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from yazan.khanfer

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meanwhile those people would trust gerta thunberg enough to donate to her anti resistance liberal saviorism flotilla entourage compromise the chances of palestinians actually getting the financial aid they need. the amounts of money these westerners accumulated through their GFMs (they reach their targets within mere days, while here we struggle to provide $100 a day for one family. in gaza you need about $150 a day to be able to afford essentials) could've directly been given to families in gaza.. the aid that they might or might not deliver would still go to the black market. It's overpriced for a reason. no one is getting stuff for free...

i still think one of tumblr's darkest moments (much worse than anything i've seen before and i have been here since 2011) was when random fandom bloggers started doing confidently accusing people living through a genocide of being scammers. i think there's a lot that has happened on this website but the juxtaposition of running something so trivial as a fandom blog (i have been in fandom for a long time and triviality here is not an insult but an understanding of what makes it light) while doing something so enormously heavy and dark has me reeling

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A Palestinian Resistance fighter in Ramallah during an Israeli incursion, 2002. 

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the Yemeni response 🙏🏼

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وَكَفَى بِاللَّهِ نَصِيرًا

"So what if people or the world doesn't support

you or believe in you. Allah is enough as a helper."

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Defining Normalization - Jisr Collective

Shame on my hand if I shake the hand that swept the necks of my people. - Al Hakim, George Habash

Introduction: Diaspora Must Commit to the Thawabet and Reject Normalization

In the simplest of terms the zionist entity has no right to exist. Normalization is the attempt to validate the existence of “israel.”

The war on the liberation mindset that rejects the zionist entity is an insidious one that took form after Egypt recognized the zionist entity as a state. After the Oslo Agreement when the Palestinian Authority of Normalization was established, the liberation mindset was under even more intensified attack.

Through diplomacy, NGOization, education, trade, tourism, and cultural exchange, the zionist entity and its agents have invested billions to make the colony accepted and viable to a world that knows that zionists are fascists. When these paths to normalize do not work, zionists move to violent censorship of those who adamantly oppose normalizing with imprisonment, exile, and martyrdom.

This war on the liberation mindset is constantly evolving. Regardless, the resistance remains firmly against normalization. [...]

Western academia, NGOs, and their agents who work with imperialist elected officials or institutions want to chip away at the definitions of normalization to aid their agenda. The Palestinian careerist gatekeepers also have a role in preventing the simple concept of normalization from becoming popular among Western diaspora.

For example, Adalah Justice tried to redefine normalization. For them, they “refuse to normalize their oppression,” avoiding any outward rejection of the zionist entity when Palestinians say "they refuse the zionist entity." They creatively distance themselves from the definition of normalization and its phrase in Arabic because they regularly work with Jewish Voice for Peace, a liberal zionist organization.

Silence during acts of resistance by some “US” based “advocacy” or community organizations may not just be a matter of their hesitancy to support resistance methods, but may be an indicator of their proximity to the corrupt Palestinian Authority of normalization or the normalizing NGO complex that resistance also confronts.

The chances of an organization being a normalizing agent is predicated by who funds these orgs [USAID, Anna Lindh Foundation, New “israel” Fund, Rockefeller Brothers Fund, Open Society, J Street, Peace Now, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Avaaz, Foundation for Middle East Peace, Tides, ALLMEP, Christian Zionists]. [...]

The "Rights Approach" reaffirms and safeguards "israeli security" by building a collaborative human rights advocacy movement that leverages NGOs, elected officials, and popular activists as an alternative to the stalled talks between the corrupt Palestinian Authority and unyielding "Israeli" government. [...]

The sense of “equality” this strategy brings is not in terms of liberation, rather these imperialists will be “paying equal attention to long-neglected Palestinian rights...whether in the West Bank, East Jerusalem, Gaza, or, in specific ways, inside israel.” They erase historical Palestine and center human rights to circumvent the Right of Return by hitting the "anti apartheid" chime. [...]

Since these organizations are for normalization, the thawabet present a direct risk, and they have done an effective job in erasing the thawabet from Palestinian diasporic advocacy. It is important diaspora catches up with the rest of the community and maintains the same demand for liberation.

What are the Anti-Imperialist Thawabet

The resistance upholds the thawabet which ensure the glorious future of liberation. The thawabet have existed since Palestinians were resisting British imperialism and were formalized when the British delegated the role of continued colonization to their zionist agents. This means then to uphold the thawabet one must be anti-imperialist.

Those who have supported NATO intervention in Syria or supported CIA designed coupes are inherently traitors to the thawabet and the liberation movement for upholding imperialism. In the journey to liberation, the thawabet must be maintained rigidly.

Reject colonialism in all its manifestations

Resistance of the zionist movement is a duty

Fight for liberation from the River to the Sea with Al Quds as the capital of Palestine

Preserve Palestinian self-determination & self-autonomy

Secure the Right of Return for ALL Palestinians

What is Normalization

Normalization is the attempt to validate the zionist colony's existence. Normalization is endorsing, acknowledging or collaborating with an individual, group, entity, praxis, ideology, or framework that carries, represents, or invokes individual, group, or collective “israeli” aspirations or sentiments.

