FREE PALESTINE

boycott stranger things in all forms for schnapp and gelman’s abhorrent and racist rhetoric toted against the Palestinian people. zionists do not deserve your consumption of their media

[medusacomplex]

i’ve already essentially tucked this blog away as i’m exiting tumblr as a whole, but it felt necessary to come on here especially for the few other st blogs that may follow me - schnapp and gelman have made their vehement, racist support of genocide abundantly clear. they are open about this and make no attempt to hide it. they face no repercussions as the system that exists serves to encourage the dehumanization of Palestinians.

the only way to force these repercussions is to make use of the one thing we have power over, our consumption - tumblr rpc may be small but i know myself and others who have been around for a long while can testify to the fact that discourse here can in fact be meaningful and constructive, it can change minds and impact personal opinions. i have learned so much by being here and it’s spread out past the website.

i encourage everyone not only to boycott st as a show, but also the strpc. writing within this fandom only serves as support for the content. it shows others on this website that we’re okay with the continued employment of zionists.

i love Nancy dearly, she has been with me as a comfort character since the show first aired and i began writing her. i understand how hard it might be to step away from that. however there has to be a point where your morality comes first, and i think we’re well past that, frankly.

please keep your eyes on Palestine and never let any single coward who supports the murder of an entire people rest. i hope schnapp, gelman, and anyone who shares their enabling views are plagued with nightmares of the atrocities they’re trying to defend.

[medusacomplex]

sorry, one very last post to make only because i checked my ask and found a really kind, beautiful message left there that i won't post as it feels personal - it was sent over a year ago now and i'm so sorry not to have seen it, but if the person who sent it should ever find their way back to this blog, please know i understand completely and it was such a kindness to have sent me that message.

you mentioned i may not remember you but just thinking of your initials and my (poor) memory, i think i do!! and if you're who i'm thinking of i remember you fondly, and as a truly creative person with the types of stories and original characters i'd want to read hundreds of books on. it was actually quite memorable to me and i remember fondly the worldbuilding you'd done. i thought it was cool and honestly i think i was a little jealous when it came to the ideas you'd come up with :-]

i recall being a bit worried i may have offended you somehow so this was a really sweet gesture and i can't appropriately tell you how appreciative i am of you writing me <3 i am so happy to hear you're well. you were and most certainly still are one of the coolest people around. i hope our paths cross in the unforeseen wild future.

[medusacomplex]

god willing no one still follows this account anyway (tumblr looks so different now by the way? lmao) but with the new season out i felt an itch to come on here and say fuck st and fuck each of the pieces of shit enabling assholes like schnapp and gelman

[luckywandererhere]

This was a reply to someone else, but I'm making this its own post because so many people are being so evil right now re: Noah Schnapp.

You can find other, longer explanations with history and all, but all the places I've seen more or less agree with this:

So you're all calling people to cancel Noah because he's in favor of a Jewish nation in what is today Israel. Which is a perfectly reasonable, decent and educated opinion to have, especially when you, to use a trendy term, "educate yourself" and find out why the state of Israel was created.

11000 dead Palestinians, half of them children

According to Hamas. Don't forget that, ever. They're the current, official government of Gaza, thus they're the ones who give numbers. This means that the real number could be 10, 1 million, anything in between. What I've read is that they probably give more of less accurate total numbers. What they fail to do, however, is distinguish between Hamas militants and civilians, and beteween civilians killed by IDF strikes, civilians killed by failed Hamas or Palestininan Islamic Jihad's rockets (which happens a lot), and Palestinians murdered by Hamas/PIJ (which also happens, a whole damn lot). They also don't specify how many civilians they have prevented or tried to prevent from evacuating or receiving aid.

