the West of its conduct in the war.
The rounding up of Palestinian males in Gaza and photographing them stripped to their underwear drew condemnation in December, with the US calling the images “deeply disturbing”.
Relatives of many of the men photographed recognised them and said they had nothing to do with Hamas. Israel's military was later accused of staging footage of men surrounding weapons.
“Israel considers every male a Hamas fighter until proven otherwise,” Abbas Dahouk, a former senior military advisor at the State Department and military attache in the Middle East told Middle East Eye.
“It’s not a sound move. Cordoning Rafah is a daunting task and good luck separating fathers and sons from their families.”
Police violence on peaceful protesters on VCU campus right now.
VCU has washed away the chalk protests we've been writing every morning at 8am. They have now called in riot police to assault students sitting in a public space in support of Palestine. It isn't okay. Please keep your ears open for news from VCU. These protestors were NOT violent. What they were were appalled that this genocide is continuing. Nobody deserved to be pepper sprayed, nobody deserved police violence.
Watch this short report to get a glimpse of what Israel has been subjecting Palestinians it has taken captive since October 7, whose numbers have now surpassed 8,400 from the West Bank alone.
The conditions in Israeli prisons have intensified and men, women, children and elderly people are subjected to starvation and torture. 14 Palestinian captives have in fact died in Israeli prisons since October 7, which is an alarming and unprecedented escalation to the already dire humanitarian crisis taking place in Israeli torture chambers.
The family of the 74 year old man in the video, Omar Assaf, did not even recognise him. He describes the past 6 months feeling as though they were 6 years.
UCLA students have been completely peaceful, were told by organizers to ignore and not engage with agitators, and linked together in seconds with their backs turned to agitators so that the encampment couldnt be broken into.
Meanwhile the zionist agitators physically assaulted and shoved a marshall to the ground while trying to break in to the encampment, brought bunches of bananas to throw at students knowing a pro-palestine student protestor has a fatal allergy to them, wished rape on students outside the encampment, threw a backpack full of lab mice at students that are injected with something, called black protestors the n word and spit on them hoping for a response and stationed themselves next to the outside local media so they could cry to the press about how they scared they are to be there after getting kicked out of the protest for being violent cunts. Not to mention at Columbia where IDF soldiers (possibly now revealed under coordination with the Dean) threw a chemical weapon at students that hospitalized nearly a dozen of them and have never faced consequences or acknowledgement by the school.
There is no "both sides clashes" like the media is trying to portray. One side is consistently violent and its the zionists
Imagine raising $70,000 to set up a screen and a stage on a cordoned off section of the lawn solely to play propaganda to thin air and agitate student protestors you are vastly outnumbered by and who have been peacefully ignoring you for days instead of...i dont know, giving that $70,000 it to the families of the hostages you are crying about who are currently being silenced by Israeli media for protesting their children being carpet bombed and shot to death while waving white flags by their own government.
It *is* a problem that charismatic species are often focused on for conservation at the expense of less charismatic but important species, but threatened species that are the subject of a lot of public outreach and education are also typically strategically selected.
I suspect that monarch butterflies are an example of this. Milkweed is a highly valuable plant for pollinators and a host plant for like. 400+ insect species. Getting people to plant it to save monarchs is funny because you're essentially finessing people into saving a ton of other insects that they wouldn't ordinarily care about
"The Biden administration, after reportedly finding three battalions within the Israeli occupation forces to be violating human rights and taking the decision to sanction it, decided not to proceed with the punitive measures.
The three battalions, found to be committing 'gross human rights violations' against Palestinian civilians in the occupied West Bank, will walk away scott-free as no sanctions will be imposed on them, ABC News reported.
US Secretary of State Antony Binken informed US House Speaker Mike Johnson of the decision in a Friday letter, wherein he reportedly said the fact that they were found to be violating human rights would not impede or delay the delivery of any type of assistance to the Israeli occupation.
Blinken underlined that the Israeli occupation forces would receive the full amount of arms and funds appropriated by Congress."
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