#prozionism — Public Fediverse posts
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The Israel lobby remains embedded in Whitehall.
https://www.vashtimedia.com/israel-lobby-andy-burnham/ @palestine 🧵
#corruption #complicity #collaboration #collusion #israelLobby #FriendsOfIsrael #Bunrham #Purnell #UKPol #UKPolitics #Labour #LabourParty #proZionism #Starmer #TonyBlair
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This essay calls "for a radical shift in language from narratives that obscure violence to those affirming Palestinian presence, history, and sovereignty."
by Abdalrahman Kittana: https://al-shabaka.org/commentaries/gaza-uninhabitable-challenging-colonial-frames-of-erasure/
#struggles #agency #decolonial #dignity #resistance #survival #habitability #unliveable #humanitarian #necropolitics #geography #agnotology #collapse #demolition #reconstruction #colonialConvergence #TelAviv #Gaza #Israel #Palestine #racism #coloniality #proZionism #StandWithIsrael #Zionism #colonialism #connivance #complicity #entanglement #historyOfIdeas #landManagement #BritishEmpire #BritishRule #pineTrees #ongoingNakba #genocide #ethnicCleansing
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Wilderness wildfires
"Beyond introducing foreign species to the landscape, the settler population sought to rid the land of any trace of what had existed before. Prior to the Nakba, the area of the Jerusalem Hills that last week’s fires tore through was heavily populated, with many villages spread across the landscape. Indeed, the expansive "Ayalon-Canada" forest, planted by the KKL in 1972 and now nearly entirely burnt to the ground, had already suffered two waves of devastation, albeit of another kind, in both 1948 and 1967.
"Beneath the remains of its trees may be found the ruins of four Palestinian villages: approximately 6,000 people once lived, farmed, and played there. With olive groves, fruit orchards, fields of grain, terraced farms and vegetable plots aplenty, the Jerusalem Hills were quite productive."
https://vashtimedia.com/land-tells-truth-jerusalem-wildfires/ @palestine @israel
#landManagement #landscape #Zionism #proZionism #JNF #KKL #Palestine #colonialism #BritishEmpire #BritishRule #wildfires #wilderness #pineTrees #Nakba
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CW: "New antisemitism" 🧵
In 1967, the State of Israel attacked Egypt. Already, it was referred to as a ‘pre-emptive strike’. Since then, the Jewish State has occupied Sinai, the Golan Heights, the West Bank, East Jerusalem and Gaza. (see map)
For three centuries, this war has been the only one to bear the name of its duration: the ‘Six-Day War’, a name that glorifies the military impact (of the Zionist Sparta).
In 1968, several French intellectuals drew a link between the Six-Day War, anti-Zionism and anti-Semitism.
The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) is an organisation that supports the Israeli government and fights against diversity. In 1974, Arnold Forster and Benjamin Epstein of the ADL published a book entitled ‘The New anti-Semitism’, expressing their concerns about :
- an indifference to the fears of ‘the Jewish people’,
- apathy in dealing with prejudice against Jews,
- an inability to understand the importance of Israel for the survival of the ‘Jewish people’ (in their view).
Hence controversy in the United States (among professionals in public debate).
Later, Allan Brownfeld wrote that Forster and Epstein's definition of anti-Semitism trivialised the concept by turning it into ‘a form of political blackmail’ and ‘a weapon to silence any form of criticism of Israel or of US policy in the Middle East’ (in ‘Anti-Semitism: Its Changing Meaning’, Journal of Palestine Studies, vol. 16, no 3 (Spring, 1987), pp. 53-67).#IsraelArabConflict #SixDayWar #history #historyOfThought #proZionism #civilization #clashOfCivilizations #TheWest #imperialism #instrumentalisation #confusion #amalgam #antisemitism #newAntisemitism #MiddleEast #StandWithIsrael #islamophobia
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Long read: British rule in Palestine during the 1920s and 1930s enabled Zionist colonisation at the expense of Palestinians.
A.Bustos, "How Britain supported Zionism and prevented Palestinian freedom": https://www.declassifieduk.org/how-britain-supported-zionism-and-prevented-palestinian-freedom/ @palestine @histodons 🧶
#Zionism #Balfour #StandWithIsrael #terrorism #coloniality #proZionism #antisemitism #CAA #JNF #Britain #UK #philosemitism #longRead #Palestine #colonialism #Diaspora #MiddleEast #BritishEmpire #BritishRule
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"Pro-Israel lobbyists have donated to 13 out of Labour’s 25 cabinet members since they were first elected to parliament"
John McEvoy reports: https://www.declassifieduk.org/israel-lobby-funded-half-of-keir-starmers-cabinet/ @israel
#influence #Parliament #Commons #LabourParty #Scotlandv #Wales #England #Britain #UK #UKPol #politics #UKPolitics #proZionism #StandWithIsrael #collusion #support #coOpting #coloniality #imperialism #allies #lfi #government #cabinet #Starmer #KeirStarmer #AngelaRayner #RachelReeves #DavidLammy #YvetteCooper #JonathanReynolds