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campus occupations that are anti war protests. There is a Democratic National Convention that is expected to be extremely hot, and so so one of one of the things that we are doing in the run up to the Democratic Convention is we are going to go do some episodes about nineteen sixty eight, and we are eventually going to do episodes about like the Columbia campus occupations and about

the DNC. But unfortunately, in order to do that, we have to why I say, unfortunately, this is actually not unfortunately, this this mostly rules. I don't know, some of it's bad.

But in order to talk about this, and this is this is the part of this whole thing that has been completely forgotten, right, you know, there's there's become this kind of like I don't know, state cult isn't quite the right word, but there's become this sort of like professional institutional history of nineteen sixty eight, where like all of these universities like proudly have banners from like nineteen

sixty eight protests. Everyone has been like, you know, incredibly willing to embrace the legacy of the anti war movements and the campus occupations, and you know, like insofar as they tell people not to embrace things, it's this stuff about like you know, you hear this concert screaming about don't repeat the sixty eight convention. But there's one part of this story that has is just gone, has been excised from the historical record. It is extremely clear that

no one wants you to remember it whatsoever. And that is the Holy Week Uprising? Do you two know? Have you heard of the Holy Week Uprising?

going on here is a wave of urban rebellion. And when I say urban here, I'm not just talking about you know, like Watts or Detroit or Chicago, like these like giant urban cities, which is which is how you know, insofar as anyone ever talks about rioting in this period, is about these large urban centers. No, they are rioting in Milwaukee. The most intense fighting that we're going to

talk about in this episode happens in York, Pennsylvania. In this period for about is about nineteen sixty three to roughly by by nineteen seventy one seventy two, it's kind of over. There are a staggering number of urban uprisings. I'm gonna I'm gonna read a quote from a book called The Great Uprising, which is about this sort of period. Between nineteen sixty three and nineteen seventy two, America experienced

over seven hundred and fifty urban revolts. Upwards of five hundred and twenty five cities were affected, including nearly every one with a black population over fifty thousand. The two largest wave of uprisings came during the summer of nineteen sixty seven Entry and Holy Week in nineteen sixty eight,

following the assassination of Martin Luther King Junior. In these two years alone, one hundred and twenty five people were killed, nearly seven thousand were injured, approximately forty five thousand arrests were made, and property damaged topped one hundred and twenty seven million dollars or approximately nine hundred million and twenty seventeen dollars.

can we continue? Yeah, okay, So the way I perceive this is the process of decolonization begins like in the colonies, and it comes back to the metropol right, and we see like this physical declonization in places like Algeria, right, and then the impact of witnessing that returns to the metropol along with the theories that like if you want to say they decononize the mind, I think that that's an

acceptable way. And like this sort of struggle and even the esthetic, right, like the esthetic of the Battle of Algias is present in some of these uprisings, like and you can stretch it out to like, you know, I like to talk about wynded Ny, but a second occupation of Wyndedney in nineteen seventy three. I think you could also see that as part of this decolonization struggle. At least that's my uh, yeah, that's my angle on it.

the sort of quote unquote long nineteen sixty eight. So you know, we're gonna be covering a lot of nineteen sixty eight stuff on this show, you know, So like there's obviously this nineteen sixty eight in France. I think I think if you want to look at the origin point of the sort of like wave uprisings that are specifically nineteen sixty eight and that aren't sort of like the decolonization arc, I think it probably starts in China

with the January storm in nineteen sixty seven. But on the other hand, sort of and then this is you know, one of the things about this period is everything is happening so much at the same time, right, Like we have a lot of experience about this, but like you know, as the January Storm, the January Storm is this part of the culture revolution where Mao kind of loses control and Mao kind of incites a bunch of these like a bunch of workers in Shanghai to like take the city.

But then they actually take the city, and they run the Party out, they run the PLA out, and for a brief period of time, Shanghai like has just been taken by its working class and is not being run by the Party. And there's this whole like you know,

massive series of struggles, it kind of struggles. But the the thing the think about the sort of the way sixty is understood is, you know, even some people even include that, but these riots, specifically the Holy Week riots are almost never talked about as as part of this process, which I think they obviously are, and I think you know, part of the reason we're talking about them now is

that you can't understand the Columbia campus occupations. You can't understand the kind of politics that's going to come after that. You can't understand the and see you can't understand like the rise of Black radicalism. Like, none of this is comprehensible at all unless you understand these riots, because this

was the uprising that sort of kicked everything off. It's also this is a very hard thing to write about because like this, I've had the time of my life trying to put this together because this thing should be like thirty five hours, and I don't have thirty five hours. I have thirty minutes. So that being said, let's get into why these are happening. So obviously, there is the civil rights movement happening. You know, nineteen sixty five, you get get the Voting Rights Act. We've had some civil

rights Act. But comma, if you are like you are a part of the black working class in nineteen cities of America, a society is still unbelievably racist. Like they're like, you know, on a very basic level, there's a bunch of people walking around calling you the N words. You are restricted to the shittiest jobs available, assuming you can

find work at all. One of the biggest ones. And this is something that this is something that was a very big focus of the kind of later civil rights ument that kind of has been a race for historical memory. Was the struggle over housing. I'm going to read another thing from the Great Uprising. SNCC field worker John Beptize, who took over for Robinson and Hanson, described many of the homes in the second ward. This is in Cambridge, which is one of the places where those really intense rioting.

Both we'll talk about this in a little bit, but both in sixty three and in sixty seven describe many of the homes in the second ward as nothing more than converted horse barns, corn cribs, and company shacks which lacked hot running water, flush toilets, and electricity. Separate and

independent investigations by federal officials confirmed at USA's claims. We were shown block after block of tottering, single family frame structures, often lined along dirt roads and generally with little or no setback, which is like they're like directly on the street right like you open your door and you're on the street, crowded almost against each other, and on small lots, sometimes of no more than fifty or sixty foot depth,

reported one US Department of Housing a urban development official. These dwellings were obviously obsolete and in disrepair, with tumbling porches and steps. Many were without inside toilets, and in several instances, the outside privy served more than one family. Hot Water is rarely available, and several are without inside water. Overcrowding is a common pattern. So you know, this is the kind of like, this is one of the centers

of these struggles. So these people are living in like nineteen thirties bar and this, you know, there is there is a sort of staggering amount of anger about this. And the other the other aspect of this is that you know, okay, so these people are living in like

places that are not fit human habitation. Also, they're on average fifty six percent more of their income goes to rent than white people than then white people paid a rent, which means that you know, and and this this is also one of the things that's happening in this period is that there's a bunch of money for like white people that the government is giving them, are giving people sort of loans and subsidies and tax credits to go buy houses. None of this is happening for black people.

So what you have is a situation where like, if you are black, basically all of your money is being absorbed into rents. There is no possibility of you like saving or you know, like saving to buy a house, like other than the sort of like ramshackle shit that you're in, like the conventional civil rights movement, right, you're sort of like non violent marches. This hasn't done shit

to deal with any of these problems. You're also dealing with really really intense labor discrimination, you know, and I mean these are things like like there's this kind of like example in Baltimore where you know, you'll you'll you'll have union locals that are literally all white locals, right, and they will they will cut these deals with management where they'll be like, well, management will hands like hiring and firing power over to the unions, and the unions go,

oh great, okay, and this this is a negotiated thing between the two. The unions are like, okay, only unions can work at only union members can work at the shop, which in theory is good, but in practice what this means is because these are all white unions, right, they've they've now created a system by which you can, by which you can just not hire black people. Ever.

shit is not happening. People are making people are doing these like you know, like white progressors are giving these speeches about how like a segregation is like ending where we're like integrating quickly, and it's not happening, and all of this kind of you know, all of this sort of fuel and also and obviously the sort of immediate spark of a lot of a lot of these uprisings, So particularly in sixty seven, is that as as happens today, you know, you all statistically have lived I don't know

why I was saysistically, all of you have lived through this. All of you probably have been to at least one protest that is this is that the coptious murder people. And all of this sets off a set of kindling and is going to lead to a simply staggering wave of uprisings. But first, do you know what, I won't lead to a simply staggering set of uprisings if you buy them.

riots in this period. We're not going to talk about Detroit either, even though that was another really big one, because you know, you you can go out and you can find a bunch of people kind of talking about these. We are going to start in Omaha, where begin Yeah, but again this is this is something that's very important, is that this is not just a sort of uprising of the urban ghettos, which is which is how it's like very explicit. This is literally the language that is

used at this time to describe what's happening here. But like, no, this is happening in a bund like again Cincinnati. Omaha is interesting because it has one of the a very very common. One of the other big sort of rallying points in this era is price gouging. So you know, if you're if you're in one of these like ninety nine percent black communities, like the one like the one

white person who is there is the shop owner. And the thing the shop owner is doing is the shop owner is gouging you for food because you don't you know, you don't have any other options to buy for you from, so they're going to gouge you and they're going to give you like the worst products you can ever you've ever seen in your life. And so by May sixty six, people are just fed up with this. There start there start to be sort of protests, like specifically at these

white stores. Uh there's a bunch of people, you know, throwing rocks at the cops. Yeah, and so you know, so, I mean, okay. The other thing that's very important to understand about these places is that these riots don't just start out of nowhere, right. These are mostly places where there have been existing civil rights movements and they kind of just ran into a stone wall.

like we want jobs, and these protests start getting attacked by the police and this is something that you know, this is something that that has been happening to these nonviolent sit ins. I'm going to read a passage from the book. Then the burnings began from there. Omaha police Wallace is quote unquote goon squad and spectators began to beat the protesters out of the auditorium using batons and metal folding chairs. Reeling from the attacks, African American youth

retaliated in the streets. So like like they'll be in meetings with community with like like the mayor or whatever, and these fucking mobs will start just beating people with chairs.

a kid with a riot gun. And this, you know, this sets off like as sort of you know the patterns that work shore visa seeing of like these sort of escalating riots. And this is a very kind of familiar riot, right, Like I think we've all we've all had the like, Okay, so the police attacked a bunch of people, so it caused a riot kind of thing.

we sort of get closer to Holy Week. Something something that is very important about the sixty eight riots that is not true about any riots that we've ever lived through is that not only are people extremely well armed, they are the state's monopoly on violence in nineteen sixty eight is nowhere near as powerful as it is now.

People will just fucking shoot. And one of the constant things you read about when when you're reading about these riots is that is you know, every police account has police like like screaming about and like I didn't believe this, right because I was reading this, I was like, okay, whatever other police, Right, they talk about snippers all the time.

You see this in radical accounts too, where people will talk about like, well, yeah, like the the National Guard and Watts will be talking about how they're taking sniper fires so they'll start shooting machine guns and like the rus of build at buildings, right, But no, like this was real. People actually were like doing this, and you know I was I was really sort of like like on the on the fence about this, like this was

this actually happening? And then the next thing I read was an interview with a guy who'd been a black nationalist and starts talking about how they they they were using all of their dynamite stores and how they didn't have fuses for the dynamite so they had to like they had to plant the dynamite and then retreat across the sheet to shoot at the dynamite so the dynamite would go off.

not true. A lot of the civil rights movement, like things that people now think of like non violent campaigns, weren't like a lot of the stuff in Oh My fucking like a lot a lot of the fights in Louisiana, like are just straight up riots. Yeah. And one of the important sort of bridge figures here is Gloria Richardson, who's I wish we could do like an entire episode about her right now, but that'll have to wait till later.

She's a civil rights activist in Cambridge and her movements, like you know, like she is in a lot of ways that like kind of dedicated non violence, but she's very explicit that we're going to do armed self defense, and a lot of the stuff that she leaves. I mean, this is you know, getting back to like nineteen sixty three.

Like the civil rights stuff that she's doing is extremely effective, and a lot of it is just straight up riots, to the point where like there's a very famous thing for the civil rights there are called the Treaty of Cambridge, where like she and her people agreed to like stop

rioting and the city agreed to completely integrate. But by the time he gets to nineteen sixty seven, they haven't done it, and so the riots started off in Cambridge again, and you have this incredibly sort of like summer over the course of ninety sixty seven is there's there's this like enormous wave of riots and you know a Cambridge

a famous one, but like Detroit's another big one. And this, I don't know, this should have given people warning that there there would be you know, giant uprisings if anyone did anything to MLK, but apparently it didn't. And I you know, I you know what else I won't I don't know, set off I've already used the you know what else won't set off massive waves of uprisings pivot. I really didn't prepare good enough pivots for this.

you will. But what did happen is that, you know, he was killed by white people. And this this detonates a fucking nuclear weapon in the US. You know, reading accounts to me, it reminds me of the first week of the George Floyd up risings in twenty twenty. I want people remember this. There's this picture of this guy in Philly with an Elmo like wearing like an Elmo like head, and he has his fist rays and he's standing in front of a bunch of things of fire

like this. This is what this is what that looks like. I'm going to read a quote from one of the people who was people who was there. I mean I was sad when I first heard the dues of King's death, but not but not like the world around me. The city was burning and I'm walking through the city and the city is burning, and that's what we wanted. This was our time. I mean fire all around my house.

