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#colonialviolence — Public Fediverse posts

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  1. "Today I speak with #ArabBarghouti about his father, #MarwanBarghouti, his arrest in 2002, the political trial that followed, and why his case has become central to the broader struggle for Palestinian rights. Arab also explains how the prison system has worsened since October 2023, and why he sees Marwan as a symbol of hope, legitimacy, and political unity in #Palestine." - #FrankBarat

    youtube.com/watch?v=ua2-2IWrkUY
    #FreeMarwanBarghouti #politicalPrisoners #PalestinianPrisoners #colonialViolence

  2. "Ceasing fire in #Gaza means continuing oppression by other means. Vocabulary is managed like territory, unilaterally. #Israel, once again, is making an ostensibly temporary situation into one of stable degradation – relative stability for Israel, further depredation for Gaza."

    lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/august/mea
    #Palestine #oPt #colonialViolence " #BoardOfPeace "

  3. "In this Zeteo town hall, Mehdi Hasan sits down with Haifa-based lawyer Diana Buttu, independent journalist Jasper Nathaniel and Palestininan human rights campaign Fadi Quran to discuss the rise of violence in the occupied #WestBank, including sexual violence against Palestinian women, U.S.-backed settlements and Israeli impunity under Biden and Trump."

    youtube.com/watch?v=E969pOjI6y8
    #Palestine #Israel #oPt #colonialViolence

  4. This is #Palestine w/ Diana Buttu

    "As violence escalates in #Lebanon, many are drawing comparisons to #Gaza. In this episode, we speak with Palestinian journalist and activist Lama Abu Kharoub, from Burj el-Shemali refugee camp in Lebanon, who shares firsthand insights from Lebanon, where communities continue to face displacement, destruction, and uncertainty despite repeated promises of multiple ceasefires."

    podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/
    #warOnLebanon #massDisplacement #urbicide #colonialViolence

  5. "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

  6. '[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

  7. "[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

  8. '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

  9. '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

  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. "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

  13. "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

  14. "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