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I bought it at what may have been the world's smallest multicultural festival. There were at most 15 booths, probably not even that many. Maybe less than 10. As far as I am concerned it is already listed in the Guinness book of world records as smallest festival. Maybe everyone was in park city waiting to see Bob Dylan, or in their homes waiting to watch the Simpsons. Or maybe they were at Pioneer Park, asking around if any of the homeless people had heroin to sell and being duped paying 20$ for a little tobacco wrapped in plastic. Or maybe they were all in jail because they had accidentally asked an undercover cop in Pioneer Park if they had any heroin for sale.
But the shirt was only 10$ and the proceeds go to support Palestine. This is the first new shirt I can remember buying for myself since...I don't know. I can't remember the last time I purchased a new shirt.
For those unfamiliar with why I may be so excited to have a this shirt allow me to give a history lesson.
For most of the past two thousand years Jewish people have been in diaspora, meaning they were scattered about the world having no country of their own.
Towards the end of the 1800's as nationalist attitudes were rising amongst European intellectuals, secular Jews also became caught up in this fervor, wishing for a land of their own to escape the persecution widespread throughout Europe and Asia.
Prominent Jewish intellectuals wrote of the need for Jews to establish their own country and their writings were extremely influential. Palestine was but one of many places considered. Locations all around the world including South America were evaluated as possible homes for the Jewish people.
Eventually it was decided to settle in Palestine for symbolic but not religious reasons. In fact, religious Jews were strongly against the idea of an attempt to reclaim their homeland, feeling it should only be through the actions of God that Jews should return.
Beginning early last century secular Jews began moving to Palestine, purchasing land legally and resurrected Hebrew as a spoken language for the first time in almost two millennium. There was tension between those then inhabiting Palestine and the immigrating Jews, but the tension was low.
After a few decades religious Jews caught on to the idea that perhaps the return of the Jews people could happen through man's actions. It was then things took a turn for the worse. Because these religious people believed Palestinian land was theirs by right they felt no obligation to purchase land as had been happening before and began to take it by force!
This was generally opposed by governments around the world for obvious reasons, but then came the holocaust where...actually I can't remember what happened.(I joke, we all know what happened). After knowledge of Nazi concentration camps became known, sympathy for Jewish people increased as well as support for the Nation of Israel. This combined with a few well connected Israelis pointing out to various government leaders that Christian mythology taught that before their messiah could return Jews must return home. This eventually led to the United States and the United Nations recognizing Israel as a sovereign state.
As bad as it already was, things did not stop there. Religious support for the state of Isreal increased, and religious Jews continued their aggressive taking of lands they felt already belonged to them by divine right.
Imagine if one day a group of people decided your city was actually theirs and began aggressively moving in. I guess an apt analogy would be to imagine if Native Americans decided to take America back. Except, instead of having been forcibly removed from their lands by the people now occupying it just a few hundred years earlier, they have been absent for nearly two Millenium, and the current occupants, or their ancestors had nothing to do with it. Imagine these people knocking over your house, killing your friends and building on your land. Imagine that as terrible as this might be for you and so apparently unjust, the most powerful nations in the world are in support of these invaders because they are convinced by the an old book that was probably referring to something else altogether that these invaders are doing the will of god. No wonder some Arabs are so pissed.
Memorize this information and share it with everyone. These people need a voice. They have voices, but they need more. Especially here.
Things can get better. But US support of Israel won't be how.
I can't help but feel that if people were aware of the facts , no rational thinker could support the actions of Israel. While I say I can't help but feel that way, I realize it isn't true.
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La popolazione della Striscia di Gaza è più sola e disperata che mai. Il massacro continua indisturbato al buio, dopo che ieri notte un attacco israeliano ha interrotto la linea Internet, dando l'ennesimo colpo di grazia.
"Da oltre 12 ore non abbiamo quasi nessuna notizia dai nostri team a Gaza. - denuncia Jose Mas, responsabile dei programmi di emergenza di Medici Senza Frontiere - La mancanza di internet e le limitate connessioni telefoniche rendono ancora più difficile per le équipe umanitarie e mediche coordinare i movimenti del personale e delle forniture, chiamare le ambulanze e garantire la sicurezza del personale in una delle zone di guerra più letali al mondo."
Il silenzio imposto a Gaza è assordante.
