#palestinian intellectuals

[the-garbanzo-annex-jr]

The Guardian was the only international media outlet to cover the publication of an open letter that was recently signed by a number of “Palestinian intellectuals, artists and other public figures” in condemnation of the antisemitic remarks made by Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas at an August session of the Fatah Revolutionary Council.

However, unable to simply unequivocally denounce Abbas’ repugnant speech, the 96 signatories also used the letter to attack so-called “Israeli settler colonialism” and to spread the well-worn apartheid libel.

As reported by The Guardian’s Bethan McKernan, the signees include individuals such as “Rashid Khalidi, the historian, Dana el-Kurd, the political scientist, and Sam Bahour, the prominent businessman,” who all apparently “condemn the morally and politically reprehensible comments” made by the octogenarian leader.

Yet, as is par the course for the publication’s longtime Jerusalem correspondent, McKernan was selective about what information she included in the piece.

A quick examination of the missive reveals the signatories comprise a who’s who of Palestinian antisemites, including writer Refaat Alareer, who has repeatedly compared Israel to Nazi Germany and once posted online that Zionism and Nazism “are two cheeks of the same dirty arse,” Democrat Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib, whose hatred of the Jewish state has frequently crossed the line into antisemitism, and Ubai Aboudi, a convicted member of the PFLP terrorist organization.

Read Israellycool’s in-depth piece for more details about other names attached to the letter.

On further researching the backgrounds of some of the other individuals who signed the letter, we were disappointed to discover that someone who works for a highly influential international media outlet and frequently reports on Israel and the Palestinian territories was apparently a signatory.

After looking into the circumstances of how the journalist ended up being associated with this letter, we found out that their name had been added allegedly without their knowledge. The journalist, who we are not identifying, later contacted the letter organizers and had their name removed.

It is not wholly clear why this person was erroneously included among the letter’s signatories, but the fact that at least one signature has been called into question and erased raises further questions surrounding the credibility of the entire letter.

Were any of the other 96 names added without their knowledge and in the hope they wouldn’t notice or care?

And will The Guardian ever do any due diligence before republishing this letter or any other like it?

#the guardian #anti abbas letter #antisemitism #palestinian intellectuals

[zvaigzdelasas]

Lol sucks for you. Can't relate!

#dont think theres been a single person who i value intellectually who has surprised me let alone been a fullblown zionist #only ppl who have rly surprised me on this are those i expected to take a zionist/moderately pro israel stance who have stood w palestinians #so #maybe says something

[chaiaurchaandni]

really important!!!

after killing 40 Palestinian journalists (+ many journalists who survived but their entire families were killed because their HOMES were targeted), zionists are now spreading dangerous propaganda linking journalists to hamas to

minimize their credibility

refuse to hold any accountability for killing them and

manufacture consent for further targeted killings of even more journalists

it is important to remember how heavily surveilled Gaza is and how israel knows where every single person lives. this is why many journalists have been martyred, not in the field while reporting, but in their homes, as they went home to see their families and get some rest. furthermore, if you follow motaz azaiza closely, you'll know that recently he has also had some close calls with israeli airstrikes, suggesting that israel is indeed targeting active Palestinian journalists, especially those who report in english or have a lot of reach in the west.

please do not fall for israeli propaganda and convince yourselves that israel is justified in murdering innocent Palestinians who only seek to show the world a small glimpse of the hell they live through everyday. call out this propaganda everywhere you see it, and spread awareness about this being a propaganda tactic. by israel's own logic, if journalists happen to record an armed group as they carry out an operation, then journalists from cnn who have embedded themselves with the idf, are also legitimate targets.

and as much as i hate a lot of these american journalists for their complicit reporting in the genocide of Palestinians, i think they deserve to be prosecuted in a free and fair court of law, not to be blown to bits for it. however, for israel, ALL palestinians must be killed to ensure the security of the zionist entity. even the existence of a single Palestinian is proof that israel is an illegitmate settler-colonial state that ethnically cleansed the indigenous population.

