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glassbonespaperskin

#brain training

mmleepmlorp

My five year plan is to just see what happens

khoesib

The Israeli left and the US left are practically indistinguishable. Really, all of the left in the formerly British settler-colonies is the same. Whines endlessly, pretends to be victim of imperialism, ignores the settler-colonial context and doesn't do anything.

briargeese

Okay, I admit. I bought these begonias that I really don't need just to see how they looked under the UV light.

guerillas-of-history

An elderly Palestinian woman waves a pistol during a demonstration organized by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) in Gaza City to protest the killing of prominent leader Abu Ali Mustafa, August 28, 2001.

(Photo credit: Mohammed Saber/AFP)

guerillas-of-history

Palestinian fighters fire towards israeli troops in the West Bank town of Beit Jala, on the outskirts of Bethlehem, August 28, 2001.

(Photo credit: Musa Al-Shaer/AFP)

fellahimedia

A transcript of remarks delivered on April 8, 2026, at Queen Mary University of London.

Over the years, I’ve considered various ways to define liberal Zionism. It’s not an easy task considering that Palestinians perceive no small number of self-proclaimed anti-Zionists as inhabiting the category. This is the rough definition I’ve settled on: a liberal Zionist is somebody who cannot, whatever their stated ideology, accept or conceptualize Palestinian peoplehood beyond a framework of Jewish supervision. The liberal Zionist insists on defining any contested term in relation to Jewish exigency rather than assessing its impact on Palestinians. Likewise, the conditions of Palestinian liberation are always subject to the liberal Zionist’s consent, according to the liberal Zionist’s specifications. A liberal Zionist can cross the BDS picket line because they have a special purpose in communicating with Israelis while the Palestinian, stubborn and dogmatic, should have no access to an enlightened public sphere. A liberal Zionist can patrol anti-Zionist spaces and, when necessary, condemn Palestinians for using insufficiently humanistic language. A liberal Zionist can speak of “Palestinian violence” as a self-generating phenomenon disembodied from the continuously violent presence of the Jewish state.

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Palestinians keep pointing to big names on social media as Zionist and then get lambasted. How is he a Zionist? Where is the evidence? Why are you being divisive? We won’t beg you to figure out what we already know. But, okay, fine, here are some possible reasons. He writes for Zionist publications. He spread atrocity propaganda after October 7. He treats resistance as illegitimate. He trades in discourses amenable to U.S. imperialism. Is that good enough for you? Does that not tell you all there is to know? If it doesn’t, then you understand neither Zionism nor anti-Zionism. A lack of understanding is forgivable, but in snidely questioning what should be obvious you’re choosing not to understand.

a-shade-god-made

“We don’t have to make decisions that perpetuate an unjust system. We don’t have to distance ourselves from the sensibilities on which we were nurtured. We don’t have to submit to Zionist humiliation rituals: I condemn antisemitism; I condemn Hamas; I condemn every regime opposed to Israel; I condemn my own insistence on self-respect. We don’t have to do anything that the people on the frontlines of the struggle for liberation refuse to do as a matter of principle.”

“Let’s revisit what has been documented and theorized and subsequently ignored: that the abundance of the North relies on the privation of the South. This is a simple proposition, demonstrated by a thousand good thinkers, but the myth persisted on the Anglo left that abundance simply needs better domestic distribution. But now we see it in real time: those glittering buildings in Doha and Dubai; those cheap gas prices in the American Midwest; those displays of wealth presented as entertainment…all of it relied on the maintenance of a specific world order both ironclad and incredibly fragile. It’s plain as day now, isn’t it? Somebody finally challenges U.S. authority and, boom, everyone’s economy goes to hell. No longer can Americans, left or right, speak of a domestic politics; the local in the United States is international by design. It relies on immiseration, which itself relies on immiserated modes of thought among the intelligentsia of the metropole.”

“Not a one of us would claim to be from anywhere other than Palestine. The same holds for people in diaspora. Most Palestinians around the world, and certainly the ones in refugee camps in neighboring Arab countries, will identify Palestine as their country. My wife, born in the United States, refers to Palestine as “back home.” Refugee children name their ancestral cities and villages whenever somebody asks where they’re from—cities and villages they’ve never seen, some of which now exist beneath invasive flora. Claiming Palestine isn’t merely ideological. It’s a fact of history. It’s literally where we’re from.”

karinyosa

just found out that there is a sudanfunds website! like gazafunds, it is a compilation of funds for people facing genocide

edit: i've added the correct link to this version of the post. if at all possible, please try to reblog this version or direct back to it. for some reason, the original sudanfunds link i put is now defunct. the correct site is still called sudanfunds and is now back up, and that's what is now on this version of the post. hope this makes sense

inceltear

The difference between Misogyny and Misandry is so ridiculously big, I’m stunned people still try to claim they’re similar

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Credit to the original poster Important-Cry4782 who posted this on r/IncelTears on June 1st, 2026 at 8:10 AM UTC.

pushinghoopswithsticks

“I think white gay people feel cheated because they were born, in principle, into a society in which they were supposed to be safe. The anomaly of their sexuality puts them in danger, unexpectedly. Their reaction seems to me in direct proportion to the sense of feeling cheated of the advantages which accrue to white people in a white society. There’s an element, it has always seemed to me, of bewilderment and complaint. Now that may sound very harsh, but the gay world as such is no more prepared to accept black people than anywhere else in society. It’s a very hermetically sealed world with very unattractive features, including racism.”

— James Baldwin, from a 1984 interview given with Richard Goldstein, in the Village Voice

creatingblackcharacters

Remember when Lil Nas X beautifully explored his sexuality, seduced and killed the devil to the banger of all time, and instead of cheering on this openly gay and proud Black artist for his artistry and fighting back against respectability politics, suddenly said respectability politics was all the Queerest Place on the Internet cared about? Hm. Wonder what happened there.

Anyway I miss him and hope he's doing better with his mental health 🙏🏾

creatingblackcharacters

Like say what you want about "bad queer representation", but this was the song that made me openly and happily accept that I was bisexual. To see him up there Black and beautiful, making music that I love, absolutely killing it? Yeah. You couldn't tell me shit. This man made me proud to be out. "This will make them think we're evil for being gay" hey newsflash dawg-

castrolle

I've personally had to learn the weird way that white queers are still conditioned to be white supremacists and it's unsafe to assume "queer spaces" are somehow inherently anti-racist or even anti-xenophobic. That being said, it's an important lesson to learn because we need to take up the mantle of representing ourselves. We can't allow others to do it for us. Being black and queer is an intersection with intersections and only we can / should understand that well enough to portray it anywhere close to acceptable