There wasn’t many things Erron cared about. He didn’t care about others, he didn’t care about his parents, he didn’t care about his well-being really. But he did care about one there and that thing was his best friend, his pet and his transportation. It was a his horse. Erron lazily grabs the saddle of the ground approaching the horse with ease. The horse was a bay Anglo-Arabian with black socks, black mane and tail. Above its muzzle rested a small white star shaped spot where a blaze would normal be at.
The horse was grazing around but looks up when the cowboy gets closer. It lets out a soft snort some grass falls out of its mouth due to this. “Hey boy… you doin’ alright?” Erron walks to the left side and tossed the saddle on his back, then secures both cliches. He goes to the horse’s neck and gingerly pets him. He sighs and he continues petting him.
“Stetson.. I don’t know what I’d do without ya. Thanks for being my friend.”
He rests his head against Stetson’s neck. The mount merely turns to rest his head on Erron’s shoulder. They truly had a bond stronger than most and Erron knew this. The cowboy moves away now, petting the horses nose.
“Ready to get goin’? The laws gonna be sniffing ‘round here like a pack of coon dogs. We best get a head start..” He pets Stetson once more before pulling a carrot out of his worn out satchel for his mount. The horse eats it quickly and looks at Erron for more, which Erron doesn’t provide.
“We gonna save some for the trip y’know..” Erron finally leaves places the headstall on and places the hackamore over the horses nose. He pats his neck one more time before mounting up.
“Come on.. let’s git..” Erron says while clicking his tongue. Stetson moves as soon as he’s told, he doesn’t even need a nudge in the sides. He was a great horse like that, always ready to go and ready to travel. Just like Erron was.
“Yer the best damn horse I could ever own .. don’t you ever forget it Stetson.” The horse snorts out as they walk through the wooded area carefully and Erron took that as an answer.
“I’ll never forget you.. even though I’ll live on to passed ya way on. I’m immortal now… you ain’t.. fuck..” Stetson doesn’t reply this time as they slowly slide down the small slope.
A single, no… two tears slide down the cowboy’s face. He was going to miss his best friend. He was already mourning him before he even passed.
International Tongue Supports Palestine, Hates Normalization!
Israeli steps have recently accelerated in consolidating public normalization with a growing number of Arab and Islamic countries. Since many Arab countries no longer see “Israel” as their enemy, yet their indispensable ally in their war against people and seizing the future of peace, technology and innovation.
While some Arab governments continue to normalize with the occupation “state”, there are Arab countries and positions that have rejected normalization with “Israel” as it entails beautifying and legitimizing the existence of the occupation in Palestinian land.
Political Positions Against Normalization From Mesopotamia, Iraq records a historic day in support of Palestine and Jerusalem, and the collective position of more than 270 Iraqi parliamentarians, who voted in favor of a law criminalizing normalization with “Israel”. It is a position of victory for Iraq first, then Palestine and Jerusalem second. It also sends a message to the Palestinian people, that Iraq refuses to sell Palestine at a cheap price, and will remain side by side with Palestine, supporting the rights of its people, and criminalizing any form of relationship with “Israel” at all times.
As for Kuwait, it seems that the government and its people are strict in boycotting sporting and commercial dealings with Israel, as the Kuwaiti authorities continue to ban the entry of ships carrying goods to and from Israel into Kuwait’s territorial waters.
Kuwait has emerged as the most Arab country and people whose positions cause concern, confusion and curiosity of Israel, its officials and institutions, especially Jewish think tanks and media.
For his part, Tunisian President Kais Saied Al-Amal included the criminalization of normalization in the new Tunisian constitution issued in the Tunisian Official Gazette on June 30, 2022. In the preface to the text, he referred to “the Palestinian people’s right to their stolen land and the establishment of their state on it after its liberation with its capital, Jerusalem.”
