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“Your fight is my fight”- Blacklivesmatter goes Global

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The black Lives Matter campaign is no more restricted to the United States of America. It had become the voice of sorrow toward the black community from nearly every nation in the world. The brutal second-degree murder of 45-year-old George Floyd by a white cop on May 25, 2020, made it clear that racist white supremacy ideology has no sympathy for the black community.

Black community suffering in other life sectors

The black people are not only suffering at the hands of racism due to new law-enforcement policies, but they also have a hard time coping with the education system as well as medical and travel sectors, all dominated by white Americans.

Regarding the Corona Virus, the US government fails to pay equally to their black brothers who are confederate under the same citizenship. According to the CDC report, Black Africans have four to five times the death ratio due to the virus. Perhaps, it could be the unequal policies to care for the sick?

‘The White Coats for the Black’ campaign is working against racism in the US to ensure black community survival in the hospitals and dispensaries. They said that we were together in this with the Black Africans. The protesters marched all over Washington DC wearing white coats and bending their knees in support.  

Also, those who believe in white supremacy harass people of color on public transport, in classrooms, in public gatherings, and even in the courtrooms. The protestors on CNN expressed contempt regarding these issues on the evening show of June 28.

The Black lives Matter Movement Entrenched Globally

The campaign is no more within the limits of the US border. Many international companies, global NGOs, and even common people showed their humbleness by collecting charity for ‘Black Lives Matter. They made it helpful for the movement to raise its voice globally. Now, we see the cry is changing all over the world.

A review of the movement in Europe.

The United Kingdom has a very long history of racism against social justice. The riots of George Floyd’s murder raised protests everywhere in England. People found influence in the ‘Black Lives Matter slogan. Earlier, the UK police killed Mark Duggan which too stirred up public protests and riots all over England.

In Bristol, England, on Sunday 7th June, a group of protesters and black families broke down the statue of Edward Colston,  a discriminated slave merchant of the 17th and 16th centuries, as a mark of racism. The statue of Robert Milligan is also no more showcased in the London museum.

The protestors argued that they want to eliminate racism from the streets of England. Their struggle is praised in the hidden words by the London Mayor Sadiq Khan on the Sky News. He said, “I don’t condone any attacks on our police or any disorder or criminal damage but we’ve got to recognize that our public realm, statues, squares, street names don’t accurately reflect our values or London in 2020”.

Furthermore, the Black Lives Matter and Rhodes Must Fall Campaign protested outside the University of Oxford demanding to remove the statue of British imperialist Cecil Rhodes. The group has been fighting this issue for years.

In France, protestors raised the cry in support of the victims of their country. They demanded the reconstruction of the civil rights policy. A 24-year-old French was held to death in June 2020 while in police custody. Many believe that the police chokehold her and she could not breathe like George Floyd. In response to this, the French government ordered the Chokehold Technique on the prisoners. This technique will no longer be part of the syllabus for the police training courses.

“Of course, France and America are very different countries, but they have a common enemy in racism,” Maelle, a 23-year-old protester in Paris recorded his statement to the reporter of France24.

Belgium stand against King Leopold for racism

Belgium is also no more silent in the fight against racism. Around 10,000 demonstrators of black lives matter protest in Brussels and Belgium against the racial activities and George Floyd’s Murder. On Sunday 10th April, an unarmed 19-year-old Young crashed into the police van during the COVID-19 pandemic. He was brutally shot to death by the police on spot.

According to the New York Times, more than 75,000 people have signed a petition asking all King Leopold statues to be removed by June 30 (the anniversary of the Democratic Republic of Congo’s independence) in Antwerp, Belgium.

Protests in Belgium are worth more importance to King Leopold. Leopold used a private mercenary force, Force Publique (FP), to do his terrorizing and killing. White officers commanded black soldiers many of whom were cannibals from tribes in the upper Congo. In practice, soldiers sometimes “cheated” by simply cutting off the hand and leaving the victim to live or die in his rule, nearly 10 million were killed. In Antwerp, the King Leopold statue was defaced and held on fire by the protestors.

