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whats-in-a-sentence · 11 days
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'Can you cook dinner?' shouted a heckler. 'Yes! Can you drive a coach and four?' replied Constance Markievicz (1868-1927) on her campaign for women's votes driving her carriage with four matched grey horses. The daughter of an Arctic explorer in an Anglo-Irish family, she fought against the British occupation of Ireland and was sentenced to death, though released in 1917 under a general amnesty. Arrested again the following year for protesting conscription in the First World War, she stood for Sinn Féin and took 66 per cent of the vote from prison, and refused to take her seat – then she was in any case, still imprisoned.
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"Normal Women: 900 Years of Making History" - Philippa Gregory
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stairnaheireann · 6 months
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#OTD in 1994 – Death of Irish patriot, Michael Flannery, in New York City.
The fight of the Irish against the British was the great theme of Mr. Flannery’s life. As a boy of 14 in Ireland, he joined the Irish Volunteers and learned to fire a machine gun behind a monastery cloister. In 1970, after 43 years in the United States, he was one of the founders of the Irish Northern Aid Committee, which says it is a charitable organisation for the children of British political…
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witchywitchy · 2 months
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Posting this separately, so that people understand more the history of the Palestinian cities' names.
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piyalbal339-blog · 1 year
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Queen Victoria memorial Kolkata,west Bengal, India
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A Vancouver-area Jewish organization is raising safety concerns amid reports Hamas has called for a day of action on Friday amid the escalating conflict in Israel and Palestine.
In a community security update posted to its website, the Jewish Federation of Greater Vancouver said it was taking the reports “very seriously.”
“Our understanding is that Hamas is calling for violence in Israel, the West Bank, and around the world under the guise of showing solidarity with Palestinians,” the organization wrote.
The bulletin came after former Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal called for protests across the Muslim world in support of Palestinians.
“[We must] head to the squares and streets of the Arab and Islamic world on Friday,” Meshaal said in a recorded statement. [...]
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Note from the poster @el-shab-hussein: Israel's lobbies in Canada have been stirring up a panic in the Jewish communities of the country, as they've got their tight grips on them. The 'Vancouver-area Jewish organization' in question, the Jewish Federation of Greater Vancouver, is directly affiliated with the Jewish Agency for Israel and helps facilitate zionist settlement of occupied Palestine through their 'services'. They are also directly affiliated with the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs, which has been noted as the primary Israeli lobbying group in Canada. It's no wonder they are spreading fear-mongering about a call to protest the genocide that they have a vested interest in maintaining.
Tagging: @politicsofcanada, @vague-humanoid
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shashiatnight · 2 months
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Nasr*llah's truths -
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Others have of course said it in less succinct but elaborate ways, about how the entity survives on the support of the USA -
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claraameliapond · 6 days
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I don't really want to mention it, but the fact that news outlets and talkshows, even American talk shows are making a ridiculous deal about a planned absence from royal duty from a member of the royal family , literally making a big deal out of literally nothing, like they do for slow news days, tells us a lot about the medias unwillingness to cover Palestine, because the second they do, the truth of what it is gets revealed. It's such an obvious truth that they don't even want to start the conversation, don't want to draw any attention to it. Because the second people pay attention to it, the truth is undeniable.
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equinope · 9 days
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Who shot James Miller?
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Who shot Brian Avery?
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Who killed Rachel Corrie?
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Who Shot Iain Hook?
Between 2002 - 2003 Israeli forces deliberately shot, killed and maimed five British and American citizens.
Of those five, the only perpetrator brought to 'justice' was Tasir Hayb, who served six years in an Israeli prison for the murder of Tom Hurndall, a British photographer.
The killers of James Miller, Rachel Corrie, and Iain Hook, are still unknown. The identity of the IDF soldier that shot Ben Avery in the face, causing him lasting disfigurement, is still unknown.
Their identities have been shielded, in collaboration with the UK and the US, by the Israeli state.
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news4dzhozhar · 7 days
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jyndor · 2 months
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just read an article from euronews of a holocaust survivor hoping for a united middle east, like the eu, while also denying the accusation of genocide against israel and demanding a two-state solution. it's so fucking sad that a genocide survivor is weaponizing the crimes that were perpetrated against her in order to excuse and deny crimes against palestinians.
