#say no to settler colonialism

[soxiyy]

From Levantine_gay on insta

[palipunk]

Whenever I see people try to differentiate what is “Israel” and what is the “Palestinian state” I always have a very awkward feeling - which is why I think a lot of people need to reevaluate how they speak about Palestine and Israel, specifically what they define as occupied Palestine.

My father’s family is from a village in Jaffa (the district), which is now part of what most people define as “mainland Israel” or an “undisputed” part of Israel - like that land was acquired legally or ethically and an unequivocal part of what is Israel vs what is considered (at least to some) Palestine (the West Bank & Gaza). 

My father’s family had the choice to flee or die and to this day cannot return home to Jaffa. It leaves me with a strange feeling when people discuss a hypothetical “two state solution” as if that land is inarguably Israel and the West Bank and Gaza is inarguably Palestine - my family is not from the West Bank or Gaza, they’re from Jaffa. Proudly Palestinians from Jaffa - they’re not Israeli and never be Israeli, they predate the modern colonial state of Israel.

When people talk about occupied Palestine, they’re usually referring to the 1967 borders and the increasing settlements in the West Bank, when Palestinians talk about occupied Palestine, we’re talking about all of it - every corner of what people define as “mainland Israel” there is a story of Palestinian dispossession - It includes my family and thousands of others. 

Leaving this map here for people to get an idea of how much destruction of Palestinian life and communities happened in what people see as an “undisputed part of Israel” - there is a reason the Palestinian population here plummeted in 1948. 

In short:

[gayforbagels]

Pouring one out for Afghanistan and Anguilla and Antigua and Aoteoroa and Barbuda and Australia and the Bahamas and Bahrain and Bangladesh and Barbados and Belize and Bermuda and Botswana and Brazil and Brunei and Canada and the Cayman Islands and Cornwall and Cyprus and Dominica and Egypt and the Islas Malvinas and Fiji and Gambia and Georgia (the country) and Ghana and Gibraltar and Grenada and Guyana and Hong Kong and India and Iraq and Ireland and Jamaica and Jordan and Kenya and Kiribati and Kuwait and Lesotho and Malawi and Malaysia and Maldives and Malta and Mauritius and Montserrat and Myanmar and Nauru and Nigeria and Pakistan and Palestine and the Pitcairn Islands and Qatar and St Lucia and Saint Kitts and Nevis and Saint Helena and Ascension and Tristan da Cunha and St Vincent and Grenadina and Scotland and Seychelles and Sierra Leone and Singapore and the Solomon islands and Somaliland and South Africa and Sri Lanka and Sudan and Swaziland and Tanzania and Tonga and Trinidad and Tobago and Turks and Caicos and Tuvalu and Uganda and United Arab Emirates and United States and Vanuatu and Wales and Yemen and Zambia and Zimbabwe tonight

[greencarnation]

scalding hot take here but maybe bombing and massacring more civilians isn't going to get rid of the resistant fighters radicalised by watching civilians and loved ones be bombed and massacred

[revolutionarysuicide]

The settler's work is to make even dreams of liberty impossible for the native. The native's work is to imagine all possible methods for destroying the settler.

- Frantz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth (trans. Constance Farrington)

[cbs-scorpion-coffee-shop]

1000 years of history in one image

End Colonialism.

[wereoz]

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Mohammed Alaloul, a cameraman at Anadolu Agency who lost so much family. Please watch this and find his posts sharing about his family on Instagram to remember them.

[hussyknee]

Context: 18 year old settler activist refuses to join the IOF and accepts 30 day jail term, to be renewed each month if he keeps refusing. This can go on for over a year. Western allies fall over themselves calling him a hero.

Palestinians object to this, saying refusal to help murder their families is the bare minimum. Conscientious objectors have always existed but they rarely take the extra step to educate themselves about Palestinian liberation instead of indulging in empty feel-good rhetoric about "peace" instead of justice. Choosing jail is more often than not about expunging their own guilt and going on with their lives instead of being active allies to the Palestinian cause. Exceptionalising settlers for voluntarily accepting the lightest punishment of a carceral system designed to break Palestinians simply for existing, is to decenter and erase their own struggle.

