rosewater mouthwash

[rozeangel]

[williamhereford]

6am in Nagano…  I shot these all within 1 block of each other on the same street while traveling on assignment last month through Japan.  

[zegalba]

Isfahan, Iran (1975) Ph. Roland & Sabrina Michaud

[pagingcs]

Byzantine mosaics, assorted locations

[withlovewithsqualor-deactivated]

When my frontal lobe fully develops at age 27 then it’s over for everyone

[ardor-mohr]

Gaza, Palestine

[lyrium-deactivated20230102]

your level of education means nothing if you never learned any compassion

[4yuel]

[class-struggle-anarchism]

While all of Europe is responsible, I think it’s also important for people from the UK to acknowledge the particular and direct culpability of our government in what has happened in Israel and Palestine - mostly because it never is. Politicians don’t mention it, the media never mentions it, they tell you nothing about it in school, no one talks about it. I was just saying exactly the same thing about India, but if you ask an average British person if they think their country did a good job of ruling Palestine you’ll get a blank stare, maybe they’ll pull a massively uninformed opinion out of their arse, I doubt many could tell you exactly when it was. But the fact is that when Britain assumed control of the Holy land in 1918 both Zionism and Palestinian nationalism were relatively minor concerns, and when we left in 1948 there was a civil war raging between those two sides. All of the important seeds of the conflict were sown and took root while Britain was in charge. The first major Palestinian uprising of 1936-39 was an anti-colonial struggle against the British Empire. 

But today, watching the news, British people are like ‘wow guess we’ll never understand why Jews and Arabs just naturally hate each other’… just like those Hindus and Muslims in India and Pakistan, and those Catholics and Protestants in Northern Ireland’….. and all of those other places on earth where the legacy of British occupation and partition is division, violence and misery. The Empire is not a distant memory we can feel vaguely proud and nostalgic about (as most British people apparently do) it was a global crime of almost unimaginable proportions and it’s still (in some cases quite literally) blowing up in our faces. 

[lilium--bosniacum]

“killing the flowers will not delay spring” / al-yarmouk palestinian refugee camp in damascus, syria

little palestine; diary of a siege (2021) dir. abdallah al-khatib

[ashberrrry]

I respect the moon's unwillingness to be photographed on a phone

[kellmichele]

the universe has a crazy way of working out and right now i need to just trust that

[atoll]

[peachfuzz-jpg]

Hey if you’re based in the UK use this link to email your MP to demand a ceasefire and an end to the siege on Gaza

https://palestinecampaign.eaction.online/ceasefire

Email your MP to demand a ceasefire now

It’s super easy and quick to do, just put in your postcode and it’ll find your MP for you!!

The email is already written out and you just have to add in your address as your MP can only respond and represent their own constituents

[janasojka]

At night everything is more intense.

[peachfuzz-jpg]

First: I in no way disagree that what is happening in Gaza is despicable and Israel must stop.

But the map you reblogged from 1947-- you are not including critical history. And I don't just mean YOU, I mean in general, people are not discussing the creation of Israel.

It was not "colonized" by Jewish people. It was created by western nations (they are the ones who decided where it would go, not the Jews) because a) they felt badly for ignoring the Holocaust but b) they still didn't want an influx of Jews.

And the Jews couldn't go home. Of course they went to somewhere that was supposed to safe for them after the Holocaust, somewhere that they were promised they could actually exist. Anti-Semitism has been around as long as the Jewish people; maybe they could find one place without it?

Zionism is wrong and bad. But there are several things to remember. First most Jews aren't Zionists. Second, in the US, for instance, there are literally more Christian Zionists than Jewish ones, either because they believe having all Jews gathered in Israel will bring about end times or because they straight up want Jewish people gone from the country. Third, while what is happening to the Palestinians is undeniably horrific, no one is denying that, that is simply not the focus of this post, anti-Semitism is rising quickly and is extremely dangerous. Innocent people around the world are getting killed because people are conflating Israel and Jews, Zionists and Jews, colonizers and Jews-- right now it actually is important when discussing this to be specific, and to say that this is a minority led by a horrible government and perpetrated by the IDF, and it does not represent the Jewish people. Because people who just see something like that map with no context won't know that, and that's just more people who have a new anti-Semitic (false) belief.

So please, when you post about Palestine, remember to have nuance, because they are not the only innocent people affected.

Thank you for taking the time to write this in a thoughtful and respectful manner, I appreciate it and I respect you for that.

I agree with your points regarding antisemitism and zionism.

I’d like to start by saying that in no way do I support or harbor any anti semitic sentiments, it is abhorrent and I agree with you that it is extremely dangerous. Zionism does not = Judaism. And you are absolutely right that you cannot say that the government of Israel represents the views of the Jewish people, in the same way that in our countries we would say that the government does not represent the people.

Both antisemitism and islamophobia have been on the rise, violent hate crimes being perpetrated against innocent people who end up paying the price.

I agree with you that nuance is required as we should never promote hatred. Peace and justice should always be the goal.

All religions promote peace. Jews, Muslims, Christians and other religions have peacefully coexisted in the land for centuries. As we know it is not a religious dispute but mostly about the way the land was split.

Coming back to the map from 1947 that I reblogged, it depicts the proposed splitting of the land by the United Nations where they divided the land and decided the borders, and so you are absolutely right in the sense that the divisions for Israel were created by western countries. If we go further back to 1917 the Balfour Declaration was proposed by the British where they voiced support for a “national home”for Jewish people, the British then handed over the splitting of Palestine over to the United Nations.

I hear where you are coming from that in fact this land division was started by West ultimately.

In the corner of the image it states that the “majority report of United Nations Special Committee on Palestine recommended that Palestine be divided…”, so if I have misunderstood what you have said or missed the point please do let me know and I mean that sincerely.

Again also in general with respect to anything in life I’m here to keep learning and I know that this topic is vast, nuanced and there is so much history behind it that I can’t just condense it down into a few sentences. That doesn’t mean that I can’t keep learning and educating myself about it so if I have said anything incorrect or misinformed please do let me know.

[lilium--bosniacum]

Incendies (2010) dir. Denis Villeneuve