We Must Understand Israel as a Settler-Colonial State
"“If Europeans in the United States were immigrants, they would have joined the existing societies in the New World. Instead, they destroyed those societies and built a new one that was reinforced by later waves of settlement.”
Still, the United States celebrates itself as “a nation of immigrants,” just as Israeli Zionists celebrated Palestine as “a land without a people for a people without a land,” a homeland for Jews from all over the world, a nation of refugees — rhetoric that echoes U.S. “nation of immigrants” mythology."
THE COMPANIES MAKING IT EASY TO BUY IN A WEST BANK SETTLEMENT
Real estate firms are touring North American cities marketing homes in Israel — and in illegal West Bank settlements. Real estate companies are making an explicit appeal to wartime patriotism, leading with the conflict as a selling point and a reason to invest.
so... you do not have to be a right wing armed messianic Jewish settler to violate Article 49 of the Geneva Conventions...do it from the comfort of your home or synagogue....
amazing poem published in the Annals of Internal Medicine
Looking Beyond the Headlines
"...propaganda has enabled Israel to mobilize public opinion behind its policies; portraying the war as a battle between good and evil, [this] has helped the U.S. justify its support of Israel’s response"
"The atrocity stories “also helped the Israeli security establishment divert attention from its own failures and the damage that was directly inflicted on its own forces on October 7.” (Israeli military reports determined that Israeli helicopters fired on vehicles with Israeli captives and the Nova rave attendees, as well as kibbutz residents.)
Diana Buttu, a human rights lawyer with the Institute for Middle East Understanding, noted that atrocity stories help dehumanize Palestinians, which is a necessary prerequisite to maintaining a brutal military regime, imprisoning thousands of people, and conducting ethnic cleansing and genocide. "
Webinar: The destruction of healthcare in Gaza and the scientific assessment of settler colonial violence
Testimonies from the Mawasi massacre: 90 people buried in the sand
The Israeli army committed another massacre against displaced Palestinians in tent encampments, this time in the coastal Mawasi area, which Israel had designated as a "safe zone." How is this not an ongoing genocide.
Women in Gaza three times more likely to die during childbirth, experts warn
Urgent health update: Consequences of war on Gaza and West Bank/East Jerusalem-July 20, 2024
Israeli bombardment from the air, land, & sea, & ground incursions & heavy fighting, continue across much of Gaza. Attacks on IDP shelters in tent camps & schools, & their supportive infrastructure, have led to a horrific increase in casualties. Poliovirus (VDPV) type 2 has been found in environmental surveillance samples collected from Khan Younis & Deir al Balah.
Thank you, Alice, for shining a light into dark places. Otherwise many of us would never know.