Omar Sakr
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Son of migrants. Arab Turkish Muslim poet and novelist. Bi Baba on Dharug country (2170) 📚⛓️ I stand with Palestine.
Sydney, New South Wales
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A nice thing in a hideous time: my novel, Son of Sin, is getting a UK release later this year 🙏🏽💜 Follow the legends at
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We are releasing Omar Sakr's "Son of Sin" in October! In this extraordinary work, Sakr deftly weaves a multifaceted tale brimming with angels and djinn, racist kangaroos and adoring bats.
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Dutch photographer used AI to create a realistic photo of Jesus and damn, what can I say, he looks like family.
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Women in Middle East attacked for not wearing hijab
Women in the West attacked for wearing hijab
It's almost like women aren't the problem.
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Turning off the water supply. How very Israeli of them. Love to see war crimes inspo take off.
The University of Minnesota just ordered janitors to shut off water supply, lock bathrooms and lock doors to Coffman Union where pro-Palestine protests have set up an encamptment.
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The International Criminal Court having to release a statement saying to America and Israel “stop trying to intimidate us with threats, that too is a crime” sure is extremely grim.
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Q: Do you think you’re old enough to understand the situation?
A: I do. If kids in Gaza are old enough to be bombed, I’m old enough to understand what’s happening.
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Imagine if the response to Osaka had been, “We’re sorry that you’re struggling, of course you can skip the post-match press. We can have counsellors made available also. Perhaps there is a more suitable way for you to communicate with press. Let’s discuss it when you’re ready.”
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Americans you need to be louder. Please. These are your bombs.
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We need more than protests. The protests against the Iraq war showed us that. We need strikes, we need civil disobedience, we need to make politicians unable to continue with any other business by making this demand so overwhelming they must give in.
What if millions of people went to the streets to yell "ceasefire" and nobody in power cares.
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[Stares in Muslim]
People who broke into the Capitol Wednesday are now learning they are on No-Fly lists pending the full investigation. They are not happy about this.
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If Palestinians do nothing, they are killed, their houses demolished or taken, and the world looks away. Refuses to see, refuses to care. If they fight back, by rock or rocket then "there are two sides" to the conflict and Israel is acting in self-defence, in the past and future.
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Interview with a gay Israeli veteran, recounting his time during the Lebanon War when a sniper saw two Arabs having sex and shot one of them in the head. “We were fucking cruel.”
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All eyes on Gaza, all eyes on Rafah, on Palestine. The genocide is escalating. This horrific mass murder and starvation must be our focus.
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I’m old enough to remember the photos from Abu Ghraib being an enormous, historic scandal—it wasn’t just the abuse of Arab prisoners that stunned, it was the joy of the smiling American soldiers. Today we see similar every day on TikTok uploaded by IOF goons and nobody blinks.
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Bisan: “Gaza is completely collapsing… We are facing hepatitis and intestinal diseases in the southern Gaza Strip, and starvation to death in the north. Yesterday, people began grinding animal feed to get flour! Take to the streets, protest, strike…call for a ceasefire!”
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“My wife is responsible for the beatings I give her - if she only didn’t talk back, I don’t know how many times I’ve told her, all she has to do is obey.” The abuser’s manifesto.
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I truly have to laugh at Christian white supremacists lmao.
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Pictures of Palestinians in the sea, on a hot day, in a city with no water, “enraged Israelis” who apparently took it as evidence that they have not “gone far enough” in their extermination of 15,000 children, their mass murder of 50K people. An utterly racist, genocidal colony.
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On average, Israel has killed about 75 children EACH DAY since October.
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I just came out to my mum and she said it's okay and my heart exploded omfg 😭
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Us: They’re starving 2.3m people. They have no power or water, are drinking sea water to survive. 8,000 innocents slaughtered. Over 3,000 children. 20,000 wounded. Stop the bombs!
Western media/random psychos on the internet: Look, this is a complicated issue because in 3000BC—
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So the British Library tweeted about some fish that change sexes and transphobes got mad, ratioed the post, then the Library deleted the thread. As obviously embarrassing and pathetic as this is for transphobes, it’s equally so for the library.
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Yes obviously the timing is disgusting but can you all stop pretending they need a distraction in order to continue killing Palestinians? It’s been four fucking months of this and nobody has stopped it, our *attention* does fuck all.
israel getting a green light from america and attacking rafah while most americans are distracted is fucking SICK
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Never not going to retweet
@m7mdkurd
's CNN interview. He was so brilliant and so ready from the very start I had to transcribe it.
