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Jewish Voice for Peace

@jvplive

9 Dec

https://twitter.com/BeatriceLuigiG/status/1467193616967757824

Like many other settler-colonies, Israeli society has a long legacy of co-opting native culture and downplaying or disavowing foreign — in this case, diaspora Jewish — culture. This simultaneous cultural theft and disavowal is an attempt to “self-indigenize.”

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https://twitter.com/BeatriceLuigiG/status/1467193616967757824

Through cultural appropriation and "self-indigenization," settlers make themselves (and the rest of the world) believe they belong on the land that birthed the indigenous culture, even as they ethnically cleanse the actual indigenous people from it.

For example, through posts sponsored by the Israeli Ministry of Tourism, Miss Universe contestants have showcased their engagement with Palestinian food, clothing, and dance traditions — but they've called this culture, and the land and people from which it originated, “Israeli.”

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Jewish Voice for Peace

@jvplive

30 Nov

November marks four years since the launch of our Deadly Exchange campaign! Four years of protesting and preventing top-ranking US police, ICE, and FBI officials from training with Israeli forces. Four years of painstaking research. Four years of actions. And four years of wins!

From legislative victories in Durham and New Orleans, to pressure campaigns in New England, to a recent campus win at Tufts, the Deadly Exchange campaign has grown through powerful coalitions and our belief that safety comes from investing in communities — not militarized police.

In 2018, Durham, NC became the first city in the United States to ban police exchanges with the Israeli military. This was followed up by wins in Vermont and Northampton, MA where local coalitions and JVP members used public pressure to successfully demand cancelled participation

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Jewish Voice for Peace

@jvplive

29 Nov

@google

@google and @amazon's cloud services strengthen the Israeli government's military occupation and apartheid rule, helping it surveil Palestinians, expand illegal settlements, and inflict violence.

So, this #CyberMonday, Palestinians are giving them terrible reviews.

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@google

These reviews, based on real Palestinian stories, show the devastating impact that @google and @amazon's cloud services have on Palestinians’ lives — from false criminalization, to home destruction and forced displacement, to restricted movement and access to basic necessities.

@google

And @google and @amazon signed their $1 billion Project Nimbus contract RIGHT AFTER the Israeli military bombed Gaza relentlessly in May — at a time when the whole world was talking about Israeli apartheid, occupation, and violence against Palestinians.

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Jewish Voice for Peace

@jvplive

29 Nov

Every November 29th since 1978, the world has observed the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People.

Here are some of the earliest visual expressions of support from around the world for Palestinians’ struggle for freedom and self-determination.

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Jewish Voice for Peace

@jvplive

26 Nov

@DFA

This holiday season activists in New York and Miami are leafleting tourists & locals telling them to boycott Duty Free Americas!

@DFA's owners, the Florida based Falic family, have given millions to organizations that force Palestinians from their homes and land.

Amongst the settler organizations funded by the Falics is Elad (aka Ir David Foundation) which is behind the forced displacement of Palestinian families in Silwan.

Elad is one of many Israeli orgs fueling Palestinian dispossession and settler extremism funded by US donor money.

@Shepherds4Good

The #DefundRacism campaign is calling for an end to the flow of US “charitable donations" to organizations like these that fuel settler violence & force Palestinian displacement. The Falics are just one example of US-based donors bankrolling the ongoing Nakba.

@Shepherds4Good

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Jewish Voice for Peace

@jvplive

22 Nov

https://twitter.com/ABC/status/1462132672327790595

Palestinian flags at rallies against anti-Black racism represent shared material conditions, mutual inspiration, and common goals of the movements for Palestinian and Black liberation. Both are fighting the kind of state-condoned violence that Rittenhouse perpetrated.

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https://twitter.com/ABC/status/1462132672327790595

@dereckapurnell

And both movements have found that we can’t expect the legal systems of states built on racial/ethnic supremacy to deliver liberatory verdicts. As per @dereckapurnell's thread, we need to build power outside these systems, working toward their abolition.

https://twitter.com/dereckapurnell/status/1461764884362899456?s=20

@m7mdkurd

@m7mdkurd has also pointed to the impossibility of Israeli courts ruling in favor of Palestinians resisting home theft. He has tweeted, “How can we win against a colonial court, a colonizer judge, and a colonizer jury? And laws that were *invented* to ethnically cleanse us."