v-ahavta

hey y’all, if you’re looking to do something to support palestinians as the current conflict breaks out, and if you can, please donate to any of the orgs linked here:

anneemay

bloglikeanegyptian

i believe in accessibility so ive been trying to keep the tone of my posts entry-level and relatively civil. i can afford this much because im not palestinian so i have some degree of removal. but if you guys saw the state of my inbox, you would understand why refusing to justify, explain or clarify anything might be more dignified. there are almost ten thousand people dead right now. i feel like a lot of people are just not understanding the weight of this. more children have been killed in gaza in the past three weeks than in all of the world’s conflicts combined in each of the past three years. this is so far beyond crime, so far beyond mass murder, that sometimes i think entertaining questions about it at all is complicity in and of itself. in a normal world, the entire global apparatus, every international body, would be falling over itself to stop this. the prospect of so many civilians—and most significantly children—dead is actually the worst-case scenario. it is what international law was created to prevent. i say children specifically not because adult palestinians are not equally valuable, but because this is a war on children. gaza's population is 50% children. these airstrikes are most lethal on the smallest and most vulnerable bodies. entire buildings are crumbling on kids. they are being murdered in their homes, by their homes.

deliberately. by people with the most advanced military and surveillance technology in the world. by people who know exactly where every single civilian in gaza is. by people who have their phone numbers and send them threatening texts. by people who have drones observing their every movement. by people who are watching them starve, bombing their bakeries, barricading their water. they bring down buildings on children on purpose.

it's a genocide. and still we talk.

brendanicus

If you haven't heard a National March on Washington in solidarity with Palestine is being planned for Nov. 4. If you can't make it (like me) consider donating to ANSWER Coalition to cover transportation costs for buses to help get as many people to the march as possible.

gothhabiba

[ID: poster reading “Sat. November 4, 2pm — Freedom Plaza. National March on Washington. Free Palestine! No more U.S. aid to Israel! Lift the siege on Gaza now! Join us on the bus from NYC to Washington D. C. for the march! Pickup details: Nov. 4, 8:30 A.M. Buses from the Bronx, Jackson Heights, Astoria, Union Square, and Brooklyn. Info at bit.ly/m/nov4palestine.” The poster shows an image of a bus. End ID]

hussyknee

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The Big Damn List Of Stuff They Said You Didn't Know

Thousands and thousands of years back in three minutes:

But closer to the issue...

Five free eBooks on the colonization and ethnic cleansing of Palestine

Pluto Books Free Palestine Reading List 30-50% off

LGBT Activist Scott Long's Google Drive of Palestine Freedom Struggle Resources

(includes some of the reading material recced below)

The Cambridge UCU and Pal Society Resources List

List of Academic and Literary Books Compiled by Dr. Kiran Grewal

Academic Books (many available in Goldsmiths library)

• Rosemary Sayigh (2007) The Palestinians: From Peasants to Revolutionaries, Bloomsbury
• Ilan Pappé (2002)(ed) The Israel/Palestine Question, Routledge
• (2006) The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine, OneWorld Publications
• (2011) The Forgotten Palestinians: A History of the Palestinians in Israel, Yale University Press
• (2015) The Idea of Israel: A History of Power and Knowledge, Verso Books
• (2017) The Biggest Prison on earth: A history of the Occupied territories, OneWorld Publications
• (2022) A History of Modern Palestine, Cambridge University Press
• Rashid Khalidi (2020) The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917-2017, MacMillan
• Andrew Ross (2019) Stone Men: the Palestinians who Built Israel, Verso Books
• Ariella Azoulay and Adi Ophir (2012) The One-State Condition: Occupation and Democracy in Israel/Palestine, Stanford University Press.
• Ariella Azoulay (2011) From Palestine to Israel: A Photographic Record of Destruction and State Formation, 1947-1950, Pluto Press
• Jeff Halper (2010) An Israeli in Palestine: Resisting Dispossession, Redeeming Israel, Pluto Press
• (2015) War Against the People: Israel, the Palestinians and Global Pacification
• (2021) Decolonizing Israel, Liberating Palestine: Zionism, Settler Colonialism, and the Case for One Democratic State, Pluto Press
• Anthony Loewenstein (2023) The Palestine Laboratory: How Israel exports the Technology of Occupation around the World (CURRENTLY FREE TO DOWNLOAD ON VERSO)
• Noura Erakat (2019) Justice for some: law and the question of Palestine, Stanford University Press
• Neve Gordon (2008) Israel’s Occupation, University of California Press
• Joseph Massad (2006) The persistence of the Palestinian question: essays on Zionism and the Palestinians, Routledge Edward Said (1979) The Question of Palestine, Random House

