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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.
I might have to try that. I’ve been doing some loving kindness meditation so maybe that can be a dialectical balance for empathy exercises. I’ve found that I’m not that particularly empathetic feeling people’s pain, but I do learn pain I haven’t experienced and feel good on behalf of those who fight injustice. I also am too young to do any organizing so that’s kind of hard, though of course the organizing would be a sacrifice too.