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Being annoying is free and all of you should be so much more annoying. Call your representatives again even if you've already called five times today and spam your instagram stories and never shut up about it to your friends and families even if they don't give two shits

If even after all of this, after all the evidence that what Israel is doing and has done shouldn't be supported by anyone who's sane, you STILL think anti-Zionism is anti-Semitism, then I don't know what to tell you except that you're just being willfully ignorant.

The reason for the Oct 7th operation by the Palestinian resistance according to Lebanese politician Hassan Fadlallah

Mondoweiss

Israeli think tank lays out a blueprint for the complete ethnic cleansing of Gaza

An Israeli think tank with ties to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu issued a report on October 17 promoting the “unique and rare op

In short, there is an Israeli plan to completely ethnically cleanse Gaza by forcing its people to flee to the Sinai Desert, giving Israel access to a gas basin in northern Gaza (the Israeli army has been forcing Gazans to flee the northern part of their city). According to Hassan Fadlallah, the plan was going to be carried out in November of this year. So Operation Al Aqsa Flood was a preemptive attack to prevent this.

I used to be pro-Palestinian. I thought Israel was wrong for carpet bombing Gaza and using siege warfare on civilians.

But then I ran into a very wise Israel apologist who changed my way of looking at things forever.

I was walking down the street and I saw him leaning against a lamp post, smoking a pipe as wise men do.

“Your shirt says Free Palestine,” he said from behind a plume of smoke.

“Yep!” I replied.

“So I guess that means you love Hamas then?” spake he.

I stopped in my tracks. I’d never thought of it that way before.

Could it be? Could my opposition to murdering civilians really be indicative of a deep affection for a Gazan militant group? Maybe I really did love Hamas and think everything it did on October 7 was great and wonderful?

“Is this really how I want to live my life?” I thought to myself.

“I — I — I…” I said out loud.

“Or perhaps,” he said with a raised eyebrow, “you just HATE JEWS??”

I fell to my knees.

Oh my God. He really had a point. What possible reason could anyone have for opposing military explosives being dropped on buildings full of children besides a seething lifelong hatred of adherents to the religion of Judaism? How could anyone possibly oppose siege warfare tactics which cut off civilians from food and water and electricity and fuel and medical supplies unless they harbored a dangerous hostility toward members of a small Abrahamic faith?

“Who… who are you?” I asked.

“That’s of no consequence,” he said, casually blowing a smoke ring through another larger smoke ring.

“But… but the children,” I stammered as my entire worldview crumbled before my eyes. “The civilians! They’re dying! Isn’t it bad that they’re dying?”

And then he went for the coup de grâce.

“Have you considered,” he said before a pregnant pause, “… that all of those deaths are the fault of Hamas?”

I fell flat on my back. The world was spinning. A trickle of blood ran down into my hair from my ear.

I felt all the anti-colonialism leaving my body. I suddenly could no longer remember why I thought it was bad to rain down military explosives on a densely populated concentration camp.

Everything went black.

When I finally came to, the mysterious stranger was gone. But his wisdom and profound insights into Israel and Gaza will always live on in my heart.

—Caitlin Johnstone, (satire: Hamas ≠ Palestine and pro-Palestinian ≠ antisemitism)

This is terrifying btw. If you're in the US protest this like your life fucking depends on it

3 updates from the last 12 hours:

1️⃣ 1,200 children are still buried under the rubble, per the Health Ministry. Being under the rubble for hours and hours on end… unimaginable.

2️⃣ A few days ago, the Turkish Hospital in Gaza shut down due to lack of fuel. It was the only hospital for cancer patients. Since then, 12 cancer patients have been lost due to lack of treatment.

3️⃣ Something most people don’t know and that few media outlets reported on: On Oct 7, Israel took as hostage thousands of workers from Gaza who worked for Israeli employers in the heartland (“Israel”). They were rounded up and abducted to unknown sites for no reason other than being from Gaza. Israel today announced their forcible return to Gaza, essentially sending them to a war zone.

Some workers have already testified that the Israelis tortured them, subjecting them to both physical & psychological abuse, and keeping them in inhumane conditions.

The exact number of workers is unknown, but it is above 3,000.

i love how much the buddy system is built into playing ace attorney. no one ever investigates things by themselves. when maya gets kidnapped, phoenix investigates with pearl & at one point makes a joke that pearl doesn’t pick up, which makes him miss maya. when pearl & maya are on the other side of the bridge in aa3, franziska insists on him coming with him. when phoenix can’t investigate because of his cold, it’s not just edgeworth that looks at crime scene, but edgeworth and gumshoe. apollo gets left alone for five minutes in the gavinners dressing room and he’s immediately like “oh i wish trucy could have heard my joke about this guitar” or “trucy would love this post card.”

i’m sure part of it is just narratively things flow a lot better if information is split between two characters but it also just gives the impression that everyone actually genuinely likes each other. it feels very endearing. don’t separate them

The Big Damn List Of Stuff They Said You Didn't Know

Thousands and thousands of years back in three minutes:

But closer to the issue...

