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Palestine Masterlist 

Introduction to Palestine: 

Decolonize Palestine:

Palestine 101

Rainbow washing 

Frequently asked questions 

Myths 

IMEU (Institute for Middle East Understanding):

Quick Facts - The Palestinian Nakba 

The Nakba and Palestinian Refugees 

The Gaza Strip

The Palestinian catastrophe (Al-Nakba)

Al-Nakba (documentary)

The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917-2017 (book)

The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine (book)

Nakba Day: What happened in Palestine in 1948? (Article)

The Nakba did not start or end in 1948 (Article)

Donations and charities: 

Al-Shabaka

Electronic Intifada 

Adalah Justice Project 

IMEU Fundraiser 

Medical Aid for Palestinians 

Palestine Children’s Relief Fund 

Addameer

Muslim Aid

Palestine Red Crescent

Gaza Mutual Aid Patreon

Books:

A New Critical Approach to the History of Palestine

The Idea of Israel: A History of Power and Knowledge

Hidden Histories: Palestine and the Eastern Mediterranean

The Balfour Declaration: Empire, the Mandate and Resistance in Palestine

Queer Palestine and the Empire of Critique

From Haven to Conquest: Readings in Zionism and the Palestine Problem until 1948

Captive Revolution - Palestinian Women’s Anti-Colonial Struggle within the Israeli Prison System

Palestine: A Four Thousand Year History

Except for Palestine: The Limits of Progressive Politics

Before Their Diaspora: A Photographic History of The Palestinians 1876-1948

The Battle for Justice in Palestine Paperback

Uncivil Rites: Palestine and the Limits of Academic Freedom

Palestine Rising: How I survived the 1948 Deir Yasin Massacre

The Transformation of Palestine: Essays on the Origin and Development of the Arab-Israeli Conflict

A Land Without a People: Israel, Transfer, and the Palestinians 1949-1996

The Iron Cage: The Story of the Palestinian Struggle for Statehood

A History of Modern Palestine: One Land, Two Peoples

Where Now for Palestine?: The Demise of the Two-State Solution

Terrorist Assemblages - Homonationalism in Queer Times

Militarization and Violence against Women in Conflict Zones in the Middle East

The one-state solution: A breakthrough for peace in the Israeli-Palestinian deadlock

The Persistence of the Palestinian Question: Essays on Zionism and the Palestinians

Fateful Triangle: The United States, Israel and the Palestinians

The False Prophets of Peace: Liberal Zionism and the Struggle for Palestine

Ten myths about Israel

Blaming the Victims: Spurious Scholarship and the Palestinian Question

Image and Reality of the Israel-Palestine Conflict, New and Revised Edition

Israel and its Palestinian Citizens - Ethnic Privileges in the Jewish State

Palestinians in Israel: Segregation, Discrimination and Democracy

Greater than the Sum of Our Parts: Feminism, Inter/Nationalism, and Palestine

Palestine: A Four Thousand Year History

Palestinian Culture:

Mountain against the Sea: Essays on Palestinian Society and Culture

Palestinian Costume

Traditional Palestinian Costume: Origins and Evolution

Tatreez & Tea: Embroidery and Storytelling in the Palestinian Diaspora

Embroidering Identities: A Century of Palestinian Clothing (Oriental Institute Museum Publications)

The Palestinian Table (Authentic Palestinian Recipes)

Falastin: A Cookbook

Palestine on a Plate: Memories from My Mother’s Kitchen

Palestinian Social Customs and Traditions

Palestinian Culture before the Nakba

Tatreez & Tea (Website)

The Traditional Clothing of Palestine

The Palestinian thobe: A creative expression of national identity

Embroidering Identities:A Century of Palestinian Clothing

Palestine Traditional Costumes

Palestine Family 

Palestinian Costume

Encyclopedia of World Dress and Fashion, v5: Volume 5: Central and Southwest Asia

Tent Work in Palestine: A Record of Discovery and Adventure

Documentaries, Films, and Video Essays:

Jenin, Jenin

Born in Gaza

GAZA 

Wedding in Galilee 

Omar

5 Broken Cameras

OBAIDA

Indigeneity, Indigenous Liberation, and Settler Colonialism (not entirely about Palestine, but an important watch for indigenous struggles worldwide - including Palestine)

