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newguineatribalart · 1 year

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Zande Shield South Sudan

#war shield #african #african art #weapon #ethnic weapon #black art #tribal art

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odinsblog · 15 days

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“I'm observing such a huge gap between different social groups that I didn't even realize were different. I, you know, most of my friends are in the media. A lot of my journalist friends are just much better informed.

A lot of them have had experience reporting in Israel, Palestine, and are quite critical of both Israel and the antisemitism narrative. Then, like, my wife is a lawyer, and her circle is a little bit different, right? It's not dominated by media people, like people in the law or in other professions seem to be broadly much more kind of taken by the sense of profound insecurity and shift in the American Jewish experience.

I think we sort of see different things, for example, when we watch the hearings in Congress on antisemitism on campus.

The university presidents, of which there have now been two hearings, one with three presidents, one with the president of Colombia, and there will be many, many more. And what I see is a right-wing campaign against higher education that is weaponizing antisemitism as an idea, right? Not antisemitism as a practice.

And what they see is, with the possible exception of the president of Colombia, is people who represent institutions or lead institutions that they feel an affinity with, often institutions that they graduated from, who are not standing up for them. Which I find that viewing of those hearings somewhat shocking because people seem to be turning off their critical faculties. But people, intelligent, educated, politically astute people don't turn off their critical faculties unless they're scared.

So I think the underlying fear is real. But just because it's real, it doesn't mean it's justified.

I think a factual account of what we're seeing on campuses now is that this generation of Americans is far more critical of Israel than their parents' generation. And this is true of both Jews and non-Jews. I think that they look at information available to them and they see a 57-year brutal illegal occupation.

And they don't understand how it's possible that their parents and the politicians that their parents support and the politicians who come and give commencement addresses and all that other stuff that I can say about politicians, how it is possible that these people support that state? I think that is an entirely understandable view. It also reflects a huge generation gap.

I think some of those young people are assholes, and some of them are antisemites. I think it's a small minority of the protesters, and it is not actually part of the critique. The protesters' demands, the protesters' organizing beliefs are not in any way or shape antisemitic.

And then there are Jewish students who were brought up Zionist, who were brought up to identify strongly with the state of Israel, who are, I think, a little bit like my cousin in the settlements again. They see these protests, and even probably the participation of their fellow Jewish students in these protests, as threatening their core identity, as threatening their ties to their families, as threatening everything that they were taught for the first 18 years of their lives is true. And of course they feel rattled, of course they feel unsettled, of course they feel threatened.

Like, wouldn't you, if you felt that everything you had believed in was being turned on its head, and if you, by apparently reasonable people? And so you have a couple of options. One is to look at what the protestors are saying, to engage with the facts, to engage with the critique of everything you've ever believed.

There was a terrific, George Curran's podcast a couple of weeks ago with three Columbia students, one of whom sort of narrated that kind of trajectory, getting to university and finding this stuff out and having their mind blown. That's a very difficult path, and it's a very difficult path, especially if you are, say, a first year student in 23, 24.

And then there's the easier path of staying integrated in your community, in your beliefs, and saying this is antisemitic.

Because unfortunately the things that the protestors are talking about are so horrible that you can't say, okay, let's agree to disagree, that you can't hold both of these things in your mind at the same time.

You can't continue to hold your family's uncritical, long-standing support of Israel, and an understanding of what is happening in Gaza and the occupation that has preceded the war in Gaza.

So yeah, of course they feel rattled. That doesn't mean that they're being surrounded by antisemitism.”

—Masha Gessen, the descendant of Holocaust survivors, discusses campus protests (part 3 of 3)

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greencarnation · 6 months

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Updates on Palestine 9/12/12 00:48 GMT

Don't stop talking about Palestine.

#palestine #gaza #israel #free palestine #free gaza #genocide #not really our role....anyways here have billions more in weapons 😁#fuck OFF #from the river to the sea palestine will be free #ethnic cleansing #yemen #israel is a terrorist state #politics #us politics

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agentfascinateur · 2 months

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Israel has taken 7350 Palestinians captive in the West Bank since Hamas’s attack on Israel on October 7.

Except Hamas doesn't operate in the West Bank, they say. Depopulation you say? Dispossession? Annexation? "Valuable real estate"?...

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news4dzhozhar · 2 months

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Alot happened in the past few days so I'm playing catchup here.

