“You know those Palestinians would throw you off a rooftop for being queer,” says the western conservative who spent this entire year demanding that all transgender and non-binary people be rounded up and eradicated from the United States.
Genocidal denial is not a secondary awful thing that follows genocide. It’s PART of the process of genocide. When the Biden Administration questions verified mass murders of Palestinian civilians by Israel, they’re actually participating in the genocide too. It’s more than mere support or funding.
The staggering rise in Islamophobia and antisemitism in unison while feeding into each other is so fucking bleak and fatiguing. Like yes, I want mass solidarity to overthrow oppressors. But no, I’m not going to join up with other oppressors instead. Bigotry and hate are counterrevolutionary.
The first Palestinian-American to ever serve in congress just had his family members murdered by Israel. There is no media uproar. The Hill called the Israeli airstrike an “Israel-Hamas airstrike.” Yes. Even if you were a congressman: the media will still dehumanize your murdered Palestinian family.
If you’re brown in America you have to do things like figure out if your landlord is racist enough to come murder you and your family out of nowhere. Not something any white person has ever even imagined needing to do.
26 times. that white man stabbed a 6-year-old 26 times in his home. for being a Muslim in a Muslim family renting property from that white man. this is on the media provocateurs, the republicans, the democrats, the news media. all who worked together pushing genocide against Palestine. you did this.
If you’re filming a pro-Palestine protest, I highly suggesting making custom subtitles on your videos before posting. I’m seeing right wing propagandists misquote and reshare videos when the audio is muddied by background noise. It’s getting out of hand.
It’s insane watching Israel openly use Twitter as one of the very many genocidal weapons in their arsenal. Genocide denial starts simultaneously with any genocide, and on that front? Twitter is a nuclear warhead.
We can’t just be sitting here twiddling our thumbs awaiting genocide to start. This is insanity. How is this reality? How is there no force to prevent Israel from committing the worst atrocity of this new century? This cannot be all there is. They have to be fucking stopped.
You’re not going to pressure me into refusing to acknowledge the Palestinian right to armed resistance against far-right occupation and genocide by Israel.
You’re not going to pressure me into refusing to condemn far-right clerical fascists who killed the most Jews in one day since the Holocaust.
The same Republicans sneering at queer people for supporting Palestinian human rights are the ones who push bills and laws in the United States to treat queer people precisely the way Republicans falsely believe all Arabs treat queer people. Also: anti-gay law in Palestine was made by white people.
It’s sickening how desensitized the world is to the normalization of Palestinians telling reporters that Israeli air strikes killed their whole family. It happens every fucking time. Over and over. Let’s be clear here: the IDF are terrorists, too. And they kill exponentially more people than Hamas.
I’ve always been outspoken about the apartheid and ethnic cleansing the Israeli government enforces against Palestinians. I’ve always gotten pushback for that from liberals and conservatives.
I’ve always condemned killing innocents. But this is the first time I’ve gotten leftist pushback for that.
Documentary filmmaker and independent journalist covering protests, far-right extremism, and law enforcement. Based in Los Angeles. Worked with Netflix, National Geographic, and Disney. (They/He)