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@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot
2026-06-29 14:33:29

If you lifted #Gaza up, turned it through 90°, and dropped it down in Galloway, it would fit between the Nith and the Water of Fleet, between the main A75 road and the sea. I've cycled more than half that distance this afternoon.
I've cycled through green woods and fields under a grey sky, to the sound of birds when there were no passing cars; the same journey in Gaza would be through r…

My bike stopped by a gate at the roadside at Kirkennan, by Palnackie. Behind, and unmetalled road leads into forest
Waiting at traffic lights in the small town of Dalbeattie
At the side of the road just outside Beeswing; there are green fields to the left, and wooded hills ahead.
My bike locked to a stand outside the clinic in Dumfries.
@aral@mastodon.ar.al
2026-05-30 13:21:43

RE: #Gaza

@vosje62@mastodon.nl
2026-05-28 19:22:29

Was er nog iemand die twijfelde aan de intenties van Netanyahu?
Israel’s Netanyahu directs army to seize 70 percent of Gaza Strip | Israel-Palestine conflict News | @…
#Israel #Gaza #Netanyahu

@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot
2026-05-29 21:33:11

RE: #Gaza

@tiotasram@kolektiva.social
2026-07-26 17:31:24

Semi-subtoot: there's a certain kind of anti-genocide narrative that draws comparisons between the Gaza genocide and the genocide of Jews, queer, and disabled people during WW2, with an incredulous overtone, the subtext of which is: if the good nations invaded Germany to stop the Nazis' evil in WW2, it's hypocritical for this nations not to take action to protect Gazan civilians now. There are a couple of problems with this line of reasoning, but the most obvious from an anarchist perspective (which sees "good nation" for the oxymoron it is) is that it's ahistorical. The reasons for the various allies' entrance into WW2 are varied, but they weren't about good and evil, and in fact the full depth of the evils of the Holocaust *was not known* in allied countries until after the war. Nations never really do things to "fight evil" like some humans might; they always act out of a kind of (imperfect) self-interest. The motivations for many of the allies were simply "we don't want Germany to conquer and destroy us" (and the imperfection in that motive is amply evident in the appeasement that preceded the war). America was of course not swayed by that motive, and it was the Japanese that (thinking the issue would have to come to a head eventually and that a surprise attack was worth speeding it up) put America in a situation where it joined for similar reasons.
Why is this extra relevant right now? Because neither the US nor any European country is existentially threatened by Israel (or threatened at all in fact, quite the opposite they're all benefiting economically from the situation in Gaza). The lesson of history isn't "brave, good nations will stand up to fight against anyone who commits genocide or other major evils", it's "nations act in their narrow and twisted and often mistaken self-interest (the interest of the national entity, which is often counter to the interest of it's citizens), and they always mythologize their actions after the fact as having been a fight against evil, which sometimes by luck is partially true."
To double down on this point: in the European theater the U.S. war actions were pretty good overall, defeating an evil opponent through military force and being a fairly gracious victor to the civilian populations there. In contrast, in the Pacific theater the U.S. was one of two evil empires duking it out for global dominance at the expense of civilians on both sides. The Japanese empire was a vile regime and perpetrated horrors in China, Korea, and across southeast Asia. The U.S. was barely better, between Japanese internment camps at home, and mass targeting of civilians on Japan, both with the firebombing of Tokyo and especially the nuclear bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
So if your model of how we stop genocide is "convince the good guys to invade (or exert political pressure) and save the day", your model is wrong. That's not what happened in WW2. I'm not confident I know the perfect solution, but I do think it involves a mass of people making increasingly disruptive protest so that the cost *to rich companies and thus politicians* of falling to intervene is too high to stomach. That's a large part of what succeeded in South Africa, for example. Thankfully, there is already a vibrant protest movement to end the genocide in Gaza, and even though they haven't been fully successful yet, I'm optimistic that as things naturally (and through hard work) fall apart for various fascists politically, that movement will be able to succeed.
#gaza #genocide

@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot
2026-06-28 10:21:37

@…
The UN published this on #malnutrition deaths of children in #Gaza a year ago, but I have not found anything more recent. I am hearing of acute hunger now fr…

