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Occupation 101: Voices Of The Silenced Majority | 2006
Is an award-winning #documentary film on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict directed by Sufyan Omeish and Abdallah Omeish, and narrated by If Americans Knew founder Alison Weir. The film focuses on the effects of the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip, and discusses events from the rise of #Zionism to the Second #Intifada and Israel's unilateral disengagement plan, presenting its perspective through dozens of interviews, questioning the nature of Israeli-American (#US) relations
In particular, the Israeli military occupation of the West Bank and Gaza, and the ethics of US monetary involvement. [1] #Occupation 101 includes interviews with mostly American and Israeli scholars, religious leaders, humanitarian workers, and NGO representatives — more than half of whom are Jewish — who are critical of the injustices and human rights abuses stemming from Israeli policy in the #WestBank, #EastJerusalem, and #Gaza.
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Is an award-winning #documentary film on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict directed by Sufyan Omeish and Abdallah Omeish, and narrated by If Americans Knew founder Alison Weir. The film focuses on the effects of the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip, and discusses events from the rise of #Zionism to the Second #Intifada and Israel's unilateral disengagement plan, presenting its perspective through dozens of interviews, questioning the nature of Israeli-American (#US) relations
In particular, the Israeli military occupation of the West Bank and Gaza, and the ethics of US monetary involvement. [1] #Occupation 101 includes interviews with mostly American and Israeli scholars, religious leaders, humanitarian workers, and NGO representatives — more than half of whom are Jewish — who are critical of the injustices and human rights abuses stemming from Israeli policy in the #WestBank, #EastJerusalem, and #Gaza.
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Amani Odeh was born and raised in Silwan, a Palestinian neighborhood situated just below the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in illegally annexed and occupied East Jerusalem.
All #EastJerusalem neighborhoods, including Silwan, have faced systematic Israeli human rights violations for more than a half century.
These coercive practices include arbitrary seizures and demolitions of Palestinian homes, mass Israeli Jewish #colonization, the imposition of fragile residency status on East Jerusalem Palestinians in their place of origin, and the strangulation of Palestinian construction, economic growth and livelihoods. Israeli government authorities, together with private actors, plan to seize Silwan’s property, consistent with Israel's overall objective of establishing a dominant Jewish demographic in annexed Jerusalem. The vast majority of homes have demolition orders, threatening to displace approximately 1500 Palestinians to make way for a tourist garden inside the Israeli #CityofDavidSettlerProject
#Palestine | 2022
All #EastJerusalem neighborhoods, including Silwan, have faced systematic Israeli human rights violations for more than a half century.
These coercive practices include arbitrary seizures and demolitions of Palestinian homes, mass Israeli Jewish #colonization, the imposition of fragile residency status on East Jerusalem Palestinians in their place of origin, and the strangulation of Palestinian construction, economic growth and livelihoods. Israeli government authorities, together with private actors, plan to seize Silwan’s property, consistent with Israel's overall objective of establishing a dominant Jewish demographic in annexed Jerusalem. The vast majority of homes have demolition orders, threatening to displace approximately 1500 Palestinians to make way for a tourist garden inside the Israeli #CityofDavidSettlerProject
#Palestine | 2022
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🇵🇸 Israeli Settlers Took Half Her Home, Now They Want More | 2021
The Palestinian woman who captured the world’s attention when she confronted an Israeli settler tells AJ+ how she’s fighting to save #SheikhJarrah. “We are not going anywhere. We’ll stay in our homes until the last moment. ”
https://www.palestinechronicle.com/tag/savesheikhjarrah/
#Palestine #EastJerusalem #Occupation #Colonisation #dispossession
The Palestinian woman who captured the world’s attention when she confronted an Israeli settler tells AJ+ how she’s fighting to save #SheikhJarrah. “We are not going anywhere. We’ll stay in our homes until the last moment. ”
https://www.palestinechronicle.com/tag/savesheikhjarrah/
#Palestine #EastJerusalem #Occupation #Colonisation #dispossession
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It shocks me that I keep coming across in my threads variations of the following tweet:
"The Palestinians have it within them to rise up against Hamas to free themselves. Or #Hamas can willingly surrender. Two real choices there."
This view isn’t just being promoted in bad faith by Israeli apologists. It seems to resonate with ordinary people who presumably know very little about the histories either of #Palestine or of settler #colonial movements such as the #Zionist movement that founded Israel.
So let’s delve briefly into both.
First, settler colonial movements are distinguished from standard colonialism – like British rule in India – by the fact that the settler population wishes not just to steal the native population’s resources but to replace the native population itself.
There are lots of examples of this: European settlers dispossessed native peoples in what we today call the United States, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, for example.
The definition of #genocide in international law exactly describes what those #Europeans did to the local population: mass killings; inflicting conditions calculated to bring about the physical destruction of all or part of the native community; preventing births within the local population; and forcibly transferring native children to the settler population.
European settlers who today call themselves Americans, Canadians, Australians and New Zealanders never had to account for their crimes against those native peoples. Which possibly explains how commonplace the tweet above is – and why European countries and their settler colonial outgrowths are today lining up againt the rest of the world to support Israel as it intensifies industrial genocide in Gaza.
The truth is the “western” world order was built on genocide. Israel is just following in a long tradition.
Settler colonial movements do not always end up committing genocide. In South Africa, a heavily outnumbered settler colonial population came to an “accommodation” with the native population: #apartheid. The white group took all the resources and privileges. The black group was allowed to live but only in ghettoes and squalor.