Memoirs, Novels & Poetry:

• Voices from Gaza - Insaniyyat (The Society of Palestinian Anthropologists)
• Letters From Gaza • Protean Magazine
• Raja Shehadeh (2008) Palestinian Walks: forays into a Vanishing Landscape, Profile Books
• Ghada Karmi (2009) In Search of Fatima: A Palestinian Story, Verso Books
• Fatma Kassem (2011) Palestinian Women: Narratives, histories and gendered memory, Bloombsbury
• Mourid Barghouti (2005) I saw Ramallah, Bloomsbury
• Izzeldin Abuelaish (2011) I Shall Not Hate: A Gaza Doctor’s Journey on the Road to Peace and Human Dignity, Bloomsbury
• Cate Malek and Mateo Hoke (eds)(2015) Palestine Speaks: Narrative of Life under Occupation, Verso Books
• The Works of Mahmoud Darwish

Human Rights Reports & Documents

• Information on current International Court of Justice case on ‘Legal Consequences arising from the Policies and Practices of Israel in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem’
• UN Commission of Inquiry Report 2022
• UN Special Rapporteur Report on Apartheid 2022
• Amnesty International Report on Apartheid 2022
• Human Rights Watch Report on Apartheid 2021
• Report of the United Nations Fact-Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict’ 2009 (‘The Goldstone Report’)
• Advisory Opinion on the Legal Consequences of the Construction of a Wall in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, International Court of Justice, 9 July 2004

Films

• Lemon Tree (2008)
• Where Should The Birds Fly (2013)
• Naila and the Uprising (2017)
• Waltz with Bashir (2008)
• Omar (2013)
• Paradise Now (2005)
• 5 Broken Cameras (2011)
• The Gatekeepers (2012)
• Foxtrot (2017)
• Gaza Mon Amour (2020)
• The Viewing Booth (2020)
• Innocence (2022) - Innocence (2022) | IDFA Archive
• The Village Under the Forest (2013)
• Palestine Film Institute's films on Gaza
• Abby Martin - Gaza Fights For Freedom (2019) | Full Documentary | Directed by Abby Martin
• Dan Cohen - Gaza Fights Back | MintPress News Original Documentary
• ‘The Promise’, directed by Peter Kosminsky (2010) (4 part miniseries on the creation of Israel)

Sources:

• https://www.972mag.com/
• https://jewishcurrents.org/
• Jadaliyya ‘Gaza in Context’ Series
• Jadaliyya “War on Palestine” podcast - The War on Palestine Podcast: Episode 1
• Border Chronicle, Interview with Israeli anthropologist Jeff Halper

NGOs

• B’Tselem
• Breaking the Silence
• Al Haq
• Palestinian Feminist Collective
• Yesh Din
• DAWN
• Amnesty International
• Human Rights Watch
• Gisha
• Forensic Architecture

Instagram Accounts

• gazangirl
• mohammedelkurd
• khaledbeydoun
• motaz_azaiza
• wizard_bisan1
• etafrum
• sara_mardini963

Twitter(X) Accounts

• @PalStudies - Institute for Palestine Studies
• @medicalaidpal
• @middleeastmatters
• @KenRoth - former executive director of Human Rights Watch
• @YairWallach - Reader in Israel Studies at SOAS
• @ PhilipProudfoot - researcher on development, humanitarianism and Arab states
• @btselem - Israeli human rights documentation centre
• @MairavZ - Senior Israel-Palestine Analyst at Crisis Group
• @rohantalbot - Director of Advocacy and Campaigns at MedicalAidPal
• @sarahleah1 - Executive Director of DAWN (democracy and human rights in MENA)
• @alhaq_org - Palestinian human rights organisation
• @FranceskAlbs - UN Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Territories
• @Yesh_Din - Israeli human rights organisation
• @sfardm - Michael Sfard, Israeli Human Rights Lawyer
• @EphstainItay - Israeli international humanitarian lawyer
• @saribashi - Program director for Human Rights Watch (Israeli living in Palestine)
• @Gisha_Access - Israeli NGO
• @_ZachFoster - Historian

Share widely!

