A package arrived from Palestine!
Wow that's nice 👍
Let's try it on (excuse my tricolour beard)
The last remaining Keffiyeh factory in Palestine is the Hirbawi factory. Sadly all other Keffiyehs are made outside the land we associate them with. But lucky for those who want to support Palestinian business and artisans, they have some absolutely stunning colour combinations and gorgeous workmanship. This one has a very soft creamy yellow, a white, and brown embroidered accents, it is clear that there's a lot of care and artistry to their designs.
I found this one on Etsy from Meetpalestinestore but the Hirbawi website is half the price at kufiyas.org - it just has been on back order for a long long time due to the occupation's recent violence and forced economic shutdowns.
If you're interested I could show you my others, I really love these garments and this is my third from this great traditional factory. I know it isn't much, but I am proud to be able to support a business keeping this beautiful industry alive, and in a small way support a people who are facing unthinkable hardship too.
🍉🍉🍉🍉🍉🍉🍉🍉🍉🍉🍉🍉🍉🍉🍉🍉
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Boycott Israeli Dates this Ramadan, from Call 2 Action Now, 28/Feb/2024: (caption under images)
This Ramadan, don’t break your fast with an Israeli date. Stand in solidarity with the Palestinian people.
Israel’s genocidal assault on Palestinians in the Gaza Strip has now killed tens of thousands. Palestinians, facing down Israel’s catastrophic violence, call on us to boycott Israeli products in solidarity with their struggle for freedom.
Follow this quick guide to boycotting Israeli dates:
• Always check the label when buying dates. Don’t buy dates that are produced or packaged in Israel or its West Bank settlements. If no country of origin can be found on the box, check the retailer’s website.
• One of Israel’s largest exporters is called Hadiklaim. It sells dates in supermarkets under these names: King Solomon, Jordan River and Jordan River Bio-Top, as well as under the labels of supermarket chains. Check the box carefully, if the dates were “exported by Hadiklaim” – don’t buy them.
• Avoid these companies: Mehadrin, MTex, Edom, Carmel Agrexco, and Arava
#checkthelabel is not enough. Israel has been caught labelling their dates as ‘produce of Palestine’. Tesco, Sainsbury’s, Waitrose, M&S, Morrison, Aldi, Lidl and Asda package Israeli dates under their own labels!
Buy dates from Zaytoun, Alard, Yaffa, and Holy Land Date all support Palestinian Farmers. If you cannot get hold of these brands then buy dates from Tunisia, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Pakistan, UAE and Algeria.
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im sure its been said already but as the election draws near more and more liberals will come out of the woodwork to shame people with a conscience to give away their vote to the democrats for free. i'm already seeing posts saying "why aren't people more concerned about a trump presidency?" you want to know why? it's because people already know he's bad. everyone already knows what he is and what he's done and what he'll do. there's nothing to discuss. he's a racist despotic worm of a man. there's nothing else to say.
biden is currently president. the genocide is happening under his watch. he's the one funding isra*l and arming them; he's sidestepped congress more than once to give them weapons. by oct. 27, the biden administration already knew that "Israel was regularly bombing buildings without solid intelligence that they were legitimate military targets." the state department/biden have engaged in atrocity propaganda, cast doubt on the legitimacy of the death toll recorded by the gaza health ministry, and so on. the united states is currently in the process of trying to pin the "war in gaza" on netanyahu (see sen. schumer's speech) after months of backing blatant genocide as a means to act as if they're "doing something" about the genocide (Instead of, say, threatening to cut off all aid to israel with the condition that all hostilities in gaza, the west bank, and occupied jerusalem are halted immediately and permanently, allowing palestinians freedom to travel, allowing aid into gaza, etc etc etc.)
the long and short of it is that liberals view their own lives as being worth more than palestinians'. that's it. they'll vote for another 4 years of the guy ushering in genocide and supporting apartheid + settler colonialism because he isn't outright attacking them (despite various laws and rulings happening both at the supreme court level and at the local level all over the country that will endanger people). they'll settle for the illusion of safety and security and shame anyone with a conscience and accuse them of "supporting the republicans" when in an actual democracy you would be able to use your vote as leverage to extract concessions from those who want to be elected. that's how it's supposed to fucking work.
democrats are not owed people's vote. if biden loses, it will be biden's fault; it will be his campaign's fault; it will be the democrats' fault. trump is bad; the republicans are bad. we already know this. this is not an endorsement of either. but if democrats are too cowardly and feckless and servile to the motivations of the american empire and never do anything for their constituents then why the fuck should anyone vote for them. you want to get mad at someone, why don't you do something useful and stop worrying about team-sports with a purely selfish basis and start hounding the people in power who are supposed to serve you, the voter.
