be about it

the torture of your memory , the light that it brings 🌷

[thererisesaredstar]

by studiosalud (2024)

[transmutationisms]

tumblr just deleted a huge swathe of palestinians who were on here trying to fundraise. if you've been helping any of these fundraisers please take this time to 1) check in with palestinians you're in contact with 2) help them submit support requests if needed 3) keep these campaigns circulating while the beneficiaries are being silenced. these campaigns are life or death, this isn't just social networking. do not let these fundraisers languish.

[heritageposts]

Palestinians who've reached out to me today after having their blogs deleted (sorry if I don't have your most recent former account):

@abood-gaza5, formerly @/aboodgaza. GFM link to Abood's campaign.

@familgazaamal1, formerly @/familygazaamal. GFM link to Amal's campaign.

@mahrahpalestine, formerly @/freepaleatine95. GFM link to Marah's campaign.

@mohammedmatar392, formerly @/mohammedmatat. GFM link to Mohamed's campaign.

@momenalostaz555, formerly @/mo98h and @/momenalostaz. GFM link to Momen's campaign.

[soon-palestine]

[451isa]

[stark4stark]

Israel’s senseless slaughter leaves thousands of children orphaned. Palestine must be free! Don’t tire keep talking about what’s happening!

[aci25]

Oakland, California

[bunnyhugs22]

🍉Data sources under the cut🍉

[packlllama]

Emergency protest in San Francisco 2/13/24

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[wearenotjustnumbers2]

Yesterday marked the 100th day of genocide. Please, do not get used to this. Our people, killed, bombed, kidnapped, stripped, executed and starved is not normal. Our kids in pieces, their body parts collected in bags is not normal.

Israel has killed 23,700 human. More than 10,300 child. We'd need 177 school bus to carry the Palestinian children killed by Israel in gaza. 10,022 fatherless child. 8,352 motherless child. The wounded have their wounds rot and die waiting in front of the crossing. Maggots seen inside alive people's wounds. 5,500 pregnant woman will give birth in the upcoming weeks. 100 Days of Genocide. 100 Days of the world watching silently.

[longlivepalestine]

Keep Talking About Palestine.

[rawanly]

[rain-carradine]

Israeli Occupation Force sent an undercover team (dressed in women, doctors and civilian clothing) to storm the Ibn Sina Hospital in Jenin (West Bank) and carry out the assassination of three Palestinian’s.

[intersectionalpraxis]

[tamarrud]

Palestinian author from Gaza, Hiba Abu Nada, wrote on Facebook days before she was killed by an Israeli strike:

نحن في الأعلى نبني مدينة ثانية، أطباء بلا مرضى ولا دماء، أساتذة بلا ازدحام وصراخ على الطلبة، عائلات جديدة بلا آلام ولا حزن، وصحفيون يصورون الجنة، وشعراء يكتبون في الحب الأبدي، كلهم من غزة كلهم. في الجنة توجد غزة جديدة بلا حصار تتشكل الآن.

Translation:

We, high above in the skies, are building another city filled with doctors without patients or blood, teachers who aren't yelling at students in overcrowded classrooms, there are new families without pain or sorrow, there are journalists capturing heaven, and poets writing about eternal love - all of them are from Gaza, all of them. In heaven, there is a new Gaza without siege forming now.

Artwork by Ahmed Alkhalidi

[luthienne]

Fady Joudah, from A Palestinian Meditation in a Time of Annihilation

[luthienne]

Hala Alyan, from The Palestine Double Standard

[luthienne]

Mahmoud Darwish, from The Butterfly's Burden; "I Have a Seat in the Abandoned Theater" (tr. from the Arabic by Fady Joudah)

[Text ID: I say: How is this my concern? I'm a spectator / He says: No spectators at chasm's door ... and no / one is neutral here. And you must choose / your part in the end]

[luthienne]

Arundhati Roy, from Power Politics

[Text ID: The trouble is that once you see it, you can't unsee it. And once you've seen it, keeping quiet, saying nothing, becomes as political an act as speaking out. There's no innocence. Either way, you're accountable.]

[wearenotjustnumbers2]

The Israeli army opened up a mass grave in al-Shifa hospital and dug up 130 bodies of dead Palestinians and took them.

Reported by journalists in gaza and news outlets as well as the health ministry spokesperson.

Thinking about Israel's skin banks that are filled with stolen Palestinians body parts, do your research if you don't know what that is. This should stop, even the dead aren't left in peace.

[wearenotjustnumbers2]

Here's an article you can read about Israel's skin banks.

There are also plenty of documentaries where israeli doctors talk about it openly. The article also includes some names of Palestinians who had their organs stolen and trafficked especially in the West Bank. Such as the case of Belal Ghannan, a 19 year old who lived in the west bank, when he disappeared and was returned to his family with a closed coffin with an urgent message from the Israeli forces to bury him without a funeral. His family found his body missing inside organs from his neck into his abdomen.

There are also the investigations in 2001 and 2009 by many journalists, as well as a 2009 documentary that you can search for to know more about it.

Reminder that Israel has the largest skin bank in the world, bigger than America even though it was created 40 years after, and Israel being a much smaller population. Also the israelis beliefs against donating organs/skin after death and their reluctance towards all campaigns held by Israel forces. So the main resource for this bank is Palestinians skin and organs who were taken without their or their families consent.

[sscarletvenus]

i do not pity israel. never have, and never will.

each night that gaza experiences is deadlier than the last, as idf soldiers record propaganda tiktoks, make rave parties and grwms and fit checks, gloat over having food and water, and film themselves deriving sadistic pleasure from torturing their hostages and victims and desecrating the dead.

Palestinians have to display their martyred before the camera for you to believe the atrocities that the zionist entity has subjected them to. they cannot even mourn in private. the apartheid entity murders them in cold blood, and you deliver the killing blow by doubting them.

babies whose families have been killed will never get to know their own name.

i can't reshare a tenth of the videos and photos that cross my timeline. i have seen more dead children in the past month than i have known death my entire life.

israeli settlers burn olive trees, bomb bakeries and fishing boats, shower white phosphorus and earthquake bombs on the captive civilians of gaza. you already know about the disastrous effects of white phosphorus, but earthquake bombs were last used during ww2 to wipe out entire cities.

how holy is the land that seeks to be built over the mass graves of thousands of children? is it holier than the miracle of a child being born in this hypocritical world?

all 11 universities in gaza have been bombed. academics should be agitating right now, especially those who call themselves "decolonial thinkers." destruction of universities is a sinisterly deliberate act to sabotage the Palestinians who will survive this great catastrophe.

the act of cleansing your hands before prayer is extremely important to muslims. no part of us can remotely comprehend the grief of the mother who refused to wash her hands from the blood of her children after losing them in a zionist airstrike over gaza. "I swear I won't wash them, I won't wash my hands, how else am I supposed to sleep near my kids."

it is only both moral and right when one side defends itself. the other side are the price of war, no better than insects and cattle and sheep left to die within the four walls of the slaughterhouse.

this situation should not be up for debate, but let me finish with one final thing : do your research about Palestine. HOWEVER. you do not need a degree in middle east studies to object to an ongoing genocide. if someone outwits you in a debate about historical details and every nuance of a subject, you were and will remain entirely correct in objecting to a genocide.

may those martyred rest in peace and be reunited again with their loved ones in heaven's eternal vastness.

DO NOT STOP TALKING ABOUT PALESTINE.

glory to Palestinian resistance. from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free.