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“yeah israel forcibly sterilized their ethiopian refugees but it was only for a couple of months!!” y’all lost the plot.
not only have you lost the plot, ur lying.
<p>Israel's health ministry is investigating claims that Ethiopian immigrants have unwittingly had Depo-Provera jabs for years</p>
from february of 2013.
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Combination of linguistic and political history. Good article
Is baladi in Hebrew identical to baladi in Arabic? How did the term evolve from signifying rural domestic produce into a sexy trend in Tel Aviv – and what does that say about Israeli identity?
The political biography of the term “baladi” takes us on a journey that stretches between the culinary and the political; between the identity-based and the economic; from the agricultural expanse in Ottoman Palestine toward the end of the 19th century to the upscale Tel Aviv culinary scene of today – and from there back to the rural Palestinian expanse and even to an unlawful outpost founded by extremist Israeli settlers.
My home, my land
The political biography of the term 'baladi' takes us on a journey that stretches between the culinary and the political.
The term baladi is derived from the Arabic word “balad” (بلد), which means village, city or geographical area.
Balad, explain Orphee Senouf Pilpoul, Jad Kaadan, Vered Shimshi and Ido Fuchs in an article recently published in “Mafte’akh: A Lexical Review of Political Thought,” symbolizes multiple meanings that denote “place,” but also the dim and at times ambivalent attitude toward place. Balad is the village (الكفر), the city (المدينة), the land (الأرض), but never the state (الدولة).
At its heart, the term stands for the intimate connection with the land and the community. Whereas in Arabic balad comprises a complex conceptual array that relies on textual strata that go all the way back to the Koran, in today’s spoken Hebrew, balad has become “baladi” – which, as they see it, represents a “fabricated authenticity.”
Baladi, as it is used in Hebrew, has been severed from “balad” and instead became a stand-alone adjective detached from any specific spatial significance. Like “organic” or “terroir,” baladi is also a term with multiple meanings. But baladi seems to be particularly difficult to translate, and has therefore been preserved in its Arabic form in other languages as well.
Baladi is neither an Israeli nor a Palestinian invention. As will become clear below, baladi is a word that refuses to be translated or even defined.
It seems that the only way to define it is by negation: baladi is nonindustrialized, non-global, not grown in hothouses, not preserved in frozen form, not bereft of flavor, not from the Other (from the other village, from the other city, from the other region in the country, from the other regime).
It is, therefore, little wonder that baladi is also becoming an expression of political resistance: against colonialism; against the state’s invasion of the rural space; and, in the Israeli-Palestinian case, against occupation, the taking over of land and erasure of national identity.
All these holier than thou lib zionists preaching that the "free Palestine movement" has an "antisemitism problem" have never been to a Palestine protest have never talked to a Palestinian organizer and have never had a Palestinian friend. They just see tweets online and think thats our goals and those are our representatives lmao. We've known our whole life people assume we're antisemitic and we internalized that and then realized everything we do or say will be framed as antisemitic. A professor at my school reposted a tweet of a Palestinian protest and said "I can't imagine being a jew celebrating Hanukkah and hearing these people" how would that disrupt their Hanukkah. Our existence disrupts jewish existence? Do you fucking hear yourselves
Israeli soldiers went inside a school in Northern Gaza and abducted the men and then went into a room where women were hiding and opened fire. This is a massacre
It was the Shadia Abu Ghazala School
Harsh weather conditions add to challenges faced by Palestinians displaced by Israel’s war.
The US is really telling Netanyahu he has “weeks, not months” to transition to lower intensity attacks on Gaza so there can be less civilian causalities and focus more on eliminating Hamas.
Also, today a rep from the White House said literally said: "It has to take as long as they feel they need to take to be able to eliminate this threat. But obviously, we all want it to be over as soon as possible."
Biden also still trying to send Israel $10 billion in military aid and today Netanyahu THANKED the US for their continuous support and said the war will go on until complete victory
Also when asked to elaborate on what low intensity attacks would mean the US really gave us nothing
So what you are saying is that the IOF deliberately targets and shoots Palestinian women? And the reason why these hostages were killed by Israeli ammunition fire was because they thought they were Palestinian women?
…Are you sure you meant to push “Send” on this tweet?
Hijab = militants. The ease with which zionists are displaying their white supremacy these days, without a single worry...
Why is it important to keep in mind? Is the idea that the zionist entity indiscriminately murders people a fact you can't handle?
She knows and she does not care, because this is the same person:
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
Nelson Mandela disagreed with everything you just said. And that's why he was able to unite a whole country
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
They don't count starvation victims as part of the death count, correct?
Or disease victims?
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tl;dr: the numbers we're seeing are only the people dying at the hands of Israeli weapons. Starvation, disease, injury, etc. are not counted — but are rapidly racking up death tolls that may outrival the mass devastation we're seeing already.
Tumblr is really interesting because you can say something like thursday is duck with a top hat day, and half the website will reblog it
Duck in a Top Hat Thursday, y’all!
Happy Duck in a Top Hat Thursday. OP only has themselves to blame when this has 10,000+ posts and is posted every Thursday.