Palestinian Salute to International Positions Against Normalization of Sports
A noticeable increase in the number of those who reject sports normalization with the Israeli enemy, with a new group of Arab athletes and solidarity activists from the region joining the ranks of the heroic boycotters who rejected the discourse of “sports for the sake of sport” and “sports above politics”. This record that many international sports associations and institutions did not stop repeating until the trumpets of Arab normalization adopted it and those chasing after some material and moral profits.
With their withdrawal from a number of international tournaments and competitions, the Kuwaitis Muhammad Al-Fadhli, Abdul Razzaq Al-Baghli and Muhammad Al-Awadi, the Jordanians Musa Al-Qutb, Muhammad Al-Saud, Mahmoud Al-Khatib, Ahmed Al-Borini, Muhammad Farhan, Ahmed Al-Batoush, Maysir Al-Dahamshe, Abdullah Shaheen, the Lebanese Aquilina Al-Shayeb, the Algerians Ibrahim Sarqama and Ahmed Touba, in addition to the Iranian Women’s Hockey Team, emphasized one fact that the arenas for resisting normalization with the Israeli colonial and apartheid regime are numerous, and that sport, with its popularity, is on top.
We salute the official and popular stances following the insistence of the President of the Tunisian tennis champion Ons Jabeur that her team participate in the Women’s World Cup in Helsinki – Finland from 2-8 February 2020, despite her prior knowledge that the lottery placed it in the same group as the representative team of the Israeli colonial system.
Let us pressure on the Arab sports bodies to raise their voice against the hypocrisy of these Western sports bodies and dominate them, and to demand consistency in policies, and thus the exclusion of Israel in order to end the occupation, settler-colonialism and apartheid regime that has prevailed for more than seven decades.
As the Egyptian squash champion Ali Farag said: […] We were never allowed to talk about politics in sports, but ,suddenly, it is allowed now. As long as it is allowed; then people may look at the oppression happening everywhere in the world. Palestinians are going through this persecution for the past 74 years. […] As long as we can talk now about Ukraine; then we can talk about Palestine as well.
Cultural Boycott The Price of Normalization: Arab Cultural Works Decide to Exclude Artists Who Were Involved in Normalization Works
As awareness of Israel’s oppression of Palestinians grows, more and more artists from across the world are joining the cultural boycott. Support for the cultural boycott and cancellations of performances receive very significant media exposure in Israel, showing ordinary Israelis that there is increasing opposition to Israel’s denial of Palestinian rights.
Many high-profile artists have cancelled events in ‘Israel’
Top artists including Elvis Costello, Gil Scott-Heron, Lauryn Hill, Faithless, Marianah, U2, Bjork, Zakir Hussain, Jean-Luc Godard, Snoop Dogg, Cat Power, and Vanessa Paradis have cancelled performances in ‘Israel’ or declined to perform there. Despite offering large sums of money to international artists to defy the cultural boycott, Israeli promoters complain that it is becoming increasingly challenging for them to attract famous artists.
Thousands of artists from across the world now support the cultural boycott Thousands of artists and cultural workers have signed public statements in support of the cultural boycott. In 2015, more than a thousand cultural figures in the UK signed a cultural boycott pledge. BDS-related initiatives have been launched in Montreal (Canada), Ireland, South Africa, Switzerland, Lebanon, and the US. Distinguished cultural figures who have endorsed the cultural boycott of Israel include the late Stéphane Hessel, Holocaust survivor and contributor to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Chuck D (pictured left), Roger Waters (pictured above spray painting apartheid wall), Talib Kweli, John Berger, Arundhati Roy, Iain Banks, Judith Butler, Junot Diaz, Naomi Klein, Ken Loach, Alice Walker, Angela Davis, Mira Nair, Mike Leigh and many others.
In its rabid efforts to demonize Israel’s Palestinian victims, the Zionist propaganda machine, known as Hasbara, repeatedly cites a famous meeting between Palestinian national leader Hajj Amin Husseini, and German Führer Adolph Hitler in 1941, as an “indicting evidence” proving Palestinian collaboration with the Nazis. In fact, Zionist propagandists weaved and continue to weave all sorts of farfetched tales concerning that inconsequential meeting.
