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poem by mosab abu toha pasted to ironwoodfarmny’s truck traveling from Ghent, NY

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Queer history fact: Salim Halali moved to Paris shortly before Nazi Germany invaded, and subsequently, when Germany took power, authorities harassed him for being gay and Jewish.

The founder of the Great Mosque of Paris, Si Kaddour Benghabrit, had encountered Halali before and admired his music. When he saw what was happening not only to Halali but to many other Jewish people in Paris, he stepped in. He procured fake papers and hid Jewish people in the mosque when necessary. Because Halali was so well-known, this wouldn't do. Instead, he placed a fake grave for Halali's grandfather in the mosque's cemetery to prove Halali was Muslim, thus defending him from the officers.

Benghabrit would go on to assist many other Jewish people in Paris; historians estimate around 100 were helped, but some of the first reports claimed thousands were assisted by the mosque throughout the war.

It is largely because of this that Halali made it through the war, continuing with his music career.

Later, Halali had the opportunity to perform in Israel, though he was an anti-Zionist. During a performance in Jerusalem in the 1960s, he yelled in Arabic, "Long live the Arab nation." He had things thrown at him and never returned to Israel.

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Bold to assume one needs a dick for fucking

ghoulcy/vaultghoul headcanon that once they start dating, cooper isn't actually as intensely possessive as lucy thought he would be. no lassos, no leash. he doesn't even joke about it anymore.

the truth is, cooper already sees himself as a monster. he knows he acted like a monster towards her at first. it doesn't matter that lucy has long forgiven him; he's not gonna push it, not when she's the best damn thing he's held in centuries.

lucy's far too gentle to be with someone who behaves rough with her, far too sweet to be with someone who doesn't give her any of her own sweetness back.

she's too much of a survivor-- his little killer-- to be degraded by being referred to like a possession, like he owns her. he pushes the urge down.

until.

until they're in bed and he can't help the words that come out: "ain't no one else ever gonna touch you like this", "yer mine, have been ever since i first put that lasso 'round your neck", "why don't you scream my name so everyone 'round here knows exactly who you belong to?"

and lucy fucking loves it.

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[ ID: Digital artwork of a white and cream dog facing left and frowning. It's wearing a red and green collar with a keffiyeh pattern on it. There's dark green text around it that reads: "Faz afronte, faz a frente, a matilha mostra os dentes". Around that are spiky, red doodles and a doodle of barbed wire being cut. Background is green. /End ID ]

"make an affront, take the lead, the pack shows its teeth" / "the pack is persistent" / "the horizon is recreated when we take the lead"

lyrics are from matilha by franscisco el hombre, a song about antifascism, protests and resistance

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⚫ Saraya Al-Quds - Jenin Brigade:

A nasheed video by the Kafr Dan Groups, making their first media appearance as one of the extended military formations affiliated with the Jenin Brigade and Saraya Al-Quds, the military wing of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad Movement.

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Another thing is that when this aggression started, we were so worried about winter and how displaced people in tents will survive it. Earlier this week the temperature in Gaza hit 38 degrees (100 Fahrenheit) and we are now wondering how will displaced people survive the heat in those tents.

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A Palestinian flag, with carnations, during the commemorations of the 50th anniversary of Portugal's Carnation Revolution (April 25, 1974), which ended the country's dictatorship.

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This bloodbath has gone on for far too long. At the start of this aggression, the school year had barely just started. The academic year ends in just a month. Everyone, from first graders to university seniors, have lost an entire year at least. I say at least considering even if there is a ceasefire today, Israel had destroyed literally all universities in Gaza and damaged over 400 schools. Lest we forget also Israel's deliberate targeting of university professors and academics.

You absolutely cannot mistake the intent behind all of this.

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Palestinian families are desperate to escape the genocide in their country. Operation Olive Branch is a grassroots movement that aims to facilitate financial support for these families!!

If you cannot donate, please spread this so it can reach people who are able to donate.

OOB is also on tiktok, if you have an account you can follow them there as well and boost them & the Palestinian families looking for support!!

reblogs > likes

FREE PALESTINE🍉

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I was asked to help share Wael's fundraiser. Wael is a Palestinian doctor urgently raising money to rebuild his home and evacuate his sons from Gaza to Egypt so that they can complete their studies. He has only made €1,398 out of his €210,000 goal so far! Please share and donate, and if you can't donate, please still share!

