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#tanehisicoates

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Steve Dustcircle 🌹

#TaNehisiCoates:
If #Democrats can’t draw the Line at #Genocide, they can’t Draw the Line at #Democracy

juancole.com/2025/02/democrats

Informed Comment · Ta-Nehisi Coates: If Democrats can't draw the Line at Genocide, they can't Draw the Line at DemocracyAnn Arbor (Informed Comment) - Ta-Nehisi Coates and Angela Davis spoke at the University of Michigan's Rackham Auditorium on February 19, 2025, interviewed by my colleague Angela Dillard, the vice provost for undergraduate education. The event was arranged by the Letters, Sciences and Arts Student Government. It was a wide-ranging conversation, and I only want to call attention here to some of the remarks on Israel's genocide in Gaza. Early on, Ta-Nehisi Coates observed, 'We are at a moment right now where people are asking themselves why can't the Democratic Party defend this assault on democracy . . . and
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DB 🌱💦

Ta-Nehisi Coates about today's Democratic Party

“If you can ship 2K pound bombs to be dropped on hospitals, to be dropped on schools, to watch on your TVs as people hooked up to IVs are burned alive;

if you know people are being taken into prisons & raped & tortured; if you are talking about hostages but you have no concerns about an entire justice system that is effectively hostage taking;

if you can’t stand up against genocide, why should I believe you can stand up for democracy?”

#USpol#TanehisiCoates#Democracy
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Jonathan Emmesedi

jpost.com/bds-threat/article-8

Twenty years ago, advocates of the US invasion of Iraq urged those hesitant in their support to stop wavering and instead embrace "moral clarity".

Today, we often hear that to describe the Israel/Palestine conflict as complicated is "horseshit".

Wrong then and wrong now.

Of course the needless killing of noncombatants is wrong, but the complexity of the dispute goes way beyond the scope of that justifiable condemnation.

The Middle East is a complicated place and we should resist the urge to dismiss that complexity, just as we should resist the urge to dismiss the complexities of freedom of expression, of gender fluidity...

The Jerusalem Post | JPost.com Belgian film festival nixes Palestinian trans documentary over anti-Israel threatsThe Cinemamed Brussels Mediterranean Film Festival announced last Wednesday that it would not be screening Yolande Zauberman's The Belle from Gaza.
#Cinemamed#LaBelleDeGaza#IsraelPalestine
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LM Little

@velshi I hope people of #colonial states read #TaNehisiCoates' brilliant book. He courageously speaks from a personal place to call us all especially #journalists, #academics, and #leaders to be critical of narratives and constructed histories that erase, dehumanize and subjugate. He speaks of the narratives that justify the theft of land, who has rights, and the tactics of dehumanization and violent erasure. Highly recommended!

#Palestine#Dakar#WhiteSupremacy
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DB 🌱💦

"#KamalaHarris lost more than 10 mil votes from 2020 & to me it's all part of the mix. If you're willing to justify the carnage in the name of this country, it has a pall on your entire political project."

Prof. Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor talks to #TaNehisiCoates about the dark cloud that the Biden administration's funding of the genocide & violence in Gaza & the West Bank had on the Harris's campaign, and on the entire Democratic party.

#RiversideChurch#NYC#Gaza
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DB 🌱💦

“I don’t give a fuck.” - Ta-Nehisi Coates on the prospect of losing access to power & platforms for speaking up about #Palestine.

"I'm a Black writer. Like, I'm the descendant of this. And you tell me I got to look away from segregation, which is about the mildest word I can say about it, that's the price of it? No!"

#TaNehisiCoates is the man we all thought #Obama was.

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DB 🌱💦

Ta-Nehisi Coates speaking with Peter Beinart about his time visiting the Occupied West Bank:

“Israel is not a democracy. I thought I was gonna go over there and see some really morally complex stuff, but I didn’t. I mean, it was so obviously immoral. It’s blatantly immoral.”

"There's something dark here beyond Israel itself that I think is really, really hard to face."

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#Israel #US #Apartheid #Genocide #Palestine #Supremacy #TaNehisiCoates

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Bilal Barakat 🍉

The Atlantic accidentally published something on Gaza that's not garbage (not mentioning Coates explicitly, but clearly prompted by the attention to his essay):
theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/

One interesting tidbit: the claim that Israel's treatment of the Palestinians cannot be compared to Jim Crow because the situation is too "complicated" is ironic, because the US South literally defended Jim Crow with the exact same argument...

@palestine #gaza #tanehisicoates

The Atlantic · Black Americans' Solidarity With PalestiniansBy Vann R. Newkirk II
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