In fact, theZionistmachine of mendacity would go as far as claiming that the Palestinians bear a major share of responsibility for the Holocaust as a result of that meeting.
The real truth, however, is that such nefarious lies, though perfectly characteristic of the classical Zionist discourse, are knowingly used to mitigate the brutal ugliness of the ongoing Zionist holocaust against the Palestinian people.
In fact, the vast majority of Palestinians in the 1930s and early 1940s, probably knew next to nothing about Germany. Palestine then was under the harsh British occupation, known as the mandate, whose ultimate goal was to prepare the country for the establishment of the malignant racist entity known as Israel.
Very few Palestinians visited Germany during that period, and, similarly, very few Germans visited Palestine, probably with the exception of a small number of orientalists, anthropologists, archaeologists and missionaries.
Hence, the claim that the Palestinians who were languishing under an British military occupation did have particularly friendly ties with the Germans can’t withstand academic scrutiny for two minutes.
Yes, most Palestinians hated their British occupiers who were actually devising one of the greatest crimes against humanity of all time against a simple, pastoral and unsophisticated peasant community.
We hated our British tormentors…and we still do
I don’t deny the possibility that many Palestinian nationalists of that time might have wished victory for Germany and defeat for the British. Such feelings are quite normal and natural, to say the very least. But to interpret the Palestinian anti-British feelings as support for the Holocaust would be tantamount to fornicating with the truth and historical facts.
Besides, the Zionist movement then, as now, had a big clout on British policy makers. Hence it was quite logical and expedient for Palestinian leaders of that time to seek support for their just cause from Britain’s main foe, namely Germany. This didn’t mean at all that the Palestinians backed or identified Germany’s racist Nazi ideology or, indeed, its purported plans to exterminate.
Zionism had good chemistry with the Nazis prior to the Holocaust
There is a preponderance of crucial data pertaining to Zionist collaboration and cooperation
With the Nazi leadership, although the Nazi anti-Semitism policy had been well-known since 1933. Yet the Zionists, either directly or otherwise, maintained an extensive though secret contacts with the Nazi authorities, though the Zionist aim beyond these contacts was mainly to expedite the Zionist scheme in Palestine, rather than save or free Jews from the genocidal clutches of German anti-Semitism.
In the context of these contacts between Zionists and the Nazi authorities, the Nazis showed a certain willingness to allow hundreds of thousands of Jews to emigrate to the U.S. and other countries in return for certain tactical concessions from the allied countries. This meant that hundreds of thousands of Jews could have been spared gas ovens and concentration camps had the German demands been met. But the Zionist movement, which exerted disproportionate influence on American and British leaders, especially in relation to Jewish issues, adamantly refused the German overtures, with some Zionist leaders arguing that 50,000 Jews going to Palestine were preferred to a million Jews allowed to emigrate to North America.
Jewish soldiers serving in German armies
According to some Jewish historians, thousands of Jewish soldiers served in the German armed forces, including the Wehrmacht, SS and the Gestapo. The Judenrate (Jewish councils) were administered at the low and medium levels buy Jewish officers. The late Israeli historian, Israel Shahak, pointed out that Jewish families in Nazi-occupied Eastern Europe feared Jewish soldiers manning Nazi-roadblocks more than they did German or other soldiers. The Jewish soldiers were especially harsh and brutal to their co-religionists, probably to impress their German superiors.
Modern Zionist propagandists, even historians, strive to avoid or evade such embarrassing chapters of that era. They flatly deny that thousands of Jewish soldiers served in the Nazi armed forces, claiming that these soldiers were only partly Jewish and that most of them had Jewish fathers and non-Jewish mothers. In short, they employ the Same twisted arguments in dismissing this phenomenon as some ardent Zionists do in denying the presumed non-Semitic Origin of the bulk of Ashkenazi Jews.
