tea and lilies

she/her, 28+, muslim, queer (take a cup of lesbianism, mix in a few tablespoons of grey asexuality, add a teaspoon of genderfluidity, then stir until thoroughly confused)

[violottie]

Boycott Israeli Dates this Ramadan, from Call 2 Action Now, 28/Feb/2024: (caption under images)

This Ramadan, don’t break your fast with an Israeli date. Stand in solidarity with the Palestinian people.

Israel’s genocidal assault on Palestinians in the Gaza Strip has now killed tens of thousands. Palestinians, facing down Israel’s catastrophic violence, call on us to boycott Israeli products in solidarity with their struggle for freedom.

Follow this quick guide to boycotting Israeli dates:

• Always check the label when buying dates. Don’t buy dates that are produced or packaged in Israel or its West Bank settlements. If no country of origin can be found on the box, check the retailer’s website.

• One of Israel’s largest exporters is called Hadiklaim. It sells dates in supermarkets under these names: King Solomon, Jordan River and Jordan River Bio-Top, as well as under the labels of supermarket chains. Check the box carefully, if the dates were “exported by Hadiklaim” – don’t buy them.

• Avoid these companies: Mehadrin, MTex, Edom, Carmel Agrexco, and Arava

#checkthelabel is not enough. Israel has been caught labelling their dates as ‘produce of Palestine’. Tesco, Sainsbury’s, Waitrose, M&S, Morrison, Aldi, Lidl and Asda package Israeli dates under their own labels!

Buy dates from Zaytoun, Alard, Yaffa, and Holy Land Date all support Palestinian Farmers. If you cannot get hold of these brands then buy dates from Tunisia, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Pakistan, UAE and Algeria.

[fairuzfan]

Eat the rich but ONLY if I don't have to give up my bad coffee

[flandrepudding]

Eurovision is allowing Israel to participate despite its ongoing genocide against Palestinians.

Boycott Eurovision.

Do not watch it. Do not support it.

[bluesturngold]

McDonald’s Israel supports Gaza genocide while McDonald’s Malaysia bullies Palestine solidarity activists: Boycott McDonald’s

The BNC calls for escalating global boycott of McDonald's until it ends ties with Israeli franchisee for supporting genocide, and Malaysian

The McDonald's boycott is officially on now, avoid McDonald's restaurants as well as McDonald's products (McCafe Keurig coffee pods come to mind) in grocery stores in support of Palestine and Palestinian solidarity activists.

[mysharona1987]

*tells refugees to head south to avoid being bombed, then bombs the shit out of the north*

*then decide, actually, Hamas are in the south, oops, so I guess we have to bomb the south too*

Who is really buying this? It’s not even good propaganda. It’s so transparent.

[myvolcano-deactivated20260116]

AL SHIFAA CATASTROPHE.

patients who were in al shifaa hospital had to evacuate and leave to southern gaza. patients with first degree burns, patients who have lost limbs, patients who have lost blood, patients who have been starved by the israeli-american-british-french-egyptian-arab siege and blockade on gaza, patients who had no access to any food or water or medicine for the last few days ARE FORCED TO LEAVE A HOSPITAL AND WALK 15 KILOMETERS SOUTH ON FOOT.

an eyewitness medical staff told al Jazeera: "i've seen men, women and children falling on the streets, barely able to stand on their feet let alone walk FIFTEEN KILOMETERS, THEY WILL DIE (HE SAID) THEY'VE BEEN GIVEN A DEATH SENTENCE BY THE IOF. if these people don't die from the fatigue they will be murdered by iof snipers who have been killing people randomly at check points or they will be kidnapped like many more. dead bodies are everywhere. the scenes are heart wrenching. this is not the gaza we know. everything is destroyed.

the israelis refused to let ambulances get to al shifaa to help evacuate people. and the iof forces destroyed all the vehicles parked in the hospital and put them on top of each other to make it impossible to use them. doctors refused to leave their patients behind, so around 250 patients who cannot move at all have stayed in the hospital accompanied by their doctors. the iof is planning to make al shifaa hospital a military base for his soldiers to rest and operate."