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BDS and the Nazis
This was in Nazi Germany back in the 30s. Do you think Humanity has learned anything from this?
No, no they have not.
This time, they're hiding their antisemitism under the guise of "Liberation for palestinians" and "Fighting apartheid" which is bullshit. They've disguised their antisemitism as "Antizionism" and replacing the word "Jew" with "Israeli" or "Zionist".
All over my city I've seen boycott Israel posters all around Jewish areas and businesses, most with no ties to Israel.
If you really want to help the humanitarian situation in Gaza, donate to a charity which won't give the money to Hamas, don't boycott businesses owned by Jews because some casual antisemites want you to.
If you actively choose to be part of the BDS movement, you are no better than the Nazis in the images above boycotting Jewish businesses. You are no better than the people who would label Jewish businesses and smash their windows in. It's vile.
#BDSisantisemitic <- Spread the word
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i hope we continue to see more protests within the US military. i see a lot of leftists and folks who are anti-military who have such an open disdain for the people who are in the military, yet neglect to considering the conditions this country makes to produce ideology, poverty, and the illusion of choice to make all kinds of people choose to enlist in the military. You ever see those videos of ROTC kids recording each other asking why they joined the military and everyone's like, "healthcare", "it helped me go to college", "I was bored" or "free ptsd lol". I hate to remind everyone but folks who are in the military are people, too, and they are the same victims and perpetrators of violence as the rest of you, we have all been shallowly conditioned to view each other as enemies just because one person is wearing army greens and the other is not.
some of the biggest anti-war advocates are those who engaged in war. Veterans who genuinely believed they were protecting the US against "terrorism" come back with blood on their hands, and they choose to realize that it was US imperialism that forced them to carry out violence, instead of doubling down and shielding themselves from the fact that they too are capable of atrocities... This is a class of people who are intentionally conditioned to be as poor and as ideologically aligned to US imperialism so that the military has a never-ending pool to send their youth to destroy other country's youth. The only people I have ever heard say "do not join the military" are those who ARE military.
This is in no way to ever excuse or explain away any of the atrocious war crimes and violence this industry and its people have committed against others. What I am saying is that we absolutely cannot cast aside the individuals who have been victimized within US imperialism, even if they are wearing army greens. I was speaking with my Palestinian classmate last week and another classmate--a member of the US air force-- walked up to me and struck up a conversation. My military classmate showed me her new bird, bid both of us goodbye, and left. My Palestinian classmate asked me if I was close with her, and I said we talked quite often, and she said, "I never met a person who's in the military. I still hate the military, but I never knew that they did, too. I didn't realize that they were also victims."
If my Palestinian classmate--one who is actively watching her own community die--can understand that it is not individuals who are the problem but it is in fact systems, US imperialism, white supremacy, capitalism...why can't we all? And she has EVERY reason to hate any individual military member. A lot of online activism just creates more barriers. if your optics look bad, complicated, or contradictory, you are cast aside. Everyone has got the be the perfect activist, you can never make a mistake or share a half-baked thought, you should always believe every word from a marginalized persons mouth (because being marginalized doesn't mean you're not entrenched in white supremacy too!) and you should never question what you see...Do you know what you sound like? The very imperialists who are convincing poor whites to vote against themselves. Perfectionism is white supremacy. Black & white thinking is white supremacy.
I'd rather have a military member who genuinely believed in the US imperialism machine but was disillusioned after being deployed as my comrade than some leftist who cherishes the performance of "being a good person". I don't want "good people" in our movements. I want humans who care. I want humans who make mistakes and who learn from them. I want humans who accept the messiness of a person. I want humans who hold others accountable and allow themselves to take responsibility for their actions. I want people who change for themselves and others.
fight systems, not individual people. we can change each other, but if we're too preoccupied looking like the World's Perfect Activists, we will only consume each other alive. Connect to your fellow humans, forever and always.
