[ayouuni-deactivated20250907]

the fact that so many peoples first response to seeing all these palestinian children orphaned is not ‘wow we should really do something to ensure these children live in a world where they don’t have to fear waking up to a bomb being dropped on their parents heads’ and instead is ‘oh em gee how can i adopt these children whose culture i have 0 knowledge of whatsoever and bring them to my homeland thousands of miles away, thereby thrusting them into another deeply traumatizing situation’ is actually kind of wild to me.

please be so serious …. they don’t want you adopting their children. you guys do realize that arabs have a deep sense of family and community right… even with 0 family members left there are still so many people who will step in and make sure those children are looked after. those kids don’t need rescuing from their homeland, they need their homeland to be safe so they can have yknow, a chance at life. they don’t need new families, they need for their families to not be murdered in the dead of the night. why don’t we work on that instead and drop the savior mindset please????? to do nothing towards the cause of palestinian freedom but offer to adopt their children is nuts.

ps. it would benefit a lot of people to do basic research and realize that the process of adoption into a lot of western countries serves to completely erase the identity of the child and also is not in line with the principles / general process of adoption in islam (which is the religion of a fair majority of these kids). ‘offering’ to take them from all they know is disrespectful enough without the consideration that in doing so you would completely be overstepping multiple rules and processes of their religion and culture.

none of us want any more kids to die but ‘save the children’ doesn’t mean the solution is to let anna from florida have them. it means the solution is to make sure they have a future where apartment buildings don’t fall over their heads while they sleep.

[hurgablurg]

displacement and cultural isolation is a method of genocide, and that includes taking kids from their communities and dragging them off to foreign countries where they WILL face discrimination and violence for being born brown

[fridgebride]

safety, health, liberation for the people of palestine……that is the goal. everything else is just noise.

[fridgebride]

it is easy to let ourselves fall into despair when reading these latest messages from bisan, from motaz, from saleh….the grief and hopelessness in their words is unfathomable, but it only means that the rest of us have to keep doing everything we can.

i saw someone talk about this on twt as well but once u engage with organizers offline it is clear that the movement is alive and well, that the fight will continue on…..let this grief sit with you and will us all into action, please.

[tamarrud]

the fact is, israel now definitely realises that no one believes its bullshit anymore, especially seeing the mass movement and huge shift in narrative in response to its ongoing war against Gaza. this tells israel that the mask is now completely off and the masses no longer believe its claims of being the victim and whatever the hell else.

this explains why the scale of violence has been so overwhelming in recent weeks, considering there is nothing for israel to justify anymore and no pretences to keep up for those who used to fall for them.

there is also the sense of embarrassment; a whole military apparatus with billions in annual aid still could not break a besieged, starved enclave (it never will). we have been hearing about ground invasion this, ground invasion that and we have yet to see anything tangible.

again, the public for the most part has now seen who israel really is; a genocidal, terrorist state, and israel knows there's no turning back from this so it ramped up the violence to cause as much damage as possible before it is forced to halt its current acceleration of the ongoing genocide.

U.S. officials are literally telling israel to "pause" so that people can ease up a little and be lulled back into complacency. always remember this and let's keep doing what we're doing because the tides have really turned.

[alwaysbewoke]

Congo💔🕊️

We really cannot be free until we all are free.

[randomnoteforfuturereference]

Nothing like the Pakistani gov expelling Afghan refugees en masse back to a despotic country in the wake of a devastating earthquake and on the eve of an upcoming winter. All because of attacks on Pakistan from groups linked to said despotic regime that had been at the very least supported by the Pakistani gov.

Oh.. and a potential update to this (which has been coming as there are tensions between Iran and Afghanistan):

If you're wondering how to help Afghans, and discouraged by the fact that it'd be near impossible to convince these countries otherwise, International Rescue Foundation is probably the most practical source.

Otherwise, if you're American and in a blue/swing district, pressure your rep to push for the Afghan Adjustment Act and similar measures to help refugees get here and be supported. And even if you're in an area where appeals will fall on deaf ears due to racism/nativism/Islamophobia, there are refugee orgs nearby you can get involved with.

If you're not American, there are probably equivalent things that could be done.

[nativenews]

[gayvampyr]

here is an article detailing the US involvement in the Sudanese genocide

The US and the Sudan Conflict: Motives and Ability to Influence Events

The United States and Saudi Arabia announced on June 17, 2023 that both sides to the conflict in Sudan—the Sudanese Army Forces (SAF) and th

this Medium article about Congo is paywalled but should work with 12ft.io extension

Silent Suffering: Unmasking Racism’s Veil on the Congo Genocide

Since 1990, a devastating genocide has been unfolding in the heart of Africa, claiming millions of innocent lives- several of whom have…

[wearenotjustnumbers2]

Must watch. For anyone wondering about the Palestinian government or authorities outside of gaza. You should watch this, there is no one protecting Palestinians, they're occupied and israeli settlers have the same green light to do whatever evil just as the soldiers. If someone can add a description I'd appreciate it.

