#palestine archive

[archiveofcyp]

Palestinian family reunion in Cyprus, 1960s.

Taken in 1961, these photographs show Hanna Nakkarah’s Family during their first gathering following the 1948 Nakba.

Image source and information provided by Na'ela Nakkara (Daughter of Hanna Nakkara). "Hanna Nakkara Collection". Interview with Nadine Ghawanmeh and Noor Abu Khdeir. 19 April 2021. The Palestinian Museum Digital Archive.

[marxism-leninism-meowism]

just got a second official warning for my use of "from the river to the sea, palestine will be free" on the OTW volunteer slack

people are also currently asking board to ban saying that the founding of israel was colonialism—equating this to saying racial slurs—and were complaining about my status back when it was "palestine will be free", too

suffice to say, fuck that place, don't give the OTW your money, and don't fucking volunteer there

EDIT: Please see my pinned post for additional screenshots. There are a lot. Thank you.

(the second screenshot is from the warning I got a few days ago)

[themilfking]

If you're not familiar with the Accountability Archive I highly recommend checking it out. It's a website dedicated to keeping record of journalists, politicians, and public figures who endorse/encourage the ethnic cleansing of Gaza/Palestinians.

The goal of this website is to archive the data to be used in a number of ways. It will be available to future historians and researchers to understand how this type of mass killing can take place through research. It will also potentially be a resource for lawyers looking for supporting evidence in trying defamation and war crime cases.

I urge you to visit their website and submit evidence you've gathered. I don't think people who support an apartheid state/genocide should get to walk around without being held accountable.

[spooky-month-archive]

I don't know how many people are aware, but on the 2nd of March, there will be a shutdown for Palestine. It's a one-day strike.

For one day, everyone is encouraged to stop posting as they usually would and instead focus on Palestine. Please use this day if not any other to share information, to protest, to donate, etc. Do what you can. Even sharing information and speaking up helps.

Of course, it is encouraged to share and post about Palestine every day you possibly can. But this day is more important than ever as it marks the day that a global call to end the genocide is occurring.

I recommend going to the website Shut It Down for Palestine (linked below) for more information.

[azuremist]

If you’re just as displeased about the organization that runs AO3 kicking someone for being pro-Palestine (source 1) (source 2) as I am, here are some things you can do…

Use the OTW contact form and the AO3 feedback form to voice your displeasure. Additionally, inform them exactly how you will be withdrawing support until this issue is resolved.

Stop donating to AO3. This is an obvious one, but important. If you have previously donated, but will no longer be doing so, be sure to say it in your feedback form submission!

Switch fanfiction sites. Both for reading, AND for uploading. Alternatives include WattPad, Fanfiction.net, Dreamwidth, Quotev, tumblr itself, or even hosting your fanfiction on a site of your own, via Neocities. Don’t want to stop using AO3’s tagging system? Check out SquidgeWorld, which uses AO3’s open-source code. It even has rules against CSEM and AI scraping! While AO3 doesn’t get money from ad revenue, seeing the number of visitors drop will certainly get the message across.

Encourage others to do the same, and spread the word!

[southernsolarpunk]

Original post:

[heritageposts]

