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lawfuljude · 6 months

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absolutely fucking jarring how the media is much more interested and concerned in what YOU think about Hamas than they are with the thousands upon thousands dead Palestinians, and the inhumane conditions in Gaza. Every single interview with a Pro-Palestinian is just “yeah we know Palestinians are being killed, but that is not the important question here; do you condemn Hamas? do you not feel an ounce of empathy for Israelis?” literally fuck you.

and I’ve said this before(in a post deleted by tumblr, fuck u for that!), Israeli government and every major western media have made it their mission to depict Hamas as a terrorist group that is “worse than ISIS”, or worse than anything we have ever seen before, in order to justify the genocide of Palestinians. decontextualising the palestinian resistance and depicting Hamas as an invariably evil nihilist-cult is important because it gives Israelis the consent to carry out mass genocide of Palestinian people in the name of anti-terrorism. it should be very clear to anyone that the endless bombardments of Gaza are not simply reprisals to “terrorism” but strategic methods to ethnically cleanse Palestinians in Gaza.

#although they did come in to power through a coup. Hamas is an Islamic nationalist party that has a large presence in the Palestinian #political system. their attack on Israel is not out of programmed ‘hatred for Jews’. rather a retribution to #the suffering that Israelis inflicted upon Palestinians for decades #I condemn colonialism and mass genocide and anyone that is perpetrating them #i support Palestinians liberation and resistance #but most importantly I want Palestinians to be alive to experience that liberation and resistance #cease fire now #Palestine

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jloisse · 3 months

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Don’t stop talking about Palestine 🇵🇸

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7amaspayrollmanager · 6 months

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There is plenty of temptation to wag fingers in the aftermath of the operation, but surely that task is not the domain of academics and activists in the metropole. Nor should it be the priority of diaspora Palestinians (among whom I include myself). In our environs, filled with their own kind of hostility, the priority should be to defend Palestinians against the torment to which they have been subjected by the entire industrialized world. Among politicians, artists, celebrities, and intellectuals, Palestinians have no shortage of critics happy to cosign Zionist genocide. Those critics don’t need or desire our validation, anyway. Abandoning our brethren in order to appease the Zionist establishment will deliver no accolades. In the end, the aspirant to respectability is left only with the shame of conciliation. Palestinians are perfectly capable of formulating strategy and thinking through complex problems without the guidance of outsiders; they certainly don’t need half-baked moralism from dorks and social climbers in the West. The Palestinian story isn’t esoteric or inaccessible. In fact, one can discover the rationale for Palestinian violence anywhere in the great mass of revolutionary writing from Amilcar Cabral to Bassel al-Araj. That intellectuals who have made lucrative careers with tough-sounding buzzwords were so eager to condemn an actual instance of Indigenous resistance is a damning (and in my mind permanent) indictment of Western academe.

#i wanted to send my stupid fucking professor this article #for all the dumb liberal zionist buzzwords he threw my way #literally like if a palestinian is saying she wont condemn armed resistance and your only response is what of the x and x do u not care #ask yourself why do u not critically think about why palestinians support armed resistance without suggesting its out of some #bloodlust or revenge for whats happened to us #its survival..#god i hate him

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herequeerexitentialfear · 2 months

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prev reblog about the hypocrisy in the difference in coverage between Ukraine and the most recent atrocities in Palestine is so fucking true. it boils my blood how most people in my classes were in support or could easily be pushed to be in support of Ukraine and how [relatively] easy it was to tear down russian talking points- yet i hear zionist talking points so often.

i had a guy sit down next to me last week and talk about how hes upset at the decrease in support for Ukraine- i haven't heard him say anything about Palestine since a month or two ago i screamed in his face for repeating Zionist talking points about 'self defense' and refusing to listen to me and have empathy for the Palestinian people.

repeating some quotes the same Guardian article used to make its point that are very true of the mindset i see people holding:

“It’s very emotional for me because I see European people with blue eyes and blond hair … being killed every day.”

“Now the unthinkable has happened to them. And this is not a developing, third world nation. This is Europe!”

“They seem so like us. That is what makes it so shocking. Ukraine is a European country. Its people watch Netflix and have Instagram accounts, vote in free elections and read uncensored newspapers. War is no longer something visited upon impoverished and remote populations.”

these people only cared about Ukraine because it hit to close to home, ruined the idea that they were safe from war. these people are not speaking up about Palestine. these people make me sick.

