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Drawing of 3 people’s arms, washing the blood of their hands under a faucet labeled Recognition of Palestine. The arms are labeled UK, Australia and Canada.
original artist is Suhail H Naqshbandi on threads
Drawing of 3 people’s arms, washing the blood of their hands under a faucet labeled Recognition of Palestine. The arms are labeled UK, Australia and Canada.
original artist is Suhail H Naqshbandi on threads
Even hollow PR gestures have value, assuming it was a hollow PR gesture.
Recognition of Palestinian statehood, however, comes with diplomatic and legal implications, and governments are nothing if not massive conglomerations of machinery that run without concern for the ‘deeper’ motivations of the originators.
That our governments here in the West are still, largely, pro-Zionist despite the ongoing genocide does not invalidate that positions which would have previously been considered insufficiently pro-Zionist to even be seriously discussed are now the official position of the government.
Fuck Australia’s government for cracking down on Palestinian protesters and maintaining ties with Israel, but “Fuck them for being horrifically pro-Zionist” and “This is a step in the right direction” are not mutually exclusive.