Edward Said - Reflections on Exile and Other Essays

Palestine Remix: 

AL NAKBA

Gaza Lives On

Gaza we are coming

Lost cities of Palestine 

Stories from the Intifada 

Last Shepherds of the Valley

Voices from Gaza

Muhammad Smiry

Najla Shawa

Nour Naim

Wael Al dahdouh

Motaz Azaiza

Ghassan Abu Sitta

Refaat Alareer

Plestia Alaqad

Bisan Owda

Ebrahem Ateef

Mohammed Zaanoun

Doaa Mohammad

Hind Khoudary

Palestinian Voices, Organizations, and News 

Boycott Divest and Sanction (BDS)

Defense for Children in Palestine

Palestine Legal 

Palestine Action

Palestine Action US

United Nations relief and works for Palestinian refugees in the Middle East (UNRWA)

National Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP)

Times of Gaza

Middle East Eye

Middle East Monitor

Mohammed El-Kurd

Muna El-Kurd 

Electronic Intifada 

Dr. Yara Hawari (suspended on X 10/25/2023)

Mariam Barghouti

Omar Ghraieb

Steven Salaita

Noura Erakat

The Palestinian Museum N.G.

Palestine Museum US

Artists for Palestine UK 

Eye on Palestine (suspended on Instagram 10/25/2023)

[mapsontheweb]

News Attention to Deadly Conflicts Since Year 2000, measured in pages published per fatality.

[aliciabenissa]

One of these things is not like the others

[penrosesun]

While I know that the big outlier that people are focusing on here is Gaza, I just want to quickly point out how incredibly low the coverage ratio is for Congolese deaths, especially given that that genocide has been characterized by extensive cannibalism. The Congo region mines, processes, and exports huge amounts of tin, copper, gold, diamonds, lithium and, crucially, over 70% of the world’s cobalt. In all likelihood, spoils of that specific genocide are powering the very device that you are reading this post on. There are political reasons why people are making disproportionately more noise about Gaza, yes. But if we’re going to be making these comparisons, then we need to state this outright as well: that there are equally vile political reasons why people are making disproportionately less noise about the Mbuti genocide.

[gehe-lihiyot-androgynos-varda-d]

How to Help Congo

Medecins Sans Frontieres

Unicef, Democratic Republic of Congo Appeal

United Nations Crisis Relief, public appeal DRC

UNHCR, Humanitarian Emergency Appeal DRC

World Food Program, Humanitarian Emergency DRC

Red Cross/Crescent of the DRC funded through donation to the IFRC

Please add more

[onethirdofimpossible]

Hello friends, there's a dogwhistle I've seen used a couple times on tumblr that I want to discuss.

Fellow neurodivergents especially, please listen-- towards the end of this post I describe how some in our community have been using it without knowing what it means.

A fairly common antisemitic dogwhistle used amongst alt-right circles on the internet is being a "noticer," "noticing patterns," "pattern noticer," etc. I've seen this from a couple Tumblr blogs I follow reblogging memes and such that use this term but don't provide any context about what sorts of "things" they may be noticing.

Here's the meme that I saw a blog I'm following reblog last night.

Seems pretty harmless, right? It's a meme with a cute cat.

In alt-right circles, what they are referring to "noticing" is the conspiracy theory that Jews control the world/"noticing" evidence of an imagined globalist (read: Jewish) world order/etc. If you see a meme that uses terms like "noticing patterns" that doesn't elaborate what those supposed patterns are-- just leaves you to fill in the blank yourself-- take a look at the types of things OP might be posting. The alt-right has an idea that it's forbidden to talk about who might be behind the "conspiracies" they talk about (again, the target is frequently Jewish people) so lack of context is often a red flag.

I sent the blog who reblogged this an ask informing them that the meme was a dogwhistle. If you see someone reblog something like this, check what they've been posting. If this seems like an isolated incident, the person probably reblogged it not knowing what the term actually meant. That's why dogwhistles are so effective-- to the average person they look harmless if you don't know what to watch out for!

Let's take a look at how alt-righters use this term.

Here's an alt-right definition of it from Urban Dictionary.

Oh boy, this one gets a bigotry bingo for all the dogwhistles used here. If I miss any, feel free to comment. Here are the ones I found:

-Noseticing: Noticing plus nose, based on the stereotype for Jewish people to have large noses.

