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  1. "On July 1, #Israel and the United States signed an agreement to build a permanent U.S. Embassy in #Jerusalem on confiscated Palestinian property. Among the descendants of the Palestinian families who own the site is historian #RashidKhalidi. He details his family’s nearly 30 year legal battle against the planned embassy — and reflects on whether the hundred-year war on #Palestine may finally be entering a new chapter..."

    972mag.com/podcast-rashid-khal
    #USpol #colonialViolence #Nakba

  2. "On July 1, #Israel and the United States signed an agreement to build a permanent U.S. Embassy in #Jerusalem on confiscated Palestinian property. Among the descendants of the Palestinian families who own the site is historian #RashidKhalidi. He details his family’s nearly 30 year legal battle against the planned embassy — and reflects on whether the hundred-year war on #Palestine may finally be entering a new chapter..."

    972mag.com/podcast-rashid-khal
    #USpol #colonialViolence

  3. '[C]ontrasting today’s deepening dependence and the loss of heirloom varieties against the region’s storied past, said to be the birthplace of #agriculture itself, feels like rubbing salt in the wound. “Lebanon’s millennia-old agricultural heritage—one of the oldest in the world—is under imminent threat,” Salloum told me.'

    Seeds of War

    thebaffler.com/latest/seeds-of
    #Lebanon #warOnLebanon #colonialViolence #neocolonialism #ecocide #biodiversity #environment #agribusiness #foodSecurity

  4. '[C]ontrasting today’s deepening dependence and the loss of heirloom varieties against the region’s storied past, said to be the birthplace of #agriculture itself, feels like rubbing salt in the wound. “Lebanon’s millennia-old agricultural heritage—one of the oldest in the world—is under imminent threat,” Salloum told me.'

    Seeds of War

    thebaffler.com/latest/seeds-of
    #Lebanon #warOnLebanon #colonialViolence #neocolonialism #ecocide #biodiversity #environment #agribusiness #foodSecurity

  5. "[T]his faction of the Lebanese ruling class preferred to bet on a US-sponsored security and political agreement with #Israel seeking to disarm #Hezbollah without any real serious Israeli counterparts and guarantees, except for symbolic words about Lebanese sovereignty." - #JosephDaher

    internationalviewpoint.org/The
    #Lebanon #LebanesePolitics #Iran #warOnLebanon #warOnIran #geopolitics #colonialViolence

  6. "[T]his faction of the Lebanese ruling class preferred to bet on a US-sponsored security and political agreement with #Israel seeking to disarm #Hezbollah without any real serious Israeli counterparts and guarantees, except for symbolic words about Lebanese sovereignty." - #JosephDaher

    internationalviewpoint.org/The
    #Lebanon #LebanesePolitics #Iran #warOnLebanon #warOnIran #geopolitics #colonialViolence

  7. 'Diplomats and Lebanese officials from across the political spectrum have quietly acknowledged the mammoth obstacles facing the new #Israel - #Lebanon peace framework – with one Western diplomat privately dismissing it as a “non-starter”.'

    thenationalnews.com/news/mena/
    #warOnLebanon #SouthLebanon #LebaneseResistance #LebanesePolitics #colonialViolence

  8. 'The provision “is not just controversial, it is deeply problematic”, said Nadim Houry, head of the think tank Arab Reform Initiative. “The Lebanese government is giving a liability shield for the severe crimes committed by #Israel in #Lebanon,” he told The National.'

    thenationalnews.com/news/mena/
    #warOnLebanon #warCrimes #colonialViolence #internationalLaw #LebanesePolitics

  9. “The last grievance in the Declaration of Independence is about 'merciless Indian savages' [...] According to our founders, in their own words, the thing that they were most angry about was Native people.”

    Cherokee historian #RebeccaNagle talks about her new podcast series #FirstAmerica

    democracynow.org/2026/6/30/reb

    (v. pushkin.fm/podcasts/first-amer)
    #Indigenous #NativeAmericans #NativeAmericanHistory #UShistory #AmericanHistory #colonialViolence #decolonialStruggles #documentaries

  10. “The last grievance in the Declaration of Independence is about 'merciless Indian savages' [...] According to our founders, in their own words, the thing that they were most angry about was Native people.”

