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I am Jewish. I am an anti-Zionist. I am always and forever pro-Palestine.
My grandmother was born in Palestine before Israel existed. My grandmother, who died less than a decade ago (in her 70s) was already older than the settler colonial state of Israel. Judaism exists without Zionism. Zionism goes against the Jewish religion. Zionism is white supremacy.
From the river to the sea Palestine WILL BE FREE
regarding the genocide song contest:
various past eurovision contestants are campaigning for the removal of israel and some national finalists are now choosing to boycott. olly alexander, who will rep the uk, condemned the palestinian genocide and was subsequently attacked by israeli media (in a blatant rule violation the ebu did nothing about)
slovenian broadcaster rtvslo is purportedly trying to negotiate the removal of israel
1000 artists from host country sweden are preparing to send an open letter to the ebu to ban israel; the swedish left wing has also called for israel to be removed immediately
iceland is officially threatening to boycott eurovision pending the removal of israel
word on the street is that if iceland does compete, it will send palestinian artist bashar murad who is openly anti-israel and has collabed with previous icelandic reps hatari, aka the guys who did this back in 2019
iceland is now leading in the odds whereas israel has been steadily dropping, suggesting that the bookies are aware israel is becoming increasingly unpopular
lastly, in a move so ridiculous i'm beginning to suspect eurovision is a figment of our collective imagination, israel is seemingly gearing up to enter eden golan, a moscow-based russian singer. while russia is still banned for terrorism.
if you're european: please contact your participating broadcaster and demand for the removal of israel, or try to contact your nation's selected artist to put pressure on the broadcaster. if you're swedish, please try contacting svt or authorities with security concerns regarding the inclusion of israel. if israel does enter eden golan, complain about her selection and ties to russia. and absolutely DO NOT vote on, watch or promote this show if israel does end up competing.
Here is a document with contacts for all participating broadcasters, artists and sponsors, including a template email translated to 20+ languages
Many Afrikaners welcomed the end of apartheid, but 30 years on, they’ve found Black-majority rule in South Africa hard to live with.
This article is from 2022, but it came up in the context of Palestine:
Here are some striking passages, relevant to all colonial aftermaths but certainly also to the forms we see Zionist reaction taking at the moment:
Over the decade I lived in South Africa, I became fascinated by this white minority [i.e. the whole white population post-apartheid as a minority in the country], particularly its members who considered themselves progressive. They reminded me of my liberal peers in America, who had an apparently self-assured enthusiasm about the coming of a so-called majority-minority nation. As with white South Africans who had celebrated the end of apartheid, their enthusiasm often belied, just beneath the surface, a striking degree of fear, bewilderment, disillusionment, and dread.
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Yet these progressives’ response to the end of apartheid was ambivalent. Contemplating South Africa after apartheid, an Economist correspondent observed that “the lives of many whites exude sadness.” The phenomenon perplexed him. In so many ways, white life remained more or less untouched, or had even improved. Despite apartheid’s horrors—and the regime’s violence against those who worked to dismantle it—the ANC encouraged an attitude of forgiveness. It left statues of Afrikaner heroes standing and helped institute the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, which granted amnesty to some perpetrators of apartheid-era political crimes.
But as time wore on, even wealthy white South Africans began to radiate a degree of fear and frustration that did not match any simple economic analysis of their situation. A startling number of formerly anti-apartheid white people began to voice bitter criticisms of post-apartheid society. An Afrikaner poet who did prison time under apartheid for aiding the Black-liberation cause wrote an essay denouncing the new Black-led country as “a sewer of betrayed expectations and thievery, fear and unbridled greed.”
What accounted for this disillusionment? Many white South Africans told me that Black forgiveness felt like a slap on the face. By not acting toward you as you acted toward us, we’re showing you up, white South Africans seemed to hear. You’ll owe us a debt of gratitude forever.
The article goes on to discuss:
"Mau Mau anxiety," or the fear among whites of violent repercussions, and how this shows up in reported vs confirmed crime stats - possibly to the point of false memories of home invasion
A sense of irrelevance and alienation among this white population, leading to another anxiety: "do we still belong here?"
The sublimation of this anxiety into self-identification as a marginalized minority group, featuring such incredible statements as "I wanted to fight for Afrikaners, but I came to think of myself as a ‘liberal internationalist,’ not a white racist...I found such inspiration from the struggles of the Catalonians and the Basques. Even Tibet" and "[Martin Luther] King [Jr.] also fought for a people without much political representation … That’s why I consider him one of my most important forebears and heroes,” from a self-declared liberal environmentalist who also thinks Afrikaaners should take back government control because they are "naturally good" at governance
Some discussion of the dynamics underlying these reactions, particularly the fact that "admitting past sins seem[ed] to become harder even as they receded into history," and US parallels
And finally, in closing:
The Afrikaner journalist Rian Malan, who opposed apartheid, has written that, by most measures, its aftermath went better than almost any white person could have imagined. But, as with most white progressives, his experience of post-1994 South Africa has been complicated. [...]
He just couldn’t forgive Black people for forgiving him. Paradoxically, being left undisturbed served as an ever-present reminder of his guilt, of how wrongly he had treated his maid and other Black people under apartheid. “The Bible was right about a thing or two,” he wrote. “It is infinitely worse to receive than to give, especially if … the gift is mercy.”