Spotify

The Story of Palestine, Part 2: The Nakba

Listen to this episode from Cocktails & Capitalism on Spotify. Continuing the story of Palestine, Leeh outlines the Great Arab Revolt and th

Al Jazeera

Palestine and Israel: Mapping an annexation

What will the maps of Palestine and Israel look like if Israel illegally annexes the Jordan Valley on July 1?

Five free eBooks on the colonization and ethnic cleansing of Palestine

Verso

Solidarity with Palestine: Free Resources and Further Reading

Here we have collated our free ebooks, reading lists and ongoing publishing on the Verso Blog. These resources challenge much of the zionist

Pluto Books Free Palestine Reading List 30-50% off

Pluto Press

Free Palestine - A Reading List - Pluto Press

LGBT Activist Scott Long's Google Drive of Palestine Freedom Struggle Resources

(includes some of the reading material recced below)

The Cambridge UCU and Pal Society Resources List

List of Academic and Literary Books Compiled by Dr. Kiran Grewal

Academic Books (many available in Goldsmiths library)

Rosemary Sayigh (2007) The Palestinians: From Peasants to Revolutionaries, Bloomsbury

Ilan Pappé (2002)(ed) The Israel/Palestine Question, Routledge

(2006) The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine, OneWorld Publications

(2011) The Forgotten Palestinians: A History of the Palestinians in Israel, Yale University Press

(2015) The Idea of Israel: A History of Power and Knowledge, Verso Books

(2017) The Biggest Prison on earth: A history of the Occupied territories, OneWorld Publications

(2022) A History of Modern Palestine, Cambridge University Press

Rashid Khalidi (2020) The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917-2017, MacMillan

Andrew Ross (2019) Stone Men: the Palestinians who Built Israel, Verso Books

Ariella Azoulay and Adi Ophir (2012) The One-State Condition: Occupation and Democracy in Israel/Palestine, Stanford University Press.

Ariella Azoulay (2011) From Palestine to Israel: A Photographic Record of Destruction and State Formation, 1947-1950, Pluto Press

Jeff Halper (2010) An Israeli in Palestine: Resisting Dispossession, Redeeming Israel, Pluto Press

(2015) War Against the People: Israel, the Palestinians and Global Pacification

(2021) Decolonizing Israel, Liberating Palestine: Zionism, Settler Colonialism, and the Case for One Democratic State, Pluto Press

Anthony Loewenstein (2023) The Palestine Laboratory: How Israel exports the Technology of Occupation around the World (CURRENTLY FREE TO DOWNLOAD ON VERSO)

Noura Erakat (2019) Justice for some: law and the question of Palestine, Stanford University Press

Neve Gordon (2008) Israel’s Occupation, University of California Press

Joseph Massad (2006) The persistence of the Palestinian question: essays on Zionism and the Palestinians, Routledge Edward Said (1979) The Question of Palestine, Random House

Memoirs, Novels & Poetry:

Voices from Gaza - Insaniyyat (The Society of Palestinian Anthropologists)

Letters From Gaza • Protean Magazine

Raja Shehadeh (2008) Palestinian Walks: forays into a Vanishing Landscape, Profile Books

Ghada Karmi (2009) In Search of Fatima: A Palestinian Story, Verso Books

Fatma Kassem (2011) Palestinian Women: Narratives, histories and gendered memory, Bloombsbury

Mourid Barghouti (2005) I saw Ramallah, Bloomsbury

Izzeldin Abuelaish (2011) I Shall Not Hate: A Gaza Doctor’s Journey on the Road to Peace and Human Dignity, Bloomsbury

Cate Malek and Mateo Hoke (eds)(2015) Palestine Speaks: Narrative of Life under Occupation, Verso Books

The Works of Mahmoud Darwish

Human Rights Reports & Documents

Information on current International Court of Justice case on ‘Legal Consequences arising from the Policies and Practices of Israel in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem’

UN Commission of Inquiry Report 2022

UN Special Rapporteur Report on Apartheid 2022

Amnesty International Report on Apartheid 2022

Human Rights Watch Report on Apartheid 2021

Report of the United Nations Fact-Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict’ 2009 (‘The Goldstone Report’)

Advisory Opinion on the Legal Consequences of the Construction of a Wall in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, International Court of Justice, 9 July 2004

Films

Lemon Tree (2008)

Where Should The Birds Fly (2013)

Naila and the Uprising (2017)

Waltz with Bashir (2008)

Omar (2013)

