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Do you ever wish that you could block all ads on YouTube because Google is a pressure target for the BDS movement? Or maybe you just hate ads?
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Bonus: this blocks ads on all websites browsed in Firefox, not just YouTube.
Extra bonus for Android users: allow videos to play in the background: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-CA/android/addon/video-background-play-fix/
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The US House of representatives is preparing to vote next week on a resolution that would deem “Free Palestine” to be “an antisemitic slogan.”
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A Nitter link to the Ryan Grim tweet in the screenshot: https://xcancel.com/ryangrim/status/1930972170479370686
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They have "SepiaSearch": https://joinpeertube.org/browse-content
I honestly don't know a lot about PeerTube but setting up an instance at some point is definitely on my radar.
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Activists in Ontario have been arrested and charged for participation in a protest against an arms dealer conference held in London.
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CBC London has a story with more updates:
"Lots of folks [at the protest] were concerned about Gaza, and were also concerned about war crimes in Sudan and other places and the fact that Canadian war merchants, death merchants, are arming them," Heap said.
"I think the police response is overreaching, and that's because they're trying to intimidate people from standing against war industries ... more generally, and it won't work," he said.
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I learned about this Global March to Gaza via a Labour for Palestine group chat:
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Support the Canadian Delegation to the Gaza March! - Soutenez la délégation canadienne à la Marche pour Gaza!
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Other chapters in Answering Hasbara provide context and advice on discussing topics like "But Israel Is so Diverse!", and "But Hamas!"
Every chapter is extremely well researched and rooted in Kern's own experience. There are many dives into historical context. I had no idea that the reason wizards have pointy hats has origins in anti-Jewish hate!
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In part 1 Kern briefly explains how they became a pro-Palestine influencer.
The bulk of the book is part 2: Answering Hasbara starting with a chapter on ways to respond to the question "Who Are You to Speak on Israel?".
This chapter highlights critiques of "deference politics" by philosopher Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò in the book Elite Capture.
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Throughout the book Kern's arguments are staunchly anti-imperialist. Part 3 of the book is Towards Collective Liberation—What does "Free Palestine" Even Mean? Here Kern links Palestinian liberation with the need for all of us, everywhere, to defeat capitalist empire.
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In the final pages of the book Kern shares notes written Palestinians that they befriended during their efforts to raise funds for pregnant people to leave Gaza and receive the care they needed to give birth.
These notes are from the parents and families of Elena, Manal, and Heba, to whom the book was dedicated.
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Other chapters in Answering Hasbara provide context and advice on discussing topics like "But Israel Is so Diverse!", and "But Hamas!"
Every chapter is extremely well researched and rooted in Kern's own experience. There are many dives into historical context. I had no idea that the reason wizards have pointy hats has origins in anti-Jewish hate!
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I recommend Genocide Bad. to everyone. @simkern is an excellent educator and I look forward to reading their other books like The Free People's Village.
Please consider using an alternative to Amazon to purchase this or any other book. Amazon is on the BDS list.
https://interlinkbooks.com/product/genocide-bad-deluxe-edition/ 10% of the proceeds from this edition will be donated to Middle East Children's Alliance.
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Kern asks us to dream that "maybe—we can Free Palestine, fuck empire, topple all tyrants, and save life on earth."
Kern also lists books they recommend to help us imagine a different kind of world including my favourite book, The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin.
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In Canada please use an alternative to Indigo Books like https://www.indiebookstores.ca/book/9781623716363/ where you can have the book shipped to a local independent bookstore in your community.
https://boycottindigobooks.com/
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The chapter on "Criticizing Israel is Antisemitic" is one of the longest and most detailed. In it Kern discusses why they, as a former anti-antisemitism educator, has stopped using the word "antisemitism". They explore the history of the term, first widely used by racists to describe their own hatred of Jewish people.
Kern also confronts the ways that Zionism is an anti-Jewish hate movement.
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From the Gaza Tribunal in Sarajevo, this is just starting now:
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Saree Makdisi just mentioned his book:
https://www.ucpress.edu/books/tolerance-is-a-wasteland/hardcover
"Tolerance is a Wasteland" is such an excellent title.
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"In this policy lab, Mariam Barghouti and Sharif Abdel Kouddous join host Tariq Kenney-Shawa to discuss Israel’s targeted assassination campaign against Palestinian journalists, the complicity of
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https://youtu.be/PucQS6UyQ94?t=2406
Quoting the above policy lab:
"… in specifically in the killing of journalists I don't I don't see the outrage yet … There should be a front page news story about this a big headline or everyone wear black armbands or put the headlines in black like you know a black stripe on the thing do something uh that we're not even seeing that." -- Sharif Abdel Kouddous
- https://substack.com/@sharifabdelkouddous
- https://theintercept.com/staff/sharif-abdel-kouddous/
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A great analysis of why liberal socialist universality (anti woke left) will not liberate us, flattens the class war, hampers solidarity, and, worse, is now also a footsoldier of fascism.
@[email protected] Excellent analysis, thank you for linking this.
The article is also a great read:
https://newintermag.com/universalism-and-the-anti-woke/
'The right have set the terms and woke is anything a fascist doesn’t like. Like the liberals, these socialist critics of woke are trapped in a failing reformism. The only correct socialist response to “the death of woke” is therefore not celebration, but solidarity.'
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