I mean my house almost got caught on fire when I was living because Seventh Street, the whole block was burning. And it was just we thought we were in a

war again. Simple. Simple. One of the interesting parts about this is at a lot of civil rights leaders, and this is not just true of like obviously the moderate civil rights leaders are trying to tell people not to riot, but even like Stokesly Carmichael like comes out to the crowd and tries to go like please don't like, don't ryot don't do this, and the crowd basically tells him to fuck off and does it anyways, And the fact that they killed MLK, who was you know, m Oka

was I mean, like even at that time, like the sort of living human symbol of nonviolence, right, but he was also the symbol of sort of cooperation, of of of this belief that you know, you could you could do sort of peaceful that you do people, peaceful integration. This is something that MLK is kind of like even he's kind of getting cynical about by by sixty eight. But the fact that they killed him, it, it is, it is a kind of psychological blow that I don't

think we've ever experienced. Like maybe maybe if if you took like if you took like Trump's election like on at the same time as a twenty twenty uprising, that like maybe maybe kind of captures what people are feeling in this moment. And I want to read another account. I want to read an account that's it's it's it's it's sort of secondhand account by this priest. It's like

a Catholic priest in a largely black area. This this is from the Great Uprising, Yet other observers saw the uprising as a clear protest against the persistence of racial inequality. Father Richard Lawrence, an activist priest whose Catholic parish served many blacks, recalled encountering one of his parishioners on the street after the revolt had begun. Father, you don't understand.

I know you've been with the demonstrations and all that sort of thing, the parishioner explained to Lawrence, But you were born white and you can't really totally understand. I mean, I've done the civil rights thing too, you know it. I've been there. I've been to the marches, I've been to the rallies, you name it. Nobody's listening, His parishioner continued, murdering, doctor King was just the last straw that nobody's listening. We can go on demonstrating as long as we want.

No one will listen. I don't know what to try next, but maybe blood flowing in the streets is what it takes. Maybe some of his blood with some of my blood flows in the streets, then maybe the man will listen. Maybe not, but I've got nothing left to try. I don't care if I got killed. I've got two kids and I'm not going to have them come up in the world I came up up in. I'm just not

going to have it. And this is this is I think a really important part of these riots is that these are people who had fought, who had fought for a decade over it. I mean, it's this place about a decade and a half of struggle. They've done everything.

They've done strikes, they've done boycotts, they've done sit ins, they've voted, they got the right to vote, right, they marched, they did civil disobedience, and you know the product of this is that they're living in a dilapidated house with a shitty job, and then they fucking killed MLK and the country burns. The National Guard straight up is there there are there are like there are just straight up

military occupations in an enormous number of cities. DC is occupied by like the five hundred and third Military Police Battalion, National Guard and famously the eighty second Airborne. So like the regular US Army is being sent into to like to like is being sent into these cities. The level of sort of burning here too. And this is the thing that's I think kind of the most famous part of these riots. Is they burn staggering parts of cities.

There are I mean, just like unbelievable numbers of buildings are burned, and people people sort of people, people go out to fight people are people are shooting at the police, the police are shooting back at them. I mean, there's I wasn't able to find the footage. One of my friends was telling me about, Like there's there's footage from from news people in New York of like a guy shooting outside of a window, and they have footage of

like a police like swat team. Basically I think it's like still pre swap, like a police like team coming in just killing him. And you know, I mean Richard M. Daley famously has has a here's the mayor of Chicago has a shoot to kill order. You know, his his words are, quote shoot to kill any arsonists or anyone with a Molotov cocktail, and quote shoot to cripple or mame anyone looting any stores in our city. Jesus. It's

really fucking bad. And you know, this is something that's that's about about these these riots, right Like, Okay, if if you look at even the watch riot, or if you look at twenty twenty. If you look at like twenty fourteen, like the Baltimore Uprising in twenty fifteen, there are like people having a good time. Like this is always the thing in riots. There's always like someone who's like having a great time. Fucking no one. I read like dozens and dozens and dozens of interviews of people

from people from the Holy Week up Prising. Every single person involved in this is having the absolute worst time of their lives. That's like on every single side, right that everyone is fucking miserable. And you know, but part part of what's happening here too is these are these these uprisings are also about Vietnam, because you know, a lot of these people either have been sent to Vietnam

or like their families have been sent to Vietnam. Black people are dying at an unbelievable rate in Vietnam, and these people come back and they're like, well, we're gonna fucking die anyway, So I'd rather die. I'd rather go out fighting the cops than, you know, than than dying in Vietnam. And also, you know what I've been talking a lot about kind of like the stipers in the windows,

but one of the most common ways people get killed. Well, okay, probably the most common ways they get trapped into a burning building, which is terrible. But one of the other really common ways is that these are these are gun fights. You know, we kind of saw this in twenty twenty.

There's a bunch there are like white store owners are like popping out of their businesses to take pot shots at a protesters, and like they're they're you know, one of the people that they interviewed was a guy who had been like walking past a store and the guy had pulled out a gun and shot him, and he had he had managed shop, but the guy next to him got shoped, so if he took out a molotov and like burned the store down. And this is a lot of the kind of dynamics of this, right are

like it's not just that people are furious. It's not just the people sort of you know, like people want this world to burn. It's that like they are very directly responding to the fact that the like white people also fucking lose their minds when this starts happening, and you you get this degree of sort of urban conflict that kind of you know, we don't really have this

now no here. Yeah, like like eve, even our riots are like largely nonviolent, like people don't shoot it out with the cops or each other in the same way that like, you know, like like it happens sometimes like this is happening fucking all over the country. Like this is happening in like like like you know, like like fucking small ass cities in the Midwest, there are people getting in gunfights, right, you know, and so eventually, Okay, So the other very important thing about this that is

that's really interesting and not marked upon very much is that. Okay, So like obviously the police in Chicago go fucking feral, right, The National Guard commanders come in and like the general of the National Guard goes, okay, you motherfuckers, you're gonna kill someone. None of you are allowed to have loaded weapons. You're allowed to have loaded weapons. And I mean these guys, I'll say, like they have bayonets on their rifles. This used to be a thing, like they used bayonets as

a form of like like a less special weapon. They just fucking stab you with a bee and you know, they their bayatra order to be covered. And because of this, the Guard doesn't actually kill anyonean this dream the sixty eight riots, unlike the Sicky seven riots where they fucking

murdered a bunch of people. And this was a really smart decision by the National Guard people because if they had started actually shooting into these crowds like this wouldn't have been one week of really intense rioting that ends with the Civil Rights Sack, which we'll talk about, Well, it doesn't end with the Civil Right Sack, but like, you know, it could have sort of gets that this would have been like apocalyptic on a scale that I don't think anyone kind of like has the capacity to imagine.

But instead they kind of, you know, there's really intense riots, they kind of they kind of wind down over the course of a couple of months, and like they kind of they wind down faster in a lot of ways than twenty twenty did. But on the other hand, that is not the end of these riots. And the thing I want to close this episode on while we're going to talk about I feel, okay, le let's talk about Civil Rights Act first, because it is a very very

weird piece of legislation. So like five days in now seven, a weekend to the riots, Congress passes the Civil Rights Act of nineteen sixty eight. And this is a very, very weird piece of legislation. I mean, it's obviously this is something that's been like frantically like scrambled out because like this, you know, the like there are just straight up armed uprisings in a huge portion of the United States, and Congress's responses, so they passed the Fair Housing Act.

That's like, that's probably the most famous part of this bill. It is very I mean it it has done. It's not like a perfect piece of legislation, but it has done a staggering amount of good, right and it is in some sense a direct answer to the protesters demands, right, like it does improve discrimination of sort of housing. But it's also okay, there's a bunch of stuff about the Bill of Rights applying to indigenous people that is good,

but we'll cover that. I don't know, maybe if we do an aim occupation episode, we'll talk about that more later. That's kind of outside the scope of this one. But the other part of it is this absolutely dranged like conspiracy thing about like because like so the line you know, the line here as it wasn't twenty twenty, So this

is all being caused by outside agitators. So part of this thing is what's known as the Riot Act, which is it bans like quote travel and interstate commerce with the intent to incite, promote, engage to participate in or carry out a riot. It's not used very much, but this is like straight up a conspiracy theory. So it's a conspiracy theory about what happened in the nineteen sixty

seven uprising in Cambridge. So like that that uprising, like that's the thing that produced Spireau Agnew, who was like Nixon's deranged VP, who Nixon picked to be so deranged that no one wouldssassinate him because asassinating him would put spuiau Agnu in charge. Like Agnew had been like a liberal,

like he'd been a liberal Republican. But then there were these riots in Cambridge sixty eight in sixty seven, and the narrative that comes out of it is what happened was a Black power leader named H. H. Rat Brown came in and gave a speech and then there was like riots, right, and this is this is the standard line for like seventy years. What actually happened was that

he gave you know, rap gives Rep. Brown age. Rep. Brown gives a very militant speech, right, Like he does give a speech telling people to burn a school down,

like he's saying, you need to like five people. But then everyone just goes home, as h Rap Brown is is, you know, they're like dispersing this young woman asked to be escort at home just and get beat up by the police, and so h Rap Brown and thirty people like okay, and so they try to go home and the police walk up to them and start shooting them with shotguns. Ahrap Brown gets hit by a fucking chockgun

blast and that that is the book. It was after that that the rioting started, right, So, yeah, so that's what actually happened, But but the memory of it is that it was like, oh, like these these like these black nationalists came in and they started this riot, and like this literally is now law in the US, and this is this is very famously. At the end of this episode, we're going to talk about who this was

used against. But before wanting to do that, I need to make it clear these riots don't end in sixty eight, right, And in fact, I think the one that is the most intensive these is York in York, Pennsylvania, which I promise you the beginning of this episode we were going to do, and that is in nineteen sixty nine. Because again, like the conditions that cause these erb and uprisings like

haven't changed. So you know, like the the immediate flames of sort of like of the Holy Week uprising, like of this rebellion by MLK sort of you know, eventually trickle out, but there's just more of them. So this is another one one of the things you come across when you research this is that like every single the conventional like accepted public narrative, but why these started, They're

all wrong this one. So it's generally attributed to this black kid lying but being set on fire and like that did happen, but this kid's like fourteen, right, But what actually happened was that there were two black guys talking to a black police officer and two members of this like white power white supremacist street gang like walked up and shot them both. And this kicks off a series of shootings, brickings, and fistfights between black and white

people like all over the city. And this is a kind of this is also the other kind of right in this period like we don't really have this anymore like there, but you know there are places where just effectively straight up race wars start. Well, you know, one of the things happens here. This happens in a lot

of cities. They'll just be like a bunch of white people in a van driving around shooting at people out their windows and we sort you know the like this happened in Portland, right, but it was like they were shooting paintballs. These guys are just shooting actual guns, like

out their windows any black people they see on the street. Right, there's there's a crowd of like eventually like protest start like this, this crowd of like pretty well armed black people and this uh and and and like a line of cops are facing each other, and you know this is one of these There's two sides to the story.

The cops claim that the crowd just started shooting at them, Like everyone in the crowd claims that the cops shot at them first, and they started shooting back, And so there's just this fucking shootout between the cops and this this giant crowd. There are like there are reports of cops like just set up on the rooftop of a factory, just shooting everyone they can find, like white gangs or firebombing black houses. One of the I don't like it.

