Balchand (Mughal Indian, active 1595–1650). Mughal Emperor Jahangir Receives Prince Khurram at Ajmer on His Return from the Mewar Campaign (1635). Detail. The plundered manuscript is held captive at the British Royal Collection.
Shabana Mir
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Marion Boehm (German, b. 1964). Daliah & Said (2022, mixed media collage on canvas).
Laila Shawa (Palestinian, 1940–2022). Family (1965, acrylic and Graphite on board).
Theodore Robinson (U.S., 1852–1896) Apple Blossoms (1889, oil on canvas).
Michael Ghaui (U.S., b. 1950). Zebras (1987, oil on canvas).
Surprise. ICE and CBP sexual predators. I'd love to see one for police and military too.
Pacific Antifascist Research Collective@pacantifa.is · 5d agoHere is our full list of all 145 sex pests and sexual predators from ICE and Customs & Border Protection in a single image. The entries outlined in red indicate entries involving alleged sex crimes against children.
Hi Israel, no problem, keep killing! you are white and western-identified, you can keep slaughtering brown muslims in Gaza and brown Christians in Lebanon! the world doesn't even care as much as it did for an old church in France!
Drop Site@dropsitenews.com · 4d agoPreparing to fly to a former home, Northern VA, for a workshop. Finances have recently made it difficult to travel in the country for conferencing, so I'm slightly out of practice. Rattling my joints to see if everything works. 🧳 Ironically, I am fully in practice vis-a-vis traveling abroad LOL ✈️
Paula López-Bravo (Spanish, b. 1986). Endless Summer (2020, acrylic on canvas).
August Macke (German, 1887–1914). Donkey rider (1914, watercolor).
What struck me most the first time I volunteered on the West Bank to help with olive harvest is that the Israelis have everything, but they have nothing. The Palestinian's have nothing, but they have everything.
Shabana Mir@shabana.bsky.social · 4d agoItamar Ben-Gvir, Israeli minister of national security: "If you enter Israel's prisons now under my supervision, you can see what I did there. When you enter a cell, the Palestinian prisoner starts to tremble and curls up into a ball. I've taken away their bread, the dining hall, the sports ...
Itamar Ben-Gvir, Israeli minister of national security: "If you enter Israel's prisons now under my supervision, you can see what I did there. When you enter a cell, the Palestinian prisoner starts to tremble and curls up into a ball. I've taken away their bread, the dining hall, the sports ...
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This is the video posted by National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir
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Mondoweiss@mondoweiss.net · last mo.Mujahed Mofleh, one of Palestine’s finest editors, nearly died after leaving Israeli detention. When I visited him, he could barely move, yet wrote he had messages from prisoners he needed to deliver. That’s when I realized the prison never left him. mondoweiss.net/2026/06/muja...
Yehuda Shimon of the illegal Havat Gilad settlement says that Israel should kill everyone in the villages of Tell & Sarra in revenge for a single Israeli killed. "1 Jewish life is worth 10 million," he said. Racist much? He replied: "But this is the truth. Because God chose us. You are jealous."
A 2026 medical paper on 517 male Palestinian detainees echoes the study’s finding that one of the effects of raping men (specifically) is often a “vicarious” torture inflicted upon them and their families members via the humiliation of Palestinian masculinity, the symbolic shattering of its honor.
The pattern has never broken. In 2015 – nearly a decade before the current wave of the genocide – a study analyzing cases of prison abuse collected by the Public Committee Against Torture in Israel concluded, in a peer-reviewed journal, that “sexual ill-treatment is systemic.”
Rape invades and occupies corporeal territory. It terrorizes, and thereby disciplines, the underemployed Palestinian workforce. And even as it forces contact, it distances: it “others” its victims, inscribing the native-settler line on the body itself.
How should we understand this? Not just the rape itself, which armies have committed everywhere, but the celebration of it? In settler-colonial contexts, sexual violence is a governmental multi-tool. In Zionism, raping the precarious indigenous population does several material things at once. ...
The obsessive framing of Palestinian men as rape-obsessed monsters is designed to shield Israel from criticism, and to distract from the barely hidden, monumental scale of Israeli sexual brutality – which does not pause while the narrative is being managed.