OH DONT YOU DARE
reblog the Duck in a Top Hat on Duck in a Top Hat Thursday to wake up tomorrow surprised to find yourself surrounded by gold coins!
me holding a gun to a mushroom: tell me the name of god you fungal piece of shit
mushroom: can you feel your heart burning? can you feel the struggle within? the fear within me is beyond anything your soul can make. you cannot kill me in a way that matters
me cocking the gun, tears streaming down my face: I’M NOT FUCKING SCARED OF YOU
Hey OP? What the FUCK does this mean?
decay exists as an extant form of life
That’s a terrifying answer, have a nice day
I grant you refuge from hurt and suffering.
With words of sacred scripture I shield the oranges from the sting of phosphorous and the shades of cloud from the smog.
I grant you refuge in knowing that the dust will clear, and they who fell in love and died together will one day laugh.
“I Grant You Refuge” by Hiba Abu Nada (trans. Huda Fakhreddine)
The White House informed Senate Democrats that it could back sweeping hardline immigration policy changes as part of the negotiations over P
From the article
The Biden administration on Tuesday indicated to congressional lawmakers that it would be willing to support a new border authority to expel migrants without asylum screenings, as well as a dramatic expansion of immigration detention and deportations, to convince Republicans to back aid to Ukraine, four people familiar with the matter told CBS News. The White House informed Senate Democrats that it could back those sweeping and hardline immigration policy changes as part of the negotiations over President Biden's emergency funding request, a roughly $100 billion package that includes military aid to Israel, Taiwan and Ukraine, as well as money to bolster border enforcement and hire additional immigration officials.
[...]Moreover, the White House would be willing to mandate the detention of certain migrants who are allowed into the country pending the adjudication of their claims. It's unclear how this provision would work since the U.S. government has never had the detention space to detain all migrants who cross into the country illegally.
From the Mandate for Leadership/p2025
"CBP’s established national standards of Transport, Escort, Detention, and Search (TEDS) have been widely interpreted and expanded by lower courts. This has resulted in unrealistic and differing detention standards for CBP facilities based on the jurisdiction within which they fall, negatively impacting operations. ICE has suffered similarly.
A single nationwide detention standard should be codified that prevents individual states from mandating that federal government agencies adhere to widely expansive and ever-changing sets of standards. Such standards should allow the flexibility to use large numbers of temporary facilities such as tents.
the older i get the more frustrating i find it how little people recognize or acknowledge it when massive problems start to get solved... i get the concept of focusing on unsolved problems and injustices to keep up the pressure of public opinion, but we should also acknowledge it when great things are accomplished. we just started rolling out the first-ever malaria vaccine which will likely save millions of children's lives. about half a million people die of malaria every year and over half of those deaths are children 5 years old and under. ive seen literally no one i know talking about this huge triumph for humanity
we're also on track to completely restore the ozone layer. we have averted one horrifying environmental catastrophe and we can do it again. our planet is not doomed
what am i being advertised here exactly
employees should be allowed to steal, actually
idk. yesterday was a slow day and at the end of it, I still stared into a cash drawer, one of three, that had more than my rent in it, even if you only count the 20s. I spent a lot of that day trying to calculate in my head how many hours of work equal one pair of pants, let alone how many hours of work equals the fun thing I want to do next month.
I feel a cough coming on, because I work in a drug store, and all of my customers are sick. I always feel a little bit sick, now. I can't afford to eat well enough to keep my body healthy. Cough medicine is worth two hours and 20 minutes of work. Our store probably bought a case of cough medicine for they price we're selling one box. If this cough gets worse, I might have to call out, which will cost me more than the medicine in the long run- but that doesn't give me the money to buy the medicine right now. I stock a case onto the shelf. I don't buy any.
A mom wrangling three crying, sick kids enters my line and sets two types of children's medicine down, says they're both on sale and thank god for that. I ring her up, and she gets very quiet, because she misread the sign, and her total is twice as high as she was expecting. Her youngest screams in the cart, because she's burning up with fever. Her mother very quietly asks, please, she's so sorry, if I could please take the more expensive one off her total.
I agree, I move the box below the counter, and when she's not looking, I slip it into her bag. I pray as hard as I can that if she notices the "mistake" she says nothing, because I so desperately want her to have that medicine. The store has lost profit at the cost of a child's health. I don't bat an eye. This is a terminable offense. If I'm presented with the same situation tonight, I'll do it in a heartbeat.
The myth of evil employees stealing from the company falls apart the second you realize the company would shoot you dead to make a profit. This isn't two equal players, one of whom is stealing from the other. This is someone fighting for survival versus someone fighting to make an extra million. It's not equal.
Employees should be able to steal, actually.
Bro I teared up oh my god bro
I know for a fact that I will end up coming back to this post every so often because I am thinking about it. I'm likely to think about it randomly a few months from now before I fall asleep and again two weeks after that while walking past the medicine aisle at the grocery store.
This reads very much like a piece of history that I would study if I were born 80 years later and sat down at a desk at my Uni in class where we study balance of power in a historical context.
Sliman Mansour (Palestinian, 1947) - "The World Has Failed the Children of Gaza" (n.d.)