#martyr
Khazar Adnan, senior member of Islamic Jihad, died after 86 days of hunger strike in Israeli prison.
This is a first time Israel allowing Palestinian prisoners to starve and die in captivity.
Up until now, their policy (like the US in Guantanamo) to forcefeed the striking prisoners in the most violent ways to torture them and keep them alive at the same time.
But the Israeli KKK leader Ben Gvir said in a speech today that no police or prison guard is allowed to do anything to "extend the lives of terrorists in captivity, if they desire to rldie, we let them die".
The death of #KhazarAdnan is yet another escalation in the already explosive situation in the occupied territories and images like the one I shared are being spread by everyone, even those not supported #IslamicJihad by calling him a #Martyr of the Palestinian cause.
Do not expect the world to react in any way other than calling the both parties to calm and then give more support and money to apartheid state of Israel to force more Palestinians out and build more Jewish only illegal settlements.
Time for Insurrectionary History!
Enough of commemorating political and religious figures.
Let’s remember those who rebelled :)
Policarpa Salavarrieta, Colombian independence heroine
This morning in 1817, a #Colombian #seamstress was shot in #Bogota for #spying on the #Spanish forces fighting to quell #SouthAmerica’s #Bolivarian #independence movements.
Policarpa Salavarrieta — it was the name her brother used for her; her legal given name and origin are romantically lost — was infiltrated into Bogota during the #reconquista, when a #Spain recovering from Napoleon’s intrusion deployed in force to quash the #separatist aspirations of its #NewWorld #colonies.
It was the day of #SimonBolivar, but Spain had completed its apparent pacification of New Granada* in 1816, and established a stronghold in Bogota. #Subversives had to mind their P’s and Q’s.
Although she was a known agitator in the city of Guadas, “La Pola” could slip into Bogota without drawing attention.
There, she used her skills as a domestic to hang around royalist households, sewing up clothes while snooping around, and helping #revolutionaries recruit soldiers.
She was arrested when the Spanish busted the network, (the link is in Spanish) and shot publicly with her lover, Alejo Sabarain, and a number** of others — all men, none of them half so well-remembered or beloved as Salavarrieta. She was supposed to have ignored the priests murmuring te deums in her ear on the scaffold in order to exhort the onlookers to resistance.
Over the years to come, she would become an emblematic #martyr of independence; just see how many times her theme is visited in this history of Colombian painting (Spanish again). She’s also the only historical (not mythological/allegorical) woman ever used on Colombian currency.
As will be readily surmised, of course, she merits her tribute because the movement in whose service she died soon rallied and carried the day.
I am struck today by this saint and martyr, Maximilian Kolbe. He used his privilege for good and the protection of all humans, not just Christians. #Saint #Martyr #ATrueChristian #ModelForUsToday en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maximilia…
