Members of the #Jewish community have taken over #Trump Tower in solidarity with #MahmoudKhalil, chanting, “We want justice! You say how? Bring Mahmoud home now!” They are also drawing parallels between Trump’s #ICE and #Hitler’s #Gestapo, condemning the intimidation tactics used against people.

#video #usa #america

**jiujensu** @jiujensu@mas.to · Mar 13

Mar 13

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So here are my thoughts on Pay No Heed to the Rockets by Marcello Di Cintio. It was on some Palestine reading lists, but the time was disappointing. Literature references were amazing.

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I'm going to be honest: there are big pros and big cons. Big CN or TW for Orientalism. There are very good stories here, but the lens he's looking through will annoy the crap out of you if you're familiar with the history of the region or of resistance to occupation or international law.

Let's start with the good aspects. Di Cintio was a writer in residence in Palestine at one time - you can tell he loves literature and includes Palestinian literature in that. He highlights gay authors and meets and talks to so many poets and writers I can't list them all. He was able to tell their stories and draw out details I'd never heard them say elsewhere. If nothing else, you'll get a ton of titles and authors (&movies) for your to-read list!

When he gets into the storytelling, there's the Khalidi library, theft of books during the Nakba.(&movie called thre Great Book Robbery), intricate smelly details of how books are smuggled out of prison, role of Tamer Institute for Community Education, stories of collecting info for All That Remains - book of erased Palestinian villages, I enjoyed descriptions of the places he goes inside 48, the West Bank and Gaza, he has a detailed description of a humiliating checkpoint, there's the story of Jamal Abu Qumsan and the Gallery Café where artists meet, Kashabi Theater Company, the story of a salon for women authors, meeting Anni Kanafani, Mohammed El-Kurd, Atef Abu Saif, Abbad Yahya, khulud khamis, Dalia Taha, Adila Laïdi, Salha

Hamdeen, Anahid Mlikian, Suha Arraf, Asmaa Azaizeh, Mona Abu Sharekh, Asmaa al-Ghul, Mayy Nayef, Sumaiya al-Susi, Rana Mourtaja and more.

Di Cintio seems to be sympathetic to Palestinian pain and injustices, but when confronted with negative things about Israel, he can't seem to wrap his brain around it - he puts things Palestinians tell him they've experienced in quotes, it's all "he claims," "allegedly," and never allows a Palestinian permission to be angry or advocate for freedom by any means necessary. They must be unarmed and nonviolent in his opinion. He doesn't have such requirements for Israel or Israelis, like the Western country he comes from.

A few examples:
He said of the Israeli policy of blackmailing gay Palestinians to become informants that the person he spoke to suggested this was the case. He could've verified this with books, journalism and human rights organizations in 2018. It's a fact. He doesn't seem to be able to believe this about Israel, though.

He repeats some easy false history, the US/Canada summary, of the "conflict" as he calls it - Jews accepted partition, Palestinians rejected it. I hope he reads Khalidi's Hundred Years War or Ilan Pappé's work with Said or Khalidi. They can help him out of that with what actually happened.

In his meeting with Anni Kanafani, Di Cintio shares his view that Ghassan Kanafani was assassinated in retaliation for planning the Lod airport attack with the Red Army (he labels them terrorists).

Anni corrected him that Israel's plan was to liquidate intellectuals. (You can see this in the recent 2023 Israeli assault too - they called Refaat Alareer, taunted him, then leveled his building. Anyone good at communicating the struggle to Americans/Westerners is a target. It's repeated with journalists, professors, doctors.) Di Cintio still struggles for pages as he looks at photos of Kanafani, whose work he loves, with the possibility that he also could've killed someone. First, his widow said his weapon was a pen and Israel knew he was dangerous with that weapon. Second, under the daily violence Israel inflicts on the captive population, if he did plan an attack or kill someone - that would not invalidate his literary genius or the fact that Palestinians deserve equality, a life, self-determination, freedom as much as he does, as much as Israelis do. If he did plan an attack or kill someone, it certainly wouldn't in any way justify Israel's actions, occupation, collective punishment, attacks on occupied people, disproportionate violence, being THE CAUSE of the entire situation, cycle, conflict, etc - 75 years of genocide. I got really annoyed with the author at that point - just on page 21!

He loves talking to the Israeli curator of stolen Palestinian books now absorbed into their collection and also in a separate room. They say it's destruction and conservation, demolition and salvage - as though there's beauty or confusion there, but why isn't Di Cintio as

mad as I am, as mad as one might be if a Nazi with a museum full of Holocaust victims' belongs looted from their house or taken from them at concentration camps from jewelry to furniture to teeth and saying, wow, aren't you glad I was there to save all these artifacts? It's obscene! A shrine to the massive continued injustice. It's not conservation. It's gloating over mass murder and large scale theft.