It's said that like should be infamous, but like I've never fucking seen talked about anywhere is uh a fucking police armored truck. There's a bunch of people who have come out to their lawn to figure out what the fuck is going on, and the police are truck rolls up and just starts shooting them, and so, you know, people and people start shooting back, and there's a bunch of like like people. People eventually get sort of tried

for this. And one of the you know, one of the things people talk about it is like, yeah, there's like twenty guys in their houses like having a shootout with this armored car because the armored car is just fucking starting murdering everyone. And you know, the sort of remarkable thing about this, I mean, one of the markable things about this is that literally the day before this happens, all of these cops had been at a police training

seminar about the best way to respond to civil unrest. Amazing, and the police seminar and they're like, correctly, because this is actually, if you are the police, the best way to handle one of these sort of uprisings, you know, they're told, they're told, and no one certain terms. The best way to do this is do not confront the crowd. Do not shoot at the crowd like you know, okay, like do like containment, but don't go don't like walk up and fight them, because that will make people fight

them back. And then literally the next day they are having running shootouts with like the entire black population of this town. And you know, like York is a place that has had civil rights stupment stuff before this, it's also has you know again like it has just literal white power, like street gangs who the police are in. I mean the police literally just call them the boys like that. That's how, that's how, that's how tight these people are.

power leaders and people influenced by these movements like doing arm self defense, and that is true and that is important, but also just regular ass people are also doing this, right, Like the guys, the twenty guys who are having a shootout with a police armored vehicle, they are just like some of them are Vietnam vets, but like they're just they're they're just regular people who saw the police fucking roll up like into like roll up on a fucking

house and start shooting people. There is a sense in you know, in this period that the thing that guns are for are to protect you from the government, right,

and people actually believe this, like JFK. You know, one there's a really good article in Strange Matters called the Double Kind of Resergency that's about this, that talks about how JFK literally gives a speech where he talks about like again, who is a liberal gives a speech about how like, yeah, we need guns to defend it yourself against the tyurity of the government, and yeah, like if you are a black person in York in nineteen sixty nine and you are watching the police from an armored

vehicle shooting people on their front lawn. The response people had was, Okay, we're gonna die here or we're gonna die in Vietnam, and so I'm gonna I'm I am choosing to die here fighting the cops. And that's I think that's important. I think because a lot of you know, a lot of what we're going to talk about next. Right, are these student radicals. And everyone now looks at these student radicals and goes, these people were insane. These people

were stupid. These people didn't understand what was happening. There was no way a revolution was ever going to happen. And they're wrong. Those people are fucking wrong. What these people were watching, right, They were watching this. They were watching hundreds of cities going into open revolt. They were

watching people having shootouts with the cops. They were watching and people people tended not to shoot the national Guard because people had enough military experience to realize that if you try to shoot the national Guard, you're not gonna win because they have machine guns and stuff. But people did it still right there, there are still numbers of this that they are watching. They're watching armed up risings in basically every every major in mind not even major,

every like minor American city has one of these. And these people assume that this is the revolution and that you know, like that this is this is the opening stage of the revolution, that it's coming, and they weren't they weren't wrong to think that, like it didn't happen. But it's not that these people, like, you know, it's not that these people were sort of nive or foolish. It was they they had the same rational reaction to what they were seeing that the f behind the Nixton

administration did. And I think that's the place I'm going to close. So I think the next one of these episodes is going to be about the Columbia student occupations. But the one after that, well, I m might be basically staying there, but we are eventually going to get to the DNC all part. And I promised you the a thing about the people who were charged under the

Riot Act. Yeah, so the people who are going to the most videos, people who are going to be charged with this like interstate riot shit or the Chicago seven seven people arrested at the Democratic National Convention. So, uh, when we come back in however long it takes to do the rest of the ninety six yea, so for you do. Before we get to that, we will come back to this Civil Rights Act fucking over a bunch of people's lives.

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entire country. And yeah, yeah, I mean we have a tiny country, but it still became a huge bubblewreck because it was the only one.

border guards and fences yep. And they would have gotten stuck in places for weeks or months before they could move on again. Yeah. And people who would actually go to the registration center in the Netherlands, that means they wanted to ask for asylum there and probably stay there.

bah blah. But so like one and a half year ago, there was a lack of shelter in the whole country, but specifically also went there Apple and yeah, somehow the authorities decided that the solution would be to just leave people on the field that was inside of the registration in front of the registration center, and so there was just an informal camp, like people were sleeping outside for weeks or months, not even intense, but they would have like huge kind of banners or tarps that would kind

of provide some shade. So it was like midsummer. It was a very dry summer, which for us was crazy lucky. The climate activists were not happy, but we were happy. Yeah. So yeah, people were just like laying on the ground and that was Yeah, there were some that water that were like dixies for toilets that were obviously gross, and so yeah, what you would see if you google it, you just see people lying on the field and just

being there for extended periods of time. But when I personally went there the first time, it was kind of worse than what I expected. It to be because I think the level of neglect was not visible on photo or on video. So people would come to us and tell us that they had show us really big wounds that were infected, or people would come and tell us like, hey, I had a heart attack a few weeks ago, I

need this medication, or I have diabetes or whatever. So there was just this dystopian situation of this enormous facility that can hold thousands of people and then a big fence around it, and then people with clearly like very serious medical conditions just standing in front of the gate and the security guards just being like now maybe like a staff member will show up today, maybe not, but

like we don't care how dangerous situation is or something. Yeah, just the fact that there was like no proper place to wash, there were no toilets. The food was like, yeah, I worked in camps across the borders, across European borders, and I've seen a lot of like horrible food. But like in their Apple, they just decided to rent a Yeah, like if you have like a party or something, you would just rent this place that will just sell fries. So they were just giving fries to people like every

single day Jesus. Yeah, just I mean just just pre packed food from the supermarket would be more healthy than just fries every day for a month, right, Yeah, So just a level of like, yeah, neglect, lack of care. It was just even even more than what you can see on the pictures.

any information. They would be there and then all of a sudden hear someone shout and all start running towards where the shout came from because maybe they would be let in or yeah, I don't know, like guards would just shout at them in Dutch and then be like

why don't you understand me? Or like it was all just like consciously like it's so unnecessarily chaotic and therefore also like people pushing around police getting like intimidating and violent and yeah, just this very chaotic and disrespectful approach to people.

And then they can only take thirty people, and you've now had more than one hundred people come stampeding across, like just if you've got to grab their bags and everything, and it's yeah, completely unnecessarily chaotic and cruel. And then once they let in, what can they expect from that? They're saying it like a barracks or something. While there while they're processed.

that they were never properly registered or something. But yeah, I think like there was a night shelter not so far away from their apple, so that was always like late in the evening, there would still be a few buses going to that night shelter. That was just a big sports hall I think, full of beds, bunk beds or yeah, like stretchers, and yeah, no privacy, just like hundreds of people in one room. The lights would stay on all night for safety reasons. But of course that's also very cruel too.

they were facing. But they could be dropped in the night shelter, picked out again in the morning, being back on the field, staying on the field for a few nights, again going for one night to a night shelter, being transferred to an emergency camp for two days, being transferred

to another emergency camp for three days. And during this time there is no coherence medical care, right, And of course it would usually be a little bit better for women and especially pregnant women, so they would try to put them in a more stable place and like not move them around that much, but trying is yeah, they would not always actually manage to do that, So they've definitely also been comple planes of yeah, of people and especially like pregnant pregnant women still being forced to move

to a different camp, like really close to the data the baby was expected to come, and yeah, that definitely doesn't help. So, I mean, the care on the field was absolutely horrendous. I think women were usually not exposed to it that much because we do. Yeah, there's also this weird sexism in migration that men can always suffer more, which is not always true, especially if you're not filtering out the really thick men either, because I was definitely a lot more healthy than a lot of the men

walking around there. But yeah, at least in the case of like pregnant women, I think they would be moved out pretty quickly. But yeah, it was chaotic. And then also you have like, of course you have a lot of people who speak Arabic or Farsi or digit Yeah, but you also have people who speak on a link language that is only spoken in a province of a country. You know, Like it's very hard to get proper trends for like all the possible languages of people that apply

for asylum. Yeah, but yeah, I mean I definitely think the conditions, especially when when there were so many people living in really bad emergency shelters or even on the streets, did not help babies at all.

or organizing protest or campaigns and stuff like that. So we just like went to see what was going on, and then we very quickly, yeah, realized that it was worse than it looked, but also that there were so many basic things that were not being done by the government that we were actually able to do. So yeah, we just asked around a lot for hours and hours, like what do you need, what's going on? What is missing?

Like what is your primary issue at this moment, And one of the main things people were saying was like the food is fucking driving them and saying like yeah, yeah, just the lack of flavor, but also just the lack of health and yeah, people would just get like diarrhea

and stuff. And then it turned out, of course that there were already some people around that wanted to do stuff, so we just had a big call and then it turned out that there was like this squads where they had a big kitchen and they were like, yeah, of course you can cook here. And then there was another like former squads where they also had a big soup kitchen.

And then I was like, okay, this is like it was a big like media store was a big thing for the Netherlands, that this was happening because we have this like, yeah, idea that we are perfectly organized and blah blah blah, and that like all the bad things happen on the border is still like at the like with a very clear role of our politicians, but like somehow, yeah, there's not much talk about that. So it was it was like on the front page every single day for weeks.

So I thought, yeah, like because the people that were already trying to do something, they were like how can we get enough money for the groceries and how can we get volunteers? And then yeah, I was like we'll manage. If there's one thing I learned from the border, it's like if you start doing something, people will will come and join. Yeah, and we first said like, okay, let's just cook two times a week, you know, one time in the squad and another time in the other squad,

and then it's like super doable, blah blah blah. And then basically we started and it's yeah, there was just no way back. So yeah, we said like Okay, let's hand out food twice, and then yeah, I just went like day and nights being on the field, and quite quickly we moved to food distribution every day because there were so many people in the area that wanted to cook. There was like an Islamic group that were churches that

were like, yeah, from all over the country. People were coming into action, and yeah, so first we did food kind of because people really wanted it, but also kind of because we just knew how to do it because we had some people who had a big kitchen and some experience cooking in large quantities. And then quickly it became like colder and rainy as well, so we started to move towards leaving bags and ponchos and just yeah,

big distributions. And then we also started to hand out tents, and then we got into a whole fight with the municipality and the police because they were constantly like confiscating

the tents. Yeah, but yeah, we just started with what we thought would be feasible to do, I guess, and then it kind of escalated really quickly to yeah, us being kind of responsible for a lot of basic needs of everyone on the field, and also us monitoring, like informing journalists because like the government would be like, oh, no, there's nobody there on the field right now, and then we would.

do certain thing, no one will. Something that we've had here, we see it, to say, every border in Europe more or less, right, Like it's just a consequence of the way that like neoliberal capitalism has decided to deal with migration, which is to make to be as cruel as possible and to make it as hard as possible for people. I wonder, like you've been organizing there, at least in this place for like a year. I think I want this to be instructive for people, because, like, we've been

organizing here too, and we've learned a lot. Are there things that you've learned that you think other people could take from the organizing or or like and make you you're also a part of organizing in your area. If either of you have things that you've learned about specifically organizing to help migrants, I'd love to hear them.

single human being. But I found this true in many countries across the world, that if you just start and you say that you're doing it, people will actually join. And I found that especially like Painful in their Apple that we were on this field and there had been so much media attention and there was nobody there, Like everyone was speaking about it and no one was doing anything, and it was kind of depressing to witness that and

to feel that nobody it felt like nobody cared. Right, But as soon as we just started with this small thing like Okay, you can donate to groceries, you can come help cook, you can come help do the dishes, like concrete things that you can do, yeah, we were like I think we got like a thousand people who wanted to volunteer with us, which was like way too much. We never got back to all of them because it

was just insane. We did not need thousand people to cook food for two hundred people, so like, yeah, but we just started, and I think, yeah, I think that was really helpful, or I think that can be very helpful if you're thinking about doing something like start small, but don't be afraid that it will not kind of grow because people will join and people will make it

into something bigger. Also a great lesson that I learned, Well, it's very basic and understandable actually, but like try to make Yeah, my experience is usually with like a mass distribution, so you have hundreds of people, you have food or blankets or whatever something that people really need. And it's like so important to really plan the distribution well and to really inform and discuss with people, because that's one thing that also happened in their Apple that at some

point people were just dumping shit on the field. They were actually causing fights and causing tensions between people because you cannot you kind of show but five sleeping bags when hundreds of people are in desperate need of a

sleeping back. You know, like that's kind of inhumane. And I get that people have good intentions, and I get that it could potentially mean that five people are less cold, but like, yeah, some sort of shelter is a basic necessity, so you cannot give that to a few and not

to others. So yeah, I think like, like the first time we did the distribution into Apple, I was kind of scared because people were spreading, like there was a lot of rumor about like, oh, it's so violent and these people are like blah blah blah, and and of course I kind of didn't believe it because I worked with migrants for a long time and I know that they're human being, you know, and they're not so like shockingly different than but I've also learned that you need

to be They did not learn at all to trust anyone there because like people were lying to them. People were telling them they would get shelter in the night, but they would not. People would say that they would see a doctor, and they would not get to see a doctor. So like the I think it's really important if you want to tell people that you take them seriously and that you build up some trust. So for example, we we went the first time, we cooked so much food.

