#Rachel Corrie

[luthienne]

rachel corrie’s letters

[taviamoth]

EDIT: Read the additions to this post! Turns out they made a vague commitment. I'm keeping it up but turning reblogs off.

[ae-neon]

Rachel Corrie, an American citizen, was murdered, repeatedly run over by a bulldozer as she stood in defense of Palestinians.

Her family was threatened and anyone who spoke about her was smeared as an antisemite including Alan Rickman who wrote and directed a play about her.

To this day she is remembered and honoured as a martyr in Palestine.

While, at the time, her death was mocked in Israel by putting her face on pancakes.

[sayruq]

[dykesbites]

this day (march 16th) 21 years ago (2003), american activist rachel corrie was crushed to death by an israeli bulldozer while she protested the demolition of palestinian homes in rafah. she was 24. this april, she would have turned 45.

Sandra Jordan wrote in The Observer that because Corrie was American her death attracted more attention than the deaths of Palestinians under similar circumstances: "On the night of Corrie's death, nine Palestinians were killed in the Gaza Strip, among them a four-year-old girl and a man aged 90. A total of 220 people have died in Rafah since the beginning of the intifada. Palestinians know the death of one American receives more attention than the killing of hundreds of Muslims." (Wikipedia)

while we honor corrie's sacrifice, we must remember what she fought for. you can read her emails from rafah about her experiences in palestine at the rachel corrie foundation for peace and justice, organized by her parents cindy and craig who continue her work.

donate to UNRWA donate to Help Gaza Children donate to PCRF buy e-sims for Gazans

ramadan kareem and may we see a free palestine in our lifetimes.

[ardor-mohr]

“Today I tried to learn to say [in Arabic], ‘Bush is a tool,’ but I don’t think it translated quite right. But anyway, there are eight-year-olds here much more aware of the workings of the global power structure than I was just a few years ago.”

— Rachel Corrie, Letter from Palestine (February 7, 2003)

[freaven]

Everyday I discover something disgusting about Israel.

[intersectionalpraxis]

"Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington becomes the first University in the US to fully divest from Israel." [@/CallForCongress on X. May 3, 2024.]

[feral-ballad]

have you ever heard about the story of rachel corrie and tom hurndall? the things the zionists did to them is heartbreaking :'(

yes! for those who don’t know: Rachel Corrie (1979-2003) was an American peace activist who, in 2003, was trying to prevent the demolition of a Palestinian family’s home. Rachel was killed when Israeli soldiers crushed her with a bulldozer out of spite. they threatened her family in America for years. back then, Israelis made fun of her death by making pancakes with her face on it. and they continue to mock her to this day.

she’s a hero in Palestine and they named a street after her.

Tom Hurndall (1981-2004) was a British photographer and peace activist who was trying to cover the events in Palestine. Tom was assassinated by an Israeli sniper in Gaza on April 11, 2003, while he was trying to rescue two Palestinian children from gunfire. He was left in a coma and died 9 months later on January 13, 2004.

They still have absolutely no justice to their names.

from My Name is Rachel Corrie & also here’s Rachel’s emails.

[seven-eyes]

Did this fanart due to the pro-palestine play, 'My name is Rachel Corrie', that Alan Rickman, Snape's actor, directed

for any donation above 25$ I'll draw your favorite character like in the fanart above (holding the Palestine flag too if you want) 💕

read more about Rachel and Rickman's play | donate to families in gaza

[baby-girl-aaron-dessner]

A 26-year-old American peace activist was just shot in the head and killed by an Israeli sniper in the West Bank.

Israeli forces killed Aysenur Ezgi Eyg in the occupied West Bank's Beita town.

She was part of the International Solidarity Movement (ISM), which has been campaigning to stop the illegal Israeli settler violence against Palestinians.

She is the third ISM volunteer to have been killed by the Israeli forces in the occupied Palestinian territories.

Rachel Corrie, who was killed in Rafah in 2003, and Tom Hurndall also belonged to ISM.

[soon-palestine]

[mysharona1987]

Dear God, though. They’re still making that horrible joke two decades later as well.

[sayruq]

[odinsblog]

“I should at least mention that I am also discovering a degree of strength and of basic ability for humans to remain human in the direst of circumstances - which I also haven't seen before. I think the word is dignity. I wish you could meet these (Palestinian) people. Maybe, hopefully, someday you will.”

—Rachel Corrie, in an email to her mother, February 28th 2003

In contrast, Ben Shapiro has pretty much always been a piece of shit. But mocking a genuine peace activist like Rachel Corrie is particularly odious. And I just want to add, if you find that a lot of the ideas you support also dovetail with those being supported by Republicans, neoliberal Democrats and “edgy” 🙄 Libertarians, then that might be a cue to re-evaluate and re-examine one or two of your core beliefs.

[garadinervi]

My Name is Rachel Corrie, taken from the writings of Rachel Corrie, edited by Alan Rickman and Katharine Viner, with the permission of the Corrie family, in collaboration with the Royal Court Theatre International Department, Theatre Communications Group, New York, NY, 2006, pp. 47-50 (Rachel Corrie’s emails here)