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Israel has killed 136 UN staff members in the past 110 days as well as dozens of their family members and yet this is the framing of USraeli propaganda in the wake of the ICJ embarrassing the West’s racist death machine. Abhorrent doesn’t begin to cover it.
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Tell me again how queer-friendly Israel is, and how this makes it okay for them to brutalise Palestinians. Tell me again how queer Arabs should *want* Israel over their own.
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I don’t think people understand how psychologically scarring it is to see videos of kids and their parents who look like your family, like your baby or nieces and nephews, being killed. Or dragged out of rubble. Or screaming and bleeding and wounded. Every day for over a month.
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Imagine if Biden picks Kanye for his VP lmao. 2020 can no longer surprise me so just putting that out there.
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Not only did Exxon's own scientists confirm the impact fossil fuels were having on the climate as early as the 80s, they used the information to build drilling platforms better suited to higher seas so they could take advantage of the melting Arctic. Fucking evil.
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Bisan just now on Insta. Israel’s slaughter continues out of sight.
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She is one of thousands ya Allah. Israel kills over 70 children per day and what’s left out of that staggeringly evil fact are the thousands of kids who are alive, starving, and injured—with all the hospitals destroyed and no pain relief. Help her. Help every one of them.
Malak Amer, a ten-year-old girl from northern Gaza who was injured by Israeli bombardment at the beginning of the war, is seeking treatment and reconstructive surgery abroad.
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My Big Thief story: a couple years ago I was asked to profile the lead singer for a newspaper. I was excited because I'd never been asked to do a non-race or politics related piece before. I remember telling a friend I thought this was a good sign for my freelance writing career.
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The genocide did not pause. Americans paused to have their little colonial holiday and shopping sprees without all the fuss of seeing wounded and murdered Palestinian children every hour of the day—instead the killings continued in the West Bank—and now the bombing continues.
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People who are silent right now are already living in the post-genocide world. They’re concerned about saving friendships or preserving their brand in order to function in the after—they’ve skipped the present. Futility is always a self-fulfilling prophecy. Resist it, I beg you.
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UN begging the rogue militant US state and Israel to stop committing war crimes and obey international law. Surreal.
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You cannot sanitise war. The "diversity" or "inclusivity" of an army does not reduce its horrors, its barbarities, and the same is true of its ideological or political leanings. There is no inherent morality or goodness in coming from a disadvantaged community.
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IMO, “erasure poetry” is not poetry in any way. And to destroy someone else’s writing—or, God forbid, poem—and then call the leftover words a new “poem” is pure philistinism.
Fight me.
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For everyone who thinks boycotts don’t work, here’s the CEO of McDonald’s saying their business has suffered “a meaningful impact” in the Middle East and other markets because of them. Keep it up.
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I would once again like to invite you all to stop invoking history’s judgement. We are alive and capable of condemning it now. We must do so with a clarity and conviction sufficient enough to bore into time—that’s what *makes* history. Us. Now.
WHO found a “death zone” at Shifa Hospital.
25 heroic health workers + 291 patients alive. Some just died: “due to the shutting down of medical services. Patients include 32 babies in extremely critical condition”.
History will condemn this warfare.
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Cried on the way to work this morning. Cried in the bathroom at work. Didn’t know how I was going to manage to perform at the NSW Art Gallery tonight but I did, and only cried once. So I’ll take that as a win. I am not okay and I can’t afford not to work.
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Not sure whether I should be inspired or worried by the amount of ppl thirsting over Jesus in my mentions rn...
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West: Their culture is evil!
East: Their culture is evil!
Both: how can we fuck up women's lives today and every day, forever.
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Holy fuck I won.
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Increasingly uncomfortable with all the “we could have saved 40,000 Palestinians if this had happened in October” takes I’m seeing, like what exactly has happened? There has been a slight shift in rhetoric, yes, but they are still killing Palestinians. They have not stopped.
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These students have gotten more mainstream media attention than the weeks of much larger protests these past few weeks. God bless them! Keep it up legends
Student protesters have taken over Melbourne Central in a planned school walkout in support of Palestine.
Crowds can be heard chanting "Free, free Palestine" as Palestinian flags are waved overhead.
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Lmao why do people always respond like “BUT if we are kind once, what if EVERYONE demands such care and kindness all the time and the whole thing unravels!!” At that point, if it all unravels, you acknowledge that it was only kept together by cruelty and maybe it should be let go
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“she was the one constant in our turbulent lives!!” really? get a grip. I will not stand for this Jonathan erasure, my guy is 190 years old and has no time for your nonsense.