From Wael's GFM:

HELP WAEL'S FAMILY TO REBUILD THEIR HOUSE & TO GET SAVE LIFE

Hello all donors, I am Mohammed Faris, I live in Belgium and I am here to help and support my childhood friend Dr. Wael Eldahdouh from Gaza. He is now living there a terrible and difficult life with his family, please help him secure his family. Below he wrote more information about himself:

Hi, I'm wael Eldahdouh, I'm a doctor from gaza, and I'm organising this campaign to rebuild my bombed house and to get my sons outside of gaza to complete their studying..

Before this war we was living a beautiful and save life but now we lack this safety life and have been living a life of displacement for six months once inside school and once other inside tent in hospital.

We are a family of eight members, four girls and two boys 24, 20, 18, 15, 11, and 10, half of whom are children.We are a close-knit, friendly family who loves life and education.

My daughter lost her job with the bombing of the company where she worked as an accountant, and my son Barakat and my daughter Menna cannot complete their university studies due to the war and the bombing of their university. The rest of my children lost their schools and their educational lives. We have literally lost everything, our previous life with all its details, the house, the car, and the dreams. Now we only think of survival.

We have lost a lot and we need your help to live again and return our home to the way it was beautiful. The entire city has been destroyed, institutions, hospitals, universities, schools, even water and electricity. It has become difficult for children to live in this life that lacks the least necessities. Now we live in very difficult and harsh conditions. We have been living in a small tent for about six months. Children get sick every week due to malnutrition, and they are psychologically destroyed by the war. They do not see any hope for a better tomorrow. But perhaps you are the hope for my children. Your donation and support will help them start over, away from this death. Please help us to get out my children to safety place.

The money will be used to pay for my children to travel to Egypt temporarily until the war ends, to pay for their studies in Egypt, and finally to rebuild our destroyed home..

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Tawfik reached out to me to help spread his fundraiser. He is a Palestinian engineering student urgently raising money to evacuate he and his family from Gaza. He has only raised $3,409 out of his $40,000 goal so far! Please donate and share, and if you can't donate, please still share!

From Tawfik's GFM:

Urgent appeal: Escaping devastation in Gaza - saving a family's hope

Dear merciful souls,

I am Tawfik satoom an engineer, I live in Gaza. I was completing my studies, but unfortunately the unimaginable happened. The war came and took everything from me and my family. I extend my hand to you from the depths of despair that we feel while we are in Gaza in the midst of war. Memories of a life that was once peaceful, full of love and security have been stripped away by the merciless horrors of war. Not only are my possessions lying in ruins, but the pain, agony and humiliation inflicted upon us are beyond the reach of mere words.

Our journey has become a haunting odyssey, and the burden of rebuilding our lives and escaping the darkness prevailing in this war-torn land is insurmountable. As ordinary civilians not affiliated with the conflict, my family and I yearn to...

To be free from this nightmare.

The war destroyed our house, turning it into rubble, and now we find ourselves living in a tent. Life has restricted us greatly, and our only hope is to seek help in escaping this nightmare and making a path towards a decent life.

Now! We only had a tent left.

The harsh truth is that the cost of escaping is staggering - $9,000 per person. For those of us desperately seeking refuge, this amount represents an overwhelming barrier, threatening to imprison us in this suffering.

In our quest for safety and a semblance of normalcy, I turn to you, my fellow humans, for help. Every contribution, whether big or small, is a lifeline that can pull us out of the abyss. Join us in breaking the chains that bind us to this torment.

Be a beacon of hope for Tawfik Satoom and his family. Your support is not just a financial contribution. It is a lifeline to freedom, security and a future free from the horrors of war.

We will use this money to take additional measures to enter Egypt and escape the war.

With the weight of necessity in my heart,

We deserve to live. Tawfik Satoom

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Not sure if we all are even able to realise the magnitude of this catastrophe in Gaza topped with communication blackouts and electricity cuts that has been ongoing for 6+ months.

Something that I couldn't stop thinking about for weeks is the fact that many Palestinians have lost count of the number of days this genocide has been going on for. I saw someone's Instagram story from Gaza of them debating with their friends what even date of the month it was.

Devastation at every level.

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I was asked to help share Maram's fundraiser. She is a young displaced Palestinian mother urgently raising money to evacuate she and her family from Gaza. She has only raised €225 out of her €30,000 goal so far! Please share and donate, and if you can't donate, please still share!

