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to be a decent ally, your love for any oppressed group of people has to be greater than your hatred of the oppressor, btw

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(A fundraiser I trust. Please spread the word.)

This fundraiser is for my cousin, Ahmed Abdeen; I am a Palestinian living in the US. Here is Ahmed's story in his own words.

”I life in Rafah where I have lived my whole life. I am asking you for support today to be able to buy basic things such as canned food, flour and materials for tents when available. I need these supplies for myself and my family and also everyone in Gaza is my family so as long as I can I need to support everyone else who needs support. I am distributing goods to people who are displaced and living in tents around us. We are living in unimaginable conditions as I am sure that you are aware and we are asking for support.”

Thank you for taking the time to read this and please consider contributing even if its is only a small amount. This money will be wired directly via our personal bank accounts.

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source: @ doctorswithoutborders (tiktok)

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so I got this email a couple hours ago

the UNRWA is disbursing payments again! the US had to walk back its disastrous decision to quit funding Palestine relief. is $5m a very small place to start considering the work needing to be done, yeah, it is, but we are moving in the right direction finally.

if a poorly cropped email means nothing to you, here is their official statement!

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Today, people in Oakland, California, Eugene, Oregon, and Chicago, Illinois have blocked major highways. Demonstrators in Minnesota blockaded an Amazon facility. Others from Canada to Australia have shut down ports and other infrastructure.

These courageous actions in solidarity with Palestinians are just one step towards stopping the genocide in Gaza, where the Israeli military has slaughtered over 34,000 people, the majority of whom are women and children.

It's up to us to create a world without colonial violence of any kind.

https://crimethinc.com/GazaSolidarity

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I'm gonna keep saying this: the average Arab 9 year old has a better understanding of SWANA geopolitics and American imperialism than the most intelligent and decorated 'Middle Eastern politics' academic in the West.

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Columbia is unhousing students of color after suspending them:

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A tweet about the complicity of zionist academia:

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This is the funniest fucking thing I've ever seen. Typical french L

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"I feel so normal about him" well I dont. move

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While we're all talking about the antiblackness, transmisogyny, and zionism running rampant on the Tumblr staff team, can we talk about the fact that Tumblr staff has sided with a known predator several times too?

Months ago, an account called @critterkiddo posted a callout on @toonimal for being a pedophile and zoophile and running a website where adults and minors can exchange CSEM. Both accounts were then terminated, critterkiddo for "targeted abuse and harassment" and toonimal probably because of mass reporting.

Critterkiddo wasn't just terminated, though — all reblogs of the callout were wiped from Tumblr.

Toonimal's account was then reinstated. I submitted the following Harm To Minors report:

And received the following response:

We thought that the issue with the callout that led to the termination of critterkiddo was that we revealed some of toonimal's personal information in it. Information that was available to the public, mind you, but most websites are legally required to respond to complaints about their users being "doxxed" so whatever. I was actually doxxed when I was 15 and no one lifted a finger to help me despite the dozens of reports I submitted, but alright. We revised the document and removed all of toonimal's identifying information, and I posted the new version of the callout on @bi-greed —

And the same thing happened again. I was terminated. The reblogs of the callout (which had over 4,000 notes) were wiped. I have not received a response to the appeal request I submitted, last week.

Toonimal's blog remains active, where he gloats about @predstrogen getting terminated when he didn't because "she was breaking the rules and he wasn't:"

Because apparently it's fine for him to use Tumblr to advertise his website where adult self-identified pedophiles can talk to minors, as well as various other things like promote his belief that having sex with dogs should be legal and DM a Black survivor of police brutality to call them a cop bootlicker for disagreeing 🥴

You don't have to reblog this, but I would appreciate it if you did. It is very disappointing to me that Tumblr staff has gotten away with covering for toonimal twice. I'm too scared to repost the link to the callout a second time because I know I'll be terminated again, but I want people to know:

Tumblr staff stands with pedophiles and zoophiles and will work to cover for them and defend them while banning people of color and trans women who have done nothing wrong.

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This isn’t commonly known but one of the rings of hell is actually being in a fandom wherein the popular bloggers have the worst opinions known to man that everyone else parrots

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you look like the kinda girl who'd open up ms paint back in the day select the spray paint tool and click and hold to watch it slowly turn into a perfect circle

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Israeli soldiers are conducting a series of invasive operations across the West Bank, abducting numerous Palestinians, killing and injuring civillians, and engaging in destructive raids on homes and Palestinian property.

This is what happened today (April 18) in the West Bank:

At dawn - Israeli soldiers launched a widespread operation in various parts of the occupied West Bank, breaking into homes, damaging Palestinian properties, and detaining at least 26 Palestinians, including two young women.

At day - The aggression continued as soldiers proceeded to assault Adli Rayyes and his son, Hashem, resulting in various injuries to both of them. Palestinian medics had to transport them to Jericho governmental hospital for treatment.

Afternoon - The Israeli Occupation Forces moved to the central West Bank where they entered the town Deir Ballout (west of Salfit city). There, they confiscated a telecommunications car that was being used for repair and maintenance work.

Evening - Dozens of Israeli soldiers invaded the Ein Al-Sultan refugee camp (north of Jericho). They stormed and ransacked homes within the camp and abducted a young man named Nayef Abu Dahouk, taking him to an unknown destination. At the same time an Israeli military jeep rammed into a young Palestinian woman in Jenin (northern West Bank). She was taken to the Jenin governmental hospital, and is currently suffering from fractures and severe bruising.

The Palestinian Detainees Committee reports that over 40 Palestinians were abducted by Israeli soldiers TODAY alone, from various parts of the West Bank, with a concentration of these abductions occurring in Nablus, followed by operations in Ramallah, Bethlehem, Jericho, Hebron, and Jerusalem.

Two homes belonging to Mohammad and Ahmad Zeidat, who have been kidnapped since January, in the town Bani Naim (near Hebron) were also demolished.

Over 8,310 Palestinians have been abducted by the Israeli Occupation Forces since October 7, 2023.

(Source: IMEMC News, International Middle East Media Center)

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