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Waiting in line in 35degree heat for a Covid test. These poor workers in the pop-up clinic tents have been here all day, wrapped in their PPE. Absolute champions. Give them all medals.
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It's almost like the hijab and religion isnt the problem. It's almost like this is just gross men trying to control women's bodies & choices
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This is from “Brothers and Others in Arms” by Danny Kaplan, who interviews bisexual and gay Israeli soldiers. Some of the most haunting shit I’ve ever read.
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Another WhatsApp leak of Aus Zionists. This one has 600 “academics and creatives”. It’s full of the usual targeted reporting of “pro-Palestinian” people, then there’s this: Project Oct 7th, an initiative with the Israeli govt, and 8200 developers, trying to game the algorithm.
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I just put my baby to sleep ya Allah I am losing my fucking mind
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Instead of literally, “Do what you’re told or we’ll punish you.” Capitalism is sick. Most of the responses criticising Osaka boil down to “it’s always been done this way.” Find a better fucking way then.
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City of Hobart has removed a “Freedom for Palestine” mural by Jonny Scholes, painted on a private wall - with the owner’s permission - due to its “political messaging.” No more political art, folks.
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Ngl I’m annoyed by everything being reduced to “pro-Palestine” or “anti-Israel.” This is not a team sport. I am pro-justice, anti-genocide. Pro-equality, anti-apartheid. Pro-indigenous rights, anti-colonisation. Pro-human rights, anti starving-children-to-death.
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Jeff Goldblum felt the need to say "but isn't Islam anti-gay and anti-woman" to Jackie because she was wearing a stars-and-stripes hijab, as if America hasn't been anti-gay and anti-woman from the outset, or killed and displaced millions of Muslims, including women and queers...
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I'm the first Arab-Australian Muslim poet to be shortlisted for the Prime Minister's Literary Award for Poetry, the biggest award in the country 😭 and it will be my life's work to ensure I am not the last.
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You mean to tell me the man who went on a holiday as the entire country burned in extraordinary bushfires, whose government put aside $5 billion for disaster relief, which still, years later, has not been spent––gave no relief––is within the margin of error to win the election?
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Alt txt in the genocide
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I keep returning to the above page. The way he admits to being offended that anyone would shoot at him, an invading soldier in another country; the casual reference to the two Arabs as "mehablim", which apparently means terrorist. Two terrorists fucking. "Like real animals."
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Palestinians have been burning for 142 days. 14,000 children have been burned and bombed to death. Aaron knew. He said it as he walked to enact his protest. "Compared to what Palestinians have been going through, this is not extreme at all."
Aaron Bushnell introduced himself as “an active duty member of the U.S. Air Force & I will no longer be complicit in genocide.”
It guts me to see the media avoiding the unassailable GRIEF, the wails of pain, in countless protests against the genocide of Palestinians.
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Palestinian journalists already told us this. On the day. Because they were literally there.
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Had a months-long writing gig that was meant to start tomorrow, which I've just been told has been postponed so they can review their "cultural safety processes" in this time of "heightened sensitivities." Pretty sure that's code for Zionists complained. Cool and normal times.
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You seem to have missed the part where the murderer was welcomed in. The mosque is a house of God not a prison or fortress, nor should it be made into one. Instead, stop investing in anti-migrant, anti-Muslim rhetoric. Stop blaming your many incompetencies on us. Start listening.
We’ll deliver $55 million for grants that will prioritise safety enhancements at religious schools and places of worship, such as CCTV cameras, lighting, fencing, bollards, alarms, and security systems.
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Not sharing this because “wow here’s an exceptional kid that doesn’t deserve to die”—no kids deserve to die, no kids deserve what Israel is doing daily—sharing this because this beautiful boy is trying to look out for his little brothers and my heart is fucking wrecked
🚨A young Palestinian boy nicknamed "Newton of Gaza" talks about how he generated electricity from fans to power lights for his family and community in the camps.
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Last night we welcomed our son Nayirr Abdulkadir Sakr into the world after 39hrs in labor, two days without sleep, and it still feels like a dream. Mum and bub are healthy and good alhumdulilah. I am in awe of my wife’s strength, truly, it’s unfathomable. I am blessed by love.
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I wanted to dive into the fucking earth and never emerge again. I have zero sympathy for the armed forces and I don't give a damn about the identities of the soldiers. Delete that shit from your politics.
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Honestly, I thought I was well-versed on this subject but I did not know this and it is one of the most evil things I have read in some time.