-"those who cannot be named"/skirting around saying Jew: again the idea that it's forbidden to talk about who they think is behind their conspiracy theories.

-"world events and agendas": idea that Jewish people have a Globalist agenda etc etc

-Degeneracy: Nazi term to describe the behaviors/people they find undesirable.

-Early life: refers to the section in a person's Wikipedia page. If a person was brought up Jewish, it'll usually say so there.

-Oy vey: a Jewish exclamation of exasperation that Nazis have unfortunately co-opted when talking about Jewish people.

Here's probably the most obviously antisemitic meme I found.

The title and first bullet point include the "noticer" term. This meme also talks about a "group" who controls wealth. Who might the poster be referring to here?

Here's a Twitter account with many similar alt-right terms. Explicitly identifies as a Nazi and ethno-nationalist, etc etc.

A couple other pages. I clicked on them to see if I could find any more examples but the first seemed pretty blank and the second... Well, I don't have a twitter so I couldn't view.

Let's unpack these a little. The first one has "13 outta 52," a statistic used among white supremacists to depict Black people (especially African-Americans) as "savage": 13 referring to the percentage of America that is Black and 52 referring to the alleged percentage of murders in the U.S. that are committed by Black people. "109 countries" refers to the idea that Jewish people have been expelled from 109 countries during history. (Which isn't entirely true. Some "countries" in this count are actually cities, regions, etc.) Some white supremacists may use the number 110 instead to suggest that it should happen again.

The second one has a blurb alleging a global sterilization effort and concerns of fertility. This is likely in connection to pro-natalism for white people. If Nazis want a so-called "Aryan nation," they're going to want white people to populate it, and so they encourage white people to have babies for their cause. Nazi Germany employed this tactic as well, even awarding "Aryan" German women who had four or more children for their contributions to the Nazi cause.

The reason why I'm emphasizing that context matters is that some neurodivergent people have seen this and co-opted it into neurodivergent circles. As a person who is Jewish and autistic, this is pretty alarming to me. I'll show a couple examples from Tumblr:

And

I've left out the URLs of the OPs because I want to give the benefit of the doubt-- they both explicitly refer to being a "pattern noticer" in terms of neurodivergence. And it's easy to see why introducing this term to ND folks would be an easy way to get a dogwhistle passed off as harmless! Since autistic people often have analytical minds, we often make connections that others might not be able to see. But unfortunately, using terms like this only makes it much easier for antisemites to fly under the radar.

Stay safe and let's keep Tumblr free of this shit.

[headspace-hotel]

honestly we gotta get rid of the "chad vs. virgin" and blonde wojack meme shit entirely

[sosuperawesome]

Cat Scarf Pattern // Crochet By Ula

[weepingfireflies]

People & countries mentioned in the thread:

Congo - M23, Cobalt

Darfur, Sudan - International Criminal Court, CNN, BBC (Overview)

Tigray - Human Rights Watch (Ethnic Cleansing Report)

the Sámi people - IWGIA, Euronews

Hawai'i - IWGIA

Syria - Amnesty International

Kashmir- Amnesty Summary (PDF), Wikipedia (Jammu and Kashmir), Human Rights Watch (2022)

Iran - Human Rights Watch, Morality Police (Mahsa/Jina Amini - Al Jazeera, Wikipedia)

Uyghurs - Uyghur Human Rights Project (UHRP) Q&A, Wikipedia, Al Jazeera

Tibetans - SaveTibet.org

Yazidi people - Wikipedia, United Nations

West Papua - Free West Papua, Genocide Watch

Yemen - Human Rights Watch (Saudi border guards kill migrants), Carrd

Sri Lanka (Tamils) - Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch

Afghans in Pakistan - Al Jazeera, NPR

[fairuzfan]

What to boycott NOW to help stop Israel’s unfolding genocide of Palestinians in Gaza

What to boycott NOW to help stop Israel’s unfolding genocide of Palestinians in Gaza

We call on our supporters to strengthen our targeted boycott and divestment campaigns to maximize our impact!

Reminder that boycotting DOES work, there is historic proof! Don't let anyone discourage you otherwise!

The BDS movement uses the historically successful method of targeted boycotts inspired by the South African anti-apartheid movement, the US Civil Rights movement, the Indian anti-colonial struggle, among others worldwide.

