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Social and queer theorist; ex-academic; PhD; Lacanian. May contain nuts, bolts, irritants, and excesses.

"Only one thing's sadder than remembering you were once free, and that's forgetting you were once free." -Leonard Peltier
Infographic from Al Jazeera that reads: "Lebanon Emergency services under Israeli attack The Israeli military is repeatedly targeting healthcare facilities and medical workers in Lebanon in what human rights organisations say constitutes potential war crimes." The image shows a map of Lebanon with the location and volume of attacks across the country: more than 30 in several places in the south, 21-29 in others, 11-20 and 1-10 mostly further north. It gives casualty numbers for October 8, 2023-November 12, 20204: 218 attacks on emergency medical services at least 151 medical technicians killed at least 212 medical technicians injured 244 damaged emergency medical vehicles
In April 2013, Amos Trust took a team to Bethlehem to run the first Right To Movement Palestine Marathon. Since then, we have brought people to run in solidarity with Palestinians, to demand their freedom of movement and to raise funds for our partners in Gaza and on the West Bank. The route of the Palestine Marathon in Bethlehem is shaped by the 8-metre-high Separation Wall. At times, participants run alongside the Wall; at other times, it forces people to turn back and run in a different direction. As there are not 26 miles of contiguous Palestinian state, runners start in Manger Square, run 6.5 miles to the edge of the Palestinian-controlled areas, and then go back to complete a half marathon. To do the full marathon, you have to run this route twice. While a small number of people run the full and half marathon, thousands participate in the 10km challenge and 5km family run. The Palestine Right to Movement Marathon has become a celebration of life in an occupied, hemmed-in town.
"I'm Running the Wall for Palestine" tile with links to amostrust.org, Right to Movement Palestine, and #RunTheWall
Transcript of a COMMUNIQUÉ BY THE WORLD ASSOCIATION OF PSYCHOANALYSIS: The World Association of Psychoanalysis, through the voice of its President and its International Council, affirms its total solidarity with the Israeli people, victims of massacres of civilians on a mass scale, accompanied by the kidnapping of women and children, held hostage. Irrespective of any political context, these practices are indisputably terrorist in nature and amount to crimes against humanity. It is therefore our duty to condemn here and now, without any "yes, but...", the Hamas organisation, responsible for the execution, if not the conception, of this infamous plan. Our thoughts are with our Israeli colleagues, members of the WAP and the NLS, and we send them our unconditional support in the ordeal their country is going through. Paris, 8 October 2023 The WAP Council, Christiane Alberti, president
An anonymised social media post that reads: "I was putting hand towels away in the linen closet. turned around, both cats were behind me, staring. It made me feel guilty, even though I wasn't doing anything that should be offensive to cats!"
Aerial photograph of the 14/10/23 Free Palestine march in London, UK showing the crowd amassing at the start point by the BBC Broadcasting House.
A protest sign that reads: "Those who make peaceful protest impossible will make violent revolution inevitable," surrounded by examples of the laws that Israel forces the Palestinians to live under. "Israeli Military Order #101 (27 Aug 1967) It is forbidden for any group of ten or more Palestinians to gather to discuss, walk together, or vigil for any matter that 'may be construed as political.' It is forbidden to print, record, screen, post, publicise or otherwise distribute in the region any publication of notice, poster, photo, pamphlet or other document containing material having a political significance." "Military Order #1079 (14 October 1983) It is forbidden for Palestinians to hold, wave, display or affix any flags or political symbols or to do any act that reveals identification with a non-approved organisation, its actions or objectives.[...]" Military Orders #1423 and #718 are also included.
"One in every five Palestinians has been arrested and charged under the 1,600 military orders that control every aspect of the lives of Palestinians living under the Israeli military occupation. That incarceration rate doubles for Palestinian men — two in every five have been arrested. By comparison, in the United States, the country notorious for the world’s largest prison population, one in 200 people is imprisoned. The imprisonment rate among Black Americans is more than three times the overall rate — but even then is a tiny fraction of an average Palestinian’s likelihood of spending time in jail."
From Al Jazeera's liveblog on Oct 8, 2023 at 08:05GMT: "Osama Hamdan, senior spokesperson of Hamas, has told Al Jazeera that the group is not attacking civilians. Rights groups such as Amnesty International pointed out that Israeli civilians had been killed by Hamas. 'You have to differentiate between settlers and civilians. Settlers attacked Palestinians … We hope that Amnesty has international humility to send us more developed weapons to attack just only the soldiers,' Hamdan said. Asked whether civilians in southern Israel were also considered settlers, Hamdan said: 'Everyone knows there are settlements there.' 'We are not targeting civilians on purpose. We have declared settlers are part of the occupation and part of the armed Israeli force. They are not civilians,' he added."