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Hello

The stage of taking the risk to relate the picture has ended and the stage of trying to survive has begun. I have transferred enough, and I bear witness to God that it was for his own sake and for the service of my country.

We are now living under the beginning of an internal siege. We cannot go out, whether toward the north or the south. Israeli tanks are surrounding the central region of the north and south.

Our situation is tragic beyond what you can imagine. Remember. We are not content for sharing. We are people who are being killed and a cause that we're trying to keep from being erased from existence

Oh, we are alone!

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resource request: Indigenous health resources

As part of the Better Future Program’s (@bfpnola's) Indigenous liberation theme for this volunteer term, I’m asking for some help with BFP’s Health Library. The Health Library is a collection of resources for international health education and care that we aim to make freely accessible. From November 2023 to January 2024, I’m going to focus on gathering resources for Indigenous health.

As an international organisation, Indigenous liberation covers a range of interconnected issues and diverse communities and experiences. Some focus areas this term include:

providing care in Palestine and during the Palestinian genocide;

the australian Aboriginal healthcare gap;

Indigenous access to healthcare internationally, including in: - the USA & Canada; - the Congo; and - Sudan.

If you have any resources you would like to see added to the Health Library, you can:

DM me;

@ me in BFP’s Discord server, which you can join here; or

Email me through the contact form.

I also made this post on Instagram, if you would like to share or repost.

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i am late bc i fully missed this notification but let me join the club anyway <3

haven’t done a picrew in a long time!! why not, yk? :)

@eathotchipandcry @idontthinkalot @roseteagreen @tamizhithinks and whoever else hehe

#family

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Did you know that Giving Tuesday is a holiday where you can give back to your favorite organizations to help fulfill their missions of bettering this world? This year, we’d like you to consider Better Future Program (BFP) for your donations! Founded in 2016 @reaux07, BFP is a 501(c)(3) youth-run nonprofit headquartered in Bulbancha, also known as New Orleans, Louisiana. Our mission is to globally expand peer-led political education, support, and imagination for marginalized youth!

You still have 12 hours TODAY to donate to Better Future Program! Tap the link in our bio or attached below for more [emoji] 🔗

And if you can’t donate? Share this post as well as our volunteer application, attached below:

#giving tuesday #nonprofit #nonprofit organisation #youth liberation #sydney #australia #liberation schools #donate #donations

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resource request: Indigenous health resources

As part of the Better Future Program’s (@bfpnola's) Indigenous liberation theme for this volunteer term, I’m asking for some help with BFP’s Health Library. The Health Library is a collection of resources for international health education and care that we aim to make freely accessible. From November 2023 to January 2024, I’m going to focus on gathering resources for Indigenous health.

As an international organisation, Indigenous liberation covers a range of interconnected issues and diverse communities and experiences. Some focus areas this term include:

providing care in Palestine and during the Palestinian genocide;

the australian Aboriginal healthcare gap;

Indigenous access to healthcare internationally, including in: - the USA & Canada; - the Congo; and - Sudan.

If you have any resources you would like to see added to the Health Library, you can:

DM me;

@ me in BFP’s Discord server, which you can join here; or

Email me through the contact form.

I also made this post on Instagram, if you would like to share or repost.

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‘Children of Shatila’ (Lebanon, 1998) film by Mai Masri. In this scene the youth of the Palestinian refugee camp interview an elder with a video camera.

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The Big Damn List Of Stuff They Said You Didn't Know

Thousands and thousands of years back in three minutes:

But closer to the issue...

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 Pappé (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 Years’ 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) Israel’s 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 • 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 Doctor’s 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 ‘Legal Consequences arising from the Policies and Practices of Israel in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem’

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 Conflict’ 2009 (‘The Goldstone Report’)

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

‘The Promise’, directed by Peter Kosminsky (2010) (4 part miniseries on the creation of Israel)

Sources:

https://www.972mag.com/

https://jewishcurrents.org/

Jadaliyya ‘Gaza in Context’ Series

Jadaliyya “War on Palestine” podcast - The War on Palestine Podcast: Episode 1

Border Chronicle, Interview with Israeli anthropologist Jeff Halper

NGOs

B’Tselem

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

Share widely!

(if any links are broken let me know. Or pull up the current post to check whether it's fixed.)

