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"Queers for Palestine" have got to be the most foolish people in this nation.
Dear Supporter,
I hope this message finds you and your family in good health and high spirits. My name is Rakan Zaqout from Gaza.š I am reaching out to seek your urgent help in spreading the word about our fundraising campaign. I lost both my home and my school, my parents lost their jobs too, due to the ongoing genocide in Gaza and we are facing catastrophic living conditions.š
I kindly ask you to visit our campaign. Your support, whether through donating or sharing, will help us reach more people who can make a difference. Thank you for your continued support for the Palestinian cause. Your dedication brings us closer to freedom.š
Please note, our campaign has been verified by 90-ghost and aces-and-angels.ā
I'm really sorry that I can't donate money but I really hope that you and your family will be able to reach the donation goal! I don't really know that many people so I hope responding to your message will help (ļæ£ā½ļæ£*)ć
Sorry for answer you so late, I was very busy about my university jeje (ļæ£ā½ļæ£*)ć
I hope you have a nice day
~Reiko Yukimura~
Hi š, My name is Mohammad, and Iām reaching out in a moment of desperate need. Iām a father of three young children living in Gaza, and we are caught in the midst of a catastrophic war. Our home is no longer a safe haven, and the future here seems increasingly uncertain. š
Iāve launched a fundraising campaign with the goal of raising $40,000 to relocate my family to a safer place where my children can grow up in peace and have a chance at a brighter future. šļøšµšø
Unfortunately, my previous fundraising efforts were abruptly halted when my account was terminated without explanation. However, I remain determined to keep fighting for my familyās safety and well-being. š«¶
If you could take a moment to read our story, consider donating, or simply share our campaign with others, it would make an incredible difference. Every act of kindness, no matter how small, brings us one step closer to safety and a new beginning. š
Thank you for your time, compassion, and support. ā¤
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I'm really sorry that I can't donate money but I really hope that you and your family will be able to reach the donation goal! I don't really know that many people so I hope responding to your message will help (ļæ£ā½ļæ£*)ć
Sorry for answer you so lately I was busy with university stuff (ļæ£ā½ļæ£*)ć
I hope you have a nice day, afternoon or night
~Reiko Yukimura~
(via "Peace, love, reconnection " Magnet for Sale by Queueka)
Pain and hope
Intertwined stories of life
Pain and hope
āIsrael should be charged with war crimes!!ā
But not Palestine? Not Hamas - the elected government of Gaza?
How about Russia? They bombed maternity wards and orphanages. Why arenāt the leftists demanding their war crime trial? The double standards are getting old.
Everything you complain about with Israel (if true) is exactly what Hamas and the Palestinians have been doing to them as well.
āIsrael has wiped out entire families!ā So did Hamas.
āIsrael is bombing Gaza!ā Palestine is bombing Israel (and, ironically, Gaza as well).
āAn IDF soldier raped someone!ā Hamas employed mass rape as a weapon of war against Israeli women.
āIsrael is trying to wipe out Palestinians!ā Hamas is trying to wipe out Jews.
We can keep going on this. The list goes on. Not only that, but multiple other countries have employed such tactics against their own people and other countries. Not a single cry for war crime trials.
A brief History of Mizrahi Jews in Arabic countries and Their expulsion
A\N: While I am an Ashkenazi Jew, I have done A LOT of research, and have both Iraqi friends and relatives to corroborate this with. Also, I'm petty - an Iraqi user who comments regularly on my posts seems to forget about his own country's Jewish history... Well, I hope he forgot instead of the more likely reality: It seems like Arabic people nowadays aren't aware of Jewish history in their countries since they either killed to expelled them all. Thus is born the constant argument that all Jews originated in Europe and are merely settlers in the Middle East.
I realized that what may be obvious to me won't be obvious to others since I'm a history nerd who grew up in Israel with plenty of rich archeological evidence and resources surrounding me. I'm happy to make these posts in hopes of educating others and contributing my part to ending antisemitism and prejudice. ___________________
You might have seen the following picture in one of my previous posts:
It is said that a picture is worth a thousand words. Unfortunately, in this case, it concludes hundreds of years of discrimination, violence, and exile for Mizrahi Jews. * It is important to note that numbers are slightly varied between sources, but the meaning is clear.