We were like, it's we cannot make it run out, you know, like we want everyone to get as much as they want and more. Yea, even if we have to trash, because like these people for once have to get the feeling that it's like that we're there for everyone. So like if you make if you do a mass distribution, you usually make light lines and people have to like wait for their turn. But we spent hours just telling

people like, hey, we're going to give out food. There's so much food, you know, don't worry like it's to and then also actually live up to that of course, make sure that there is enough food. Yeah, and like try to make it like fun. And this is like it's kind of awkward because you like, I kind of feel awkward of putting people in a line and telling them to wait, and you know, like that because you're

kind of being bossing them around. But yeah, if it goes well once and everyone just feels like, hey, here I don't have to fight to get to the front, and here I can just chill out and we can make a chat with each other and we can just you know, smile and like wish each other a good day, then Yeah, I think it's also really important to try to make distributions kind of fun or at least as chill as possible, and to like try to not make it another survival of the fittest moment, because that is

exactly what the state is pushing people into, and that is what I don't want people to get into.

moody with that. But it's like that, but then like way more extreme and for actual, yeah, things that you need to survive all the time, Like it's it's yeah, it's hard to imagine, I guess if you've never really been in a survival situation. But yeah, it can be

so much fun. Also, maybe that's another good one, because I remember people were feeling sorry for me when I was working there, like, oh my god, this must be so hard, and I mean it was fucking hard sometimes, like I have literally been standing there like pushing away tears and being like no, I'm fine, but I'm not

fine at all. But also it's fun, like you're just joking around and you're making each other happy, and you feel like you're part of something bigger and you feel I think it's very empowering to be like the state is fucking it up and we can actually do it better.

me and my friends can care for these people. And it's like I don't know from my perspective, like I've had conversations with hundreds of people from all around the world. Like we would do things like play music while people waited for food. If we had a friend who was able to play music, you know, we had enough enough people.

We'd always recruit people from among the migrants to help us with food distribution, which turned out to be great because like they taught us different words in different languages and like, you know, I can say hot source in like twenty five languages now and like it was important parts yeah yeah right there real to death. But yeah, it was very and then like I remember one night it was like in Septemme it was so cold, one

of the cold nights. It was in September and it was just about freezing, and like there were very few of us back then, and we my friend had some guitars and like drums and we like parked the band to block the wind and everyone sat around and played the guitar and they played their different songs and like we had all these really happy moments. Yeah it's not like we said around growing all the time, like it said.

this is a situation or yeah. Like there were a lot of fights because families were always allowed to go first, but it was not really clearly communicated by the government's like can facility and stuff. But when we were just discussing with them, like hey, how can we make the distribution more chill, they were like, well, can women and

children and elderly people just go first? And I was like yeah, or you know, I mean, it's not really any of my business, like yeah, And then if everyone just understands it and it's kind of clear and understandable and explained, it's like so much more chill. Whereas if you're just shouting at people and assuming that they will not understand or assume that they will be selfish, you

are also forcing people into that role. Yes, and I think it's really beautiful if you can snap out of that, and you could, yeah, you can just be somewhat equal, even though like legally or in a completely different situations.

a really admirable job day. I think they did not go to their apple because it was too politically hot at the time, so they went to different centers where migrants were living, and they handed out toys and they hired a bouncy.

It was just people thinking of ways, like hey, how can we make these people happier or more comfortable or at least forget for like a few hours about like this situation therein because our media likes to, you know, dive onto every time there's a fight in a migrant center, right, but it's rarely discussed that if you put a lot of people in a stressful situation on top of each other, people will there will be tensions and there will be fights.

hadn't had food since the morning. And then people in the camp they all get microwave meals and they kind of hate them, but like they all had kind of a stash, so they all like started to eat up microwave meals and bring them outside, and they were actually way more able to provide food on such a short notice than we were. And it was not the best food, but like everyone had food and they were even sharing it with us, and we were all just like so glad to be eating after ten hours in the rain

and in the cold. And yeah, people, Yeah, I don't know, carrying luggage for someone who has Like it's all the time you see people standing up for each other, and I think that is honestly an amazing thing, and maybe more tough situations bring that out somehow more as well, Like it's easy for most people in western societies to be very individualists and live very isolated and yeah, non fulfilling lives, but then if you are in this kind of situation, in some ways, it can also bring out

the best in people.

really bring out some incredible acts of kindness. And I wondered, guys, we're running close to the end of a signed time. If people want to help, either they say they're in the Netherlands and they want to come and help, or if they want to help in a financial way, or maybe they can do some remote so help. Maybe they can respond to the thousand volunteers for email for you, Yeah, how can they do that?

people out on the streets again. Also, I think there's a very big chance that the shelters for undocumented people might close, so we would have a lot of people on the streets then, So we need a lot of solidarity and a lot of things, like a lot Yeah, so like, yeah, financial support is always welcome, but I think it's also really important that people think about what they can do in their lives and that it is also something that they can manage inside of their lives.

So like not everyone can drop everything and yeah, move to the other side of the country or whatever, but if you can host one person, or if you can support someone else who's hosting, like there are ways. I think migrats it does not have like all the options to volunteer, but like we really hope that there will be a lot of networks of solidarity that yeah, we just need them across the country, I think, and I do think there's like a serious risk of like more

criminalization of aid workers. We were also criminalized for handing out tents. I got a letter that said that I risk like three months of imprisonment for handing out tents. Oh wow, Yeah, but that's democracy.

get into a shelter. Right. So, I think the criminalization in our case was a bit extreme because most of the criminalization had to do with at least a very vague relationship with like smuggling or people crossing borders, whereas like handing out senses like the most humanitarian, basic thing that you can possibly do, and somehow they still thought

it was a good idea to criminalize that. Yeah, I think we need to like prepare for the fact that our borders and our migration policies are going to get more cruel and that the only thing that we can do to help is like really strong works of solidarity and resistance, and that we might sometimes risk prison time, but that we still probably need to do it because the alternative is that we're just letting people be destroyed in the system.

reach out to me. You have my contacts, because that is the kind of thing I will most definitely get well excited is the wrong words.

us to make more sandwiches more quickly. Everybody has even if you want to be the person who washes the blankets, and that's a massive task. It means somebody's warm at night.

end blankets, right. So it's also you're always part of something bigger and there's always a there's always I think that it's always very good to think that, Like, if you're faced with a big problem, it's very hard to get to the solution of it, but at the same time, it's very easy to do a tiny thing about it.

And I think it's much more useful to do that tiny thing than to be like, oh, I can never get to the real solution of this problem, And in the end you will kind of get to it by doing that with more and more people and actually building up collective power and resistance.

These little things also matter a lot, and it's something very impactful that you can do that doesn't take much of your own effort.

you know, the low part of my month. But it turns out spending three days to sifting through mass Shooter is actually much worse, much worse than looking through Trump board.

But he has said a few days ago quote Activision's Call of Duty has added transgender bullets to the game in honor of Pride Month, so you can literally play as a transgender mass shooter unquote. This tweet was almost ripped word for word by Ian Miles Chung basically said the exact same thing, except you said role play, not play. Extremely funny and I did not realize the bullets themselves identified as trans. But good for she her they them,

I guess. So we started to see this claim repeated through the anti trans far right grifter media space right. Limbs of TikTok said that quote call of Duty is now enabling kids to rule play being a literal trans terrorist. And for some reason, whenever Limbs of TikTok writes terrorists, she asterix out the o's.

themed after various Pride flegs. Now, some would argue that the mechasuits are essentially also Pride themed, but I digress. For this Pride Weapon Camo pack, it will color your gun with the flag of your choosing. One of the said flags is the blue, pink and white trans flag. Yet, if you apply the trans skin to any of the regular guns in the game, the bullets will not be trans'd.

So what gives without the transgender bullets? How is anyone supposed to literally role play a mass shooter like libs of tech Talk and Ian Miles Chung say we can. So it turns out these quote unquote transgender bullets were in fact not intentionally added to the game in honor of Pride Month, and are most likely a bug that affects one single gun when one exclusive attachment is equipped.

I'm going to quote from Kotaku quote Modern Warfare three's M four came with a special Soul Harvester weapon blueprint which includes a skin and a specific attachment for the M four and quote unquote trace a rounds, which are colorful AMMO options that also leave traces of different visual effects like paint splatters or rose petals.

shader system interacts across thousands of items and cosmetics. During testing, any other Camo skin applied to the M four Soul Harvester blueprint resulted in bullets in the cartridge changing the color to match that skin.

sweeping the nation. When discussing this, Calling Duty, Pride Pack Libs of TikTok said, quote, with the uptick in actual trans violence we've been seeing, it's alarming that call of duty would introduce this and a Blaze article read quote. Critics have suggested activision Blizzard may want to reconsider given

the recent mass shootings executed by lgbt radicals. There have been multiple mass shootings executed, attempted, or at the very least planned by transvestites and LGBTQ radicals in recent years. So this Blaze article begins by listing four alleged instances of these trans mass shooters. Two of these simply never happened, as the alleged transgender individuals, a trans guy and a fifty six year old organ and nazi were arrested after they made concerning posts online. And the other two which

which did happen. These were shootings, except these were never actually done by trans people.

is you know ironic? Considering the fact that political extremist related killings for the past ten years are overwhelmingly done by individuals tied to right wing extremism, the ADL puts it at seventy five percent, whereas leftist extremism, which is categorized as including anarchists as well as black nationalist groups,

are responsible for just four percent. Most of the rest they categorize as Islamic violent extremists, including the twenty sixteen Pulse nightclub massacre targeted against c people in Orlando, although one could argue that that is also right wing extremistum like they are also right wiggers like It's like yes, it turns out the ADL might have troubling some troubling ways of collecting data breaking news anyway, regardless of the

actual facts. Lying about the political demographic of mass shooters is an old tactic employed by far right content creators to gain clicks and influence the talking points of more popular media figures and politicians, And now the past few years we've seen a new iteration of this tactic, where in the confusion and chaos of the first few minutes and hours after a shooting, anti trans influencers will do everything they can to frame an alleged or suspected shooter

of being transgender, often using out of context social media posts, doctored photographs, photos of other people, or just pictures of like long or dyed hair to affirm that a MAI shooter must actually be transgender now, even if this claim is like widely debunked later on, most of the people that follow these far right accounts won't be hearing about that, So all they need to do is use this brief window of chaos to seed the idea into people's minds.

And if you do this thing frequently enough after each new mass shooting, then it's pretty easy to create a false perception of this increasing trend. Now, this style of propaganda has been largely spearheaded by chia y Trek using her libs of TikTok account. Here's another quote from her quote. The modern LGBTQ plus movement is radicalizing young activists into becoming violent terrorist extremists. The uptick in trans violence is

going to get worse unquote. But this sort of rhetoric has been spread by many other online figures in this orbit, like disgraced buzzfeedwriter Benny Johnson and chronic poster ian Miles Chunk. Their rhetoric has been spread by sitting politicians Donald Trump Junior and Elon Musk. Now, to clarify, people have been lying about the gender identity of mass shooters for like a long time. It's one of the oldest jokes on

four Chan. But what's been going on the past two years is something different, and it requires a little bit more in depth examination of this propaganda trend. Now to get into more specific examples here, I like to break down a common meme format used to spread this type

of false propaganda. It's usually about five pictures of mass shooters with text next to each picture that reads something like the Nashville shooter identified as trans, the X shooter identified as trans. So it will just list all of these people that allegedly are mass shooters and allegedly identified as trans. Now, police didn't identify the Nashville Covenant School shooter as a trans man, that we have to take

their word for it. They've released no other info on that. Typically, this is seen as like the first legitimate mass shooting done by a transgender individual, and the past year we've been waiting for more and more context to come out about this mass shooting and it's possible motivations. So I'm not even going to really discuss this one right now. Well just to say, sure, this is a trans person who happened to do a mass shooting and leave it at that, even though it's you know, not totally clear.

and researchers. Prior to these claims in court, there was no indication whatsoever that the shooter was non binary or used they then pronouns. However, they did own rainbow flag. Shooting Targets ran a neo Nazi website that posted gun training videos and was known by online acquaintances to frequently post racist and homophobic content. Now I should clarify when I say shooting targets, I don't mean that it's pride theme shooting targets. It's that the people that you are

shooting are painted like they are gay. So there you go now. Pictured next in the meme is someone with purple colored hair, labeled as the Denver shooter. This person is not trans, has never claimed to be trans. He just has dyed hair. He killed one person in a school shooting that he planned with a sixteen year old trans guy.

that resulted in five people being killed. This shooter had previously posted photos of himself cross dressing in women's clothes, and this was used by figures like Marjorie Taylor Green to claim that the cis Mail shooter was actually quote another trans shooter. Family of this shooter referred to him as a quote unquote biblical extremist, and he often posted bizarre Christian spiritual conspiracy theories and was an outspoken fan

of Tucker Carlson. In another version of the meme posted by Chaia Reichik, she identifies the Uvalde school shooter as transo and includes a picture of a transwoman holding the trans Pride flag. This was posted in January of this year. Elon Musk replied to the tweet with two exclamation points.

