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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

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 Hijacked 

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 (murdered by Israel - 12/7/2023. Inna lillahi wa inna ilayhi raji'un)

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 

Mariam Barghouti

Omar Ghraieb

Steven Salaita

Noura Erakat

The Palestinian Museum N.G.

Palestine Museum US

Artists for Palestine UK 

Eye on Palestine 

[stranger-phenomena]

Stranger Things' Finale is a Joke (Literally)

I don't (just) mean that pejoratively. The writing felt like it was going out of its way to be as bad as possible, like they were trying to write the worst ending for the show as a joke. So many of the writing choices sounded like gags. For example;

Characters nearly dying only to be saved at the last minute, because this is the show that never kills anyone off.

When they're about to reveal if Henry or the Mind Flayer is the true big bad, they have him say "we are one" because, you know, he's 001, and strip any and all nuance from his character right when you think that's about to deepen.

The Mind Flayer being a giant spider kaiju instead of a smoke monster, all of a sudden.

Eleven nearly flying into its mouth fucking Sharknado style.

Mike not saying "I love you" back to Eleven during their melodramatic final scene (set to Purple fucking Rain!) when that was their whole conflict in s4

"Friends? No thanks. Best friends!" give me a break!

Cheesy Jopper proposal and their plan to move to Montaulk (the show's original setting).

Every character in the epilogue being in the most hideous, cliché hair and costuming you've ever seen.

Dustin's speech where the whole school cheers and Stacy asks him out.

The weirdly over-sexualised Lumax scene.

Robin and Vickie breaking up off-screen out of nowhere

The D&D scene at the end that is clearly meant to mirror the ending of the show, which Max (who has never played D&D before) straight up calls "trite"

A show that has consistently been about moving on and coming to terms with grief and change, ending with Mike trapped in grief, coming up with fantasies to cope, using D&D in a way that alludes to the whole "it was all a game" theory that the Duffers explicitly said would be bad writing.

I could go on, but you get the idea. It felt like it was making fun of itself, like it knew how bad it was.

You might call this cope, but I refuse to believe this was the ending the Duffers were building to. Something happened. Netflix wouldn't let them tell the story they wanted, so they blew the whole thing up in spite or something. It was safe, it was style over substance, it was lazy and cliché and deeply unsatisfying in a way completely at odds with the quality of the writing in the rest of the show. You could even see it in the actors' performances; they were subdued, phoned in. Poor Winona Ryder looked dead behind the eyes as she hacked Vecna's head off.

You don't consistently tell a story with a clear, strong thematic throughline for five seasons only to drop the ball this badly at the last hurdle. I don't usually go in on these kinds of conspiracy theories, but this was so off, so at odds with the style and tone of the rest of the series, so desperately bad in ways the Duffers have explicitly talked about not liking, I cannot help but think it was intentional. The question is why, and how did it get to that point?

[tom-nippleston]

I have waited ALL FUCKING YEAR TO POST THIS

Santa is coming tonight.

[lich-of-the-golgari]

@alltheshit-althetime

[suntosirius]

THE ONLY CHRISTMAS POST I DON’T BLOCK

[fozby]

dancer is my life

[thedanliest]

YES HERE IT IS, JUST IN THE SAINT NICK OF TIME

[zunaki]

"The Sorcerer"

[amethystsoda]

PSA: if you're watching the new Knives Out mystery (Wake Up Dead Man), please be aware that around 1 hr 34 minutes in, there's a series of flashing/strobing lights. the sequence lasts about a minute.

[amethystsoda]

^ comment I got on tiktok bc I posted this same thing there. this is why I'm giving the warning because netflix and the theaters didn't 😔

[identityarchitect]

[ID: comment reading "I have epilepsy went to see it yesterday and covered my eyes too late and had a seizure and all I could think was why are we STILL not putting strobe warnings on movies..." /end ID]

[etymologeez]

To be specific [spoiler warning for Wake Up Dead Man] there is a scene in the rain, the priest will slip on mud, run into the woods, and a fist will knock him out. Close your eyes immediately when you see the fist. Don't open again until you start hearing conversations.

[thebaconsandwichofregret]

Sharing for the plot specifics which makes it a bit easier for people who are watching compared to tracking the timings

[heyclickadee-deactivated2025121]

You know, I’m not Jewish, but I really think I and my fellow non-Jews need to take a step back, notice that basically every Jewish holiday these days opens with antisemitic violence and Jews being attacked or killed, and realize that it’s not only a serious issue but that it’s our issue to fix.

[estera-shirin]

Absolutely devastating news from Australia that at least 11 people were killed in an antisemitic attack on a Hanukkah celebration in Sydney. One of those who was murdered, Alex Kleytman z”l, was a Holocaust survivor. His wife, also a Holocaust survivor, saw as he was shot. I cannot imagine the grief and pain she and many others are feeling.

My heart is with all the victims and their loved ones, as well as the broader Jewish community in Australia. May the memories of the victims be a blessing.

We deserve to be able to congregate and observe Jewish holidays without fear of violence, in Australia and globally.

[estera-shirin]

I also want to commend the courage of Ahmed al Ahmed, a man who happened to be walking by when the shooting began and rushed to disarm one of the shooters, despite being unarmed himself. Ahmed is the owner of a fruit shop and a father of two. He was shot twice during his brave intervention and is now in the hospital. I am praying for his swift recovery and the recovery of all the others who were injured in this attack.

[nooralanqar3]

Channel 14 (Hebrew):

Meteorologist Tsahi Bling explains how the “Baronis” storm will affect the Strip, saying: “Gaza will be flooded; not a single tent will remain standing by Friday morning.”