[the translation is mine and it is not word for word and this video is just a part of his testimony. but i tried to sum up everything he said]

what has this world become. how can anyone of those politicians, leaders and international organizations lift their heads and bluntly support Israel and make excuses for its war. how are they still bluntly and shamelessly calling hamas terrorists when we are all seeing who the terrorists really are. how can any human being witness all of this and still thinks "zionism is sexy" and chooses to "stand with Israel" and still thinks this is "self-defense"

[greenteawithlilies]

The lgbtq+ community has been so thoroughly whitewashed that there are straight white people who genuinely believe they have more authority talking about lgbtq+ issues than queer POC. The sheer arrogance and entitlement is staggering.

[ahmedsalih-deactivated20240221]

[jackoshadows]

[narrie]

jewishvoiceforpeace: This is what genocide looks like. These are the 2913 Palestinian children killed by the Israeli military this month, as of Thursday, October 26. As the Israeli airstrikes on Gaza intensify, we recognize with horror and grief that this death toll is already inaccurate.

We demand a ceasefire now to save lives. To stop a genocide. The Israeli military has already erased 47 entire Palestinian families from Gaza's population registry; all members of the family, from all generations, are dead. This is loss beyond measure.

The U.S. is also responsible for this horror. 80% of the bombs that the Israeli military drops on Gaza, that are used to kill these children, are American-made. We are called to do everything we can to stop this genocide.

As we continue to demand a ceasefire and fight for a future where everyone is free and equal and safe, we refuse to forget these lives. We will always affirm that every life is precious.

Every single one of these deaths was preventable. When we say Never Again-for anyone, this is who we mean. Never Again is right now.

Source: Gaza Ministry of Health

[girlfictions]

and let the history books name joe biden, rishi sunak, justin trudeau, emmanuel macron, ursula von der leyen and every other world leader who did not step in to prevent the genocide of palestine as cold-blooded murderers. may they face a shred of the immeasurable pain and suffering they allowed to be committed against 2.2. million innocent lives.

[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.

[colorisbyshe]

my timeline is full of tweets like this. i’m going to throw up

[colorisbyshe]

[colorisbyshe]

[colorisbyshe]

Attacks are worse than ever and no one has any way to document it or cry for help.

[palipunk-deactivated20260328]

132 Indigenous activists, artists, and intellectuals just made a joint statement condemning Israel's genocide against Palestinians. It is a beautiful piece and I highly recommend reading the full post here: https://therednation.org/statement-of-indigenous-solidarity-with-palestine/

We encourage Indigenous peoples worldwide to uplift additional demands from Palestinian organizers, to commit to the Palestinian call to Boycott, Divest, and Sanction (BDS) Israel and all institutions complicit in Israeli apartheid and settler colonialism, to issue solidarity statements and mutual aid for Palestine and organize mutual aid for Gaza, to demand freedom for political prisoners, and to support Land Back and the right of return for Palestinians. Stop the genocide. End the siege. End the occupation. Dismantle apartheid. Decolonize Palestine.

[last-to-the-orgy]

When Europeans discuss America:

[petalsbleedingbeak]

And we're correct

[greenteawithlilies]

Except that his point here is that we don’t discuss America like this. There is a huge difference in how we talk about western and non-western countries.

[jaded-of-mara]

[recklesssherbet]

For the first time ever, Colombia elected a leftist president.

Most importantly, and the reason why I’m almost in tears, for the first time ever, Colombia elected an environmental activist, a true representative of the people, a black woman as its vice-president.

This is just the beginning of course, the next 4 years will be of a lot of work, both for the government and for the people. But after the past 4 years of ineptitude and corruption, and the past 20 of far right rhetoric and exceedingly violent governments, I can’t help but feel hopeful.