#brutalization — Public Fediverse posts

'US spy tech company Palantir published a manifesto extolling the benefits of American power and implying some cultures are inferior to others – in what MPs have called “a parody of a RoboCop film” and “the ramblings of a supervillain”.

… also called for an end to the “postwar neutering” of Germany and Japan.'

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/apr/21/palantir-manifesto-uk-contract-fears-mps

#Palantir #Karp #dataProtection #brutalization #defence #defense

>Teachers Are DONE & Speak Out — Something Is Very Wrong With America’s Y... <

#Education #Policy #EpistemicInjustice
#EconomicInjustice
#Inequality #Brutalization

https://youtube.com/watch?v=IwfHPTVyrkw&si=sPjCyeejjDlpNdCS

Palestinian women in Israeli prisons have forged a remarkable unity, particularly around educational initiatives.

Subscription required, by Hélène Servel and Asja Zaino: https://mondediplo.com/2025/01/01palestinian-women @palestine

#torture #prisoners #stateViolence #administrativeDetention #israel #israelPalestine #prison #prisons #warCrimes #PalestinianLivesMatter #JewishSupremacy #brutalization #warOnGaza #GazaWar #humanRights #camps #feminism #feminisms #Palestine

#landGrab #PalestiniansLivesMatter #violence #Palestine #israelPalestine #Zionism #FromTheRiverToTheSea #brutalization #JewishSupremacy #StateRacism #WestBank #OPT #occupation #settlements #settlers #Judea #OneState #terror #terrorism #impunity #VisualizingPalestine

"We should first examine how colonisation works to decivilise the coloniser, to literally dumb them down, to degrade them, to awaken them to buried instincts, to greed, to violence, to racial hatred, to ethical relativism."

Aimé Césaire in "Discours sur le colonialisme", 1950

#entanglement #othering #civilisation #lineOfColor #raceMaking #beliefs #squash #brutalization #complicity #epistemology #coloniality #genocide #racism #colonialism #Césaire #AiméCésaire #whiteness #quote #quotes #citation

"The Zionist produces and defines itself through the animalization of the Palestinian."

"Palestinian liberation is an impossibility in the current ordering of knowledge and being, similarly demanding through its realization the end of […] this world, and modernity."

This paper "posits that Palestinian freedom necessitates the creation of new worlds and [the getting rid of encumbering] constructs such as modernity and the Human."

https://fallingintoincandescence.com/2025/05/18/afropessimism-and-palestinian-liberation-an-essay/ by Scott Campbell @susurros

@philosophy 🧶

#pessimism #epistemology #grievability #othering #modernity #whiteness #whiteFragility #whiteSupremacy #quotes #PalestinianLivesMatter #Zionism #intellectualHistory #colonialism #genocide #ongoingNakba #brutalization #philosophy #europe #europeIsrael #coloniality #proZionism #StandWithIsrael #SylviaWynter #praxis #raceMaking #entanglement

What Every Soldier Serving at the Sde Teiman Detention Camp Knows Is Done to Detainees

Testimony by a reservist in the Zionist army (maybe an Israeli-American) published in Haaretz:
https://archive.ph/sWoTX @israel @palestine 🧵

#torture #prisoners #stateViolence #SdeTeiman #SedeTeiman #Anatot #Ofer #administrativeDetention #israel #israelPalestine #prison #prisons #warCrimes #PalestinianLivesMatter #JewishSupremacy #brutalization #warOnGaza #GazaWar #humanRights #camps

What Every Soldier Serving at the Sde Teiman Detention Camp Knows Is Done to Detainees

Testimony by a reservist in the Zionist army (maybe an Israeli-American) published in Haaretz:
https://archive.ph/sWoTX @israel @palestine 🧵

#torture #prisoners #stateViolence #SdeTeiman #SedeTeiman #Anatot #Ofer #administrativeDetention #israel #israelPalestine #prison #prisons #warCrimes #PalestinianLivesMatter #JewishSupremacy #brutalization #warOnGaza #GazaWar #humanRights #camps

What Every Soldier Serving at the Sde Teiman Detention Camp Knows Is Done to Detainees

Testimony by a reservist in the Zionist army (maybe an Israeli-American) published in Haaretz:
https://archive.ph/sWoTX @israel @palestine 🧵