[...] More specifically, the cycle of violence in The Last of Us Part II appears to be largely modeled after the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. I suspect that some players, if they consciously clock the parallels at all, will think The Last of Us Part II is taking a balanced and fair perspective on that conflict, humanizing and exposing flaws in both sides of its in-game analogues. But as someone who grew up in Israel, I recognized a familiar, firmly Israeli way of seeing and explaining the conflict which tries to appear evenhanded and even enlightened, but in practice marginalizes Palestinian experience in a manner that perpetuates a horrific status quo. The game's co-director and co-writer Neil Druckmann, an Israeli who was born and raised in the [occupied] West Bank before his family moved to the U.S., told the Washington Post that the game's themes of revenge can be traced back to the 2000 killing of two Israeli soldiers by a mob in Ramallah. Some of the gruesome details of the incident were captured on video, which Druckmann viewed. In his interview, he recounted the anger and desire for vengeance he felt when he saw the video—and how he later reconsidered and regretted those impulses, saying they made him feel “gross and guilty.” But it gave him the kernel of a story. “I landed on this emotional idea of, can we, over the course of the game, make you feel this intense hate that is universal in the same way that unconditional love is universal?” Druckmann told the Post. “This hate that people feel has the same kind of universality. You hate someone so much that you want them to suffer in the way they’ve made someone you love suffer.” Druckmann drew parallels between The Last of Us and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict again on the official The Last of Us podcast. When discussing the first time Joel kills another man to protect his daughter and the extraordinary measures people will take to protect the ones they love, Druckmann said he follows "a lot of Israeli politics," and compared the incident to Israel's release of hundreds of Palestinians prisoners in exchange for the captured Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit in 2011. He said that his father thought that the exchange was overall bad for Israel, but that his father would release every prisoner in every prison to free his own son. "That's what this story is about, do the ends justify the means, and it's so much about perspective. If it was to save a strange kid maybe Joel would have made a very different decision, but when it was his tribe, his daughter, there was no question about what he was going to do," Druckmann said.

And continuing, on the security structures featured in the The Last of Us Part II:

Besides the familiar zombie fiction aesthetics of an overgrown and decomposing metropolis, The Last of Us Part II's main setting of Seattle is visually and functionally defined by a series of checkpoints, security walls, and barriers. There are many ways to build and depict structures that separate and keep people out. Just Google "U.S.-Mexico border wall" to see the variety of structures on the southern border of the United States alone. The Last of Us Part II's Seattle doesn't look like any of these. Instead, it looks almost exactly like the tall, precast concrete barriers and watch towers Israel started building through the West Bank in 2000.

Illustrations, from the article:

The first barrier Ellie and Dina encounter when arriving in Seattle / West Bank barrier.

. . . article continues on Vice (July 15 2020)

Backup -> archive.today link /archive.org link

[fairuzfan]

The destruction of culture is an evident part of genocide. Al-Omari housed centuries old Palestinian manuscripts that convey aspects of the intellectual history of Palestinians. I am not sure of their status. Both literal and metaphorical life is being extinguished by Israel.

[sayruq]

[strangerinaholyplace]

If you haven't heard, otw (in other words ao3) have forced a volunteer to resign because they had "from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free" as their status on messaging platfrom slack, which otw use for communications.

They were denying that Israel is an apartheid settler state or that the genocide in Gaza is even happening.

This is unforgivable in my opinion, and I have sent a message to otw through their official contact form here, and I suggest you do the same. Below you'll see my message as well, in case you want to copy and paste, or just use it as a template of sorts.

I urge you also not to donate to otw anymore, unless the zionist volunteers and members of otw are removed from their positions and banned from otw.

"I am disgusted and enraged about the treatment of otw volunteer bjorn due to their pro-Palestine message status on slack, and even more so about the fact that zionists are allowed to run free amongst otw/ao3 volunteers, claiming that what Israel is doing in Gaza is not genocide, and claiming that Israel is not an apartheid settler state. As a person who has donated to the otw many times i wish I could revoke my money. But also as a donor I as well as many others demand the otw to resign fully, ban all zionist volunteers, have a written apology to bjorn and all users repudiating zionist actions in Gaza, donate to the Red Crescent to support Palestine, and reinstate bjorn as volunteer. If this is not done I as well as many others will no longer post on ao3, use it, volunteer for it and definitely not donate any more. You should be ashamed of yourselves. "

From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free. 🇵🇸

PS. If anyone decides to start talking about ao3 tagging systems or content allowed on the platform on this post you are getting blocked immediately. I dont care about your views on this, and you should think for 2 seconds before putting silly fanfic discourse on the same level as the murder of thousands.