In a nutshell- all throughout history, the fate of Jewish people in countries where they weren't the religious majority was the same:
Discriminatory laws, blood libels, being blamed for disasters > violence & murder > Pogroms * > and eventually- exile or mass murder AKA ethnic cleansing \ genocide.
Pogrom- Ā the term refers to violent attacks by local non-Jewish populations on Jews in the Russian Empire and in other countries.
Every Jewish community has its own Pogrom. While my side of the family might immediately think of the Kristallnacht or persecution & pogroms in Hungary, it is different for Jews from different backgrounds. You can read about a few cases of forced conversion to Islam here.
A brief History of the land of Israel
The land of Israel has always been considered a strategic passageway, and so many empires throughout history have conquered it:
* I simply cannot accurately write 3000+ years of Jewish history in the land of Israel. I found that this video summarizes it perfectly.
Exile from the land of Israel
Jews were exiled from the land of Israel numerous times since the Assyrian empire conquered Israel in 732 BCE, to what we call "the diaspora" ××××. It was not by choice and we were persecuted everywhere we went.
Jews were not allowed to legally return to Israel until 1948 when the British mandate over the land of Israel ended and Israel was formed. Yes, even during the Holocaust.
The Jewish answer to exile - Aliyah ×¢××× There have been 5 waves of illegal immigration from all over the world to the land of Israel before 1948, recorded in modern times.
Chart taken from Wikipedia (their chart was the best I could find in English)
Forced Conversion
Whether in conquered Israel or in exile, Jews were often forced to convert to either Christianity or Islam. The choice was between conversion or death.
*You can read more about some of the forced conversion of Jews during history here and here.
First Case study- The last jew of Peki'in, Margalit Zinati
Peki'in is an ancient village in the upper Galilee, Northern Israel. Nowadays, its population is mostly Druze.
Peki'in has had a Jewish presence since the Second Temple period, until Arab riots in the 1930s*. Meet the remaining member of the Zinatis, the only family who returned. (aish.com)
*Read more on the Arab riots of the 1930s here and here. Margalit is currently the last Jew living in the village of Peki'in . She is the last direct descendent of the Zinati Cohen family. The Zinati family's origins are dated back to the Second Temple era. The former Jewish community of Peki'in maintained a presence there since the Second Temple period (516 BCE ā 70 CE). That is when the polytheistic Persian Empire conquered the land of Israel. For reference- that was approximately 500 years before Jesus was even born! "During which the Second Temple stood in the city of Jerusalem. It began with the return to Zion and subsequent reconstruction of the Temple in Jerusalem, and ended with the First JewishāRoman War and the Roman siege of Jerusalem." (Wikipedia)
As an adult, Margalit chose to not marry so she could stay in Peki'in and continue her family's Jewish legacy in Peki'in. She later became in charge of the ancient synagogue in the village and turned her basement into a visiting center \ museum of Jewish history in Peki'in- "House of Zinati". in 2018, she lit up a torch as part of Israel's 70th Independence Day Torch lighting ceremony (which is considered an honor given to influential and trailblazing people).
-Margalit Zinati pictured in the Peki'in Synagogue yard, 2016 Picture taken from Wikipedia, uploaded by Deror Avi.
Second Case study - Iraqi Jews (Babylonian Jews \ ×Ö°××Ö¼×Ö“×× ×ÖøÖ¼×Ö°×Ö“××)
Iraqi Jews are one of the oldest documented Jewish communities living in the Middle East. It is estimated that they originated around 600 BC.×Ŗ
The Farhud Ų§ŁŁŲ±ŁŁŲÆ ×פ×Ø×××
Unfortunately, Iraqi Jewish history ended in the same pattern I've described earlier. The Farhud was the violent mass dispossession against the Jewish population of Baghdad, Iraq between 1-2 June 1941. was theĀ pogromĀ or the "violent dispossession" that was carried out against theĀ JewishĀ population ofĀ Baghdad,Ā Iraq, on 1ā2 June 1941, It immediately followed the British victory in theĀ Anglo-Iraqi War.
