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The Big Damn List Of Stuff They Said You Didn't Know

(Yes, it's a lot. Just choose your preferred medium and then pick one.)

Podcasts

Listen to this episode from Cocktails & Capitalism on Spotify. Continuing the story of Palestine, Leeh outlines the Great Arab Revolt and th

Cocktails & Capitalism: The Story of Palestine Part 1, Part 3, East Palestine

It Could Happen Here: The Cheapest Land is Bought with Blood, Part 2, The Balfour Declaration

Citations Needed: Media narratives and consent manufacturing around Israel-Palestine and the Gaza Siege

Backgrounders and Quick Facts

Welcome to Decolonize Palestine, a collection of resources for anyone who wants to learn more about Palestine.

The Palestine Academy: Palestine 101

Institute for Middle East Understanding: Explainers and Quick Facts

Interactive Maps

What will the maps of Palestine and Israel look like if Israel illegally annexes the Jordan Valley on July 1?

Visualizing Palestine

Teach-Out Resources

1) Cambridge UCU and Pal Society

Palestine 101

Intro to Palestine Film + Art + Literature

Resources for Organising and Facilitating)

2) The Jadaliya YouTube Channel of the Arab Studies Institute

Gaza in Context Teach-in series

War on Palestine podcast

Updates and Discussions of news with co-editors Noura Erakat and Mouin Rabbani.

3) The Palestine Directory

History (virtual tours, digital archives, The Palestine Oral History Project, Documenting Palestine, Queering Palestine)

Cultural History (Palestine Open Maps, Overdue Books Zine, Palestine Poster Project)

Contemporary Voices in the Arts

Get Involved: NGOs and campaigns to help and support.

3) PalQuest Interactive Encyclopedia of the Palestine Question.

4) The Palestine Remix by Al Jazeera

Books and Articles

Free reading material

My Gdrive of Palestine/Decolonization Literature (nearly all the books recommended below + books from other recommended lists)

Five free eBooks by Verso

Three Free eBooks on Palestine by Haymarket

Pluto Books Free Palestine Reading List 30-50% off

LGBT Activist Scott Long's Google Drive of Palestine Freedom Struggle Resources

Recommended Reading List

hussyknee

Friends, besties and my bitches, please re-boost my life's work. I had it and vetted to remove problematic elements, sourced everything I could get my hands on for free, and reworked and fine-tuned it. Thanks!

ashwantsafreepalestine

Every accusation is a confession.

ashwantsafreepalestine

This is extremely graphic, but the world needs to see this. The world needs to see what Israel is doing to Palestinians, right this very moment. This is what Israel stands for. This is what Zionism stands for.

They have destroyed these children’s lives. Their legs have been obliterated. I have never come across such evil since Nazi Germany. They target children deliberately. They know exactly where Hamas is at, and yet, they choose to target civilians with indiscriminate airstrikes. 16,456 children killed since October 7. Tens and thousands more injured. Gaza is known to have the highest number of children amputees in the world.

Israel must be abolished. Israel does not deserve the right to exist. No state that does this to children deserves the right to exist. Fuck Israel and fuck it’s demented and psychopathic supporters. When the day of reckoning comes, may you all burn in hell. You deserve no mercy, no sympathy.

27-moons

‘Hi Israa, what is your dream? A little silence. And she looks up and closes her eyes. Then she takes a deep breath and looks down again. I want to die, she says in a soft voice. What? I want to die, uncle. But Israa, if I die and you die, who is going to rebuild our land? She looks down again. And with a soft voice, she started to tell me about the Israeli raids. Uncle, I’m really tired of all the explosions and all the destruction. I’m tired of the Israelis, who keep destroying everything. They enter our house and point their guns at us. I’m really scared, uncle. I really want to die. I’m tired. I’m really, really tired.’

By Sakir Khader

Jenin, Palestine (original February 2024)

spirit-meets-the-b0ne

For what it’s worth I think Algerian women should be allowed to do quite literally whatever they want on French soil considering the atrocities generations of Algerian women faced during the revolution, like Imane Khelif should be getting free swings at every member of state while she’s in Paris! Hope this helps!

hufflpuffin

Imagine raising $70,000 to set up a screen and a stage on a cordoned off section of the lawn solely to play propaganda to thin air and agitate student protestors you are vastly outnumbered by and who have been peacefully ignoring you for days instead of...i dont know, giving that $70,000 it to the families of the hostages you are crying about who are currently being silenced by Israeli media for protesting their children being carpet bombed and shot to death while waving white flags by their own government.