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ok but major kudos to the person in the video for the facial expressions cause this is exactly how imagine these ingenue type main lead girls in these type of novels.
zlibrary gone... FUCK TIKTOK FUCK BOOKTOK I hope that app burns in hell
library genesis is still up (very similar site) and r/freemediaheckyeah and r/piracy have lots of other alternatives. zlib was the GOAT though. fuck tiktok
(originally commented. putting as a reblog as its important)
for anyone that wants to know about other sites, I also didn't know so this is a big help!!! thank you!
some sites i use to read online: - https://libgen.li/ - https://www.pdfdrive.com/ - https://libretexts.org/ - https://openlibrary.org/ - https://novel80.com/ - https://www.allfreenovel.com/ - https://bookreadfree.com/ - https://allbookshub.com/ - http://thefreeonlinenovel.com/ - https://www.epub.pub/ - https://www.readingsanctuary.com/ - https://yes-pdf.com/ - https://www.booksfree.org/ if none of the links work if you just search up "(book title) read online free" there's almost always gonna be a pdf link and those are always good to read from too
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Ali Hazelwood just admitted in an interview that her agent or editor or whoever basically feeds her a bunch of tropes they want to see and she has her hand held through the entire process of writing a book rather than putting in the work of having a remotely original idea and writing the manuscript herself and me n every other BIPOC author trying to get published are slamming our heads into walls because white mediocrity keeps winning
Like I've been rejected for my book being a little too slow. Not even anything else. Just it was too slow. Or because the agent wasn't absolutely obsessed from the first page. I've had agents very explicitly say they loved the book and the characters but that it's not the right fit for them. If the genres a little off or whatever then fine idc you know not evey agent can pick every single book. But some of us have been querying for years and getting vague or no feedback at all. Rejected because the agent couldn't directly relate to the MC (bc they were a character of color and/or queer) and white women can just loudly and proudly announce that they don't know what they're doing and they don't actually come up with their ideas and they don't even have the basics of structuring a story down at all and they need and GET all this help that I and others like me can only pray for!! We need a perfectly polished manuscript to present to an agent and you're telling me that a white woman with no ideas no thoughts no skills is on the NYT best sellers list
And! Lots of the people defending her are missing the point making it about tropes when again it's white mediocrity because here's a woman who's a neuroscientist by trade and an author on the side or whatever who is landing deals and getting help and repurposing fanfiction and able to get all this attention and sales while being at a much lower skill level than authors of color and queer authors and ESPECIALLY queer authors of color can ever risk being at if they want to be published. Having an unpolished manuscript is one thing. Taking a fanfiction and having your agent help you scrub it and having the writing style you do and the general lack of skill you do and still getting published anyways is something else entirely because again, marginalized authors such as myself essentially have to have perfect manuscripts and a much stronger understanding of the tradpublishing process in order to have an agent look our way. "A book isn't just you it's agents and editors and--" shut up it's almost exclusively white people saying this lmao
The EU Courts passed rules saying workplaces can now ban Muslim Women from wearing the Hijaab.
tHaNk GoD wE dOnT hAvE a RaCiSm PrObLeM lIkE oVeR iN aMeRiCa
The EU is defending this by saying that a workplace is only allowed to do this if they have 'a good reason' and it's needed to protect the peace and neutrality of the workplace, and gives as example that a school who outlaws headscarves need to show that there are parents who are 'uncomfortable' with the presence of people who show their religion.
In other words, everyone can do it and very easily.
Remember people, even if you're don't care about muslim women for some godawful racist reason, when we have vague neutrality laws that prohibit "political, philosophical and religious beliefs" they can be used to affect everyone.
The Belgian headscarf ban in public offices already led to a ban on anything that signals queerness. A woman with short hair is political. Wearing covered clothing or wearing revealing clothing is political. What does 'phylosopical beliefs' even mean here, you can put so much random shit under that.
a person of color will always have a political body, wheter they want to or not. A religious minority never gets to be neutral. 'Neutral' as a public face does not exist. It's just who looks the most like who's in charge. And you might fit in there right now, but one day you will not. Get angry for other people before it comes to that.
What if i told you this is the funniest thing i have ever seen
she asked me if i believed in god and i told her that when i was four i almost drowned in a public pool and in my panic mistook a stranger for my father. i clawed my way up his leg. four years later he’d send my parents a picture of the scars alongside a tin of cookies. he said, “i hope she’s still okay. i carry her with me. it isn’t every day you save a life. it isn’t every day you feel like you were here for a reason. when it does happen, you have to cherish that memory. for once, i had a purpose. just being there was enough. she tore me open but she taught me a lot about love.”
i feel like tumblr will appreciate this
my favorite thing about this post is all the "ea nasir" in the tags. I cannot articulate how hilarious it is to me that there is a well populated "ea nasir" tag on tumblr. PLEASE imagine going back in time and telling a babylonian conman that thousands of years in the future he's going to be spoken about across the entire world using unfathomable technologies on account of how truly shitty his copper was
Watch out Ahmad 🚘🚶🏽♂️
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