Marxist and anti-Zionist.
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Verena 🏳️⚧️ 🇵🇸 retweeted
Pathé cinemas in Marseille and Toulon withdraw their support for the Israeli Cinema Meetings festival after pressure from local boycott activists, meaning screenings will no longer take place in their theatres and tickets will no longer be sold through Pathé’s platform.
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It’s a cold night here. Leo is tucked under the blanket with me, and I’m trying to keep us both warm.
If you’re awake tonight, leave us a little hello. It feels good to know we’re not forgotten. ❤️
Verena 🏳️⚧️ 🇵🇸 retweeted
When someone says, “I don't know how to help,” remind them that there is something simple yet powerful they can do.
Share our posts. Leave a dot in the comments. Make our voices heard.
Every share, every comment, and every act of solidarity matters. The algorithm of genocide and oppression can be challenged through collective resistance, public exposure, and continued condemnation of the Israeli terrorist regime.
Do not underestimate the power of your voice. Silence helps injustice. Speaking out is an act of resistance.
Stand with Gaza. Keep sharing. Never stop speaking out.
Verena 🏳️⚧️ 🇵🇸 retweeted
Israel apologists are unique in the way literally all of them constantly pretend to believe things they don't actually believe.
Over the years I've argued with members of every political ideology on earth, and I've never encountered any group who does this like Zionists do. Other ideological factions might hold idiotic and downright evil beliefs, but for the most part they tend to actually believe the things they are saying.
Not so with Israel supporters. I've been interacting with them for years, often over extended conversations just to understand their arguments and their worldview, and what stands out the most in these interactions is the way they constantly lie about what they think is true.
They'll pretend to believe a given high-profile critic of Israeli atrocities hates Jews just to help marginalize their voice. They'll pretend to believe Iran is on the cusp of developing nuclear weapons in order to help drum up support for war. They'll pretend to believe antisemitism is one of the most urgent and dangerous threats to our society today in order to push for more laws against pro-Palestine protests. They'll pretend to believe every human rights group on earth is lying about Israel committing genocide in order to help Israel commit more genocidal crimes against humanity.
Over the years I've interacted many people who misrepresent my beliefs and the beliefs of other people, but Israel supporters are the only ideological group I've ever encountered who consistently misrepresent THEIR OWN beliefs.
I've seen it over and over and over again. I'll corner them on one of the claims they are making about what they believe, completely dismantling their given reasons for why they believe what they claim to believe, and they'll just shift to some other reason justifying the existence of their belief.
And this should not be surprising. If you would support genocide, ethnic cleansing and apartheid, of course you would lie about your own beliefs to advance those agendas. Bad people do bad things. If genocide, ethnic cleansing and apartheid do not bother you, then you are unlikely to have ethical qualms about communicating without intellectual honesty.
These days I mostly just respond to such people by saying "You don't really believe that. You're just pretending to believe that in order to advance the interests of a genocidal apartheid state." It's the only way to deal with a group who literally never engages in good faith on any level.
Israel supporters need to do this because their worldview is not grounded in truth or morality. They don't hold their position because it is morally or factually correct, they hold it to advance personal agendas like career advancement, ladder-climbing, getting into Heaven, getting those tasty hasbara bucks, or winning the approval of their Zionist friends and family.
In a healthy society, supporting Israel would be as culturally toxic as loving Adolf Hitler or advocating the legalization of child sex trafficking. But we do not live in a healthy society. We live under a murderous, globe-spanning empire that is held together by lies and endless bloodshed. Zionism is rewarded and amplified because its evils are shared with the evils of the rest of the western imperial power structure which is choking our world to death.
Verena 🏳️⚧️ 🇵🇸 retweeted
I DON’T WANT LIKES.
I DON’T WANT VIEWS.
I JUST WANT TO EAT.
IF YOU’RE BROWSING, PLEASE LEAVE A DOT.
IT’S JUST A DOT.
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Verena 🏳️⚧️ 🇵🇸 retweeted
Mohammad Barakat Abu Qinass dies today of wounds inflicted by the israelis last week, during the barbaric shelling of civilians in Gaza City
Verena 🏳️⚧️ 🇵🇸 retweeted
Of course, DSA will always choose perceived electoral considerations over the Palestinians
Verena 🏳️⚧️ 🇵🇸 retweeted
Where’s Human Rights Watch?
