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@rach3lburn3tt
i’m like yeshayahu leibowitz if he listened to lucy dacus. writer (allegedly). militant pacifist. opinions my own. she/her. same username on 🟦☁️🦋
what does a belief in human rights and equality mean at all if these rights are not inalienable? if someone’s human dignity can be revoked?
As a longtime humanitarian who has battled famines and hunger crises, I fear that starvation in Gaza has now passed the tipping point and we are going to see mass-scale starvation mortality. A thread on famine momentum, famine response, and what it means for Gaza today.
Doctors and health officials report wave of hunger deaths in Gaza on.ft.com/46iUoK6
The mass starvation & killing of Palestinians in Gaza at the hands of the Israeli gov’t is a chillul hashem, a desecration of God. Jewish leaders who criticized Zohran Mamdani for three words he doesn’t use should raise their voices loudly here as well.forward.com/opinion/757549…
incredible cognitive dissonance to chastize palestinians for being "educated on mein kampf" right after spouting legit hitlerite rhetoric about gaza
🚨Israeli ultranationalist minister @Eliyahu_a: "All Gaza will be Jewish...the government is pushing for Gaza being wiped out. Thank god, we are wiping out this evil. We are pushing the population that has educated on Mein Kampf"
For Israeli decision-makers, starvation of the Gaza Strip was in the cards from day one of the war @nirhasson haaretz.com/israel-news/20…
Bombshell report: The IDF admitted it destroyed and buried the contents of 1,000(!) aid trucks—because the supplies expired while Israel delayed and mishandled distribution. In case anyone telling you it's the UN's fault.
The United States is abetting a world-historic atrocity nytimes.com/2025/07/24/wor…
curious if there is any other burden of guilt you carry from doing something (or rather somethings) horrific
amazing how the same people crashing out over france, demanding that palestinians "unconditionally surrender" and that their national aspirations must die also think the only reason peace hasn't worked out is because of *palestinian* rejectionism
Re: Macron - I recently addressed the remarkable amnesia of France and other European nations about how they came to enjoy decades of peace (no, it was not by negotiating and empty gestures) and their bizarre determination to prevent our region from achieving a similar peace:
so you agree, the great replacement theory is dangerous and deadly?
This week marks 14 years since a neo-Nazi who espoused the Great Replacement theory brutally murdered 77 people in Norway. Our thoughts are with the families of the victims and survivors of the attack. More on the Great Replacement theory: adl.org/resources/back…
if i have to read one more think piece about how "antisemitism in the us is just as bad on the far left and far right" when the literal government is posting groyper content i fear i may reach the limits of my pacifism.
A Heritage to be proud of, a Homeland worth Defending. American Progress - John Gast
Josh Shapiro has decided that the way to get votes for 2028 is to regurgitate Islamophobic bullshit against Zohran Mamdani and his supporters. Zohran’s condemned actual antisemitism, he himself has not uttered a single word that could be construed as antisemitic (except by bad…
Alon-Lee is a good guy and genuinely fighting the good fight but the truth is he doesn’t have an answer because he’s fundamentally wrong about Israeli society
Israeli Knesset passed a non-binding vote to annex the West Bank. Two points: - The WB has been under de facto annexation for decades. - Fatah, which governs the WB, renounced armed resistance 30 yrs ago. Hamas didn’t. Yet Israel meets both with nearly the same response:…
Knesset votes 71-13 for non-binding motion calling to annex West Bank timesofisrael.com/knesset-votes-…
I don’t have any issue with people like Rivkah or Simone sharing their experiences but I do take issue with them, and “Israelism” presenting a certain experience of hegemonic politics and indoctrination in Jewish community as completely ubiquitous.
For those saying I'm lying, or that my experiences aren't representative, here's @simonerzim talking about her Jewish upbringing in LA. Anti-Arab racism, and the epistemological genocide of Palestinians, is an integral part of Jewish education the world over.
A good litmus test for determining whether you’re a serious leftist - do you regard this woman with respect or disgust?
some top tier pulitzer-eligible journalism, suissa has really outdone himself jewishjournal.com/commentary/col…
Jewish presidential vote by year in the U.S. 2012: 🔵 69-30 🔴 2016: 🔵 71-24 🔴 2020: 🔵 68-30 🔴 2024: 🔵 66-32 🔴 So 🔵D+39 in 2012 to 🔵D+34 over 12 years. So at this pace, a majority of Jews will support Republican presidential candidates in…checks math…the year 2096.
Outside the US, Diaspora Jews mostly vote for right of center parties and I think that's pretty clearly where the American trends are heading as well.
aoc was right to vote against this symbolic bill sponsored by a deranged christian nationalist antisemite (who INTRODUCED a bill to censure tlaib, accusing her of being a terrorist). and i also disagree w aoc's claim that funding the iron dome helps lower the overall death toll.
A week ago, brave citizens who organize the weekly demonstration against the war and against the government invited me to speak tonight in the city of Ness Ziona. This morning, we were informed that fascist extremists had threatened to attack us if we showed up, but we decided…
A truly outrageous and sickening request from the Netanyahu government. The U.S. should not be complicit in or use ANY governmental, American taxpayer resources to aid and abet what amounts to the ethnic cleansing of Palestinian civilians from Gaza. We cannot stand for this.…