The Exploding Head Justina Poskeviciute

"We're in the middle of a genocide, Fascism is on the rise, and now this?" I was thinking (despairing, really) yesterday as messages about Noam Chomsky passing away were coming in.



Thankfully, those messages were false.

But my reflections aren't.



That's what I'm sharing with you today. So we don't fall into that despair together. Not yet.

If it hasn't been clear from Israel's killing of children at historic rates, using starvation as a weapon of war, and its history of murdering children with impunity -- it's even more official now.



The UN has announced that this month it is adding Israel to its blacklist of parties who commit grave violations affecting children in situations of armed conflict.



In my episode, I describe the report on which that list appears, what it's comprised of, how Israel was assessed on that same report last year, and what this new development could mean.



Find all these annual reports here:

https://childrenandarmedconflict.un.org/document-type/annual-reports/

What is a rogue state?

And if we use this concept to describe Israel, why would that matter?

As US-backed Israeli forces just committed yet another massacre in Rafah, targetting displaced people in tents and burning some of its victims alive, what are our elected leaders waiting for, pretending not to have any power?

It's all in my episode. That and a healthy amount of rage that I'm encouraging you, too, to let out in healthy ways.



My article with more resources here: https://justinaposkeviciute.com/

Student protests and encampments around the US and, increasingly, outside of it, have shown a lot. Or, rather, they have revealed a lot.

From the rise of Fascism in the US used to protect a Fascist regime in Israel to how parts of our societies can be angered by peaceful protests but not by daily mass murder in Gaza.

This and more is what my episode is about.



Find more resources here: https://wp.me/pc6sQr-17i

I don't think there are any debates left: Israel's brutality is completely in the open, as shown by its recent destruction of the Al Shifa Hospital and all executions that took place there, as well as its targetting and killing of the World Central Kitchen aid convoy.



The disregard for International Humanitarian Law here is two-fold at least: in Israel's conduct and in what its defenders still claim (or have never claimed in the first place).



This is what my episode is about.

To support an ideology or an ethno-national project means to support it all and not just an idea of it.



It means to support what it actually looks like on the ground for the people for whom it's not an idea but a lived experience.



It can't be clearer by now how much violence, killings, destruction, and different (decades-long) forms of oppression people who identify themselves as Zionist have to support and justify these days as Israel is starving and bombing the people of Gaza.



My episode is exactly on that.



Please find its description and all the resources I'm pointing to here:

https://bit.ly/49LIZAT