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like I'm sorry you believe that the un "gave" land away that wasn't its land to give, and I do think everyone who wants to live in a secular, pluralistic democracy should be able to live there - but ma'am. you literally said you are not going to let genocide happen again and then denied a genocide that is happening right now. and in fact you justify genocide.
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here's the thing - this is the wishful thinking of someone who does not want to acknowledge the reality of occupation and displacement. it is historical revisionism.
let's not forget for a second that this land was not "given" to israel by the un but rather that it was stolen from the indigenous population of palestine/falasteen by yishuv/israeli soldiers after the uk terminated the mandate in 1948.
basically, the uk wanted to terminate the mandate of palestine* (issued by the league of nations in 1922 after WWI when britain occupied palestine) because dealing with the growing tensions between jews and arabs living there (due to the growing zionist movement to establish a jewish state in palestine, which the british commission aided and abetted ofc) was becoming a bit of a headache. so they took it to the un general assembly for the un to deal with.
and that these soldiers carried out the nakba after the un general assembly made a partition plan in a resolution that the palestinians were under no obligation to accept because unga resolutions are NON-BINDING, and when the security council tried to come to a consensus it could not.
from the actual general assembly resolution, in which you can see that these are recommendations to the uk and to the mandate of palestine and makes REQUESTS to the security council. none of this is an order, which if course is not something that the general assembly has the power to do.
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you can even see that on this first page, the general assembly points out that this plan will likely "impair the general welfare and friendly relations among nations."
frankly the resolution was extremely unfair to the palestinians, as the partition would have given them about 44-45% of the land and the jewish population about 55-56%. and bear in mind that not only was there a much larger arab population, but that due to the 4th and 5th aliyah (jewish immigration to palestine) most of the jewish population had not been there for more than 20 years.
now I'm not bothered about people making aliyah, I believe in freedom of movement. what I am bothered about is the settler colonial project that used the expulsion of jews in europe to promote the expulsion of palestinians in palestine.
but the thing is, the israelis didn't even follow the un plan - nor was the un ready for such a plan to be implemented. and funny enough the us** delegate warren austin said at the time that the uk planned to terminate the mandate (may 15th) that "the Security Council is not prepared to go ahead with efforts to implement this plan in the existing situation."
instead what happened was this. the yishuv***, lead by ben gurion, rejected us requests to postpone the declaration of statehood and to cease military operations, which had already resulted in the expulsion of 300,000 palestinians even before the war. this is because ben gurion and many others wanted the entirety of palestine (as well as parts of syria and lebanon) to be a jewish state and did not want the partition - you can see this today in "greater israel" which would be a state of israel from the river to the sea, so would require the annexation of palestine as well as some parts of syria, lebanon and sometimes jordan. it would require mass displacement of non-jewish palestinians and possibly genocide. this is largely a belief of far right people like smotrich and netanyahu, but my concern is that the further right israeli society goes, the more people will become either indifferent to people around them believing in a greater israel or will actually believe in it themselves for the sake of their safety.
I've seen israelis say things like "no one wants gaza, leave us alone" and I have to laugh because that's just not true at all, there are frankly far too many people who are fine with the occupation as long as they don't have to see the harm their state is doing. I understand this because I see it in every settler colony. it's not unique to israel.
you cannot demand to live alone in peace when your country is built on ethnic cleansing, occupation, apartheid and yes, even though im sure it hurts to acknowledge, genocide. and you cannot expect to be allowed to peacefully occupy millions of people.
because what - is an independent palestine allowed to have a military? is it allowed to be fully autonomous? no of course not to zionists because that would threaten their security I guess. and I mean it probably would to some extent since there is no justice in partition.
would there be reparations? no because israelis generally do not know the history of how israel was founded, and if they do they largely don't care. or at the very least don't want it to be relevant to what we're seeing now. I mean the us still hadn't made reparations to descendants of slaves and frankly if we've done a little bit of reparations to native americans it isn't near enough.
would there be right to return for those in the diaspora? of course not, because israel would never allow palestinians the right to return to land in israel.
and those israelis who understand the situation are calling for a single secular state of palestine, or acknowledging that this is a genocide, or reckoning with the nakba. they are not demanding palestinians tolerate oppression. they do not value their lives above palestinian lives.
the colonizers do not get to make demands of the colonized. I feel great sorrow for what the woman in the article has gone through - I cannot fathom what she experienced in the holocaust and I totally agree with her that it is so important for future generations to hear testimonies from survivors of genocide. this is why I find it appalling that she denies the genocide of the palestinians.
