Notices by Margarita Estévez-Abe (japanprof@mastodon.social)

The New York Times has killed an investigation by one of its own reporters into Israeli mob violence in #amsterdam earlier this month.
(#IsraeliHooligans engaged in violent acts in France too. )

https://open.substack.com/pub/asawinstanley/p/ny-times-killed-investigation-of?r=1s6ohy&utm_medium=ios

@freemo Billionaires funded Trump. Billionaires bought the Suoreme Court. Billionaires own so many in the Congress. I’m talking about the US’s transformation into a complete oligarchy. Trump is their hired gun to destroy any rival to the billionaires’ political regime. Thanks to the technology, they no longer have to fear angry mobs. Undoing of human rights as we are seeing in Gaza serves them. They will use the same tactic to completely undermine every democratic institution.

The American billionaires have learned that it’s so easy to massacre people. Just call them terrorists and you can slaughter babies too. They control the media, politics and universities. They will completely undo the state so that they can steal more from the little people. Expect a world where we the little people will be monitored by drones and robot dogs and shot at. We will all be Palestinians in a world with no human rights. #gaza #dystopia #genocide

Another beautiful sunny weekend that I do not deserve. Another weekend of the hypocrisy that has enabled me to live a privileged life of safety and abundance. Little did I realize that all the talk about human rights, human dignity and democracy had always been no more than a facade to cover up the Western colonialism that had never ended. #genocide

Israeli father of a Hamas’ victim criticizes his country as Fascist. From Haaretz. Read his words. @palestine

“I am one of those who believe that all the plans for revenge and flattening Gaza are like putting out a fire with gasoline. I still think, even more strongly, that the only way – which nobody talks about and which we keep moving further from – is to sit down and talk, to find a way to make peace. Peace is made with enemies."
https://archive.is/vB40D

As Marsha Gessen wrote about Germany, Europe’s anti-antisemitism policy is often used to silence Jewish intellectuals who speak up against Israel’s violence. The UK arrested an Israeli Jewish professor for speaking up against Israel’s violence on a terrorism charge.

https://skwawkbox.org/2024/11/03/exclusive-prof-haim-bresheeths-anti-genocide-speech-before-he-was-arrested-for-terrorism/

From Haaretz:

“The Israeli Army Chief Who Became a Road-blocking Anti-government Protester”

“The extremism in the Israeli army disgusts him, he views settlers as the epitome of anti-Israeliness, and when he sees kids in war-torn Gaza he thinks of his own grandchildren”

An interview with former IDF Chief of Staff Dan Halutz, who warns that if Netanyahu is re-elected, many citizens will have a major decision to make.”
@palestine #gaza
https://archive.is/ysXyT

I've lost any hope for humanity. If I can be reborn, I want to be a tree.

A view from my study. I'm fortunate enough to live in a nice wooded neighborhood near the city. I haven't done anything to deserve such a calm and peaceful Sunday. I was just born in the right country to middle class parents. Children don't choose to be born in conflict zones. Their parents didn't choose to raise their kids in conflict zones.

Why wasn't I born in #gaza #westbank #sudan ?
I just got lucky. The world is an unfair place.
Isn't it our moral obligation to reduce this unfairness?

Elon Musk and Trump must find conspiracy theories amusing but lots of real people will end up getting hurt or killed. #uspol

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/10/business/media/hurricane-milton-helene-conspiracy-theories.html?unlocked_article_code=1.RE4.51NG.IfTHCISwHASr&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=c-cb

The Western "liberal democracies" have actively promoted this destruction. How are we going to live with it?

Just like in postwar Germany, one day your children will ask you "Mother, Father, how much did you know?" You don't have the luxury of those German parents. You can't say that you didn't know. It's been all over the media & social media.

Your children will know who you really are. #gaza #genocide #palestine

To realize that I had been misled all my life is not a good feeling.

Those values like human rights and human dignity, which I believed in as universal values, were convenient tools for the Western colonial powers to relegitimate themselves as promoters and protectors of democracy and humanity in the post-colonial era.

The veneers have completely come off from the ugly facade.

And where do we go from here? #genocide #gaza #lebanon #palestine

Israeli soldiers truly dehumanize Palestinians. #westbank I cannot come up with the right word to describe such an extreme lack of humanity.

https://apnews.com/article/israel-palestinians-soldiers-qabatiya-west-bank-ae65d70f7da5db4603ba1b7c77f2ccd3

Rotterdam remembers tens of thousands of children massacred by Israel. Many more maimed and starved. These Gazan kids would have been living happily if the US politicians hadn't provided Israel's far-right extremists with weapons of mass destruction. #gaza #genocide

Another day passes, and I feel a day less human.

Even ER doctors break down in tears recounting what they saw in #Gaza. Only a handful of Western countries think this is totally OK, it’s just unfortunate civilian casualties. The destruction of all universities, most residential buildings, water desalination facilities, places of worship, hospitals, etc. is a crime against humanity.

It’s so wrong that the media is discussing the biological details of young female athletes. This is not the first time. I’m sure that the very top female athletes in the world have elevated levels of testosterone. Some years back, another black female athletes were subjected to all kinds of tests. If we are going to police the biological details, why not police the muscle types they were born with? Or why don’t we police the economic advantages that US athletes have?

I hate #olympics

Winner-takes-all or First-Past-the-Post (FPTP) systems manufacture landslide victories when there's no majoritarian winner. These systems become extremely volatile when there are more than two parties in each district. When the manufactured majoritarian winner acts like they have the popular mandate, they end up exacerbating political apathy. #uk and #japan are prime examples.

Sexual assaults on local children and women by US service men are one of the many reasons that Okinawans want the US military bases removed from island. #japan

The governor of Okinawa is a child fathered by a US serviceman. There are lots of kids fathered and abandoned by US servicemen even today.

https://www.stripes.com/branches/air_force/2024-06-27/okinawa-tamaki-18th-wing-sexual-assault-14312131.html

Kids killed by the US weapons. #gaza

https://substack.com/@zafreenrahman/note/c-60037462?r=1s6ohy&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=notes-share-action

Morgan Cooper's message from Ramalla (West Bank). She's raising two children there. Israel is cutting water supply in #westbank too. @palestine