On this day in 1976, Palestinians initiated a campaign of resistance, including a general strike, occupations, and violent confrontation with police, in opposition to Israeli settlement plans. The uprising is commemorated annually as Land Day.

Land Day was not a spontaneous uprising, but the result of months of planning. On May 21st, 1975, activists and Arab intellectuals held a meeting in Haifa to discuss a strategic response to Israel stepping up its campaign to appropriate Palestinian-owned land. This began a series of meetings over which the campaign was conceptualized, including a general congress that was the largest public gathering of Palestinians in Israel since 1948.

On February 14th, 1976, more than 5,000 residents rallied in the village of Sakhnin, calling for a general strike in response to Israeli repression. To prepare for the strike, local land defense committees and branches of the Communist Party distributed leaflets, organized demonstrations, and held meetings in several Arab towns and villages.

The first confrontations began on the eve of Land Day, March 29th as demonstrators in Arraba demanded the release of a local activist, closing the streets and setting fire to tires. Israeli soldiers fired on demonstrators with live ammunition, injuring many of them.

The following day, the general strike was initiated in Arab towns and villages, including the West Bank, Gaza Strip, and refugee camps in Lebanon. Israeli troops and border guards in military trucks and tanks raided Arab communities to arrest activist politicians and disperse demonstrators.

In total, six people were killed, approximately fifty were injured, and three hundred were arrested. When some of the injured applied for compensation, the Israeli Ministry of Defense categorized the Land Day confrontations as “combat activity”.

The Interactive Encyclopedia of the Palestine Question describes Land Day’s legacy this way: “Land Day was a turning point in the orientations and tools adopted for Palestinian struggle inside Israel. After Land Day the Palestinians in Israel gradually structured their presence as a national group inside Israel in a way that went beyond their local struggles.”

During Land Day protests in 2018, seventeen Palestinians were killed, including five Hamas members, and more than 1,400 were injured in shootings by the Israeli Army during a march calling for the Palestinian right of return at the borders with Gaza.

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  • peppersky [he/him, any]@hexbear.netEnglish
    22·
    5 days ago

    Could we actually get a side-wide ban of AI-generated content on this website? Let’s have one tiny place of refuge from the fully sloppified world out there

    • hello_hello [comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
      5·
      5 days ago

      I’d agree with this also, replying to people using LLM generated content is not fun since the bit actively harms the planet at the same time.

      Also posts discussing AI slop should have a CW on the post title. Some of this stuff is just genuinely either heartbreaking, horrifying, infuriating or a mixture of all 3.

  • BigBoyKarlLiebknecht [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
    13·
    5 days ago

    Just pausing to reflect that George Michael was a member of the Young Communist League at the age of 15, wrote Careless Whisper at the age of 17, and at the age of 18, released “Wham Rap!”, a song promoting the benefits of living on state benefits maduro-salute

  • Yeat [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
    14·
    5 days ago

    Some great quotes from my history professor today

    • “America isn’t fully capitalist and has socialism, it’s just paid for by tax payer money. You don’t have to shop around for a fire fighter! Since America has some socialism it’s Cold War foreign policy was hypocritical.”

    • “The USSR and China never moved past what Marx called ‘state socialism’”

    • “This is because Marx was utopian and didn’t account for human nature, humans will always act in their own self interest.”

    The whole liberal “it sounds good on paper but not in practice” expression is so funny because they don’t even know what’s on the paper.

    • Keld [he/him, any]@hexbear.netEnglish
      9·
      5 days ago

      I’m going to say that based on that second bullet point, Chinese and Soviet embrace of Lasalles theory of state socialism, Marxism-Leninism would technically count as an offshoot of German social democracy.