#fuck israel fuck zionism #the zionists r grasping at any excuse to dehumanize palestinian and they will stop at nothing #right now theyve started by suggesting journalists were involved in the oct 7 attack so all palestinian journalists deserve to die #eventually theyll say all palestinians were aware about the plans for oct 7th so all palestinians are legitimate targets #they lie and slander again and again and again #and palestinians have told nothing but the truth from the very beginning #every zionist accusation is a confession #all zionist journalists do not care about objectivity or truthfullness #they shamelessly spread propaganda eg ab the 40 burnt or beheaded babies #palestinian journalists dont even have to make up shit they just have tp turn on their camera and SHOW you whats happening #anyone with an eyes and a heart can see who is the victim and who is the aggressor #palestinian journalists have paid for their bravery and courage by their own blood and the blood of their loved ones #this is a common tactic in genocide also to kill intellectuals and journalists and artists from the target group #anyone who contributes to the creation of knowledge is seen as a legitimate target #free palestine #palestine #gaza #long live palestine #glory to the martyrs #from the river to the sea palestine will be free #long live the resistance #death to israel

[keshetchai]

Honestly if you don't understand why discussing how quickly the Holocaust happened is relevant to what made it different from other various other genocides prior to that, then idk how to make it seem relevant. It's like...deeply important to understanding the scale and specifics of the Holocaust and what the impact of that was. I don't think it's helpful to assume continual worst case reasons for why someone is not fully on board with a Holocaust comparison either but whatever.

#israelis make a shitty comparison and use it to justify horrific shit!! yeah they sure do. i wish they wouldnt.... #maybe no one should make bad holocaust comparisons! #i also shouldve gotten in to edward said's weird thing about palestinians being the Jews of the Jews #and his fun claims he was the last true jewish intellectual despite not being jewish at all lol #the replacement and removal of jews from jewish narratives is weird

[tungledotedu]

american liberals act like all leftists are tankies who deny atrocities in nations outside the united states. so of course they want to accuse us of misusing the term genocide.

there's no point in bringing up hypothetical concerns about israelis being deported when literally RIGHT NOW, millions of palestinians are forcibly deported under the threat of bombings. israeli officials are outright saying this is nakba 2023.

this is not worth writing an actual post about so i'll just paste some quotes from wikipedia. list of ~terminally online leftists~ who ~bastardize~ the word genocide:

Additionally, dozens of Holocaust survivors, along with hundreds of descendants of Holocaust survivors and victims, accused Israel of "genocide" for the deaths of more than 2,000 Palestinians in Gaza during the 2014 Gaza War.[38]

IfNotNow co-founder and B'Tselem USA director Simone Zimmerman criticized them as exhibiting "genocidal animus towards Palestinians — emboldened and unfiltered".[39][40]

Israeli New Historian Ilan Pappé has argued that genocide "is the only appropriate way to describe what the Israeli army is doing in the Gaza Strip"

On 15 October, TWAILR published a statement signed by over 800 legal scholars expressing "alarm about the possibility of the crime of genocide being perpetrated by Israeli forces against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip" and calling on UN bodies, including the UN Office on Genocide Prevention and the Responsibility to Protect, as well as the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court to "immediately intervene, to carry out the necessary investigations, and invoke the necessary warning procedures to protect the Palestinian population from genocide."[48][49][50]

there's more just under the 2023 subheading.

not good enough?

how's that for throwing around the term genocide?

if you actually bothered to watch it, shaun's video was about debunking american apologia over the hiroshima and nagasaki bombings. specifically the claim that it was tragic but necessary. it wasn't about defending imperial japan. it was actually critical of its militarist supreme council and how it refused to surrender even after hiroshima was bombed.

apparently that falls under genocide enabling. but pretending that biden isn't enabling israel's genocide of palestinians doesn't count?

#self admitted neoliberal warhawk mariacallous #the american people are not intellectual to put it mildly #how many times do palestinians have to say that freeing palestine =/= forcibly deporting israeli people #it's racist and baseless fearmongering. just like the pushback against land back movement. 'the natives will kill us and make us leave!' #also not sprinkledsalt having no terfs in their bio while sharing an article from unherd #you know. the right wing news site whose columnists include julie bindel meghan murphy and kathleen stock. all gendercrits #palestine #free gaza #gaza #islamophobia #racism #gaza genocide #nakba #free palestine #world war 2 #japan #imperialism #hiroshima and nagasaki #breadtube #blocklist

[tempogrotto]

"terrifying" isn't a strong enough word to describe the intellectual incoherence these people feel totally free to spout.

#am yisrael chai #the jews love life #as much as we hate death #hamas direct quote #intellectual dishonesty #intellectual incoherence #so glad these people who don't know what a man or a woman is are suddenly experts on the Middle East #i stand with israel #and palestinians under the thumb of Hamas #can't stop tagging because there's outrage in every finger

[branmer]

ngl there are some users on this website who would probably have both sides'd apartheid south africa had tumblr existed back then

#if i see one more 'i am the smartest and you are all dumbies' post equating supporting palestine with supporting hamas #saw someone comment on a post being like 'yes israel is committing atrocities but hamas shouldn't exist :)' #as if the existance of hamas is totally disconnected from 75 years of israeli atrocities against the palestinian people #like there are just some deeply unserious people on this website who have somehow convinced themselves they are the true intellectuals #deeply ironic tbh

[drumlincountry]

I was at a Palestinian solidarity gig last night & the one Palestinian artist who was going to perform had COVID so the organisers asked around to see if there were any Palestinians who'd like to say a few words instead.

