While all of Europe is responsible, I think it’s also important for people from the UK to acknowledge the particular and direct culpability of our government in what has happened in Israel and Palestine - mostly because it never is. Politicians don’t mention it, the media never mentions it, they tell you nothing about it in school, no one talks about it. I was just saying exactly the same thing about India, but if you ask an average British person if they think their country did a good job of ruling Palestine you’ll get a blank stare, maybe they’ll pull a massively uninformed opinion out of their arse, I doubt many could tell you exactly when it was. But the fact is that when Britain assumed control of the Holy land in 1918 both Zionism and Palestinian nationalism were relatively minor concerns, and when we left in 1948 there was a civil war raging between those two sides. All of the important seeds of the conflict were sown and took root while Britain was in charge. The first major Palestinian uprising of 1936-39 was an anti-colonial struggle against the British Empire.
But today, watching the news, British people are like ‘wow guess we’ll never understand why Jews and Arabs just naturally hate each other’… just like those Hindus and Muslims in India and Pakistan, and those Catholics and Protestants in Northern Ireland’….. and all of those other places on earth where the legacy of British occupation and partition is division, violence and misery. The Empire is not a distant memory we can feel vaguely proud and nostalgic about (as most British people apparently do) it was a global crime of almost unimaginable proportions and it’s still (in some cases quite literally) blowing up in our faces.
"In another life, you were my babe. In another life, you were the sunshine of my lifetime. What would you trade the pain for? I'm not sure. I used to be a real go-getter. I used to think it'd all get better"
Batman sitting on the Batmobile: You need to watch your fighting stand Robin, when we get back–
Batman: You're not Robin.
Cosplayer very much terrified, who hadn't had the courage to tell who he was when a 6'0ft tall man dressed as a bat dragged him into the batmobile:
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Tim in a Uber on his way to a comic con along with a bunch of other teenagers: I sense I made a mistake somehow.
nothing makes me cry like the embankment tube station voiceover story !!! nothing !!!!!!!
“Perhaps you have forgotten. That’s one of the great problems of our modern world, you know. Forgetting. The victim never forgets. Ask an Irishman what the English did to him in 1920 and he’ll tell you the day of the month and the time and the name of every man they killed. Ask an Iranian what the English did to him in 1953 and he’ll tell you. His child will tell you. His grandchild will tell you. And when he has one, his great-grandchild will tell you too. But ask an Englishman—” He flung up his hands in mock ignorance. “If he ever knew, he has forgotten. ‘Move on!’ you tell us. ‘Move on! Forget what we’ve done to you. Tomorrow’s another day!’ But it isn’t, Mr. Brue.” He still had Brue’s hand. “Tomorrow was created yesterday, you see. That is the point I was making to you. And by the day before yesterday, too. To ignore history is to ignore the wolf at the door.”
- A Most Wanted Man, John le Carré
FUCK this government so fucking much i hate it here
Nothing quite like asking women to risk their safety further by giving the person they are fleeing the excuse that they were ‘resisting arrest’.
Fucking excellent work there from the brain trust at the Metropolitan police.
I’m seeing a lot of posts about the new bill completely ignoring the impact it’s going to have on Traveller and Romany communities.
And this isn’t a ‘why is nobody talking about this?!’ post, it’s a very, very gentle reminder that one of the most discriminated-against groups in the UK has just been effectively outlawed, and we need to put that front and centre when we talk about the problems with this bill.
Not just because, you know, that’s fucked up, but because there are a LOT of people on all sides of the political spectrum who would happily let that part of the bill pass quietly. More people than you know.
So it’s up to us to say “No, there will be no compromise” and fight tooth and nail to get EVERYTHING in this bill shut down.
So when you’re protesting your right to protest (lol normal island), remember to protest other people’s right to exist, too.
prequels fans when their favorite characters die, turn against each other or lose everything that they've known their whole lives and there's nothing that can be done about it
The Palestinian Ministry of Health released a report on Thursday, including the names of more than seven thousand Palestinians who were martyred in the Israeli bombing of the Gaza Strip.
Red color highlights 0-4 years old age group
Green color highlights age group 5-17
White color highlights the age group between 18 and 59 years old
Gray color highlights the age group over 60
These are not just names, but people killed in the midst of a brutal war. Remember their names.
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