the shooter had been diagnosed as mentally ill. In twenty sixteen, a close friend reported the shooter quote suffered from bipolar disorder and struggled since early in high school with severe depression, partly connected to their feelings of not being accepted when they first came out as a gay teenage girl and later as transgender unquote by most accounts this is the transgender guy who began transitioning shortly before the shooting. Pronouns

and stuff are unclear. They also worked at this distribution center a few weeks prior to them doing the shooting. This incident's typically not categorized as a mass shooting because only three people were killed, excluding the shooter.

name Jeffrey Now. Chaia Reichek called the shooting quote another act of trans terrorism. We need to have a national conversation about the LGBTQ movement turning youth into violent extremists.

child and has always identified as a woman. It just appears that she was given a masculine name at birth

and later changed it to a more feminine name. The far right content sphere created so much uproar that the police had to do a whole press conference about how the shooter was not trans, and after the Peace lawyers clarified she was not trans, Fox News changed their claim, now saying on air that the shooter quote identified as both genders and was quote a biological woman who sometimes identified as a man named Jeffrey unquote, which just isn't true.

gay man. Very similar cases. Honestly, Jared here again, he's like pretending to be like an international entrepreneur. He looks like this weird like hippie surfer dude with long bleached hair. Jared's father is a wealthy Christian therapist who looks very similar and anti trans influencers have pointed to the word she on Jared's Instagram file, but Jared's actual gender identity is really unclear. He's never pictured wearing women's clothing. He

would frequently post shirtless buff selfies. Jared has never claimed to be trans or a woman, and has never used transgender language or iconography. Jared did file a name change request last April, but it was to change his last name. He goes by Jared. That same month, April, So two months ago, Jared sexually harassed a model at a Beverly Hills hotel, saying that he wanted to have kids with her and proposed to her, saying, I'm going to be

a good husband. You're gonna be my wife. Unquote. This person simply, we have no no reason to think they're trans. They do this, They do like weird like art stuff, and I don't know. They're like California, Beverly Hills, poison brained, and it seems to they seem to have gone through some kind of mental health breakdown which resulted in them killing their roommate, two dogs, and stabbing like six or seven people in Massachusetts. But another trans terrorist? Sure?

He used the hashtag gender fluid a single time in a TikTok video filmed with what appears to be a trans friend of his. He also posted on Reddit two years ago that he didn't want to transition because he didn't quote wants to look ugly. He never specifically identified as trans. This is just kind of a tragic case. I don't know what the deal with this kid was. They seemed deeply confused and upset and killed someone and

then killed themselves. It sucks, but it's not a mass shooting, and it doesn't it doesn't link to anything being a pattern of transgender terrorism. That does not stop someone like Donald Trump Junior is saying, quote, the modern LGBTQ plus movement is radicalizing our youth into becoming violent extremists per capita. Is there a more violent group of people anywhere in the world than radicalized transactivists Given the tiny fraction of the population they make up, it doesn't seem like anyone

else comes even close. We have a lot of claims like this, which is why I need to start talking about statistics my least favorite thing, because this sort of messaging is repeated a lot. We have this post from I think Benny Johnson or Donald Trump Junior. I can't twelve which one because unfortunately it got deleted before I was able to log who did it, so apologies for that. But it's a very similar sort of thing, saying there's been at least five massive tacks by transgender people since

twenty eighteen. Considering the group makes up less than point five percent of the population, that's a massive overrepresentation. We'll get into that in a sec. So boy often when these people are talking about this trend of trans mass shooters, they're focusing specifically on the period of time between twenty eighteen and twenty twenty four because largely a lot of conservatives think that trans people were kind of like invented

around twenty eighteen. That's when they first started to kind of like notice that people were trans, which is something we've talked about before in terms of like the arc of homophobia and transphobia in relation to like gay marriage and like a few other things. This is something we've

reported about consistently on the show. So they're very often only looking at data from select years, and as we've discussed here, they largely inflate the number of quote unquote mass shooters, as well as the number of mass shooters who they call transgender. They will often, you know, very loosely define what a mass shooting is when it suits them, and then very strictly define it when it doesn't. In the Blaze article about that Call of Duty pride pack,

they say quote uote trans identifying suspects. A share of public mass shootings nationwide over the twenty eighteen or twenty twenty three period is reportedly well over seven times their share of the population, which links to a very sketchy right wing crime stats website that doesn't publish any of their data. So sure, so, there is a few different

ways to categorize what a mass shooting is. There's no universal definition for what makes a mass shooting versus a mass killing, so different groups categorize things kind of differently. The Mass Killing Database is a partnership between the ap USA Today and Northwestern University, and it defines mass killings quote as the intentional killing of four or more victims, excluding the deaths of unborn children and the offenders by

any means, within a twenty four hour period. Their database currently lists five hundred and ninety such killings since two thousand and six. James Allen Fox, professor of criminology and law at Northwestern University who manages the database, has said, quote, you can count the number of transgender and non binary shooters on one hand, they're actually underrepresented unquote, And again it's possible that because of how successful the right has

been at this syop. When you're counting these number of transgender non binary shooters on one hand, that's also super overrepresented because they're most likely containing like the Colorado spring shooter and a lot of these other people. Now, trans people on average are reported to make up about one percent of the US population, but that number is steadily growing. We got to pump those numbers up. Those are rookie numbers now. It's also just kind of unclear what that

number actually is. That's the current one from the US Census Bureau, and kind of an average, doubt because a lot of stats of like people older than twenty five say the numbers at like round zero point five point six percent versus people under twenty five reportedly it's like one point five percent. So you know, I'm just going to say around one percent now under most criterias for mass killings. Only one incident, the one in Nashville, qualifies

for inclusion. Another data source called The Violence Project has recorded data on mass shootings in the US since nineteen sixty six. They more narrowly define a mass killing as four more people killed in a public unconnected to other criminal activity. Their current database has one hundred and ninety

three entries. A spokesperson for their organization told Reuters that the twenty twenty three Nashville shooting quote is the first case of a trans perpetrator in their database, per their methodology. Another more broad data collection project is called the Gun Violence Archive. I'm just going to quote from Reuter's heer quote.

The Gun Violence Archive, which began collecting data on gun violence in the US in twenty thirteen, recorded more than four thousand and four hundred mass shootings in the last decade. Its definition of a mass shooting is four or more people shot resulting in injury or death, excluding the perpetrator

of those quote. The number of known suspects in a mass shooting which are trans is under ten for the last decade, which translated to zero point one one percent of the four four hundred shootings unquote, which is about nine times lower than SIS people per capita if we use the one percent trans population stat and even using the more conservative mass killing data set, the rate of this sort of violence by trans people is far lower

than what would match our population margin. I'm going to add in a short quote from the Washington Post to kind of add in some context here quote. The gun violence Archive methodology would allow for inclusion of the Aberdeen and Denver cases, with zero point six percent of the population, one would expect at least sixteen mass shootings to be conducted by people identifying as trans in the past five years. Instead, there are just three possible cases cited by most conservatives unquote.

So after looking over all of this data, it would actually appear that transgender people are less likely to commit a mass shooting than CIS people, even by some of the more conservative estimates. The other side of this is that not only are trans people less likely to you know, do this sort of violence, they are way more likely to be on the receiving end than sispeople. For the National Archive of Criminal Justice data, LGBTQ plus people are more than twice as likely to be a victim of

gun violence than their cisgender and straight peers. According to the Human Rights Campaign, twenty nine percent of transgender youth have been threatened or injured with a weapon on school property,

compared to seven percent of cisgender youth. So even for school shootings, you are so much, so much more likely to face gun violence at school if you are trans, transgender, non binary, gender question people have reportedly higher rates of being impacted or knowing someone who's been impacted by a mass shooting compared to their cisgender queer peers. This is, you know, a data average, but it's usually around twenty

two percent to nineteen percent. And this whole topic gets so much more like dark and grounded when you know that three hundred and twenty trans people were killed last year according to data from the annual Trans Murder Monitoring Report, which is like, it's so dark that we even have something called the Trans Murder Monitoring Report.

who know are their friends. And those people fucking either aren't talking to the press or the precious never like covers it, or you know, the police give their dead name and never talk about it, so they just are dead and everyone thinks they're sis.

ironic for a few reasons. One, because that's how news works, is that we move on to a new thing. But also it'll probably disappear as well well because they're not actually trans, you know, when you're in the case of the Uvaldi shooter, in the case of the megachurch shooter from last year. Yeah, people move on. But also they're not going to keep harping on your weird conspiracy theory because it's a weird conspiracy theory. It's not true even if this is, even if they were right, which they

are not. It also is just like imagine in like nineteen twenty or like, we have a problematic rise in left handed mass shooters. So we're like, well, yeah, because there's more left handed people, there's going to be at

least some level of correlation statistically. Again, these people act like trans people were only invented in twenty eighteen and are just like slowly like recruiting in numbers, which, hey, you know, at least we are kind of slowly recruiting, And like the actual goal of this rhetoric, beyond just you know, altering the fabric of reality, is to just encourage violence against trans people. That is what they're doing. It's to see trans people as a threat that you

feel justified in doing violence against them. Just a few weeks ago, a very popular gun YouTuber made this joke where they were talking about, you know, getting ready to shoot a tea word and they stopped and they were like, oh, sorry, I mean a school shooter. Wink wink. So like they're trying to use school shooter to be a dog whistle for trans people This is all just to justify violence. That's all this is doing, and to some degree it's working.

Just last week, a trans kid was assaulted in the men's bathroom at school and reportedly one of their teeth exploded. This was a trans girl who was using the men's bathroom like all of these freaks want them to, and she still got assaulted. I think it's super important when talking about this sort of unreality propaganda is that like these people like Limbs of TikTok and Miles Schong, they're not just like falling further into a delusional conspiracy theory.

Same thing with Elon Musk, Right, it's easy. I think it's easy to be like, oh, they just actually like legitimately are like falling into this like conspiratorial delusion.

explain why why these shootings were happening. The actual data on transmass shooters and how few of them there are is quietly devastating to a lot of the theories that used to be sort of bandied about, right, the theories that this was about sort of objection, the theory that this was about this, you know, like sort of de industrialization and like the consequences that this has had on people that there were you know, it was this sort

of like downward social mobility that was causing this violence. Right, If any of that were true, there would be a fucking million mass shooters, because again, the transpoverty rate is like it's it's it's a rits around thirty percent, right, for the rest of the country it is like a quarter as well, it's that quarter. It's like a third of that much, which right, there should be if it was just purely a product of like material conditions, there

would be a lot more transmitted shooters. But there aren't because again, you know, the actual theory that fits this data and fits also the behavior of all of these people, like all of these sort of fascists trying to explain mass shootings as being about trans people. The thing that it fits is this is the theory that this is basically the replacement of clan rallies. Right, we don't have we don't have collective lynchings anymore. We have individual ones.

And all of these fucking people are trying to make sure that there's just more lynchings and that these lynchings are you know, is like it's there their sort of like armed follower fanatics go and shoot a bunch more trans people in a nclub, and then you know, once that happens, they will disavow it by saying, oh, hey, this this this nightclub shooting was this is actually done

by a fucking transperson. They'll keep doing this until they have enough political power to openly come out and claim that all of these people were their fucking revolutionary heroes in their nude fucking pantheon of the fascist state.

