Jews are indigenous to Israel now? It's in the fucking Bible that they settled there.
But even this idea kind of misses the point. Anti-zionism doesn't oppose the presence of Jews or Judaism in Palestine; you probably could argue that Jewish people as an ethnoreligous group did originate there. It just opposes the disposession of land and rights, by mostly-European and American settlers, from the extant inhabitants. Including Arab Jews, at one point.
I'm aware. I just think it's funny that officially even Jewish people shouldn't think they began in Israel. A promised land means you don't start out with it.
Nina Paley has some TERF-adjacent tendencies that come out in her work, but if you can forgive that, her film Seder Masochism interrogates that whole concept of a "promised land" in a pretty funny way.
Okay, watching it now. I feel like I'm having a very Jewish acid trip
Palestinians have fought for black liberation. As Mandela stated:
"Our attitude toward a country is determined by that country's attitude toward our struggle. Yasser Arafat, Col. Gaddafi, Fidel Castro support our struggle to the hilt. They do not support it only in rhetoric! They are placing resources at our disposal for us to win the struggle...as far as Yasser Arafat is concerned we identify with the PLO because just like ourselves they are fighting for the right of self determination."
I remember Arafat from when I was a kid but never really understood much about him. It sounds like he is cool and good?
It feels so weird finding out everyone you were told were monsters were actually good aside from Hitler and Mussolini.
Hitler and Mussolini are only monsters because Hitler attacked France and we had to side with the Soviets. If it wasn't for that, the Holocaust would probably have been downplayed and presented as a domestic policy rather than a genocide.
The Soviets we're the ones that publicized the gruesome realities of the camps (most were in East Germany).
I don't think they concluded that he was poisoned. it's for sure possible but the official line is the polonium came from a lifetime of heavy smoking.
was there more than one autopsy?
it is found in tobacco that is grown using fertilizers which contain radium. the radium decays into a gas, rises and sticks to the plant and then decays into polonium. im pretty sure that was their theory.
Tobacco farmers use fertilizer to help their crops grow. These fertilizers contain a naturally-occurring radionuclide, radium. Radium radioactively decays to release radon gas, which then rises from the soil around the plants. As the plant grows, the radon from fertilizer, along with naturally-occurring radon in surrounding soil and rocks, cling to the sticky hairs on the bottom of tobacco leaves. Radon later decays into the radioactive elements lead-210 and polonium-210. Rain does not wash them away. Polonium-210 is an alpha emitter and carries the most risk.
This is from the epa
Never believe that zionists are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. Zionists have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past
Spotless Mind of the Eternal Sunshine Girl
Edit: Bint al-shamsa = girl of the sun, sunshine girl
you just made me realize where the British slang "bint" for girl comes from... colonialism
Borrowed from Arabic بِنْت (bint, “girl, daughter”), from Proto-Semitic *bint-, used to denote a patronym. The term entered the British lexicon during the occupation of Egypt at the end of the 19th century, where it was adopted by British soldiers to mean "girlfriend" or "bit on the side".