      Marxism-Leninism is objectively the moderate wing of social democracy sans-troll

  • thelastaxolotl [he/him]@hexbear.netOPMEnglish
    20·
    5 days ago

    Hexbear is the leftist version of stormfront. These people want a second holocaust in Israel. They created a closed off community that has essentially become a transgender Marxist cult. They justity everything evil that might tangentially benefit the left because it’s funny to them to push the envelope. Russian invasion of Ukraine, cute. The Hamas terrorist attack on October 7th, justified. They love Muslims until you bring up China putting them in internment camps then their 2010 Reddit Atheism surpasses their love for Islam which is hypocritical when they are all fucking gay. Hexbear has no morals, I don’t know if they are actually trying to be evil. You literally cannot say death to America and have that mean anything peaceful. This site is trouble for the wider Lemmy community and does not speak for the entire left.

    hexbear-specter

    • WhatDoYouMeanPodcast [comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
      8·
      5 days ago

      These people want a second holocaust in Israel.

      Close, I actually want Israel to stop doing genocide. Any force necessary to make that happen is acceptable to me. If a strongly worded letter could create a free Palestine then I would get a nice pen to sign it with, put some stickers on it, and put kiss marks on the envelope.

      If you have to break someone’s hand to make them drop a gun, I’m not losing any sleep over the hardships of them having to wear a cast.

      • Lemister [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
        7·
        5 days ago

        They literally believe great replacement theory but for israelis. Like If all Palestinians expelled since 1948 are allowed to return and restored to their property, then it isnt a holocaust because the lands of Palestine arent majority jewish anymore or something.

  • hexaflexagonbear [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
    11·
    5 days ago

    Interview grindset: using the same greatest weakness for years on end because despite what I say in interviews I’ve made zero progress in addressing it.

  • Kolibri [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
    12·
    5 days ago

    are energy drinks suppose to do something? because I feel like it did nothing and that I still tired since I only got four hours of sleep

    • TerminalEncounter [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
      7·
      5 days ago

      You need proper quality sleep to feel rested.

      Yes, they’re supposed to do something. Do not drink more than one please, you can seriously fuck your shit up if you drink multiple - it can take quite a bit to do damage but stick to just one a day. People have died from consuming too much caffeine quickly.

      For most people it makes them feel more focused or energized. Some people it doesn’t do anything, some of those people also have ADHD.

    • CrawlMarks [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
      5·
      5 days ago

      They block some of the receptors that tell your body you are sleepy and they generate some dopamine. In the first case it won’t block it all, and if your fatigue is related to body overuse it won’t block those signals either. In the second dopamine does give your brain extra juice to work but if you are in a deep enough deficient state, it would make your more tired as your body can now process just how tired your are. That’s the case with adhd type persons.

    • trabpukcip [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
      5·
      5 days ago

      Energy drinks didn’t necessarily work as substitutes for sleep. You got half as much sleep as a person needs, you’re gonna feel like shit regardless. But the energy drink probably made your heart beat faster, suppressed your appetite, and made you evacuate your bowels

  • Moss [they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
    22·
    5 days ago

    Every other post on Reddit is like “men don’t get compliments :( poor babies. I’m a woman and I think men need to be complimented more. Let’s all be nicer to men” ∆1.47 billion upvotes

  • FunkyStuff [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
    9·
    4 days ago

    Several yeas ago I was on a group project and was looking over my friend’s code for our React app. He was very unfamiliar with web dev so he was using some old school, vanilla JS stuff like Document.getElementByID() instead of the equivalent in React. I found it very endearing since js was my first real language and I had gone through that process, laughed at it, then felt like a huge scumbag when he felt offended. I was definitely being super condescending, what he was doing wasn’t even wrong it was just far from idiomatic.

    Anyway, I just bricked my Linux partition by mindlessly purging Python when trying to sort out a compatibility conflict. The long arc of history bends toward justice.

  • homhom9000 [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
    15·
    5 days ago

    Touched some grass and caught up with some friends. They all had stories about how trump was impacting their workplace. One person said ice was hanging around neighborhoods near their school to pick up parents, another said doge cut muti million dollars projects at their business causing layoffs and no funding. And then we just went on with our lives. I don’t get how they don’t get more angry or radical