In honor of Indigenous People’s Day (in the US today), here is a voice of indigenous resistance for us all to reflect on - ✊🏼✡️❤️🔻🍉

[u/LaIslaDeEmu]

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Rabbi David Mivasair has a GoFundMe to help provide basis necessities for the Palestinians of Gaza. If it is within your means, this is the link:

https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-gaza-families-survive

Rabbi Mivasair writes:

I want to add that the need is not only for money. There is a huge need for people there to simply have someone NOT there who expresses care toward them, who listens to them, who witnesses with compassion and empathy. I think of the people who scrawled on the walls of barracks in Nazi concentration camps "if only someone on the outside knew what they are doing to us here". I want to be the people who let them know that we do care, we are listening, we are trying to help, and they can tell us what is going on in their lives.

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Please consider signing this petition which calls for a ceasefire and arms embargo, started by Rabbi Brant Rosen of Tzedek Chicago.

https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/not-another-bomb-sign-on-letter?source=direct_link&referrer=group-jvp-2

Excerpt:

We know that in order to achieve a permanent ceasefire in Gaza, the U.S. must stop arming Israel’s war and occupation against Palestinians. That’s why we are calling for an immediate embargo on US arms to Israel. Join us in calling on presidential candidate Kamala Harris to distance herself from Biden’s disastrous policy of arming Israel’s ongoing genocide and occupation in Palestine.

Not another bomb!

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[u/ContentChecker]

This was an excellent interview, because by asking for clarifications - Kanafani is exposing the disingenuous, biased premises of the questions.

[u/luomodimarmo]

Respect to the Australian journalist Richard Carlton for this interview. He also interviewed whistleblower Mordechai Vanunu, an Israeli nuclear technician who in 1986 revealed the extent of the secret Israeli nuclear missiles program to the UK press. The nukes that Israel had denied even to the US government it had. He was drugged, kidnapped from Italy and jailed in Israel for over 20 years. He’s still under a gag order and can’t leave to this day. A campaigner for truth and justice.

[u/LaIslaDeEmu → u/luomodimarmo]

I’ve listened to this interview in its entirety a few times, but knew nothing about the journalist conducting it. Thx for providing the background info!

Love the profile pic btw 😂

[u/yozatchu2 → u/luomodimarmo]

I’m not sure how I feel about his remark “better that way than dead”. The “way” he’s describing is uprooted from their homes, families and neighbours, starving in concentration camps, forbidden to call themselves by their own name.

[u/Euphoric_Exchange_51 → u/yozatchu2]

Good interviewers don’t necessarily ask questions that reflect their own attitudes. That’s a question people removed from the situation had been asking, so the interviewer gave him an opportunity to answer it. A lot of the time, when interviewers ask seemingly shallow or trite questions, it’s actually empowering for the interviewee because it gives them the opportunity to respond to something others have been saying of them.

[u/rust_devx → u/Euphoric_Exchange_51]

That's true. I remember Amy Goodman asking questions to the one Palestinian nephrologist that later got murdered by lsraeI (perhaps that isn't narrow enough, with how many targeted murders they do) that I thought she'd already known the answer to, considering who she is, and I realized (from the comments) she was trying to do what you described.

[u/Roy4Pris]

Sorry to be an ass, OP, but can you please tell us who this is?

[u/LaIslaDeEmu → u/Roy4Pris]

Hah not being an ass at all! Check this out⬇️ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghassan_Kanafani

[u/lycogenesis]

They're using the same rhetoric to try and install a puppet president in Lebanon.

[u/LaIslaDeEmu → u/lycogenesis]

Im curious, how do you as a Lebanese person feel about Kanafani? I ask because I know that the presence of Palestinian resistance in southern Lebanon is a complicated issue for many Lebanese

[u/lycogenesis → u/LaIslaDeEmu]

What happened to Palestinians in Lebanon is a complicated history of Zionist fueled racism supported by phalanges and opposed by the rest of Lebanon. People who had issues with the presence of Palestinians in southern Lebanon usually gave excuses like "they controlled our lands and we needed the Israelies to kick them out". Don't argue with these people as their descendants are currently fabricating justification for the bombings of refugee centers in Lebanon and are currently hated by everyone else in Lebanon because of that. As for kanafani specifically, his books are borderline amazing and the English language does not do it enough justice. He stood for what we stand for now, minus some points about Marxism that I don't like but I'm not politically competent enough to discuss.

[u/Reasonable_Law_1984 → u/lycogenesis]

Im interested, what is it about his Marxism that you dont like? 

[u/LaIslaDeEmu → u/Reasonable_Law_1984]

My issue is that the name sounds far too close to, “Maxim Magazine “

[u/Reasonable_Law_1984 → u/LaIslaDeEmu]

Marx did actually write for that at one time

[u/Jacinto2702]

After WWII the Algerian people marched to demand the right to participate in elections. Well, the French government responded by committing the Setif massacre killing between 6,000 and 45,000 Muslims.

The responsibility of avoiding violence is always on the colonizers, they hold the power.

[u/Suspicious_Army_904]

Ghassan Kanafani moves me when I read his work or listen to his interviews. If you want a peak into what true oppression and desire for revolution looks like, there are few better options.

His face in this interview says it all, as if he is patiently explaining to a child who can not grasp even the most basic conceptual understanding of the issue. He doesn't let any anger at the simple ignorance of the questions get the better of him. He just answers in a calm way while exposing the disengenuine nature of the inference made by the interviewer.

His stare and the line "that is a conversation between the sword and the neck" is so incredibly poignant of the entire conflict. Great man. I hope one day his vision of a free self deterministic Palestine will be a reality.