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It's like the world heard that people went to kill a bunch of Jews and went, "fucking FINALLY! I've been waiting for this!" and grabbed their SS uniforms from their closets. There was just no hesitation to incite more antisemitism worldwide
Again, it underscores how few people actually give a shit about Palestinians, because it makes no sense to go target Jews anywhere else in the world (not that killing Israeli civilians was justified, either) unless you think all Jews everywhere are bloodthirsty killers who deserve to die, which, again, you might as well just be honest and don your SS uniform
okay so a ceasefire will happen soon, inshallah, but i just know the second it does, most of y'all will pack it up and go home. the world has proven time and time again that the second the violence "stops", then everyone forgets about us and then we just go back to suffering under the israeli occupation. you guys need to promise us, promise every single palestinian child in the world right now, that you will not stop fighting. that you will continue boycotting, you will continue protesting, you will continue disrupting the world until palestine is free. and then we'll do it again. and again and again and again and again. for sudan, for the congo, for everyone who is suffering right now.
you guys cant keep leaving us and forgetting about us once you've done "your part". it always happens, and we always go back to suffering. you need to stand with us until palestine is completely free. until we have our land back, until we can rebuild our homes, until we can drink clean water and breathe clean air, until our children grow up never having to face a horror like the nakba ever again. you need to stay fighting until we are all free forever.
I love comparing war crimes/s
McDonald's is giving out free fries.
Disney is giving out Disney100 cards.
Starbucks is giving out buy one get one frees.
Why? Because their stock prices are falling.
They are losing money because of the boycotts because we are not giving them more money to fund and support the genocide of Palestine.
They're scared.
So they're gonna do whatever they can to get that money.
Keep it up.
Make them cry.
We may not be able to get them all, but the ones we get oh they are gonna suffer.
im begging y'all to please practice some basic due diligence and read the articles you link before sharing. make sure it actually backs up what the catchy headline says. make sure it's actually proving the point you're trying to assert. make sure it's not some far-right fash website that had a headline that sounded good to you
please.
so far this week i've seen people sharing things about mcdondalds stock tanking with the OP celebrating the success of the boycott, only to find the article was from over a year ago. i've seen people sharing a link to an article suggesting the Oct 7th Hamas attacks were planned by a "cabal of globalists" because the headline made it sound like Israel knew they were going to happen
you cannot just share flashy headlines and consider your job done. read the whole thing. that goes for people posting it and people just reblogging it. check your fucking sources for obvious red flags, or if it's even about what you think it is
it's extremely important that during times like this you're directing your anger at the right places, and you're informed with something tangible and verifiable. outrage fatigue is real and it's easy to burn out when so much terrible shit is happening daily
Hi there! I am reaching out because someone sent me a question about how to help Gazan civilians without accidentally helping Hamas or spreading more hate against Israelis. I honestly feel lost on this myself, but as far as I can tell you are someone who has done real activism in Israel. Do you have suggestions for diaspora Jews who want to help fight for peace?
So a small disclaimer to the Gaza problem. We have 2 main problems with getting aid into Gaza, the first is the limited amount of aid that is allowed in, sending more money cannot make it go in faster. Problem number 2 is that much of the physical aid ends in Hamas's hands or in the black market and there is nothing we can do with that. I have heard recommendations to wait and see who opens a field hospital on the Rafah border crossing, and donate to them. Despite that, here are some charities to help Palestinians both in and out of Gaza.
I will admit, most of my activism is focused on deradicalization on the Israeli side and solidarity work, so I had to ask around for some of those charities. Some of the groups I know of do not currently have an international donation link, so if I get more good ones, I'll make another post.
Gaza:
Medical aid for Palestinians-
Anera-
Doctors without borders-
Palestinians outside of Gaza and Peace movements:
Palestinian red Crescent- they also work in Gaza, but as the main source for Palestinian ambulances in the WB, I put them here.
mistaclim (Looking the occupation the the eye)- this group is helping to protect Palestinians from the illegal settlers
Keshet- this is a big one. they support Bedouin communities in normal times, and now they are working on getting bomb shelters to the unrecognized villages, and providing a mental health first aid line.
standing together- totally biased, as I am a member of this organization.
Women wage peace- a feminist based solidarity group
Haqel- they represents Palestinians in cases related to land ownership and access. there work is still ongoing even during the war
Center for Jewish non Violence - a diaspora org that also does a lot of work in the South Hebron Hills.