I wanted this to break down a conspiracy theory I've been seeing more frequently talk about you know what's fueling it actually go over the instances that are included in it to kind of you know, debunk for lack of a better term, uh, this sort of rhetoric, and just so you can be more aware of it when you see it, because often you'll see this this you know, this meme with five five pictures, you'll see a copy

pasta version of it. So just just being aware of what this is, what the what this rhetoric is trying to do, and the you know, unfortunate fact that trans people are form are far far more likely to be a victim of gun violence and mash and mass shootings than they ever then then say people and are actually less likely to participate in such violence statistically speaking. So yeah, that is the episode today. Not meant to be depressing,

just meant to be informative. But you know, when it comes to me, those things often overlap.

in Jse. But according to journalists and anyone with eyes, the new plan is almost indistinguishable from previous plans proposed by Hamas. We're going to get into the details of the US plan in a little bit, but first I want to address the immense loss of Palestinian life that has led up to this plan, because if the plan is successful, it would usher in a ceasefire to a genocide that has killed more than thirty seven thousand Palestinians, which is a very low estimate, and the majority of

these deaths are women and children. Not only have Palestinian children been brutally slaughtered for months, but Razza now has the largest population of child amputees in the world. In November, children in Razza hosted a press conference in English to beg the world for life. It's June now, and all we've seen since then is massacre after massacre. And while I think drawing attention to the children and the women

who have been slaughtered is immensely necessary and important. I also want to emphasize that Palestinian men are not expendable, and not mentioning the immense loss that we have suffered across the board with men included, implies to the world that Arab men are not worth mourning, not worth saving nor protecting, that they are all terrorists or terrorists to be who are simply killed as casualties in the quote

fog of war. I also think that the mention of children is specifically used as a way to at least try to make the world empathize and fucking feel something about the lives that have been stolen. Parents literally hold up the limp and decapitated bodies of their babies in its broadcasts worldwide, and yet the dehumanization of Arabs runs so deep that such graphic displays of horror and death

are considered normal. No one bats an eye. It is insane that two hundred and seventy four Palestinians were slaughtered for four prisoners of war who could have been released in a prisoner exchange exchanges and deals that Israel has

repeatedly red. We will get into this more in this episode, and people are celebrating this shameful military operation which US troops were a part of, and ignoring the Palestinians that were killed and murdered in the process, further emphasizing that Palestinian life is not as important as Israeli life by

a huge margin. In in case you didn't hear the details about this operation that I'm talking about, US and Israeli troops infiltrated a refugee camp in trucks disguised as humanitarian aid to trojan horse their way into further massacrering and maiming people who were already being forcibly starved. Are you hearing this one more time? They infiltrated a refugee

camp and trucks disguised as humanitarian aid. Israeli special forces were also disguised as Palestinian refugees looking for a place to live when they entered the buildings where they thought the hostages were being held. Remember in January, and there was also video evidence of the IOF pretending to be medical staff in a hospital and then shooting and killing

unarmed doctors, nurses, and patients. Oh, and then there was the discovery of at least three mass graves at Elsheffa hospital, where bodies, including many wearing scrubs, were found zip tied and buried in piles. Israel has been doing this for months and years and decades, and they've been getting away with it for months and years and decades. No one is hiding how they feel anymore. They are out here showing us with their actions. It's not ambiguous, it is

not confusing. They are making it very simple. They are making it crystal clear. Palestinians do not matter, and Israel's intention is to continue their ethnic cleansing of Palestine. What's happening in Gliza is not about the hostages, and it has never been about the hostages. If that isn't clear to you by now, you have not been paying attention a few things about the hostages. Hamas has repeatedly offered since last year to release all hostages in exchange for

Israel releasing all Palestinian prisoners. As of November first, according to Human Rights Watch, Israel held nearly seven thousand Palestinians in its prisons, and many of those held captive by Israel are not convicted of any crime. At least three thousand and six hundred and sixty Palestinians being held in Israel are under what is called administrative detention. An administrative detainee is someone held in prison without charge nor trial,

without charge, no crime committed. I want to take a moment to bring up a report that came out recently that's not getting nearly enough attention. It's truly horrific, and I don't know how people are just glossing over it. But New York Times recently reported that Palestinians are being tortured and abused in Israeli prisons. Two journalists from the New York Times spent three months interviewing Israeli soldiers as

well as Palestinians were detained at one particular prison. I'm not going to pretend I know how to pronounce it. It's spelled sde space Tei m An said Teman. I'm just going to go with that. But essentially, Israel is carrying out a policy of systematic torture in this army base, and this army base has been used as a detention camp for Palestinians from the Gaza Strip. This was all

confirmed by a New York Times investigation. Reports of abuse at this site had already emerged in both Israeli and Arab media, and this was followed by outcries from local and international rights groups about the horrific conditions there. Apparently, it was mainly used as a quote makeshift interrogation center, but now it has become a major focus for the accusations that the Israeli military has mistreated its detainees, including people who were later determined to have no ties to

Hamas or any other armed groups. The investigation revealed that at least twelve hundred Palestinian civilians were detained at this site in quote demeaning condition, without the ability to plead their cases to adjudge for up to seventy five days, and additionally denied access to lawyers for up to ninety days.

Eight former detainees, all of whom the military confirmed were held at the site and spoke on the record, said they had been punched, kicked, and beaten with batons, rifle butts, and a handheld metal detector while they were in custody. Others said that they had been forced to wear a diaper while being interrogated, and that they had received electric shocks during their interrogation. According to the new York Times.

Most of these testimonies were corroborated by interviews conducted by officials from the unr WA, the UN Agency for Palistine Refugees. The agency interviewed hundreds of returning detainees who reported widespread abuse at this site, as well as other Israeli detention facilities, including the beatings and the use of an electric probe.

An Israeli soldier who served at this site also disclosed to The New York Times that his fellow soldiers often bragged about beating detainees, and he observed many instances of such treatment. He was speaking on condition of anonymity to avoid prosecution, but he said a detainee had been taking for treatment at the site's makeshift field hospital with a bone that had been broken during his detention, while another person was briefly taken out of sight and then returned

with bleeding around his rib cage. I strongly urge you to read the New York Times piece in full. It details the most horrific things I've read in recent memory.

a metal stick that was fixed to the ground. He said the stick penetrated his rectum for roughly five seconds, causing it to bleed and leaving him in unbearable pain. A leaked draft of the UNRWA report detailed at interview that gave a similar account. It cited a forty one year old detainee who said that interrogators made him sit on something like a hot metal stick that felt like fire, and he said that another detainee died after they put

the electric stick up his anus. Doctor Elhemlaui also recalled being forced to sit in a chair wired with electricity. He said he was shocked so often that after initially urinating uncontrollably, he then stopped urnating for several days. He said that he too had been forced to wear nothing but a diaper to stop him from soiling the floor. Ibrahim Shaheen, thirty eight, a truck driver, He said he was shocked roughly half a dozen times while sitting in

a chair. Officers had accused him of concealing information about the location of dead hostage, which ended up having no connection to him at all. Another man, mister Beckett, said that he was also forced to sit in a chair wired with electricity, sending a current pulsing through his body that made him pass out. Mister Beckett also said, along with other detainees that corroborated this, he only received roughly three meager snacks on most days, mostly bred with small

quantities of cheese or jam or tuna. The military said the food provisions had been approved by an authorized nutritionist in order to maintain their health, but according to several of these detainees, that's not nearly enough, and they lost more than forty pounds during their detention. Again, I urge you to read the report in full. It needs more attention than is getting. But it is horrific and this is proof of the vile mistreatment of Palestinians. And it's

from the New York Times. If you need a source that you quote unquote trust more than an El Jazeera or something which makes most But for those who do there it is Now, let's go back to the topic at hand. We were talking about the hostages and how Hamas had offered many times in the past to release all the hostages in exchange for releasing Palestinian prisoners, and despite Hamasa's offers, Israel has never agreed to any deal

which involves the release of all Israeli hostages. On October ninth, two days after October seventh, Hamas offered to release all the civilian hostages in exchange for the io F not entering the Gaza Strip, but Israel rejected that offer, and many hostages have died since then, which could have been avoided if Israel cared. A few stats, one hundred and five Israeli hostages were freed via a temporary ceasefire, and no November of last year, four other hostages were released

by Hamas. Three hostages were killed by IOF quote friendly fire because the IOF considered them a threat as they were waving white flags. During four Israeli quote rescue missions, one hostage was killed one soldier was saved in what

Israel called Operation Golden Hand. On February twelfth of this year, two hostages were saved and at least ninety four Palestinians were killed, and then on June eighth, what is now being called Operation Are None, four Israeli hostages were rescued and at least two hundred and seventy four Palestinians were killed. In a statement released after the attack, Hamas said, in exchange for them the four Israeli hostages, your own army killed three of your own captives in the same attack,

one of them holding a US citizenship. And it must be mentioned that the Israeli attacks on Leisa have also killed an unknown number of hostages and have mass captivity, as well as the at least thirty seven thousand Palestinians killed since October seventh. Relentlessly bombing a tiny strip of land or Israel knows its hostages are located, doesn't really indicate that Israel gives a shit about the lives of the hostages. The hostages are pawns being used in a

disgusting political game. And I have seen several unhinged and deranged comments about this latest operation, which again killed two hundred seventy four Palestinians, including children, in the process of saving four hostages. The comments range and severity and psychopathy but a lot of them are basically saying how else were they supposed to get the hostages back? And Israel must rescue its people by any means necessary, and that this is what you get when you mess with Israel.

But after reading the previous numbers, it is an absolute fact that the only mass release of hostages has come through ceasefire and prisoner exchanges. More hostages have been killed by the Israeli army then rescued by them. A ceasefire deal means freed hostages without mass death. And so if Israel really cared about the lives of these hostages, why on earth wouldn't they agree to a deal that can

guarantee their safety. I want to take a quick tangent only to mention that the number of Palestinians killed in Raze is most likely far, far greater than the reported number because the infrastructure that was used to document the death toll has been decimated, along with nearly everything else in Lessee. The number thirty seven thousand also does not include the thousands and thousands of Palestinians buried underneath rubble who are unable to be found nor retrieved. The Health

Ministry's director of International Cooperation in the West Bank. Doctor Yassir Bozzia says he works closely with Ministry colleagues in Raze. When he spoke with NPR in late January from his office in Ramalala, he said and estimated ten thousand people were missing and presumed dead under the rubble in Rasee, but even that number was low. It's like a snowball, he said. It's only an estimation. The actual number is

much much higher. Bozia and doctors Andrezze say the death count published by the Health Ministry also largely excludes people who have died from a lack of adequate treatment, disease, and other impacts from the war, like hunger. The death toll only includes people killed by the occupation bombardment, he said. The Health Ministry describes its casualty figures as those resulting

from Israeli aggression. Bozzias is a colleague in Raze, told him that the only way to really know how many people have died is to count the number of people still alive compared with the population of Raze before October seventh. He said that because of the continued brutal genocide going on in Rasee, it is impossible to have the real number. It will only be revealed after the violence has stopped. The death toll also does not make clear how many

militants are among the dead. Israel says its forces have killed more than ten thousand fighters in Razze, but Israel has also not provided any sort of evidence or detailed information to back up its estimate. In every interview, every Israeli correspondent or spokesperson has given they always given number for the estimated fighters or terrorists killed in Razze, but they're very unsure about how many civilians have been killed.

And now to go back to the US peace plan that is basically identical to previous peace plans proposed by and agree to buy Hamas. What does this US plan propose? This plan has three stages. The first stage proposes to involve a six week ceasefire, during which the Israeli army will withdraw from the populated areas of Razze. Hostages, including the elderly and women, would be exchanged for hundreds of

Palestinian prisoners. Civilians would also return to all of Braze with six hundred trucks carrying humanitarian aid flooding the enclaved daily Biden said. The second phase would see Hamas and Israel negotiate terms for a permanent end to hostilities. Biden said the cease fire will still continue as long as

negotiations continue. In the third phase, a permanent ceasefire would follow, facilitating the reconstruction of the Resids Strip, including sixty percent of clinics, schools, universities, and religious buildings damaged or destroyed by Israeli forces. This plan is nearly identical to a previous plan that Hamas had already agreed to on May sixth,

a deal which Israel ended up rejecting. We will talk more about that deal later on, but for now, let's focus on the US's pleasiarized version of this plan and who supports it. But first let's take an ad break and we'll be read back, Okay, And we are back. So soon after the announcement of the US deal, Hamas said that it views the proposals in this deal positively.

