The Exploding Head

Palestine has reminded us that we have nothing without collective action. Through, by, and because of the people: how much more obvious can it be that this is always how change happens. Maybe we're just not used to being in the middle (in the movement) of it. #globalsumudflotilla   #Gaza   #gazagenocide   #freepalestine   #Palestine

Will anything happen after the International Association of Genocide Scholars released their declaration calling Israel's actions in Gaza as constituting genocide? The grotesque "So what now?" question reveals how our governments - with the exception of a small number of countries - have been treating this genocide until now. For them, the annihilation of a people has been one big in...

It's time to admit that, in the end, the descriptors Zionists tend to use for the Israeli army might as well be true. The uniqueness of the Israeli army should definitely be acknowledged and exemplified -- just not exactly how Zionists do it.

Germany just announced it would suspend its arms to Israel - what does it mean? In short, it means the mass murder of children, journalists, health workers, and every single demographic of Gaza wasn't enough for Germany. A genocide wasn't a red line. But something that Netanyahu has now more officially stated - something that was so clear from the start - became a red line, it seems. Let&#...

These are just some of the horrors of this genocide and of Israel's illegal occupation of the West Bank. This is what supremacy, fascism, and complete impunity look like on the bodies of Palestinian children.

My "recommendation" is very pragmatic and just as simple: we repeat, we repeat, we repeat. We amplify again and again informed voices of conscience ✊🏽 We talk about the same horrors all over again -- because they're still happening. And remember: Zionist propagandists aren't ashamed of repeating their propaganda points aimed at justifying this genocide. #Gaza   #GazaGenocide  ...

When it comes to warmongering, manufacturing concent, and using racist colonial narratives to justify aggression against a country that the West wants to make "obedient", we don't need to look for examples in history -- we can see what's happening to Iran. In my short episode, I invite you to notice, call out, condemn, and ridicule three important phenomena you've probably noticed.

The profound shame surrounding witnessing an extermination of a people is very real, and - I claim - has different levels (layers, if you will). This, and the continuous heartbreak, is what I address in my episode, illustrating one of those shame levels with the stance of my own country, Lithuania. I do hope this episode is more than an essay-like recording; I hope it will remind you that inaction...

We have seen enough. We have seen too much, in fact. We have seen enough to show zero tolerance for those who still declare their loyalty to an ideology that has turned Gaza into a mass grave of children. They are out of touch with reality; they are unwell. And just like, I would assume, you show zero tolerance to anyone who self-identifies as a Nazi, it is high time treat Zionists in the same way...

Have you accepted the media silence surrounding a Fascist regime, a coloniser, keeping an entire population under siege? Are you OK with a people being intentionally starved to death by a country that your country might be friends with? Have you normalised seeing country leaders with arrest warrants for war crimes and crimes against humanity being treated just like any other politician? Do you thi...

There are the bodies who torture others. There are the bodies who support the torture and extermination of people. There are the bodies being tortured. And then there's you. There's your body. What will YOU do? How will YOU use your body --- hopefully, in ways that are good for your soul? Here's my video on Hussam Abu Safiya, Fascism, and what it does to our bodies.

It seems Antony Blinken's closing press conference was a microcosm in itself: a binary between those with a moral compass and courage and those for whom this combination is unknown. My eternal gratitude and respect for Max Blumenthal and Sam Husseini. My eternal gratitude, respect, and apologies on behalf of the world to Palestinian journalists.

My wish for you and me came to me unexpectedly, on a graffiti tour in Oaxaca, Mexico -- in a mural that wasn't even part of the tour. It's a message that resonated deeply. A message I immediately wanted to share with you. I hope it resonates, too, and maybe it's something you've been needing to hear.

Assad's regime has fallen and there's an incredibly difficult task ahead for the people of Syria: to rebuild the country. In my episode, I'm inviting you to fight the potential cynicism surrounding this incredible news and not to dehumanise your Syrian friends by telling them what to think and - my goodness - what to feel.

I've had it wrong all those years - and not just the colonial/white feminist language for which I apologise. I've had it wrong in terms of in what direction humanity was flowing. And I didn't realise what our collective struggle - to see a free Palestine one day - has given us.

It is the same indoctrination, the same lens, the same dehumanising rhetoric that is mass murdering people for over five centuries: a colonised mind. A mind of a coloniser. This is what my slightly rant-like episode is about. It's about seeing the humanity of others and removing - actively, aggressively, unapologetically - the obstacles that prevent you from seeing others as connected to yourself....

There are words that can be thrown around in a misleading way, diluting, obscuring, or completely misrepresenting what they mean. The same words can be used reluctantly - knowingly - when they fit certain situations perfectly. It was high time I did an episode on terrorism, also talking about war crimes and other concepts that I hope will be useful additions to your toolbox of concepts to use to d...

If you think the title of this podcast episode is an exaggeration, I invite you to answer a simple question: What and who has any influence on the unconditional support that the Biden-Harris administration has been showing to Israel? --- Welcome to the fifth season of my podcast. Thank you for sticking around or, if it's new to you, for giving it a go! Find the resources that I mention on my websi...

Why would you be a member state of an organisation whose agencies you accuse of terrorism, whose schools you bomb, whose employees you murder at historic rates, and whose court orders you don't listen to? And why should this organisation welcome you as a "normal" member? Israel is a rogue state that has only shown disregard and contempt for everything the UN aims to represent. It&#39...

To see people who describe themselves as progressive cheer for a presidential candidate whose current administration has been literally supporting a genocide has been one continuous exploding head moment for me. This is what my episode is on, with a simple deconstruction of what we need to remember about Kamala Harris.

It's difficult to see Fascism on the rise. It's difficult to see people - from country leaders to "regular" people - justify and advocate for mass murder. My head is exploding when the complete flattening of Gaza by an occupying force is presented anything else than what history, international law, and basic human decency in the end require: an extermination of a people. In broad...

There was little unexpected in Netanyahu's address in Congress yesterday. Nonetheless, there's a lot to be said about it. In short, it didn't reveal anything new about Israel. Yet it has revealed - or at least reminded - us what the US Congress is really about, proudly and shamelessly. Find more resources in my article: https://wp.me/pc6sQr-19S

In my episode, I invite you to notice how simple the "counterarguments" are oftentimes to the reports by some of the world's established institutions on Israel's destruction of Gaza. I invite you to listen to what the UN, Save The Children, the ICJ, the ICC, and others have to say.

"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...