1.13.2015
Nd. Tim Willcox apologises to daughter of Holocaust survivor at Paris rally for saying 'Palestinians suffer hugely at Jewish hands as well'. Many are asking for his resignation over hate speech.As a Palestinian Christian who grew up in Palestine it feels like this: you've been harassed by an entity, you've seen this entity rape your people's dignity and rights, humiliate and kill many in front of you and around you, yet you can't speak up because then it's hate speech. And if anyone important speaks up it jeopardises their career and image. So you feel like chocking but you refuse to be silent anyway even if some will judge you. #JeSuisPalestininne
Tim Willcox apologises to daughter of Holocaust survivor at Paris rally for saying 'Palestinians suffer hugely at Jewish hands as well'. Many are asking for his resignation over hate speech.
As a Palestinian Christian who grew up in Palestine it feels like this: you've been harassed by an entity, you've seen this entity rape your people's dignity and rights, humiliate and kill many in front of you and around you, yet you can't speak up because then it's hate speech. And if anyone important speaks up it jeopardises their career and image. So you feel like chocking but you refuse to be silent anyway even if some will judge you. #JeSuisPalestininne
As a Palestinian Christian who grew up in Palestine it feels like this: you've been harassed by an entity, you've seen this entity rape your people's dignity and rights, humiliate and kill many in front of you and around you, yet you can't speak up because then it's hate speech. And if anyone important speaks up it jeopardises their career and image. So you feel like chocking but you refuse to be silent anyway even if some will judge you. #JeSuisPalestininne
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1.12.2015
***** 46 examples of Muslim outrage about Paris shooting that Fox News can’t seem to find.... Every time an extremist who is Muslim commits an act of terrorism, people ask where the moderate Muslim voices condemning violence are. (Interestingly, as a Jew, I don’t usually get asked to condemn extremism when it is perpetuated by Jewish fundamentalists like Baruch Goldstein, who shot 29 praying Muslims do death, and injured 125, at the Cave of the Patriarchs, or Yigal Amir, who killed Israeli Prime MinisterYitzhak Rabin.
Nd. The free palestine vigil is on hold here in washington due to the extreme cold. On capitol hill almost none of the congressman walk outside from their offices to the capital to vote. They either drive or use the underground tunnels. On weekends it has been too cold for people seeing the white house to pause and reflect on the posters. Currently the forecast suggests that maybe this weekend or next week it will be warmer for the vigil to make sense restarting. The meantime I will rest, heal, study, fight online.
The free palestine vigil is on hold here in washington due to the extreme cold. On capitol hill almost none of the congressman walk outside from their offices to the capital to vote. They either drive or use the underground tunnels. On weekends it has been too cold for people seeing the white house to pause and reflect on the posters. Currently the forecast suggests that maybe this weekend or next week it will be warmer for the vigil to make sense restarting. The meantime I will rest, heal, study, fight online.
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Nd. It seems that ever since the dawn of complex societies 6000 years ago that no more than 1 in a million people retain or regain their humanity.
It seems that ever since the dawn of complex societies 6000 years ago that no more than 1 in a million people retain or regain their humanity.
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1.11.2015
***** !!!!! Former French Prime Minister Dominique De Villepin has said that he holds Western foreign policy responsible for the multiplication of terrorism hotspots around the world. He added that he regards ISIS as the "deformed child" of this policy, which he described as arrogant and erratic. Speaking to France's BFM TV, De Villepin said that the decision by US President Barack Obama to form an international alliance to fight ISIS was ludicrous and dangerous. "It is about time that Europe and the United States learned from the experience of the war on Afghanistan," said the French politician. "In 2001, we had one central terrorism spot. Now, after engaging in military operations for the past 13 years in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya and Mali, we have ended up with about 15 terrorism spots because of our contradictory policies."
Nd. "Statistically, the majority of terrorism is our terrorism. It is state terrorism. There's no question about that. And the greatest victims of terrorism are Muslims. Those who either died as a result of the medieval embargo imposed on Iraq during the 1990s or Palestinians who've died and others. So the whole understanding of terrorism is upside-down." - John Pilger
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