Zionists are completely unserious.

hufflpuffin

UCLA students have been completely peaceful, were told by organizers to ignore and not engage with agitators, and linked together in seconds with their backs turned to agitators so that the encampment couldnt be broken into.

Meanwhile the zionist agitators physically assaulted and shoved a marshall to the ground while trying to break in to the encampment, brought bunches of bananas to throw at students knowing a pro-palestine student protestor has a fatal allergy to them, wished rape on students outside the encampment, threw a backpack full of lab mice at students that are injected with something, called black protestors the n word and spit on them hoping for a response and stationed themselves next to the outside local media so they could cry to the press about how they scared they are to be there after getting kicked out of the protest for being violent cunts. Not to mention at Columbia where IDF soldiers (possibly now revealed under coordination with the Dean) threw a chemical weapon at students that hospitalized nearly a dozen of them and have never faced consequences or acknowledgement by the school.

There is no "both sides clashes" like the media is trying to portray. One side is consistently violent and its the zionists

kropotkindersurprise

April 28, 2024 - An unintentionally funny video by a zionist propagandist shows off some good organisation and discipline at the UCLA encampment for Palestine.

uni-cornz

I think we need more barricades guys

#free palestine #palestine #ucla #genocide in gaza

soul-hammered

There’s evidence that Palestinians in the mass graves (including babies, children, people in medical scrubs) were buried alive.

soul-hammered

This revelation and the news they had to cut a baby out of the womb of its already-dead mother to save its life is making me wish the protestors were armed with [ballots] to [vote out our elected officials through peaceful legal means]

Sources:

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/baby-gaza-saved-womb-mother-killed-israeli-strike-2024-04-21/

Some victims found at two hospitals were ‘buried alive’ while others were ‘executed’ by the Israeli military.

27-moons

Occupation forces have released 150 kidnapped Palestinians from the Gaza Strip after they were subjected to several months of detention and torture

koukorndog-deactivated20260108

third picture shows Sufian Abu Salah, who told the press that he had his left leg amputated because it got badly infected after torture, they didnt let him see a doctor for a week and then it was too late

fusdoq

third picture also shows the child hostage Nemr. he was shot in multiple places in his body, and later he was tortured. he was abducted while searching for vegetables for his hungry sister. listen to the horrific testimony

#palestine #from the river to the sea palestine will be free #boycott israel

tamamita

Theodore Herlz, father of Political Zionism: Yeah, it's colonial

Ber Borochov, father of Labour Zionism: Yeah, it's colonial

Ze'ev Jabotinsky, father of Revisionist Zionism: Yeah, it's colonial

David Ben Gurion, founding father of the Settler state: Yeah, it's colonial

Small bean fandom Zionist: Umm, lol, it's literally not colonial???

tamamita

Relevant quotes:

Herzl wrote to Cecil Rhodes, "It doesn’t involve Africa, but a piece of Asia Minor; not Englishmen but Jews… How, then, do I happen to turn to you since this is an out-of-the-way matter for you? How indeed? Because it is something colonial...

Theodore Herzl's letter to Cecil Rhodes from unpublished letters by Theodore Herzl (11th of January 1901)

"The Jews could in short time assume the leading position in the economy of the new land. Jewish migration must be transformed from immigration into colonization"

Poale Zion, Our Platform, B. Borochov (1906)

"We cannot offer any adequate compensation to the Palestinian Arabs in return for Palestine. And therefore, there is no likelihood of any voluntary agreement being reached. So that all those who regard such an agreement as a condition sine qua non for Zionism may as well say "non" and withdraw from Zionism. Zionist colonisation must either stop, or else proceed regardless of the native population"

Iron Wall, Ze'ev Jabotinksy (1923)

If I were an Arab leader, I would never sign an agreement with Israel. It is normal; we have taken their country. It is true God promised it to us, but how could that interest them? Our God is not theirs. There has been Anti-Semitism, the Nazis, Hitler, Auschwitz, but was that their fault? They see but one thing: we have come and we have stolen their country. Why would they accept that?”

David Ben Gurion, quoted in The Jewish paradox, Nahum Goldmann (1973)

criptochecca

How zionists talk about the murder of 4, 8 and 10 years old children

27-moons

The “terrorists” in question

abla-soso

For anyone confused about how a person can openly accuse children of being terrorists, here's what you need to know: Zionism is a genocidally racist ideology that views the native children as "seeds" of future danger. The Zionist mantra is: “Erase their name, erase their seed.”

