US-ISRAELI IMPERIALISM IS TRYING TO DESTROY WEST ASIA
🍉 as easy as it might be for some to forget that people you see on your phone, in the news, or on television are real people, you should absolutely be reminding yourself of that every day. you are not special, you are not more important, you are not worth more than a palestinian. they are human just as you are, they are exactly the same as you. their lives are as full of memories and habits and hopes and love and joy and jokes as any one life in the first world. don’t be fooled by the ease with which you can click away from a video or ignore a fundraiser, your discomfort is their death.
🔻organisations and individual campaigns below!
posts including a lot of resources: one 🇵🇸, two 🇸🇩, three 🇱🇧
🇵🇸 orgs:
revive gaza’s farmland
ele elna elak
the palestine red crescent society (PRCS)
the sameer project
dahnoun mutual aid
water is life gaza
cruelty-free kitchen/camp gaza
the palestine children’s relief fund (PCRF)
the united nations relief and works agency for palestine refugees in the near east (UNRWA)
🍊 watching a live streamed genocide is difficult and traumatising. but yknow what’s infinitely worse? living in the heart of that genocide, and having to broadcast the worst moments of your life in a desperate attempt to convince the world to see you as a human being. don’t look away. that’s how oppressors get even more powerful. it’s hard, i know. it’s painful. it’s tiring. it’s also nothing at all compared to what palestinians are going through.
do not look away.
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What’s mad about the riots yesterday is everyone talking about like ‘oh why would it have just been protestants that went crazy and did a pogrom? so strange I wonder why this is’ as though the people in question haven’t spent the entire summer every year since the 1800s burning effigies. trying so hard to not be sectarian it’s eating a hole in your brain
Something crucial about the north of ireland today imo is that in the interests of peace or whatever you have to pretend that loyalism is just a subculture in the same way that, like, gaeilgeoirí are a subculture, and that yearly demonstrations of hatred and racism and singing about being up to your knees in fenian blood are just ‘their culture’ and you have to respect it. and then predictably the people whose culture is burning minorities out of their houses burn minorities out of their houses, and the newspapers pontificate a little as to why, and then we all go back to being told we have to hold hands with the people who did it or the troubles 2 will start TOMORROW and you can’t complain or you’re being sectarian and living in the past
as a woman, i feel more unsafe when yousens riot, burn community infrastructure and enact pogroms than i do when one individual commits a crime in an isolated incident btw
Obviously irish people can be crazy racist too but it's kind of grating every time northern irish loyalists do something heinously evil and then the finger somehow gets pointed at republicans in such a way that prevents understanding or action against either irish OR british fascism while the actual culprits continue to completely get off without any mass condemnation. the ballymena riots are sickening but listen to me, everyone, the people you're wanting to fight with regards to irish fascism are Not the ones waving union flags and screaming no surrender, I think that many of you are only pretending to know about the north of ireland,
Like, we are talking about a place which did equally violent pogroms against catholics during the troubles and is mostly inhabited by descendants of ulster's colonising planter class. racists on both sides of the border should have their heads blown off but it's simply prohibiting of one's understanding of the current unrest to equate the ballymena violence with, like, the racism of "the irish" as most people here seem to understand them because half of the rioters would gladly turn their violence on anyone who identifies them with that label. and have done so, repeatedly, in the past. idk
There are irish fascists in this world but commenting things like this on posts about how the UVF and UDA and other loyalist paramilitaries made up of british settlers are burning out immigrants in ballymena... you people DO realise that the people who you really want to be blaming for this stuff also want the redheaded hungry drunk potato farmers ethnically cleaned from their communities, too, right? and they've done so consistently in the past? you googled "history of northern ireland" before forming opinions on its internal politics? right? ri
(to a picture of Lenin, possibly the worst possible person to make this appeal to) Give me the wisdom to block and not argue with the usamerican chauvinist.
as a materialist, i very decidedly Do Not subscribe to great man theory. but also i think the world would’ve been a better place if a giant fucking meteorite had hit this exact spot
If you could instantly be granted fluency in 5 languages—not taking away your existing language proficiency in any way, solely a gain—what 5 would you choose?