#torture #prisoners #stateViolence #SdeTeiman #SedeTeiman #Anatot #Ofer #administrativeDetention #israel #israelPalestine #prison #prisons #warCrimes #PalestinianLivesMatter #JewishSupremacy #brutalization #warOnGaza #GazaWar #humanRights #camps

What Every Soldier Serving at the Sde Teiman Detention Camp Knows Is Done to Detainees

Testimony by a reservist in the Zionist army (maybe an Israeli-American) published in Haaretz:
https://archive.ph/sWoTX @israel @palestine 🧵

#torture #prisoners #stateViolence #SdeTeiman #SedeTeiman #Anatot #Ofer #administrativeDetention #israel #israelPalestine #prison #prisons #warCrimes #PalestinianLivesMatter #JewishSupremacy #brutalization #warOnGaza #GazaWar #humanRights #camps

What Every Soldier Serving at the Sde Teiman Detention Camp Knows Is Done to Detainees

Testimony by a reservist in the Zionist army (maybe an Israeli-American) published in Haaretz:
https://archive.ph/sWoTX @israel @palestine 🧵

#torture #prisoners #stateViolence #SdeTeiman #SedeTeiman #Anatot #Ofer #administrativeDetention #israel #israelPalestine #prison #prisons #warCrimes #PalestinianLivesMatter #JewishSupremacy #brutalization #warOnGaza #GazaWar #humanRights #camps

Malm noted: “1840 was a pivotal year in history, for both the Middle East and the climate system. It marked the first time the British Empire deployed steamboats in a major war. Steam power was the technology through which dependence on fossil fuels came into being: Steam engines ran on coal, and it was their diffusion through the industries of Britain that turned this into the first fossil economy.

“Only by exporting it to the rest of the world and drawing humanity into the spiral of large-scale fossil fuel combustion,” Malm writes, “did Britain change the fate of this planet: The globalization of steam was a necessary ignition. The key to this ignition, in turn, was the deployment of steamboats in war. It was through the projection of violence that Britain integrated other countries into the strange kind of economy it had created — by turning fossil capital, we might say, into fossil empire.”

https://systemchangenotclimatechange.org/article/massive-scale-genocide-and-ecocide-are-close-relations/

#preying #predation #brutalization #looting #imperialism #proSionism #coloniality #Aliyah #climateChange #climateCatastrophe #book #paupericide #genocide #tactics #solidarity #BDS #IsraelBoycott #proZionism #fossilFuels #oilAndGas #AndreasMalm #Malm #israelPalestine #MiddleEast #UK #britain #StandWithIsrael #StopArmingIsrael #DefundIsrael #collusion #allies #history #colonialism #colonisation #colonization #BritishEmpire

The monotheistic religions made it normal to squash people: "I think there is something really special about the Bible [...] which is precisely this idea that the revelation of truth comes through the suffering of the weak." (Matthieu Poupart)

Then the Renaissance made it easier to blame the victim: With modernity, "it is the person who takes no initiative who is seen as responsible for the emergence of sexual promiscuity." (Matthieu Poupart)

#EstelleSays #longThread 🧶

#truth #revelation #believe #beliefs #empathy #feminism #quotes #blameTheVictim #maleSupremacy #manliness #patriarchy #misogyny #relationships #sociology #religion #catholic #christianity #jewishness #jewish #squash #flatten #crush #agressions #agressive #agressivity #supremacy #rapeCulture #brutalization #modernity #Renaissance #history #intellectualHistory #historyOfHumanThought #historyOfPhilosophy #normal #normality #heteronormativity #weak #weakness #incest #incestCulture

“In her magisterial book The Great Partition, Yasmin Khan offers a sobering conclusion: The Partition of 1947 is also a loud reminder, should we care to listen, of the dangers of colonial interventions and the profound difficulties that dog regime change. It stands testament to the follies of empire, which ruptures community evolution, distorts historical trajectories and forces violent state formation from societies that would otherwise have taken different—and unknowable—paths. Partition is a lasting lesson of both the dangers of imperial hubris and the reactions of extreme nationalism. For better or worse, two nations continue to live alongside each other in South Asia and continue to live with these legacies.”
―Caroline Elkins, "Legacy of Violence: A History of the British Empire"

#liberalism #raceMaking #hinduism #violence #brutalization #ethnic #religion #IndianSubcontinent #India #Pakistan #Bangladesh #colonialism #British #BritishEmpire #BritishRule #CarolineElkins #Elkins #book #quotes #regimeChange

