Israa jaabis, a Palestinian prisoner was arrested by IOF after they left her burning in her car!
For 6 years she was prevented from medical help, she’s even prevented from taking analgesic drugs while she’s suffering from unbearable pain, she needs 8 surgeries.
Eight of her fingers were already amputated and her vital functions are declining.
In the scorching summers, her burn wounds develop irritations.
She needs cosmetic surgery and psychologic counseling for her trauma.
Her ears are in need to be separated from her head and her nose is totally blocked because of her burns, therefore she breathes from her mouth instead!
Israa was detained in 2015.
Today, Israa is still struggling to get essential medical treatment.
“You are in your car thinking what you will cook for lunch. Suddenly, shooting you and the car explodes. Your skin and bones burn. Also, they take you to prison without treatment and call you terrorist.”
certainly, our elder queers would like to remind one colonial power, & her majesty, of centuries-old criminalization of homosexual behavior, leading up to the Wolfenden Report in 1957 — and the decade that followed before passage of the Sexual Offences Act, or…
has the more recent posthumous pardons of Turing & friends absolved your tiny island of any and all past, present & future human rights abuses?
pink-washing isn’t new. it’s been utilized by the israeli government for decades as an example of their ‘progressive’ state. american corporations love to pander to teh gayz with rainbow logos and pride parade sponsorships, yet donate finances to legislators who support & pass discriminatory laws that target minorities.
the mythology of an affluent lgbqti+ community also needs to end. the disparities should be well-documented enough, as should the repeated use of class to divide & disparage communities.
i’m laughing at the terrible click-bait. it’s a poorly framed article, without historical/economic context of international/merkan ‘involvement’, etc. though, from a socio/psych- perspective, it’s interesting to see bbc skirting the phenomenon of humans avoiding the obvious suffering of others.
if only ‘those vapid rich gays’ could realize! privilege of class is not restricted to sexuality.
proposing a new subhead:
corporate media avows objectivity, but can reporters ignore their role in disseminating fascist propaganda?
In the years after the 1967 Six Day War, the Israeli army arrested/harassed anyone displaying the Palestinian flag’s colors in Gaza and the West Bank. In response, many Palestinians in the region would carry sliced watermelons in a sign of subversive protest.
Similarly, prominent Palestinian artists have stated they risked imprisonment for simply painting depictions of watermelons, as well as other images (like poppy seed plants) that might have incorporated the national colors.
Nelson Mandela, the anti-apartheid icon who emerged as South Africa’s first black President after spending 27 years as a political prisoner, passed away at the age of 95.
While human beings around the planet Earth mourned the loss of a hero, the vile repugnant slime monsters, whom also go by aliases such as “Conservatives,” “Republicans,” and the “Right Wing” had a different outlook on the passing of a man who changed a nation and inspired a world…
Don’t forget: President Ronald Reagan too thought Nelson Mandela was a terrorist commie. However, as usual, upon realizing history found them on the wrong side at the time, the right wing is now trying to co-opt Nelson Mandela and act as if they were always behind him.
Over on Ted Cruz’s official Facebook page, a post went up in remembrance of Nelson Mandela. However, while the professional right tries to fix their image, the Republican base is more than happy to pull back the curtain and show how true Conservative ‘patriots’ feel about Nelson Mandela…
OnReason.com’s Facebook post, because don’t let Libertarianism fool you into pretending Libertarians are anything anything but right wingers with a “hipster” look to appeal to younger people:
And of course, how can any good Conservative speak of Nelson Mandela without PRESIDENT BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA coming to mind! Because, as we all know, Nelson Mandela’s death is all about Obama…
Gotta’ hand it to Shelly for the above comment, she managed to invoke Trayvon Martin in her tweet too!
Did you know that Nelson Mandela died to distract us all from the problems with Obamacare?! Why, let these patriots clue you in!…
However, after all you just saw, I think Fox News contributor Todd Starnes’ tweet takes the cake. You see, Todd here was livetweeting President Obama’s statement on Nelson Mandela’s passing. It seems Obama was a little late to addressing the nation. Todd Starnes was PISSED. How dare Obama disrespect the great Nelson Mandela!…
Todd Starnes must really respect Nelson Mandela, right?
lmao. Check out this tweet from just a year ago where Todd Starnes complains about President Obama…SHOWING NELSON MANDELA SOME RESPECT.