This week, US Secretary of State Anthony Blincoln o'tool arrived in the Middle East on his latest trip to the region, which he said will focus on Washington's Gaza truce proposal and the future of the Palestinian territory. B Lincoln met Egyptian President Elssi and Cairo on Monday, repeating US calls

for Hamas to accept the true deal. Speaking to reporters before leaving Egypt, b Lincoln squarely blamed Hamas for prolonging the quote unquote war, saying that Hamas is an outlier in the region for not agreeing to the US deal. He told reporters my message to governments throughout the region, to people throughout the region, if you want to cease fire, press Hamas to say yes. Blincoln arrived in Israel later

on that same day and met with Nan Yahoo. He will further hold talks and thought in Jordan this week. The State Department said. Blinkn reaffirmed the quote ironclad US commitment to Israel's security during his meeting with Nanyahu. A curious note is that while Blinkn portrayed the truce plan as Biden's proposal, when Biden made the deal public initially,

he said it was an Israeli plan. This could be just a little slip because Biden is very old, or it could be a slip that just confirms what we've all known to be the case all along, that the US and Israel are one and the same, especially when it comes to their political interests in military power, and while US officials have insisted that Israel agreed to this proposal, various Israeli officials, including the n YAHOO, have vowed to

continue fighting until the elimination of Hamas. Just days before Biden announced his initiative, a top Israeli officials said the military would fight in Jez until at least the end of the year. On the other hand, Hamas has said that it will only agree to a deal that would lead to a lasting end to the war and the

full withdrawal of Israeli troops from Raze. Hamas reiterated its position on Monday after its political chief Ismael Haniyeh, met with officials from the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, a smaller armed group in Duha. Hamas said in a statement the two delegations discussed the indirect negotiations and efforts to end the war, stressing that any agreement must include a permanent ceasefire, complete withdrawal from the Gaza Strip, reconstruction, ending the siege, and

a serious prisoner's exchange. Hamas previously called for a explicit commitment from Israel to a lasting ceasefire, and despite the lack of clarity in the Israeli position, Biden administration officials have repeatedly said that Hamas is the only hurdle to ending the war in Gaza. The US blaming Hamas for prolonging what it calls a quote unquote war again not a war a genocide is ridiculous. Hamas has accepted previous

peace deals. It has offered previous peace deals. Israel has been the one to reject them, and then the US comes along and just repackages one of these previously agreed on deals that Hamas had endorsed, and has the audacity to then blame Hamas for obstructing peace. Give me a break. Additionally, the US truce plan does not outline plans for the future of Gaza after the war, but the US government has said that it would not accept Hamas rule in

the territory. The Biden administration says it wants a quote reformed Palestinian Authority aka the PA to eventually govern Gaza, but the Israeli government has ruled out allowing the occupied West Bank based PA to govern Huzzi with Nan Yahoo like in k Fata, the dominant faction in the PA to Hamas. Other support for the plan has come from some Israeli politicians, as well as the families of the

hostages and the international community. Benny Gantz, a centrist member of Israel's three man war Cabinet and Prime Minister Benjamin Yahu's principal rival, spoke positively of the proposal and asked his two colleagues in the war cabinet, Nan Yahoo and Defense Minister Yoev Galant, to convene to discuss the quote next steps. Gance had previously threatened to leave the cabinet by June eighth if no plan for Gaza beyond the war had been agreed on, and on Sunday, June ninth,

he officially announced his resignation. Gans's resignation does not immediately pose a threat to Natanyahu, who still controls a majority coalition in Parliament, but it does mean that the Israeli leader becomes more heavily reliant on his far right allies. Gantz said that the Enyahu was making quote total victory impossible and that the government needs to put a return of the hostages seized on October seventh by Hamas above

political survival. Gans is a popular former military chief, and he joined the n Yahoo's government shortly after the Hamas attack in a show of unity. His presence also boosted Israel's credibility with its international partners. Gance has good working relations with US officials. Ganz canceled a planned news conference the night of June eighth after the Forestraeli hostages were rescued from Gaza earlier in the day, which again was

Israel's largest operations since October. Another reminder that two hundred and seventy four palest Indians, including children, were killed in the assault. Another Israeli politician who supported the US peace plan was opposition leader Yard Lapid, who also promised to support the plan, pledging support of his party yesh Atid, which translates from Hebrew to there is a future if

those from ultranationalists and far right parties withdraw support. United Nations Secretary General Antonia Gutierrez also endorsed the plan, as have many of Israel's political allies, including the UK and Germany. So who doesn't like the plan. Much of the opposition to the peace plan has come from within the Israeli cabinet, n Enyahu said any initiative that did not include a quote elimination of Hamas's capacity to govern and make war

was a non starter. In his announcement on Friday May thirty first, Biden seemed to indicate that he regarded Hamas's presence within Gaza to have been so downgraded that a repeat of October seventh was impossible. As expected, the ultranationalists and extreme right members of the nyahu's right wing coalition, which includes it Tamar Bengavie and Bezileel Simotric, threatened to withdraw from the government and cause its collapse if the

proposals were accepted. So as far as Israel's politics are concerned, it seems like the outcome may end up depending on what El Jazeira describes as quote parliamentary arithmetic. The far right in ultranationalist parties hold fourteen seats, while Ganza's block only has eight seats. Meeting the far right has far more influence on a prime minister who wants to stay in power. As for Lapid, his seventeen seats are offered as support only in what pertains to the peace proposals.

This leaves that n YAHOO reliant on the far right block. As far as the deal being accepted, that is still not clear. Despite what the US says. The families of Israeli hostages are putting pressure on the government to accept the deal, as are some parts of Israel's political class, but pressures to reject the deal are just as strong, and it will remain to be seen whether Natanyahu chooses

his own survival or the return of the hostages. But if one thing is clear, it is that Netanyahu does not really care about the hostages because the IOF under his command, continues to bombard areas where the hostages can be held. And may remind you that the IOWEF have already killed Israeli hostages that they have mistakenly identified as threats. Speaking of threats, I'm kidding. There is no ad break and there is no threat. That's the end of part one, and if you want to listen to part two, tune

in tomorrow. Talking about the history of Hamas and how we got here. So yeah, see e then three Palestine, Hello, and welcome back to it could happen here. This is Sharen and today we are continuing our conversation from yesterday where we talked about the US proposed peace deal for Hamas and Israel that looks suspiciously like a deal Hamas had already agreed to just a few weeks before that,

and Israel did not agree to. We had ended part one talking about how the IOF literally killed their own hostages when they mistakenly thought they were threats, and I ended saying speaking of threats, and I'm going to continue because that's what professionals do. So since October seventh, Israel has described Hamas as an existential threat, saying that it needs to destroy the group and won't stop the violence

in Gaza until it does so. But I would argue that most people who are pro Israel or Western Zionists in general don't actually know anything about Hamas other than thinking they're this big, bad evil that has to be eradicated by the quote only democracy in the Middle East, which I hope by this point people realize is a

sick joke. Hamas is suddenly being talked about on every news channel, and anything even remotely pro Palestine is now labeled as pro Hamas, when most people in this country, I would argue, most likely had never even heard of Hamas before October seventh. Labeling something as pro Hamas truly just means nothing as far as Israel's concerned, the UN

is Hamas. In May, Israel's ambassador to the UN, Galad Erdan, said in an interview with Israel's Army Radio that the UN has quote turned into a collaborator with Hamas, maybe even more than that, a terror organization unto itself. Wow, Israeli leadership has just continued to one up themselves when it comes to saying the most insane fucking shit. And then, according to Zionists, the college campus protests that were calling for a literal end to genocide are also pro Hamas.

Earlier this month, a lawsuit was filed in Virginia by a US law firm and an Israeli legal group who have teamed up to suit two organizations involved in recent college campus protests, the American Muslims for Palestine and National Students for Justice in Palestine. They accused these groups of collaborating with Hamas to serve as their quote propaganda division.

In the US. Arson of Trowski, the CEO of the International Legal Forum, who was working with this US legal team of Greenberg Taig and the National Jewish Advocacy Center, he called the American Muslims for Palestine and the National Students for Justice in Palestine, as well as all the protesters supporting Palestine, most of whom are students as quote the foot soldiers of Hamas. If I was going to go through everything that Israel and Zionists have labeled US

pro Hamas, this episode would never end. But I hope it's clear that this label and accusation isn't based on any real sort of evidence or proof, and it is only a way to scare people into blindly supporting Israel in quote defending itself big quotes there against this growing evil spreading across the globe and invading our campuses, when

in reality, there would be no Hamas without Israel. Although Hamas eventually grew into being the most active armed resistance group in Gaza, it definitely didn't start that way and it wouldn't have even had the power to grow the way it did if it weren't for intentional actions by

Israeli leadership that started decades ago. Before we get into a timeline of the Resa Hamas peace deals that have led to this very similar deal at the US proposed all deals that again Israel has rejected I want to make sure we at least have an understanding of what Hamas, even is Hamas, which is an Arabic acronym for Islamic resistance movement, would not exist today if it wasn't for Israel.

American and Israeli politicians are always saying the same thing, how dangerous and evil Hamas is, without mentioning how Israel itself helped create Hamas. The TLDR of it all is that Israeli's helped turn a bunch of fringe Palestinian Islamists in the late nineteen seventies into one of the world's most notorious militant groups. Is in a conspiracy theory, It's

a confirmed fact. Former Israeli officials, such as Brigadier General A. Sak Sagev, who was the Israeli military governor in Gaza in the early nineteen eighties, have openly spoken about this. After his tenure, Segev told a New York Times reporter that he had helped finance the Palestinian Islamist movement as a quote counterweight to secularists and leftists of the Palestine Liberation Organization aka the PLO, as well as the fut Party, which was led by Yaser Arafat. Arafat too referred to

Hamas as quote a creature of Israel. Hamas was officially founded in nineteen eighty seven, at the start of the First Palestinian Intefada, or uprising against the Israeli occupation, but its beginnings actually started much earlier. Hama's founder, Sheikh ahmadia Sin, was a member of the Muslim Brotherhood. The Brotherhood had been repressed by Egyptians in Gaza prior to nineteen sixty seven, but once the Israelis invaded and occupied the Gaza Strip,

they chose to encourage this group of extremist Islamists. The dominant Palestinian political force in Palestine at the time was the PLO, and it was deemed a threat to Israel, and so Israel sought to undermine its power. The PLO is a nationalist coalition which was centered around the secular FATA party led by Yasser Arafat. By empowering a scene in the Muslim Brotherhood, Israel thought they could divide the occupied Palestinian people and eventually rule over them by playing

them against each other secular nationalists versus religious Islamists. In nineteen seventy eight, Yasine wanted to officially register his Islamic Association, which was basically the precursor to present day Hamas. The Israelis jumped on the opportunity to help make this happen. Yasine built and grew a network of Islamists social institutions across Gaza, funded largely by Israel. Avnar Cohen is a former Israeli religious affairs official who worked in Gaza for

more than two decades. In two thousand and nine, he told the Wall Street Journal Hamas to my great regret, is Israel's creation. Back in the mid nineteen eighties, Cohen even wrote an official report to his superiors warning them not to play divide and rule in the occupied territories by backing Palestinian Islamists against the Palestinian Secularists. He wrote in his report, I suggest focusing our efforts on finding

to break up this monster before reality jumps in our face. Clearly, his superiors did not listen to him, and Hamas was the result. To be clear, Israelis had helped build up a militant strain of extremist political Islam in the form of Hamas and its Muslim Brotherhood precursors and allowed it free reign in order to quiet any chance of progress in Palestine, and then when it became convenient for their desionist narrative, the Israelis tried to bomb, besiege and blockade

it out of existence. David Hashem, a former Arabs affairs expert in the Israeli military who was based in President in the nineteen eighties, said the original sin was Israel's support of Ya Seine in the nineteen seventies. He said, when I look back at the chain of events, I think we made a mistake. But at the time, nobody

thought about the possible results. Yeah, no shit. The only American politician that I know of who has ever referenced how Israel is responsible for Hamas's creation is Ron Paul. In two thousand and one on the floor of the House, Ron Paul said Hamas was encouraged and really started by

Israel because they wanted Hamas to counteract Yasser Arafat. Speaking of Arafat, not only did he himself tell an Italian newspaper that Hamas is a creature of Israel, he also said that the former Israeli Prime Minister Yasakrabien admitted this to him, calling it a quote fatal error. Yasine was eventually assassinated by an Israeli air strike in Gaza on

March twenty second, two thousand and four. Sylvan Shalom, former Israeli Vice Prime minister, said after Yasine's death that quote sche Yassin and his organization Hamas are responsible for the killings of more than four hundred Israelis, when actually no Israel is clearly largely responsible. David Long, a former Middle East expert in the US State Department under Ronald Reagan, told journalist Robert dry I thought the Israelis were playing

with fire. This, of course, is not a unique development, as there have been dozens of instances of unneeded and malignant US intervention in other countries for its own gain, and since then Hamas has killed far more Israelis than

any secular Palestinian militant group. Israel built up ye Scene and Hamas as a rival to Arafat's Fatah, then they killed Yasne, and then they doubled down in making Hamas Israel's worst enemy, an enemy it would use to justify to the entire world that it was not only okay, but necessary to control and massacre millions of Palestinians. In the process of destroying this threat, Israel spent more than twenty years helping build up Hamas and then spent another

twenty years trying to destroy it. All of this is to say that, aside from the purposeful assistance from Israel and creating Hamas, that Hamas wouldn't even exist if it was for the Israeli occupation. There would be no resistance because without the ethnic cleansing and forced violent occupation, there

would be nothing to resist. In the process of bolstering this militant group, Hamas also became the main armed force behind the Palestinian resistance, and many view Hamas as the only group even attempting to defend Palestinians in the face of Israeli occupation. And the organization itself has changed over the years, especially in the last decade, it seems like Hamas was and is increasingly trying to establish a more

favorable status quo for the Palestinian people. Hamas's leaders were shaped by the hard realities of a brutal occupation, which was marked by mass arrests of Palestinians. The expropriation of Palestinian lands and control of their resources. More than half a million Palestinians were arrested and tried in Israel's military run courts between nineteen sixty seven and nineteen eighty seven, and over fifteen hundred Palestinian homes were demolished and thousands

of Palestinians were forcibly deported aka ethnically cleansed. After HAMAS won the two thousand and six elections in Gaza, its leader Hanija said the group accepted a state on the nineteen sixty seven borders, as well as all the decisions taken by the PA and the PLO, but there were

no takers. HAMAS leaders also backed the two thousand and two era Peace Initiative that called for the following the withdrawal of Israeli forces from territories occupied in nineteen sixty seven, the right of Palestinian refugees to return to the homes they had been forcibly displaced from since nineteen forty eight, and the formation of a sovereign, independent Palestinian state in

return for air recognition of Israel. But Hamasa's offers heatedly dismissed by Israel and ignored by Israel's Western allies, including the US, despite Washington's claims of playing the role of a quote honest broker in the conflict. Tarek Baconi, author of Hamas contained the Rise and Pacification of Palestinian resistance, told Al Jazeera Hamas has always said that they are ready to offer a truce and to stop targeting civilians

if the Israeli occupation removes its settlers. At least seven hundred and fifty thousand Israelis live in hundreds of fortified illegal settlements and outposts across the occupied Palestinian territories of the West Bank and East Jerusalem, the vast majority of which are again built illegally, either entirely or partially on

private Palestinian land, and thus they violate international law. One of the more infuriating and frankly incredibly stupid talking points that Zionists have when it comes to talking about Hamas is the two thousand and six election where Palestinians ala elected Hamas as they're appointed leadership. I want to remind every one of a few things. The Gaza strip has a very young population. Most of the inhabitants in Gaza

are under fifteen years old. The largest population group in Gaza are children between the ages of five and nine years old. This population wasn't even born yet, let alone old enough to vote in two thousand and six. And Furthermore, leadership does not indicate your right to live a life, your right to not be killed. If you're in America and Trump is your elected president and you hate Trump and maybe other foreign entities hate Trump, do you deserve to die?