King declares the tension as ‘colonial violence’. In response to that, a spokesperson for the Belgian Network of Black Lives Matter said: “Sometimes it’s shocking to see that taking down a monument hurts people more than death”. 

A review of the movement in Asia and Africa

ThenGermany, Israel, Nairobi, and Kenya showed the low-level protests against racial injustice and the civil rights movement. In Israel, protestors protested around the US Embassy in Tel Aviv. Their slogans raised the cry of George Floyd across the country. In Nairobi and Kenya, people protested against the killing of civilians during the lockdown. In Nairobi 15 and Kenya 31 people were shot to death while violating the lockdown protocols. They criticized the so-called government of their country.

A well-known country South Africa has a black history of racial bias. The Economic freedom fighter EFF ran a campaign in which thousands nailed down to owner George Floyd for 8 min 45 sec. “We are the same under the Civil Rights Act. So stop oppression on the black faces’ ‘ a protester said to the reporter of Al Jazeera during the unrest.

The opposition leader of South Africa Protest Brutality for racial chaos. The black voices also ask for justice for Collins Khosa. News24 analysis this event in their recent article. He was beaten to death in April in Johannesburg by South Africa National Defense. They punched, choked, slammed him against a cement wall, hit him in the head with a machine gun, and poured beer all over him as police officers looked on. The force said that they have no contact with Khosa. A clear show of no guilt to the victim.

Brazil also has racial violence. In the Last year, Rio de Janeiro had a record number of police killings: more than 1,800, according to a New York Times analysis. A Brazilian Senate report said, “The Brazilian state, directly or indirectly, perpetrates the genocide of the young black population.”

In South Korea K-pop group BTS has raised more than $1 million for Black Lives Matter.

International brands support the campaign

Besides the protests by common people, many international brands and companies also condemned today’s racial pandemic. Mark Zuckerberg donated $10 million to the social racial campaign. “We stand with the black community,” Mark said.

“To be silent is to be complicit Black lives matter. We have a platform, and we have a duty to our Black members, employees, creators, and talent to speak up”. Netflix speak up on Twitter

Leaders of major companies including Comcast Corp (CMCSA.O), Nike Inc. (NKE.N), and Warner Music Group Corp WMG.O have announced major gifts to advance racial justice amid the protests over Floyd’s death. Bank of America pledged $1 billion over four years to address economic and racial inequality. At least a dozen other big companies announced gifts between $1 million and $100 million for similar efforts.

A wave of gloom for Racism

When the whole world is reeling from the COVID-19 pandemic, the situation is even worse for the black community as they suffer at the hands of the establishment, government, and white monopoly in all sectors. The protests carry an emotional reaction from people suppressed for years, therefore this movement is spreading all across the nation and bringing the important issue to notice that “Black Lives Matter”.

The death of George Floyd provoked the dormant resentment in black people and served as a trigger point for escalating the long-existing “Black Lives Matter” campaign. After all, people realize it is not just about injustice in any particular sector instead it was years, decades-long resentment against oppression. As a result, many global leaders have taken initiative and invested in this cause as it is a matter of human rights and human decency. Racism has to end. We can start today, but the killings need to stop right away!

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Jewish Nazism is reality not fiction

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Jewish Nazism

I realize that the title of this article might offend and provoke many people, especially those adhering to the Judaic faith. I do know that Jews, like everyone else, are not carbon copies of each other. There are many conscientious Jews who believe in fairness and basic human equality regardless of color, race and faith, and strongly reject racism and chauvinism in any form. Also, I will no longer be using euphemistic language in reference to Jewish Nazism especially in light of the latest Dresden-like bombing of Gaza by the Judeo-Nazi state also known as Israel.