Cue "allies" losing their entire shit.

[soxiyy]

“ALL INDIGENOUS PEOPLES DESERVE SELF DETERMINATION IN THEIR HOMELANDS!!!”

My brother in Christ you can’t even acknowledge Israel’s right to exist and the thought that Jews are native.

P.S. the thought that only one group can be indigenous to a piece of land IS colonial thinking. Both Israelis and Palestinians are indigenous to the land, deal with it.

[illegitimatetenenbaum]

I’m getting reported to whoever one reports things at a university because I made a “death threat” to another student when I told him “Israelis aren’t settlers. Die mad about it.” He and the professor both take the stance that I told him to go die. And listen, I agree that that wasn’t the best turn of phrase and I should have worded myself differently-you’ll get no argument from me there-but are you freaking kidding me?

[northern-passage]

just FYI, mondoweiss is rated as questionable on mediabiasfactcheck, and the news about the ban on Palestine flag is another example - it was basically just something he instructed the police to do during demonstrations, and they CAN do it, but they haven't so far. In the last two weekends there have been multiple protests with Pro-Palestine elements, no one bothered them, they are visible in many pics. TL;DR don't just spread news without checking the source please

people being called antisemitic for being anti-zionist and against the state of israel is nothing new (specifically here this is a progressive Jewish news site literally created with the sole purpose to oppose zionist ideology in Jewish spaces). i have no doubt there is some bias present on the site, as there is in most news reporting, but i think it's pretty cringe you felt the need to go out of your way here and try to misrepresent Jewish people who are anti-zionist and against the genocide of Palestinians as a "hate group"

"weeelllll they CAN totally arrest and brutalize people just for flying a flag but they haven't done it YET so it's fine" is that your logic here? we should just wait until they start beating people in the street? if you read the article you would know that that's already been happening and that this is hardly the first time they've tried to outlaw the flag, Palestinians have constantly been harassed and targeted for the flag previously even before this, and that this ban is just a continuation of the ongoing erasure and genocide of an entire people.

i know this may be surprising, but i do read the articles i reblog. maybe you should read it too before sending me stupid shit like this.

and read through this while you're at it: https://decolonizepalestine.com/

[bijoumikhawal]

got reminded of the "saying Arabs conquered and colonized North Africa is Zionist because obviously no one saying that coulx possibly draw a distinction between North African Arabs and Palestinian Arabs, and even drawing a distinction between Arabs and Imazighen is colonizer shit" school of thought

[zhuhongs]

just found out the lead singer of taiwans biggest death metal band is also an active parliament member since like 2015.... and is still active as a death metal singer. he's a pretty standard taiwanese center left anti communist from what i could gather. which like as a leftist i dont really agree with but i also dont know enough abt taiwanese politics to like make a full judgement. though he seems to be a standard liberal nothing remarkable, radical, or new, not overtly horrible but just bland. but that was something i definitely did Not expect. apparently he's very pro indigenous rights and self determination for indigenous people but being in a centre left mega party like the DPP does not seem like the best way to achieve that. But yea, just thought I'd share

[aldebarangel]

just a reminder that you absolutely *can* post about palestine genocide WITHOUT triggering content.

there are posts out there about helpful links, charities, lists of companies to boycott, that goddamn "click to donate" website, and those videos of doctors comforting children! updates of traumatized victims doing better! videos of protests worldwide! repost duas for your muslim followers and mutuals who want to pray for palestinians! links on where to buy kuffiyehs!

you say you're living through a historical event? fucking act like it then goddamn!! governments and leaders are failing palestine. we may be regular people who can do almost nothing compared to stopping the deaths of thousands, but the reason nobody does anything major is because the truth is unknown.

you don't need to retweet and reblog explicitly disturbing content if it hurts you! you can just simply promote things on your account like "hey guys starbucks stocks are declining, we should help the boycott by not getting drinks from there! here are some alternatives:"

this isnt a heroic act at all, anybody can do it