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BOYCOTT!!!
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mommm white people on tumblr are misconstruing my posts again despite the post being entirely about how important wording is + how i don’t feel comfortable posting large statements when i haven’t fully processed them yet.
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Quick question: with your expression on the current Palestine and Israel conflict, why do you still draw/repost Dina, an openly Jewish character?
i'm gonna do the kind thing here and assume you're just wildly misinformed/under-educated on the subject.
supporting the state of israel absolutely does not equate to the support or allyship with jewish people nor the indulgence in jewish characters (the batshit latter of which i'll be addressing later). these two things have fuck-all to do with one another, and the conflation of the two is fucking offensive. to assume that me being anti-israel and pro-palestine must mean that i'm antisemitic, or that me drawing dina is somehow contradictory to my support of palestine, is incredibly illogical, because what does dina being jewish have to do with the fascists nuking children and cutting off electricity, wifi and water from the numerous victims so that they can keep killing them with as little coverage as possible. like, really. tell me.
the simple state of being jewish sure as hell does not equate to supporting israel, i cannot stress this enough.
many, many, many jewish people are against israel and what it is doing to the palestinian people, and there are holocaust survivors who have come forward and stated that what israel is doing is very much akin to what was done to jewish people in wwii. it is genocide. it is ethnic cleansing. it is a government receiving funds, aid, and support to enact violence upon a native people. THE DEATH COUNT IS UP TO TEN FUCKING THOUSAND. i don't know how this hasn't clicked yet.
not to mention, why the fuck are we viewing the very real humanitarian crisis through the lens of liking a fictional character? or liking a media franchise? like, the druckmann shit be damned, why are we doing this right now? does no one realize how fucking INSANE it is we're even somehow relating a fictional character to a GENOCIDE?
as an addendum: if you're a zionist or a fence-sitter asking this question as a "gotcha" because i made a clear pro-palestine stance, it's got to be the most braindead, idiotic, simple-minded gotcha in the fucking world.
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Israel pays Money to people to paint a better image of it.
Free advice to boost image of Israel, first: respect human rights. Second: get the fuck out of Palestine!
I paint the image of murderer on Israel, I do it for free too. And millions world wide are shaming Israel.
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oh yeah , since ive been reading pjo , and the shows coming out soon please try pirating it and cancelling your disney plus subscription ! rick riordan is neutral on the situation (or a zionist — i dont remember) and disney actively supports israel . it would be incredibly difficult to fully boycott disney as they own so many different companies , but just try giving them less money . follow the bds movements boycott list , as targeted boycotts work better (also they list disney as s company to put under pressure) . if you dont own the books but want to read them , go to your local library , or find an online pdf . and if youre asking why you should do all this , i think you simply boycotting some companies and pirating a show is a lot less hard than the 75 years of oppression and genocide palestinians face .
BDS MOVEMENT (the first is shorter and more organized to just show the companies , the second has a bit more info on targetted boycotts , also it doesnt mention it on the list but also boycott starbucks and mcdonalds !) : https://bdsmovement.net/get-involved/what-to-boycott
https://bdsmovement.net/Act-Now-Against-These-Companies-Profiting-From-Genocide
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Duniya mai qateel us sa munafiq nahi koi
Jo zulm toh sehta hai baghawat nahi karta.
In this world, there is no greater hypocrite than one who endures oppression while refusing to revolt.
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Opening a post of someone on here asking for skincare recs and seeing every single one suggested either fall under “company that directly states their support for israel” or “company that does business with israel” was very jarring, are you guys seriously limiting yourselves to the bds list and “there is no ethical consumption under capitalism” excusing yourself for every other thing you buy? Like the bds list is the bare MINIMUM. You’re bare minimum-ing your support for divesting from an apartheid state & limiting your financial impact for the continuation of the genocide against Palestinians? Your skincare routine is not more important than other people’s literal lives.
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https://x.com/Naila_Ayad/status/1782530142650200217?s=09
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