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These people I salute for their rectitude, humanity and morality. They are our natural partners for peace and a better tomorrow for our children and their children.

But there are numerous other Jews who don’t believe in human equality and justice for all. Indeed, there are many Jews, e.g. followers of the hateful Chabad sect, who don’t even ascribe full humanity to people who are not members of the Jewish faith.

Needless to say, the venomous ideology adopted by these racist fanatics has much in common with Aryan Nazism.

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What else can be said to describe an ideology that teaches adherents that the life of a non-Jew has no sanctity and that goyem can be murdered without the slightest compunction or feeling of guilt?

The shocking reactions by the Israeli government, rabbis, and community leaders to the latest abduction, murder and subsequent burning of a Palestinian kids in Gaza are very telling.

In a certain sense, these reactions and attitudes can be compared to the reactions and attitudes of many Germans to the pogroms carried out against Jews by the Nazis prior to and during the Second World War.

The gleefully despicable embrace of the brashly hideous crime by the bulk of the Israeli Jewish society underscores the fact that millions of Jews in Israel and abroad do harbor certain Nazi tendencies, especially against the Palestinian people. These tendencies are too real and too tangible to be overstated.

However, we must call the spade a spade, even at the expense of upsetting the huge Zionist propaganda machine which habitually alters the black into white and the blatant big lie into a “truth” glorified by sheepish westerners who have long been brainwashed into believing that Israel is a modern, civilized and democratic state.

In the final analysis, when Jews (or anyone else) think, behave and act like the Nazis thought, behaved and acted, they simply become Nazis. Pure and simple.

Today, there are numerous Jews who openly call for the physical annihilation of Palestinians as retaliation for the abduction and killing of three Jewish settlers in the West Bank.

Saber-rattling rabbis speak menacingly of the need to adopt “the Biblical way” to combat the Palestinians.

For those not versed in Jewish phraseology, “Biblical way” is euphemism for genocide.

Today, the Israeli media reported that some army personnel openly appealed to the government to “give us the green light to annihilate them.”!!!

Just read what thousands of Jewish youths have been writing on their Facebook pages! It is outrageous, disgusting and sheer evil.

To put it in a nutshell, Nazism is being regurgitated and exuded all over Israel. This is happening in broad daylight while professional liars like Binyamin Netanyahu are filling the ether with all sorts of shameless lies about Israel being victimized by the Palestinians.

Seventy-six years have passed since Kristalnacht. Today Jewish settlers in the west Bank, in close cooperation and coordination, with the Israeli army could very well carry out a huge pogrom against an innocent and helpless community which really finds itself very much in the same precarious and vulnerable position that European Jewry experienced prior to WWII.

I am not a prophet of doom and gloom, but the signs are unmistakably bleak.

A final point, the Palestinian people in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip are surviving thanks to the good-will of the international public opinion. Should the international community go into a brief slumber, God forbid, Israel and its own Wehrmacht, SS, Gestapo and Hitler Youth might embark on the unthinkable. Don’t you ever say Jews can’t carry out a holocaust against their victims, the Palestinians?

Words can kill; words do kill.

Unfortunately, the chilling words we are hearing from many Israeli Jews these days leave no room for optimism.

Khalid Amayreh is a Palestinian journalist and political commentator , we lost him on account of natural reasons on 12th of July last year in the Occupied Palestine

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I’m most definitely Palestinian!

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In-your-face brutality, unending genocide, unending atrocities, mass slaughter directed against one’s people, one’s brethren, causes the most strong and unimaginable reaction, in response to the oppressor’s horrendous and barbaric deeds. The autocratic, despotic, tyrannical Israeli-hand systematically and with pre-planned engineered precision, massacres, annihilates, eliminates the young and the old Palestinian alike – in the most inhumane and most despicable of ways. Slaughters men, women and children in broad daylight. Bares its blood-thirsty intentions, its monstrous objectives in the most unashamed of ways. Mercy to none – not to the living, not to the severely wounded and dying; no mercy even on the dead or their lifeless remains.