Official (Diplomatic) Normalization: Cooperation in security, intelligence, and economic matters.

People to People Normalization: Activities that host Palestinians, Arabs, and Zionists to foster an environment of exchange and dialogue, typically through social media collaborations, conferences, trips, academic research, or journalism for relationship building.

Cultural Normalization: When music, art, food, film and tv, or written prose are intentionally used to validate the identity and existence of the zionist entity or norm its cultural appropriation. Collaboration with zionist artists or perform or participate in an event that features settlers or is hosted by the zionist entity itself.

Academic Normalization: Academic exchange programs that welcome zionists, share research with zionist, settler backed academic institutions, and academic discussions that contend zionism or zionists as legitimate.

Trade and Tourism Normalization: Granting access to zionist tourists, which norms the presence of settlers and their settler passports. Trade and economic exchange with the zionist entity.

What are Examples of Normalization

Supporting a 2 state solution

Welcoming or collaborating with elected officials backed by a zionist lobby

Engaging with police, intelligence and imperialist military

Believing zionists or imperialists are capable arbitrators of justice, equality, or fairness

Supporting NATO or Congress backed militarization and coupes

Co-organizing or collaborating with an organization that has zionists and settlers in its membership is normalization. [...] If Not Now, Peace Now, Code Pink, and Jewish Voice for Peace, are all subtle zionist organizations that should be avoided.

Sharing propaganda from zionists is normalization. Studying zionist media to inform strategy and resist the zionist entity is not normalization; uplifting zionist propaganda campaigns that push people to people normalization strategies is normalization. Jewish Voice for Peace and Institute for Middle East Understanding (IMEU), are funded by the liberal zionist group, FMEP, and their members and staff have attended J Street conferences in the past. +972 magazine is also heavily involved with J Street and is funded by both zionist New "israel" Fund and FMEP. Just Vision is also the video wing of propaganda, which recieves similar funding and shares much of the same personnel as +972. They too have attended J Street conferences. All of these organizations tend to create an online propaganda echo chamber to uplift their central point of normalizing permanent "israeli" presence in Palestine.

Appealing to zionists, engaging in online debates with them, or investing in “changing their perspective”

Being anti resistance for the sake of diplomacy and saving zionist settler lives

Accepting funds from a foundation or donor that believes in an "israel" is normalization: any organization that accepts USAID funds, as these grants are awarded to those who recognize the settler zionist colony and who uphold imperialism; who receive funds from non profit grant donors who require people to people normalization projects. lMEU, JVP, Pal Legal, Adalah Justice, and USCPR all accept funds from donors that highlight zionist colonization as a "conflict" and believe in uplifting "israeli" aspirations alongside Palestinians ones. You may see on their donor websites that they call our homeland "israel-Palestine."

Doing business with any segment of the zionist entity

What have Martyrs said about Normalization

Even the Palestinian abroad, if they cannot be radical, they should remain silent and not be a hypocrite. In revolutions, pragmatism & diplomacy are useless." - Nizar Banat

"Do not, not even for a moment forget the existence of the occupation or normalize its presence in your life, and if that happens, you are creeping towards treason." - Basel Al Araj

"I wish for all the people to wake up, to look where they are headed, to take firm positions. To bring an end to traitors and spies. That’s it. Just finish the spies, and have the people point their compass and purpose towards confronting the Occupation. That is all we desire." - Ibrahim al Nabulsi

"[Handala's] hands are clasped behind his back as a sign of rejection at a time when solutions are presented to us the American way." - Naji al Ali

"[Peace talks with the Israelis]… that's the kind of conversation between the sword and the neck." - Ghassan Kanafani

[Full text here which also includes Normalization Red Flags, How to identify a true accomplice, What to do in a situation of Normalization, Timeline of Normalization]

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"The political mainstream is structured to accommodate only liberal ideologies and forms of dissent that pose no real threat to the existing system, often referred to as controlled opposition.

This is not accidental, but a deliberate feature of how capitalist hegemony maintains itself. Most people are conditioned to accept minimal reforms and symbolic gestures (what could be called "breadcrumbs") as sufficient.

As a result, only a small fraction of those who consider themselves politically conscious are willing to question dominant narratives and engage in the kind of critical inquiry that could truly transform their political understanding.

Liberalism, however, is more than a political ideology; it operates as a pervasive cultural force that saturates our everyday lives.

Rooted in commodity fetishism (a concept developed by Marx to describe how social relations are obscured by the exchange of goods), liberalism turns even the most intimate aspects of human experience, such as suffering and emotion, into commodities.

This process neutralizes the radical potential of genuine political struggle by reducing it to consumable content, individual identity, or market-driven activism."

— via comrade oswaldkiduniya

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They didn't invite wisdom Kaye to the met this year I bet it's because of his palestine fashion post lmao

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moodboard for when you open the replies on a popular tumblr post

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everyday is heavier than the day before it. only the Resistance cools off our burning hearts... May Allah grant us victory and heal our wounded

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We won’t cry, we will take revenge | لن نبكي سنثأر

Nur Shams Camp, Tulkarm | مخيم نور شمس، طولكرم

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everyone should watch this video. just learned something new. the usa is still genociding indigenous people and they won't stop.