I am speaking about prevarication, decontextualizing event, making sweeping generalizations out of rare or isolated events as well as indulging in sheer lies, while hurling the ant-Semitic scare-bomb at those disagreeing with the Zionist narrative, even if these people happened to be Jewish or even Holocaust survivors such Shahak and Zeev Sternhell.
Stalin’s Jewish aides
Although, Adolph Hitler is widely viewed as the most evil mass murderer in the history of mankind, it is probably safe to argue that Joseph Stalin was more nefarious a murder, given the huge number of his direct and indirect victims.
According to some estimates, Stalin was directly or indirectly responsible for the death of 6 million to 20 million people during his prolonged rule.
The huge number of victims occurred as a result of unrelenting political executions or indirectly as a result of Stalin’s policies such as the Gulags and other induced famines, collective deportations, and his sustained campaign of purges which lasted more than two decades.
Some of Stalin’s most diabolic crimes included the attempted physical liquidation of entire social classes, induced famines which caused the death of millions, the Gulags and the deportation of the Crimea Tatars and other ethnic peoples The Soviet authorities used cattle trains to deport these mostly Muslim peoples, mainly children, women and the elderly to Uzbek SSR and other remote destinations. Thousands died during the deportation journey while tens of thousands perished later due to the harsh exile.
Most Western historians evade or ignore the fact that many of these gigantic crimes were supervised and carried out by Stalin’s Jewish aides who directly reported to Stalin.
I know that very few people would venture to sale in these “uncharted waters” for fear of being accused of hostility to Jews.
Nonetheless, Zionist Jews must realize that they are not exactly history’s angelic victims and that they do have much to be ashamed of.
Good chemistry between Israeli and fascist governments
Today, Israel, which claims to follow a principled policy against fascism and racism anywhere in the world, is maintaining close, even cordial working relations with fascist regimes and groups around the world.
Israel is maintaining close ties, bordering on actual alliance, with the BJP regime in India. Needless to say, this regime is deeply racist, scandalously Islamophobic and hopelessly fascist. It is a regime that upholds the racist mantra that “to be a true Indian, you must be a true Hindu and thoroughly anti-Islamic.” This mantra is an identical copy of the racist Israeli Nationalism Law which states that ” in order to be a complete citizen of the state of Israel, one must be Jewish.” It is also worth mentioning, that the Israeli domestic intelligence agency, the Shin Bet, has advised the Indian security apparatus to adopt some of the most vengeful measures used against Palestinians, and use these tactics against Indian Muslims. This includes the widely condemned practice of home demolition, which is already being used in some Indian states like Ultra-Pradesh.
In Europe, Israel has good ties with the new fascist regime in Italy, which has assured Zionist circles that Italian fascism would target Muslims, not Jews. Israel also has excellent ties with the quasi-fascist regime of Hungary.
Moreover, Israel has also had and continues to have warm relations with anti-Islam movements in Britain, Germany, France, Sweden and Netherland. These racist movements are disguised as anti-immigrant movements although Islam and Muslims are their ultimate target. A few years ago, Dutch far-right anti-Islam politician Geert wilders was invited to Israel where he was warmly welcomed by the Israel government. Wilders eventually converted to Islam to the chagrin of his former Zionist friends. His conversion to the religion he had hated most stunned Islamophobic and Zionist circles in Europe and Israel.
And in America, Israel has had cordial ties with Evangelical Zionists who support, soul and heart, Israel’s repression of thePalestinian, although some Zionist Jews don’t hesitate to call Jesus Christ “the Hitler of Bethlehem.”
The same thing can be said about every fascist leader under the sun, who is usually courted by Israel and encouraged to pursue his or her anti-Islam discourse.
