[ladychlo]

"here lie those who loved life and could not find a way to live it" x

[dct239394cvvd098dffgggp]

violent resistance to violent oppression wouldnt exist if there was no violent oppression in the first place. casualties of violent resistance to violent oppression are ultimately the sole blame of the violent oppressor

[gunlovingpacifist]

Nelson Mandela disagreed with everything you just said. And that's why he was able to unite a whole country

[dct239394cvvd098dffgggp]

i love when you lot invent these holy meekly pacifist images in your head of people you were told youre allowed to Value and Appreciate but only as those holy meekly pacifist images spoonfed to you by your own propaganda machine and you never as a grown adult bother to google if it was all really sunshine and rainbows and care bears philosophy that affected the state of apartheid in south africa

[heritageposts]

Nelson Mandela in Gaza, 1999:

Choose peace rather than confrontation. Except in cases where we cannot get, where we cannot proceed, where we cannot move forward. Then, if the only alternative is violence, we will use violence.

[heritageposts]

Nelson Mandela addressing Palestinians in Gaza:

Choose peace rather than confrontation. Except in cases where we cannot get, where we cannot proceed, where we cannot move forward. Then if the only alternative is violence, we will use violence.

[killy-deactivated20241228]

I take back everything I’ve said about her. Her shitty poetry rules. I mean her poetry rules

[sanwrote]

her social media statement about this was genuinely really good

[palipunk-deactivated20260328]

There are not words to describe how I feel watching people on this app say that Biden is the lesser evil and everyone still needs to band behind him after videos upon videos of literal chunks of human flesh being picked off the ground in refugee camps and fathers brokenly calling out for their decimated children amongst the rubble in Palestine. No words

[tieflingkisser]

it is so disgusting watching other white people reassure each other about taking breaks from social media and "prioritizing your mental health" when literally the one thing Palestinians are asking for more than anything is that people do not look away from what is happening to them

[tieflingkisser]

shockingly on the no reading comprehension site, people have no reading comprehension

did i say "fuck you and your mental health" or did i say that it's disgusting to watch white people reassuring each other about not paying attention to a genocide being enacted in real time (with direct contributions from their own governments in many cases) when that's exactly what the victims are asking for?

[tieflingkisser]

sometimes bad things happen and you will feel bad about it! that is normal and does not mean that you should just ignore them happening! of course you feel sad, it's fucking sad! of course you feel angry, it's fucking horrific and unjust! none of this means you should should look away to remain comfortable and undisturbed

also no one expects you to ignore your own life and be glued to the news 24/7 so stop pretending this is what people mean by "pay attention"

[heritageposts]

article from 2022, just to put things into perspective:

Over half of Palestinian children in Gaza contemplated suicide, report finds

Save the Children study finds that 80 percent of youths in besieged enclave live in emotional distress amid Israeli blockade and repeated mi

Over half of Palestinian children in the besieged Gaza Strip have had suicidal thoughts in the past year, according to a report published by Save the Children on Wednesday. [...] Around 55 percent of children have contemplated suicide, while three out of five children have self-harmed, Save the Children revealed. [...] A report from Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor last year found that nine out of 10 children in Gaza suffered from some form of conflict-related post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). [...] Around 59 percent of caregivers documented an increase in youths experiencing difficulty in speech, language and communication, while 96 percent said they themselves felt unhappy and constantly anxious. “The children we spoke to for this report described living in a perpetual state of fear, worry, sadness and grief, waiting for the next round of violence to erupt, and feeling unable to sleep or concentrate,” said Jason Lee, director for Save the Children in the occupied Palestinian territories. “The physical evidence of their distress – bedwetting, loss of ability to speak or to complete basic tasks – is shocking and should serve as a wakeup call to the international community.”

[fairuzfan]

The UN is a fucking joke. None of these world systems are meant to protect anyone. Who the fuck let a handful of countries basically control the vote through vetoes. What's the fucking point if these countries have unlimited power. It's just a way for the world powers to maintain another level of control. I cannot understand the inhumanity of these people.