We must strategically focus on a relatively smaller number of carefully selected companies and products for maximum impact. Companies that play a clear and direct role in Israel’s crimes and where there is real potential for winning, as was the case with, among others, G4S, Veolia, Orange, Ben & Jerry’s and Pillsbury. Compelling such huge, complicit companies, through strategic and context-sensitive boycott and divestment campaigns, to end their complicity in Israeli apartheid and war crimes against Palestinians sends a very powerful message to hundreds of other complicit companies that “your time will come, so get out before it’s too late!”

[fairuzfan]

Please reblog! Spread this! There is an effort by zionists to discourage people from boycotting! Don't let them trample your spirits and help us in the fight for a liberated Palestine!

[luntfontanne]

50-60 people abandoning their cars on the bay bridge during morning rush hour, throwing their keys into the fucking bay, holding a die-in, chaining themselves together… coolest motherfuckers in san francisco

[slowwshoww]

article from the guardian, nov 16 2023

[gothhabiba]

[ID: A group of protesters on the Bay Bridge chained together in front of a row of cars, wearing face masks, kufiyyas, and signs that read "the people demand a ceasefire." Other protesters behind them hold banners reading "stop genocide" and "no military aid to Israel." The second photo shows the same scene taken from the opposite direction; the line of cars forms the background, and protesters in the foreground lie on the ground covered in white sheets. End ID]

Donate to the Bay Area Anti-Repression Committee Bail Fund to help protesters who have been arrested and had their cars towed.

From their funding page:

Your donations are critical right now as people continue to rise up across the Bay Area. We are working closely with the National Lawyers Guild San Francisco Chapter which is currently in need of money. You can donate to them (they are running a hotline and provide pro bono legal support for arrestees in the Bay Area) at nlgsf.org/ways-to-contribute/ Our biggest need right now is spreading word through any means necessary to educate protesters going out in the streets to write the NLG hotline number [phone] on the arms in permanent ink and to call the hotline if arrested. If you want to report an arrest or trying to coordinate loved ones support from the outside you can call the the NLG Public Hotline [phone]NLG Our bail funds are only as good as it who it reaches. Please help us in connecting with those who are arrested. Please also continue checking for updates on our website: https://antirepressionbayarea.com and on Instagram at @antirepression_bayarea .

[pianoaround]

Does anyone know what this instrument is called? Its like a Marimba but it is very large and made out of huge stones. Listen to that tone! haha Love it!

[adventuresinstringrepair]

It’s a type of Vietnamese lithophone (literally rock sound instrument) called a đàn đá. Some ethnomusicologists think that these are likely the oldest type of man made instrument.

[somos-rosas]

she looks like shes having fun lol this is bringing me joy

[bunjywunjy]

so you’re telling me that rock is actually the oldest genre

[the-haiku-bot]

so you’re telling me

that rock is actually

the oldest genre

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

[sylveongender]

please share Gaza is losing power once again!!!!

[ID: tweet from Yara Eid (@/yaraeid_) on november 15th, 2023 that reads: “The Palestinian telecommunication company has announced that they've run out of fuel and they are only relying on batteries that are shutting down as well. They have also announced that this will lead to complete media blackout. I am already unable to reach my mother. In the next hours l'Il lose touch with everyone in Gaza again. I won't even be able to call them intentionally as networks are cutoff. Every time they cut the telecommunications, they committed the most horrific crimes. Urge the international community to stop this blackout!!! Now! #KeepGazaConnected” End ID.]

[literally21]

Keep Eyes On Sudan

Keep Eyes On Sudan

[sayruq]

“A Wall of Fire Smashed Into Me”: Dispatches From a Month in Gaza

Excerpts from the diary of Atef Abu Saif, who has been in Gaza since October 7.

[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.

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).

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.

[detailedart]

Clearest picture of Jupiter, from Earth. Isn't she beautiful? Actually hundreds of photos taken by the Gemini North Telescope in Hawaii, compiled to produce the infrared snap in order to see beyond Jupiter’s hazy atmosphere.

[memingursa-deactivated20250625]

Vote Blue no matter who crowd must be in shambles

[starry-bear]

This is real! Here's CNN reporting on it. Y'all can we not report unsourced claims from social media? Please take the time to fact check them. Anyway, this is absolutely horrific.