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jasontoddsthickthigh · 1 month

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#free palestine #palestine #gaza #gaza strip #israel #genocide #free gaza #gaza genocide #justice for palestinians #ethnic cleansing #weapons testing #feed north gaza #rafah border

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divinekangaroo · 12 days

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One thing I adore about PB is Tommy's approach towards modernity. Straddling the non-industrial past and the industrial/modern present; constantly positioning himself on the cutting edge, if not quite bleeding edge, of period/era technology. Cars, manufacturing, shipping, phones, typewriters. Medicine, psychology, and even bringing in incredibly modern concepts into politics in that era. He is constantly grabbing at the future. It's this striking characteristic in him, all the way from S1 when they install the phone in the Garrison - ~if only we knew someone else with a phone, we could call them~ - through to S6's final episode when he even wangles a seat on an airplane to get to Canada without wasting time. So uncommon at the time, but he just went: I need to get there with least time lost, and matched requirement to a borderline experimental non-consumer-available insider technology to do so.

(Sidestep: Such an interesting juxtaposition of all that, with the constant representation of the pre-industrial-era Romani threads in S6, too: Esme, the hills, the horse, the curse, the mythology, the vardo, all that slamming up against an actual cutting edge submachinegun, so ‘contemporary’ it’s actually anachronistic by a few years (if my research was right, it’s a WWII weapon that submachinegun, not to get on the symbolism, but). Arguably, Ruby in hospital having the most contemporary medical treatment available while Tommy goes walkabout to lift a curse is another notable juxtaposition.

There’s also an interesting slant of his modernity balanced against what I call his hoarding habit — the most cutting edge piece of tech or modernity in 1923 he’s still hanging onto in 1933. But yeah, even with that the juxtapositions are interesting because they can only happen if the forward reaching/modernity focus is there)

So, when I see contemporary-modern!AU takes of Tommy that are like, representing him as a relatively humdrum part of the capitalist consumer status quo, or even as a luddite who can't and won't use an Iphone, I scratch my head. I do think he’s *not* much of an innovator, but he is absolutely a considered first-gen adopter and recognises (and takes) opportunity regarding tech innovation with little concern for risk.

I have contemplated would rich modern!AU Tommy with disposable income finance startups if they pitched well: probably yes, because he takes gambles; with a personally vested interest in the innovators in the same way he had that vested interest in Bonnie. Startups as horses or boxers on a diff playing field, win some, lose some, etc.

#There’s also how modern Tommy is probably a weapons trafficker of some sort too #but can still scratching at how it all translates #Only bothers w illegal drugs because breaking into the international pharmacology cartel is too hard #The thing that really changes in contemporary era is the ease of global reach. Tommy was an innovator in the 20/30s because he looked globa #As soon as he could #from his class-bound ethnically diverse neighbourhood. Internationality was always there but it was a difference #Compared to now global reach is more the norm not the innovation #Anyway modern AU Tommy is interesting because representing that ‘future reach’ he shows in the 1920s rarely seems to be explored…#Another part of this thinking is me wondering *why* I keep seeing in-my-head-contemporary!Tommy in Japan on business trips #think it’s something to do with the same interesting juxtaposition of the pre industrial traditionality with bleeding-edge in Japan

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religion-is-a-mental-illness · 7 months

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If you ever went along with it out of politeness or fear, you've officially been alleviated of any obligation.

#Colin Wright #virtue signal #empathy #weaponized empathy #decolonization #ethnic cleansing #genocide #hamas #israel #palestine #islamic terrorism #microaggressions #religion is a mental illness

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rebel-girl-queen-of-my-world · 6 months

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#Israel #Gaza #Palestine #free palestine #free gaza #gaza genocide #israeli war crimes #israeli occupation #fuck the idf #fuck ai #weapons #genocide #ceasefire #ceasefire now #ethnic cleansing

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kashmirichaiwithmehr · 6 days

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#isr*elis claiming palestinian and middle eastern foods as their own (ex. hummus)#is just like what india is doing now by incorporating kashmir into every fucking thing they can #setting bollywood songs in kashmir #calling clothing lines kashmiri #calling rugs kashmiri #calling foods kashmiri #etcetcetc #theyre constantly appropriating kashmiri culture #it boils my blood that india is out here trying to eradicate ethnic kashmiris and change the demographics of kashmir by letting ->#non-kashmiri indians buy land there #and are killing kashmiris daily #and abusing them #and if yall didnt know #the weapons that isr*el is using in palestine are being tested by indians in kashmir FIRST (ill find the source and share later)#its so asdhsjklaashasjkld;asdajkl;dasd #if ur indian and not speaking out abt palestine #OR KASHMIR #ur complicit #if ur not kashmiri u do not have a fucking say #give kashmiris autonomy #okay #do u understand #fuck off #god im so asdjkald;asdhkajld;asd #mehrtalks #kashmir #palestine #free palestine

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newguineatribalart · 1 year

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African Massia Shield Kenya

#war shield #african #african art #weapon #ethnic weapon #black art #tribal art

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odinsblog · 3 months

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Armed IOF forces in tanks were “afraid” of starving, unarmed, noncombatant, Palestinian civilians

The Israeli army has issued a statement concerning the massacre its forces are accused of commuting in northern Gaza in which at least 77 Palestinians were killed while they were waiting for humanitarian aid.

