Say no to authoritarianism, say yes to socialism. Free Palestine 🇵🇸 Everyone deserves Human Rights

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  • Ilan Pappe: Zionism began as a Christian project

    Zionism began as an evangelical Christian concept and later an active project. It appeared as a religious appeal to the faithful both to aid and be prepared for the ‘return of the Jews’ to Palestine and the establishment of a Jewish state there as the fulfilment of God’s will. But soon after, the Christians involved in this campaign politicised this ‘theology of return’, once they realised that a similar notion had begun to emerge among European Jews, who despaired of finding a solution to the never-ending anti-Semitism on the continent. The Christian desire to see a Jewish Palestine coincided with a similar European Jewish vision in the late nineteenth century.

    But the Zionist lobby didn’t confine itself to Christian evangelicals. Jews, looking for a solution to seemingly intractable oppression in Europe, started to rally around the idea of a state of their own – with visions ranging from a socialist Utopia on Palestinian soil to a modern state in alliance with the Western imperial powers.












  • You don’t think freedmen during reconstruction weren’t expecting to be reimbursed after finally becoming free of chattel slavery?

    The arguments surrounding reparations are based on the formal discussion about many different reparations, and actual land reparations received by African Americans which were later taken away. In 1865, after the Confederate States of America were defeated in the American Civil War, General William Tecumseh Sherman issued Special Field Orders, No. 15 to both “assure the harmony of action in the area of operations”[29] and to solve problems caused by the masses of freed slaves, a temporary plan granting each freed family forty acres of tillable land in the sea islands and around Charleston, South Carolina for the exclusive use of black people who had been enslaved. The army also had a number of unneeded mules which were given to freed slaves. Around 40,000 freed slaves were settled on 400,000 acres (1,600 km2) in Georgia and South Carolina. However after Lincoln was assassinated, President Andrew Johnson reversed the order. The land was returned to its previous owners, and black people were forced to leave. In 1867, Thaddeus Stevens sponsored a bill for the redistribution of land to African Americans, but it did not pass.

    Or that prisoners are frequently victim to an even additional level of wage theft on top of the already cents per hour they earn?

    However, the wages pocketed from labor both within and outside prisons are typically significantly minimized, as prisons deduct as much as 80% of individuals’ wages to cover costs like room and board, court-imposed fines, taxes, and restitution.[22] Individuals are often left with half of their gross pay and an inability to afford basic necessities or contribute to their post-release reintegration efforts.[23] Further exacerbating the problem, the cost of items available in commissaries is steeply marked up—in extreme cases, as much as 600 percent—compared to typical retail prices.[24]

    It was, you just don’t want to recognize it