Background for the Farhud:
WW2- At the time, many Arabic countries in the Middle East agreed with Nazi ideology.
History of violence towards Jews.
The Anglo-Iraqi War (2ā31Ā MayĀ 1941) - caused rising tension, and as usual, it was turned on the Jews.
personal family ties to the Farhud My relative was born in 1939 in Iraq, to a big upper-class Jewish family. Unfortunately, the mass exile of Jews in the 1950s didn't skip her family: she was stripped of her belongings and exiled to Israel along with her family. In the 1950s there were approximately 140,000 Iraqi Jews. As of 2021, there are only 4 left.
----------------- Please feel free to add anything I missed in the notes. And as usual - remember I am a human being. If you cuss or harass me, I will block and report you.
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Online Sources: * https://www.israelhayom.co.il/article/865383 - Hebrew article, Title means "Sad ending to a magnificent history: Only 4 Jews left in Iraq".
What was the Farhud https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farhud
History of the Jewish community in Baghdad https://cojs.org/the_jewish_community_in_baghdad_in_the_eighteenth_century-_zvi_yehuda-_nehardea-_babylonian_jewry_heritage_center-_2003/
What are Pogroms?https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/pogroms?gclid=Cj0KCQiAkeSsBhDUARIsAK3tiedM7DuwIaSQX-kRxvXTgCDxN6-zqeo_DNNFgyanSYGyGOhwu_0vfrkaAg6REALw_wcB
The last Jew of Peki'in, Margalit Zinati https://aish.com/the-last-jew-of-pekiin/
Arab riots of 1930s- https://www.gov.il/en/Departments/General/ben_zvi_30 https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/the-1936-arab-riots
Israel's history from ancient times & timeline : https://www.travelingisrael.com/timeline-land-israel/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=iiUIWnU-Ofk
Second Temple era - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Temple_period
Forced conversion of Jews across history- https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt18mvnct.7?seq=4
https://academic.oup.com/book/32113/chapter-abstract/268043723?redirectedFrom=fulltext
Key terms necessary for understanding the Israeli-Palestinian conflict : Part 1- Ancient Israel to the founding of modern Israel, Jewish terms
A/N: Hey! The results are in, and this is the topic my followers choseš«¶ Writing this felt very much like retaking my high school history finals lol. Enjoy reading.
*These terms and definitions will be organized by topics, in chronological order. **If I have made a mistake or if you feel like I forgot something important- donāt hesitate to tell me in the comments. It is very hard to summarize thousands of years. *** Be respectful, I am human.
1. Key terms in Judaism and the connection to the land of Israel :
Israel and Judea- Were the two ancient Jewish kingdoms.
Zion צ×××- Is one of the 70 biblical names for the city of Jerusalem. In fact, Jerusalem is referenced by this name in the bible over 150 times.
The word Zion is very much embedded into our culture: it is used in many prayers and Jewish texts written throughout Jewish history, songs etc.
Zion and the exile from it:
It is especially used when describing longing and the wanting of return to the land of Israel:
The most famous example that uses the word Zion is the biblical prayer from the book of Psalms, 137:
1Ā By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion.
×Ŗ××××× ×¤×Øק ק×× × ×¢Ö·× × Ö·×Ö²×Ø×Ö¹×Ŗ, ×ÖøÖ¼×Ö¶×--שÖø×× ×Öøשַ××Ö°× ×Ö¼, ×Ö·Ö¼×-×ÖøÖ¼×Ö“×× ×Ö¼: ×Ö°Ö¼×Öø×Ö°×ØÖµ× ×Ö¼, ×Ö¶×Ŗ-צ֓×Ö¼×Ö¹×.
This verse is an example of the longing for Israel: as it was written after the exile to Babylon.
*Yes, the funky Boney M song is based on this Psalms verse :) Coming full circle- It is also used in the official hymn of the modern state of Israel, Ha'Tikva. ××Ŗק×××, written by Naftali Herz Imber. This word might sound familiar to you, as it is also the origin of the word "Zionism".
Zionism- is the notion that the Jewish people deserve to have a state of their own.
