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“Fuck #Ice shoutout to my Mexicans , pass this shit”

-  Fabio Ochoa @QuePasaWindow

UPDATE! HOW TO GET / PRINT THEM!!!

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Hey! This is the link to the cards, a good resource for anyone who needs them or wants to provide them to their community. https://www.ilrc.org/red-cards

https://www.ilrc.org/red-cards

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btw now is the best time to keep boycotting. the israeli economy has never been weaker. don't stop the protests or the demands for divestment. keep supporting organisations like the Hind Rajab Foundation and the Accountability Archive. ofc don't stop boosting and donating to Palestinians as Gaza is still uninhabitable.

enjoy this moment but the work has not ended

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JKR is once again attacking a woman of colour

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The situation is catastrophic now in Gaza after the heavy rain and winds this week. Did you know that families in Gaza are sheltered only by some pieces of nylon and that the cold is very severe? My family is suffering from severe cold.

There is no shelter to protect them from the bitter cold. Their help will save my family’s lives from starvation and may help them flee Gaza soon after the crossings are opened soon.

I know that most of you are desperate and bored of constantly asking us for help. But how many times do you see the world and governments that did not look at us with mercy?

Only people with compassionate hearts like you help and sympathize with the afflicted.

Your continued support saves the lives of all my families. Support link here

Save the life of the Balousha family here

Thank you all for your help in reblogging and thank you for your donations that give us hope I am grateful to all of you 💝

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how to participate in political theatre

its always been really obvious who considers genocide just another day in US foreign policy and who considers it a red line but it's really disappointing to see how easy it has been for democrats to exploit the idea of "palestinian rights or your rights? shut up about genocide or vote for trump?"

this is a false dichotomy. you are under no obligation to perpetuate it. vote for whoever you want but don't say say the biden administration supports a ceasefire because this is disinformation

white house propaganda #1: kamala has called for a ceasefire

since january the white house has rebranded a "humanitarian pause" as a ceasefire

joe biden has called for "a ceasefire" since february

in may joe biden said rafah was a red line and the US would not support the invasion of rafah (rafah has since been invaded and destroyed, after which netanyahu was invited to congress)

in early may the white house proposed a three-step plan to an actual ceasefire, which israel rejected and then killed the hamas leader they were negotiating with

the white house has not been forthcoming about israel being the one rejecting the ceasefire, nor israel's escalation within the region

the white house has not been forthcoming about the contradiction between "calling for a ceasefire" and continued weapons shipments to the people preventing a ceasefire

as such, the repeated calls for "ceasefire," just like the articles about biden's strongly worded calls to netanyahu, are political threatre to pacify the masses that have allowed a genocide to continue for ten months unabated. insofar, kamala's call for ceasefire is exactly the same as biden's call for ceasefire.

white house propaganda #2: the biden admin has actually stopped sending offensive weapons to israel

literally untrue: the US paused ONE shipment of 2,000 pound bombs and some 500 pound bombs in may after denouncing a potential rafah invasion, then resumed the 500 pound bombs in july after the invasion occurred with multiple massacres

a 3.5 billion military aid package was sent on august 9th, 2024, to be spent on pretty much whatever israel wants

previously imposed symbolic "sanctions" on only one unit of the IDF accused of crimes against humanity was overturned

imposed "sanctions" on 7 (seven!) extremist settlers were clarified to make sure they still had access to their assets

the biden admin opposed ICC warrants on israel as early as 2021, leading to consistent delays in the ICC doing its job, and rejected the announcement for warrants in 2024, which have still not been actually sought due to the US continuing to exert pressure against the ICC

the white house also criticized the advisory finding from the international court of justice that israel is an apartheid state

the white house has vetoed multiple security council resolutions calling for a ceasefire in gaza

the white house vetoed resolutions calling for the admission of palestine as a member state

the white house also called the case for genocide at the ICJ "unfounded" although the ICJ did find sufficient evidence for genocide and had imposed provisionary measures (which israel did not fulfill)

the white house has reaffirmed full backing for israel "against iran" even after its escalatory assassinations of both lebanese and palestinian political leaders, and deployed more troops, aircraft carriers, and missile cruisers to the middle east in august

therefore, while the biden admin acknowledges that israel stands in the way of a ceasefire, they are not pressuring israel to stop and instead providing both diplomatic immunity and military support to its escalatory actions in the region

white house propaganda #3: the US can't control israel, it acts on its own, and kamala can't do anything about it

once again, reagan ended the israeli invasion of lebanon with a single phone call to menachem begin, where he intentionally said "it looks like a holocaust"

since obama, every single US president has been fostering and empowering increasingly extremist elements within israel, moreso than republicans who came before them, including bush(!!)

while trump moved the capital to jerusalem, defunded UNRWA, and approved annexation of the west bank, biden... did not move the capital back, also defunded the UNRWA, and has overseen the largest theft of west bank territory since the peace process began, as well as delisting kahanist terrorists from the terror list after they joined netanyahu's cabinet.

how much does israel actually rely on US weaponry? that's impossible to tell, but national security correspondent greg myre told NPR:

The IDF is a primarily American-equipped military. Most soldiers probably still have the M-16s. And there are certain kinds of artillery and guided rocket systems that Israel produces, but, again, most of it is American. Tanks are actually made in Israel but with an American engine, and aircraft are American. These are American-made systems. [...] So Israel has its own advanced military technology. It's been a leader in drone warfare. The Iron Dome system, we noted, was developed jointly between the U.S. and Israel. A lot of cyber systems have military applications. But when it comes to the hardware - planes, artillery, guns - it does rely heavily on the U.S.

the US might not have as much influence on israel as it used to (and certainly israel would like to think so) but in the most basic compliance with international law the US can halt weapons shipments and recognize the jurisdiction of the ICC and ICJ, ending the diplomatic immunity it affords israel in the international arena to continue its genocide of gaza.

the UK is hardly much better, but it has withdrawn its intention to block the ICC warrants for israeli leaders and it has resumed funding the UNRWA, two low bar concessions that the US has refused.

these are regular political maneuvers. your civil rights should not be held hostage so the US can protect israel. it makes no sense for democrats to frame it that way while also claiming to want a ceasefire.

if kamala wants a ceasefire, why isn't she agreeing with the pro-palestine movement? their demands are all things that are in-line with wanting a ceasefire. an arms embargo is the natural step to a ceasefire, because you cannot say you want a ceasefire and then send 3.5 billion in military aid to the people who assassinated the negotiators for a ceasefire.

if kamala wants a ceasefire, and you want to vote for kamala, then you should encourage her to take the steps towards a ceasefire. otherwise you are running cover for genocide, just as biden's admin has been doing. your civil rights are not based on continued support for palestinian genocide, and they shouldn't be. to pretend otherwise is a betrayal of all the civil rights activists in the US, who knew that US foreign policy, from the war in vietnam to the iraq war, were unjust imperial wars, and they opposed them unconditionally, regardless of who was perpetrating this war.

politicians lie, but you don't have to.

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As we approach election time we have to realize that liberals come from every marginalized background in the US, including arab/palestinian/muslim neoliberals, who will be loud. They will weaponize their identity "as an x" and treat you like you don't care for "x lives" when all you are doing is merely asking for something beyond the system we live in, beyond this 2 party system that sends our tax dollars all over the world to subjugate and kill people. They will call you ignorant and ask you to be realistic because theyve normalized this settler colony at the expense of others in the hopes that a Harris Presidency will allow them to be blind to the growing cracks of this white supremacist settler colony pretending to be a reformed democracy and not an empire. At this point we can't call just call a marginalized person who defends empire just a liberal but also a normalizer. Palestinians use this term to refer to a Palestinian who not only collaborates and establishes relations with israel and zionists as if it is normal but also negates the revolutionary struggle and use their zionist propagated platforms to silence calls for Palestinian liberation. In the American case, the American normalizers normalize the two party system, they defend American imperialism as long as they see themselves within the system ("representation politics"), they normalize the presidency ("we can reform, third party will never happen but it can get better"), and worst normalize genocide ("what's happening in Gaza is bad, but")

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”Agencies say the number of those killed sits at 20k, but it’s estimated that it’s actually at 40k” it’s actually estimated to be in the hundred thousands at this point. Because Palestinians get killed every single day. Because Israel has not been ceasing its relentless terrorism for months, yet we’re still in the “ceasefire talks” stage. Because it has been demonstrated over & over by most of the world that no one actually, truly gives a fuck for Arab lives.

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It is so sickening to me that there are really people salty over Palestine being a major issue. Just saw a post that said "you won't vote unless there's a ceasefire? See you at the polls!" With a video of Kamala "supporting" a ceasefire. And it's like... Is that all this is to you? An inconvenience, a gotcha? As though asking for a genocide to end is somehow an annoyance?

What the fuck is y'all's problem, fr. I do honestly think some of y'all deserve to go through the suffering you fear most, since you think you're above helping and fighting for others. How inhumane, really.

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Israel sticker spotted in Los Angeles

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this is how Palestinian prisoners have passed messages to their families and loved ones for decades. most often, the piece of paper is tightly folded, wrapped in plastic and swallowed by a prisoner due to be released.

photo by me from a meeting with Khalid Ashour, Palestinian ex-prisoner who spent 12 years of his life in Israeli prisons.

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I really do understand, even empathize with people who are voting for kamala/dems but I really wish you guys wouldn't say this is for Palestine/Palestinians because there's not a reality in which that's true. I live in the US as a citizen so I'd suffer under a Trump presidency too (which I already experienced) so it's not like I have no stakes in the matter, I just abhor the thought of voting for the people who are directly involved in my people's slaughter.

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I know not everyone believes this, but the world does exist beyond your dashboard on tumblr dot com

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We’ve moved beyond the point where a martyr is just a number; we’re now measuring martyrs by the kilogram!

Read that again..did you understand!?

This is in reference to the number of bodies that were blown to pieces by Israeli strikes yesterday. These pieces were gathered into bags weighing 70 kilograms each to be buried as unidentified bodies. This is the horrific aftermath of Israel's massacre yesterday (August 10) against displaced Palestinians who congregated to pray at dawn. Over 100 Palestinians have been killed in the attack.

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Logged on to Twitter to discover a palestinian woman was reported to the fbi by liberals by saying kamalas not ready for Chicago, a city with a huge palestinian population. It just made me think of post 9/11 of Muslims and arabs being reported on by their neighbors and coworkers that is scary and awful

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imane khelif wins her first Olympic gold medal imane khelif you’re a fucking star