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"What was Israel supposed to do after October 7? Same thing they should have done before October 7: dismantle the apartheid state, give everyone equal rights, pay massive reparations, and right all the wrongs of the past. October 7 was a response to the tyranny and abuse of Israel; the correct thing to do when things finally came to a head with the Hamas attack would have been to remove all the tyranny and abuse which gave rise to it.

That’s what Israel should have done. Of course Israel was never going to do this, for the same reason they spent decade after decade murdering, displacing and oppressing Palestinians since Israel was created. Israel would never allow justice and equality after October 7 for the same reason Israel would never allow justice and equality before October 7: because Israel has always been a settler-colonialist project that can only be sustained by nonstop violence and tyranny and theft and abuse and lies and breathtaking immorality."

caitlinjohnst.one/p/what-was-i…

#Israel #Palestine #Gaza #Apartheid


"What Was Israel Supposed To Do After October 7?" Is Asking The Wrong Question

Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley):
Caitlin Johnstone (Caitlin’s Newsletter)

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Speaking with a friends' son & his girlfriend (in their mid-20s) yesterday evening I was struck by how stridently they feel their future has been betrayed by older generations (of course, including his parents & me) & that the country is essentially a gerontocracy run for the benefit of the over 50s.

They both have signed up to the Corbyn/Sultana party & hope that this will change UK politics to reflect their views, interests & needs.

Are we about to see a political youth quake?

#politics

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Pourquoi l’enfant disparaît de l’espace public?
Entretien avec Eric Alary, historien
« Il y a d’abord la multiplication des voitures à partir des années 1970. On remarque que la signalétique n’est jamais à hauteur du regard des plus jeunes. »
« L’électorat est plus âgé que jamais. On est dans une société gérontodictée. On ne fait pas la loi pour les enfants mais surtout pour ceux qui votent en masse, c’est-à-dire surtout les seniors. Ils prennent des décisions qui auront des conséquences qu’ils ne vivront pas. »

ouest-france.fr/education/pare…

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Because I agree but refuse to boost toots with shortened URLs (aka Link Detours) in them. And adding hashtags is a good idea for these kinds of toots.

Greenpeace International (@greenpeace) should have written in mastodon.social/@greenpeace/11…:

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They knew.

They lied.

Plastic producers have known for more than 30 years that RECYCLING is NOT an economically or technically feasible plastic waste management solution.

Take action >> greenpeace.org/international/a…
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#StopUsingLinkDeTours #PleaseAddHashTags #GlobalPlasticTreaty #Plastic #Waste #Recycling #InFeasible #PlasticWaste #InFeasiblePlasticWasteRecycling

Screenshot from https://mastodon.social/@greenpeace/114963789565925534 I copied the text in my toot, except for the link they mentioned. I've replaced: https://act.gp/3WqjCR5 by: https://www.greenpeace.org/international/act/lets-end-the-age-of-plastic/ And I have added a couple of hashcats. The Alt text "under" the original image reads: Artistic representation of a huge dead whale on a beach, mouth open, full of plastic. Campaigning for a #GlobalPlasticTreaty

Let’s end the age of plastic! - Greenpeace International

I support a strong Global Plastics Treaty that cuts plastic production so that we can finally turn off the tap and end the age of plastic - for our communities, our country, and our planet. Join me
Greenpeace International

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Imagine you have a friend. Let’s call him Rick Reasonable. Now imagine you have an enemy. Let’s call your enemy Bart B. Oilingwater. Bart is a real piece of crap. Whenever he sees you, he throws boiling water at you.www.the-reframe.com/boiling-water/

Boiling Water


Boiling Water

The corrosive damage cause by forcing people to defend their own lives by debating ideas that have already been defeated.
A.R. Moxon (The Reframe)

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A.R. Moxon

The next day, you confront Rick about this and he shrugs. “Man, I hate that bastard Bart,” he says, “but you have to hear both sides.” Yes, you say. That Bart, he sure does suck, all right. But how are we feeling about Rick? www.the-reframe.com/boiling-water/

Boiling Water


Boiling Water

The corrosive damage cause by forcing people to defend their own lives by debating ideas that have already been defeated.
A.R. Moxon (The Reframe)

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11,000-year-old settlement in Canada could rewrite history of Indigenous civilizations in North America

"The newly uncovered village site of Âsowanânihk, which means "a place to cross" in the Cree language, is one of the oldest archaeological sites found on the continent and suggests that an organized society existed in central Canada far earlier than experts previously thought."