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Hard to imagine a bigger fuck up, a bigger collapse in the order of things, than having the Prime Minister call for children to be allowed to drive forklifts, in order to solve the “supply chain issue”, which is that too many people are now sick from a virus.
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Public school funding to be cut by $559 million over next three years. Private school funding increased by $2.6 billion. How does this make sense? What is “private” about these schools? This is the rich stealing from the poor, it’s vile and it must be stopped.
#Budget2022
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The easiest moral stance you can take is to be anti-apartheid and anti-genocide. There is no moral, ethical, or legal justification for apartheid and genocide; both are being perpetrated on the Palestinian people.
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Hot take: when you post something this reductive and stupid, over the murdered bodies of 30,000 Palestinians, over 11,000 children, as Israel continues to slaughter them, you’re an unapologetic racist supporter of genocide and there’s nothing remotely “progressive” about you.
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I was impressed with what I thought were v political lyrics lol, but turns out, it's just vibes for them, just a reach for an evocative aesthetic.
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I’ve been to many protests—against war, against deaths in custody, Israeli apartheid, police brutality, climate inaction etc—and none have been like these lockdown protests. There is a clear difference between what is bound in love of community, and the reckless rage of assholes.
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“The IDF is more than just the major state organisation. From a cultural standpoint, it *is* the state of Israel.” // “The IDF is bound by an underlying Zionist ideology.”
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Is anyone else getting daily spam text messages pretending to be parcel deliveries? Is this an iphone thing? Whatever it is I hate it and want it to stop
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My toddler’s latest obsession is bringing me his mum’s hat and crying at me until I put it on so I’m often just sitting in my lounge like this now.
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These portraits rock
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@anthroprofhage
Equally, how many hundreds, how many thousands that look like him has the Christian world allowed to drown rather than reach refuge on their shores? Or locked up if they did manage to reach them. I specify Christian only because they profess to love him and his teachings so much
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A reminder that on October 17th Hamas had offered an all-for-all hostage exchange to secure a permanent ceasefire. On October 17th. Around this time, the families of the hostages were pushing for the same: “everyone for everyone” was their humane call. Israel refused.
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Like, if all that’s required to get you to delete your factual content is for some trolls to tweet at you, we’re very quickly going to see a total erasure of queer and queer-coded knowledge.
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Just this morning I had to explain to someone that boycotting Israeli products was punishable by law in 33 US states, and that this ban on people’s right to spend their money however they want is only permissible because it comes at the expense of Palestinians.
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You mean to tell me that in 1986 someone stole a Picasso from a gallery in Melbourne, leaving a ransom note for the Arts Minister—who was also the Police Minister—telling him to increase arts funding by 10% and create a new art prize or they’d destroy it? WHY DIDN’T I KNOW THIS
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There is literally no permissible way to resist colonisation in the eyes of colonisers.
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This shockingly racist cartoon depicting an Arab refugee chasing a white woman will be seen across the country thanks to the
@dailytelegraph
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This is absolutely shameful, abusive behaviour - grooming a neurodivergent child with the intent not to help him but to entrap him, after his parents went to the authorities for help. And you wonder why we don’t trust cops.
Australian Federal Police spent over twelve months driving a 13yo autistic boy’s fixation with Islamic State, actively encouraging him, and then waiting until he turned 14 to charge him.
All done after his parents came to them for help. Appalling.
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“We decided to make the housing unconditional,” says Kaakinen. “To say, look, you don’t need to solve your problems before you get a home. Instead, a home should be the secure foundation that makes it easier to solve your problems.”
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We have told you and been telling you this is genocide. Israeli scholars of genocide and Holocaust survivors have told you and been telling you this is genocide. At some point we have to confront the truth that this is not being done in ignorance, and naming it is not enough.
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This is from Susan Abulhawa’s article recounting some of the horrors she saw and recorded testimony of while in Gaza recently. Read it.
Zionists are destroying Judaism
How do you come back from this?
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I remember at a residency showcase, I performed some poems about the horrors of American warfare in the Middle East, and I was followed by a queer artist who launched into a speech about how conflicted she felt cause her partner was trans and in the army and it was hard for them.
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In Israel. Zionists are attacking Israelis who are against the war. Internationally, Jews are being arrested for standing against genocide and with Palestinians while politicians mouth Zionist rhetoric. Fascism is on the rise and they are trying to suppress dissent.
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After having a chat with a 90-year-old neighbour and his 50 year old son, I am now depressed. They were adamant that the bushfires were the "bloody Greens fault for not allowing backburning". We can't beat this bullshit. The bullshit factory is nonstop and too powerful.
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