[houseofpurplestars]

A small list of some Palestinian Archives:

Palestine Poster Project

Palestine Image and Film Archive

Palestine Films

Palestinian Museum Digital Archives

Zawyeh Gallery

[archiveofcyp]

El-Funoun Palestinian Popular Dance Troupe at the Rat Vick Festival during a tour in Sweden with the Cypriot contingent dance group, 1996.

Image source and information provided by Hamza Asad, "The El-Funoun Palestinian Popular Dance Troupe Collection," archival collection, May - August 2018, the Palestinian Museum Digital Archive.

[sarcasticscribbles]

ESims to Gaza Podcast Community

Heyy! If you want art of your favourite podcast character/ oc, donate an e-sim and me and some wonderful artists can help you with that 🍉!

(Full twt thread)

(by lestergodby on twt)

The podcast art community decided to collab so we can donate e-sims for Gaza by doing art. the instructions are below ! please help us spread the word by sharing !

(via)

You just have to fill out this form where we request proof of your donation and most importantly that it got sent to gazaesims. here you can specify what you would like to receive! An artist will be in touch with you to discuss details! E SIMS FOR GAZA form

Multiple Podcast artist are coming together to collab from difffrent fandoms such as: red valley, malevolent, tma/tmp, find us alive, tpp (junoverse), w359, wtnv, time:bombs, camp here and there, death by dying, the secret of st kilda, deviser, sherlock & co, ethics town, woe.begone, genloss, hermitcraft/the life series, jrwi riptide, spire, oc art, etc

Let us know if you have any questions and spread the word to help Gaza stay connected!

[pretty-weird-ideas]

Using AO3 after their Anti-Palestinian treatment of volunteers

MilkshakeDucking on OP(the volunteer) Aside... We were cooked the moment people started saying "We can still use AO3 YIPPEE" before anyone even got a single step into "focused pressure on AO3". Y'all do not actively understand the gravity of this situation, a lot of people using AO3 went "Oh that sucks lol" and didn't understand the actual words being said and how corrupt an organization must get for it to get to that point.

If you use AO3, constantly yap about AO3 and how much you love it, and know about the fact that it threatened to CCAP a pro-Palestinian volunteer over a slogan (again regardless of stuff coming to light) um... you can't just log into AO3 again and go stoney about it.

CONTACT THE OTW if you are going to use AO3

GO TO MEETINGS if you are going to use AO3

SPEAK OUT ABOUT THIS if you are going to use AO3

(And to those who have been disillusioned about AO3, power to you soldier. If you thought AO3 crossed lines before this and stopped using it, you don't have institutional power at the OTW, so this isn't targeting you. You aren't obligated to make another account or anything. In fact, it's important that white yes-men users get the fuck off of their asses because again, the OTW doesn't listen to users who are critical of them previously or people who are darker than a paper bag. POC who don't use AO3 or have been vocal about racism, you're fine. It's fine bbygirl.)

[marxism-leninism-meowism]

The OTW & Genocide

I truly apologize for taking so long to post this, but here's the compilation of screenshots I collected from the events that led to my departure from the OTW.

The document is not as extensive as I'd hoped to make it, due to personal issues IRL, but it's been long enough. I needed to just get this stuff out there.

[hussyknee]

This is insane. This is actually insane. If anyone had told me this could be a thing in September I would have called them a tinhat.

I've been tracking down I/P conflict recs lists and downloading as many books and articles in them as I can find. Tracked down both Leila Khaled's autobiography and her biography by Sarah Irving on LibGen as well. All of them have been uploaded to my gdrive. You can find it in the Poetry and Literature subfolder in the Palestine section. Go nuts.

Btw there's a site called "Accountability Archive" (@archivegenocide on twitter) promoting itself in the wake of all this; it's pretty sus and seems to be one of those SJ "activist" groups that exploit Global South trauma and exclude their voices. Do background checks on all your allies, folks, and look at whether they're boosting impacted communities or talking over them.