Is there anything I can do to help Palestinians besides call my representatives and beg them to stop killing people?
This is a great question. There are a few things you can do—just off the top of my head:
BDS (Boycott, Divest, Sanction) https://bdsmovement.net/
Direct Action https://www.palestineaction.org/
Urge your University/School/Organization to put out a statement denouncing Israel
Organize a Protest/Participate in a local one
You might already be doing this but while calling your reps, tell them that as a voter, you're unwilling to support them in the upcoming election unless they urge the White House to take a stand against Israel and stop funding them
Share art/writing/films around Palestinian culture
If you're part of a union, ask them what they're doing to urge their industry leaders to take a stand against Israel + pressure the White House OR urge them to start a strike/walkout/etc if they're not doing anything already
Talk with your friends IRL about Palestine, whether in an activist capacity or watching a movie or literally anything
Reach out to a mosque to see if you can help them with anything
See if your city/state council has put out a statement in support of Gazans. If not, try to push them to do so.
Donate to Palestine Legal or Direct Action if you have some money to spare
KEEP TALKING ON SOCIAL MEDIA!!!!!!!! PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!!!
I know some of these don't feel like they have as big of an impact on helping Palestinians, but we do need to make an effort not to forget their humanity in the face of continued erasure and the media's sensationalist rhetoric.
Talking on social media and posting—while not seeming like a lot—does SO much. I know in USAmerica, it's like yelling into a void, but political analysts are saying that most of the "Global South" has completely lost any amount of goodwill it may have had the past few years. Hopefully, countries will start to put sanctions and embargoes en masse on the US and Israel soon.
Our goals here are BOTH short-term and long-term. We hope for the life and liberation of the Palestinian people, so anything that you can think of might help at some point in the future is encouraged to at least try.
If anyone else has any more ideas, feel free to reblog and add on. Thank you for asking, and here is to a liberated Palestine where Palestinians can live and thrive without fear.
So I found this thing on Xitter, and I tried doing my research to see if any kind of facts came up about it on whether it was true or not. I got a mixed bag, half sources saying yes, and they other saying no, the Samson Option is not a real thing. (Most of the “articles” saying the Samson Option were true were written with many, many antisemitic dog-whistles). As a last resort, I was wondering if you knew anything about this and whether it is true or not, or it is just another “Jews control the whole world” conspiracy theory.
so the ‘samson option’ refers to a deterrence strategy that has never (and is unlikely to) be put into effect. essentially it’s ‘retaliation with nuclear weapons if israel is truly on the brink of extinction’—like samson, the enemy would go down with it.
israel has never officially admitted to having nuclear weapons—this is a strategy known as ‘nuclear opacity’, a form of strategic ambiguity. but it’s also an open secret that they have nuclear warheads.
laughably untrue that israel alone is opaque about their nuclear arsenal. do these people know anything about nuclear deterrence or history or weapons production or the iran nuclear deal or— (no, no, no, and no).
i can find no evidence corroborating the claim that israel has stockpiles of sarin gas, which assad used in syria and iraq used against iranian forces in 1988. that doesn’t mean israel doesn’t have chemical weapons, but this claim in particular is unsubstantiated.
that last tweet is conspiracy nonsense. international pressure has worked on israel before (do you remember when israel had control of the entire sinai peninsula?) and the world is still very much here.
“the world is essentially being held hostage by them” will blow back on all jews, absolutely, even if that is not the intent.
... Ukraine itself stands with Israel, so I guess it's time to taste a little bit of the zionist poison.
I stand with Palestine 🇵🇸
and once again: it drives me absolutely fucking insane that the posts with the most notes and the most engagement aka the voices being most listened to do not come from jewish people, or palestinian people, or israeli people, or anyone actually remotely personally affected by this, it's just by some fucking american tankie wasps getting high off the clout and popularity of telling people how to be a politics understander. where the fuck is your 'listen to marginalized voices' now, tumblr. fuck you.
