People under siege have broken out of their prison. Colonial violence is met with resistance — but that’s not how the mainstream media will present it to you. You don’t need to support (all or any) forms of that violence. But you can aim to understand it.
Category Archives: Palestine-Israel
Welcome to Season Four! Now, How to Use Your Exploding Head For Good?
There are moments that stuck with us. This is an episode about such moments and how to use them for good.
As Long As You’re Fine with Our Crimes, We’re Fine with You
Don’t live in an Orwellian world: where it is criminal and immoral to speak out against human rights violations and not to commit them. This is exactly the case with criticism that the Israeli government and its supporters show to anyone daring to speak out for Palestinian rights.
“Whose Payroll Are You On?”
To do political work, some navigation is needed.
But not just through everything that’s happening — through the criticisms and attempts by others to push you into self-censorship, too.
My episode is on that kind of navigation. It’s here to encourage you to speak out and stand with the people whose voices have been historically silenced.
The Threat to The Israeli Democracy Is Real – But The Israeli Democracy Isn’t
Massive protests have been happening in Israel for months against its governments plans to limit the power of its judiciary. In any democracy, that would be alarming. It IS alarming in Israel, too. But what else is?
Ramadan in Palestine: Disregarding Human Rights is Democracy; Criticising Those Same Abuses Is Antisemitism
The Palestinian town of Huwara was just violently attacked by a big mob of Israeli settlers. This is not an incident – it’s is all part of what a brutal system of military occupation, ethnic cleansing, and apartheid entails.
Shireen Abu Akleh: No Justice, Just Impunity
Yet the killing of journalist Shireen Abu Akleh is yet another reminder that Israel operates with complete impunity. As the months are passing, we can see no meaningful external investigation is taking place.
This Year Has Been The Deadliest for Palestinian Children in The West Bank – What Should We Know?
2022 has been the deadliest year for Palestinian children in the West Bank in 15 years. To fully understand how the Israeli state policies work, we have to understand how they affect – not unintentionally, but by design – the Palestinian children.
Gaza: New Killings, Old Narratives
What is there to say after Israel’s most recent bombing of Gaza?
No matter how heart-breaking this devastation was, it didn’t reveal anything new about how Israel operates – nor how the world reacts when Palestinians under siege are being killed.
President Biden Doesn’t Have a Problem with Apartheid, Nor With Human Rights Violations
Joe Biden is on a trip to the Middle East: he’s visiting Israel and Saudi Arabia. What this shows is how little respect – if at all – his presidency has for human rights. Apartheid, military occupation, killings of civilians, murdering of journalists – everything goes. And there is definitely no room for Palestinian human rights.