From River To The Sea Palestine Will Be Free 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸

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if you’re feeling helpless about the genocide in gaza please remember that you’re still a consumer! you can help by taking part in the BDS movement by being more mindful of where you spend your money! boycott Starbucks, McDonald’s, and Disney..as well as these other major brands:

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jewishvoiceforpeace: This is what genocide looks like. These are the 2913 Palestinian children killed by the Israeli military this month, as of Thursday, October 26. As the Israeli airstrikes on Gaza intensify, we recognize with horror and grief that this death toll is already inaccurate.

We demand a ceasefire now to save lives. To stop a genocide. The Israeli military has already erased 47 entire Palestinian families from Gaza's population registry; all members of the family, from all generations, are dead. This is loss beyond measure.

The U.S. is also responsible for this horror. 80% of the bombs that the Israeli military drops on Gaza, that are used to kill these children, are American-made. We are called to do everything we can to stop this genocide.

As we continue to demand a ceasefire and fight for a future where everyone is free and equal and safe, we refuse to forget these lives. We will always affirm that every life is precious.

Every single one of these deaths was preventable. When we say Never Again-for anyone, this is who we mean. Never Again is right now.

Source: Gaza Ministry of Health

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with tumblr suppressing the palestine tag and pushing pro-zionist propaganda through their ads, the least people here can do is disable their checkmarks/badges and stop buying more

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If anyone wants to support an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Drag Queen on her wedding (some financial stuff came up so she can't pay for it all anymore) feel free to donate through my Kofi and I'll get it to her. Mad B is my drag mum and the wedding is this coming Saturday, and I'm planning on covering the majority of expenses that came up, but it be dope if I could get some help cuz it's $500

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emily gwen is unfortunately homeless. if you've ever used the lesbian flag please consider donating to a comrade.

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dni lists don't work and i am well aware of this but just know that if you are a zionist/pro-israel and/or you think the israel/palestine situation is a "neutral situation" please know that you are extremely unwelcome here and will be made to feel that way. free palestine

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transsexuals will be like is anyone else gonna relate to the minotaur

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unabashedly being a dionysian on main so if there's one ancient play i think everyone should read it is the Bacchae.

#the imagery #the gentle joy #the feral rage #the sadistic satisfaction #the gut-twisting knowledge of what is to come #the way pentheus is there to be pitied and scorned at once. pathetic man. #the sheer power and calm anger radiating off dionysos #if pentheus was invented today he'd be a tumblr pathetic sexyman #people would be frothing #dionysos/maenad apologists vs pentheus apologists CAN YOU IMAGINE #it would be fucking intolerable I'd THRIVE #cadmus & teiresias stans would be in the corner just drawing the grandpas in their deer skins #meanwhile a maenad lesbian fighting for her life against the pentheus apologists in the notes of her sexy blood-soaked agaue drawing #maenad lesbian: *sexy drawing of blood-soaked agaue after tearing pentheus to pieces* #someone else: *heart-wrenching comic of agaue realising she's just torn her son to pieces* #pentheus apologist: *heart-wrenching comic about pentheus realising his own mother is about to kill him* #cadmus sympathist: *heart-wrenching comic about his banishment and ultimate death never seeing his daughters again*

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Oh holy shit they found Silphium alive and growing in the wild.

#fuck yeah

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I hate Arthur Evans and I hate Heinrich Schliemann and I hate Howard Carter and I hate Leonard Woand I hate every single archaeology/history teacher who tries to justify or normalise the shit they did because it "got us where we are today" NO. do you have ANY idea how much further we could have come if the people "discovering" these sites had cooperated with local people instead of exploiting them and stealing their shit to make up their own white wet dreams about history?

reasons we should invent time travel: so I can go back in time and steal all of Arthur Evans' funding for excavations at Knossos and give it to Minos Kalokairinos, the local Cretan man who was the first to excavate and map Knossos but got kicked out of the picture by Mr I-Have-The-Money-To-Bring-My-Homeric-Wet-Dream-To-Life

#i will die on this hill #actually no #i will KILL on this hill #specifically I will kill arthur evans heinrich schliemann howard carter leonard woolley #or any of the other motherfuckers #who abused exploitative colonial systems for their own gain