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Otters at the Oregon zoo I saw on my birthday, one is sucking on the others ear

[jayyyneotai]

Free Sudan protests. London 2024

Photography by John Behets

[tamarrud]

It enrages me everytime it dawns on me that there is no graduating class in Gaza this year.

How maddening it is to think that just last summer I watched as Al-Shaima Akram celebrated received the news that she got the highest score in all of Palestine in her high school examination, not knowing that come October, Israel will kill her and her family and all the joy that was left.

No tawjihi celebration videos will come out of Gaza this year and that is devastating.

Since October, Israel had destroyed every university in Gaza and destroyed 80% of schools, killing hundreds of teachers and professor and thousands of students in its deliberate attempt to destroy Gaza's education system along with everything else.

In the words of Gazan poet Khaled Juma "the school year that never started in Gaza has come to an end". No last day of school bells, no kids celebrating the last day of school. All these joyful sounds have been drowned out by the sounds of bombs. No deadline extension requests for final projects, missiles had their final say.

No graduation ceremonies when parents are instead burying their children. No plans are made for the summer either, when everyone is busy counting the days and the dead.

[tamarrud]

I say this with a lot of frustration because you cannot mistake how deliberate this is, knowing how important education is for Palestinians. It's the one thing we know that even if Israel tries to kill us off, you cannot kill our ideas.

This is why Palestinians in Gaza have opened temporary schools and got innovative with prioritising education while trying to survive, like Noor's moving school initiative and many many makeshift schools that have been set up in displacement camps.

Afterall, try as you might but you cannot defeat a people whose graduate students are defending their thesis in displacement tents during genocide.

[khizuo]

Help me get my handicapped child out of Gaza, organized by Asmaa Madi

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visual by zayn alarbi, words by ibrahim nasrallah

[effectiveresistance]

[2spirit-1spoon]

Palestine Action shut down production at Israeli weapons manufacturer in Kent

[loonamoths]

[ID 1: two protestors with their arms connected through a tube. They have a Palestinian flag on the ground in front of them. One of them is laying on their back. Their face is not in the frame. The other is sitting on the ground; they are a white person with long hair. They appear to be speaking to a cop who is crouching in front of them. There are two other cops standing behind the protestors. /end ID]

[ID 2: Screenshot of a tweet by Palestine Action @ pal_action. “Breaking: Unbeknownst to everyone, whilst eight actionists blockaded Kent's Israeli weapons factory, a separate group cut through 3 security fences and damaged the supposed highly secure Elbit compound. The group managed to avoid detection and capture by the police #ShutElbitDown” /end ID]

[fairuzfan]

shalom sister. i love your blog and your writing. reading your posts always fills me with fire, i can tell you have a good heart. donating to your campaign makes me feel so good because i trust you and truly you are doing gds work. anyway i wanted to ask you a question!

when i hear new things from gaza, stories of hamas doing X and IOF doing Y, i ask around and i’m not sure what parts of that story is true, if any. anyway idk what to believe all i know is that israel is committing acts of genocide and while the rest of the world is allowing this greatest evil, israel pretends that to be jewish is to be a colonizer. anyway some of my family are zionists, but i cannot sway them because they only know farsi persian and hebrew, aka only trust extremely biased sources.

anyway i am fluent in english farsi and hebrew but my arabic is trash ): so i feel like i can’t get the full picture from palestinians. all i can read are bonkers iranian papers and the disgusting zionist articles, it’s horrible because i know they’re both lying, just about different things. a palestinian opinion is the only opinion i care about right now! anyway it got me thinking. i just wanted to know if you have tips for verifying online research? or go-to non arabic websites? or even a translation app haha. i just want my family to see the truth!

shalom<3

shalom! thank you so much for reaching out, i really appreciate it.

personally, i use different sources for different material. i use middle east eye (specifically maha hussaini) and also mahmoud abusalama for videos of what it's like in the north. i use the electronic intifada interview podcasts to learn about specific things happening (i just finished watching this one about the collapse of healthcare in gaza). i would check out @northgazaupdates on here too. there's euromedmonitor as well.

and really, there are a lot of diaspora palestinians who are relaying what their family tells them, and they post on twitter a lot. someone i know does this is samah fadil. there's also @el-shab-hussein who translates things from Mona. here's mohammad smiry who is in gaza and tweets primarily in english. dr. mustafa elmasri also tweets in english too.

i would use al-jazeera, i have a fact checking guide here about any news source really. i don't use it as much but there's also the palestine chronicle. sometimes i use quds news network.

i really don't know much about hebrew media so i can't really tell you about sources i recommend there. i don't know if @bringmemyrocks or @rodeodeparis can perhaps provide some input?

i will say, if you're looking for hebrew palestinian media, i dont think there's too much because there's a ridiculous amount of censorship in '48 right now (honestly it's been going on for years atp) but what a lot of palestinians are doing is relying on internal networks. if you want, there are some israeli historians like Ilan Pappe and Avi Shlaim but I'm not sure if they write in hebrew. but they for sure write in english and provide a historical perspective from within israeli society itself.

this is what comes to mind rn honestly, but i haven't even touched on instagram because i haven't been on it in a while. i might add on later if i remember any really vital ones that i recommend.