The Israeli army called starving Palestinians waiting for food aid around humanitarian trucks a “violent gathering” which made its soldiers feel “unsafe,” the Israeli daily Haaretz reported.

Israeli soldiers then proceeded to indiscriminately open fire on hungry Palestinians, killing dozens and wounding hundreds.

Much of Gaza's population is on the brink of famine as a result of the Israeli blockade according to the UN and other humanitarian organisations.

(continue reading)

#politics #palestine #gaza #rafah #flour massacre #israel #war crimes #starvation as a weapon of war #ethnic cleansing #starvation #famine #israel is a terrorist state #collective punishment #idf stop committing war crimes challenge

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4ft10tvlandfangirl · 15 days

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If you think you can stomach more than a few seconds of him speaking watch the full interview on YouTube

How much clearer do these genocidal psychopaths and AIPAC mouthpieces need to be for the neutral people on the planet to wake the hell up? What is it gonna take? This isn't even the first time this suggestion has been made!

There is no other end result to dropping a nuke than destruction of everything in the vicinity. None. There's no nuance, no multiple possibilities or opportunities to meet part way because it done right deh suh. But mek ah did Putin nuh, Graham wouldn't be so bold. Granny seh, duppy know who fi frighten.

Wake the fuck up.

Also, my late grandfather was stationed in Japan in the 80s. He carried this medallion everywhere afterwards:

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agentfascinateur · 13 days

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The plan IS genocide

Everything else is window dressing, posturing, slowrolling and denying.

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news4dzhozhar · 1 month

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smonk-wonk · 4 months

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how are you a holocaust survivor if you're POC?

I'm not a Holocaust survivor I'm 25?

I'm gonna guess you mean descended from Holocaust survivors & victims. In which case it's really sad that you think this way firstly? POC and non Jewish people did in fact die during the holocaust and many were targeted for not fitting the Nazis' idea of the "superior Aryan race".

From The Holocaust Encyclopedia: "When Adolf Hitler and the Nazis came to power in 1933, there were several thousand Black people living in Germany. The Nazi regime discriminated against them because the Nazis viewed Black people as racially inferior. During the Nazi era (1933–1945), the Nazis used racial laws and policies to restrict the economic and social opportunities of Black people in Germany. They also harassed, imprisoned, sterilized, and murdered an unknown number of Black people."

Also contrary to what some believe, and this may sound farfetched and I hope you're sitting down but bear with me- some people are actually more than one race. Some people are POC and white. We call this being biracial. Or in grade school, being an "Oreo". A mutt if they really want to dehumanize you

But while my relatives weren't targeted for their skin color as they were white, many people were. Black Germans and other POC did exist, were murdered and traumatized, and have passed down that generational trauma. Just as other persecuted populations even if it was much less it was no less a part of the genocide and ethnic cleansing.

#i was actually never called an oreo but my siblings were #the fun thing about my racial ambiguity is no one irl knows what racial slur or term to call me #anyway there were Holocaust victims that were POC and it's even more reason to compare these events.#we have to mention the holocaust by name. we have to say hitler's name. i feel if we don't we're forgetting that this has happened before #because millions did not die during the holocaust just for us to justify more ethnic cleansing. more destruction of people's land& history #we have to look at how history was rewritten and how they allowed a genocide and massive cleansing to happen #and given my background i can't wrap my head around seeing everything that i heard of the nazis and even the USSR doing #and just going “but hamas”. israel is the cause hamas is the effect. i will never be happy that innocent people died #but people are wrong to say it was because they're jewish and muslims/palestinians/arabs hate jews. furthers the us vs them #they were already being killed and there's a reason colonized ppl & BIPOC see through the propaganda #the “they kill babies and rape women and hate you for how you were born and want to take things from you!”#we are familiar with it bc this isn't the first time it's happened and we remember the result of that mentality #and how it was weaponized #when i say mention it i do not mean above the current genocide. but we know how serious the holocaust was #the scale the lasting impact the destruction the things that were uncovered so much later #there is no “aftermath” of gaza yet bc the genocide is ongoing but we've seen the aftermath of genocide before #if we ignore the parallel we are forgetting history and there's a saying about those who forget history #free palestine #palestine #gaza #free gaza

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