‘Art is the spark, the illumination which is socially significant for it brings about understanding’ – Gerard Sekoto (1913–1993)
Gerard Sekoto was born in Botshabelo, Mpumalanga province, in 1913, the year in which the Natives Land Act dispossessed many black South Africans of their ancestral lands. In 1938 Sekoto moved to Sophiatown, Johannesburg. He held his first solo exhibition the following year, and in 1940 the Johannesburg Art Gallery purchased his work Yellow Houses – A Street in Sophiatown (1939–1940). It was the first painting by a black South African artist to be acquired by a South African art institution, although Sekoto had to pose as a cleaner to see his own painting hanging in the gallery.
Sekoto based this painting, titled Song of the Pick (1946), on a photograph taken in the 1930s of black South African workers labouring under the watchful eye of a white foreman standing behind them. However, in his painting the dynamic has changed. Sekoto has enhanced the grace and power of the labourers, turning them to confront the small and puny figure of the overseer, who appears about to be impaled by their pickaxes.
Sekoto painted this work in the township of Eastwood in Pretoria, shortly before moving to Paris in what became a lifelong exile from South Africa. During the 1980s, postcard-sized reproductions of this iconic painting were widely distributed in South Africa, as both a badge of honour and a source of inspiration in the struggle against apartheid.
Explore a diverse range of art stretching back 100,000 years in our exhibition South Africa: the art of a nation (27 October 2016 – 26 February 2017).
‘Each of us is as intimately attached to the soil of this beautiful country as are the famous jacaranda trees of Pretoria and the mimosa trees of the bushveld… The time for the healing of wounds has come. The moment to bridge the chasms that divide us has come. The time to build is upon us.’ – Nelson Mandela, from his inaugural speech as President of South Africa in 1994.
The man who was once the South African government’s number one enemy, imprisoned for 27 years, was now its first democratically elected president, appearing on the ballot paper alongside 18 other candidates. He was the leader of the African National Congress party, the most influential of the opposition groups in bringing about the end of apartheid in South Africa.
During apartheid, many groups outside South Africa produced political art to raise awareness of apartheid and to promote the fight against it. Through badges, t-shirts and posters the outside world came to know the faces of political prisoners such as Nelson Mandela and Walter Sisulu.
The badges here represent the British-based Anti-Apartheid Movement (AAM), one of the most influential of the campaign groups. It was formed as the Boycott Movement in 1959 by a group of South African exiles and British opponents to apartheid and changed its name the following year. Other badges refer to SWAPO (South West African Peoples Organisation), an armed movement fighting for Namibian independence from South Africa.
See how Mandela’s inspirational story helped shape the history of his nation in our special exhibitionSouthAfrica: the art of a nation (27 October 2016 – 26 February 2017).
‘Being under house arrest is a very traumatic experience. You’re your own jailer. At the time, I was looking for a channel, for something to heal myself, although I never thought of it in that way. I had an urge to become creative.’Lionel Davis (born 1936)
Lionel Davis was born in District Six, a once diverse area of Cape Town that was forcibly evacuated to make way for a ‘whites only’ settlement, and in 1964 he was imprisoned on Robben Island for sabotage. In this work, the artist’s face is partly covered by a map of District Six and one of Robben Island. The writing on his head is in an Afrikaans dialect spoken in Cape Town, and relates to black women trying to remove kinks in their hair to be less African and more European or American.
See cutting-edge contemporary works alongside some of the earliest examples of human creativity in our special exhibition South Africa: the art of a nation (27 October 2016 – 26 February 2017).
Exhibition sponsored by Betsy and Jack Ryan
Logistics partner IAG Cargo
Reclamation, 2004. Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Cambridge.
Dear Thom Yorke, Jonny Greenwood, Colin Greenwood, Ed O’Brien and Philip Selway,
You’re listed to play Tel Aviv in July this year.
We’d like to ask you to think again – because by playing in Israel you’ll be playing in a state where, UN rapporteurs say, ‘a system of apartheid has been imposed on the Palestinian people’.
We understand you’ve been approached already by Palestinian campaigners. They’ve asked you to respect their call for a cultural boycott of Israel, and you’ve turned them down. Since Radiohead campaigns for freedom for the Tibetans, we’re wondering why you’d turn down a request to stand up for another people under foreign occupation. And since Radiohead fronted a gig for the 50th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, we’re wondering why you’d ignore a call to stand against the denial of those rights when it comes to the Palestinians.
Radiohead once issued a statement saying: ‘Without the work of organisations like Amnesty International, the Universal Declaration would be mere rhetoric’. You’ve clearly read Amnesty’s reports, so you’ll know that Israel denies freedom to the Palestinians under occupation, who can’t live where they want, can’t travel as they please, who get detained (and often tortured) without charge or trial, and can’t even use Facebook without surveillance, censorship and arrest.