I palestinesi non possono più comunicare. Ma noi possiamo farlo per loro.
19 July 2025, UK, London, Embankment to Whitehall. Tens of thousands of protesters brave the rain to march tto Whitehall in another National March for Palestine to demand that the Starmer government ends its support for Israel and reverses its proscription of Palestine Action.
9 June 2025
Spaventoso e inaudito quello che è successo.
Stanotte l’esercito israeliano ha fatto irruzione a bordo della Madleen, la nave della Ong Freedom Flotilla destinata a Gaza con a bordo Greta Thunberg, e ha rapito l’equipaggio.
Non arrestato, rapito. Perché questo è accaduto.
Prima uno sciame di droni urticanti sul ponte, poi l’ultimatum, infine l’irruzione armata a bordo degli uomini dell’Idf per bloccare con la forza dodici attivisti decisi simbolicamente a rompere l’assedio di Gaza con carichi umanitari.
Questo è un crimine di guerra, l’ennesimo di una serie infinita e impunita di quel criminale di guerra che risponde al nome di Benjamin Netanyahu, ben al di là di ogni legalità e legittimità internazionale.
Siamo di fronte a un gruppo di banditi liberi di compiere crimini contro l’umanità nel silenzio pavido, complice e inquietante del mondo intero, Italia ed Europa compresi.
Ma cosa deve succedere ancora perché il mondo apra gli occhi?
Siamo vicini e solidali agli eroici attivisti della Flotilla e va fatta ogni pressione affinché siano immediatamente liberati.
La vergogna non basta più. Non è un sentimento sufficiente.
A protester with a placard outside the Home Office at the start of the Al Quds Day rally in London, held on the third weekend of Ramadan every year. Over a thousand men and women, including many Jews, protested against Israel's apartheid policies, the brutal siege of Gaza and the recent attacks by heavily armed Israeli riot police on men, women and journalists at Al Aqsa Mosque, the third holiest site in Islam.
The mosque itself was flooded with tear gas and hundreds of Palestinians were arrested. The Palestinian Red Crescent claimed that Israeli occupation forces refused to allow ambulances access.
www.middleeasteye.net/video/why-did-israel-storm-al-aqsa-...
The rally also followed the killing of dozens of Palestinians by Israeli Security forces in recent weeks as well as an Amnesty International's report on 1 February 2022 which concluded that Israel's extensive use of segregation, dispossessions and legal discrimination amounted to Apartheid, which it described as a 'cruel system of oppression and a crime against humanity.'
Around 80 pro-Palestine protesters gather outside the ACT Labor Party Conference to demand delegates condemn the genocide in Gaza and support sanctions against Israel
6th January 2024, Canberra, Australia. For the 14th weekend protesters turn out in their hundreds in Garema Place to demand an end to Israel's war in Gaza and a free Palestine.
4 June 2025, London, Houses of Parliament. Thousands of protesters, wearing red, surround parliament to demand an embargo on arms to Israel and draw a symbolic red line against Israel's starvation of the population of Gaza.
I made this graphic for the last election. Guess I should have been more clever.
People have been adding some great tags: Feel free to add your own.
A year later this is, to my great joy, the most interesting picture on flickr - if you search under the word "retard."
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We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. --That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.... it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.
In Canberra, Australia hundreds continue to turn out demanding an end to Israel's genocidal war in Gaza.
Australian, Canberra, 3rd December 2023. For the eighth weekend in a row hundreds of Canberrans gather in the city to demand an end to the genocide in Gaza and to stand in solidarity with Palestine
London, Embankment to Downing Street, 17 May 2025.
Hundreds of thousands of protesters from around the UK gather on the 77th Anniversary of the Nakba to march from Embankment to Downing Street to protest the Israeli genocide in Gaza.
