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American taxpayer funded Apartheid in Israel.

And also remember that peaceful protest and boycotts like the ones that citizens and governments enacted against apartheid South Africa has been made illegal in many Western countries - there are bills in the US congress that would disallow American students from talking about BDS or criminalizes any boycott against Israel.

In effect, while Western governments support the ethnic cleansing and apartheid happening in Israel, they are also making it hard for ordinary citizens to help Palestinians fight back in any way.

That is the state of affairs happening today in Israel in the 21st century.

I think the number one thing to take away from the Israeli occupation of East Jerusalem right now if you’re an American is to remember that Israel’s brutal, genocidal apartheid state would not exist without the protection of the US government. Like, it’s hard to overstate just how much Israel depends on the US for its existence, and how much the US will give Israel everything it wants to murder and oppress Palestinians because it needs it to control the Middle East. There is virtually no difference in US politicians’ policies towards Israel. Biden just picked up where Trump left off, such as keeping the US embassy in Jerusalem, and I can guarantee his administration’s not going to do jack shit about Sheikh Jarrah. Even the most progressive and left-leaning politicians y’all love like Bernie and AOC are at best critical towards Israel, but do not want to stop funding and supporting their regime of terror, because, again, Israel is too important to the US for the US to not fund its crimes against humanity.

charities to donate to in honor of Chadwick Boseman:

colon cancer organizations

black cancer fundraisers

support for young black people in the arts

mental health resources:

mental health resources for black people

an article on coping with the death of a celebrity

world suicide hotlines:

yo being black and depressed is hard as fuck. being black with anxiety is hard as fuck. being black with a chronic illness or disability is hard a fuck. everybody expects you to be ‘strong’ at all times and no one sees black people as complex or nuanced enough to be capable of suffering. no one ever thinks we could possibly need help. and if you’re a black woman, the moment you stop thinking about others and try to tend to yourself you’re a selfish lazy ungrateful bitch.

support black people, esp women, who need help. don’t just call us strong or tell us we’ll get through it, help us. protect us. uplift us. allow us to be beings capable of suffering. give us the same space you’d give white women to express our pain and be there for us like you would for anyone else. 

this is so important