#Indigenous #FirstNations
#Archaeology #Saskatchewan
#Canada

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11,000-year-old settlement in Canada could rewrite history of Indigenous civilizations in North America

The discovery of an 11,000-year-old village in Saskatchewan could rewrite Indigenous history in central Canada.
Kristina Killgrove (Live Science)
This entry was edited (3 weeks ago)
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SnowyCA

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"This discovery is a powerful reminder that our ancestors were here, building, thriving, and shaping the land long before history books acknowledged us," said Chief Christine Longjohn. "For too long, our voices have been silenced, but this site speaks for us, proving that our roots run deep and unbroken. It carries the footsteps of our ancestors, their struggles, their triumphs, and their wisdom. Every stone, every artifact is a testament to their strength. We are not just reclaiming history—we are reclaiming our rightful place in it."

#FirstNations #Canada #Saskatchewan
#Archaeology

artsandscience.usask.ca/news/a…


11,000-year-old Indigenous village uncovered near Sturgeon Lake

Archaeologists including Dr. Glenn Stuart (PhD) of the USask Department of Anthropology worked with the community to study one of the oldest known Indigenous sites on the continent
artsandscience.usask.ca
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L’identité judéo-arabe, par Thomas Vescovi (Le Monde diplomatique, août 2025)


#politique #racisme #sionisme

Des années 1940 jusqu’à la décennie 1960, des centaines de milliers de Juifs du monde musulman, dits « orientaux », arrivent en Israël. Ils subissent le traumatisme d’un départ forcé de territoires où ils vivaient depuis des siècles et doivent participer, du point de vue sioniste, à parachever la fin du « Juif diasporique ». En guise d’accueil, ces populations juives orientales ont connu le mépris et le racisme d’un pouvoir israélien décidé à redéfinir le contour d’une judéité ne pouvant être que nationaliste et sioniste, expurgée de toute trace d’arabité, perçue comme antinomique. Elles deviennent les « victimes juives du sionisme », pour paraphraser le titre d’un essai majeur (1) de l’universitaire Ella Shohat, qui explique combien « l’antiarabisme fait partie intégrante de la pratique et de l’idéologie sioniste ». Pour la première fois de leur histoire, ces populations subissent un racisme, non du fait de leur religion, mais de leur culture et de leur couleur de peau.

La prétendue antinomie entre arabité et judéité se trouve au cœur des travaux de Shohat, dont de nouveaux textes viennent d’être traduits et publiés (2). En 2021 déjà, une sélection de ses écrits (3) permettait de saisir la profondeur de la pensée de cette intellectuelle singulière. Enseignante à l’université de New York, figure majeure du renouveau des études juives-arabes, Shohat s’inscrit dans une lignée de penseurs qui revisitent l’identité juive dans sa complexité, en mettant le sionisme « sur le divan », pour plaider en faveur d’un renouvellement du regard sur les diasporas juives.

Cette quête de mémoire, mais aussi de langue, réhabilite l’identité « judéo-arabe » en se réappropriant une histoire qui a été détournée et niée par les nationalismes arabe et juif. L’omniprésence de l’idée d’une « unité du peuple juif », explique Shohat, enfin réalisée dans l’« ancienne patrie » tend à empêcher le développement d’une « mémoire affective positive de la vie avant Israël ».

L’injonction au rejet de l’arabité doit par ailleurs se lire en parallèle avec la construction d’une prétendue « civilisation judéo-chrétienne », mise sur le devant de la scène depuis une quarantaine d’années. C’est à cette « imposture » que la journaliste et historienne Sophie Bessis consacre un ouvrage (4), en démontrant la mécanique qui la sous-tend : exclusion de l’islam, et par ce biais de l’arabité, non seulement de l’histoire occidentale mais aussi du triptyque monothéiste. L’idée d’un « judéo-christianisme » chercherait à disculper l’Occident d’un antisémitisme passé comme présent, restaurant une innocence qui aurait été perdue par le judéocide nazi, tout en faisant porter à un Orient arabo-musulman caricaturé la responsabilité de la haine antijuive.