Jack Hirschman December 13, 1933 – August 22, 2021 www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Jack-Hirschman-Marxis... Red Poet documentary youtu.be/eWHTzYbCypc
Canberrans turn out again to stand in solidarity with Palestine and demand an end to Israel's genocidal war on Gaza
Jack Hirschman December 13, 1933 – August 22, 2021 www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Jack-Hirschman-Marxis... Red Poet documentary youtu.be/eWHTzYbCypc
Jack Hirschman December 13, 1933 – August 22, 2021 www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Jack-Hirschman-Marxis... Red Poet documentary youtu.be/eWHTzYbCypc
Jack Hirschman December 13, 1933 – August 22, 2021 www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Jack-Hirschman-Marxis... Red Poet documentary youtu.be/eWHTzYbCypc
Jack Hirschman December 13, 1933 – August 22, 2021 www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Jack-Hirschman-Marxis... Red Poet documentary youtu.be/eWHTzYbCypc
Jack Hirschman December 13, 1933 – August 22, 2021 www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Jack-Hirschman-Marxis... Red Poet documentary youtu.be/eWHTzYbCypc
Canberrans turn out again to stand in solidarity with Palestine and demand an end to Israel's genocidal war on Gaza
Australian, Canberra, 3rd December 2023. For the eighth weekend in a row hundreds of Canberrans gather in the city to demand an end to the genocide in Gaza and to stand in solidarity with Palestine
Jack Hirschman December 13, 1933 – August 22, 2021 www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Jack-Hirschman-Marxis... Red Poet documentary youtu.be/eWHTzYbCypc
"Perhaps the most famous quotation from the Vietnam War was the comment from an American commander who said casually that his forces “had to destroy the village in order to save it.” Last week, Senator Joe Biden joined that commander in cold cynicism, proposing to divide Iraq in order to unify it. Specifically, he proposed to redraw the map of Iraq on the Yugoslav model, fracturing it. “The idea, as in Bosnia, is to maintain a united Iraq by decentralizing it, giving each ethno-religious group—Kurd, Sunni Arab and Shiite Arab—room to run its own affairs.” Biden added innocently: “Decentralization is hardly as radical as it may seem. … Things are already heading toward partition.”
It is not the first time that a plan for breaking up Iraq into three or more parts has been floated. In fact, Leslie Gelb of the Council on Foreign Relations—who co-authored the proposal, which was published as an op-ed in The New York Times on May 1, has been pushing this discredited notion for years. Gelb is the source of the Sopranos-like quote in the Biden-Gelb piece that suggested the United States should make the Sunnis “an offer they couldn’t refuse.” Gelb has also proposed the idea of permanent American military bases in Kurdistan. Like mini-Churchills puffing on cigars and carving up the Ottoman Empire—in way that protected the oil that fueled the imperial British Navy—Biden and Gelb resemble nothing as much as amateur imperialists.
It didn’t take long for experts, other Democratic senators and Iraqis to slam the idea, but it’s clearly an idea that won’t go away. Perhaps not coincidentally, Biden delivered a speech pushing the breakup of Iraq at a meeting of the World Affairs Council in Philadelphia, at which a celebration was held for the 90th birthday of Bernard Lewis. Lewis, a neoconservative theoretician and former British intelligence operative, has been an adviser to Vice President Cheney, the CIA’s James Woolsey and others, and he has been pushing for years the notion that the Arab world must sooner or later undergo what he called “Lebanonization”: that is, disintegration along ethnic and sectarian lines. That is an idea developed at length by David Wurmser, the Middle East adviser in the office of the vice president, and it is clearly the preferred option of a great many leading Israeli thinkers who believe that by dividing their Arab neighbors into squabbling statelets they can be weakened, at least, if not conquered."
--Richard Dreyfuss, "Destroying Iraq to save it" (May 8, 2006)
Canberra, Australia, 11th November 2023. Hundreds of protesters rally and march in Canberra to call for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza and for a free Palestine.
Australia, Canberra, Parliament House, 6 February 2024. Pro-Palestine protesters gather from around Australia to demand a ceasefire and an end to the war on Gaza
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Australian, Canberra, 3rd December 2023. For the eighth weekend in a row hundreds of Canberrans gather in the city to demand an end to the genocide in Gaza and to stand in solidarity with Palestine
Australia, Canberra 29 February 2024. Around 200 Canberra students participating in the Student Strke for Palestine sit down and block the road outside Canberra's Legislative Assembly before marching to Alicia Payne MP's office to demand an end to Australian compliciity in Israel's genocidal war in Gaza.
Canberra, Australia, 11th November 2023. Hundreds of protesters rally and march in Canberra to call for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza and for a free Palestine.
Jack Hirschman December 13, 1933 – August 22, 2021 www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Jack-Hirschman-Marxis... Red Poet documentary youtu.be/eWHTzYbCypc