In 1985, the French government bombed the Rainbow Warrior.
It wasnโt just trying to sink a ship - it was attempting to sink a movement, to attack activism, and to silence the voice of hope.
They failed. They blew wind in our sails.
Greenpeace and the movement refused to back down and continued to campaign against nuclear testing.
And in 1996, we won.
To learn more >> bit.ly/40J3MTu
You canโt sink a rainbow and you canโt silence hope - Greenpeace International
40 years since the bombing of the Rainbow Warrior.Greenpeace International
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Pauline von Hellermann
in reply to Bilal Barakat ๐ • • •@yousefmunayyer
Of course, not just in America. Just the same in Europe. You see it everywhere. I remember an exchange here with a lovely environmentalist who was a good Mastodon friend before, who was so suspicious of Dr Ghassan Abu-Sitah (the rector of Glasgow university) when he was denied entry into France that she tried to prove that he was lying on twitter and was a Hamas sympathesiser. She unfollowed me when I tried explain that her โsourcesโ were known Zionist propaganda.
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Bilal Barakat ๐
in reply to Pauline von Hellermann • • •@pvonhellermannn
With the caveat that to some extent it's not even about impugning suspected ulterior motives. There have been examples of Israel-apologists complaining that a literal and sincere call for โequal rights for allโ is somehow offensive. Not because of being a supposed front for malicious intentions, but because the actual concept of equal rights per se is objectionable to them.