[nooralanqar3]

The occupation speaks coldly about tents “sinking,” as if we are just a scene in their reports.

The truth is that they are the ones preventing the entry of building materials, even blocking simple caravans that could save lives.

Yes… our tents might collapse, but what breaks us the most is the injustice we face every single day. All we want is a safe shelter for our children something that protects them from the rain and the cold.

[nooralanqar3]

I’m writing this from inside a tent in Gaza… a tent that can barely withstand the wind, let alone a storm. I have three children who shiver from the cold every night.

I have no choice but to ask for help from anyone who can offer it… please help us face the cold, fill my children’s hearts with warmth, and try together to survive a night that may be harsher than anything we’ve lived through before.

[nooralanqar3]

You sit in warm homes, with heating, clothes, and hot drinks, enjoying a safe night’s sleep. Appreciate all of this… we once lived that life too. But today, I can’t sleep from the cold, and I fear for my children as the rain threatens to flood our fragile tent.

[hagiomoto]

Save the flyer above and post it on your socials. Donations have dropped significantly by 50 percent since the ‘ceasefire’ was announced, but the bombing hasn’t stopped and not enough aid has reached Gazans.

With winter here, the need for comfort is more pressing than ever.

RETURN HOME x The Sameer Project

"GIVE WARMTH TO GAZA" this Winter season...

[norstrum]

[Image description: A flyer by The Sameer Project x Translating Falasteen. It says:

"Who we are and what we do: Grassroots mutual aid led by Palestinians in diaspora. Provide shelter, cash, food, water, medical treatment to displaced Gazan families.

Current situation & Campaign: 90% homes destroyed. Third winter since genocide began. *Urgently* support our winter campaign: clear rubble, rebuild, provide bariers against *severe flooding*, warmth, and shelter.

Donation Impact Breakdown: Shelter (tent): $250-$500. Tarps (3-4): $200-$260. Blankets: $55-$60.

*Give Warmth to Gaza - Flooding Emergency!*

How to donate: Chuffed: https://chuffed.org/project/149178-sameer-project-x-mass-displacement-campaign

Paypal: https://www.paypal.com/qrcodes/p2pqrc/L9X7UQ7728FNL

Venmo: https://venmo.com/code?user_id=594101695152128306&created=1717638633

Scan for info & to donate. Every penny counts." End image description.]

[ryan-sometimes]

When I was about to go to college my dad, who is a thoracic surgeon specialized in lung cancer, sat me down and told me I could be a stoner, but absolutely not a cigarette smoker

[ryan-sometimes]

His logic was:

He’s operated on hundreds of cig smokers but no stoners

The average stoner doesn’t smoke nearly as many joints as a cig smoker smokes cigarettes. Many cig smokers will smoke 10+ cigs a day but the average stoner doesn’t smoke that many joints

Joints don’t have as many carcinogens

It is generally harder to quit nicotine than weed

People can have medicinal cannabis but no one has medicinal cigarettes

He was a stoner in med school and turned out fine but some of his cig smoking classmates are already dead

[ryan-sometimes]

@buticaaba you are absolutely correct! My dad hates vapes. He says the lungs of cig smokers look black and kind of like asphalt, and that the lungs of vape smokers retain their pink color but are covered in burn like blisters. He participated in a double lung transplant on a 20 year old vape smoker and has done multiple drainings of vape smoker lungs that filled with fluids because they’re absolutely full of blisters.

When you smoke cigs you’re clogging your lungs with tar and other nasty stuff, but when you hit a vape you’re quite literally giving your lungs chemical burns.

[laora-ryn]

Saw this license plate today and I'm still ugly laughing about it

[ilikethemwings]

[puffbirdstudio]

Since it’s Spotify Wrapped season I thought I’d share this reminder that streaming services are killing the music industry. Musicians can’t make a living like this. If you love an artist, find them on Bandcamp and actually buy their albums.

[void-admin]

Reminder: This friday (December 5th) is Bandcamp Friday! That means 100% of the proceeds from album sales on Bandcamp go directly to the artists you buy from.

[carbomcoco]

"these researchers published a paper on something that literally any of us could have told you 🙄" ok well my supervisors wont let me write something in my thesis unless I can back it up with a citation so maybe it's a good thing that they're amplifying your voice to the scientific community in a way that prevents people from writing off your experiences as annecdotal evidence

[carbomcoco]

they did the research in the first place because they believed you and wanted to tell people about it. they are not our enemies.

[yesthattoo]

Sometimes "they" are us who got an entire graduate degree for the explicit purpose of saying this stuff where academics might take it seriously.

[capricorn-0mnikorn]

I probably reblogged this before, but I'm doing it again for that last comment.

[tahthetrickster]

it’s december 1 where’s the christmas tail kitten bring him to me

[tahthetrickster]

i have to do EVERYTHING around here

[stranger-phenomena]

Stranger Things, the only show to correctly recognise that the three greatest powers against the forces of evil are: love, being gay, and Kate Bush.

[wintersoldierfell]

you've heard of death of the author, now get ready for death of the audience: where instead of basing your reaction on a thousand uninformed opinions online, you actually read the text and engage with it

[gothhabiba]

my friends and I are all noticing that it's getting harder and harder to fundraise for Palestine.

[gothhabiba]

Some grassroots initiatives helping people and families in Gaza:

Relief for Rafah: a Mutual Aid Project

Keep Hope Alive: a Gaza Giving Circle

Isnad: Supporting Students in Gaza