11k dead people is a horrible number. Even 1 dead person is a horrible number. However, urban warfare in such a densely populated area is its own kind of hell, especially when the other side is fond of using civilians as human shields in every way possible. The fact that the number is 11k and not 50k, 100k, and so on, indicates that the IDF have indeed done a lot to minimize deaths. You don't genocide people by doing roof knocks, opening evacuation lines, dropping guided bombs, putting up an Iron Dome to deal with rockets while avoiding escalation, etc. simply because actual genocide, while a lot worse, is also cheaper, easier and faster than what they're doing. This is important because caling every act of war genocide dilutes the word, and there are actual genocides happening around the world. Also, there is a difference between striking military targets and causing civilian deaths as a side effect (what the IDF is doing) and planning and carrying out a massacre deliberately targeting civilians and inflicting as much pain and humilliation as possible on them. And there is a difference between doing so by breaking a ceasefire (which is what Hamas did), and defending your country because if you don't do that a terrorist group will anhilate you (which is what the IDF is doing).

Back to Noah. So far, these are the things that people have tried to cancel him for:

Traveling to Israel (a completely normal thing)

Having Israeli friends (another completely normal thing)

Condemning Hamas' horrible attack on October 7th (the decent thing to do)

Posting a statement saying he feels unsafe as a Jewish person in the US (which, given the rise of antisemitic acts in the world, including the US, including where he lives and where he studies, is a valid feeling to have)

Signing a letter, along with Shawn Levy, Brett Gelman, Ross Duffer and I think Cara Buono, asking Biden to press for the liberation of every hostage by Hamas. This especially shows the utter ignorance of the cancellers because, as it turns out, caring about every hostage implies a slowdown of IDF's actions (and, at the time, a delay of a ground invasion).

Supporting the existence and preservation of the state of Israel (once again, a completely normal thing). The fact that people are turning against him for these things says to me that the real reason you are all hating Noah is beacuse:

He's Jewish. Like, really really Jewish.

And the fact that this all comes from a place of antisemitism isn't hidden at all: I've seen y'all on here, on Twitter, Reddit, every other social media calling him slurs (such as "cunt"), censoring his name, pretending he's not part of the cast, asking the Duffers/Netflix to fire him, wishing him failure, doxxing him, calling on his classmates to physically assault him, etc. He doesn't need to educate himself: you guys are already teaching him a great lesson on why a Jewish state is necessary. If that's the treament he gets from his own "fans", what can he expect from the world at large?

[girlfictions]

this is one of the most disgustingly bad faith posts i've seen in a while so let's break it down.

first and foremost it's both funny and incredibly embarrassing that you've deliberately skirted around the real reason noah schnapp has caused such uproar: he promoted stickers bearing the phrase "zionism is sexy". there is quite literally nothing more insidious than a rich, white, american celebrity giggling over an ideology that has brought about the deaths of thousands of palestinians. absolutely nothing about zionism is "perfectly reasonable, decent or educated." zionism is inherently evil, and you don't have to take my word for it. this piece, titled "why i am an anti-zionist jew", was published in august 2014, and explains exactly why the zionist school of thought is so destructive.

now let's address your insane claim that we cannot trust the accuracy of the palestinian death toll.

“Everyone uses the figures from the Gaza Health Ministry because those are generally proven to be reliable,” said Omar Shakir, Israel and Palestine director at Human Rights Watch. “In the times in which we have done our own verification of numbers for particular strikes, I’m not aware of any time which there’s been some major discrepancy.” Shakir said Human Rights Watch would not use figures provided by parties with “a propensity to misrepresent information.” (x)

the gaza health ministry has consistently reported accurate figures in line with the UN and other human rights organisations — to try and dismiss their numbers in any way is a futile attempt at dehumanisation. i do find it interesting that you've supplied zero sources for the deaths you're blaming on a lack of distinguishing between "hamas militants and civilians." even granting you the benefit of the doubt on such an absurd statement, over 4000 of the deaths have been children. were those children hamas militants?

onto your pathetic insistence that what israel is doing somehow isn't genocide because "only 11,000" palestinians have been murdered.

from raz segal, an israeli professor of holocaust and genocide studies:

Israel’s campaign to displace Gazans—and potentially expel them altogether into Egypt—is yet another chapter in the Nakba, in which an estimated 750,000 Palestinians were driven from their homes during the 1948 war that led to the creation of the State of Israel. But the assault on Gaza can also be understood in other terms: as a textbook case of genocide unfolding in front of our eyes. Under international law, the crime of genocide is defined by “the intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such,” as noted in the December 1948 UN Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide. In its murderous attack on Gaza, Israel has loudly proclaimed this intent. Israeli Minister of Defense Yoav Gallant declared it in no uncertain terms on October 9th: “We are imposing a complete siege on Gaza. No electricity, no food, no water, no fuel. Everything is closed. We are fighting human animals, and we will act accordingly.” The UN Genocide Convention lists five acts that fall under its definition. Israel is currently perpetrating three of these in Gaza: “1. Killing members of the group. 2. Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group. 3. Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part.” The Israeli Air Force, by its own account, has so far dropped more than 6,000 bombs on Gaza, which is one of the most densely populated areas in the world—almost as many bombs as the US dropped on all of Afghanistan during record-breaking years of its war there. Human Rights Watch has confirmed that the weapons used included phosphorous bombs, which set fire to bodies and buildings, creating flames that aren’t extinguished on contact with water.

this is an actual genocide, as much as you'd like to deny it. just today, israel raided al-shifa, gaza's largest hospital, claiming it was being used as a "hamas base" with absolutely zero evidence. just as expected, they found zero hamas militants. here's what actually occurred.

finally, let's return to noah schnapp and "the things that people have tried to cancel him for."

Traveling to Israel (a completely normal thing)

noah went to israel on a birthright trip, which are tools of the israeli government carefully constructed to present an imaginary, propagandised portrayal of israel, to erase the existence of palestinian life, and to shore up support for israel’s occupation, apartheid and denial of the right of palestinian refugees to return

Having Israeli friends (another completely normal thing)

the friends in question being the ones by his side promoting the "zionism is sexy" stickers, hence why people are upset

Condemning Hamas' horrible attack on October 7th (the decent thing to do)

condemning october 7th without acknowledging the nakba, the 1948 mass displacement and dispossession of roughly 700,000 palestinians, without acknowledging the 75 years of israel's regime of racial domination and oppression over the palestinian people, is nothing more than an empty condemnation devoid of context and empathy

Posting a statement saying he feels unsafe as a Jewish person in the US (which, given the rise of antisemitic acts in the world, including the US, including where he lives and where he studies, is a valid feeling to have)

noah schnapp's statement also included the sentence "You either stand with Israel or you stand with terrorism." positioning israel's ethnic cleansing of palestine's population of 2.2 million as anti-terrorism is rooted in islamophobia.

Signing a letter, along with Shawn Levy, Brett Gelman, Ross Duffer and I think Cara Buono, asking Biden to press for the liberation of every hostage by Hamas. This especially shows the utter ignorance of the cancellers because, as it turns out, caring about every hostage implies a slowdown of IDF's actions (and, at the time, a delay of a ground invasion).

the letter you are referring to was an expression of gratitude for biden's deplorable allyship with israel. it thanked him for his "support" of the israeli state. biden pledged $14 billion in aid to israel, specifically to bolster a military that is committing genocide. moreover, the hostages you're wringing your hands over were rejected by israel. anyone who cares about innocent lives being lost would be staunchly calling for a ceasefire — something biden's administration, noah schnapp, and deeply zionist brett gelman have refused to do.

Supporting the existence and preservation of the state of Israel (once again, a completely normal thing). The fact that people are turning against him for these things says to me that the real reason you are all hating Noah is beacuse: He's Jewish. Like, really really Jewish.

supporting the existence and preservation of the state of israel is not a completely normal thing. supporting zionism is an ideology rooted in settler-colonial violence. from jewish voice for peace:

conflating judaism with zionism is the exact narrative israel wants to push. there is a reason thousands of jewish people across the globe are demanding a ceasefire and protesting against zionism. there is a reason people from all faiths have been attending pro-palestine rallies. there is a reason that zionists are scrambling to accuse every palestinian supporter as an anti-semite, when that couldn't be further from the truth.

at the end of the day, noah schnapp is going to be fine. he's a teenage millionaire living in america. but the zionist sentiments he has continued to express to his massive audience will result in more islamophobia, more dehumanisation of palestinians, and more genocide denial. ask yourself if you truly want to align yourself with those on the side of the oppressor. is defending noah schnapp really the hill you want to die on?

