Israeli Policies and Settler Violence Are Driving Palestinians from the #JordanValley

In the occupied #WestBank, Israeli restrictions on movement for #Palestinians, denial of access to resources, and settlement expansion have all ramped up over the past 18 months.

From #DropSiteNews
Apr 14, 2025

'"We live in constant anxiety, day and night, due to #settler attacks," Bsharat told Drop Site. His family of 12 relies primarily on their flock of sheep for a living. In recent months, they have been repeatedly threatened by #Israeli settlers, who warn they will be shot if they cross onto the nearby land. "They raid our communities with tractors, provoke residents, and prevent us from accessing grazing areas. The army and settlers have seized the land for settler cattle farms."'

https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/west-bank-jordan-valley-settler-violence-palestinians?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=2510348&post_id=161250844&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=false&r=2y9nd&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

#AllEyesOnWestBank
#EndTheOccupation #SettlersOut
#NeverStopTalkingAboutPalestine
#StopArmingIsrael
#BDS #DivestFromIsrael #Israel #Palestine #MiddleEast #politics
#news #press @palestine

1/2: I've been thinking a lot about this video from Sam Stein, an American #Israeli #HumanRights activist. Filmed 4 weeks ago after his detention by the #IDF for resisting #settler violence in the #WestBank (as he's been doing for the past 5 years), it triggers profound lessons, which I hope act as a lightning rod for Western #activists, who often understimate the system at their peril.

Sam starts: "all your legal training goes out of the window when a soldier has his knee on your neck...

Patrick Wolfe and #settler-colonial theory
https://krebscycle99.net/2025/03/19/patrick-wolfe-settler-colonial-theory-and-the-jews/

“UK government funds pro-genocide University Jewish Chaplaincy”

by David Miller and Asa Winstanley in Palestine Is Still The Issue on Substack

@palestine
@israel
@UKLabour

“‘Spiritual’ guides have close ties to illegal settlements”

https://open.substack.com/pub/asawinstanley/p/uk-government-funds-pro-genocide?r=27oltk&utm_medium=ios

Coming up soon! (as in today!!!!)

Book Launch for Solving Name: Worldliness and #Metaphysics in #Librarianship

Registration: https://libraryjuice.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_xKs0k13sQw6x0sUfhoSdYA

“Solving Names” for American pragmatist #philosopher William James meant that no further debate or enquiry was needed. In #Librarianship this means the construction, maintenance, and reproduction of #racial, #settler- #colonial, #patriarchal #capitalism.

So, I've excerpted from the article things that #Police should be doing! Instead of arresting people and making quotas! Until all that changes (and the corruption in police unions, especially in the US), we need to view most police as #ACAB...

Bear Clan no more: Why a Thunder Bay safety patrol has turned away from its founding principles of co-operating with police

When First Nations people in this city took community safety into their own hands, they ended up at odds with local law enforcement and the Winnipeg Bear Clan group that inspired their organization. And on the streets, the struggle still goes on

"'Some of the terminology that [leader Ivory Tuesday] used, you know, ‘#settler,’ ‘#colonial.' These are very divisive terms in our communities and we’re about reconciliation,' says Mr. Favel, who revoked the Thunder Bay group’s Bear Clan membership in February." [Ummmmm....]

by Jolene Banning
Published November 7, 2019

"In the wake of the Bear Clan’s demise in Thunder Bay, several volunteers have carried on patrolling under the new name, Wiindo Debwe Mosewin. The group is led by Indigenous women and says it welcomes people of all races and nations to patrol with them. (Another community group called the Sleeping Giant Patrol had also formed, but has since been shut down.)

"Ms. Tuesday says Wiindo Debwe Mosewin decided to offer a space free of #police and #politicians, based on years of mistrust. While out on patrols of the streets, rivers and alleyways at night, the group shares food and stories with the city’s most vulnerable. 'I listen to what they have to say and validate them for what they’ve been through while living here. Mainly I just try to be a friend,' Ms. Tuesday says."

Read more:
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-bear-clan-no-more-why-a-thunder-bay-safety-patrol-has-turned-away/

Archived version:
https://archive.ph/5l1at
#WiindoDebweMosewinPatrol #WiindoDebweMosewin #WePoliceOurselves #FirstNations