“For nearly a thousand years, communities on the Indian subcontinent had coexisted in a cultural melting where religious identity was less salient than ethnic or linguistic identity. “A hybrid Indo-Islamic civilization emerged,” according to the historian of India William Dalrymple. “In the nineteenth century, India was still a place where traditions, languages, and cultures cut across religious groupings, and where people did not define themselves primarily through their religious faith.” Much as communities had negotiated means of coexistence in pre-Mandate Palestine only to see them unravel during British rule, the subcontinent’s communal arrangements corroded when the full weight of Britain’s colonial state bore down on them. The Raj’s divide and rule policies produced a chemical-like reaction, shattering long-standing traditions of coexistence and interacting with local personalities who had their own ambitions, passions, and allegiances. It was another liberal experiment in empire gone horribly wrong, and on a scale so epic that once history’s chain of contingent events combusted, no one could contain it.”

Excerpt from Caroline Elkins' #book, "Legacy of Violence: A History of the British Empire"

@bookstodon hat-tip @markvonwahlde

#liberalism #castism #raceMaking #hindouism #beliefs #violence #brutalization #ethnic #religion #islamophobia #IndianSubcontinent #India #Pakistan #Bangladesh #colonialism #British #preBritish #BritishEmpire #BritishRule #bookStodon #CarolineElkins

"With army incursions and airstrikes deepening Palestinian resentment, Israel’s violent campaign in the West Bank is driving recruitment for militant groups."

By Fatima AbdulKarim, August 14, 2024: https://www.972mag.com/jenin-tulkarem-armed-resistance-israeli-repression/ @palestine 🧵

#resistance #PalestinianResistance #armedResistance #collectivePunishment #occupation #Jenin #Tulkarem #refugeehood #resentment #refugees #militancy #israelPalestine #Palestine #WestBank #terrorism #counterTerrorism #brutalization #Zionism #supremacy #israel #brutalisation #revenge #retribution #warOnPalestine #OPT #grievability #mourning #shaheed #martyrs #armedStruggle #repression #stateViolence #refugeeCamps #UNRWA

"In Jenin, brazen Israeli raids fuel fiercer Palestinian resistance"
by Mariam Barghouti (2024, February 27) for #972Mag: https://www.972mag.com/jenin-refugee-camp-israeli-raids-palestinian-resistance/

(to be followed)

#collectivePunishment #occupation #Jenin #refugees #militancy #israelPalestine #Palestine #WestBank #terrorism #counterTerrorism #Zionism #supremacy #israel #brutalization #Zionism #supremacy #israel #brutalisation #Zionism #supremacy #israel #brutalization #revenge #retribution #warOnPalestine #OPT #grievability #mourning #shaheed #martyrs

@estelle @israel

Do you think we're stupid?

We know that Netanyahu is responsible for what his country does. You want to blame everyone but the guilty, though.

#rightToExist #nationalism #trauma #raceMaking #proZionism #Zionism #coloniality #JewishSupremacy #israel #colorLine #Modi #manliness #armsTrade #brutalization #violence #genocide #genocideJoe #Germany #Shoah #colonialism #terrorism

"Palestine, as George Orwell pointed out in 1945, is a ‘colour issue’, and this is the way it was inevitably seen by Gandhi, who pleaded with Zionist leaders not to resort to terrorism against Arabs using Western arms".

Pankaj Mishra in #LRB: https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/n06/pankaj-mishra/the-shoah-after-gaza

#rightToExist #nationalism #trauma #raceMaking #proZionism #Zionism #coloniality #JewishSupremacy #israel #colorLine #Modi #manliness #armsTrade #brutalization #violence #genocide #genocideJoe #Germany #Shoah #colonialism #terrorism

"Armed Israeli settlers raided more than a dozen Palestinian communities under the army’s guard, leaving a trail of death and destruction in their wake"

Oren Ziv: https://www.972mag.com/pogroms-west-bank-soldiers-settlers/ @palestine

#landGrab #PalestiniansLivesMatter #violence #Palestine #israelPalestine #israelApartheid #Zionism #FromTheRiverToTheSea #brutalization #JewishSupremacy #IDF #StateRacism #WestBank #OPT #occupation #settlements #settlers #stateViolence #entitlement #growth #expansion #Judea #OneState #972Mag #colonization #colonisation #colonialism #Duma #terror #terrorism #Aqraba #impunity