[thethief1996]

I can't stop thinking about the news out of Palestine. Israel is sieging al Shifa hospital. Videos of people's limbs being severed off are haunting (graphic video tw). The hospital has ran out of fuel and 39 babies in incubators are fending for their lives by themselves, because Israel has stationed snipers around the hospital and is shooting all medical crew that walks into their sight.

First, the narrative was Israel would never bomb hospitals. Now, the hospitals are Hamas bases. Then, we respect journalists. Now, we have a fucking kill list of journalists because they are Hamas collaborators. First, we are not letting fuel in until the hostages are released. Now, we are not accepting the hostages back because that would stop our ground invasion and let Hamas win. And I could go on about every single lie they're making up. If you look up "Hamas rape" on google, the first link leads to Times of Israel saying Israel has found no forensic evidence of sexual violence, and only one eyewitness testimony out of 3.5k people attending the rave. If you Google "Hamas beheaded babies" the top links say they have no evidence for the claim besides word of mouth from extremist soldiers. Israeli extremists think about the ugliest goriest scene they can make out in their sick heads, tell that to a international journalist and they run away with it like it's gospel.

And children are being killed in the name of these lies. Thousands are being displaced in images that remind me of the pictures of Tantura 75 years ago, with their hands up so the tanks don't shoot them. Amputees are leaving the hospitals in wheelchairs hours after their surgeries because they are being shot at. Elders who survived the Nakba on 48 are having to walk towards Southern Gaza on foot (imagine walking from one end of your city to the other on foot), displaced again. People are cheering for the haunting images of white phosphorus bombs being dropped over Gaza. Gazan workers who were arrested in the West Bank are being thrust back into the bombings wearing numbered labels.

This is not normal. We are seeing the early stages of the settler colonial genocide of an indigenous population. Native leaders who have visited Gaza say its refugee camps look eerily like reservations. We can stop this. For the first time we are able to see wide scale accounts from the hands of the people suffering the genocide, and Israel is so scared of it they have cut all communications in Gaza.

This is our litmus test. I think we have never seen more clearly, with Palestine, Armenia, Congo and Sudan how colonialism has made our world a rotten place to live in.

The South African apartheid collapsed due to boycotts. We have to do everything in our power to stop Israel's hegemony. Even talking to a group of friends about Palestine changes the status quo. There's no world where we can live peacefully if Israel accomplishes their goals.

Keep yourself updated and share Palestinian voices. Muna El-Kurd said every tweet is like a treasure to them, because their voices are repressed on social media and even on this very app. Make it your action item to share something about the Palestinian plight everyday. Here are some resources:

Al Jazeera, Anadolu Agency, Mondoweiss

Boycott Divest Sanction Movement

Palestinian Youth Movement is organizing protests and direct action against weapons factories across the US

Mohammed El-Kurd (twitter / instagram)

Muhammad Shehada (twitter)

Motaz Azaiza (instagram) - reporting directly from Gaza.

Hind Khudary - reporting directly from Gaza. Her husband and daughter moved South to run from the tanks but she stayed behind to record the genocide. The least we can do is not let her calls fall on deaf ears.

You can participate in boycotts wherever you are in the world, through BDS guidelines. Don't be overwhelmed by gigantic boycott lists. BDS explicitly targets only a few brands which have bigger impact. You can stop consuming from as many brands as you want, though, and by all means feel free to give a 1 star review to McDonalds, Papa John, Pizza Hut, Burger King and Starbucks. Right now, they are focusing on boycotting the following:

Carrefour, HP, Puma, Sabra, Sodastream, Ahava cosmetics, Israeli fruits and vegetables

Push for a cultural boycott - pressure your favorite artist to speak out on Palestine and cancel any upcoming performances on occupied territory (Lorde cancelled her gig in Israel because of this. It works.)

If you can, participate in direct action or donate.

Palestine Action works to shut down Israeli weapons factories in the UK and USA, and have successfully shut down one of their firms in London.Some of the activists are going on trial and are calling for mobilizing on court.