*this essay goes into much more of the minutia surrounding resolution 181 and the myth of israel's founding.
**and this was a country that WANTED to establish a jewish state in palestine (he even wanted to have the us take on a trusteeship until the jews and arabs could come to an agreement lmao).
***yishuv refers to the jewish community in palestine prior to 1948. there is a further distinction between old yishuv - those who lived in palestine before the first zionist immigration wave in 1882 and their descendants until 1948. they tended to be more religiously observant, while new yishuv were those who emigrated to palestine in the zionist immigration waves until 1948 and tended to be more nationalist, secular and socialist. old yishuv had been there for centuries and has a fascinating history of how their communities developed btw.
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fatehbaz · 15 days
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On May 28, 1914, the Institut für Schiffs-und Tropenkrankheiten (Institute for Maritime and Tropical Diseases, ISTK) in Hamburg began operations in a complex of new brick buildings on the bank of the Elb. The buildings were designed by Fritz Schumacher, who had become the Head of Hamburg’s building department (Leiter des Hochbauamtes) in 1909 after a “flood of architectural projects” accumulated following the industrialization of the harbor in the 1880s and the “new housing and working conditions” that followed. The ISTK was one of these projects, connected to the port by its [...] mission: to research and heal tropical illnesses; [...] to support the Hamburg Port [...]; and to support endeavors of the German Empire overseas.
First established in 1900 by Bernhard Nocht, chief of the Port Medical Service, the ISTK originally operated out of an existing building, but by 1909, when the Hamburg Colonial Institute became its parent organization (and Schumacher was hired by the Hamburg Senate), the operations of the ISTK had outgrown [...]. [I]ts commission by the city was an opportunity for Schumacher to show how he could contribute to guiding the city’s economic and architectural growth in tandem, and for Nocht, an opportunity to establish an unprecedented spatial paradigm for the field of Tropical Medicine that anchored the new frontier of science in the German Empire. [...]
[There was a] shared drive to contribute to the [...] wealth of Hamburg within the context of its expanding global network [...]. [E]ach discipline [...] architecture and medicine were participating in a shared [...] discursive operation. [...]
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The brick used on the ISTK façades was key to Schumacher’s larger Städtebau plan for Hamburg, which envisioned the city as a vehicle for a “harmonious” synthesis between aesthetics and economy. [...] For Schumacher, brick [was significantly preferable] [...]. Used by [...] Hamburg architects [over the past few decades], who acquired their penchant for neo-gothic brickwork at the Hanover school, brick had both a historical presence and aesthetic pedigree in Hamburg [...]. [T]his material had already been used in Die Speicherstadt, a warehouse district in Hamburg where unequal social conditions had only grown more exacerbated [...]. Die Speicherstadt was constructed in three phases [beginning] in 1883 [...]. By serving the port, the warehouses facilitated the expansion and security of Hamburg’s wealth. [...] Yet the collective profits accrued to the city by these buildings [...] did not increase economic prosperity and social equity for all. [...] [A] residential area for harbor workers was demolished to make way for the warehouses. After the contract for the port expansion was negotiated in 1881, over 20,000 people were pushed out of their homes and into adjacent areas of the city, which soon became overcrowded [...]. In turn, these [...] areas of the city [...] were the worst hit by the Hamburg cholera epidemic of 1892, the most devastating in Europe that year. The 1892 cholera epidemic [...] articulated the growing inability of the Hamburg Senate, comprising the city’s elite, to manage class relationships [...] [in such] a city that was explicitly run by and for the merchant class [...].