Ces travaux, chacun à leur manière, servent de manuel de résistance intellectuelle contre les partisans d’une lecture des conflictualités par le prisme du « choc des civilisations » où, sous couvert de « lutte contre l’intégrisme et le terrorisme islamiste », l’Occident incarnerait un monde libre et protecteur des Juifs. C’est parce que ce supposé philosémitisme se fonde, dans le même temps, sur une islamo-arabophobie patente dans certains médias et courants intellectuels que l’extrême droite peut si facilement se normaliser au sein d’un champ politique où ses idées sont largement reprises. Du renouveau récent d’un judaïsme antisioniste européen aux appels pour renouer avec le « diasporisme », une convergence s’opère pour redéfinir des identités politiques en rupture avec le colonialisme, passé ou présent, du Maghreb jusqu’au Proche-Orient.

(1) Ella Shohat, Le Sionisme du point de vue de ses victimes juives. Les juifs orientaux en Israël, La Fabrique, Paris, 2006.

(2) Ella Shohat, Langues et mémoires juives-arabes. Politique du trait d’union, traduit de l’anglais par Joëlle Marelli, Éditions de l’EHESS, Paris, 2025, 189 pages, 15 euros.

(3) Ella Shohat, Colonialité et ruptures. Écrits sur les figures juives arabes, traduit de l’anglais par Joëlle Marelli, Lux, Montréal, 2021.

(4) Sophie Bessis, La Civilisation judéo-chrétienne. Anatomie d’une imposture, Les Liens qui libèrent, Paris, 2025, 124 pages, 10 euros.

(1) Ella Shohat, Le Sionisme du point de vue de ses victimes juives. Les juifs orientaux en Israël, La Fabrique, Paris, 2006.

(2) Ella Shohat, Langues et mémoires juives-arabes. Politique du trait d’union, traduit de l’anglais par Joëlle Marelli, Éditions de l’EHESS, Paris, 2025, 189 pages, 15 euros.

(3) Ella Shohat, Colonialité et ruptures. Écrits sur les figures juives arabes, traduit de l’anglais par Joëlle Marelli, Lux, Montréal, 2021.

(4) Sophie Bessis, La Civilisation judéo-chrétienne. Anatomie d’une imposture, Les Liens qui libèrent, Paris, 2025, 124 pages, 10 euros.

monde-diplomatique.fr/2025/08/…


L’identité judéo-arabe

Des années 1940 jusqu’à la décennie 1960, des centaines de milliers de Juifs du monde musulman, dits « orientaux », arrivent en Israël. Ils subissent le (...)
Thomas Vescovi (Le Monde diplomatique)

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Nazis murdered my family in the Holocaust. Now Germany is punishing me for protesting Israel’s genocide in Gaza. #Palestine mondoweiss.net/2025/08/nazis-m…

Nazis murdered my family in the Holocaust. Now Germany is punishing me for protesting Israel’s genocide

This week, I faced trial for opposing genocide, Zionism, and for challenging Germany’s unconditional support for Israel. The state prosecuting me may have legal authority, but its moral authority has collapsed as it again participates in a genocide.
Rachael Shapiro (Mondoweiss)

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PIERROT LE FOU is, in my opinion, good. letterboxd.com/andrewmoxon/...

A ★★★★ review of Pierrot le Fo...


A ★★★★ review of Pierrot le Fou (1965)

His name is Ferdinand. I know this came before Bonnie & Clyde and yet strangely it seems to be parodying it. Almost slapstick in its surreal French New Wave way. I laughed frequently. Those attempting to follow the plot will be prosecuted.
letterboxd.com

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Die "Luftbrücke" hat über #Gaza bisher Material mit dem Gesamtgewicht von dreieinhalb (!) LKW-Ladungen abgeworfen.

Das ist das einzig Konkrete, zu dem sich die @Bundesregierung bisher durchringen konnte, ansonsten nur Floskeln und "Forderungen" ohne jedwede Sanktionen.

»Seit vergangener Woche kommen nach Angaben aus deutschen Sicherheitskreisen täglich 220 Lastwagen mit Hilfsgütern in das Gebiet. […]

Der Mehlpreis liege bei horrenden 80 Euro pro Kilogramm. Aus der Luft seien bisher 73 Tonnen an Hilfsgütern abgeworfen worden.

