Jonghyun
Free Palestine 🇵🇸
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"Oh, a homeland in which I lived, and on which I relied... and my soul breathed its love... You are my homeland..
Blessed your day on your birthday."
Wael El Dahdouh, the journalist from gaza, wishes his wife a happy birthday, she was killed along with his children and family members by an Israeli airstrike.
its horrid that gazans have to post their private, painful moments of saying farewell to their dead families. its so fucking terrible they have to post it online instead of being allowed privacy - and all so that the west can see their suffering because it doesnt even believe them. and even when they show it openly, the west still lies and fabricates lies and fake narratives. they literally have to humanize themselves. what the fuck. how does this not fill you with anger
Got pulled over because he "saw someone flash their lights at me" and it made him "think something was going on". After he ran my paperwork and did multiple full walk-arounds of my car, he decided everything was in order and I was free to go. I just wanted to get home from work.
Living in MD got pulled over when I pulled into my landlady's [100%, rich, suburban] community and questioned what my purpose was there. "I live here" was not an acceptable answer and I ended up needing to call my landlady to talk to the officer and convince them that I really did live there, in her basement inlaw apartment, courtesy of her granddaughter. When he finally let me go he told me he "actually" pulled me over because he "thought [my] headlights were out" but on "second glance" they were just fine. Dunno how you can mistake headlights being on or off.
And I know I've told the story of when one of my elderly white neighbors called the police on me for training my dog in a public use field and how even the cop that showed up thought the call was stupid and racist.
My dad got pulled over when I was still in a carseat because they thought it was "suspicious" that a grown man would have such a young child with him on a school day. He was driving me back to school from a doctor's appointment. They made him get our of the car, lean against it, and searched both him and the car because they "smelled something" while he did his best to keep me calm and tell me that it was going to be okay. I was too young to understand what happened at the time. I just remember he was furious the entire ride back to school, and he was still mad when I got off the bus that afternoon.
It really is just Like This, being black in this country.
too many conspiracy theories about oil in gaza and not enough practical understanding of the fact that bibi netanyahu and his cronies have extreme personal reason to keep this war going as long as possible and at any level of civilian cost because the moment it's over he'll no longer be a wartime prime minister and will have to face the repercussions for being a massive reason why the october 7 attacks ended up with a body count as high was it was
too many conspiracies about the secret Zionist global cabal elite deep state controlling Biden and the us government and not enough understanding that they “aid” the us so generously gives Israel goes not to Israeli civilians but to purchasing U.S. weaponry from us companies who pocket the sales so that many very bland very white very goy very usamericans mega corporations make a lot of money no matter who dies. This is the military industrial complex and war profiteering 101
50-60 people abandoning their cars on the bay bridge during morning rush hour, throwing their keys into the fucking bay, holding a die-in, chaining themselves together… coolest motherfuckers in san francisco
I think this is a good opportunity to educate people on the history of Palestine, the Nakba, and how it happened to show why what's happening today has been happening for the last century. Here's a documentary series that uses archival footage, official documentation, Israeli and Arab historian accounts, and personal accounts from Palestinian refugees to tell the story of the colonization of Palestine. Remember to click the Read More in the link to look at the episodes.
Even if you don't plan on watching it, I would still appreciate if you could share this so access to this knowledge is more widespread.
This was one of the tags on the post by someone who reblogged it.
Thank you for sharing more ressources, and the website is very good but it genuinely cannot replace this documentary series I recommended. A point by point website cannot replace newly-discovered archival footage, primary source documents, and the accounts of the refugees themselves as they lived the colonization of Palestine, along with an explanation of the plans of the British, the settlers, and all the tactics and dynamics that occured in chronological order.
Understanding the chain of events and the cause-and-effect relations between them is essential. Keep that in mind when choosing the sources you use to learn more about Palestinian history. It is best to use multiple sources instead of trying to replace one with another. Thank you.
Old, but reblogging this again. Many people are still only discovering our history and colonization now.
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ALTSo heads up, we might not get accurate numbers for the next couple days (or even longer)