DON'T SKIP. IMPORTANT.

[srdcovka]

Transcript: So I was talking to a Palestinian friend yesterday. He lives in the West Bank and he sent me this very scary image of a photo of him with a target on his face and he told me that this photo was found on a Israeli settler group chat, and there are other images of Palestinians circulating on this group chat, where they are basically hunting Palestinians and killing them. They have already been successful at killing some of the Palestinians in this group chat, and under the photos of these Palestinians they have their names, where they live, their age, their occupation. Basically they make up like, you know this person hates Jewish people, this person calls for the death of Israel. My friend works for a humanitarian organization. So they are making these false claims to justify them killing Palestinians.

My immediate response was to tell him that he needs to get out of town, to leave his city. And he tells me that there's no way for him to leave the city because the IDF is patrolling the main roads and the Israeli settlers are patrolling the back roads. So for him to leave right now would be a suicide mission. And I think for many people, you would think if you were in his position, you would call the police or the army. Palestinians don't have an army. Palestinians have something called the Palestinian Authorities and they work directly with Israel. They sell Palestinians out, they do not protect Palestinians. And this is the realisation of the experience of a Palestinian. That there is no one protecting Palestinians.

In this group chat where Israeli settlers are sharing photos of Palestinians, they have already been successful in killing some of the Palestinians. In the group chat that whose photos they are sharing. This is a very scary situation. And I wanted to share this with you guys. Because I want you to understand the gravity of this situation. There are people who are actively killing innocent Palestinians and there is no one there to hold them accountable. They are working in the favour of the Israeli government. The Israeli government is so far right that they look at these Israeli settlers, who are committing acts of violence on Palestinians, as their heroes.

Right now all eyes are on Gaza, which is very understandable. But there is something happening in the West Bank. There is a slow genocide and ethnic cleansing that has been happening for the past decade in the West Bank. And right now Israeli settlers, Israeli government and Israeli army are using this to their advantage. And I wanted to share this with you guys, because I want you to know that these Palestinians in the West Bank - they have no army, there is no Hamas there. There is no one coming to protect them. Majority of my Palestinian friends live in the West Bank. And I feel it is my moral obligation to try to do anything I can to save them. Even if it means just letting you know the truth of what is happening.

[opencommunion]

Palestine TV correspondent Salman Al-Bashir throws his press vest and helmet to the ground live on air moments after his colleague Mohammad Abu Hatab was martyred in an IOF airstrike on his home in Khan Younis.

"These are simply symbolic items we wear. They don't protect any journalist. None of this does. We are simply victims live on air, sacrificing our souls one after the other. We go as martyrs only. It is only a matter of time.

Our colleague Mohammed Abu Hattab was here just half an hour ago before he was martyred with many of his family members."

via RNN

[standwithpalestine]

Israeli settlers - who live illegally on Palestinian land and shouldn’t be there in the first place - regularly destroy and uproot olive trees belonging to Palestinians, often striking at night to go unnoticed.

Olive trees are a livelihood for many families, and a key component of the Palestinian economy. That’s how they are meant to survive. 

These attacks are by no means limited to agriculture. They also burn and vandalize churches, mosques, homes, cars and… cemeteries. 

I saved the worst for last. Israeli soldiers escort Israeli settlers to attack Palestinians then stand by and watch, if not join in too. 

According to the UN the annual rate of Israeli settler attacks against Palestinians has almost quadrupled in eight years.

GIFs from 5 Broken Cameras (2011)

[ecrituria]

pdf library

Back in 2014, when I started my senior year of undergrad and began working on my thesis, I decided to start keeping a research folder of pdfs on my desktop. In the nine years since, I’ve added to it extensively, saving course readings, articles for term papers and papers I ended up not writing, and pdfs I’ve found on tumblr, google drive, blogs, and other repositories.

The library is organized primarily by theme or major figure and is strongest in the areas of literary studies; theory and criticism; philosophy; the environmental humanities; and feminism, gender, and sexuality. Though I’ve tried to maintain a consistent organizational methodology, inevitably, a number of texts belong to more than one category or resist categorization altogether. Some pdfs also contain my notes and highlights, which I hope will not be a burden to other readers.