[sayruq]

[sayruq]

As always don't forget about eSims

[fairuzfan]

There's a belief that passivity and objectivity is morally superior to anger towards injustice — an idea that's very often employed by liberal zionist types. They believe that the root of evil is anger rather than a very concentrated effort by the zionist entity called Israel to perpetually displace, kill, and torture Palestinians that is central to its purpose and thereby imply the solution to violence is nonviolence no matter the circumstance or situation. They believe the occupied and occupier come from the same moral base and should be judged by the same standards across the board, so the call for nonviolence from Palestinians (ie: perpetuating the cycle of violence that only ever gets used against Palestinians) is denial that israel is a fundamental harm to the Palestinian identity, let alone the Palestinian body.

Not really a conclusion to this thought, just an observation that I think is the root cause of the problem with how libzionists engage with ideas about Palestine.

[fairuzfan]

Which is why there's such an emphasis on "peace" activists and "peace" groups. There's a peace that's employed by Israelis which is quiet whereas Palestinian peace is different — something Palestinians have not experienced in decades. To the Palestinian, violence can include the bare acknowledgement of Israel, the acknowledgement that the nation-state built on Palestinian expulsion and torture is legitimate, thereby making their pain a necessary event. Many Palestinians refuse to accept the Nakba as necessary, which is why many are so adamant that Israel is an illegitimate state. I'm not sure if liberal zionists realize this, or if they even care, but a lot of the time, that's where Palestinians are coming from when they refuse to acknowledge Israel. Anyways, all their moral pandering is pointless and contradictory — they remained silent on the years of injustice Palestinians face only to speak up about peace now. Very obvious what your intentions are.

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الليلة الأولى من رمضان و بلشت اشتباكات في الضفة الغربية و هاي ‏المرة الثالثة الليلة اقتحم الاحتلال مخيم بلاطة في نابلس .

الليل طويل

[fallahifag-deactivated20240722]

It is only the first night of Ramadan and the IOF has started raiding cities in the West Bank.

Tonight they raided Nablus at midnight, wreaking havoc in Balata Refugee Camp. They destroyed a supermarket and personal private properties. And now, at 4:00 AM, while every family is up to eat suhoor before beginning their fast, the IOF is raiding again. They raided 3 times in one night, destroying personal private properties and a supermarket.

Keep in mind there has also been a raid in Tulkarem and its refugee camps which has been ongoing for 4+ hours. They are destroying infrastructure and shooting innocent civilians and arresting innocent people.

[fallahifag-deactivated20240722]

March 8 posters throughout the years: Happy International Women’s Day from Palestine

[soon-palestine]

[determinate-negation]

people refuse to see the violence it takes to maintain the status quo as such and instead fear the hypothetical violence it will take to destroy it. they see the current order of things as a state of stasis and inaction, instead of as a violent order upheld by constant action, which can be undone by action

[modelsof-color]

Donate Insulin and medication to diabetics in Gaza

[ouroborosmotifs]

the flour massacre is ongoing. it is everyday. it was not an isolated event. it was not even the first time israel shot at and killed palestinians going for aid (they do it whenever they allow aid through). in fact, they did the exact same thing yesterday morning. just because smaller-scale murders go under the radar for lack of shock factor doesn’t mean they’re not happening continuously.

[stuckinapril]

it broke today that biden airdropped aid to gaza. other than the fact that this is an obvious pr move ahead of his re-election campaign, i think it's important to stress how ineffective this method is compared to just allowing humanitarian aid to come through. airdrops carry far less aid than truck convoys, for one, and require an airdrop zone with a lot of idealistic conditions that don't often coincide. this is a major reason why you hear a lot of airdrops being conducted at beaches--and why a lot of them have been blown to the sea. and what's even more dangerous about that is that a lot of these palestinians are malnourished, starving, in a delirious state of mind. many of them are so utterly hungry that they'd be willing to swim through just to get their hands on a sodden meal. but apparently this is the best thing the us, which literally funds israel's ongoing genocide, can do for palestinians at the moment.

[stuckinapril]

i think the biggest reason i find this so insidious is because it implies the us has to play by israel's rules, even though it's basically already confirmed that there are us soldiers in palestine. the us is telling us that the best thing it can do is airdrop aid, rather than strongarm israel into allowing ground-delievred aid to come through. the us is acting like it has red tape it has to contend with.

but the us is the red tape. the us literally holds the power. it knows what it's doing. it's actually jarring watching the united states government try to infantilize itself.