It started on March thirtieth, twenty eighteen, and ended December twenty seventh of twenty nineteen. Every Friday for those years, Palestinians in Gaza demonstrated and protested along the border fence between Israel and Gaza for a right to return to their homes. And to demand an end to the Israeli blockade in Gaza. During this time, the Israeli army killed a total of two hundred and twenty three people. Over thirty six hundred and one thousand people, including nearly eight

thousand and eight hundred children, were injured. This is after a peaceful attempt at demonstrating, after a peaceful attempt at trying to resist occupation, their still shot and killed. They're shot with the intention to kill. Expecting Palestinians to be pacifists when it comes to resisting a brutal, violent occupation that has been now almost a century long is very small minded and entitled and frankly wrong. Palestinians have their

right to resist. Armed resistance is legal under international law. When it comes to resisting and occupying power. What does this mean? Maybe you've heard that train of thought before. Let me explain it to you. Let's go back in

time a little bit. The General Assembly of the United Nations the UNGA, which was once described as the collective conscious of the world, noted the right of peoples to self determination, independent and human rights as early as nineteen seventy four Resolution three three one four of the UNNGA prohibited states from any military occupation, however temporary hum curious

Israel has been doing that for now. In the relevant part of the resolution, the resolution not only went on to affirm the right to self determination, freedom, and and dependence of peoples forcibly deprived of that right, and particularly peoples under colonial and racist regimes or other forms of alien domination, but it also noted the right of the occupied to quote struggle and to seek and receive support

in that effort. The term armed struggle was implied without precise definition in that resolution and many early other ones that upheld the right of indigenous peoples to evict an occupier again the right of an indigenous people to evict their occupier, but the imprecise language was changed on December third, nineteen eighty two. At that time, the WNNGA Resolution three seven Slash four to three removed any doubt or debate over the lawful entitlement of occupied people to resist occupying

forces by na any and all lawful means. The resolution reaffirmed quote the legitimacy of the struggle of peoples for independence, territorial integrity, national unity, and liberation from colonial and foreign domination and foreign occupation by all available means, including armed struggle.

And although Israel has tried time and time again to recast this ambiguous intent of this precise resolution, trying to place its now nearly century long, violent, brutal occupation in the West Bank and Gaza beyond this resolution's application, the declaration itself proceeds to be very explicit in its language

when it comes to Palestine. Section twenty one of the resolution strongly condemned quote the expansionist activities of Israel in the Middle East and the continual bombing of Palestinian civilians, which constitute a serious obstacle to the realization of self determination and independence of the Palestinian people. That's what I mean, and that's what many people mean when they say that Palestinians have the right to resist and armed resistance is

illegal under international law. I want to bring that up because even if Hamas does not reflect the viewpoint of some Palestinians, HAMAS is also the main armed resistance group that has been fighting against the IOF in defending Palestine, Gaza in particular against Israel, and they have a right to do that clearly, as international law states. Regardless let's go back to talk about the history of Hamas and how they amended their charter.

by now, anti Zionism is not anti Semitism. The new charter also announced once again that it would accept a Palestinian state on the nineteen sixty seven borders. This would recognize, in effect, a two state solution and therefore the existence of Israel as a legitimate entity. This was proposed even as Israel continued to insist that it can no longer allow Hamas to exist, and as Israeli politicians, led by Netanyahu,

repeatedly ruled out a two state solution. Hama's political leader Haled Michal said at the time the Hamas, thinking from the very start was clear we are not facing a religious war. Hamas ever since its inception, realizes the nature of the struggle against the Israeli occupier, that it is not a struggle because they are Jews, but because they

are occupiers. Israeli officials dismissed the new policy paper as lies in a video Ntenya, who symbolically and dramatically threw the document into a trash ban, saying it was an attempt to deceive the world. Through its actions which span across decades, Israel has not shown any interest in a political agreement, whether with Hamas or other Palestinian political parties like FATA, which governs the occupied West Bank. Sary Arabi, a Ramala based political analyst, told El Dazeira, the issue

is not about Gaza. It's also not about whether Israel or Hamas started the war. There are daily killings and assaults in the occupied West Bank. There are attacks on the Uxa Mosque, there are prisoners and checkpoints. The people in Gaza are refugees. They were isolated and separated from the rest of the Palestinian people, and the vast majority of Gaza's population are refugees who were forcibly expelled from their homes and villages in the nineteen forty eight Nekba

by Zionist militias. Many political analysts also blame Israel for the failure of the OSCO Accords, signed in nineteen ninety three and nineteen ninety five between Israel and the PLO, which was representative of the Palestinian people at the time. The agreements led to the formation of the PA, an interim five year governing body meant to lead to an independent Palestinian state comprising of the occupied territory of East

Jerusalem and the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. However, thirty years into its existence, the PA has failed to create a state in the face of Israeli occupation, legal land grabs and settlements, and then Hamas took control of Gaza from the PA in two thousand and seven. While there was initial support for the OSCO Accords among Palestinians, the failure to reach a final peace agreement by nineteen ninety nine and the growing settlement projects, particularly under nan Yahoo,

left many disappointed. In a leaked video in twenty ten, Nanyah, who boasted about how he made sure the OSCO Accords did not succeed. The hopes of the OSCO Accords turned into despair as Israeli policies under successive governments continued to undermine the PA and its aspirations. Today, the PA has limited administrative rule over pockets of the occupied West Bank, while Israeli settlements, which are again considered illegal under international law,

have grown rapidly. The settler population in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem has grown from two hundred and fifty thousand Israelis in nineteen ninety three to more than seven hundred thousand this year. In his talk with El Jazeera, author Tarik Barconi said the Israelis wanted OSLO because that's how they maintained their colonization. By maintaining the facade of a peace process. Hamas was showing a mirror to the Israelis to say, if you're actually talking about the possibility

of ending the occupation, then end it. That was their offer, instead of the nineteen ninety three awesome agreements that they would stop armed resistance if Israel let Palestinians be in the eastern side of Jerusalem, the West Bank and Gaza.

When we look into the history of Hamas, we see that its political leadership has over the years proposed numerous long term truces or cease fires to Israel in exchange for the realization of a sovereign, independent Palestinian state, but Israel has rejected those offers, arguing that Hamas could not be trusted to adhere to any long term ceasefire and insisting that any proposal for a short term pause and fighting were insincere and strategically aimed only at helping the

armed movement regroup from losses. I've said this before, but it bears repeating. Every Zionist accusation is a confession. The reality is that Israel is the one who cannot be trusted to adhere to any long term ceasefire, as we have seen time and time again. Here is a summarized timeline of the most recent peace deal attempts that have been proposed since October seventh, since the genocide in Gaza started.

In January twenty twenty four, the n YAHOO rejected a Hamas proposal to end the war and release more than one hundred captives held by the group in exchange for a withdrawal of Israeli forces, the release of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails and recognition of Hamas governance over Gaza. And then on May sixth, Hamas said it accepted a Gaza ceasefire proposal which was put forward by Egypt and Kuttar.

This deal would come in three stages that would see an initial halt in the fighting, leading to lasting calm and the withdrawal of Israeli troops from the Palaesainian territory. It would also ensure the release of Israeli captives in Gaza, as well as an unspecified number of Palestinians held in

Israeli jails. The framework of the agreement in brief is the release of all Israeli captives in the Gaza Strip, civilians or military, alive or otherwise from all periods, in exchange for a number of Palestinian prisoners held by Israel as agreed upon, and a return to a sustainable calm that leads to a permanent ceasefire and the withdrawal of Israeli forces from the Gaza Strip, as well as its reconstruction in the lifting of the siege hm That seems

little familiar, doesn't it, But Israel unsurprisingly did not agree to this proposal. Instead, it bombed Rupha, which made the Israeli government's message clear there will be no permanent ceasefire. Israel's bombing of Raupphah was justified by Israel as a way to disband Hamspitalians and seize control of the Gaza Egyptian cross which Israel accuses Hamas of using to smuggle

weapons into Gaza. But humanitarian groups were quick to point out that a closure of such a crossing would only lead to further disastrous consequences for the more than one million Palestinians living in Dapah, the majority of them displaced from other areas of Gaza who fled to Daphah after being told by Israel that it was a quote unquote

safe zone. Israel said at the time that the terms of the May Hamasisepire deal differed from previous proposals it had seen, but analysts believe that the wider issue is that Israel is not willing to agree to a permanency spire even after Hamas releases all Israeli captives. Omar Dehman, an expert on Israel Palestine with the Middle East Council for Global Affairs, spoke about this in May saying the last couple of days have proved that Israel was not

really negotiating in good faith. The moment that Hamas agreed to a deal, Israel was willing to low that up by commencing their assault on Rafah. The goal is to destroy Gaza in its totality. And then, on May thirty first, the US announced its own ceasefire proposal that Biden said would lead to a quote lasting ceasefire in the Gaza strip.

He said the proposal involves three phases, the first of which would last six weeks and would include a full and complete ceasefire as well as the withdrawal of Israeli forces from all populated areas of Gaza. Again, this peace plan is almost indistinguishable from the one that Hamas agreed

to on May sixth. A quick reminder that only twenty five days before this announcement, on May sixth, Hamas had agreed to a cease fire proposal by Egypt and Katad that is almost identical to the one Biden announced on May thirty first, and Israeli leaders rejected that initiative. On June seventh, Israel rejected the UN's resolution of its own hostage deal. Offer, which was a permanent seat ease fire

in exchange for release of all hostages. A reminder that the only mass release of hostages has come through ceasefire exchanges, and that a ceasefire deal means freed hostages without mass death. It boggles my mind that there are still people defending Israel and saying all this Palestinian death is for the hostages, because again, if Israel cared about their lives at all, they would agree to a deal because that deal can guarantee the safety of the hostages. But they do not

care about the hostages. Every time Israel rejects a deal, they are telling you that, and yet their supporters are too entrenched in the lies and propaganda of Zionism to ever see clearly. So, just to summarize, the US proposed a ceasefire deal which was almost indistinguishable from previous plans, agreed to buy Hamas, and then, while seemingly waiting for Israel to accept the deal, the US launched a military operation and committed more war crimes to murder hundreds of Palestinians.

And they did this by hiding in humanitarian aid trucks while deceiving the world and the Palestinians into thinking that they were trying to formulate a ceasefire agreement. The US helped Israel plan and carry out its massacres. This is what peacemaking looks like to the United States. A ceasefire deal is the absolute bare minimum, and it is nowhere near enough. The removal of Nan Yahoo is nowhere near enough.

He's being set up as the fall guy and scapegoat for Israel, skirting the responsibility of what the Israeli state has done to Palestinian people since nineteen forty eight. The Fight for Palestine is a liberation movement which demands nothing less than the full dignity, freedom, and security of all all who live under this violent military occupation. It's a demand to end Israeli apartheid, and until that happens, Israel will continue to get away with the nekapa that started

in nineteen forty eight and continues today. The Nekapa never ended. Israel will continue to get away with the genocide and ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian people until Israel and it's apartheid is dismantled. A ceasefire is the absolute bare minimum to achieving that, and that my friends is our episode for today. Please keep sharing and learning about what is happening in Palestine and got stop talking about it. Free Palestine.