I’ve taken great care in crafting my intended message to deliver to you all. This should not be a controversial take. During tragic events like those currently unfolding, we must collectively remember ours and other’s humanity as this is the basic tenet for the preservation and sanctity of human life. We are experiencing another unprecedented and monumental historical event that did not develop in a vacuum but through the culmination of numerous and largely overlooked events by our society. I especially, and maybe even you, have been majorly uneducated and sheltered on the full truth, depth, and gravity of it all. Take heart and talk truth to power — educate yourself, contact your elected officials, hear others out, and remember your humanity. Do not condone or engage in anti-semitism or Islamophobia. Political ideologies don’t make a religion. Demand a ceasefire. Demand no more tax payer funding of state-sanctioned war crimes and genocide. Demand the end to apartheid. Demand the release of hostages. Demand aid and other resources to be delivered to Palestinians.
Be a voice for the voiceless.
References:
UN and Palestine History:
History of the Question of Palestine
The Nabka:
(Video): How Palestinians were expelled from their homes (Vox)
Death Toll (2008-2020):
Infographic: The Human Cost of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
Countries Around the World Criticizing Israeli Attacks:
Which countries have criticized Israeli attacks on Gaza?
Egypt Forewarning on Attack:
Egypt warned Israel of Hamas attack days earlier
Israel War: Egypt gave warning about Hamas attack, McCaul says
Apartheid System:
Human rights in Israel and Occupied Palestinian Territories
Israel: 50 Years of Occupation Abuses
Journalist Death:
Palestinian American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh was killed a year ago
UN experts demand justice for Al Jazeera journalist on one year anniversary of her killing
Israeli police beat pallbearers at journalist’s funeral
Israeli police attack funeral procession for shot journalist Shireen Abu Aqleh
Blockade:
Crisis in Gaza: why food, water and power are running out
Food, water and medicine run low in Gaza amid deadly Israeli airstrikes, delayed aid
Gaza ‘soon without fuel medicine and food’ — Israel authorities
Humanitarian crisis for food insecurity, lack of water supply about to begin in Gaza, experts say
UN agency warns food, fresh water rapidly running out in Gaza
‘Our children drink salt water’: Gaza running out of water, fuel and food
Dehumanization:
Israel Defense Minister Calls Palestinians ‘Human Animals’ Amid Israeli Aggression
Israeli Defense Minister Announces Siege On Gaza to Fight ‘Human Animals’
(Video): “We are fighting human animals” said Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant
Evacuation Order:
Gaza’s flee their homes after an Israeli evacuation order but have few places to go
They followed evacuation orders. An Israeli airstrike killed them the next day.
Israel’s Gaza evacuation order could breach internal law — UN
Israel must rescind evacuation order for northern Gaza and comply with internal law: UN expert
Photos: Evacuation of Gaza City
Hamas Funded and Encouraged by Israel:
(Video): C-SPAN: Ron Paul (2009): Israel Encouraged and Started Hamas
Blowback: How Israel Went From Helping Create Hamas to Bombing It
How Israel Helped to Spawn Hamas
Another Concept Implodes: Israel Can’t Be Managed by a Criminal Defendant (Archive) (Original Article: Another Concept Implodes: Israel Can’t Be Managed by a Criminal Defendant)
Open-Air Prison/Concentration Camp:
Gaza: Israel’s ‘Open-Air Prison’ at 15
Israel occupation makes Palestinian Territories ‘open-air prison’, UN expert says
Explained | How Gaza Strip became the ‘world’s largest open-air prison’
Biden on US’s interests in Israel/Middle East
Biden’s pattern with Israel: public support, private scolds
C-Span (Video): Senator Joe Biden in 1986
Rare 1986 document reveals Biden’s views on Israel and Saudi Arabia
US Support to Israel:
75 years of US support for Israel, briefly explained
How much aid does the US give to Israel?
US Foreign Aid to Israel (2023)
Unverifiable reports of babies beheaded:
Unverified reports of ‘40 babies beheaded’ in Israel-Hamas War inflame social media
Israeli official says government cannot confirm babies were beheaded in Hamas attack
‘Beheaded Babies’: When war propaganda is pushed by US president
UN Definitions of Ethnic Cleansing, Genocide, War Crimes, Crimes Against Humanity:
United Nations Office on Genocide Prevention and the Responsibility to Protect
History of Investigations/Probes into War Crimes:
Israel Won’t Cooperate With UN War Crimes Probe, Accuses Chair of ‘anti-Israel Agenda’ (2022)
UN rights chief: Israeli strikes in Gaza may be war crimes (2021)
UN rights investigator accuses Israel of ‘ethnic cleansing’ (2014)
UN investigator accuses Israel of ‘ethnic cleansing’ (2014)
Parliamentary question | UN Human Rights Council:
‘Israel engaging in ethnic cleansing’ (2011)
ICC launches war crimes probe into Israeli Practices (2021)
War Crimes:
UN experts condemn attacks on civilians in Israel, Gaza as ‘war crimes’
Gazans bombarded by Israel have no hope and no escape
With Gaza under siege, Palestinians caught in the destruction have nowhere to go
Collective Punishment:
UN experts say Israel’s strikes on Gaza amount to ‘collective punishment’
Genocide:
Israeli attacks wipe out entire families in Gaza
Israel committing “textbook” case of genocide,” holocaust historian says
Ethnic Cleansing:
Mandela on Palestine Liberation:
Mandela on Terrorist Watchlist:
Mandela off U.S. terrorism watch list
FBI and the Civil Rights Movement:
COINTELPRO:
Shining a light on COINTELPRO’s dangerous legacy
US-Israel Police Training:
ADL considered scrapping its US police training trips to Israel, decided not to
Where Do Many Police Departments Train? In Israel
US previous vetos of 2-state solution/self-determination:
UN Security Council rejects Palestinian resolution (2014)
General Assembly Votes Overwhelmingly to Accord Palestine (2012)
UN Panel votes 163-5 in support of Palestinian statehood, end of occupation (2020)