From Maram's GFM:

‏Hi, my name is Maram. I am 28 years old. I am a Palestinian from Gaza City.A mother for 3 kids. This is my husband, Ahmed, and my children are Habiba, four years old, kareem, two years old, and Mohammad, nine months old. ‏My family and I went through very difficult circumstances in Gaza after October 7th ‏

It’s painful to say that we lost everything. But yes

we did! We lost our beautiful homeland with all its memories, we lost our job, we lost our lives and our dreams. We evacuated our house with only a small bag of clothes before it was bombed and destroyed. So technically YES we have lost EVERYTHING, from the biggest to the smallest little detail.

We have been displaced 6 times. My children left our home for the first time and moved to another home, and then we moved with the family to another, less safe home. Then the army ordered us to flee to southern Gaza, so we fled to the ground, then we ended up fleeing to a small tent and sleeping on the sand. ‏

My family suffers from a lack of food, especially ‏the children. My child, Mohammed, who is 9 months old, ran out of breast milk due to malnutrition, and the price of infant formula has doubled. Kareem and Habiba saw the simplest thing that could be available to children, which is apples, so they screamed and cried, wanting an apple, but the price of one apple reached 10 dollars or more!! ‏In addition, there was also a lack of healthy drinking water, which caused them severe stomach pain and diseases such as hepatitis A.

‏Due to the conditions imposed by the occupation, the siege, and the lack of resources, it has become difficult for my family to provide the children with basic and simple needs, such as diapers. It is difficult to provide all the needs, and due to the poor quality of the types of diapers available, my children suffered from a skin problem ‏ My family also suffers from not having a bathroom or even a shower. We can only shower once a month using a bucket due to lack of water. There is no electricity or gas either. ‏Every morning, I wash my children's clothes in cold water and spread the clothes out in the open air. If there is food, it is cooked on firewood, which is completely unhealthy and tastes bad. Me and my husband shared a beautiful life together. Our home was always filled with love and laughter. My children are the most precious thing I have in my life. ‏ Our lives were once full of dreams and hopes, but the never-ending cycle of conflict in Gaza shattered those dreams. Now our only goal is to survive. ‏ While others dream of the future, we long for the past, remembering the life we once lived before the horrors of war tore it apart.

‏I have hesitated to ask for financial assistance for several months, but the reality is that life in Gaza has become impossible in the near future. With schools destroyed and opportunities disappearing, our only chance for a better life lies beyond these borders. ‏ My only hope is to save my little family and we need €30,000 to make it out of Gaza, to start a new life from scratch. It is very difficult to leave homeland, but we are forced To get out of Gaza. Your kindness can make a big difference to us. Your donation, no matter how small, will help us escape the constant fear and uncertainty that has plagued our lives for so long. If you're not able to donate, simply sharing our campaign with your friends, family and social networks can also have a huge impact. ‏Together, we can give my children the opportunity to grow up in a world free of the horrors of war. Your kindness will help us build a brighter future and restore hope to a family that has endured so much suffering. ‏ Thank you from the bottom of our hearts for your sympathy and support! Your contributions will not only change our lives, but will also provide hope to countless people affected by similar circumstances.

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Before Israel killed him, Palestinian scholar Refaat Al Areer wrote to his daughter:

If I must die

you must live

to tell my story

Yesterday Israel killed his daughter Al-Shaymaa along with her husband and baby.

Who is going to tell Refaat and Shayma's story? Who's going to continue to tell the world how Israel obliterated entire bloodlines?

Refaat's poem continues to say

If I must die

let it bring hope

let it be a tale

We must promise to keep the tale alive and to uphold the legacy of Refaat, Shayma and the 40,000 others who were murdered by Israel in its ongoing genocide.

Try as they might, but Palestine will never die.

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And also needs to be said: the reason why the death toll in Gaza hovers at around 32,000 people is for the same reason the death toll from Covid during the Biden Admin stays at 800,000: because they took away any capacity to continue to count the dead.

— @ImaniBarbarin@disabled.social (@Imani_Barbarin) April 26, 2024

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Watch this short report to get a glimpse of what Israel has been subjecting Palestinians it has taken captive since October 7, whose numbers have now surpassed 8,400 from the West Bank alone.

The conditions in Israeli prisons have intensified and men, women, children and elderly people are subjected to starvation and torture. 14 Palestinian captives have in fact died in Israeli prisons since October 7, which is an alarming and unprecedented escalation to the already dire humanitarian crisis taking place in Israeli torture chambers.

The family of the 74 year old man in the video, Omar Assaf, did not even recognise him. He describes the past 6 months feeling as though they were 6 years.