Palestine
A community for everything related to Palestine and the occupation currently underway by the occupying force known as Israel.
Anti-Zionism is not anti-Semitism. Existence is resistance for Palestinians.
Please refer to Israel as Occupied Palestine, or occupied territories. The IDF is a fascist and ethnonationalist occupying force. Israelis are settlers. We understand however that the imperial narrative (which tries to legitimise Israel) is internalised in the imperial core and slip-ups are naturally expected.
We always take the sides of Palestine and Palestinians and are unapologetic about it. Israel is an occupying power whose "defence force"'s (note the contradiction) sole purpose for existing is to push Palestinians out so they can resettle their rightful land. If you have anything positive to say about Israel we do not care.
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I'm reminded how Frantz Fanon describes, at length, how the colonial situation could produce many comorbidities in his patients. He treated both indigenous Algerians and French settlers, and he had a lot to say about both. I think there was one instance where he was responsible for treating a torturer, who could continually hear screaming whenever he tried to sleep.
He went to great lengths to describe how the colonial situation dehumanizes the colonizer and the colonized.
I think about that whenever Israel comes up.
Every time I think about Usonian soldiers with PTSD I think how el Che or Castro were always perfectly good even though they had killed people. It's because they never enjoyed the violence applied on the imperialists, it was driven by a desire for freedom.