i think a lot of people are clinging on to very antisemitic ideas about the global Jewish elite being behind the current us military policy in Israel because they’re antisemitic
i also think a lot of them are doing it because it provides targets that are easier to deal with mentally and simpler to fight than…: the entire us military industrial complex. Like so many of these isssues are in fact *worse* than you think they are. The us doesn’t give Israeli civilians or the Israeli economy direct cash. It hasnt been brainwashed into loving Israeli civilians through some secret (((hasbara))). The “aid” is a blank check of money that’s already been set aside for military purposes that is then used to buy weapons directly from American companies - think of it like a red lobster gift card from your uncle, who owns a red lobster. As such the money goes straight back to American arms dealers. Closed loop. They have so much reason for this continue forever and for war to continue forever. This isn’t a justification for any of the horrific things being done right now but it’s like…: so much more complicated than American Jews learning to sing hatikvah and I think there’s a massive misdirection on some of the interests involved, because those misdirects make an easier situation to swallow. After all Judaism as a whole, American Judaism, is so much less powerful than the collective interests of the military industrial complex - it’s an easier entity for people to call a war on
I'm going to try to turn my anger and frustration into action. I've abstained from making a post like this for a long time because I really don't enjoy this topic, but, we've reached a moment of such intense anti-Semitism that I think it's my duty, as a Holocaust historian, to say something. I'm going to use bullet points.
- Jewish people in leftist and pro-Palestine spaces who inform others that their speech has anti-Semitic undertones aren't trying to silence you; they're asking you to please not make the space actively unsafe for them because they WANT to stay and do this work. Anti-Semitism is part of the intellectual heritage of the West, and all the places the West has colonized. It is part of the language, the speech, the literature, in ways it's hard for non-Jews to grasp. When Jews hear it and see it, they're trying to educate you so these spaces can stay safe and accessibly to them; please listen.
- The "Zionists" aren't getting celebrities who speak out against the IDF's war crimes in Gaza fired from projects because "they" control Hollywood and the media. Those celebrities were spewing anti-Semitism veiled as criticism of Israel, and it's absolutely just that they face consequences. I wish all public figures faced consequences like these. Susan Sarandon, for example, said the following at a rally in New York: “There are a lot of people afraid of being Jewish at this time, and are getting a taste of what it feels like to be a Muslim in this country, so often subjected to violence.” This isn't courageous pro-Palestinian speech. This is very very blatant anti-Semitic rhetoric, in which Jews are viewed as an internal enemy; a hive-mind inherently more loyal to each other than the state; and who must suffer collectively for any act perpetrated by any Jew. Hitler talked like this. Henry Ford talked like this. The White Russians talked like this. Just because Susan Sarandon is too willfully ignorant to understand why what she said was deeply violent and anti-Semitic, doesn't mean that it wasn't anti-Semitic. To the contrary, these words not simply condone violence against Jews, but incite it. That doesn't help Palestinians. To the contrary, it creates situations where Jews may feel that they have no other option but to....flee to Israel. As happened to much of Middle Eastern and North African (MENA) Jewry during the second half of the twentieth century.
- Jews talking about the Holocaust, their historical experiences, and their intergenerational trauma is not political speech. It is not about Palestine, or Israel, until someone else decides to make it about Palestine, or Israel. Further, the realness of that trauma does not exist in counter towards the trauma experience by Palestinians. It does not cancel out the traumatic experiences of Palestinians, and vice versa. Both traumatic experiences simply exist. The Jew who barely survived Auschwitz and the death marches and made their way--sobbing and broken, with no living family to turn to and no home to return to--to the Promised Land when they had nowhere else to go; and the Palestinian Arab, who spent centuries living on and cultivating that land, only to be violently expelled from their property and forced to live as a landless refugee within a State built on their ancestral land, but not created for them, who now exist in silently damning photographs of Palestinian elders holding keys to properties which no longer exist...they are both real. These experiences exist, and not in contradiction to each other. As educated, informed people, our place is not to fight over which trauma mattered more or was worse, or happened in the first place, G-d forbid, but simply to accept that both experiences happened and were real. Are real. Very few things in this Conflict are easy or simple, and the only option is to learn to hold those contradictions in your head.
- All Israelis are as much a Netanyahu-loving Arab-hating group of nationals, as all US Americans are a Trump-loving POC-hating group of nationals. A lot of Israelis are DEEPLY unhappy with the war, Netanyahu, and his handling of Palestinians, and have been for a VERY long time. Netanyahu has been engaging openly in criminal acts, and working to undermine Israel's democracy for YEARS now. Further, Israel has a HUGE number of active political parties; at least 13 active right now, for a country with the population of ~9,813,920. It is a Parliamentary system, meaning that the party in charge is not the party which wins the majority of votes, but which wins the largest PROPORTION of votes. A majority of Israelis don't need to have voted for Netanyahu's party (Likud) for his party to have won the majority of seats in the Knesset. Moreover, if all Israelis WERE just like that first line of this bullet point's first sentence, why should American Jews have to be punished for that? Why is this belief in Jews as a collective hive-mind still so prevalent?