The constant fear of being bombed anytime, rained down with missiles and all manner of munitions from within the vast arsenal of the Israeli side; definitely stockpiled high, with enough buffer inventory of munitions, deadly and lethal stockpile, to blow the receiving side multiple times over; so as not to leave a “shred” of evidence of your original physical-self on the surface of the land, which your people, generations and generations of your ancestors, since time immemorial have dwelt on.

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The inexplicable terror of seeing Israeli drones constantly “floating about” unopposed, in the skies above your unsheltered head. Drones with eyes like that of a greedy dog. Electronic pixels wanting to cast an evil eye, an evil-spell upon your very being. Eyeing upon your existence, wanting to blow-up, tear-up your physical being, seemingly wanting to devour your flesh and body; all by way of a few computer clicks / even the manual computer-clicks now, seemingly, are being replaced by more automated ways of executing these most evil deeds. Software, coded software, written programs to execute on the most Evil-intentions. Evil-intentions of the most evil amongst the human race.

Everybody knows, the Israelis have exterminated with their weaponry, uncountable numbers of Palestinians across a 40, 50km stretch of land, in front of the whole world, over the past so many weeks and months. And retain the capacity, the ability, the power, the means to slaughter, devour many, many more innocent ones, day in, day out.

The Israelis possess American technology, American weapons – the bedrock of their faith, the foundation stone of their belief in their never-ending invincibility. The Palestinians have their faith in Allah; that Allah will redeem his faithful people, from the clutches of these war-mongers, who rain down terror, day and night on the most innocent, the most vulnerable.

Most definitely, the Moslem spirit in me, the Palestinian spirit in me is not defeated; quite to the contrary, it’s rekindled, stronger than ever.

I’m definitely Palestinian, in every sense of the word, and Allah will save us, Allah will have mercy on us, Allah will guide us.

(Note: Azhaar Amayreh is a marketer stuck in war-ravaged Rafah with her child.)The following article is part of a campaign to raise money to help MZEMO contributor Azhaar Amayreh and her family leave Gaza. Please give what you can.

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The futility of counting on the U.S. to pressure Israel

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It is really ludicrous to see how dishonest the U.S “mediators” constantly demand that the Palestinians display more “good will” toward Israel at a time when Israel continues to perpetrate a real Holocaust against the hapless and helpless Palestinaians and steal Palestinian land in broad daylight.

It seems amply clear that the current Palestinian leadership, i.e. the Palestinian Authority (PA)  led by Chairman Mahmoud Abbas, neither learns from its own blunders nor from other people’s blunders. This is really a gigantic disaster befalling the Palestinian people and their enduring just cause.

How else can one relate to the unrelenting illogical insistence of the the whole world on accepting the U.S., Israel’s guardian-ally, as “mediator and honest broker” between us and our murderous tormentors and grave-diggers, Israel?

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Indeed, one doesn’t have to be an expert on American foreign policy in the Middle East to know that the U.S represents the problem, not the solution, given its long-standing embrace of Israeli fascism and expansion.  After all, it is the US that not only enabled Israel to actively pursue its lebensraum policy at the expense of its neighbors but consistently shield it from any accountability or international condemnation.

Today, the U.S. administration is criticizing Palestinian “unilateralism” in reference to desperate PA efforts to get the UN Security Council to recognize Palestinian statehood and agree on a deadline for ending Israel’s Nazi-like occupation.

Well, we all know that the U.S. is being pornographically hypocritical when it accuses the virtually vanquished Palestinians of acting unilaterally as if its spoilt nefarious daughter, Israel, were ever acting in full conformity with international law.

Well, Mr. Abbas and Mr. Ereikat: Don’t be too gullible, too sheepish. Ask your American interlocutors, e.g. Mr. John Kerry, the following questions:

Since when did Israel ever behave bilaterally rather than unilaterally?