Top House Democrats evacuated from DNC headquarters as police clash with protesters calling for Gaza ceasefire | CNN Politics

Law enforcement clashed with protesters calling for a ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas war outside of the Washington headquarters of the Democr

[gehe-lihiyot-androgynos-varda-d]

Boiling Frogs; I Think Leftist Conversation Is Headed Towards Riots

YOU AREN'T AS NORMAL ABOUT JEWS AS YOU THOUGHT

You're Giving Me Deja Vu

Wog, A Bad Word Made Good |Australia News - The Guardian Australia 13/OCT/2005

I don't know how to stress more strongly, and with more urgency, that in 2005 my country went from the GUARDIAN saying 'wogs are people Australians envy, because they have good jobs, food, houses and community... So much so that "wog" is a compliment now' ...

Second Night Of Race Riots | Australia News - The Guardian Australia 13/DEC/2005

To a multi-day pogrom, in the span of three months.

2005 is two years AFTER the release of Finding Nemo. Two years after you first heard "42 Wallaby Way, Sydney" Sydney had a Pogrom. The movie of that December was The Lion The witch And The Wardrobe.

All it took was a war in the news overseas, an altercation between some teens on a beach and the surf lifeguards, a false rumour spread by email, text messages and print... and a call to action.

I think about the misinformation landscape now compared to then, how much faster and how much more easily it would be to light the proverbial spark today.

Thousands came out to enact violence on "the wogs" they felt did not belong in "their country".

I cannot help but be constantly reminded right now, of what the atmosphere was like before the the tension broke back then. Your discussion of Jews in your home countries and internationally is the same...

Unless you take action to remove fuel from the conversation, then all it takes is the spark that ignites this fire.

[gehe-lihiyot-androgynos-varda-d]

To be clear... Australia isn't special. This can happen where you YOU are, and the way YOU discuss politics is the fuel.

[gehe-lihiyot-androgynos-varda-d]

I need you to listen, and take this warning seriously. Look at what you are doing... All it takes is the spark.

[anshelsgendercrisis]

i don’t care if when you say “zionist” you don’t mean jews. making fucking MERCH like this is gonna get you a LOT of revenue from people who DO mean jews. i am not being snarky when i say that there WILL be nazis buying and wearing this shirt.

[party-gilmore]

literally this ^^^^ entire situation is a “covert” antisemite/nazis wet dream

they can say, wear, do whatever they fucking want and feel justified and safe so long as they say “zionist” when they actually mean “jew,” and keep fanning the rage around that word up and up until the next step

which is convincing more moderate leftists that “well okay we knoooow youre not antisemitic okay we know YOU know the difference between zionism and judaism, but how can you TELL when it’s your neighbors and friends? are you sure they’re not secretly zionist? what about the people you pass by on the street? really, anyone openly wearing a star of david in or with a menorah visible in their window… do you think that’s really genuine, in These Troubled Times? don’t you think flaunting that jewishness so openly right now is just asking for trouble? why do they need everyone who sees them to know they’re jewish, if not to signal their radical zionism to OTHER like minded jews? We’re not saying automatically a jew is a zionist, but if they’re verbal and open and proud of their jewishness like that… maybe watch out. Be suspicious of them. They could be a zionist!”

which then they turn into “if you see a jew wearing a kippah or with payot right now… watch out! Zionist!”

which then they turn into “if you see a jew… watch out! Zionist!”

which i KNOW might sound silly to you right now seeing that typed out one after the other but that’s LITERALLY what they do!! they know Zionist is the big keyword for leftist rage right now and they WILL tap into that and push the suspicion up further and further until that line of thinking feels reasonable to the masses!!!

“Well I know that I only actually mean ‘real’ zionists! The colonizy genocidey kind!”

The neo nazis and fascist and fundie evangelists in your life and around you will not know that and they will not care if you tell them. you will wear that and they will take it as another morale boost that See We Are Supported We Are Right We Are Strong We Can Be Bolder-

The jews in your life and around you will not know that and we will not believe you if you tell us. you will wear that and we will know We Are Not Safe Here We Are Not Safe With You The Moment You Decide We’re The “Bad Kind” Of Jew Or We’re Not “Doing Enough” To Fight It You Will Turn On Us

And how to you intend to go about telling them apart in your day to day? In the passerby on the street? How exactly do you plan on confirming your “suspicions” no really truly i would LOVE hear this PLEASE and i s2g if any single one of you tiktok astrology or new age motherfuckers utters even a single SYLLABLE of the word “phrenology” I-

There is. Absolutely NOTHING in daily jewish appearance or practice. That goyim can expect to “tell the difference” with. Aside from that person just outright talking about it.