🔴مجزرة جديدة في #تعز.. استشهاد 10 مواطنين وجرح 16 آخرين بينهم أطفال بقصف تحشيدات العدو السعودي سوق المخعف بالأقروض في المسراخ
#أخبار
#استهداف_سوق_المخعف_بتعز
Verena 🏳️⚧️ 🇵🇸 retweeted
America sent Black soldiers to fight Hitler. Then its own military police shot them.
On June 24, 1943, a group of Black American soldiers were drinking at Ye Olde Hob Inn, a pub in Bamber Bridge, Lancashire.
They were stationed in England to support the war against Nazi Germany. Their unit, the 1511th Quartermaster Truck Regiment, transported supplies for the US Eighth Air Force.
The American military was segregated. Black soldiers served in separate units, usually commanded by white officers, and were subjected to institutional discrimination.
But the people of Bamber Bridge weren't particularly interested in importing America's racial hierarchy into their pubs.
Black American servicemen were welcomed, drank alongside white customers and socialised with local women.
That evening, two white American military policemen attempted to arrest Private Eugene Nunn for not wearing the prescribed uniform.
British locals and other soldiers intervened. Why arrest him? He wasn't bothering anyone.
A scuffle followed. The MPs withdrew, promising to return with reinforcements.
They did.
The confrontation escalated outside. The military police opened fire, wounding Black soldiers.
Back at their camp, rumours spread that white MPs were shooting Black servicemen.
Then more military policemen arrived, including an armoured vehicle equipped with a machine gun.
The Black soldiers feared they were about to be attacked. Some raided their own armoury, taking rifles and ammunition.
And so began the Battle of Bamber Bridge.
For approximately five hours, American soldiers exchanged gunfire with other American soldiers in the streets of a small English village.
Hundreds of rounds were fired.
Private William Crossland, a Black American soldier, was shot dead. Several others were wounded.
And what happened afterwards?
Dozens of Black soldiers were convicted of offences including mutiny, although many of their sentences were subsequently reduced or overturned.
No white military policeman was prosecuted for the killing.
General Ira Eaker, commander of the Eighth Air Force, recognised the wider problem. He reportedly concluded that white servicemen were responsible for 90% of the racial trouble in his command.
The military subsequently introduced mixed-race MP patrols and other reforms.
But the US armed forces remained officially segregated until President Harry Truman ordered desegregation in 1948.
There's another fascinating detail.
The novelist Anthony Burgess, who lived in Bamber Bridge after the war, recalled that when American authorities attempted to impose segregation on local pubs, at least one establishment instead excluded white American soldiers.
Whether the famous 'Black Troops Only' signs actually existed as commonly described remains uncertain. But the hostility of some white American personnel towards the villagers' treatment of Black soldiers is extensively documented.
The whole episode says something about the gap between the ideals for which America claimed to be fighting and the treatment of its own citizens.
William Crossland crossed the Atlantic in the service of a country fighting Nazi Germany.
He never came home.
Not because a German soldier shot him.
Because an American did.
Verena 🏳️⚧️ 🇵🇸 retweeted
Education is not a luxury! It's essential for the future of Palestine! Please help a young woman in Gaza register for university before it's too late 🙏🙏🙏
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Verena 🏳️⚧️ 🇵🇸 retweeted
Thank God, our unborn baby girl is healthy, and my wife is doing well too. ❤️🙏
In just three weeks, my wife and I will welcome our little daughter into the world, and we will become parents for the very first time! 🥹💕
Amidst all the fear and hardships we are going through, a new hope and a new life are growing in our hearts. ❤️
Please keep my little family in your prayers. Pray for my wife’s safety, for our little princess to come into this world healthy and strong, and for all of us to be together, safe and sound, when she arrives. 🤲❤️
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Verena 🏳️⚧️ 🇵🇸 retweeted
Yes, as everyone knows, the holocaust began with a musical artist who championed love, respect, and an end to wars and injustice.
The bizarre extremes supporters of Israel's genocide go to justify the unjustifiable truly reveal their intellectual and moral poverty.
I was at this Macklemore concert in London, and I published a clip of his speech. It could not have been more inclusive, pro-love, pro-peace, and pro-respect of all peoples.
Verena 🏳️⚧️ 🇵🇸 retweeted
BREAKING: The US has just bombed Iran's Qeshm Island. Trump didn’t even wait until after the midterms to restart the war.
Verena 🏳️⚧️ 🇵🇸 retweeted
Iran is now broadcasting a video warning its people of what to do in the event of a nuclear strike. We live in the darkest timeline imaginable all because of the United States and Israel.