In asking you not to perform in Israel, Palestinians have appealed to you to take one small step to help pressure Israel to end its violation of basic rights and international law. Surely if making a stand against the politics of division, of discrimination and of hate means anything at all, it means standing against it everywhere – and that has to include what happens to Palestinians every day. Otherwise the rest is, to use your words, ‘mere rhetoric’.
You may think that sharing the bill with Israeli musicians Dudu Tassa & the Kuwaitis, who play Jewish-Arabic music, will make everything OK. It won’t, any more than ‘mixed’ performances in South Africa brought closer the end of the apartheid regime. Please do what artists did in South Africa’s era of oppression: stay away, until apartheid is over.
Yours,
Tunde Adebimpe, musician, TV on the Radio Conrad Atkinson, artist Richard Barrett, composer David Calder, actor Julie Christie, actor Selma Dabbagh, writer William Dalrymple, historian, writer and broadcaster April De Angelis, playwright Shane Dempsey, theatre director Laurence Dreyfus, musician and director, Phantasm Viol Consort Geoff Dyer, writer Eve Ensler, playwright Bella Freud, fashion designer Douglas Hart, musician and director Charles Hayward, musician Remi Kanazi, performance poet Peter Kennard, artist Peter Kosminsky, writer/director/producer Hari Kunzru, writer Paul Laverty, screenwriter Mike Leigh, writer/director Ken Loach, director Lowkey, musician Miriam Margolyes, actor Kika Markham, actor Elli Medeiros, musician Pauline Melville, writer and actor Roger Michell, director China Miéville, writer Thurston Moore, musician Maxine Peake, actor Dave Randall, musician Ian Rickson, director Michael Rosen, writer and broadcaster Alexei Sayle, comedian and writer James Schamus, screenwriter, director and producer Nick Seymour, musician, Crowded House Adrian Sherwood, record producer Juliet Stevenson, actor Ricky Tomlinson, actor Desmond Tutu, Archbishop Emeritus of Cape Town, South Africa Alice Walker, writer Harriet Walter, actor Roger Waters, musician Susan Wooldridge, actor and author Robert Wyatt, musician Young Fathers, musicians
On this day in 1960, police opened fire on peaceful anti-apartheid protestors in the South African township of Sharpeville, killing 69. The over 5,000 strong crowd gathered at Sharpeville police station to protest the discriminatory pass laws, which they claimed were designed to limit their movement in designated white only areas. The laws required all black men and women to carry reference books with their name, tax code and employer details; those found without their book could be arrested and detained. The protest encouraged black South Africans to deliberately leave their pass books at home and present themselves at police stations for arrest, which would crowd prisons and lead to a labour shortage. Despite the protestors’ peaceful and non-violent intentions, police opened fire on the crowd. By the day’s end, 69 people were dead and 180 were wounded. A further 77 were arrested and questioned, though no police officer involved in the massacre was ever convicted as the government relieved all officials of any responsibility. The apartheid government responded to the massacre by banning public meetings, outlawing the African National Congress (ANC) and declaring a state of emergency. The incident convinced anti-apartheid leader and ANC member Nelson Mandela to abandon non-violence and organise paramilitary groups to fight the racist system of apartheid. In 1996, 36 years later, then President Mandela chose Sharpeville as the site at which he signed into law the country’s new post-apartheid constitution.
“People were running in all directions, some couldn’t believe that people had been shot, they thought they had heard firecrackers. Only when they saw the blood and dead people, did they see that the police meant business” - Tom Petrus, eyewitness to the Sharpeville massacre
#Palestine || The Palestinian young man Qassim Rajabi (39) who was injured after being assaulted by the Israeli occupation forces while demolishing his family shop in Silwan village, this morning. Via @silwanic
اصابة الشاب قاسم حربي الرجبي 39عاما بجروح في رأسه جراء الاعتداء عليه بالضرب بأعقاب البنادق خلال تنفيذ هدم محل العائلة التجاري في حي البستان في سلوان.
Israeli occupation forces began the demolition of 100+ Palestinians homes in the Silwan neighborhood of Al-Bustan. They started with Nedal Rajabi’s meat shop. At the end of the plan, 1500 Palestinians will be homeless. Their intention is to build a biblical theme park on the land.
Israa jaabis, a Palestinian prisoner was arrested by IOF after they left her burning in her car!
For 6 years she was prevented from medical help, she’s even prevented from taking analgesic drugs while she’s suffering from unbearable pain, she needs 8 surgeries.
