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There was a deeper reason why the film NAZA left the entire audience speechless.
This film isn’t about the tangible, visible horror of Gaza. It was about something more hidden, something far closer to home.
This was about the horror lurking within each of us. What the German-Jewish philosopher Hannah Arendt called “the banality of evil”.
We were stunned, I think, by the realisation that the 24 Israelis up on the screen – each of whom admitted, often dispassionately, sometimes a little proudly, carrying out the most monstrous of crimes – could have been our son or daughter, our brother or sister.
The only reason to applaud, as happened at the Venice Film Festival, it seemed to me, was to drown out the still, small voice of one’s conscience asking, “Might I have done as they did? Might my children?”
NAZA is a gut punch not because it tells us anything we did not already know or suspect about Israel and Gaza.
The enclave’s Palestinian journalists showed us daily the evidence of the genocide, before each was picked off by Israel’s AI machinery – in the largest slaughter of media personnel ever recorded.
No, the film tells us something far more shaming. It tells us who we are. It tells us exactly what the pillars of our western “civilisation” stand on.
Today’s western privileges were built on a long history of naked, racist colonialism – of greed, of pillage, of slavery, of genocide – that we have never truly renounced or forsaken.
Israel continues that tradition for us, both in sharpening colonialism’s technical efficiency with endless, murderous experimentation on a captive Palestinian population and in obscuring our own complicity in this barbarity.
That is the reason why it was so effortless for our leaders to collude in Israel’s genocide: to supply the bombs, to pass on the intelligence, to provide the diplomatic cover, to excuse the “excesses”, to crush the protests.
NAZA silences us not because of the monstrosity of what Israel did but because it serves as irrefutable proof of our own monstrosity. Our societies watched it all and did nothing. We are all guilty.
This is an extract from my latest article NAZA is not just about Israel and Gaza. It’s about the evil lurking in us all. Find a link to the rest in the reply post below ⬇️
Bettyb - Socialist 🍉 retweeted
The government has until December to decide whether to pull the NHS out of its £330m contract with Palantir - a US spy-tech firm that has facilitated genocide in Gaza.
Andy Burnham needs to pick a side. We have picked ours.
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And the EU with the 'European Values' refuses to condemn Israeli War Crimes in Lebanon. And now we have an Irish Government looking to get rid of the 'Triple Lock' so that they can join an EU Mission to help Israel achieve the greater Israel Project in Lebanon...
Israeli soldiers in Southern Lebanon are seen ‘jokingly’ giving a tour of a displaced family’s home while rigging it with explosives.
More than 1.2 million people have been forcibly displaced as a result of Israel’s attacks and reinvasion of Southern Lebanon.
Israeli soldiers mock Lebanese home they rigged with explosives
More on Aljazeera.com
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BREAKING: 🚨 🇬🇧 There has just been a 1984 style coup of British education.
They’re going to start BRAINWASHING children that criticising Israel is “antisemitic.”
And they’re going to give Zionists the power to CENSOR & PUNISH teachers and students for Israel criticism and/or Palestine advocacy.
This WEAPONISATION of antisemitism for a POLITICAL agenda is only going to lead to more antisemitism. But they don’t actually care about that.
This is gross. Fuck Labour. They destroyed Jeremy Corbyn using these exact same tactics.