Anyway, I’m not sure who will be interested in this, but it’s yours now. The full archive is on google drive; below is a selection of most of the top-level folders to give you a sense of how it’s organized and what you can find there:

Academia, Pedagogy, Education, Scholarly Writing

Adorno

Affect Theory and Emotions

Animal Studies

Antinatalism

Architecture, Geography, Place, and Space

Atheism, Agnosticsm, and Secularism

Austen, Jane

Bachmann, Ingeborg

Bakhtin

Barthes

Being-with-Others

Benjamin Fondane

Benjamin, Walter

Berlant

Blanchot

Books, Book Materiality, and Bibliography

Butler

Byung-Chul Han

Capitalism, Consumerism, Work and Labor, Neoliberalism, and Economics

Care

Childfree

Childhood, Children, Parents, and Families

Cixous

Community and the Commons

David Foster Wallace

de Beauvoir, Simone

Death and Suicide

Deleuze

Derrida

Dickinson

Didion

Disability Studies and Illness

Eco, Umberto

Environmental Humanities, Climate Change, and Nature

Ethics

Everyday Life and the Ordinary

Existentialism, Nihilism, & Pessimism

Fanon

Film, TV, Art, and Visual Culture

Food Studies

Foucault

Friendship

Gender and Sexuality

Globalization and Transnationalism

grad seminars (course readings)

Heidegger

Hermeneutics and Interpretation

Hermits and Hermitages

Information Theory, Entropy, Complexity, and Quantum Poetics

Irigaray

Jewishness, the Holocaust, and Zionism

Jorie Graham

Kafka

Kearney, Richard

Kundera

Lacan

Language, Linguistics, and Semiotics

Latour

Law and Human Rights

Levinas

Literature and Philosophy

Literature and Science

Love, Intimacy, Romance, and Sex

Mastery

Material Culture, Things, and Objects

Melancholy, Mourning, Grief, and Depression

Memory, Witnessing, and Trauma

Middle East and North Africa

Modern(ism) and Literature

New Materialism, Object-Oriented Ontology, Thing Theory, and Entanglement

Norton Anthologies

Palestine

Parentheses

Peter Sloterdijk

Philosophy

Poetry and Poetics

Policing, Prisons, and Prison Abolition

Politics, Political Theory, Activism, and Current Events

Posthumanism

Postmodernism

Race, Racism, Imperialism, and Colonialism

Refugees, Immigration, Statelessness, and Exile

Religious Studies

Renaissance

Rilke

Romanticism

Russian Literature

Sara Ahmed

Science and Philosophy of Science

Silence

Socialism, Communism, Marxism, and Anarchism

Solitude and Loneliness

Spectrality, Ghosts, Hauntology, and Haunting

Spivak

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

Syllabi and Teaching Resources

Technology, Media, Networks, the Internet, Information, Computers, and Hypertextuality

Textuality and Reading

Theater and Performance

Theory, Criticism, and Critique

Tiqqun

Translation

undergrad (course readings)

Video Game Studies

Violence, War, Terrorism, and Terror

Wallace Stevens

Wittgenstein

Writing and Composition Studies

[albertserra]

Good morning. Israel will fall and Palestine will be free

[esyra]

Killing 1300+ Jews in barbaric ways does not make you the good guys. Israel retaliating is Hamas’ fault. Hamas surrendering would mean peace. Israel surrendering would have more dead Jews. But i guess that’s the end goal.

No, we're always the barbaric terrorists. Israel is the good guy for killing 9,000+ Gazans the past 25 days, and trapping 1,000+ under the rubble which will definitely turn out dead if they ever get the proper equipment to lift it off them. Israel is the good guy for killing Shireen Abu Akleh. Israel is the good guy for killing Ahmed Erekat. Israel is the good guy for killing Nadim Nuwarah and Mohammed Salameh. Israel is the good guy for opening fire on 2,400 protesters and killing 52. Israel is the good guy for holding over 1,000 Palestinians as "administrative detainees," meaning they are held indefinitely without charges.

In fact, Israel has been the good guy ever since they got the British to help them colonize Palestine and get rid of the Arabs, as they admitted to wanting it themselves. After all, as Winston Churchill said himself, the colonization of Palestine was righteous because as the Red Indians of America, and the black people of Australia, "a stronger race, a higher grade race, or, at any rate, a more worldly-wise race, to put it that way, has come in and taken their place."

Palestinians, be it on Gaza or the West Bank, can never retaliate or defend themselves. We're to either die and be violated quietly or we are terrorists which will be gleefully eradicated with the help of every colony-based State in the world. Otherwise, we'll disturb the comfortable privilege your racism and religious intolerance ensures.