The dehumanisation of Palestinian children is so normalized in Israeli society that they no longer comprehend how they look like to the rest of the world when they openly celebrate the death of Palestinian children.

Like any typical Zionist, this pathetic and disgusting little worm even had the nerve to victmize himself and cry about the backlash he received:

#israel is a genocidal state #gaza #palestine #free palestine #from the river to the sea palestine will be free

opencommunion

Amin Khazem speaks about the conditions of the prisons following his release, 7 April 24, via RNN Prisoners

Audio in Arabic; subtitles in English transcribed: "I've been imprisoned by the occupation for the last 11 months. Things changed dramatically after October 7th. I don't want to say they changed 90 degrees, but 3,800 degrees! The minimum I can describe of life inside occupation prisons is that it is living hell. Unfortunately, a lot of our youth are experiencing torture and pain, that some of them wish martyrdom so that their torture and suffering can end in the occupation prisons. The occupation limits their clothing and bed covers during bitter cold weather. For each hour of sleep, we're awake for two hours due to the coldness. For six months, the occupation has kept us hungry. How do they keep us hungry for this long? The amount of food they would give us would not satisfy a 7 year old. A lot of our martyrs in prisons were martyred due to excruciating beatings. Many of them would end up with internal bleeding and would not receive medical treatment. Instead they would be left to bleed in their prison cell until they're martyred."

mysharona1987

Shockingly, as it turns out, these beloved dame posh British actresses aren’t all that nice.

libyan-knight

The extraordinary magical energy of ethnic cleansing

uni-cornz

This is just beyond cognitive dissonance. The only way you can say that shit like it's passable is if you don't think they're human.

fairuzfan

knowing that the vast majority of israeli society participates and encourages the genocide while protesting NETANYAHU because they don't like him is so extremely disgusting. all while nazis play in a mass extermination camp and block food and water from starved Palestinians. yes, the idf are nazis. the people blocking the aid are nazis. i hate them and i hope they suffer a fate worse than that they incur on palestinians.

shashiatnight

This is an example of their anti Netanyahu protestors.

Vile lowly people. There is a reason I always bring up how every 'Israeli' serves in the IOF, how even the ones protesting the so called occupation (ie aww let Palestinians have at least 20% of their ancestral lands Mr PM man, Israeli govt are full of such meanies) since '67 have been able to accomplish fuck all - similar to organisations like B'TSELEM (a patron of which is an actress Rivka who supported starving Ghazzawis because it's what that shitpig demon Golda Meir would have done) and Yesh Din (can't even get the Israeli courts to agree not to shoot Palestinians lmao).

As El-Kurd and Refaat Alareer's sentiments were - I don't care where the settlers are going, they'll arrive at hell sooner or later.

halalchampagnesocialist

The ‘Goebbels of Gaza’ himself Eylon Levy was also at these protests, despite spending the last 6 months spreading the government’s insane propaganda and manufacturing consent for the war on Palestinians.

That should tell you enough.

typicalbrainchaos

How can Israel normally announce the executions of Al-Shifa Hospital?

Is it normal to blow up buildings and burn what's in them?

The soldiers are driving the tanks over the bodies of the injured, torturing them, denying them treatment and painkillers, and executing them as usual.

Every day, a spokesman announces the number of those it executes without caring about anything.

Why is it normal to talk about threatening doctors, arresting them, executing them, or burning them, and the only charge is that they treat Palestinians?

How did the world reach this terrifying normalization with the idea that Gaza is dying?

#gaza #free gaza #free palestine #palestine #genocide in gaza

anneemay

Israel just executed the 90 hostages they abducted from Al-Shifa Hospital. And the world governments remain unmoved.

21 March 2024

fairuzfan

How history directly plays a part in the colonization of Palestine

"The modern claim that Joseph's Tomb is directly related to the biblical Joseph appears to have emerged as a result of claims by William Cooke Taylor in the 1830s. Cooke was an Irish journalist traveling in the area motivated by interest in biblical history but with no expertise in the field. Although in his writings he claims the site was believed be the tomb of the patriarch and that all the religions agreed as much, no other geographers who ventured into the area in the decades that followed reported anything of the sort. And it is unclear from his writings what local Palestinians, the people who were actually living in and around the shrine and worshipping there, believed about the shrine. British geographers subsequently took up Taylor's claim, however, and over the years it was forgotten that it had been more or less made up based on conjecture.