Conclusion:
So, the next time you hear or watch a Zionist spokesperson accuse the Palestinians of collaborating with the Nazis, you should immediately realize that you are encountering a sly liar. In the final analysis, Israel itself is now considered one of the world’s main hotbeds of fascism, especially after recent elections which brought to the fore Nazi-like parties which consider non-Jews lesser or infra human beings. Don’t be bamboozled by their lies. Such values as truth, honesty and justice don’t exist in the unholy Bible of Zionism
The curse of modern fandom is that it has allowed fans to get even closer to artists, but they won’t view the artists as people.
Human limits, human mistakes, human feelings, human needs, are never ascribed to artists, and when other fans rightfully point out, “hey, humans are making this, maybe don’t harass them or demand they cater to your personal tastes,” it gets shut down under, “uh, people who make popular mainstream things are automatically Public Figures who are also probably rich, so eat the rich and destroy artists over every perceived minor fault. <3”
Even though there’s, y'know, a really big strike currently going on because those artists are very much not rich or influential or in control of the bullshit.
The more friends I make in the various facets of the entertainment industry, and the more widely my own art gets shared, the more I realize that a lot of y'all genuinely don’t see artists as human beings if they meet some arbitrary standard of Being Known Online.
There is no amount of online fame that makes someone subhuman and a valid target for blatant disrespect and harassment.
Contrary to popular belief, you do not actually own and control a piece of art just because you like it a lot. The artists are not subject to your personal whims and tastes. They owe you nothing.
re: lrb there is such an immense failure in the ‘western’ 'left’ to conceptualise or engage with politics on any level besides the representational or the spectacular. in many ways this is simply a tacit capitulation to the (early) modern articulations of liberalism we ostensibly rail against, where political action is reduced to a field of communicating desires and being 'stood for’ by the actually powerful in a governing body. this is essentially still what we are doing when we try to 'raise awareness’ or 'show support’ standing around by the side of the road with signs. and like the post said, i’m not opposed to those activities happening; i do think for example that there’s value in conveying to other workers and disillusioned people that hey, there’s a mass movement here. but you have to actually then do something with that movement. you have to understand politics not as a realm of showing things or wanting things but materially producing and using them; that’s where labour’s actual power lies and always has been. and ofc it’s so insidious to see this degree of complete material disengagement in eg the usa, where so much of the material military and financial backing of israel does actually originate. how is it that we are still unable to connect the concept of political action to this real process of provisioning a genocide. how are we still standing here holding signs for photo ops. how are we still thinking that matters even remotely if the threat of material interference in the economy and the military machine is never followed up on, and if our nominal representatives know it won’t be followed up on. get fucking real
some fucking gowl was shouting out the window at the palestinian solidarity march ‘all you gays out there if you lived in palestine they’d kill you’ and i was on the megaphone and just started screaming 'queers for palestine’ over and over again bc i just needed to say smth but i fucking broke down weeping after we passed her bc it’s one thing to see the shit online but another to see someone have the fucking audacity to say it in real life at ppl marching.
how fucking dare you use our oppression as a knife against our siblings being slaughtered. how fucking opportunistic and assimilationist to spit out the homonationalistpinkwashing directly from brand israel who absolutely oppresses their own queer population with no marriage equality but uses 'gay rights’ as a cudgel for genocide justification.
Muslims initially admired Western-style liberalism for having created, at least in Europe, a humane civilization. But this prestige began to crumble in the last quarter of the nineteenth century; liberalism was discredited by its apparent complicity with imperialism, and its failure to sympathize with liberal nationalistic elements in Muslim society. Liberalism in Europe resolutely failed to amount to liberalism in the colonies. It seemed too much a sort of racially segregated liberalism. Mohammed Abduh summed up a widespread sentiment when, after successive disappointments, he confessed in 1895 that, ‘We Egyptians believed once in English liberalism and English sympathy; but we believe no longer, for facts are stronger than words. Your liberalness we see plainly is only for yourselves, and your sympathy with us is that of the wolf for the lamb which he deigns to eat.’
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