Diese Mengen reichen nach Einschätzung von Hilfsorganisationen bei Weitem nicht aus. Vor dem 7. Oktober 2023 kamen nach Angaben der Organisation Medico International zwischen 500 bis 600 Lastwagen täglich in den Gazastreifen. Eine Lkw-Ladung habe meist etwa 20 Tonnen Hilfsgüter umfasst. Der Bedarf dürfte durch die massive Zerstörung der Infrastruktur und landwirtschaftlichen Flächen nun deutlich höher liegen.«

tagesschau.de/inland/wadephul-…


Bundesregierung fordert von Israel mehr Hilfslieferungen über Landweg

Erneut hat die Bundeswehr Hilfsgüter über dem Gazastreifen abgeworfen. Für Kanzler Merz ist das "ein kleiner Beitrag" zur Linderung der Not. Die Bundesregierung sieht insgesamt leichte Fortschritte bei der humanitären Hilfe.
tagesschau.de

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Disappearances, torture rampant in IOF prisons, harrowing figures show

A UN-accredited group has submitted damning evidence of systematic torture, forced starvation, and sexual violence against Palestinians in secret Israeli detention camps.

en.mdn.tv/8bUr

#Politics


Disappearances, torture rampant in IOF prisons, harrowing figures show

Al Mayadeen English (Disappearances, torture rampant in IOF prisons, harrowing figures show)

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I saw many atrocities as a senior aid official in Gaza. Now Israeli authorities are trying to silence us theguardian.com/commentisfree/… #Internationalcourtofjustice #MiddleEastandnorthAfrica #Palestinianterritories #Humanitarianresponse #Israel #Gaza

I saw many atrocities as a senior aid official in Gaza. Now Israeli authorities are trying to silence us

Devastated hospitals, mass graves, bodies eaten by dogs in the street. After speaking out, I discovered my visa will not be renewed, says Jonathan Whittall of UN OCHA
Jonathan Whittall (The Guardian)

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The Kafkaesque proscription of Palestine Action continues to catch protestors in its claws... here a an ex-magistrate.

Yvette Cooper may (or may not) have thought she was pushing through a focussed limitation, but police forces across the country have decided to interpret it much more widely & thereby make a concerted attack on peaceful protest.

Cooper cannot just throw up her hands, she's to blame & could stop it!

Will she, though? Of course not!

#democracy #protest
observer.co.uk/news/national/a…


Former magistrate, 81, faces six months in jail for Palestine Action vigil

Cornish pensioner arrested at Truro cathedral falls foul of government’s labelling of direct action group as a terrorist organisation
Jon Ungoed-Thomas (The Observer)

reshared this

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‘

The brutal summer heat, coupled with a lack of rainfall in key farming areas, dealt a serious threat to this year’s rice crop.

The prospect of another round of surging rice prices now seems all but inevitable.

It was the hottest July on record, according to the Japan Meteorological Agency on Aug. 1. It said average temperatures around Japan were 2.89 degrees higher than normal.

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#drought
#ClimateCrisis
asahi.com/sp/ajw/articles/1594…

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Ένας φίλος πρόσφατα μετακόμισε σε νέα πόλη αγόρασε σπίτι και έβαλε φωτοβολταϊκό αυτόνομο σύστημα για τις ανάγκες του σπιτιού αξίας 10000 ευρώ
Του επέστρεψαν τα 8500 ευρώ από το υπουργείο περιβάλλοντος και 1000 ευρώ από τον δήμο, οπότε ξόδεψε μόνο 500 ευρώ για όλη την εγκατάσταση, με κόστος για ρεύμα ούτε 10 ευρώ τον μήνα
Που όλα αυτά?
Όχι φυσικά στην Ελλάδα 2.0 της καταπληκτικής κυβέρνησης αλλά στην Ισπανία και για την ακρίβεια στην περιοχή της Ανδαλουσίας

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(Some people may find the image disturbing and rather not see and ignore the ongoing genocide).

It is not AI, it is not genetic dsorder, it is not from Yemen, it is yet another Palestinian child fading away because of the Israeli imposed famine in Gaza.