In Hamburg, the response to such an ugly disease of the masses was the enforcement of quarantine methods that pushed the working class into the suburbs, isolated immigrants on an island, and separated the sick according to racial identity.
In partnership with the German Empire, Hamburg established new hygiene institutions in the city, including the Port Medical Service (a progenitor of the ISTK). [...] [T]he discourse of [creating the school for tropical medicine] centered around city building and nation building, brick by brick, mark by mark.
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Just as the exterior condition of the building was, for Schumacher, part of a much larger plan for the city, the program of the building and its interior were part of the German Empire and Tropical Medicine’s much larger interest in controlling the health and wealth of its nation and colonies. [...]
Yet the establishment of the ISTK marked a critical shift in medical thinking [...]. And while the ISTK was not the only institution in Europe to form around the conception and perceived threat of tropical diseases, it was the first to build a facility specifically to support their “exploration and combat” in lockstep, as Nocht described it.
The field of Tropical Medicine had been established in Germany by the very same journal Nocht published his overview of the ISTK. The Archiv für Schiffs- und Tropen-Hygiene unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der Pathologie und Therapie was first published in 1897, the same year that the German Empire claimed Kiaochow (northeast China) and about two years after it claimed Southwest Africa (Namibia), Cameroon, Togo, East Africa (Tanzania, Burundi, Rwanda), New Guinea (today the northern part of Papua New Guinea), and the Marshall Islands; two years later, it would also claim the Caroline Islands, Palau, Mariana Islands (today Micronesia), and Samoa (today Western Samoa).
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The inaugural journal [...] marked a paradigm shift [...]. In his opening letter, the editor stated that the aim of Tropical Medicine is to “provide the white race with a home in the tropics.” [...]
As part of the institute’s agenda to support the expansion of the Empire through teaching and development [...], members of the ISTK contributed to the Deutsches Kolonial Lexikon, a three-volume series completed in 1914 (in the same year as the new ISTK buildings) and published in 1920. The three volumes contained maps of the colonies coded to show the areas that were considered “healthy” for Europeans, along with recommended building guidelines for hospitals in the tropics. [...] "Natives" were given separate facilities [...]. The hospital at the ISTK was similarly divided according to identity. An essentializing belief in “intrinsic factors” determined by skin color, constitutive to Tropical Medicine, materialized in the building’s circulation. Potential patients were assessed in the main building to determine their next destination in the hospital. A room labeled “Farbige” (colored) - visible in both Nocht and Schumacher’s publications - shows that the hospital segregated people of color from whites. [...]
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Despite belonging to two different disciplines [medicine and architecture], both Nocht and Schumacher’s publications articulate an understanding of health [...] that is linked to concepts of identity separating white upper-class German Europeans from others. [In] Hamburg [...] recent growth of the shipping industry and overt engagement of the German Empire in colonialism brought even more distant global connections to its port. For Schumacher, Hamburg’s presence in a global network meant it needed to strengthen its local identity and economy [by purposefully seeking to showcase "traditional" northern German neo-gothic brickwork while elevating local brick industry] lest it grow too far from its roots. In the case of Tropical Medicine at the ISTK, the “tropics” seemed to act as a foil for the European identity - a constructed category through which the European identity could redescribe itself by exclusion [...].
What it meant to be sick or healthy was taken up by both medicine and architecture - [...] neither in a vacuum.
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All text above by: Carrie Bly. "Mediums of Medicine: The Institute for Maritime and Tropical Diseases in Hamburg". Sick Architecture series published by e-flux Architecture. November 2020. [Bold emphasis and some paragraph breaks/contractions added by me. Text within brackets added by me for clarity. Presented here for commentary, teaching, criticism purposes.]
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stairnaheireann · 1 year
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#OTD in 1994 – Death of Irish patriot, Michael Flannery, in New York City.
#OTD in 1994 – Death of Irish patriot, Michael Flannery, in New York City.
