Turmoil shows, Gaza turns the world upside down.
The illusion is that once the Palestinians are gone all will be still. The death we wreak hollows us from within. That gap can only be filled by more death:
"The illusion of the genocide is that nothing is nothing, that once the Palestinians are gone all will be still. ...The death we wreak hollows us from within. That gap can only be filled by more and more death," writes Ori Goldberg at x.com.
Without solidarity we won’t survive this time.
The video proving how police almost paralyzed me was labeled sensitive content by Instagram.
It highlights not just how violent the attack was.
Being harmed in a video & then silenced by the algo: Deeming the evidence of police violence "sensitive content" that is lowered in the feed into the nothing. It highlights that Genocide denialism makes every genocide a universal struggle.
Violence spills.
Because we don't want violence to become the universal, we are defending the universal of rights for all. For we are all fragile & only rights for all will protect any of us.
When I posted sensitive content from Gaza, I had no idea how soon I too would become sensitive content under the police violence.
“Without solidarity we won’t survive this time,” writes Diana van Eyk. Being attacked by police daily, it starts to feel like that to us in Berlin.
For some real solidarity among brave voices, here is a video in German by Jasmina.
Jasmina captures in her voice the infinite resolve of any of us, big and small:
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Another friend says:
I am prepared to be arrested. Totally unafraid. I see it as a process. We are living in a totalitarian state. I don’t believe any of us are safe.
I replied:
Such clarity can even protect us in a powerful way.
Not organized people will be all the more surprised by state violence. People start to organize collectively & tune strategies for a long run.
There is no big guiding mind behind the chaos, now or in the Trump administration. Things really are unraveling.
Time to dissect "this 'everything, everywhere at the same time' type of feeling.”
"they will forbid us to talk about the murder of children in negative or derogatory terms," writes Alon Mizrahi.
"there's essentially no room for Palestinians in the pro-israel narrative" writes sdgmasterclass.
Trump will not be able to hide from how with genocide, police repression against freedom struggles is turning governments into turmoil.
"Israel is escaping into the reality of destroying Gaza to avoid the truth about its predicament in the Middle East," writes Zizek.
"The pro-Israeli establishment reacted in panic to the ICC warrant and to the moves to recognize Palestine," writes Zizek.
"We do not only escape into a fantasy to avoid confronting reality, we also escape into reality (of brutal acts) to avoid the truth about the futility of our fantasies,’ writes Zizek.