@DieGesellschafterinLang@swiss.social
2026-06-20 06:47:32

Menschen in #Gaza
tagesschau.de/ausland/asien/is

@aral@mastodon.ar.al
2026-05-27 20:52:28

To deny the humanity of another is to forfeit your own.
#israel #genocide #Gaza

@ErikJonker@mastodon.social
2026-05-20 14:36:07

De Nederlandse politiek zwijgt maar de Italiaanse niet...
Italië wil excuses van Israël voor 'mensonterende' behandeling activisten Gaza-vloot - #gaza

@toooobeeee@social.linux.pizza
2026-06-29 09:40:36

Lese- und Nachdenkempfehlung:
#Verfassungsblog

@Simone21@mastodon.social
2026-06-26 06:42:02

Solange die Hamas den Gazastreifen regiert, werde ich niemals Geld an Privatpersonen schicken. (Ich kenne niemanden aus dem Gazastreifen im RL.)
Hamas, das ist die Organisation, die Hilfsgelder dafür verwendet hat, Tunnelsysteme mit Waffenlagern unter Schulen und Spitälern zu bauen, im Vertrauen darauf, dass Israel niemals ein Spital angreifen würde. 😭
#Gaza

@primonatura@mstdn.social
2026-05-09 18:00:36

"Gaza sisters turn rubble into bricks to rebuild their community"
#Gaza #Environment

@ingo@social.stuetzle.cc
2026-06-04 20:13:54

#Gaza: Die Eltern tot, die Schule zerstört: Kinder und Jugendliche suchen unter Trümmern nach einer Zukunft. Die @… hat drei von ihnen begleitet.

@vosje62@mastodon.nl
2026-05-27 06:58:03

RE: #Israel #Gaza #Netanyahu

@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot
2026-06-18 11:16:02

This is a statement World Central Kitchen made a month ago about their operations in #Gaza. Since then, they've cut their Gaza operation by half, and laid off a lot of staff; and many people I'm in touch with in Gaza who were depending on food from them are no longer getting it.
/Continued

@markhburton@mstdn.social
2026-06-15 16:48:49

Just because it's legal doesn't mean it's right.
#PalestineAction #Gaza

Juxtaposed news items in RSS feed: UK Court upholds ban on human rights group Palestine Action while Israeli army kills another three year old in Gaza
@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot
2026-07-22 07:47:42

"I've been giving to people on the ground in #Gaza for more than a year now. Inevitably, the people I'm choosing to support are among the most vulnerable of those who are able to reach me...
But, realistically, the people I am supporting have little real chance of survival..."
#GazaGenocide

@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot
2026-06-27 07:45:44

RE: #Gaza is being slowly strangled.

@vosje62@mastodon.nl
2026-05-22 14:26:33

Zooo ... Een allereerste begin is er.
'De ministerraad is het er vandaag over eens geworden dat er inderdaad een handelsverbod moet komen. Het moet drie jaar gaan duren.'
Kabinet wil handelsverbod voor producten uit illegale Israëlische nederzettingen
#Israël #Gaza

@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot
2026-06-27 13:04:35

RE: #Gaza today. They are being strangled, squeezed ever tighter into a smaller and…

@paulwermer@sfba.social
2026-05-14 14:20:25

Good news - The sanctions against Albanese for highlighting the #NetanyahuAdministration #EthnicCleansing and #LandTheft in

@PaulWermer@sfba.social
2026-05-14 14:20:25

Good news - The sanctions against Albanese for highlighting the #NetanyahuAdministration #EthnicCleansing and #LandTheft in

@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot
2026-07-24 17:15:53

RE: #Gaza. Malak is verified. She says:
" we live…

@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.ca
2026-07-29 22:44:25

RE: #genocide #israel #gaza #palestine #idf

@ErikJonker@mastodon.social
2026-05-04 12:16:43

Zo walgelijk het monument op de Dam bekladden. Iedereen die denkt daarmee iets goeds te doen of uit te dragen mbt het leed van de Palestijnen of het gedrag van Israel, slaat de plank volledig mis, erger nog, ondersteunt extremisme en polarisatie.
#Gaza #Israel

