Estimated emissions from the first 120 days [since 7 October 2023] alone were greater than the annual emissions of 26 individual countries and territories. The emissions associated with rebuilding Gaza are projected to be higher than the annual emissions of over 135 countries, equating them to those of Sweden and Portugal.
"While the humanitarian crises dominate global attention, the environmental impact of the conflict is significant and warrants attention. Military operations, according to a previous study, are responsible for about 5.5% of global carbon emissions, yet these emissions are often underreported and understudied. The research team advocates for better methodologies to track and report these emissions, emphasizing the importance of including wartime emissions in climate calculations."
In 2023, the Israeli military censor barred the publication of 613 articles by media outlets in Israel, setting a new record for the period since +972 Magazine began collecting data in 2011. The censor also redacted parts of a further 2,703 articles, representing the highest figure since 2014. In all, the military prevented information from being made public an average of 9 times a day.
To simply imagine Palestine without settlers, to simply imagine a sky without drones—that, in the Zionist imagination, is genocidal. If you stick with the “want” of the charge, the notion that Palestinians want to kill all Jews, you find that Zionism is at war with our future. It is at war with our ability to articulate, even if only through poems and protest chants, a future in which Zionism does not reign. For in the past 100 years, Zionism has situated us in a condition of constant dispossession and premature death; our Nakba remains and renews. We are besieged in an inescapable, eternal present tense.
But in his dreams, the Palestinian who lives landlocked near the sea, unable to swim in it due to checkpoints, who has spent years tormented by its salty humidity visiting his kitchen in the summer, tormented by old photographs of his grandparents’ house that still stands on the shore, that Palestinian swims in the Mediterranean, declaring, “This sea is mine.” In her dreams,...
Western elites are educated to believe our "military superiority" is rooted in a "moral superiority". The paradox – revealed in Gaza – is the more powerfully we can kill, the more certain we are that our victims deserve their fate.
— Jonathan Cook
Most Jewish Israelis are allergic to Levantine pollen. Even the land rejects them.
The Next War
Ursula K. Le Guin
It will take place,
it will take time,
it will take life,
and waste them.
from finding my elegy (2012)
Countries that rely on tourism won't accept israelis.
An Egyptian motorcycle driver dropped his passenger the moment he discovered he was an israeli tourist.
An israeli tourist was kicked out by the local island community of Maldives, "last reports indicate she was on her way back to the airport after realising humanity does not welcome them anymore.".
Hotels in Japan, Thailand, Greek islands stopped accepting paying israelis
- The rejection from a hotel in Japan in June 2024 said they did not want to harbour anyone who could be facing persecution for war crimes someday.
"israeli tourists go on worldwide racism tours to yell slurs at different ethnic groups and do zionism.": All through August and September videos on social media show israeli tourists in Japan harrassing and insulting pro-Palestinian supporters,
- eg. this video in Tokyo on 26 June 2024,
- or in August when israeli tourists shouted at a Japanese woman waving a Palestinian flag that "Palestine doesn't exist!".
"israelis, like the West, have been fed this false notion of the meek depoliticized Japanese. The sight of the 🇵🇸 flag/chants destroys israeli tourist illusions". israeli tourists could not handle how Japanese people expressing political opinions disrupted their fantasy of visiting a nation of anime, cute looking plushies and exotic candy: "there is this perception among westerners in general that the japanese are a nation of anime, cute looking plushies and exotic candy. they go there to live a fantasy. they are not supposed to have opinions on things. its simply racism in a different manifestation"
the Zionist occupying entity provided funding, weapons, and even training to Serbs and paramilitary groups who committed genocide and ethnic cleansing of Muslims in the early 1990s.
"The state faces a series of similar requests regarding its collaboration with the murderers of the Argentinian Junta, Pinochet’s regime in Chile, and Sri Lanka."
the Zionist entity israel has lost support in 42 of 43 countries polled, with an 18.5% drop in favorability worldwide. Geopolitical Economy Report, 2024
