Anti-Hasbara

BDS activist at Western University, one of the founding members of the Canadian Students' Coalition for Palestine, and bored of Zionist arguments. Hasbara (Hebrew for “explanation” or “propaganda”) is a tactic used mostly on campuses to disseminate misinformation hiding or distracting from the crimes committed by the apartheid State of Israel. Hasbara seeks to influence mass audiences explaining these actions and policies, despite the fact that many are violations of international law, UN Resolution and are ethically unjustifiable. This is a safe space for all people: actively working against expressions of sexism, racism, homophobia, anti-Semitism, ableism, Islamophobia or other forms of oppressive behaviour. That said, this is a bullshit free space and I have no illusions about or interest in “tolerating” crap.

[qahera]

a quick comic on accountability. sometimes it is important to disassociate yourself from patriotism and realise when you are contributing to the suffering of others. 

the names of the martyrs listed in panels 23, 24 and 25 are as follows: [panel 24] 1. Mohammed Shaaban, 24 2. Ahmed Shaaban, 30 [panel 23] 24. Abdel Hadi Jamaat al-Sufi, 24 25. Naifeh Farjallah, 80. 26. Abdel Nasser Abu Kweek, 60 27. Khaled Abu Kweek, 31 28. Mohammed Areef, 13 28. Amir Areef, 10 30. Mohammed Malakiyeh, 18 months old 31. Hana Malakiyeh, 27 32. Hatem Abu Salem, 28 33. Mohammed Khaled al-Nimri, 22 34. Sahar Hamdan, 40 35. Ibrahim Masri, 14 36. Mahmoud Nahid al-Nawasra 37. Mohammed Khalaf al-Nawasra, 4 38. Nidal Khalaf al-Nawasra al-Meghazi, 5 39. Salah Awwad al-Nawasra al-Meghazi, 6 40. Aisha Nijm al-Meghazi, 20 41. Amal Youssef Abdel Ghafour, 27 42. Ranim Jawde Abdel Ghafour, an 18-month-old girl 43. Rashid al-Kafarneh, 30 44. Ibrahim Daoud al-Balawi, 24 45. Abdel Rahman Jamal al-Zamli, 22 46. Ibrahim Ahmad Abideen, 42 47. Mustafa Abu Mar, 20 48. Khalid Abu Mar, 23 49. Mazen Farj al-Jarbah, 30 50. Marwan Slim, 27 51. Hani Saleh Hamad, 57

76. Omar al-Fyumi, 30 77. Abdullah Ramadan Abu Ghazzal, 5 78. Ismail Hassan Abu Jamah, 19 79. Hassan Awda Abu Jamah, 75 80. Mohammed Ahsan Ferwanah, 27 81. Yasmin Mohammed Mutawwaq, 4  82. Mahmoud Wulud, 26 83. Hazem Balousha, 30 84. Nour Rafik Adi al-Sultan, 27 85. Ahmad Zaher Hamdan, 24 86. Mohammed Kamal al-Kahlout, 25 87. Sami Adnan Shaldan, 25. 88. Jamah Atieh Shalouf, 25 89. Bassem Abdel Rahman Khattab, 6 90. Abdullah Mustafa Abu Mahrouk, 22

91. Anas Rizk Abu al-Kas, 33 92. Nour Marwan al-Najdi, 10 93. Mohammed Mounir Ashour, 25 94. Ghalia Deeb Jabr al-Ghanam, 7 95. Wasim Abd al-Rizk Hassan al-Ghanam, 23 96. Ra’ed Hani Abu Hani, 31 97. Shahraman Ismail Abu al-Kas, 42 98. Mazen Mustafa Aslan, 63 [panel 25] 998. unknown 999. unknown  1000. unknown

(at the time of writing this comic, the list of victims was at 1000. it has now surpassed that number. the full list is here).

no politics, just regular human stuff. 

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Graffiti by multiple artists in Gaza

[footynions]

Wearing a Keffiyeh around his neck, Palestinian Mohammed Assaf, a wedding singer from the Gaza Strip, sang before world soccer leaders in Arabic and English at the FIFA Congress in Brazil last night.

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The population of Christians in Bethlehem, the birthplace of Christ, decreased from 85% in 1948 to 15% in 2009. Yet Christian Zionists still exist. Wild

[barambambamwoo]

Ok but hamas also plays a major role. Maybe that explains?