And those hateful bastards KNOW that and they will USE that to eventually point you at ALL of us.

[griseldagimpel]

#what's that post about ‘you can’t just hate the aggressor you have to actually SUPPORT those in danger’#cuz this is EXACTLY where focusing all your activism on hating Israel - which you’ve decided equates one to one with the word Zionist which#that is a WHOLE nother conservation but long and short of it it is NOT just radical zionists perpetuating this it is ANYONE with#a political power play at stake here and they are USING zionism and the goyische perception of what that is to do it but ANYWAY#instead of making your focus actually SUPPORTING and AMPLIFYING Palestine#you make Violence Back At The Bad Guys your goal and it’s real easy to start blurring the lines of who you think the Bad Guy is#so that Nazis can do shit like [waves at whole post] and worm their way into appearing ‘moderate’ to you because oh EVERYONES pissed at#Zionists now right? We don’t mean the GOOD jews of course!#which is LITERALLY one of the oldest tricks and first steps in the nazi playbook!!!#and even CENTURIES before that the church did all that same shit too!!! -party-gilmore

Too important to leave in the tags.

[notaplaceofhonour]

and frankly the concern is not if nor even when Nazis will use “Zionist” as a sneaky way to say “Jew” (they already are), nor is the fact that Nazis are doing so a new thing. Nazis have been using “Zionist” to mean “Jew” since forever, as well as drawing false equivalencies between Israel’s goals and their own

[shielade]

THIS!This! This is what scares me so much. It was so easy for them in the 1930's, it was so easy for them to push Islamophobia everywhere after 2001 (and here i my country again after 2015) and it will be much more easy for them now because we are a divided and aggravated in so many ways...and they will use it for sure.

[aeonthespian-blog]

Here are some of the donations for Congo

Congo Action 3

Congo Action is a small British charity working in Kivu Province in the Democratic Republic of the Congo offering resources that can be used

Democratic Republic of Congo

Action Against Hunger’s work in the Democratic Republic of Congo focuses on the hunger crisis, sexual and reproductive health and mental hea

Homepage - Eastern Congo Initiative

ECI has been investing in the future of Congo since 2010. Along the way, we are transforming humanitarian aid for good. Come join us.

Let's continue empowering communities by supporting equal access to education. Your donation helps build classrooms and wells, grows our com

Donate - Democratic Republic of Congo

SUPPORT CHILDREN IN DRC

Rubaya: Mining, Minerals and a Desperately Needed School – Comfort International

Home Page - Panzi Foundation

Her Tomorrow Starts Today. Founded by Dr. Mukwege, Panzi is working to end rape in war and help survivors of sexual violence rebuild their l

[prettycraft5]

I'm reading No Idle Hands: The Social History of American Knitting by Anne L. Macdonald and according to a woman from the 19th century who had traveled through the Oregon Trail, at the time:

“A good knitter in a long day could knit a pair of socks, the legs being six to eight inches long.”

Excuse me, what????

[ebearcrochet]

Both Norwegian and Danish knitters could do the same. Knitters from the Faeroes Islands and Iceland could do the same

[yarnaddiction]

I think I saw something about how most of us knit today (or specifically how we hold our needles?) is based on a way that was meant to look pretty, but as a side-effect is a slower way to knit. I absolutely cannot remember the source, but if it exists, it was floating around knitblr a while back (if you do remember it, help a girl out). Maybe it has to do with that? And also with the fact that "a good knitter" had probably been knitting a majority of their life

[thatdarncait]

Lever knitting - in the old days a lot of people used it, hardly anyone does now but it will absolutely improve your speed. I took a class in speed and efficiency with the Yarn Harlot a few years back, very eye opening!

Lever Knitting Is the Fastest Knitting Technique in the World—Discover Its Benefits and Basic Steps

Learn how to start lever knitting (also known as Irish cottage style) which allows for faster, fluid movement and cuts down on repetitive wr