Eight of her fingers were already amputated and her vital functions are declining.
In the scorching summers, her burn wounds develop irritations.
She needs cosmetic surgery and psychologic counseling for her trauma.
Her ears are in need to be separated from her head and her nose is totally blocked because of her burns, therefore she breathes from her mouth instead!
Israa was detained in 2015.
Today, Israa is still struggling to get essential medical treatment.
“You are in your car thinking what you will cook for lunch. Suddenly, shooting you and the car explodes. Your skin and bones burn. Also, they take you to prison without treatment and call you terrorist.”
Desmond Mpilo Tutu (7 October 1931 – 26 December 2021)
Desmond Tutu, the cleric and social activist who was a giant of the struggle against apartheid in South Africa, has died aged 90.
It is impossible to imagine South Africa’s long and tortuous journey to freedom - and beyond - without Archbishop Desmond Tutu. While other struggle leaders were killed, or forced into exile, or prison, the diminutive, defiant Anglican priest was there at every stage, exposing the hypocrisy of the apartheid state, comforting its victims, holding the liberation movement to account, and daring Western governments to do more to isolate a white-minority government that he compared, unequivocally, to the Nazis.
When democracy arrived, Tutu used his moral authority to oversee the Truth and Reconciliation Commission that sought to expose the crimes of the white-minority government. Later he turned that same fierce gaze on the failings, in government, of South Africa’s former liberation movement, the ANC.
Many South Africans today will remember Tutu’s personal courage, and the clarity of his moral fury. But as those who knew him best have so often reminded us, Tutu was always, emphatically, the voice of hope. And it is that hope, that optimism, accompanied, so often, by his trademark giggles and cackles, that seems likely to shape the way the world remembers, and celebrates, Archbishop Desmond Tutu.
Known affectionately as The Arch, Tutu was instantly recognisable, with his purple clerical robes, cheery demeanour and almost constant smile.
Ordained as a priest in 1960, Tutu went on to serve as bishop of Lesotho from 1976-78, assistant bishop of Johannesburg and rector of a parish in Soweto. He became Bishop of Johannesburg in 1985, and was appointed the first black Archbishop of Cape Town the following year. He used his high-profile role to speak out against oppression of black people in his home country, always saying his motives were religious and not political.
After Mandela became South Africa’s first black president in 1994, Tutu was appointed by him to a Truth and Reconciliation Commission set up to investigate crimes committed by both whites and blacks during the apartheid era.
He was also credited with coining the term Rainbow Nation to describe the ethnic mix of post-apartheid South Africa, but in his latter years he expressed regret that the nation had not coalesced in the way in which he had dreamt.
Occupation forces attack the funeral of Shireen Abu Aqleh, the journalist they murdered:
Heavily armed forces are beating up Palestinians carrying Shireen Abu Akleh’s coffin, they’re charging at them with cavalry horses and assaulting them with batons (theyre also kicking those they knock to the ground) and threw sound bombs and stun grenades inside the French Hospital of Jerusalem. Here is the moment of attack:
They’ve besieged the hospital and demand Shireen’s coffin to be hidden inside a hearse instead of her being honored with visible a martyrs funeral being carried over the shoulders of Palestinians
The ocupation yesterday raided the home of Shireen’s family and took down Palestinian flags raised there. They detained Shireen’s brother the day after murdering his sister and ordered “no Palestinian flags. No chants. No walking procession”
Occupation forces have rushed the funeral and continued assaulting Shireen’s family, friends and mourners. They ripped away Palestinian flags (including off the hearse) and are attempting to suppress chants in honor of the martyred journalist
Israeli occupation forces have arrested several mourners for raising the Palestinian flag in occupied East Jerusalem. Abu Akleh’s niece, Lina Abu Akleh, has said Israeli forces are “still trying to silence” her aunt and the mourners gathered for the funeral.
Shireen was a Palestinian Christian and the funeral has moved her body first towards the Church for the service then are moving her towards the Christian cemetery where she will be laid to rest.
The Israeli occupation army asked people “if they are Christian or Muslim”. And Muslims weren’t allowed in to participate in the funeral march. Occupation forces have also prevented thousands of Palestinians from entering the cemetery.
Despite agression and attempts of supression from the occupation Palestinians continue the funeral and resist by still raising Palestinian flags and chanting for Shireen Abu Aqala and for Palestine. Arriving in the dozens of thousands
They murdered her and will not grant her peace even in death, the brutality of the israeli occupation against Palestinians is clear
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