When Hamas didn't existed the occupation began and the British violently suppressed anyone who opposed. When Hamas didn't exist the Nakba happened. When Hamas didn't exist the Deir Yassin massacre happened. But, you know, that one's fine because it happened after Israel had made Palestine agree to a peace pact, and they would never act unfairly so the brutal murder of over 100 Palestinians is obviously being misunderstood. Hamas doesn't operate in the West Bank, but they're still expelled from their homes, brutalized and murdered. Since October 7, West Bank had 115 killed, more than 2,000 injured and nearly 1,000 others forcibly displaced from their homes because of violence and intimidation by Israeli forces and settlers. They'll bomb mosques with exit points created to save people from settlers' violence, then claim they were used for terrorism. Proof? They don't need it. They'll bomb first then ask questions later.

Do people who blindly defend Israel do anything other than victimize yourselves? Do you even read any actual Israeli news that said the IDF "shell[ed] houses on their occupants," because they're too incompetent to do anything other than bombing everything? Do you ever wonder why the people Israel swears were burned and beheaded always came from reports from houses absolutely destroyed by what could only be shelling? Do you ever hear testimonies from survivors of the massacre saying IDF shoot at their own civilians? Do you ever read about past al-Qassam attacks and noticed they've never had mass casualties because IDF never responded like this? Do you even know what al-Qassam is or do you live to regurgitate whatever you're fed and being spoon-fed your information?

If Hamas' militia surrenders, Gaza will be wiped out and Gazans — those who are not murdered — will be exiled into Egypt's Sinai. That's the end goal since 1948, and that's what you're defending. But who cares? Arab blood is cheaper and racism is always fashionable.

[hauntedhookah]

After being starved and imprisoned in blockade for months, 120,000 indigenous Armenians in Artsakh just faced mass deportation and ethnic cleansing at the hands of Azerbaijan, aided by their brother country Turkey and supplied military aid by a third genocidal country, Israel. Noting that in case my American friends think this is a small regional conflict-- guess who funds Israel?

Artsakh will be dissolved on January 1st, 2024 and for the first time in 3,000 years, it will be void of Armenians. Hard to put the pain into words. Turkey and Azerbaijan will not stop here, as pan-turkic doctrine claims all of Armenia as theirs. Armenian existence threatens the fabric of Azeri (and Turkish) national identity so it is no surprise they want to annihlate us again.

With the violent occupation of Artsakh, our ancient holy sites will be desecrated and our history rewritten while major news outlets will find pretty words for genocide like "conflict" or "war". No one will punish Azerbaijan's war crimes, no one will remember white phosphorous rain on our homes. And the perpetrators will continue to live a lie.

I think denial is a fragile basis for any relationship, to a person or to a land. What is built on a foundation of denial will break under enough tension, after enough time. I believe we'll be back someday.

And we are our mountains. I think they will always remember us.

[ordinarybureaucrat]

death to america & it's liberal intellectual class now & forever

[thegoldenfox64]

Reblogs and replies got disabled, surprise surprise.

Reblog while you still can.

Streisand effect - Wikipedia

[jolynecujohh-deactivated2024022]

“Leading antisemites” I hope whoever’s responsible for this kills themselves

[anneemay]

God they cut off all the internet and cellular networks in Gaza

[heritageposts]

We are isolated now’: Communications lost with many parts of Gaza (from Al Jazeera's live update, by reporter Tareq Abu Azzoum, 16:25 GMT)

We don’t know about anything that is happening in other districts in the territory. Maybe there are new bombardments taking place in these areas. We don’t know how many victims. We can only hear bombardments everywhere, but we don’t know any anything about the casualties, about the situation on the ground. We don’t know anything also about the medical conditions of doctors, medical workers, even at the Al-Shifa Hospital [the largest in Gaza]. The situation is catastrophic right now.  We can no longer communicate with the international community to send our voice to the world to know what is happening on the ground. I hope that this message might  reach and have an access to the world despite what we have experienced throughout the last hour. We are now in a hospital and we are going to be live by satellite as much as we can and every single hour. So please, if you can hear us, send that message to the world that we are isolated now in Gaza. We don’t have any phone signals. We don’t have any internet connections. We found great difficulty even to communicate and contact with our relatives in different parts of the territory. Journalists here, even the citizens inside the hospital, they don’t have any access to the networks. They don’t have any kind of communication even with their neighbors. There is a great problem in the network connections. We don’t know how it’s dropped. We don’t know if it was targeted. The situation on the ground is really terrible. Everyone is afraid, everyone is terrified. Please ,guys, if you can hear us send this message to the world that we are becoming isolated. Al Jazeera currently only has sporadic communication with correspondents in Gaza following the latest strikes on the besieged enclave.