- "None of this matters all Jews should know better based on their historical experiences and any Jew who supports Israel is basically a Nazi." Yeah. A lot to unpack. First of all, no one is born having been educated and and encouraged to engage in critical thought about their past(s). That's a choice. Jews are before anything else, people, and they, like all people, must choose to grow, learn, and change. They, like you, can choose to learn from the past, or just sprint forward without critical thought. Like you. Like anyone. Now, for the next part....non-Jews really like using Hitler/Third Reich/Holocaust comparisons in relation to Israel and Palestine. Let's break this down to what it actually is. Israel and Nazi Germany are both examples of the nation-state. They are also VERY FAR from the only examples of a nation-state. Indonesia in a nation-state. China is/wants to be a nation state. Poland, Norway, Croatia, Bhutan, Myanmar, Rwanda, Iran, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Turkey; Thailand, Mongolia; these are ALL nation-states. A nation-state--a type of polity which exists for a singular ethno-national group based on the understanding that that ethno-national group has long term historical roots in that particular geographic area--are an inherently exclusive type of political organization, and a product of modernity. Because they are inherently exclusive in their conception of statehood and citizenship, all nation-states will contain minority populations which exist as an existential threat to the State's ideological roots and agreed upon mythology. Under the best of circumstances, the majority will handle this minority with condescending interest and concern; under the worst, shit will go to ethnic cleaning and/or genocide places very fucking fast. This is not something exclusive to the Third Reich, or Myanmar, or Turkey, or Indonesia, or Bhutan, or China etc; this is a problem at the very heart of the construct of the nation-state. The fact that a certain portion of critics of Israel choose specifically Nazi Germany and the Holocaust as comparisons for Israeli policy towards Palestine again and again and again says, to me, that this is a person who is 1) sick of "whiny Jews;" 2) sick of having to pretend to care about the Holocaust; 3) is thrilled that "The Jews" (not Israel, the Jews) are "just as bad" as Hitler so now they can stop pretending to care about the Holocaust; and 4) knows that invoking that comparison will deeply disturb all Jews around, and will use their distress as "proof" that "all Jews" are Zionists who hate Palestine and use Holocaust memory as a tool of ideological violence. It's transparent, ignorant, and offensive.
If you are angry or defensive or wanting to unfollow me or respond with righteous indignation after reading this, it may be because you are an anti-Semite, and are suffering from cognitive dissonance based on the fact that you believe that you are a good person with no bigoted beliefs. The good news, is that you can use your negative emotions to learn, and grow a more complex understanding of all the truths and lies and parallel, contradictory truths at the heart of all this. This blog is a space I hope is open and welcome for everyone, Jewish, Palestinian, and otherwise, because deserves access to history, and an understanding of how history works. This is not a space, however, which will ever strive to make anti-Semites feel good about themselves.
Written by a Gazan author:
A post by @bambahalva on the subject of Oct 7 denials and demands for "proof" (that is already readily available) made me think of something related, but in the interest of not flooding her (very good) post I'll make a new one -
Does it make anyone else's skin crawl the way so many people outside of Israel and Palestine seem to face this war (and all the others before them, and the continued issues between wars) in a way that feels almost voyeuristic? The willingness of people outside Israel and Palestine to post graphic photos of dead children at the slightest provocation, the eagerness to breathlessly share the lurid details of real and alleged crimes, the insistence that it's somehow a moral duty to spend hours scrolling through photos of horrific scenes of pure human tragedy... It's. I mean. It's fucking grotesque.
I've complained on this blog before about true crime girlies (poorly) "analyzing" photos of the Oct. 7 aftermath and tbh, many of the reactions to the I/P conflict broadly remind me a lot of the worst aspects of true crime "fandom," where rather than being motivated by a real desire for justice or even a fascination with a complex real life mystery, people seek out and indeed demand the sordid details of the worst day of someone's life, treating a family's ongoing waking nightmare as entertainment to which they are entitled.