Semite- is a term for people relating to, or constituting a subfamily of the Afro-Asiatic language family:
Semite languages- are a group of ancient languages, that originated around the same time, in Africa and the Middle East- aka the neighboring countries of Israel.
The Semitic languages are: Hebrew and its other ancient dialects , Arabic, Amharic, Aramaic and more. Unfortunately , most of these are extinct and no longer spoken.
The languages that are still spoken to this very day are : Arabic, Amharic and Hebrew.
Some Hebrew Fun facts :
-While there are only estimated 8 million Hebrew speakers nowadays( most of them Israeli), Hebrew is considered a holy language in is spoken during prayer.
-Ancient Hebrew and modern Hebrew are very similar. So much so that if I were to time travel, I could have a decent conversation with my ancestorsš (some pronunciations, grammar and words have changed, but itās essential the same).
-Which cannot be done with Romanic languages or Celtic languages..
Antisemitism A\N: This word is getting its whole section because it simply deserves it. Nowadays, every time a Jewish person says something is antisemitic, they will usually be bombarded with mocking comments about how Jews like to call everything antisemitic. If had a nickel for every time I got those comments or an Arab person tried to troll me in the comment section by saying "I can't be antisemitic if I'm a Semite myself"... Let's make it clear (once again).
As I have explained before, the word Semite refers to a group of ethnicities. However, the word Antisemitic refers to Jewish hatred: "Antisemitism is hostility to, prejudice towards, or discrimination againstĀ Jews.[2][3][4]Ā This sentiment is a form ofĀ racism,[5][6]Ā and a person who harbors it is called anĀ antisemite. Though antisemitism is overwhelmingly perpetrated by non-Jews, it may occasionally be perpetrated by Jews in a phenomenon known asĀ auto-antisemitismĀ ".
TLDR: Don't be a Jerk and use antisemitic rhetoric, blood libels, and stereotypes... You don't get to choose if something is antisemitic or not, Jews do.
2. Modern Israel and its founding
The Knesset- Is the Israeli parliament consisting of 120 members, elected democratically every 4 years. Usually- there have been 5 elections in the last 5 years. It also currently has 36 ministers. Yes, that _IS_ a lot.
Kibbutz- "Kibbutz is a community where people voluntarily live and work together on a noncompetitive basis. The first kibbutzim were organized by idealistic young Zionists in the beginning of the 20th century."
As time moved on, starting in the 80s, many Kibbutzim struggled financially and closed down. Today, there are 265 Kibbutzim left, with approximately 200,000 residents. Less than 20% of them are communal.
Unfortunately today, the word Kibbutz has a different connotation:
British mandate- Yep, they colonized us too lol. After the first world war, Between 1917 and May 1948 (Israel was founded literally as soon as the mandate ended).
Fun fact- Today, there are still a few rules left from the British mandate In Israel (Most of them were updated or changed by Israeli law makers after it's founding, usually by the Knesset and the Supreme court of justice).
āHoma Uāmigdalā (×××× ××××× Tower and stockade)- During the British mandate, Jewish settlements were built overnight due to a legal loophole still valid from the Ottoman rule. The loophole prevented the British from destroying the new settlement: "Homa U'Migdal is the name of an operation that the leaders of theĀ YishuvĀ initiated in Palestine, during which 52 new settlements were founded. This operation was a response of theĀ YishuvĀ to the 1936-1939 Arab Revolt and the restrictions the Mandatory authorities placed, both on the building of new Jewish settlements, and on the amount of Jewish immigrants allowed into Palestine. The building of each settlement began at night. First, the guard tower and the defense stockade were set up, so the operation was named āTower and Stockadeā. According to an old Ottoman law that was still valid during the Mandate period, the destroying of a building was not allowed after the roof had been erected. For this reason the British did not destroy the "Tower and Stockade" settlements which had not received building permits. "
The 2-state solution - The notion that the solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict should be two states for two people- one for Arabs and one for Jews.
Balfour's declaration- is the famous letter sent by then-British foreign secretary Lord Balfour to Lord Rothschild in 1917. In the letter, Lord Balfour stated that the British Empire would support the forming of a Jewish Zionist state in the land of Israel.