(if any links are broken let me know. Or pull up the current post to check whether it's fixed.)

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blackpearlblast

the thing is israel basically belongs to the united states. it is funded by our government. they test weapons for us. when the us defends israel it is not defending a sibling nation where there might be room for them to break away or disagree, it is defending its own military interests. i think this is important for understanding why the states are acting this way and to make it clear this is something US citizens are directly involved in, as much as any other cruel, imperialistic war we are told to support, only to be apologized for as wrong decades later. you can apologize for the deaths once you have already benefitted from the deaths. that is how these things go but it is always essential to fight that pattern because we already know how it ends if we were to let it play out. none of this is new, for all the claims of complexity, it is the same old playbook and we must recognize it for what it is and fight it as we would any other demand for crimes against humanity in the name of "peace". learn from the past, learn from each other, learn from those who have been fighting this struggle longer than we have been alive. mass opposition to US imperialism, to settler colonialism, to """justified""" genocide is the only way.

death-to-the-usa

Like, the fucking GALL to mention "Trump's concentration camps" to defend a man actually funding a literal genocide... the concentration camps were started by OBAMA. Trump expanded them massively, but Biden did not end them! He didn't even fucking reduce them!! There are more people detained in ICE camps now than there were before the pandemic! Obama was the president who had deported the most people up until then. Trump was just as bad in the deportation front, but he bragged about it, so people hated him for it. BIDEN HAS ALREADY DEPORTED WAY MORE PEOPLE THAN TRUMP.

Democrats aren't even "harm reduction". They do the exact same shit as republicans, if not worse, but they know not to keep saying it out loud all the time, and only brag about it when they leave office. This isn't about "harm reduction" or the "lesser evil", this is about getting shot with a pistol or getting shot with pistol with a silencer on. This about optics, and nothing else.

colorisbyshe

It’s been said better and more thoroughly than this but employing “women and children” rhetoric in the wake of an ethnic cleansing, where the men are framed as barbaric and expendable, is absolutely heinous and inappropriate.

Yes, women face somewhat unique (but not totally unique—there have been reports of male hostages facing forced sodomy) threats and obviously children are the most vulnerable out there, but men are being brutalized and murdered as well and they aren’t “more” deserving of this occupation.

Discussions of misogyny are obviously welcome in any context but framing male victims as lesser (less victimized, less worthy of saving, less innocent) just furthers the dehumanization that affects all victims of said ethnic cleansing. You are giving an allowance to the racism and bigotry that is utilized to justify their deaths, torture, starvation, maiming.

Anyone actually educated in meaningful feminism should easily recognize this.

Even if you don’t want to recognize the humanity of these men (which is, again, racist and heinous), do you think the women and children you claim to care for are better off without these men? Their fathers, brothers, children, cousins, lovers…

Please, do not forget the Palestinian men. Please, learn to understand that criticizing the patriarchy (and, yes, pushing back against bad faith “not all men” discussions) should not mean signing off on an ethnic cleansing.

Palestinians are innocent; age and gender does not change that.

End the occupation for the women, men, and children.

sayruq

Yesterday, thousands of Israeli and American soldiers tried to infiltrate Gaza at three different points while over 100 warplanes bombed Gaza.

During the battles, we got updates from the Palestinian freedom fighters showing that the IDF and the American special forces were struggling to advance into Gaza despite the surprise attack. Even before the fighting ended, Israeli media was bitterly disappointed at the performance of the so called 'strongest army in the Middle East.'

Today, we've gotten confirmation from the PFLP that the zionist army had failed to gain a foothold in Gaza

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You can tell this is true because the IDF isn't bragging about winning the 'ground incursion' (note- not invasion) of Gaza.

Instead, it has gone back to threatening the civilians of Gaza while attempting (and failing) to look heroic in the eyes of the West

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fairuzfan

There is still hope. Say it out loud. Palestine will be free. The Palestinian people will celebrate their culture and heritage with each other. We will love and be loved. Do not fall into the trap of despair.

fairuzfan

I'm not saying this just for morale. I'm saying this as a reminder that the colonialist regime relies on your despair, uses it to further their propaganda. Once you lose hope, and tell everyone you lose hope, you are aiding the Zionist Entity.

Make it a point that you BELIEVE that Palestine will be free even in the face of genocide. Hope can halt genocide. Do not aid our oppressors.

cusale