International Intifada (An urgent call to participate in the colonizer's execution)

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firestarter press
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Half-size (5.5"x8.5")
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B&W
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This two-part zine includes both the contextualization of settler-colonialism in the history of Israeli apartheid and a call to action for us all to devote ourselves to the intifada against all colonial projects. 

Part one details the widespread atrocities committed by the "Israeli" state against indigenous Palestinian peoples: from mass displacement, to ecological destruction, to genocide in its most overtly brutal form. It also details the history of the intifada, beginning with the Original Intifada from 1987-1992 that included boycotts, mass demonstrations, tax strikes, cooperatives, and freedom fighters taking up arms (like the shebab). It then explains the Oslo Accords as a placating of the resistance, which provided the illusion of autonomy and instead gave few elite Palestinians, the Palestinian Authority, policing power over its own peoples. This sparked the Al-Aqsa Intifada in 2000, in which the resistance defied both the American-Zionist occupation and the PA. 

Part two encourages us to see settler-colonialism for the never-ending onslaught of military occupation and violent oppression that is has shown itself to be. But beyond that, part two encourages us to kill the colonizer. The zine recognizes that everyone will know freedom once decolonization is won by popular struggle, and it distinguishes the difference between mass slaughter of privileged peoples who either intentionally or not uphold the system and the death of the system itself. 

"The colonizer must be executed. It has been the colonizer against us all, and he has turned us against ourselves so that even when you can't see him, he is with you, killing you slowly. We must kill him quickly, before we have been ruined entirely. The day that the colonizer is sent to his grave will be the birthday of a free humanity. You're invited to participate in his assassination. In fact, your participation is his assassination. Ever since you were born, you have been dying - so that the colonizer might live. It is time to start living - so that the colonizer might die."