#always thinking of Palestine

[wikipediadogdotnet]

wanted to share my favorite art pieces from the google drive collection of 300 free-to-use palestine-related posters by Artists Against Apartheid

poster numbers: 10, 102, 128 226, 20 34, 204, 127 158, 176, 26

[stil-lindigo]

an ex-zionist jewish man recently went a bit viral on tiktok for sharing exactly how he sees zionism tie israel to the jewish identity and his personal experience with breaking away from it - I think it’s a really great watch.

He also made a follow up talking specifically about how he learned to humanise Palestinians, and a really integral part of it was his school, which would often bring in Palestinian speakers who’d share their perspective (here’s a link to it).

[ibtisams]

Why is Taika signing a letter for no hostages bad?

I don’t know if you have seen what the letter is, but Chelsea Handler posted on her instagram a letter thanking Joe Biden for his work releasing hostages, and calling for help in getting the remaining hostages released.

First of all, the letter is to the United States president Joe Biden, so immediately it is questionable for Taika to be signing and involving himself in anything having to do with US politics when he is not a citizen there. The contents of the letter itself are also incredibly insensitive, biased, and uninformed. It only addresses hostages taken by Hamas and the Israeli victims, it includes nothing about Palestine or their victims/hostages- the number of victims which is at least four times the amount of Israeli victims (I link to sbeih.jpg on instagram and not MOH Gaza since sbeih.jpg uses the statistics in English).

The letter directly spreads false and debunked propaganda, mentioning the raped women and beheaded babies- both of these claims have been debunked numerous times and Biden himself has even taken back his claim that he had seen the beheaded children.

The letter also fails to mention the 75+ year Israeli occupation of Palestine and only chooses to mention 35 years that Hamas has “terrorized” Jewish people. The “terrorizing” they are referring to is Palestinians finally trying to fight back and reclaim their land after years and years of occupation at that point.

The letter ends with saying that “we all want the same thing: Freedom for Israelis and Palestinians to live side by side in peace,”- a direct statement that is pro-colonisation. It also says that the most urgent thing is the freedom of 220 innocent hostages, while thousands and thousands of innocent Palestinians (most of which are women and children) are being attacked daily with no seeming end on Israel’s part.

Also, in regards to the hostages, Israel has made efforts to not accept hostages back, as they have already refused a deal in getting 2 hostages returned. If you read accounts made by released hostages, they do not say they were tortured and they said they were treated well.

This letter is basically openly supporting colonisation, as it was Palestine’s land long before it was Israel’s, and for them to live “peacefully side by side” it encourages the continuous colonisation of Palestinian land and people. It is shocking for Taika to have signed this letter as Taika has previously spoken up against decolonisation and he himself is Māori, a group of people also affected by colonisation.

Overall, the letter is just poorly researched pro-Israel propaganda that takes no consideration for the actual genocide happening in Gaza. Their website has the full list of everyone who signed along with Taika, all of whom I now have no respect for and no longer support.

For more information, I have seen a twitter thread by @/sitcomabed that has more information on why signing the no hostage left behind letter is harmful and pro-Israel. And I always encourage everyone to do their own research- I mention it a lot but decolonizepalestine is an amazing resource for finding out many myths surrounding Palestine and its history.

[chaiaurchaandni]

Alessandra Sanguinetti, "Portrait of Modern Palestinian Childhood," 2004.

[bunnieismyname]

i personally cannot bring myself to actually watch the video, so uh

[thebewilderer]

my jewish friend is doing her final math project on the structure of the israeli governmental system

one of the people in our group is very staunchly and vocally pro-palestine anti-israel

we're presenting our projects next friday

i am scared.

[whywoulditho]

not saying the holocaust wasn't bad. but i need people to understand that it wasn't the only genocide that happened in the same period of world history. not because i want you to pay less attention to holocaust but because i need you to ask why it's the only one we ever talk about. it wasn't the longest occured massacre of a marginalized group, it wasn't the most gruesome, it wasn't the one with the most casualties, it wasn't the first and it wasn't the last one. i need people to think about why we didn't pay much attention to all the other holocausts after WWII that happened simultaniously and were just as horrible. it says so much about media, the news we are fed, and that our empathy is BOUGHT by the same people that keep funding genocides all over the world.

[maddy-ferguson]

people on twitter falling to their knees because celebrities are posting pro-israel insta stories how old are you that this matters to you

[importals98]

yo just a heads up for any who forgot or didn’t realize, but you can get your blog terminated for spreading awareness about genocide. happened to me a few times, it’s happened to my mutuals. this is what we are up against and it’s fucked up.

[elegyofthemoon]

tbh I feel like I should have known that Israel supporters would find my posts but I was still shocked anyways because I think at least my corner of Tumblr has all been pro-Palestine and I'm very proud of that

I only really found it by accident because I was trying to find my reblog with the links regarding the strikes and Bisan's call for a march, and I honestly was confused at first reading the comment.

So went to check further on the user:

I don't know. There's a bunch of other posts that they make that are just these short comments (and I would pull them up but really just go to their blog and check) -- some of which are articles that talk about the bombing that happened during Super Bowl and about the babies that had been left to starve and die in the hospital -- all with the same short, unproductive comment.

This is just more of a rant for me but I just can't understand how they don't see how much blood is being shed and not see what they are doing or feel guilt for it. I think of all the videos of children who were left amputated and orphaned because of Israel's attacks. I think of all the videos of mothers weeping over the corpses of their children or of the fathers who have lost their entire family. I think of all the surgeries that had to be done without amputations and how a lot of the hospitals are now out of commission -- places of safety that people would turn to if they were injured -- that now hardly have supplies. I think about the women who now have to use scraps of the tents they have now taken shelter in for their periods, the rise in infection rates in the area, and the starvation that Israel has left them in (the way that I've seen so many videos of children being so happy just to get a little bit of water or food). Or even recently, the little girl Hind and her phone call begging to be helped when she was trapped in a car with her dead family only to be found dead days later.

So tell me: who is the victim here?

Anyways, that being said: if you are neutral or pro-Israel, FUCK OFF. YOU ARE NOT WELCOMED ON MY BLOG.

It'll be Free Palestine. Forever.

Keep fighting, everyone.

Remember: Marches have been called for 17th- 20th. Protests and strikes 18th-25th.