A local guy who was born & raised in Gaza offered to speak. He started with "I'm an engineer. i'm not a poet or a politician. I don't... do public speaking… I had no idea what to say when I came up here. So i'm just going to tell you about the street I grew up on."

And then he did! He went down the street building by building. He told us about the ice cream shop on the corner, the grocery shop, the charity that supports people with intellectual disabilities. He told us about the people who he knew growing up, the families who still live in the different houses. He told us about the university buildings and about his friends who quit being accountants to start a band together. All on that street.

All of which is gone now, by the way. Bombed to dust.

#Gaza #Palestine #I talked to him a bit afterwards but god what do you say!! #he said he found the gig helpful anyway. Supportive. So that's good. #I'm gonna see if I can find his friends band and share some of their songs #Me Fein

[buglover3000]

the whole “it’s not genocide it’s war” things doesn’t work on me bc guess what I also—gasp— hate war!

#u definitely don’t want to know how I feel about the us military! #sorry I don’t think the brutal slaughter and torture of thousands of palestines is justified regardless 🤷‍♀️ #also maybe don’t like… poke a bear bc it’ll bite.. u torture and displace Palestinians for over 70 years u want them to what? take it? #delete later #ok maybe last post #I got stuff to do (my puzzle) #feeling intellectual tonight sorry

[jewishvitya]

A pro-Palestine Jew on tiktok asked those of us who were raised pro-Israel, what got us to change our minds on Palestine. I made a video to answer (with my voice, not my face), and a few people watched it and found some value in it. I'm putting this here too. I communicate through text better than voice.

So I feel repetitive for saying this at this point, but I grew up in the West Bank settlements. I wrote this post to give an example of the extent to which Palestinians are dehumanized there.

Where I live now, I meet Palestinians in day to day life. Israeli Arab citizens living their lives. In the West Bank, it was nothing like that. Over there, I only saw them through the electric fence, and the hostility between us and Palestinians was tangible.

When you're a child being brought into the situation, you don't experience the context, you don't experience the history, you don't know why they're hostile to you. You just feel "these people hate me, they don't want me to exist." And that bubble was my reality. So when I was taught in school that everything we did was in self defense, that our military is special and uniquely ethical because it's the only defensive military in the world - that made sense to me. It slotted neatly into the reality I knew.

One of the first things to burst the bubble for me was when I spoke to an old Israeli man and he was talking about his trauma from battle. I don't remember what he said, but it hit me wrong. It conflicted with the history as I understood it. So I was a bit desperate to make it make sense again, and I said, "But everything we did was in self defense, right?"

He kinda looked at me, couldn't understand at all why I was upset, and he went, "We destroyed whole villages. Of course we did. It was war, that's what you do."

And that casual "of course" stuck with me. I had to look into it more.

I couldn't look at more accurate history, and not at accounts by Palestinians, I was too primed against these sources to trust them. The community I grew up in had an anti-intellectual element to it where scholars weren't trusted about things like this.

So what really solidified this for me, was seeing Palestinian culture.

Because part of the story that Israel tells us to justify everything, is that Palestinians are not a distinct group of people, they're just Arabs. They belong to the nations around us. They insist on being here because they want to deny us a homeland. The Palestinian identity exists to hurt us. This, because the idea of displacing them and taking over their lands doesn't sound like stealing, if this was never theirs and they're only pretending because they want to deprive us.

But then foods, dances, clothing, embroidery, the Palestinian dialect. These things are history. They don't pop into existence just because you hate Jews and they're trying to move here. How gorgeous is the Palestinian thobe? How stunning is tatreez in general? And when I saw specific patterns belonging to different regions of Palestine?

All of these painted for me a rich shared life of a group of people, and countered the narrative that the Palestininian identity was fabricated to hurt us. It taught me that, whatever we call them, whatever they call themselves, they have a history in this land, they have a right to it, they have a connection to it that we can't override with our own.

I started having conversations with leftist friends. Confronting the fact that the borders of the occupied territories are arbitrary and every Israeli city was taken from them. In one of those conversations, I was encouraged to rethink how I imagine peace.

This also goes back to schooling. Because they drilled into us, we're the ones who want peace, they're the ones who keep fighting, they're just so dedicated to death and killing and they won't leave us alone.