Paradise Now (2005)

5 Broken Cameras (2011)

The Gatekeepers (2012)

Foxtrot (2017)

Gaza Mon Amour (2020)

The Viewing Booth (2020)

Innocence (2022) - Innocence (2022) | IDFA Archive

The Village Under the Forest (2013)

Palestine Film Institute's films on Gaza

Abby Martin - Gaza Fights For Freedom (2019) | Full Documentary | Directed by Abby Martin

Dan Cohen - Gaza Fights Back | MintPress News Original Documentary

‘The Promise’, directed by Peter Kosminsky (2010) (4 part miniseries on the creation of Israel)

Sources:

https://www.972mag.com/

https://jewishcurrents.org/

Jadaliyya ‘Gaza in Context’ Series

Jadaliyya “War on Palestine” podcast - The War on Palestine Podcast: Episode 1

Border Chronicle, Interview with Israeli anthropologist Jeff Halper

NGOs

B’Tselem

Breaking the Silence

Al Haq

Palestinian Feminist Collective

Yesh Din

DAWN

Amnesty International

Human Rights Watch

Gisha

Forensic Architecture

Instagram Accounts

gazangirl

mohammedelkurd

khaledbeydoun

motaz_azaiza

wizard_bisan1

etafrum

sara_mardini963

Twitter(X) Accounts

@PalStudies - Institute for Palestine Studies

@medicalaidpal

@middleeastmatters

@KenRoth - former executive director of Human Rights Watch

@YairWallach - Reader in Israel Studies at SOAS

@ PhilipProudfoot - researcher on development, humanitarianism and Arab states

@btselem - Israeli human rights documentation centre

@MairavZ - Senior Israel-Palestine Analyst at Crisis Group

@rohantalbot - Director of Advocacy and Campaigns at MedicalAidPal

@sarahleah1 - Executive Director of DAWN (democracy and human rights in MENA)

@alhaq_org - Palestinian human rights organisation

@FranceskAlbs - UN Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Territories

@Yesh_Din - Israeli human rights organisation

@sfardm - Michael Sfard, Israeli Human Rights Lawyer

@EphstainItay - Israeli international humanitarian lawyer

@saribashi - Program director for Human Rights Watch (Israeli living in Palestine)

@Gisha_Access - Israeli NGO

@_ZachFoster - Historian

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From River To The Sea Palestine Will Be Free 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸

First #free palestine was suppressed, and then when we moves to #israel, they suppressed that tag too; Keep a careful watch on the #imperialism tag, and remember that no matter how much they try to suppress us, we can't stop the fight to inform others in the matters at hand; Every time they shoot down a tag, let's make 2 more trend.

We're so back

Potion of EAT SHIT and DIE

hope this uploads i need you guys to see this potion

Conservative Good Mythical Morning be like

“let us not forget that Sudan has been at war for 26 weeks as of now. half a year in war. half a year with no media coverage and no voice.

pray for Sudan the way you would pray for your own countries. don't forget Sudan.”

Level of respect a class of teens I have to teach art to have for me when I walk in: 0%

Level of respect after I draw sasuke from memory on the whiteboard: beyond anything you could possibly imagine

You ever think about how unified humanity is by just everyday experiences? Tudor peasants had hangnails, nobles in the Qin dynasty had favorite foods, workers in the 1700s liked seeing flowers growing in pavement cracks, a cook in medieval Iran teared up cutting onions, a mom in 1300 told her son not to get grass stains on his clothes, some girl in the past loved staying up late to see the sun rise.

Beautiful display of solidarity ongoing right now from the US calling for a ceasefire in Gaza

Source: @jvplive on Twitter

Important for people who are still stuck accusing people of antisemitism when they say genocide is actually not right.

Each story, post or interview I read with a Palestinian after the jabalia massacre seems out of a horror movie, a fantasy that is so far from reality.

You know what the horrible part is? This is real. This is real.

This is our reality now. I cannot fathom the pain, the unthinkable feeling and realization of finding someone you love in literal pieces, or to not find them at all. Israel is stripping them from even saying goodbye.

Ghalia hammad shares about the woman they interviewed live telling her story:

"A woman interviewed on air said that she thanked God that her son was still holding her hand after the supermarket they were shopping in got bombed. She held his hand tighter and pulled herself up to escape from the rubble... Before she was surprised to find that she was only holding his hand, without the rest of his body"

This is real. It's happening in front of us. Share this. Do not stay silent!

The worst part, the worst part? They're attacking Gaza City, which is the most populated city in the northern part of the Gaza Strip, and many are unable to get out without significantly risking their lives.

Strange, isn't it?

Israel now tells Gazans who refuse or are unable to leave the North that they'll be considered "partners in a terrorist organization" & thus legitimate targets for carpet bombing.