Palestinian Youth Movement is organizing direct actions to stop the shipping of wars to Israel. Follow them.

Educate yourself. Read into Palestinian history and the occupation. You can't common sense people out of decades of propaganda. If your arguments crumble when a zionist brings up the "disengagement of Gaza", you have to learn more.

Read Decolonize Palestine. They have 15 minute reads that concisely explain the occupation (and its colonial roots) and debunk popular myths, including pinkwashing.

Read on Palestine. Here's an amazing masterpost.

Verso Book Club is giving out free books on Palestine (I personally downloaded Ten Myths about Israel by Ilan Pappe. If you still believe in the two states solution, this book by an Israeli professor debunks it).

Call your representatives. The Labour Party in the UK had an emergency meeting after several councilors threatened to resign if they didn't condemn Israeli war crimes. Calling to show your complaints works, even more if you live in a country that funds genocide.

FOR PEOPLE IN THE USA: USCPR has developed this toolkit for calls, here's a document that autosends emails to your representatives and here's a toolkit by Ceasefire in Gaza NOW!

FOR PEOPLE IN EUROPE: Here's a toolkit by Voices in Europe for Peace targeting the European Parliament and one specific for almost all countries in Europe, including Germany, Ireland, Poland, Denmark, Sweden, Netherlands, Greece, Norway, Italy, Portugal, Spain, Finland, Austria, Belgium Romania and Ukraine

FOR PEOPLE IN THE UK: Friends of Al-Aqsa UK and Palestine Solidarity UK have made toolkits for calls and emails

FOR PEOPLE IN AUSTRALIA: Here's a toolkit by Stand With Palestine

FOR PEOPLE IN CANADA: Here's a toolkit by Indepent Jewish Voices for Canada

Join a protest. Here's a constantly updating list of protests:

Global calendar

Another global calendar (go to the instragram of the organizers to confirm your protest)

USA calendar

Australia calendar

Feel free to add more.

[girlfictions]

"Who Remembers the Armenians?" by Palestinian poet Najwan Darwish / "Who Remembers the Palestinians?" by Armenian writer Sophia Armen

[kusattainuarc]

Ways you can Support Palestine :

please note this is absolutely not an all-encompassing list, and to constantly check the status of aid or groups in how able they are to help Palestinian people at that moment; stay informed, stay current, listen to, uplift, and share Palestinian voices, and don't stay silent.

DO NOT TAG AS CURRENT EVENTS OR POLITICS TW/CW.

important information / helpful links

Decolonize Palestine

The Palestine Academy

A Simple Guide to what's happening, by Al Jazeera

US Campaign for Palestinian Rights

For US Citizens: USCPR - Ceasefire Now

For US Citizens: Action Network - Ceasefire Now - a video explaining how to use the site

For European Citizens: Voices in Europe for Peace - how to contact your country's representatives

Palestinian Speculative Fiction Reading List

Jewish Voice for Peace - a Jewish, anti-zio/nist organization

Palestinian/news sources to follow for updates: Bisan, Motaz Azaiza, Hind Khoudary, Plestia Alaqad, Eye On Palestine, Mondoweiss

how to donate

Palestine Children's Relief Fund (PCRF) - NOTE: donations to the PCRF will be matched by my friend's university's Arab society; send an ask or IM to @kusattainu with proof that you've donated and the amount!

Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS)

American Near East Refugee Aid (Anera)

US Campaign for Palestinian Rights (USCPR)

Arab.org - a free, daily click-to-donate site that works with UNRWA - Make sure to turn off adblocker for the site before you click, as money donated is filtered through ad revenue

Doctors Without Borders

Islamic Relief USA (IRUSA)

United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA)

how to know what to boycott and who not to support - NOTE: the most important companies to boycott are the ones named by The BDS Movement, because that is the strength of a targeted boycott. other companies listed in other links are to help keep you aware of how deeply anti-Palestinian sentiment runs and what companies to be mindful of.

