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SUPPORT PALESTINIAN BUSINESSES

while it’s important for us to protest, raise awareness, boycott, and pressure our governments… it is also important that we appreciate palestinian people and palestinian culture. they are more than just victims. they are artists, entrepreneurs, fashion designers, movie makers, writers, musicians, scholars—they are people. so let’s celebrate all that makes palestinians who they are by supporting their businesses and showing our appreciation and solidarity.

hirbawi

handmade in palestine

watan studio

hilweh market

sitti soap

yafa queen

nominal jewellery

nurnei

levantinian

dār collective

wear the peace

pali roots

west bank apparel

bella hijabs

anat international

inaash

nöl collective

deerah

darzah

falastini brand

interlink publishing

booklink booksellers

zatoun oil

canaan palestine

knafeh queens

kuvrd

the coffee queens

pali apparel

maamoul press - art, books, clothes, etc

trashy clothing

tatreez and tea

shop palestine

the soap dispensary - the business itself is not palestinian but they are selling “nablus soaps” (made in the 13th century old tradition of soap-making from nablus) and all the proceeds from the sales will be donated to PCRF

NOTE: philz coffee is no longer palestinian owned and have been forbidding employees from wearing pins in support of palestine. take your business elsewhere.

*please follow @/books_palestine on instagram for more fun ways to support palestinians and celebrate palestinian culture

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May 2024 be kinder and gayer and better

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Children saying "I'd rather be dead" is not normal. Children crying "is this a dream?" is not normal. Children wondering "am I being taken to the cemetery?" is not normal.

We can all reckon the lasting psychological effects of this genocide on these children, but also remember that to many of the children of Gaza, this is the second, third, or even fourth Israeli aggression they had to live through.

Almost 50% of Gaza's population are children, over 10,000 of which have been murdered by Israel since October of this year.

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Never Forget Palestine

I know that this is a long, serious, and sudden post to make after a couple of months of null activity. I normally keep my explicit convictions out of social media circles, but the emotions that the ongoing genocide in occupied Palestine has brewed within me is something that I can't keep to myself any longer. As a person who lives in the world's oldest colony, I feel the urgency to express my unshakable and absolute support for the Palestinian people under occupation and their wider diaspora.

As a Puerto Rican, I can somewhat understand the violence that colonialism wreaks upon native peoples. I know what economic violence looks like. I know first hand the pain and dread that displacement brings, the sacrifices that the diaspora undertakes every day, and I've witnessed gentrification efforts in Puerto Rico accelerate astronomically. I know how colonialism erases cultures and warps senses of identity; Americanization and globalization have my culture on a chokehold and I often find myself asking who am I, for I have my own flag, but by law I am a US citizen. And although I was born in the new millennium, my grandparents and parents knew what political and military violence is and have done their due diligence in making me remember the ostracized, the murdered, and disappeared.

As a Puerto Rican, I feel an unshakable sense of gross complicity in the ongoing genocide. I feel this way because our leaders in San Juan and in Washington DC actively support and fund the IDF's genocidal war machine. I feel this way because many of the weapons and munitions that currently maim, kill, and destroy the very livelihood of the Palestinian people were developed and tested in the shores of the municipal island of Vieques, which is located some twenty-odd kilometers from our eastern coast. I feel this way because I read repost after repost of shellshocked Palestinians desperately calling for aid, humanization, and solidarity by showcasing the bodies of their murdered to the world from the comfort of a standing home and relative access to basic resources, and overall experiencing a normal way of life. I feel this way, because the active targeting of journalists and activists, community leaders, and scholars by IDF troops echo the arrests, unfair trails, imprisonment, torture, murder, and disappearance of our leaders orchestrated by evil men like Blanton Winship and Edgar Hoover. To whoever reads this, please do not forget Palestine. When Puerto Rican Revolutionaries revolted against US colonial rule in 1950, the UN ignored our struggle for independence and looked the other way as US Navy planes bombed the Jayuya to ruins and National Guardsmen arrested and murdered armed revolutionaries and civilians alike all around Puerto Rico. The Gaza Genocide is beyond everything my fellow countrymen have ever faced. Please, for your humanity, do not turn your backs on Palestine just as the world did to us.

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feeling Bad, I’m gonna go on petfinder and find the most bizarre cat names possible, will report back with any notable ones

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~ Whitney Hanson

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yeOUCH

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'Cat and the Moon' by Molly Lemon

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Many people will wonder now more than ever what "from the river to the sea" means and I'm here to provide a little bit of context

First of all, the phrase has been around since the 60s and was coined by the PLO not Hamas as some would love to claim.

Secondly, to explore what "free palestine from the river to the sea" means, we need to take a quick look at the past 75 years, during which israel had depopulated over 500 palestinian villages by killing and expelling the inhabitants of those villages and rendering them refugees. Following that, israel created what is called "the law of return" which resulted in prohibiting any of the expelled Palestinians to ever return to their home towns. Israel has also then started to implement systems that control the movement of the Palestinians that remained, control their economy, control their water and land, control who can marry who and even control their food intake.

So when the descendants of Palestinian refugees chant "from the river to the sea" what they are calling for is a palestine that is free from oppressive systems, a palestine whose land welcomes its inhabitants back, a palestine where everyone has equal rights, a palestine where the land with its indigenous plants and tree is allowed to flourish again, a land where Palestinians are allowed to visit the seaside; a free palestine.

So don't listen to some Lindsey Graham Cracker who has the nerve to call for genocide and carpet bombing besieged civilians but draws the line at a freedom chant.

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— November 10, 1917 / The Blue Octavo Notebooks

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Peanuts, November 13, 1964

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I am still alive, Gaza is no longer Gaza

Read this. Read it slowly.

Read it again.

And then again.

Don't you ever forget it.

Link without paywall

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[i've never doubted that palestine will live.

the US dropped more than 7.5 million tons of bombs on vietnam, laos and cambodia from 1965-75. they destroyed our land, used agent orange, slaughtered villages, separated families, the list goes on.

but we're. still. here.

indigenous people are still here. black people are still here. colonized people are resilient. even if you kill our people, ban our languages, destroy our homes, heritage sites and artifacts, we will always find a way to keep our cultures alive and that has always been true

so much of the west and isntreal's tactics and actions are hauntingly familiar to me as a viet person. its a colonizer's rinse and repeat. and so that's how i know palestine will be free. we've seen this film before]