A community for everything related to Palestine and the occupation currently underway by the occupying force known as Israel.
Anti-Zionism is not anti-Semitism. Existence is resistance for Palestinians.
Please refer to Israel as Occupied Palestine, or occupied territories. The IDF is a fascist and ethnonationalist occupying force. Israelis are settlers. We understand however that the imperial narrative (which tries to legitimise Israel) is internalised in the imperial core and slip-ups are naturally expected.
We always take the sides of Palestine and Palestinians and are unapologetic about it. Israel is an occupying power whose "defence force"'s (note the contradiction) sole purpose for existing is to push Palestinians out so they can resettle their rightful land. If you have anything positive to say about Israel we do not care.
The genocide is still ongoing and many things are still developing in Palestine, but we are removing the limitation on only posting things related to the operation Flood of Al-Aqsa to this thread, you can now freely post over Lemmygrad again.
Please don't stop talking about Palestine.
Due to popular demand, please keep all posts about the operation to this megathread, sitewide.
Stay safe, comrade.
Saw your comment about Western laws and such just now. You are right and it makes me a bit nervous for doing things like protest. The governments here are pro Israel and they are making that very clear. It's what their class interests tell them to do and they have the law and the law enforcement at their side.
But at the same time it's easy to yell Free Palestina and antifascism when things are relatively quiet. It's only when things get heated, like now, that these words can get a meaning. And I don't want to back down despite whatever danger I may face. Because if I do, they win anyway.
It's hard, isn't it? I wasn't sure whether to hit 'Reply' on that one as I didn't want it to be read as 'don't openly support Palestine'. We've just got to be careful about it. Avoid letting our enemies trap us into publicly supporting 'terrorist groups', because that could get you arrested at a protest, for example. Not that our enemies won't impose a false equivalence on us, anyway.
Keeping it slightly vague should be safe enough, I'd imagine. One of the good things about the performativity of liberalism is that it means some level of performativity is acceptable; and supporting Palestine is a part of that for many. Not for enough people, but for many. Lord knows there are enough crimes committed against Palestinians to protest all day every day about their treatment without needing to weigh up the actions of Hamas at a rally.