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Natalie Kendel @nataliekendel.bsky.social · Jul 20

The Palestinians are not "facing" starvation.
They are being starved to death by the Israelis as an act of extermination.
Language in the passive tense is an age-old tool of oppressor-serving media.

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Natalie Kendel @nataliekendel.bsky.social · Jul 20

Palestinian children are licking off the residue of flour from the rusted steel on the back of the "aid" trucks in Gaza.
Licking the dust.
The flour that the Israelis mixed oxycodone into. To further torture the people they are starving.
#FreePalestine

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Natalie Kendel @nataliekendel.bsky.social · Jul 20

I saw an 11-year-old with grey hair in Gaza today.
The stress of living in a concentration camp.

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Natalie Kendel @nataliekendel.bsky.social · Jul 20

The Israelis are now gassing Palestines.
Do you hear?

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Natalie Kendel @nataliekendel.bsky.social · Jul 20

When the time comes for a reckoning, I will stand as witness against every single pastor and spiritual leader I know who didn't unequivocally support Free Palestine.
You think no one will follow up or remember what you did and didn't do. I will. Your time is coming.

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Natalie Kendel @nataliekendel.bsky.social · Jul 20

Every single Palestinian in Gaza Concentration Camp is now starving to death. Every single one.

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Natalie Kendel @nataliekendel.bsky.social · Jul 13

Of course I support Free Palestine...I'm a Christian!

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Natalie Kendel @nataliekendel.bsky.social · Jul 3

God's kingdom is the opposite to capitalistic empire.
Sabbath is resistance.
#sabbath #7thday #anticapitalism #antiimperialism

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Natalie Kendel @nataliekendel.bsky.social · Jul 3

He declares them worthy of love, safety, food, belonging, autonomy, dignity before they've done a single thing to deserve it.
The first full day which human beings experienced on earth was the Sabbath day. And it was spent resting. Just being. Enjoying. Basking.

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Natalie Kendel @nataliekendel.bsky.social · Jul 3

This is one of the reasons I celebrate the Sabbath.
The Sabbath is an anti-thesis to capitalism, to empire, and to slavery. It is God's statement that the human being is not defined by their labour or their usefulness.

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Natalie Kendel @nataliekendel.bsky.social · Jul 3

In capitalism, if you're aren't born into wealth, your only capital is your labour. That means your only value in that society is your labour. You become defined by your labour. Your human body is seen as a commodity. You must constantly earn your life, prove your worth.

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Natalie Kendel @nataliekendel.bsky.social · Jul 3

The US will bomb your country until there's nothing left, then come back 20 years later and make a movie about how sad their soldiers got from doing it.

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Natalie Kendel @nataliekendel.bsky.social · Jul 3

American democracy isn't "collapsing". Stop saying that. What IS collapsing is the mythology of American democracy and empire.

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Natalie Kendel @nataliekendel.bsky.social · Jul 3

But at least we must support our troops, right?
No.
No we're not supporting those who willingly signed up to murder people for a genocidal empire.

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Natalie Kendel @nataliekendel.bsky.social · Jul 3

The cognitive dissonance and the betrayal of all that is good, just, and loving sits so deep, that most Adventists don't even realise the monstrous sin they are committing through their silence, their apathy, and their "both-side"ing in the Palestinian Holocaust.

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Natalie Kendel @nataliekendel.bsky.social · Jul 3

As Adventists alternate between “pray for peace” and “let’s get excited because Jesus is coming soon”, I tremble at the reality check they're about to receive if they don't wake up and repent.

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Natalie Kendel @nataliekendel.bsky.social · Jul 3

Long live the resistance.
Long live Hamas.
Long live the Intifada.

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Natalie Kendel @nataliekendel.bsky.social · Jul 3

I will never understand how Christians ✝️ can celebrate David for slinging a stone at a giant from among his people's oppressors, and then do the impossible mental gymnastics of condemning Hamas or Palestinians for resisting their annihilation inside a concentration camp.

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Natalie Kendel @nataliekendel.bsky.social · Jul 3

Muslims really are the persecuted religious group that everyone else thinks they are.

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Natalie Kendel @nataliekendel.bsky.social · Jul 3

To witness a clear situation of gross injustice, with one victim and one perpetrator, and declare in your condescending, white, Western, privileged tone that: "Both sides have done bad things" and "Can't we just all get along?", is the definition of being an enabler of abuse and evil.

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Natalie Kendel @nataliekendel.bsky.social · Jul 3

You can sing all you want to in church on Sabbaths, @adventistchurch.bsky.social .
Your God will be standing with the children in Gaza. Not in your passive, cold, hateful, silent buildings.

#freepalestine

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Natalie Kendel @nataliekendel.bsky.social · Jul 3

Washington hunted her until his death.
White America and her leaders were rotten from the beginning. Not a single one of them were heroes.
#endtheamericanempire

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Natalie Kendel @nataliekendel.bsky.social · Jul 3

Then the "father of freedom" decided he couldn't stand her being free. So he sent federal agents to find her.
For 50 years she outsmarted America's most powerful men. And she remained free.

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Natalie Kendel @nataliekendel.bsky.social · Jul 3

George Washington had a 9-year-old slave girl.
Her name was Ona Judge.
She escaped during a presidential dinner.

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Natalie Kendel @nataliekendel.bsky.social · Jul 3

A sure way of telling that a person doesn't actually care about or love Jewish people, is that they equate Zionism with Judaism, and anti-Zionism with antisemitism.

#freepalestine

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