Was the usurpation of Palestine and expulsion of its indigenous people at the hands of Jewish terrorist gangs hailing from Eastern Europe, a bilateral or unilateral act?

Was the annexation by Israel of East Jerusalem and the Golan Heights a bilateral or a unilateral act?

Was the building of hundreds of Jewish settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem as well as the transfer of 600,000 Jewish settlers to live on a land that belongs not to them a bilateral or unilateral act?

Was the wanton demolition of some 30,000 Palestinian homes by Israel a bilateral or a unilateral act?

Was the annexation of the bulk of the West Bank and East Jerusalem a bilateral or a unilateral act?

And what about this ugly structure, called Separation wall, which resulted in the theft of thousands of acres of private Palestinian land? Was it a bilateral or a unilateral act?

I could go on and on and on listing America’s hypocritical and duplicitous stands on Palestinian grievances and Israeli crimes. Indeed, the U.S dishonest stand on the Palestinian plight has only been consistent in its moral depravity. Indeed, hypocrisy in its most brazen form has always been and continues to be the modus operandi of American policy toward the Palestinian issue. I know it is politically incorrect to speak in this tone. However, truth must not be another victim of the dark evil embrace between the U.S. and Israel.

But morality is not and has never been part of American politics or policies, especially foreign policy. This is why the world looks so ugly, so gloomy and so unjust.

The U.S. is insisting that only a “negotiated” settlement to the Palestinian issue would be acceptable to the U.S.

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In other words, Israel must always have the final say as to any possible peace deal with the Palestinians.

But since Israel would never ever end its occupation or dismantle the settlements, let alone allow for the repatriation of the refugees, it means there can be no negotiated settlement unless the Palestinians agree to surrender to Jewish Nazism. But that will never happen as Muslims, including the Palestinian people, would never allow the Ramallah leadership or any other leadership to commit adultery with the honorable Palestinian cause.

Let’s be honest. The purportedly honest American broker or mediator is neither honest nor a broker or mediator. The proverbial American judge is simply telling the insolent rapist (Israel) and the vanquished rape victim (the Palestinians) to sort it out amongst yourselves. Do we have to be the smartest humans on earth to understand the implications of this brutal ugliness?

It is tantamount to a total American embrace of Israeli fascism. It means that the American stance is actually Israel’s stance. It also means that that the U.S. would never accept or condone any settlement that Israel doesn’t accept.

That is why the Palestinians need to have a moment of truth with themselves.
And the message they need to internalize is that they would have to wait ages if they continued to put their trust in the U.S. to pressure Israel to walk in the path of peace.

Let us face it. Israel will never walk in the path of peace unless it is pressured and bullied to do so. However, Israel would never ever walk in the path of peace as long as it continues to receive nuclear submarines from Germany and the most advanced fighter jets from the U.S.

In a nut shell, America can’t and won’t exert any meaningful pressure on Israel to end its N-a-z-i-like occupation. We all know that Israel controls the American government or at least controls those who control the American government. Israel is intoxicated by its arrogance of power and Talmudic insolence. And the U.S., Israel’s guardian-ally, is not in a position to be an honest mediator and to impose a deal on Israel or even convince her to allow for one that would give the Palestinian a semblance of justice.

What should be done?

We must go ahead with our efforts at the U.N. Security Council, irrespective of American threats to veto any resolution favorable to the Palestinian cause. At least casting the veto would embarrass America itself and its treacherous Arab allies (they are not actually allies but cheap slaves and puppets as we all know).

We Palestinians must be confident of our inevitable triumph over Zionism and its evils. Yes, it may take time, but eventually Zionism won’t live forever in a sea where hundreds of millions live.

Khalid Amayreh is a Palestinian journalist and political commentator , we lost him on account of natural reasons on 12th of July last year in the Occupied Palestine

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