🚨 NEW: The Government has accepted all 27 recommendations from the report to end antisemitism in schools and colleges
1. Recognise antisemitism as a distinct form of hatred, not just general racism
2. Strengthen political impartiality guidance, including limits on teachers wearing pro-Palestine badges
3. Establish a national hotline for school leaders dealing with antisemitism
4. Improve teaching about contemporary antisemitism and modern Jewish life
5. Teach pupils to recognise and challenge antisemitic conspiracy theories
6. Include antisemitism explicitly in school safeguarding policies
7. Train teachers to recognise and tackle antisemitism
8. Work with the Home Office and the Prevent programme to help schools identify when antisemitism may be linked to radicalisation
9. Encourage schools to adopt the IHRA working definition of antisemitism
10. Improve procedures for reporting antisemitic incidents, including signposting
11. Ensure antisemitic bullying and complaints are investigated and acted on consistently
12. Make clear in staff conduct policies that antisemitism is unacceptable
13. Strengthen Holocaust education, including antisemitism's role in the Holocaust, and encourage schools to mark Holocaust Memorial Day
14. Create more opportunities for pupils to engage with Jewish communities, including visits to synagogues
15. Make sure Judaism and modern Jewish life are properly represented in religious education
16. Improve media literacy so pupils can also identify online antisemitism
17. Provide better resources for teaching the Israel-Palestine conflict fairly and sensitively
18. Ensure schools have clear policies for dealing with antisemitism involving external speakers
19. Ensure education unions have clear antisemitism policies
20. Establish a dedicated support service to help schools, colleges and councils deal with antisemitism
21. Use some of the Government's security funding to help Jewish schools and colleges undertake educational visits safely
22. Run a campaign to tackle antisemitic behaviour at transport hubs near Jewish schools and colleges
23. Provide Jewish school and college leaders with mentoring and more security advice
24. Strengthen accountability for schools that fail to deal properly with antisemitism
25. Enable Ofsted and the Independent Schools Inspectorate to assess how schools tackle antisemitism
26. Make local councils identify local patterns of antisemitism and help schools respond
27. Share effective practice and guidance between schools and colleges
Bettyb - Socialist 🍉 retweeted
Greece has joined the European protests in France, Spain, Italy and Albania.
We are sick and tired of billionaires and their blatant theft.
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No one retuning to the UK today after serving in the IDF was arrested by police under the terrorism act.
Please RT this until they are.
Thank you
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The people who've participated in a genocide have decided there can be no investigation into their participation in a genocide. Isn't that nice?
Andy Burnham has blocked Jeremy Corbyn’s call for a public inquiry into Britain's role in Gaza.
“We will never give up until we have brought about justice for the Palestinian people,” the former Labour leader said.
In light of the move, we've taken a look back at Corbyn's demands for an independent inquiry into the UK's complicity with Israel's genocide:
youtu.be/NcGaWOyvG3M
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We're gonna start expelling kids for opposing genocide, aren't we?
EXCL: The landmark review on antisemitism in English schools is set to detail the vast scale of the problem, I can reveal.
It will set out 27 recommendations, many of which have been leaked to me, and I'm told the education secretary will accept them in full.
More: news.sky.com/story/politics-…
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Sally Rooney is a hero
Labour has turned Britain into an authoritarian nightmare
All to please genocidal Zionists
Bettyb - Socialist 🍉 retweeted
The people outraged by fake stories of churches being burned in France were silent when some of the oldest churches in the world were destroyed by Israel.
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Every time the BBC airs the crocodile tears of a British zionist who feels “hurt and upset” at being told their ideology is racist, Hind Rajab enters my mind: six years old, trapped in a car with her murdered family, pleading to the Red Crescent to save her.
Bettyb - Socialist 🍉 retweeted
People ask me why I’m so mad about Israel. But I can’t understand why more people aren’t livid with a genocide happening right in front of our eyes. And it’s enraging that we’re being forced to pay for it. Isn’t it normal to get pissed about kids getting killed with our money?
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Jeremy Corbyn: "We need the truth... I won't give up. I'll demand the enquiry. We'll try again in Parliament. And we'll carry on with events all over the country, including one coming up in Edinburgh." 👇🏻
Bettyb - Socialist 🍉 retweeted
Andy Burnham has NOT announced his intention to place the IDF on the list of terrorist organisations proscribed by the UK Govt.
Please RT this until his Labour Govt does this.
Thank you.
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Since September, the Saudi war in Yemen has displaced at least 130,000 people from their homes. A staggering 17 million people face hunger.
Britain's support for this catastrophic war - and its complicity in horrendous suffering - must end. Where is the strategy for peace?
UK to deploy jets to defend Saudi Arabia from Houthi attacks bbc.in/4js2Hdb
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For three years, Britain's political class made clear that genocide was not a red line.
Now they're making clear that opposition to genocide is a red line.
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This is a woman who has been witch-hunted by the worst people in the world
And people who consider themselves to be the best people in the world haven't lifted a finger to protect Francesca Albanese, the United Nations Special Rapporteur
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