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It’s free Palestine, from the river to the sea.

This is not just a famine, but it is forced starvation being perpetrated by Israel and its allies in the West, because their capitalist, colonialist, and imperialist interests are one and the same.

This includes the Palestinian right to return to their traditional indigenous lands.

This includes an end to the illegal occupation of Palestine, and dismantling of the apartheid state of Israel.

This includes the Palestinian right to armed resistance against the illegal occupying force that is colonizing their indigenous lands.

Understand that liberation of Palestine is required and necessary for health and human rights for Palestinians.

It’s also Zionist settler colonialism since the ongoing Nakba began in 1948. Read about the history of Palestine. Listen to Palestinian voices and narratives. Learn and unlearn, and commit to a practice of humility, growth, and solidarity.

This has always been preventable, and there are perpetrators to this crime of genocide. This is Israel’s genocide, funded, armed, and supported by the West.

It’s good that more people are speaking out, but be careful to not fall into their language of normalization of the illegal occupation and apartheid or that somehow the humanitarian crisis unfolding in Gaza is one that was inevitable or came out of nowhere.

Speaking up is not an end of itself, because true solidarity requires meaningful action and sustained commitment for organizing towards liberation for Palestine.

They are doing so because the cost of silence is higher than ever before because of how catastrophically dire forced starvation, famine, and genocide have become.

With more people who have been silent for 22 months of Israel’s genocide of Palestinians in Gaza finally speaking up, I have some reflections.

And how the only path forward is a comprehensive, two-way arms embargo.

Link here: www.instagram.com/yipeng.ge?up...

Join me tomorrow on Saturday Aug 2nd at 12:30pm EST on Instagram live as I discuss with the authors of the report from @world-beyond-war.bsky.social and @palyouthmvmt.bsky.social about what this lying and misdirection by Minister Anand means.

Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand continues to deceive the Canadian public. Minister Anand put out a statement today about the “flawed report” but does not deny that Canada continues to ship arms to Israel.

You had Dr. @yipengge.bsky.social right there to help you. You had UNDRIP, the TRC & National Inquiry as guides to help you. Arrogance stops you from preventing genocide every time, as British colonial values taught you and the schools that train you. Change.

When there are no consequences for calling a thing for what it is. That’s when the spineless folks like @cmadocs.bsky.social make a pathetically bland statement like this.

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End the genocide of Palestinian people in Gaza being committed by Israel, supported by the West. @docagainstgenocide.bsky.social

Grateful to have found my physician colleagues who have an actual heart with their humanity intact, and strong ethics and values for opposing genocide no matter who the perpetrator is. This is what medicine ought to be - we affirm life and we stand united against genocide.

I resigned from the board of directors for the @cmadocs.bsky.social in December 2023. I tried to push the institution to take a stand against Israeli attacks on Palestinian healthcare in Gaza. Instead, I learned they are racists, genocide supporters, and genocide deniers.

Doctors Against Genocide WHO WE ARE We are a global coalition of healthcare workers dedicated to succeeding where global governments have failed in confronting and preventing genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity. ...

She also mentions learning updates about the health of our Palestinian colleagues and the health of the Palestinian community in Gaza from weekly webinars organized by Doctors Against Genocide. Follow them and act. Keep organizing. Do something. Do everything you can.

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She thinks of our Palestinian health worker colleagues. We see them, we stand with them.

I asked my dear friend and colleague Dr. Kavita Algu why she spends the time and energy she does on organizing and activism work. She tells me it’s “part of our moral and ethical obligation as physicians” to do what we can.

Their continued detention is part of Israel’s broader system of apartheid and repression targeting the Palestinian people. Their freedom is our collective responsibility.

Statement by @freedomflotilla.bsky.social on the release of the final two crew members of Handala boat:

As we welcome their safety, we also call attention to the thousands of Palestinian political prisoners who remain unjustly held in Israeli prisons under inhumane and illegal conditions.

Adalah remains committed to protecting the rights of volunteers engaged in these missions, in the face of Israel’s ongoing illegal policies and practices.

Israel’s interception of the Handala in international waters and the detention of volunteers aboard not only violated these legal protections but also perpetuated the ongoing illegal siege, which continues to impose deliberate starvation on Palestinians amid Israel’s 22-month-long genocidal assault.