@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot
2026-07-24 16:51:43

RE: #Gaza in need, and one person cannot support them all…

@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot
2026-05-25 09:31:00

RE: #Gaza about whom I'm most worried.
S…

@vosje62@mastodon.nl
2026-06-09 00:06:12

RE: #Israel #Gaza

@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot
2026-06-27 18:29:40

RE: #Gaza

@jochenlingelba1@h-net.social
2026-05-05 06:10:10

Watch the wonderful graduation speech by Derek #Peterson at #Michigan State University.
He praises the long history of student activism at the uni and was attacked for this by right wing commentators because he included activism against the

@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot
2026-07-16 21:14:20

A friend whom I know well and trust has just messaged me about bombing she can hear close to her position in #Gaza tonight.
Another friend, in a different part of Gaza, posted photographs this morning of the aftermath of bombing that had happened close to her last night.
The #Blitz of Gaza contin…

@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot
2026-06-15 15:30:04

"For most #Palestinian nationals in #Gaza, this means they are entirely cut off from the protection they would otherwise be entitled to under international law. Theoretically, they have a right to seek asylum. In practice, that right cannot be exercised. Without safe and legal routes to reach the …

@aral@mastodon.ar.al
2026-06-07 05:23:20

Genocide cheat sheet:
• Pro: complicit
• Neutral: complicit
• Anti: not complicit
Ask yourself: am I complicit in genocide?
(You’ll have to live with the answer for the rest of your life.)
#israel #genocide

@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot
2026-07-10 09:19:29

The Grauniad is reporting that Andy#Burnham (almost certainly the UK's next Prime Minister) claims that he will change policy on #Gaza.
If he delivers on this, it could be a very big deal.
Andy Burnham apologises for Labour’s stance on Gaza and says it ‘didn’t get it right’ | Andy Burnham | The Guardian

@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot
2026-06-18 10:15:03

A UK MP reported a constituent to the police for the 'crime' of writing to him about #Gaza
What's worse, she was arrested at 04:33 -- which presumably means they went into her house in the middle of the night to arrest her. I've had this happen to me fifty years ago -- over a plan to ship schoolbooks to

@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot
2026-07-16 21:03:13

Here's @… with an extraordinary story of honesty and community solidarity from within #Gaza

@vosje62@mastodon.nl
2026-05-02 15:03:29

RE: #Israël #Gaza #Westbank

@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot
2026-07-22 10:42:20

RE: #Gaza are hungry. Most of the people I am in touch with have eaten nothing but grains and w…

@aral@mastodon.ar.al
2026-06-01 07:45:14

Zionists come in all shapes and sizes but they all share one thing in common: they’re all complicit in genocide.
#zionism #israel #genocide

@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot
2026-07-17 14:30:53

From a friend, a young woman, in #Gaza, just now:
"The bullets are reaching me.
I can't move freely. I'm trying to protect myself and my children."

Private reply
@simon brooke
I can't move freely. I'm trying to protect
myself and my children.

Private reply
@simon brooke
The bullets are now reaching me.
@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot
2026-05-06 10:11:04

Dear everyone
Ghada Elkhalili is an orphan, the eldest surviving member of her family. She is supporting six other family members in a tent close to the yellow line in northern #Gaza. I have been in touch with her for some months; other people in Gaza whom I'm in touch with and who know her have verified her story.
She is receiving very little support; in the past month she's had …

@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot
2026-07-06 16:40:04

Thinking about how I give money to people in #Gaza ...
I can afford to give £330 a month; that's roughly one third of my pension. After taking off money changers' fees, that means I can afford to give three gifts of £25 each per week.
Almost everyone in Gaza is in dire need. I imagine there are some landowners, and gangsters, and merchants who are doing well, but almost everyone …

@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot
2026-06-15 18:23:49

RE: #Gaza over the past few weeks. S…

@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.ca
2026-05-08 13:15:10

RE: #israel #palestine #netanyahu #gaza #genocide #apartheid
source video: independent.co.uk/news/world/m

@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot
2026-07-14 15:22:56

Friends, I know that somewhere on the web there's guidance for how someone in the West can set up a #GoFundMe campaign on behalf of someone in #Gaza
Could someone point me to that guidance, please?