In such circumstances, peace is possible only when the settler colonial project is abandoned, power is shared and resources distributed more equitably. This happened, imperfectly, with the fall of apartheid.
The final model for a settler colonial population is to drive the native population over the border, in an act of ethnic cleansing. This was Israel’s preferred option in 1948 and again in 1967, when it decided to expand its borders by occupying remaining Palestinian lands in the #WestBank, #EastJerusalem and #Gaza.
The Palestinians in Gaza are an object lesson in the various ways a native population can be abused by a settler colonial movement.
Most are refugees or descended from refugees from Israel’s #EthnicCleansing operations of 1948. In other words, their family homes are in what we today call Israel. They were driven off their lands into a tiny enclave, to be ruled for the next 19 years by Egypt.
When Israel seized Gaza during the 1967 war, it had to fall back on the second settler colonising option: apartheid. So it turned the enclave into an open-air prison, or – if we’re going to be more honest – a long-term concentration camp.
Gaza was a larger – and, with Israel’s 16-year siege, increasingly much harsher – version of the townships that held the native black populations in apartheid South Africa.
What we are seeing now is Israel finally recognising that the apartheid model has failed to subdue the Palestinians’ desire for freedom and dignity.
Unlike white South Africa, Israel is not looking for peace and reconciliation. It is revisiting other settler colonial options.
In the current attack on Gaza, it is implementing a mixed model: genocide for those who remain in Gaza, ethnic cleansing for those who can get out (assuming Egypt finally relents and opens its borders).
Jonathan Cook
1/2
It shocks me that I keep coming across in my threads variations of the following tweet:
"The Palestinians have it within them to rise up against Hamas to free themselves. Or #Hamas can willingly surrender. Two real choices there."
This view isn’t just being promoted in bad faith by Israeli apologists. It seems to resonate with ordinary people who presumably know very little about the histories either of #Palestine or of settler #colonial movements such as the #Zionist movement that founded Israel.
So let’s delve briefly into both.
First, settler colonial movements are distinguished from standard colonialism – like British rule in India – by the fact that the settler population wishes not just to steal the native population’s resources but to replace the native population itself.
There are lots of examples of this: European settlers dispossessed native peoples in what we today call the United States, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, for example.
The definition of #genocide in international law exactly describes what those #Europeans did to the local population: mass killings; inflicting conditions calculated to bring about the physical destruction of all or part of the native community; preventing births within the local population; and forcibly transferring native children to the settler population.
European settlers who today call themselves Americans, Canadians, Australians and New Zealanders never had to account for their crimes against those native peoples. Which possibly explains how commonplace the tweet above is – and why European countries and their settler colonial outgrowths are today lining up againt the rest of the world to support Israel as it intensifies industrial genocide in Gaza.
The truth is the “western” world order was built on genocide. Israel is just following in a long tradition.
Settler colonial movements do not always end up committing genocide. In South Africa, a heavily outnumbered settler colonial population came to an “accommodation” with the native population: #apartheid. The white group took all the resources and privileges. The black group was allowed to live but only in ghettoes and squalor.
In such circumstances, peace is possible only when the settler colonial project is abandoned, power is shared and resources distributed more equitably. This happened, imperfectly, with the fall of apartheid.
The final model for a settler colonial population is to drive the native population over the border, in an act of ethnic cleansing. This was Israel’s preferred option in 1948 and again in 1967, when it decided to expand its borders by occupying remaining Palestinian lands in the #WestBank, #EastJerusalem and #Gaza.
The Palestinians in Gaza are an object lesson in the various ways a native population can be abused by a settler colonial movement.
Most are refugees or descended from refugees from Israel’s #EthnicCleansing operations of 1948. In other words, their family homes are in what we today call Israel. They were driven off their lands into a tiny enclave, to be ruled for the next 19 years by Egypt.
When Israel seized Gaza during the 1967 war, it had to fall back on the second settler colonising option: apartheid. So it turned the enclave into an open-air prison, or – if we’re going to be more honest – a long-term concentration camp.
Gaza was a larger – and, with Israel’s 16-year siege, increasingly much harsher – version of the townships that held the native black populations in apartheid South Africa.
What we are seeing now is Israel finally recognising that the apartheid model has failed to subdue the Palestinians’ desire for freedom and dignity.
Unlike white South Africa, Israel is not looking for peace and reconciliation. It is revisiting other settler colonial options.
In the current attack on Gaza, it is implementing a mixed model: genocide for those who remain in Gaza, ethnic cleansing for those who can get out (assuming Egypt finally relents and opens its borders).
Forwarded from 🇵🇸 Automated Apartheid in Palestine
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🇵🇸 Life in Jerusalem under Israel's military dictatorship | The Greyzone Documentary
Journalist Jeremy Loffredo visits the occupied East Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah, a climate of unprecedented repression has descended since October 7. Loffredo documents settler terror attacks on businesses and speaks to local activists who tell him they fear arrest and beatings from Israeli police if they speak out against the assault on Gaza.
#Palestine #WestBank #SheikJarrah #EastJerusalem #OPT #Repression #Settler #SettlerViolence #SettlerTerror
#Testimonies #Documentary
17/01/2024
Journalist Jeremy Loffredo visits the occupied East Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah, a climate of unprecedented repression has descended since October 7. Loffredo documents settler terror attacks on businesses and speaks to local activists who tell him they fear arrest and beatings from Israeli police if they speak out against the assault on Gaza.
#Palestine #WestBank #SheikJarrah #EastJerusalem #OPT #Repression #Settler #SettlerViolence #SettlerTerror
#Testimonies #Documentary
17/01/2024