Peel Commission- was a community created in 1936 by the British rule during their Mandate over Israel. As the name suggests, the head of the Commity was Lord Peel. A suggestion for a Two-state solution was suggested to representatives of both Jews and Arabs. Unfortunately, the Arabs have refused it.
1947 Partition Plan- A partition plan suggested by the UN, that included another draft of the two-state solution, with different borders. The Arabs have refused it once more.
Declaration of Israel's Independence from Britain:
And so, as the British mandate ended on May 14th, 1948, the people's Council (that later served as the initial government of Israel) declared the formation of the modern state of Israel.
The day following the declaration, the Arabs in Israel revolted and with the help of 5 foreign armies that invaded Israel, tried to stop the formation of Israel: Iraq, Jordan, Egypt, Syria, and Lebanon.
They failed and Israel was formed.
You can watch David Ben Gurion, head of the council (and Israel's future first prime minister) declare its formation/independence here.
PS- this was the flag of Palestine before the current one:
Sources:
-Semite languages pic: https://www.britannica.com/topic/Semitic-languages
-Kibbutz: * https://kibbutzulpan.org/about_kibbutz/ *https://www.hamichlol.org.il/%D7%A7%D7%99%D7%91%D7%95%D7%A6%D7%99%D7%9D_%D7%91%D7%99%D7%A9%D7%A8%D7%90%D7%9C (Hebrew)
-Homa U'Migdal" : http://www.zionistarchives.org.il/en/Pages/TowerStockade.aspx
What I say:
What I mean:
Fuck everybody who wishes ill upon Mia Schem. I wish her a restful recovery.
If youāre for Palestine or Israel that is your choice But there is a certain level of fucked up you have to be in order to deny sexual assault when dozens of women are coming out. I donāt care if theyāre Israelites or Palestinians, theyāre human beings who suffered unspeakable violence at the hands of evil demons and complete waste of human skin and spirit, and you are comparing these terrorists, these barbarians, these subhuman creatures to a innocent black child who was brutally murdered by a group of white demons? Do you hear yourself? Are you freaking serious?
And the to compare literal terrorists to Emmitt Till is another level of fucked up.
These terrorists are not Emmett Till, they are no different than till murderers.
Let me make it short since all you antizionsits clearly donāt read past the headline:
October 7th
On October 7th Hamas and Palestinian citizens invaded Israel: They massacred 1300~ , kidnapped 250+, and gang raped women and children.
It doesnāt depend on the context
Hamas and why itās ridiculous to support it
You can condemn Hamas while wanting to free Palestine.
Hamas isnāt a cool and woke liberation movement - itās an extremist terror organisation.
āIsrael controls Gazaāš¤¦āāļø
in fact, dismantling Hamas is what will free them.
Israel doesnāt govern Gaza since 2006 when Israel completely withdrew from it.
Ever since, Hamas are responsible for their living conditions.
Solving the conflict
Israel isnāt going anywhere
Jews have always been in the Middle East and will continue to be there
"History didn't start on October 7th!"
You're right.
It also didn't start in 1948.
Hey I just wanted to let you know nicely that all of this is wrong. Hamas has never offered a deal to "give up the leaders of hamas for sovereignty", and if that deal existed Israel would take it without question lol. Israel wants a two state solution, but Hamas wants a one state solution. That's why there's no peace.
The war would actually end immediately if Hamas returned all the hostages and began discussing a two state solution. Instead, they're going to great lengths to make sure as many Palestinians die as possible, because then they can report more casualties and get more sympathy. It's horrendous, and I can't wait to see what the Palestinian people do once they get their hands on their "leaders" who have caused so many of their deaths.
Israel doesn't need Hamas. Israel needs Hamas gone. Hamas has killed far too many Israelis to even pretend Israel wants them around, and suggesting Israel funds them is crazy. Hamas recieves their money from Iran and from intercepting humanitarian aid to Gaza.