In high school, we had a stadium event with a speaker who was telling us about a person who defected from Hamas, converted to Christianity and became a Shin Bet agent. Pretty sure you can read this in the book "Son of Hamas." A lot of my friends read the book, I didn't read it, I only know what I was told in that lecture. I guess they couldn't risk us missing out on the indoctrination if we chose not to read it.

One of the things they told us was how he thought, we've been fighting with them for so long, Israelis must have a culture around the glorification of violence. And he looked for that in music. He looked for songs about war. And for a while he just couldn't find any, but when he did, he translated it more fully, and he found out the song was about an end to wars. And this, according to the story as I was told it, was one of the things that convinced him. If you know know the current trending Israeli "war anthem," you know this flimsy reasoning doesn't work.

Back then, my friend encouraged me to think more critically about how we as Israelis envision peace, as the absence of resistance. And how self-centered it is. They can be suffering under our occupation, but as long as it doesn't reach us, that's called peace. So of course we want it and they don't.

Unless we're willing to work to change the situation entirely, our calls for peace are just "please stop fighting back against the harm we cause you."

In this video, Shlomo Yitzchak shares how he changed his mind. His story is much more interesting than mine, and he's much more eloquent telling it. He mentions how he was taught to fear Palestinians. An automatic thought, "If I go with you, you'll kill me." I was taught this too. I was taught that, if I'm in a taxi, I should be looking at the driver's name. And if that name is Arab, I should watch the road and the route he's taking, to be prepared in case he wants to take me somewhere to kill me. Just a random person trying to work. For years it stayed a habit, I'd automatically look at the driver's name. Even after knowing that I want to align myself with liberation, justice, and equality. It was a process of unlearning.

On October, not long after the current escalation of violence, I had to take a taxi again. A Jewish driver stopped and told me he'll take me, "so an Arab doesn't get you." Israeli Jews are so comfortable saying things like this to each other. My neighbors discussed a Palestinian employee, with one saying "We should tell him not to come anymore, that we want to hire a Jew." The second answered, "No, he'll say it's discrimination," like it would be so ridiculous of him. And the first just shrugged, "So we don't have to tell him why." They didn't go through with it, but they were so casual about this conversation.

In the Torah, we're told to treat those who are foreign to us well, because we know what it's like to be the foreigner. Fighting back against oppression is the natural human thing to do. We know it because we lived it. And as soon as I looked at things from this angle, it wasn't really a choice of what to support.

#riki babbles #I had this in my drafts for ages and I was like 'not the time' but a friend encouraged me to share so here it is #palestine

[revolutionarysuicide]

you know since the ao3 anon i've been looking into vps prices. tbh i think trying to get my own ao3 instance up and running would be a pretty fun personal project. seems like some vps services can be really cheap per month so i could just pay for a months worth of server usage and try get ao3 running on the server just to see if i can and then cancel my subscription once it's done. i guess i wouldn't mind keeping it up if i can keep it <£5/month (i stumbled across one service that claims <£1/month but i'd have to do more research not just go with the cheapest advertised price lol) but i dont think anyone else would use it regularly judging by the lack of response to my answer to yesterday's anon. i feel like the bare minimum for me to want to keep my own instance up is if one (1) person who actually gets readership also semi-regularly uploads fic to the instance

#ive been thinking about trying to publish some of my short stories (for free im never charging for intellectual 'property') online tbf #but i dont think id want to put it on an ao3 clone cause id want to publish under my pen name not under my regular social media username #like i wouldnt want it to be connected to my tumblr or whatever #and i dont write fanfic anymore. not opposed to it i just have no interest #if someone else wanted to use it and they actually got readership onto the site i wouldnt mind continuing to host it for them tbh #but yeah if i tried setting it up id probably just end up deleting the instance once ive had my fun setting it up #also i still am quite firmly against fundraising for this even if there were demand for it bc thats really just unjustifiable when so many #palestinians are struggling to fundraise for crossing the border and leaving gaza #i couldnt in good conscience fundraise for a fanfiction site at the same time even if people were willing to donate #so i wouldnt have the site at the kind of scale where i cant fully cover costs out of pocket (or maybe me jointly with some other ppl who #help run the site) #anyway this is how i entertain myself these days i guess. amateur sysadmining

[alewaanewspaper1960]

دور تيارات الفكر المحافظة الأمريكية في رسم السياسة الخارجية الأمريكية تجاه الصراع (الفلسطيني - الإسرائيلي)

