Arab medical students and doctors in the US formed the Palestine Anti-Zionism Society (later known as the Palestine National League and then the Arab National League) as early as 1917 to protest the Balfour Declaration, the British government’s statement that called for the establishment of a “national home for the Jewish people’’ in Palestine.
The group published 1921’s “The Case Against Zionism” text and testified before Congress against the establishment of a Zionist state. The students also battled the negative depictions of Arabs that were spreading across the country alongside the Zionist movement.
More than 100 years ago, two members of the group told Congress what pro-Palestinian students across America are saying today: “Palestinians are not as backward as the Zionists portray them. They are entitled to a chance to build their own homeland…”
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There is supposed to be a place where no one can reach you. Traditionally, the home, but now we settle for the ocean, the airplane, the summit of a mountain, the middle of a lake, the shower, the womb, the grave
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Margaret Wise Brown, The Runaway Bunny
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kinder than man, althea davis
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ive gotten so much mileage out of this tweet. every time i see something on the internet that makes me mad i just think to myself "people in real life: hey man how's it going" and i keep it pushing
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when people say "oh that was only four months ago" and i went on nine journeys since then. suffered losses and withstood trials that would drive a saner person mad and got lost in the same maze enough times i go there now to rest for a bit. what do you mean it was only january i would pass by january me in the street as if id never known who that is. time is a personal topic really somet in my dna must be parsing these numbers differently
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ngl i feel like shooting them a lot would like kill a medieval pesant lol.
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Don't worry, the US government is investigating Israel for any war crimes. Don't worry about it. ok?
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A couple in the waves of Galveston Bay, Texas, in May of 1972.
Blair Pittman/NARA
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andré 3000 & kate moss for rolling stone russia (2004)
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Don't forget to sleep on your neck at a weird angle tonight. I love you
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"Do not destroy the landscape!" (Soviet Union, Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic, 1980s)
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words of wisdom from wikipedia this evening
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