[girlfictions]

every politician who claims israel has a right to 'defend itself', every celebrity who reposts israel-sympathetic statements, every hand-wringing liberal who refuses to take a stance because 'it's just too complex', every zionist who fearmongers about this turning into a second holocaust, every western journalist who insists on asking their palestinian guests "but do you condemn hamas?" — in fact any person who wants to comment on the situation at all should be forced to read this article in full before they're allowed to voice their opinion.

at the end of the article, there is a 338-page list of the names of the palestinians who have been killed by israeli forces from october 7th-25th. the first six pages are for the age '0'.

[rozcdust]

also, a friendly reminder, the world we live in now consists of an active genocide.

of warcrimes being posted on twitter by the official account of israeli government.

of people looking at children, women and men being bombed, killed, starved and butchered and saying it is okay because of a single terrorist group, THAT ISRAEL CREATED.

of westerners saying to look away from the slaughter happening in gaza because your mental health is more important than thousands of lives.

of israeli politicians straight up using propaganda from nazi handbooks to dehumanise palestinians, calling them less than human, less than the rest of us, animals.

and what one palestinian man posted on his social media hit me more than anything: “if we actually were animals, people would care.”

[sokkalore]

This could be my last report from Gaza by Tareq S. Hajjaj. Please read.

[rizblogs]

you know whats going to happen is that 10 years from now there are going to be leaks, re-election talking points, journalists making a quick buck by telling you "what really happened in palestine", ex soldiers telling you how they feel so bad for doing something so abhorrent that they were just following orders and every shit actor on that hollywood list taking back their solidarity lamenting in that "they just didnt know! they followed trusted news sources!", average people saying they had NO CLUE that america of all nations would take part in something so awful, that they had NO CLUE that america of all nations would fabricate propaganda and i just want you to know if Palestinians end up forgiving them i will not and neither will the world

we saw this all happen in real time and we saw your response and we have receipts

[ammaterasu]

how will people live with themselves 5, 10, 20 years from now knowing they blindly fell for propaganda and rooted for genocide. We ask how the general German public, every day average people sided with the Nazis. We say to ourselves 'it would not have been me'

It IS you.

[criptochecca]

The members of Hamas are Palestinians. They have suffered like any other Palestinian under Israel occupation. An Hamas spokeperson has said that 85% of their combattants are orphans whose parents have been killed by the constant shelling by the Zionist forces. they grew up as refugees, under siege, under occupation. Whatever you think about their politics, if you consider them an external force controlling Gaza and not as Palestinians themselves I really don't care to listen to what you have to say.

[txttletale]

ofc you can feel however you like about hamas specifically and still be unequivocally on the side of palestinian resistance but talking about hamas like it's some invasive occupying regime or some inexplicable evil terrorising palestine or even a religious hate group is both racist and completely inane. whatever your opinion on hamas, i urge everyone to actually consider the position of palestinians on the ground--if everyone you loved was killed by an airstrike while the world cheered on, who the fuck wouldn't join an organisation promising revenge and action, when the alternative is looking down at the barrel if vanishingly short life expectancy amid more airstrikes in an open air prison with a 47% unemployment rate. you might not think that hamas is good or right or correct, but you have to understand it as a response to the situation it exists in or you'll just end up uncritically accepting the islamophobic propaganda lines being used to fuel a genocide

[beljar]

The last paradox is that the tale of Palestine from the beginning until today is a simple story of colonialism and dispossession, yet the world treats it as a multifaceted and complex story—hard to understand and even harder to solve. Indeed, the story of Palestine has been told before: European settlers coming to a foreign land, settling there, and either committing genocide against or expelling the indigenous people. The Zionists have not invented anything new in this respect.

Noam Chomsky, from On Palestine, March 23, 2015

[didion-official]

But Israel succeeded nonetheless, with the help of its allies everywhere, in building a multilayered explanation that is so complex that only Israel can understand it. Any interference from the outside world is immediately castigated as naive at best or anti-Semitic at worst.

— Noam Chomsky, On Palestine

[wearenotjustnumbers2]

This baby remained under the rubble for six hours. Read it again. By some miracle, he survived and he was rescued. But his mother who was holding him didn't. He looks like he's in shock, you can see tears coming out of his eyes but no expression or any sound to indicate his pain.

We are not numbers. Make an effort to end this.

[nando161mando]