The Stasi, the East German secret police, at one point developed a technique of breaking into dissidents’ homes at night and rearranging their furniture

god i hope this is true. lmao.

I didn’t expect this to be written by David Graeber at the end (I’m assuming it’s THE David Graeber).

Good article, just goes to show things how people can be humanized when you actually talk and experience their life. Also shows why the generation in America that sees the least filtered online media is the most anti-israel. It’s easier than ever to be thousands of miles away but still think “what if that was my family getting bombed for being in the same city block as a Hamas member”.

In the final paragraph he said he was raised on Zionism and that trip just showed how Palestinians are people and not bloodthirsty deranged terrorists like any Zionist would tell you.

the article is essentially describing a panopticon, but the description of Israel as a “hostile intelligence” / entity really does make more lovecraftian. The term “Zionist entity” really seems literal after reading the article.

This what it feels like, to live in Palestine. The constant awareness of the existence of a ferocious, hostile intelligence that is organizing the terms of one’s existence, but which, ultimately, does not wish one well. One never sees them. But one knows what they must be like: a brain trust of extremely well educated and sophisticated men and women meeting in air-conditioned offices, presenting power-points, tabulating research, and developing sophisticated plans and scenarios; except, all you know is that these people are utterly inimical to your existence, and you have no idea what they say and do. You can only grasp at rumors and analogies.

Also, lol at graeber falling for the “sinister Korean mind control” conspiracy theory

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