دور تيارات الفكر المحافظة الأمريكية في رسم السياسة الخارجية الأمريكية تجاه الصراع (الفلسطيني – الإسرائيلي)   دور تيارات الفكر المحافظة الأمريكية في رسم السياسة الخارجية الأمريكية تجاه الصراع (الفلسطيني – الإسرائيلي) The Role Of The American Conservative Currents Of Thought In Making U.s Foreign Policy Towards The Palestinian Israeli Conflict الكاتب : حمودة يوسف . حتحوت نورالدين الملخص: تعتبر…

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[chaiaurchaandni]

'representations of the intellectual' - edward said

#free palestine #palestine #gaza #long live palestine #glory to the martyrs #from the river to the sea palestine will be free #long live the resistance #palestinian literature #palestinian authors #edward said #role of intellectuals

[amereid1960]

دور تيارات الفكر المحافظة الأمريكية في رسم السياسة الخارجية الأمريكية تجاه الصراع (الفلسطيني - الإسرائيلي)

دور تيارات الفكر المحافظة الأمريكية في رسم السياسة الخارجية الأمريكية تجاه الصراع (الفلسطيني – الإسرائيلي)   دور تيارات الفكر المحافظة الأمريكية في رسم السياسة الخارجية الأمريكية تجاه الصراع (الفلسطيني – الإسرائيلي) The Role Of The American Conservative Currents Of Thought In Making U.s Foreign Policy Towards The Palestinian Israeli Conflict الكاتب : حمودة يوسف . حتحوت نورالدين الملخص: تعتبر…

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#Conservative intellectual currents. #Foreign Policy #The Palestinian-Israeli conflict #الولايات المتحدة الأمريكية – السياسة الخارجية – الصراع الفلسطيني-الاسرائيلي – التيارات الفكرية المحافظة. Un

[gingerswagfreckles]

I think people need to understand that when someone says the situation in Israel/Palestine is complicated they are not necessarily saying that the discussion of who the oppressor vs oppressed is complicated. The Israeli government has been oppressing the Palestinians for a very long time, that is clear, and it is not complicated to understand that at least since the 80s they have had dramatically more financial and military power to keep control of the territory in the way they like.

However, it is reductive and dismissive to insist that there is no complexity in the potential ways to move forward to bring peace to the region. Despite what people on tumblr.edu like to believe, "Israel should never have been created" is not a practical solution to an incredibly heated geopolitical situation in the present day. Israel was created and it does exist. 10 million people live there. 74% of the population is native born and the country has existed for 75 years. Hand waving these fact away with the opinion that "they should move back to where they came from" may make you feel good about being a Radical Leftist, but it does not give anyone a road map for how exactly millions of people without dual citizenship are supposed to just up and evaporate. Nor does it acknowledge the reality that 21% of Israelis are Arabs, the very people you are claiming to want to give the land back to.

Insisting that there's nothing complicated about expecting an entire country's population to willingly dissappear with no consequences is not a productive way to think about this conflict. It ignores the many massive superpowers that have an interest in proping up different states in the region, the power dynamics involved in any land back movements, and the inevitably negative consequences of totally dissolving an established state without a plan. It is also completely and almost comically unrealistic, so much so that it makes it hard to believe that anyone who's opinion starts and ends with this idea really gives a shit about anyone who lives in the area as much as they care about their online leftist clout.

There's nothing complicated in understanding that the Israeli government is and has been maintaining an oppressive apartheid state for decades. It is, however, very complicated to come up with a realistic way to resolve some of the most intricately entangled land disputes on the planet without plunging the region into total chaos. Not everyone has to be deeply educated on every geopolitical situation, but it is very hard to take people seriously when they know nothing about the politics or history of a region and yet insist that there is nothing complicated about it at all.

There's a lot of people on this website who are getting dangerously smug about their own ignorance, and are starting to go down Qanon type anti-intellectual paths in the name of being sufficiently radical. Not knowing the details of a very convoluted land dispute isn't something to brag about online as you call for intentionally reductive solutions. You can support the Palestinian cause and be aware of the oppression they have faced while also holding off on calling people trying to do real analysis and de-escalation work bootlickers. We need to get control of the urge to fit every global issue into a simplistic YA novel narrative structure that appeals to Western revolutionary fantasies.

#gingerswagfreckles #israel #palestine #israel palestine conflict #i/p #i/p conflict

[sayruq]

Israel is systematically targeting prominent Palestinian personalities as well as intellectuals

#yemen #jerusalem #tel aviv #current events #palestine #free palestine #gaza #free gaza #news on gaza #palestine news #news update #war news #war on gaza #rafaat al areer #genocide