But the claims of biblical archaeologists had a strong role in how the Zionist movement would come to understand and conceive of the landscape.6 As European Jews migrated to Palestine in the first half of the twentieth century, they drew upon biblical archeology's claims. They adopted archeologists' claims that Palestinian holy sites were directly linked to ancient biblical figures. In many cases, they focused on occupying those sites in order to legitimize the colonial endeavor by giving it a sense of deeper history. In many cases, this would mean evicting the Palestinians who actually frequented these holy sites.

When Israel occupied the West Bank in 1967, religious Zionists began flocking to Joseph's Tomb. The tomb, which was previously open to pilgrims of all faiths, began to fall under exclusively Jewish control. As growing numbers of armed Jewish settlers were escorted to the tomb under military escort, the area became increasingly viewed with apprehension by Palestinians living around the site. In 1975, the Israeli military banned Palestinians – that is, the Samaritans, Muslims, and Christians living around the site – from visiting, a ban that has remained in place until this day. When I visited in summer 2015, the tomb was shut closed, but a sympathetic guard allowed me and a friend to look around, under his close watch.

Unsurprisingly, the ban has ignited intense anger over the years. This is true particularly given that frequent visits by Jewish settlers to the shrine are accompanied by hundreds of Israeli soldiers, who enter the area and run atop the rooftops of local Palestinians to “secure” the tomb. As a result, Joseph's Tomb has increasingly become associated with the Israeli military and settlement movement in the eyes of Palestinians. Its presence has become an excuse for frequent military incursions that provoke clashes and lead to arrests and many injuries in the neighborhood.7

Some fear that Israelis will attempt to take over the shrine to build an Israeli settlement around it. This fear is not unfounded, given the fact that Israeli settlers have done exactly that all across the West Bank in places they believe are connected in some way to Jewish biblical history. The notoriously violent Jewish settlements in Hebron, for example, were built there due to the location of the Tomb of the Patriarchs in that southern West Bank town. Following the initial years of settlement, settlers even managed to convince Israeli authorities to physically divide the shrine – which is holy to local Palestinians – and turn the whole area into a heavily-militarized complex. Other shrines have become excuses for the Israeli military to build army bases inside Palestinian towns, like Rachel's Tomb in Bethlehem – which is surrounded by twenty-foot high concrete walls on three sides to block Palestinian access. The village of Nabi Samwel near Jerusalem, meanwhile, was demolished in its entirety to provide Jewish settlers access to the tomb at its heart."

—Excerpt from Why Do Palestinians Burn Jewish Holy Sites? The Fraught History of Joseph's Tomb by Alex Shams

fairuzfan

As the shrines became underused by Palestinians, however, religious Zionists in Israel began taking a renewed interest in them. For them, the goal of Israel was to redeem the land for the Jewish people, and a major part of the Zionist project necessarily involved finding the exact places where the Hebrews of the Bible lived. The problem was, however, that the Bible is not a map nor a history textbook, and as a result it was quite difficult to pinpoint the exact locations of much of what was mentioned therein.

As Nadia Abu El-Haj15 and Basem Ra‘ad16 have highlighted, religious Zionists often relied upon texts drawn up under the British in the nineteenth century, when geographers carried out cartographic expeditions to “map” the Bible atop modern Palestine. These maps were less than precise, however, and involved a lot of guessing using the names of Palestinian villages and attempts to figure out if the Arabic words might be derived from Aramaic or Hebrew. The result was a hodgepodge of falsehoods that was, over time, accepted as truth.

Particularly after 1967, when Israel occupied the West Bank and large areas mentioned in the Old Testament fell under Israeli occupation (the coast has comparatively little Hebrew history), religious Zionists revived the British “Holy Land” maps to go on their own treasure hunts for Jewish remains.17 In many places, tombs that were historically shared by locals of different faiths were appropriated by the religious Zionist movement, which stressed their Jewish character for political purposes in order to convince the government to assert control. Today, this amalgam of guesses made by British travelers is repeated as truth in the Israeli media as well as the international media, which generally takes the Israeli narrative as fact. Even something as basic and commonly-used as Wikipedia pages for these sites are based on the guesses of British travelers in the nineteenth century.

Palestinian narratives, meanwhile, are added as footnotes, if they are presented at all. Joseph's Tomb, which should be an everlasting reminder of the richly-varied history of human religious, social, and cultural practice and the diversity of beliefs that can coexist in one humble little building, is today instead a flashpoint in a conflict that Israeli authorities are increasingly trying to frame as a religious struggle.

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