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So, BDS movement has been going on for a long time and really picked up visibility in the US around 2015. To counter, Israel started lobbying local, state, and federal government officials to pass laws making it illegal for public entities to support BDS.
So, BDS movement has been going on for a long time and really picked up visibility in the US around 2015. To counter, Israel started lobbying local, state, and federal government officials to pass laws making it illegal for public entities to support BDS.
Earlier students were knighting each other with the boink bottle lmao
8) We often talk about - what are the warning signals? Consider this major CDC move as a warning signal of the seriousness of bird flu. I haven’t seen CDC get this suddenly serious in years… 👇
8) We often talk about - what are the warning signals? Consider this major CDC move as a warning signal of the seriousness of bird flu. I haven’t seen CDC get this suddenly serious in years… 👇
7) here is the only milk that I’m drinking — ULTRA PASTEURIZED.
7) here is the only milk that I’m drinking — ULTRA PASTEURIZED.
⚠️Bad signal—CDC confirming—“cats having neurologic symptoms, rapid decline, and death” from H5N1 #birdflu. 3 more cases in cats 🐈 on dairy farms… now 6 total. ➡️The prior 3 bird flu positive cats? All dead now. Likely more. This is mammalian adaptation. bnonews.com/index.php/2024…
This constant demanding that they never have to lay eyes on a thing that doesn’t please them is the definition of supremacy.
This constant demanding that they never have to lay eyes on a thing that doesn’t please them is the definition of supremacy.
🚨PSA: ATTENTION EVERYONE! If you are in driving range of a college with a Gaza solidarity encampment, go to your closest one TOMORROW. If they’re like ours, they don’t need donations. They need your BODIES. We need more ppl to deter the cops from harming our precious students!
🚨 ARRESTS BEING MADE AT UMW 🚨 Despite following every requirement made by admin, cops have moved in and are arresting student protestors at the university of Mary Washington.
I am mf tired of this shit and sick of weirdo zealots. They are murdering women. Fully formed women with hopes and ideas and people who love them, not little clumps of cells.
I am mf tired of this shit and sick of weirdo zealots. They are murdering women. Fully formed women with hopes and ideas and people who love them, not little clumps of cells.
If you're of the left or simply anti-genocide, as am I, and furious with US complicity in Israel's genocide in Gaza, as am I, but you're using the phrase "United States of Israel," you should google "ZOG," and decide if these are people you want to associate with.
パレスチナ連帯キャンプを開始@東京大学 Started the Palestine solidarity camp at Univ. of Tokyo コロンビア大学をはじめとし、いくつかの学園でパレスチナ解放の直接行動が始まっている。 イスラエルはガザにある全ての大学を破壊した。…
Read this thread!! Egypt has thrown standard practice out the window and is deporting refugees without process. Sick, injured, old, young, they’re being rounded up at transit centres and bus stations and sent back to Sudan. #KeepEyesOnSudan
Read this thread!! Egypt has thrown standard practice out the window and is deporting refugees without process. Sick, injured, old, young, they’re being rounded up at transit centres and bus stations and sent back to Sudan. #KeepEyesOnSudan
Exclusive🧵: Egyptian authorities are conducting mass deportations of thousands of Sudanese refugees fleeing a war zone and one of the world’s worst humanitarian emergencies. The New Humanitarian and the Refugees Platform in Egypt (@rpegyorg) have been investigating the…
Refaat and I were supposed to attend the Pal Writes literary festival at UPenn in September 2023. Refaat very much wanted to travel and take part but he couldn’t attend a visa interview at the US embassy because of the siege and occupation. I went, however, and I attended the…
These models are all wearing lingerie by the French pre-war fetish lingerie company, Diana Slip. The company disappeared after the onset of World War II. The Biederer Brothers, who took this photo, were both sent to concentration camps in 1942, where they were murdered.
Adviso to Emory: Jackson Hinkle, a far-right influencer who identifies as a “MAGA communist” (using leftist language to pull people into the far-right) is at Emory. He is not an ally, he’s a grifter bigot who will likely try taking footage/doing interviews to push his agenda.
Adviso to Emory: Jackson Hinkle, a far-right influencer who identifies as a “MAGA communist” (using leftist language to pull people into the far-right) is at Emory. He is not an ally, he’s a grifter bigot who will likely try taking footage/doing interviews to push his agenda.