    Cherokee historian #RebeccaNagle talks about her new podcast series #FirstAmerica

    democracynow.org/2026/6/30/reb

    (v. pushkin.fm/podcasts/first-amer)
    #Indigenous #NativeAmericans #NativeAmericanHistory #UShistory #AmericanHistory #colonialViolence #decolonialStruggles #documentaries

  11. " #Israel's ‌nearly four-month air and ground campaign that it says was targeting Iran-backed armed group Hezbollah has damaged or destroyed revered #heritageSites across southern #Lebanon, Lebanese Culture Minister Ghassan Salame told Reuters."

    reuters.com/world/middle-east/
    #warOnLebanon #SouthLebanon #colonialViolence

  12. " #Israel's ‌nearly four-month air and ground campaign that it says was targeting Iran-backed armed group Hezbollah has damaged or destroyed revered #heritageSites across southern #Lebanon, Lebanese Culture Minister Ghassan Salame told Reuters."

    reuters.com/world/middle-east/
    #warOnLebanon #SouthLebanon #colonialViolence

  13. "The wars in southern #Lebanon and #Gaza are exceptional in the degree to which #Israel has been directly targeting medical infrastructure—not to strain it but to literally flatten it. In Gaza this pattern was noted early on: Israel dropped its bombs closer and closer to medical facilities, then switched to carrying out direct strikes with impunity." - #MaryTurfah

    nybooks.com/online/2026/06/24/
    archive.ph/sfayI
    #Palestine #SouthLebanon #warCrimes #colonialViolence #violenceAgainstChildren

  14. "Where do you begin to make sense of it being #Palestine that must deradicalise? How do you credit the viciously oppressed being told that it is they who must commit to offering no threat to #Israel, their oppressor?"

    #FintanDrury, author of Genocide: Sponsoring the Destruction of Palestine

    irishnews.com/news/northern-ir

    #Gaza #GazaGenocide #imperialism #colonialViolence #books @bookstodon

  15. "Where do you begin to make sense of it being #Palestine that must deradicalise? How do you credit the viciously oppressed being told that it is they who must commit to offering no threat to #Israel, their oppressor?"

    #FintanDrury, author of Genocide: Sponsoring the Destruction of Palestine

    irishnews.com/news/northern-ir

    #Gaza #GazaGenocide #imperialism #colonialViolence #books @bookstodon

  16. "The bombing runs may be quieter, but the bulldozers roar on. #Israel is tearing up homes, orchards, schools and hospitals, then flattening the rubble to erase the memory that Palestinian life was ever there.
    "To understand this architecture of death, Richard Hames spoke to #EyalWeizman, author of #Ungrounding: The Architecture of Genocide and founder of #ForensicArchitecture"

    youtube.com/watch?v=GPGKCuiSOgg
    #Gaza #GazaGenocide #Palestine #colonialViolence #stateCrime #infographics #books @bookstodon

  17. "The bombing runs may be quieter, but the bulldozers roar on. #Israel is tearing up homes, orchards, schools and hospitals, then flattening the rubble to erase the memory that Palestinian life was ever there.
    "To understand this architecture of death, Richard Hames spoke to #EyalWeizman, author of #Ungrounding: The Architecture of Genocide and founder of #ForensicArchitecture"

    youtube.com/watch?v=GPGKCuiSOgg
    #Gaza #GazaGenocide #Palestine #colonialViolence #stateCrime #infographics #books @bookstodon

  18. "People are willing to endure unspeakable tribulations as long as there is an end in sight, but when you tell them this is your life *permanently*, you're stuck in this, it becomes an aggravated nightmare."

    Muhammad Shehada and Jehad Abusalim join Adam Shatz to look at #Gaza after the "ceasefire"

    lrb.co.uk/podcasts-and-videos/
    #Palestine #Israel #warOnGaza #GazaGenocide "#BoardOfPeace " #colonialViolence #oPt

  19. "People are willing to endure unspeakable tribulations as long as there is an end in sight, but when you tell them this is your life *permanently*, you're stuck in this, it becomes an aggravated nightmare."

    Muhammad Shehada and Jehad Abusalim join Adam Shatz to look at #Gaza after the "ceasefire"

    lrb.co.uk/podcasts-and-videos/
    #Palestine #Israel #warOnGaza #GazaGenocide "#BoardOfPeace " #colonialViolence #oPt

  20. RE: mas.to/@therightarticle/116636

    "There is an observation in anti-colonial thought, articulated by Fanon and others, that the most insidious move available to a metropolitan solidarity movement is to organize itself around the question of how the colonial society can feel better about itself."

    #books #bookstodon #publishing #Genocide #ColonialViolence

  21. RE: mas.to/@therightarticle/116636

    "There is an observation in anti-colonial thought, articulated by Fanon and others, that the most insidious move available to a metropolitan solidarity movement is to organize itself around the question of how the colonial society can feel better about itself."