Just a reminder that forceful displacement is a war crime, and targeting civilians is a war crime.

This is genocidal language.

And Israelis have been saying it and planning it since 2014. Here's what the IDF said about evacuating civilians and creating “sterile combat zones” in that year:

From document A/HRC/29/52 found here:

The United Nations Independent Commission of Inquiry on the 2014 Gaza Conflict | OHCHR

Why is I*rael trending when people literally posted more about Palestine? Why Tumblr is actively suppressing the tag?

@staff why are you so bad at math?

Saying what Israel is doing to Palestine "is too complicated" and using that as an excuse to not learn is the same bs rhetoric that gets repeated everytime something like this happens

I watched a few videos and learned enough to say yes I understand enough to know where I stand.

Do not use ignorance as an excuse

Some of the videos I watched and the "very important tasks" i did because "I'm just so busy I can't possibly spend time trying to learn about 75 years of hiatory"

Watched this while getting ready for bed

Drinking tea before bedtime

Literally all of these are 5 minutes and told me more than enough to dispell all the ignorance I had before and I watched them while I was trying to fall asleep it was that easy

In the time you take to use the bathroom or get dressed or make coffee or just scroll through social media you can watch a 5 minute video that teaches you more than enough

Some of these videos were made YEARS AGO. This has been happening for nearly a century

These governments WANT you to he ignorant.

They WANT you to think it's too complicated

They WANT to focus on yourselves and your own issues and leave it to them because they CLAIM they know what's best

PLEASE JUST TAKE A FEW MINUTES TO EDUCATE YOURSELF

THAT IS WHAT YOU CAN DO

This isn't even including all the videos you can easily find online that show you what exactly is happening to Palestinians in Gaza and even better the wonderful rec lists people have made of movies and books and everything that should you the kind of people they truly are

You absolutely have power here. Do not give it up because it seems "too complicated"

Chara, I love your darkner outfit!

Totally not conceited at all, Chara...

A windy day with a moderate temperature will make you feel like you got reborn into a world that really loves you this time

As some in the comments have said, it seems a little strange that she's designed like a stereotypical SJW or something; Also, apparently, there's a kind of transphobic plot point in the movie? I have not watched the movie (nor do I plan on doing so) so the person who said it does might be bullshitting

PS: @soupkiddo I will not let you live this down /lh

Edit: Apparently the Transphobic part was in the show itself, not the movie.

Apparently this is the mad scientist villain of the newest paw patrol movie so thoughts and prayers that she succeeds where others have failed in finally euthanizing all the dog cops (I don't completely know what paw patrol actually is exactly)

this “stephen king” guy is out here writing scary books that frighten people and we’re just letting him????????

and who made him king of the stephens anyways????

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I will not be intimidated. I will not be silenced. I will seek the truth and I will speak it loud and clear. 🗣️📢

Israel is indeed an apartheid state, and is committing genocide against the Palestinian people as we speak.

Hamas did not start this war, because there IS no war. There was, there is, and there will be an occupation, unless we do something about it.

You cannot occupy a land, put people under blockade and expect them to just sit there and comply. Resistance, rebellion, retaliation, and revolution are inevitable.

The oppressed do not want peace, they want freedom. So you either give it back to them, or they snatch it back from you. And that with any means necessary.

Palestinians in the West Bank including kids and women, get bullied, mocked, brutalized, beaten, imprisoned, tortured, evicted from their homes, used as human shields, attacked while they pray in Al Aqsa Mosque, shot dead, and killed by the Israeli forces and armed and unarmed settlers alike.

Palestinians in Gaza are under blockade, they have NOWHERE else to go, they can't do anything without Israel's permission. They get punished for whatever Israel accuses Hamas of doing, they get bombed, they get starved, no water, no electricity, no food, no medical aid whenever Israel is pissed.

And they are refered to as animals on national TV, by Israeli leaders, and mocked by influencers on Social media, no shame, no embarrassment, nothing!

Do NOT talk to me about October 7th, if you're NOT ready to hear about the past 75 years.

Do NOT call us Hamas sympathizers, we are not Hamas sympathizers, we are Pro-Palestinians, we are fighting for freedom, we are standing with the oppressed.

Do NOT call us antisemite (especially not me, I'm an arab, arabs are semite themselves), we do NOT hate the Jews, our fight is not against the Jews. In fact there are many Jews fighting this fight alongside us.

We stand against Zionists.

Educate yourself, read, seek the truth, free yourself from the shackles of western media.

From the river to the sea, Palestine WILL be free. ✌️🇵🇸✊

I would cry

What if our world were the same except all bird beaks had always been soft and floppy

Gaza City has now been fully encircled by Israeli troops.

Tomorrow we find out if Hezbollah leader will declare war on Israel or not

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