Beetle [hy/hym]

Unfortunately Merz is a pro fascist. Supporting genocide in Palestine and killing Britains disabled population by cutting their healthcare.

If the occupational army kills the people on the flotilla it will cause massive civil unrest in a large part of the world that we need to use to our advantage to increase pressure on complicit governments and entities. If the occupation doesn’t kill everyone, then the flotilla will likely succeed in breaking the siege and getting food into Gaza. This creates an opportunity for us to increase pressure on governments to do their duty in preventing genocide and provide aid. Because if a bunch of civilians can break the siege, imagine what armies can do.

I share your concern and care deeply about the people on there, but they are not putting their bodies on the line because they want our sympathy. They do it to direct attention towards Gaza and the genocide and to break the siege. Whatever happens, it is our duty to use the momentum the flotilla is creating towards pressure on complicit governments and entities.

I’m so sorry, that sounds awful. Showering can be really scary with illness because it is indeed very taxing and you’re in a vulnerable position. I get lightheaded during showers and am thinking about getting a shower stool.

To be honest I don’t think media is deliberately lying here. They’re taking a statement from the rector of the university and assume it’s true without proper research (which is bad but unfortunately common). The rector lied when he called it a boycott.

As far as I know all activist groups in The Netherlands that want to break the ties mostly communicate via instagram (not ideal), and this news hasn’t been picked up by Dutch media. @utrechtuni4palestine released a statement on instagram that explains the situation pretty well.

Here’s the most recent statement from Utrecht University that talks about the current policy, which is to continue current collaborations (except for 1 with a government agency) but to not start new collaborations for now: https://www.uu.nl/en/news/adjusted-statement-executive-board-and-deans

On https://academiccomplicity.nl/ you can find all public collaborations from Dutch universities with Israeli institutions.

I live in The Netherlands so I keep up with all university policies and actions by students and staff relating ties to israel.

This is not true, the university still has ties with Israeli institutions through ongoing horizon projects. The actual ‘landmark decision’ is that they used the term boycott for their policy to stop collaborations with Israeli governmental institutions. It shows another shift in the political climate where talking about a boycott on Israel is no longer considered controversial.

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These journalists are like children who observe a very normal thing, an Orthodox Church, but then create a whole scary fantasy story around it because anything tied to Russia or Russian people seems suspicious to them. It’s scary how a simple prejudice can lead to very serious accusations and harassment and even murder and genocide in the case of the Palestinians.

That’s murder of disabled people! It’s like disabled people deserve to die to these people.

It can take literal hours for me to find out what is the actual first step to do something.

The bird would not be okay if you bounce it like a basketball

It is funny how everyone thinks they have some valuable insight on how I should deal with my illness even though they barely understand the illness itself. It’s also funny how every expert I talk to think that the main source if my symptoms is in their specialty field. I appreciate some advice from people who are knowledgeable on my illness though. The questions you suggest are great and would make many conversations I have about my illness with random people much more pleasant.