I don't know. I'm just thinking of how many times I've seen photos of horrific scenes of human suffering, bodies in Gaza and bodies from the kibbutzim, and dead Syrian children shared on Twitter by a self-proclaimed "activist" from Michigan in the name of Palestinian liberation, who doesn't know enough to know that these children died in a different country ten years ago, but by G-d, they're doing truly good work showing their corpses to strangers for...
What purpose, exactly?
I'm thinking of strangers with no influence and no power and no connection to this war save an emoji they just added to their username demanding to see graphic photos of rapes and mutilations, as if they're entitled to it, as if it's their right as an onlooker to gawk at human misery - And again I say, for what?
Fayez has only 312 USD to their campaign!! Please donate if you can and if you can't, please take the time to reblog/share the link
Despite everything, these children are a source of hope and strength for us. Please don't let it fade away. My family is barely hanging on for them and their older brothers and sisters. These are pictures of the family's children before the war and after the war. 🙏🙏💔💔
We will be forever grateful for any kind of support .💔💔🙏🙏
#Frregaza #frrepalestine
op says everything I could say about firas fundraiser but better. firas' situation is not only time sensitive, but extremely overlooked by others. his first milestone is EXTREMELY small and we can 100% raise it by aug 1st.
Please reblog, share, and spread his gofundme around if you can't donate. Sharing is free, and can put fundraisers on the eyes of people who can donate.
And if you have anything to spare, please consider donating, even if it's just 5$.
You can contribute to helping two Gazan medical students pay university fees🇵🇸‼️
your donation can make a huge difference ,so don’t ignore it🙏
I started publishing my campaign on the Tumblr app two weeks ago and I did not receive many donations, approximately $10 or $20 a day. I currently need $3000 for me and my sister to be able to pay university fees before the end of the exam period (which ends on August 1).
I never imagined that one day we would reach this situation
But I really need that help
Help me complete my dream and my family’s dream
I'm really thankful for those who donate and those who spread my dream
That help will make a lot of difference to me so don't ignore me🥺🙏🙏
These are pictures that confirm that we paid the fees for the first semester only
Help us for my dream and my family’s dream🩺‼️🇵🇸
very important‼️🥺
Siraj's family is between disappointment and hope
When the hope of returning home evaporates, and you become displaced and displaced without housing, for an open term, and without a date for the end of the tragedy, you feel that all your energy has been exhausted, and terrifying nightmares begin to dominate your mind.😔
I worked long hours and borrowed a lot to complete the house, and I am not happy with it yet. Now all I have is the tent, in which I will remain until an unknown date. I have lost the house that could have protected us from the humiliation of homelessness and misery in the ruins of Gaza if life had been given to us.😢
My children are living in a state of despair and loss, with no education or recreational games, and how difficult it is to stand in front of them when you are unable to provide them with food, drink, and housing.😭
Some pictures of the effects of the house's destruction
The tent we currently live in is a convection oven
This is the place where we prepare our food. It has a clay oven and needs wood daily.
My young son, Muhammad, is tired of frightening, polluted water in which diseases and epidemics spread, but there is no alternative to that
My goal now is to rebuild the house, and I am very far from the goal that has become a big dream for me. I ask you for your help, participation, and serious attention. How difficult it is to become homeless indefinitely.💔
20$ can make a difference
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Siraj's gfm has been growing to a stalemate, and donations are slow. Please donate if you can, and if you can't, reblog. (and use tags, please)
Daily update(5)💔
Children were terrified by the sound of the earthquake😭
This is how my children are terrified every day by the sound of bombing. When my son Muhammad hears this sound, he stops eating, drinking, and talking to others for a whole day until he begins to forget this terrifying sound, then the sound returns again the next day and the scenario is repeated.
For the sake of these children, stop the war on Gaza, stop the bloodshed.
The Israeli occupation is trying to steal our land and displace us.
Help us build our house and stay in our land, and we will not leave it if it costs our lives.
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🚨 HIGH URGENT CASE 🚨
I'm not exaggerating, but I'll actually tell you that this might be my last appearance because of the intense bombing that's happening to us now. And here we are escaping into the unknown. I don't know where we're going. Please pray for us and forgive us. A message I received from a Palestinian mother of three who lost the people dearest to her, her home and everything she owned. Please, if every person sees this post and donates €5 , it will make a big difference in protecting her children.
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