Alot of the world is as confused as you are right now, and it's okay. I'm here to answer any questions you might have :3
Isreal could end the war immediately if it traded cease fire and Palestinian sovereignty in exchange for the leaders of Hamas. Israel, however, will never agree to this. Israel needs Hamas; Israel needs Hamas to justify ethnic cleansing in Palestine in order to replace the native population with Israeli settlers. Israel funded Hamas to take the wind out of the PLO. Israel continues to enforce scorched earth policies in order to engender the terrorism that justifies their continued attempts to wipe the Palestinian people off the face of the earth. Solidarity with Palestine! From the river to the sea! free Palestine!
Hey, thanks for the concern! This post is about the country of Lebanon, but the targets of all attacks are Hezbollah. They are a massive terrorist organization that rules Lebanon illegally and is hated by its actual citizens. In fact, civilians have been warned to stay 2km away from Hezbollah infrastructure.
Like Hamas, Hezbollah is a proxy of the Iranian Regime. They're all the same guys, and many founders of Hezbollah are Palestinian militants who were expelled from Jordan. Also like Hamas, Hezbollah has been attacking Israel nonstop for a year, targeting civilians (unlike Israel ofc).
All of these terrorist organizations are wildly detrimental to the actual citizens of their own countries (as dictatorships tend to be), especially for women and minorities. Think project 2025, then double it. That's Iran since the revolution in 1980.
Women can't go outside most of the time, or speak out of turn, or wear revealing clothing. Gay people can't even be alive. They made it The Handmaid's Tale in the name of Allah and as a strong leftist I say THEY GOTTA GO š£ļøš„šÆ
Personally I think your post is a little misleading, as it lacks all of this context and makes it look as though Israel is attacking Lebanon for shits and giggles. Either you're doing that on purpose, or you're the one who needs to study the situation further.
I know you won't care to listen to this, but please try.
Don't look away from Lebanon and Palestine.
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Folks after learning the history
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The Big Damn List Of Stuff They Said You Didn't Know
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 PappƩ (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 Yearsā 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) Israelās 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 ā¢ 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 Doctorās 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 āLegal Consequences arising from the Policies and Practices of Israel in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalemā
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 Conflictā 2009 (āThe Goldstone Reportā)
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
āThe Promiseā, directed by Peter Kosminsky (2010) (4 part miniseries on the creation of Israel)
Sources:
https://www.972mag.com/
https://jewishcurrents.org/
Jadaliyya āGaza in Contextā Series
Jadaliyya āWar on Palestineā podcast - The War on Palestine Podcast: Episode 1
Border Chronicle, Interview with Israeli anthropologist Jeff Halper
NGOs
BāTselem
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
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(I took the first video down because turns out the animator is a terf and it links to her blog. Really sorry for any distress.)
powerful words by assala a. sayara
[transcript: do we have to convince the world that palestinian mothers are like any other mothers in this world? until when do we have to convince the world that palestinian children are just like any other children in this world? until when do we have to convince the world that palestinian men don't deserve to be dehumanized?
they have not left an inch of gaza. jabalia refugee camp, khan younis, al nasser hospital, al quds hospital and now rafah in which they have claimed it is a safe zone. there is no safety in gaza.
the greatest pride that i have is being palestinian. i am from a people that do not surrender. i am from a people that do not bow down. i am from a people that resist from generation to the other. i am from a people that have freed this world but yet has not seen freedom. end transcript]
The Big Damn List Of Stuff They Said You Didn't Know
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 PappƩ (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 Yearsā 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) Israelās 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 ā¢ 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 Doctorās 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 āLegal Consequences arising from the Policies and Practices of Israel in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalemā
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 Conflictā 2009 (āThe Goldstone Reportā)
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
āThe Promiseā, directed by Peter Kosminsky (2010) (4 part miniseries on the creation of Israel)
Sources:
https://www.972mag.com/
https://jewishcurrents.org/
Jadaliyya āGaza in Contextā Series
Jadaliyya āWar on Palestineā podcast - The War on Palestine Podcast: Episode 1
Border Chronicle, Interview with Israeli anthropologist Jeff Halper
NGOs
BāTselem
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
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(I took the first video down because turns out the animator is a terf and it links to her blog. Really sorry for any distress.)