The fight of the Irish against the British was the great theme of Mr. Flannery’s life. As a boy of 14 in Ireland, he joined the Irish Volunteers and learned to fire a machine gun behind a monastery cloister. In 1970, after 43 years in the United States, he was one of the founders of the Irish Northern Aid Committee, which says it is a charitable organisation for the children of British political…
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bloghrexach · 27 days
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Learning more every day!
By: LaillaB, from LinkedIn, Founder of ‘Reclaim the Narrative’ …
🍉 … “Recent reports have once again confirmed what we already know - Israel's colonial army remains uninterested in pursuing a ceasefire.
The United Nations’ warnings against escalating violence are falling on deaf ears, as Israel continues its unchecked colonial expansion despite clear violations of international law.
This ongoing settler colonial project, supported by successive Israeli governments, has led activists to dub the United Nations as the “United Nothing”
In the year that the declaration of human rights was introduced, the devastating nakba occurred. Each year that Israel commemorates its establishment, Palestinians reflect on the brutal ethnic cleansing that killed 13,000 and displaced 750,000, to make way for a European colony in MiddleEast!
The very origins of the Balfour Declaration have also exposed Israel as a state founded on illegitimacy…
The British mandate instrument provided no legal justification for the establishment of a solely Jewish state in Palestine or for the United Kingdom's neglect in fulfilling its solemn duty to uphold Palestinian self-determination.
The key clauses of the Balfour Declaration were thus legally null and void.
Furthermore the power dynamics in the occupied Palestinian territories are stark: coloniser versus colonised, oppressor versus oppressed, perpetrator versus victims;
🔻 COLONISED: “The violence of colonialism can only, and will naturally, be met by the violence of the colonised” Frantz Fanon
🔻 COLONISER: “Colonisation kills the soul of the coloniser” Aimé Césaire.
It will take a united front of global solidarity to hold Israel accountable for its long list of crimes;
🇮🇱LIST OF INTRNATIONAL LAW VIOLATIONS BY THE STATE OF ISREAL
🇮🇱ISRAEL OCCUPATION IS ILLEGAL
🇮🇱ILLEGAL ISRAELI SETTLEMENTS ON OCCUPIED LAND
🇮🇱ILLEGAL TO TAKE LAND BY FORCE & CLAIM SOVEREIGNTY
🇮🇱ILLEGAL ISRAELI PRACTICE OF ETHNIC CLEANSING
🇮🇱ISRAELI APARTHEID SYSTEM IS ILLEGAL:
🇮🇱MASSIVE VIOLATIONS OF HUMAN RIGHTS (HR)
🇮🇱COLLECTIVE PUNISHMENT IS ILLEGAL:
Laws Violated
🇮🇱ILLEGAL MASSIVE TRANSFORMATION OF LOCAL LAWS
🇮🇱SEPARATION BARRIER ILLEGAL
🇮🇱VIOLATIONS OF U.N. SECURITY COUNCIL RESOLUTIONS
Drawing inspiration from the successful strategies used against South Africa’s regime, we must go beyond mere diplomatic condemnations that have proven ineffective in curbing Israel’s actions.
World leaders must stop their complicity in the erasure of Palestine.
It falls on us to demand justice and accountability for Israel for its long history of human rights abuses and the growth of its apartheid state.
Only through sustained aggressive pressure from the international community can we hope to see an end to the Israel’s colonial occupation of Palestine.” … 🍉
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“Powerful people oppress through the silence of ordinary people”
#reclaimthenarrative 🍉🕊
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UPCOMING: DAY OF ACTION FOR PALESTINE
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“With Israel’s catastrophic onslaught ongoing, we must continue to take action to demand a #CeasefireNOW, and an end to British complicity in Israel’s apartheid rule over the Palestinian people. Join your local action on Saturday 6 January to show support for freedom and justice for Palestine in your local community and build help build towards our next national march for Palestine in London on Saturday 13 January.”
the full list of dates and locations is available on the Palestine Solidarity Campaign’s official website
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pandalandalopalis · 2 years
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watching ms marvel makes me mad that so much of this stuff wasn’t taught in school. like i never knew that india and pakistan were one country that was split based on religious lines. why was i never taught that. wikipedia says it is often considered the largest refugee crisis in history. why wasn’t i taught that.
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