    #books #bookstodon #publishing #Genocide #ColonialViolence

  22. Conversation with Rep. #RashidaTlaib: 78 Years Since the #Nakba

    "Join Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib—the only Palestinian-American Member of Congress—for a special virtual conversation commemorating 78 years since the Nakba began. The event will feature guest speaker Dr. #YousefMunayyer, Head of the #Palestine / #Israel Program and Senior Fellow at Arab Center Washington DC."

    replay: imeupolicyproject.org/briefing
    #PalestineSolidarity #USpol #Nakba78 #NakbaDay #Gaza #GazaSolidarity #colonialViolence

  23. Conversation with Rep. #RashidaTlaib: 78 Years Since the #Nakba

    "Join Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib—the only Palestinian-American Member of Congress—for a special virtual conversation commemorating 78 years since the Nakba began. The event will feature guest speaker Dr. #YousefMunayyer, Head of the #Palestine / #Israel Program and Senior Fellow at Arab Center Washington DC."

    replay: imeupolicyproject.org/briefing
    #PalestineSolidarity #USpol #Nakba78 #NakbaDay #Gaza #GazaSolidarity #colonialViolence

  24. "To counter this insidious attempt at #Nakba memoricide by U.S. politicians and others, it is instructive to review the archives of U.S. diplomats stationed in #Palestine and surrounding Arab countries who witnessed the Nakba unfold and reported back to the #StateDepartment on the magnitude and gravity of #Israel’s dispossession of Palestine’s indigenous inhabitants." - #JoshRuebner

    mei.edu/publications/five-thin
    #Nakba78 #NakbaDay #PalestineQuestion #USpol #USMiddleEastPolicy #colonialViolence

  25. "To counter this insidious attempt at #Nakba memoricide by U.S. politicians and others, it is instructive to review the archives of U.S. diplomats stationed in #Palestine and surrounding Arab countries who witnessed the Nakba unfold and reported back to the #StateDepartment on the magnitude and gravity of #Israel’s dispossession of Palestine’s indigenous inhabitants." - #JoshRuebner

    mei.edu/publications/five-thin
    #Nakba78 #NakbaDay #PalestineQuestion #USpol #USMiddleEastPolicy #colonialViolence

  26. "The US actually understood quite early on that the partition plan as proposed by #UNSCOP was not workable and not feasible [...] The US did more than think about going back on partition. In March 1948 [...] the US actually proposed in the Security Council that an international trusteeship be appointed for #Palestine instead of partition." - #JoshRuebner

    #Nakba 1948: What Washington Knew

    youtube.com/watch?v=8fMiKXebU9Y
    #NakbaDay #Nakba78 #PalestineQuestion #USpol #USMiddleEastPolicy #colonialViolence

  27. "In the 78 years since 1948, I have never ceased to think, plan and strive for my right of return home. I started school in Cairo, where my brothers were already at university. In the summer holiday I returned to #Gaza, to scenes I had never imagined. Masses of people were flooding the small enclave that became known as the Gaza Strip."

    lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/may/right-
    #Palestine #Nakba #colonialViolence

  28. "The National Post, the Western Standard and the Epoch Times — a far-right international newspaper — are just a few other outlets that Clifton said the members of his email group and Frontier Centre colleagues regularly write for." thetyee.ca/News/2026/05/08/Who

    #media #residentialSchools #denialism #SettlerColonialism #ColonialViolence #Canada #cdnpoli

  29. 𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗜’𝗺 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴: "𝗙𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗜𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗮𝗻𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗪𝗲𝘀𝘁" 𝗯𝘆 𝗗𝗲𝗲 𝗕𝗿𝗼𝘄𝗻 -

    Brown's 1948 history of the violent colonial movements and native resistance in the western US, well-documents with photographs.

    #books #bookreviews #bookworm #readreadread #tbr #tbrpile #tbrlist #quotes #reading #deebrown #fightingindiandsofthewest #history #indigenoushistory #westwardexpansion #colonialviolence

  30. "I am a journalist writing from #Gaza, and I write in fear. #Israel has killed 264 Palestinian journalists here; I knew many of them personally. I write in fear and exhaustion, in a profound disorientation of not knowing what is coming next—of having nothing to count on from the future."

    The #WarOnGaza Has Not Ended

    bostonreview.net/articles/the-
    #Palestine #tpo #colonialViolence #GazaGenocide