Maryam Abdel Aziz Dawas (9 years old), loses her ability to walk; crowns. Awareness and acute malnutrition

@palestine@lemmy.ml @palestine@a.gup.pe @israel #Starvation #Gaza #Israel #SaveTheChildren #SanctionIsrael

Maryam Abdel Aziz Dawas (9 years old) suffering from acute, severe malnutrition in Gaza

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For #Gaza’s 2.2 million residents, the UN-backed confirmation that famine is now a reality came not as a revelation but as a cruel validation of what they have lived for months: a slow, visible collapse into starvation.

“All my children have lost nearly half of their body weight,” Jamil Mughari, 38, from Maghazi in central Gaza, told The Guardian. “My daughter, who is five years old, now weighs only 11kg. My son Mohammad has become just skin and bones. All my children are like this.”

english.almayadeen.net/news/po…


Parents helpless as famine strips Gaza’s children to skin and bone

With famine declared, Gaza’s families face an unbearable truth: no food, no help, and no way to stop their children from slowly starving to death.
Al Mayadeen English (Parents helpless as famine strips Gaza’s children to skin and bone)

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Catalogue of horror from head of office at the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), who says speaking out is becoming increasingly difficult due to Israeli pressure.

Content Warning.

#Israel #Gaza #Genocide
I saw many atrocities as a senior aid official in Gaza. Now Israeli authorities are trying to silence us | Jonathan Whittall | The Guardian
theguardian.com/commentisfree/…


I saw many atrocities as a senior aid official in Gaza. Now Israeli authorities are trying to silence us

Devastated hospitals, mass graves, bodies eaten by dogs in the street. After speaking out, I discovered my visa will not be renewed, says Jonathan Whittall of UN OCHA
Jonathan Whittall (The Guardian)

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As Labour get serious about the development of a national digital ID, a couple of Q.s immediately occur:

Can the Govt, really successfully helm an important IT project whose hiccups could be incredibly disadvantageous for any failed by the system?

Will such a system effectively make ownership of a smartphone mandatory?

Will the UK Govt. be prepared to learn from ID practices across Europe or is it going to be another case of the UK reinventing the wheel?

#politics #IDCards
h/t The Observer

in reply to Phil Thane ✅

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Sozan

@pthane I think a lot of countries have these since longtime - like Germany. But they are not issued for free, btw., and much to my chagrin they started to include fingerprints and other not so safe features. The old ID cards were quite ok and accepted everywhere (although nothing is without problems). Germany has also big databases since ever - like, you are required to register where you live and this is easily researchable.
@ChrisMayLA6

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Για να αποκτήσεις ταυτότητα, ως έθνος, λαός, επαγγελματική ομάδα, άτομο ή τόπος, ακόμα και σαν προϊόν, πρέπει να έχεις μια χώρα ισχυρή με σωστό προσανατολισμό και σχέδιο. Και με αξιοκρατία και πρωτοτυπία.
Εδώ, όλα έχουν καταπατηθεί, στρεβλωθεί, ξεφτιλιστεί. Εδώ, ο τόπος, άνθρωποι και φύση, υφίσταται ακατάσχετη υποβάθμιση και λεηλασία.
#ephimerida
#ανασυγκρότηση
edromos.gr/o-ellinas-anazitei-…

Ο Έλληνας αναζητεί ταυτότητα σε ένα εποχικό κράτος - Δρόμος της Αριστεράς

Είναι πολλοί αυτοί που συμφωνούν ότι το κράτος και οι κυβερνήσεις δεν έχουν κανένα σχέδιο για την Ελλάδα, ούτε προστασίας ούτε προόδου. Άγονται και Κρήτη, Στέλιος Ελληνιάδης, Τουρισμός, Φύλλο 739 περίπτερο ιδεών
Στέλιος Ελληνιάδης (Δρόμος της Αριστεράς)

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180 IDF soldiers illegally and without notifying authorities, tried to invade #Auschwitz with israeli flags, to organize an "event"...
Luckily the guard stopped them before they desecrate the memorial

These genocidal beasts have nothing in common with #Holocaust survivors and the Jews of that time. They should be banned from entering any memorial, if not arrested for #Gaza #Genocide war crimes, rapings, shooting, looting, famine

#freepalestine

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