One of his interview subjects said her relative suffered intestinal illness brought on by his Israeli captors treatment of him - he used the word "claimed" as though he doubts seriously Israel caused such a thing. He hasn't read up on Israeli prisons, clearly. In the sae conversation, he couldn't believe a militant Marxist could write a sweet sappy letter to his mother. He doesn't believe the Palestinian is a person, does he?

I was annoyed of El-Kurd's behalf when Di Cintio refused to believe that an Israeli doctor tried to get his mother to abort him but not his twin sister as a demographic strategy. Instead of investigating or bringing up that Israel does experiments on prisoners and sells Palestinian organs with doctors' help, so it's possible, he just dismisses it and says, wow, look how much the sides mistrust each other.

The last annoyance I'll highlight is something he said to Atef Abu Saif asking about The Drone Eats With Me. Di Cintio wanted to know if it was a deliberate omission not to mention the

**Nando161** @nando161@partyon.xyz · Mar 11

Mar 11

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Jewish students rally in solidarity with #Palestinian activist and #ColumbiaUniversity graduate #MahmoudKhalil, who was #abducted by #ICE for his rejection of #Israel’s #genocide in #Gaza.

#video #palestine #rafah

**Nando161** @nando161@partyon.xyz · Mar 9

Mar 9

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#northkorea #korea #classwar #poverty #homeless #censorship #anticensorship #antinazi #antizionist #humamrights #ausgov #politas

https://www.businessinsider.com/north-korea-tourist-surprised-guides-didnt-hide-poverty-luca-pferdmenges-2025-2

Business Insider · Feb 27Travel influencer visits North Korea, surprised tour didn't hide povertyBy Joshua Nelken-Zitser

**Nando161** @nando161@partyon.xyz · Mar 9

Mar 9

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A #university student faces deportation if suspended for supporting the #Palestinian cause.

https://www.sydneycriminallawyers.com.au/blog/sydney-uni-antisemitic-deportation-scare-foreshadows-potential-debilitating-law-reform/

https://t.me/AntifascistSolidarity/53017

Sydney Criminal Lawyers · Mar 7Sydney Uni Pro-Palestinian Deportation Scare Foreshadows Potential Debilitating Law ReformA student faces deportation if suspended by the university for being critical of the Israeli state’s campaign of wars crimes against Palestinians.

#australia #classwar #humanrights

**Nando161** @nando161@partyon.xyz · Mar 9

Mar 9

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#comic #cartoon #meme

**jiujensu** @jiujensu@mas.to · Feb 24

Feb 24

jiujensu @jiujensu@mas.to

1/2 "And so, when eulogizing a Palestinian man, we take on the roles of historians, activists, and political analysts, and we riddle or overtures with UN resolutions and human rights reports." -- Perfect Victims by Mohammed El-Kurd

https://open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com/collections/workshops-4-gaza-bookstore/products/w4g-pre-order-01-07-25-el-kurd-mohammed-perfect-victims

#FreePalestine #humanrights #apartheid #palestine #gaza #westbank #endtheoccupation #sanctionisrael #genocide #antizionist #antifacist #resistance
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open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com[W4G] El-Kurd, Mohammed: Perfect Victims

**Nando161** @nando161@partyon.xyz · Feb 21

Feb 21

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In my opinion, #AOC is the reason that #DOGE wasn't as successful at the #US Department of #Labor. It's an example of her true aggressive #advocacy. The ending part of AOC's #speech at AOC at #SaveOurServices #rally of #federal #workers and @FedWorkersUtd:

#video #classwar #antinazi

**Nando161** @nando161@partyon.xyz · Feb 20

Feb 20

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The only way we are going to get through this is by standing #together

#classwar #antifa #antinazi

**Nando161** @nando161@partyon.xyz · Feb 20

Feb 20

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I soldati ucraini pare non abbiano per niente gradito le esternazioni scioccanti di Donald Trump. Strappano via dalle loro divise i distintivi militari patch dell’esercito degli Stati Uniti.

Ukrainian soldiers apparently did not like Donald Trump’s shocking statements at all. They tore off their uniforms the military patches of the United States Army.

#video #classwar #ukraine

**Nando161** @nando161@partyon.xyz · Feb 20

Feb 20

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The #story behind #CableStreet's #mural.

t.me/primalinea161

#video #classwar #history

**Nando161** @nando161@partyon.xyz · Feb 20

Feb 20

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Former #Vikings punter #ChrisKluwe calling President #DonaldTrumps #MAGA #slogan a "#Nazi movement" and being arrested and carried out of a city council meeting by #police

#video #classwar #acab

**Nando161** @nando161@partyon.xyz · Feb 19

Feb 19

Nando161 @nando161@partyon.xyz

#usa #america #classwar

**jiujensu** @jiujensu@mas.to · Feb 16

Feb 16

jiujensu @jiujensu@mas.to

Mordechai Brafman in the police interview room, “spontaneously stated that while he was driving his truck, he saw two Palestinians and shot and killed both."

->He shot but didn't kill two Israelis.

I was going to comment but i think I'm just...
smh
*sigh*

https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/crime/article300433159.html

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