The BDS Movement - important thread about targeted boycotting

Boycott is/rael products list (2023, from adda247)

List of Companies that Posted Statements Supporting is/rael (gdoc, copied & pasted from som.yale.edu so as to not provide site traffic; doc will be updated as original site is updated- check gdoc timestamp)

[itssideria]

For my followers living in the UK—it is extremely likely that members of parliament will convene on Wednesday, November 15th, to vote once and for all for whether or not the UK should join the majority of the world's states and vote for a ceasefire to protect the citizens of Gaza.

This is historic. The UK is one of the most powerful nations in the world and on the UN council, and it is one of the few that had been staunchly opposing a ceasefire for the past month. If the UK supports a ceasefire, it would go a long way in securing peace and dignity for the Palestinians.

Please, please write to you MP and demand that they support the ceasefire. Organisations are asking people to implement the idea of "No Ceasefire, No Vote"—let those in power (especially MPs who may not support the idea) know that they will not be voted for in the coming elections if they stand against this.

This is a link that sends the email for you. It takes less than a minute. If you would like to edit it to add your own reasons, do that. And if you're not British, share the hell out of this post.

Free Palestine!

[kusattainuarc]

Ways you can Support Palestine :

please note this is absolutely not an all-encompassing list, and to constantly check the status of aid or groups in how able they are to help Palestinian people at that moment; stay informed, stay current, listen to, uplift, and share Palestinian voices, and don't stay silent.

DO NOT TAG AS CURRENT EVENTS OR POLITICS TW/CW.

important information / helpful links

Decolonize Palestine

A Simple Guide to what's happening, by Al Jazeera

US Campaign for Palestinian Rights

For US Citizens: USCPR - Ceasefire Now

For US Citizens: Action Network - Ceasefire Now - a video explaining how to use the site

For European Citizens: Voices in Europe for Peace - how to contact your country's representatives

Palestinian Speculative Fiction Reading List

Jewish Voice for Peace - a Jewish, anti-zio/nist organization

how to donate

Palestine Children's Relief Fund (PCRF) - NOTE: donations to the PCRF will be matched by my friend's university's Arab society; send an ask or IM to @kusattainu with proof that you've donated and the amount!

Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS)

American Near East Refugee Aid (Anera)

US Campaign for Palestinian Rights (USCPR)

Arab.org - a free, daily click-to-donate site that works with UNRWA - Make sure to turn off adblocker for the site before you click, as money donated is filtered through ad revenue

Doctors Without Borders

Islamic Relief USA (IRUSA)

United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA)

how to know what to boycott and who not to support - NOTE: the most important companies to boycott are the ones named by The BDS Movement, because that is the strength of a targeted boycott. other companies listed in other links are to help keep you aware of how deeply anti-Palestinian sentiment runs and what companies to be mindful of.

The BDS Movement - important thread about targeted boycotting

Boycott is/rael products list (2023, from adda247)

List of Companies that Posted Statements Supporting is/rael (gdoc, copied & pasted from som.yale.edu so as to not provide site traffic; doc will be updated as original site is updated- check gdoc timestamp)

[medusacomplex]

it’s unfortunate i’m retired (from sad new career in not being on tumblr) because i just watched the first season of Hannibal finally and i get it

[medusacomplex]

again not around but just hopped in to share Nancy (annis) in bg

[medusacomplex]

echoing jack except i’m NOT lurking i’m just simply not here

[medusacomplex]

extremely unsafe place for billy enjoyers

[rowanintheriver]

actually sobbing abt this wtf

[medusacomplex]

it will be low act (obviously) and is a sideblog so just know i'm following u if i follow u from here but here is miss robin, revived and better than ever @ahoyd

[medusacomplex]

if i made a robin buckley sb would u guys be mad at me. would u yell at me

[notkatniss]

Odysseus, on his journey home to Ithaca, was visited by a ghost. The ghost tells him that once he reaches his home, once he slays all his enemies and sets his house in order, he must do one last thing before he can rest. The ghost tells him to pick up an oar and walk inland. And keep walking until somebody mistakes that oar for a shovel. For that would be the place that no man had ever been troubled by the sea. And that's where he'd find peace.