I can’t believe liberals got dogs, football, and bud light
You’re in the middle of a sprawling and accelerating far right information war. Act like it.
You’re in the middle of a sprawling and accelerating far right information war. Act like it.
Around 100 protesters were arrested on Saturday at a pro-Palestine encampment at Northeastern University, but not the one whose hate speech got everything shut down. trib.al/bIyzlQB
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We are told that we hate our country and love the terrorists, because we have failed to recognize that the US is not to blame in any way for wars it started and continues to wage; the fault lies with the Iraqis themselves, who can stop fighting if they want to stop the war.
And millions of us find all this death and maiming tragic. And we're told by millions more—the same who told us that we were aligned with terrorists for predicting this exact eventuality—that finding the death of foreign civilians tragic means we are aligned with the terrorists.
And now it is 2005, and we have brought a lot more death to Iraq and Afghanistan than was ever brought to us. Maybe a million civilians. Maybe more. And 10,000 of our troops, and 10s of thousands more injured. And two countries broken forever, hi-ho.
The experts are aligned with terrorists, who apparently more than anything do not want us to go to war in Iraq, because terrorists want to kill Americans, and nothing apparently makes the job of killing Americans more difficult than if America opens a SECOND ground war.
So yes, our leaders say that Iraq poses an imminent threat. Our leaders say there is evidence. The experts whose jobs involve knowing such things say there actually isn't any evidence. We are told by our leaders that this means the experts are aligned with the terrorists.
Lesson #4 of a war-oriented society: Any hypothetical future threat of potential attack justifies the same disproportionate violent response as an actual attack. Any imagined threat must be taken as the same as a real one.
Now our current leaders—some of whom were involved with putting the bad guys in power in Afghanistan and Iraq, are saying that Iraq—which has not attacked us, is about to attack us, very very very soon, and therefore it needs to be very very very attacked.
We put the bad guy in power there because doing so served our national interests, according to the people who decide. And sure, there's a lot of oil in Iraq, and our most prominent current leaders who most wanted war in Iraq are oil men, but never mind, we're talking safety.
It is true that there is a bad person there. He is in power there in part because we helped put him there, which is also true but not mentioned. He does terrible things to the Iraqi people, we're told—also true. In response, we propose to do terrible things to the Iraqi people.
Iraq is not a country where most of the people who attacked us are from, either. It is a country some of our current leaders indicated they wanted to go to war with even before we were attacked, and they said they wanted to do this because there is a very bad guy in power there.
This suggests that we believe almost instinctively that we are much more valuable as human beings than any other human beings from any other places—100x more, 1000x—so much more valuable, that it might be said we don't even think of those other people as human beings.
We are going to deliver something called "shock and awe" to them; not just killing, but a lot of killing. Lesson #3: the only appropriate answer to killing is not only killing—it must be disproportionate killing—a hundred times more killing, a thousand times more.
And now it is 2003, and we are fixing to go to war in Iraq, which means the people of Iraq will not have a choice about whether or not to experience war, and we do have a choice, but we are saying we do not. For them war truly is not optional. They are going to have some.
Lesson #2 of a war-oriented society: After killing, the worst betrayal possible is any opposition to further killing.
Again the choices: war, or nothing. The only way to honor the dead is with more death. Some millions of us notice that this alignment toward death also seems to be how terrorists seem to think about things. Our noticing this is offered as further proof that we love terrorists.
And millions of others who've already learned a war-oriented society's lessons inform us that pointing this observable fact out means that we are suggesting that those who died in the terrorist attacks deserved it, that we denigrate their memories by suggesting we do nothing.
Afghanistan isn't the country where most of the terrorists who attacked us hail from, incidentally. It's where the terrorists operated, partly because we funded them to operate there—so bringing war to the region is something millions of us notice has made us less safe, not more.
Lesson #1 of a war-oriented society: Killing is not only *an* appropriate answer to killing, it is the *only* appropriate answer. The choices are war, or nothing.
But sure enough, here in late 2001, old what's-his-name the news anchor has been proved right: we're heading to war in Afghanistan. Old what's-his-name knew, with the sage wisdom of somebody living in a war-oriented society; when you are attacked, war is not optional.
I have a distinct memory from the day of the attacks, of a news anchor announcing—before the buildings even fell—that we were now at war, which we technically weren't yet; thanks to my high school civics class I knew that news anchors aren't empowered to declare war.
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