EDUCATE YOURSELF BEFORE BEING NEUTRAL ON THIS ISSUE. WHAT IS HAPPENING IN PALESTINE IS GENOCIDE, IT IS

EDUCATE YOURSELF BEFORE BEING NEUTRAL ON THIS ISSUE. WHAT IS HAPPENING IN PALESTINE IS GENOCIDE, IT IS A MASSACRE and to pretend otherwise is a direct display of your ignorance, colonialist imperialist western influence and immense privilege that is directly harming the people of palestine who are in immense peril.

Reflect on whether your past experiences are making you feel better or bitter...

I know life at times is not a smooth ride, it has ups and downs and at times we let certain circumstances during this journey of life get to us, that is the human nature to feel, have emotions but we also have the ability to reflect on our actions and thoughts to decide whether we want them i.e. our experiences to hold us back or push us forward, of course the process of moving forward, working on ourselves is anything but messy, that doesn't mean we should not work on detaching ourselves from those shackles of the past. We need to do so in order for us to be free, to be able to look at life from a clean window rather than a crooked, dirty window shaped from our bitter past experiences.

"Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards."

-Soren Kierkegaard

Do you know what strength lies beneath all of that insecurity of yours?

That intelligence, that passion, that beauty?

But instead of empowering yourself, you shut yourself down and fill your mind with absurd thoughts. Why do you do that?

– Khorasaniyyah.

‘Would you tell your ten year old self what you are telling yourself now?’

What's happening in Gaza NOW is GENOCIDE .

Dozen Bombs are falling on Gaza by Israeli occupation warplanes.

Deaths : 106 including 27 children.

ما يحدث في غزة الآن هو إبادة جماعية.

استشهاد ١٠٦ في غزة بينهم ٢٧ طفل.

ياريت كله يدعي دلوقتي و يصلي لهم

اللهم انصرهم و احفظهم بحفظك و احقن دمائهم.

بردا و سلاما يارب العالمين .

حسبي الله ونعم الوكيل..اللهم انتقم منهم.

[Images description: A ten part Twitter thread by Suhail Matar. The tweets read as follows:

1) Because I mostly user twitter academically, let me share my experience as a Palestinian in Israeli academia. A thread.

2) I attended the Technion (In Haifa, my city) between 2004 and 2011. This coincided with Israel’s 2006 war on Lebanon, 2008/9 war on Gaza, and 2010 attack on the flotilla headed for Gaza.

3) This meant many protests at the university’s gates. We were usually some 150 students, chanting support for Gaza, say and condemnations of Israeli aggression.

4) Across the street, without fail, was always a 10x bigger protest: huge Israeli flags, enraged Zionists jumping up and down yellow “DEATH TO ARABS! DEATH TO ARABS!” Our chants were 100% drowned The blind hatred in their eyes could have probably powered the campus.

5) These weren’t just random people. These were my Physical Chemistry professor, for example. He used to show up to lectures in full settler regalia. Imagine a US professor showing up to class in Proud Boys or KKK regalia.

6) It was that shy, tall, bespectacled student from year 2 who’d asked me for tips (having recently finished the bachelor’s program) only a few weeks prior. He was also there chanting “DEATH TO ARABS!” Oh, yes, he knew I was Palestinian.

7) We then had to go back to the lecture halls and literally sit with people who chanted for our death. Disciplinary action, you suggest? Hahahaha

8) Not to mention that, a few weeks later, those Israeli students who were recruited for the reserve army for whatever was it was would come back to university. We were sitting next to snipers and pilots who killed people, our people, in Gaza and Lebanon.

9) In the Technion we were “lucky” it didn’t go further. Other campuses are much more politically active, and Palestinian students are routinely harassed, attacked, arrested, expelled for simply raising a flag, or expressing their Palestinianness.

10) This is what your fancy collab with an Israeli university looks like, under the surface. This is the grim reality of Israeli academia. Yes, it has top-notch education and great researchers. But it is severly lacking in basic humanity towards even its own Palestinians.]

For those who had a bad day: 

there’s no shame in going to sleep earlier than normal; no shame in leaving your room messy and it’s definitely okay to leave some emails/messages/calls unanswered. if you need today to end earlier, IT’S OKAY. you can sort your life out tomorrow 

Is this fair? How is this justified?

Reposted from @wissamgaza 🇵🇸#Palestine || “ Is my my mom fine?

The moment of rescue a little Palestinian girl burried under the rubble of residential buildings that bombed by Israeli warplanes in Al Remal neighborhood in Gaza, without any warning.

"ماما كويسة؟ بعرفش”.. لحظة انتشال طفلة من بين أنقاض المباني السكنية التي دمرها جيش الاحتلال الإسرائيلي بحي الرمال على رؤوس ساكنيها دون سابق إنذار . https://www.instagram.com/p/CO6uT9qJ-g5/?igshid=djybbeyq75lh