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No. It doesn’t.

https://web.archive.org/web/20131203015857/http://www.ekklesia.co.uk/content/news_syndication/article_061220bethlehem.shtml

This points to studies that show that the overwhelming majority of Bethlehemite Christians attribute the mass exodus of the city’s Christians to the Israeli blockade (apartheid wall), with 90% saying that they have healthy, friendly relationships with Muslims in Bethlehem. Christians of Bethlehem are disappearing because of Israel. There’s no getting around it.

[bey-gypt]

^^^^^^^^^^^

[mideast-nrthafrica-cntrlasia-de]

Nazareth was also a Christian-majority city before the Zionists took over

[letswakeupworld]

Two Palestinian refugee children lean on the wall of a house in Gezirat al-Fadel village in Sharqiya, Egypt.

[gazanarchive]

مدينة القدس خلال الستينات | Jerusalem through the 1960s

[readyokaygo]

The Palestinian Museum is launching a new project in honour of Pope Francis’s trip to Palestine next Sunday. Banners combining recent media photographs of the Palestinian landscape and its people with Western baroque paintings of biblical scenes will decorate Manger Square in Bethlehem, highlighting the tension between the popular image of the Holy Land and Palestine’s ongoing history of suffering under occupation and oppression.

[moqawama]

Palestinians clash with Israeli security forces in Kafr Qaddum, January 23, 2015. (Jaafar Ashtiyeh/AFP)

[palestineback]

"This is not a dollhouse, this is Gaza"

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why does israel destroy the olive trees? (i hope i don't come off as offensive or antagonistic i'm just honestly curious) (i'm on anon because i'm nervous and anxious about asking questions not because i want to start an argument or something)

hi you’re okay anon i know you’re not being antagonistic it’s alright. israeli settlers and idf soldiers burn down and uproot olive trees both as literal violence and cultural violence. olive farming is a major industry of palestine and provides for tens of thousands of families. these trees are ancient, they are beloved by their communities and have been taken care of for generations. it takes at least 20 years for olive trees to bear fruit!!! although farmers plant new olive trees, this has been going on for over forty years and is systematic - the livelihood of these communities cannot be regrown overnight.

[halalchampagnesocialist]

Another reason they destroy olive trees is purely for expansion and land grab reasons. Often, most Israeli settlements are built on village lands. If it’s not for settlement reasons, then it’s usually to expand the wall. You get the idea. 

[la-xingada]

not only do they uproot and burn Olive trees, a native plant to the land, but they have planted thousands of Conifers, which are non native to the land and actually native to Europe. 

Israel explains that conifers were planted because they are “fast growing plants” and therefore give “life” to an “empty” land. I have also heard that they were planted to make the settlers feel “at home”. 

Israel’s way of making the dessert “bloom” is literally uprooting Indigenous life and replacing it. People and plants.

Conifers are catagorized as “invasive species”, their ability to spread fast damages native environments, as its the case with New Zealand, South Africa and Palestine.

the full circle of settler colonialism:

Israeli made conifer forest in Palestine. 

[Gary Fields, writes about this]

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Did you know that a lot of these pine forests were planted to cover up the ruins of destroyed Palestinian villages in 1947-1948?

People interested should read this article by Ilan Pappe.

[moqawama]

A large group of Palestinians clash with Israeli riot police during protests against the detention of Palestinians accused of throwing rocks in Nazareth on November 8, 2014. (Muammar Awad/Getty Images)

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A story….

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Palestinian youth break through separation wall to remind the world of their own “Berlin Wall” 

[standwithpalestine]

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never forget Yarmouk Yarmouk Yarmouk Yarmouk Yarmouk Yarmouk Yarmouk Yarmouk Yarmouk Yarmouk Yarmouk Yarmouk Yarmouk Yarmouk Yarmouk Yarmouk never forget the refugees

n. (via maxineanwaar)

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"Israeli authorities on Tuesday restricted the entry of Muslim worshippers into Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in occupied East Jerusalem while allowing dozens of Jewish settlers in, a Palestinian official and eyewitnesses said.

A Palestinian guard of the holy site told Anadolu Agency that the Israeli police allowed groups of Jewish settlers into the complex under heavy protection through Al-Magharbeh Gate.

An eyewitness, meanwhile, said that the Israeli police restricted the entry of Muslim worshipers into the compound, forcing dozens of Palestinians to perform the dawn prayers on the streets outside the complex.

Sheikh Azzam al-Khatib, head of the Jordan-run Organization for Muslim Endowments and Al-Aqsa Affairs, told AA that the Israeli authorities barred all men under the age of 50 as well as all women from entering the compound.”

Source: Anadolu Agency