@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot
2026-05-13 17:57:12

RE: #Gaza who are in urgent need of support …

@aral@mastodon.ar.al
2026-06-08 21:22:21

Remember, folks, facts are antisemitic. Avoid facts whenever possible.
#israel #genocide #Gaza #Palestine

@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot
2026-07-12 19:17:41

RE: #Gaza

@Life_is@no-pony.farm
2026-05-01 05:43:56

#Focus #islamismus #hamas #gaza #arche

@life_is@no-pony.farm
2026-05-01 05:43:56

#Focus #islamismus #hamas #gaza #arche

@vosje62@mastodon.nl
2026-07-21 11:07:30

'Met de maatregel wordt niet alleen de import, maar ook de tussenhandel in goederen uit de nederzettingen verboden. Ook Nederlandse bedrijven in het buitenland moeten zich eraan houden. De sanctie geldt in principe voor drie jaar.
Invoerverbod producten uit illegale nederzettingen Israël gaat in op 22 september
#Israël #Gaza #bezettegebieden

@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot
2026-06-11 10:23:20

RE: #Gaza. knowing that

@aral@mastodon.ar.al
2026-06-07 06:09:16

Israel is bombing people in tents.
#israel #genocide #Gaza #Palestine

@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot
2026-06-07 20:52:56

Over the past few weeks I've had correspondence with more than one person from #Gaza who has had posts blocked by the moderators of a particular mastodon instance, and who are not clear why. These are not intemperate people; they are desperate people and may be seen to have posted too many requests for help, I don't know.
Are there particular instances where moderators are known to be s…

@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot
2026-07-07 12:00:06

This is @… 's story, in her own words.
When you were sixteen, could you have carried her burden?
#Gaza
#GazaGenocide

@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot
2026-05-08 06:29:39

RE: #Gaza is a place of unbearable tragedy after unbearable tragedy. That such …

@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot
2026-07-03 16:51:15
@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot
2026-05-07 08:37:17

RE: #Gaza is like having a ringside seat for the Paris Commune. Except that the Commune, for al…

@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot
2026-06-04 20:39:16

If you're hoping that the #InternationalCourtOfJustice #ICJ is going to have any serious effect on the #Gaza crisis any time soon, don't hold your breath.

@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot
2026-06-02 15:43:09

"The #UK government has let down #Palestinian people and failed to make it economically impossible for #Israel to continue to act with impunity in the West Bank and

@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot
2026-06-15 13:07:08

RE: #Gaza

@vosje62@mastodon.nl
2026-05-31 18:11:39

'Is er nog iemand die Israel kan en wil tegenhouden?'
Terechte vraag in #8uurjournaal, maar de werkelijkheid laat al zien dat Israel gewoon zn gang kan blijven gaan met totale vernietiging in alle gebieden.
#Israel #Gaza #Libanon

@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.ca
2026-07-22 18:33:58

For those who might not be able to see the quoted post, here is the video from Mayor Mamdani as it was posted by @…
#video #mamdani #israel #warcrime #genocide #palestine #gaza

@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot
2026-07-07 12:59:03

"Every time we are forced to flee, I feel like I grow ten years older overnight." -- @…
This must be the experience of many #Palestinians. Almost every family in #Gaza

@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot
2026-05-03 12:55:47

RE: #Gaza

@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.ca
2026-07-23 16:52:36

got very spicy outside all of a sudden. definitely storminess incoming.
flag is good tho! 🇵🇸
#palestine #freePalestine #gaza #endgenocide #israel #BDS
#bcstorm #poolpond #backyardProject #diy #landscaping #wastenotwantnot

@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.ca
2026-07-08 17:36:11

my wife @… has been really really plugged into reports and stories from #Palestine for the past year and especially the past few months.
So I got her a pre-anniversary present. She was very excited.
🇵🇸 Free Free Palestine!
#freepalestine #gaza #genocide #israel #BDS #BoycottIsrael
Ill take a better picture this afternoon when the southerly breeze picks up. It's a big flag. But it deserves to be.