#thebirdspeaks #palestine #i had so much sympathy for having Ukrainian family #people were supporting them and applauding the Ukrainian resistance #now they parrot zionist talking points just like the people they laughed at for repeating russian ones #i could get people to shut up and change their mind by tearfully recounting stories of my elderly great aunt trapped in a warzone with only #a phone line and Ukrainian red cross food packages between her and starvation #now it doesn't matter how many stories i retell about Palestine #bc it doesn't aline with the political interests of the imperial core #so they dont fucking listen or sympathize #dont humanize #fucking hypocrites #i dont value their sympathies or support for Ukraine anymore #and wont unless they support Palestinian liberation as much as they did/do Ukrainian

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bluesofasalamence · 2 months

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I sometimes wonder

Why do people forget that Hamas is an extreme right wing fundamentalist organization that would murder every leftist that allied with them for "pragmatic" reasons after supposedly liberating Palestine? They've explicitly said they're anti-communist.

But, obviously, none of you Free Palestine folks will ask those questions because you're all western leftists who won't ever be subjected to violence from your own peers that are supposedly "liberating" you. You will live your comfy little lives in your comfy little apartment in California while every single communist who dreamed of liberating Palestine is hanged for being a leftist after Hamas wins.

You fuckers would see the Proud Boys rising against a centrist American government (or, supposedly, against Israel) and would gleefully join them only to be surprised once they started executing your friends by the dozens.

Do not ever let or suggest that we need to prop up extreme right wingers for liberation. You will get people killed. You're not anyone's ally, you're just doing this for your own sick amusement and ensuring to yourself you're a good person.

None of you are.

Oh yeah! Did I forget about the part where Israel directly funded Hamas to crush the PLO? Ya'll always conveniently forget that part. Congrats on ya'll cheering for the Mossad-paid controlled opposition.

#I hate palestine discourse #it's always a bunch of fucking morons praising LA RESISTANCE for attempting to liberate palestine #when LA RESISTANCE is currently a bunch of violent right wing cunts that would gleefully murder any leftist they got their hands on #ya'll would gleefully report a palestinian peace activist for being anti-hamas so he gets tortured #sounds wild? well that's exactly what happened to one famous palestinian activist #who was reported to Hamas by a friend who currently works for The Intercept #and now western fags go and say “um ackshually sweetie hamas is good”#YALL ARE SUPPORTING THE MOSSAD FUNDED CONTROLLED OPPOSITION! SHUT THE FUCK UP!#israel palestine #free palestine #(for real)#hamas

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sakebytheriver · 6 months

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#insane the kind of mental gymnastics you have to do to act as if you support oppressed peoples while actively being their oppressor #just saw an isr*eli who called themselves a pro-palestinian zionist #like bro #you cannot be a zionist and be pro palestine those are mutually exclusive identities #they cannot go together #and then the most popular post on this persons blog was of course them complaining about the bombing from hamas #and saying that 'you know normally im all for palestine liberation but i now have no more spoons for sympathy to the palestinian cause'#like excuse me?#thats all it took huh?#one day of violent resistance from the people your country has been genociding for 75 years #and suddenly you 'dont have the spoons' to support them anymore?#fuck you

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palirev-web · 3 months

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Inspired by this post by @alex-just-vibing. PaliRev values the contribution of all people to the liberation of Palestine, and we encourage you to share this around your schools or with others to give accessible options for us all to show solidarity for the Palestinian people.

[image id: an image with a white background, bordered on the bottom left and top right with green, corner illustrations, an olive garden branch drawing on the bottom right, and a drawing of a boy sitting down with a backpack leaning on him, looking downwards sadly on the top right. there is a low opacity palestinian flag behind black text reading "HOW DO I SUPPORT PALESTINIAN RESISTANCE IF I CAN'T DONATE?" below this is a list in smaller black text, bulleted with light green arrows. the list reads:

"- Wear shirts, pins, keffiyehs, anything outwardly pro Palestine.

Email your Representatives, Congress, White House. Tell the people in charge you want a ceasefire.

Talk to your local library about holding an educational night about the genocide and/or Palestinian culture.

Make schoolwork about Palestine! Writing about news? Focus on Palestine. Making questions for a test? Use Palestine as an example.

Find social media accounts for your representatives and schools, and make a fuss. Comment and @ them!

Show up to local actions (i.e. protests), join and organization, and follow Palestinian journalists! (next line) - Motaz Azaiza, Plestia Alaqad, Hind Khoudary, Bisan Owda -

Educate yourself on anti-Palestine talking points (Palestine toolkit) and how to refute them in a calm manner.

Speak up! It's scary, but don't let other people's bigotry go unchecked. You'll find that other people agree, and speak up from your example.

Don't engage with people unwilling to learn. Your goal is to educate people who are and make those comfortable with genocide feel UNCOMFORTABLE."

below this in light grey text reads "@PALIREV.WEB". /end id.]

#palestine #free palestine #eyes on gaza #eyes on palestine #gaza #free gaza #infographic #PaliRev #student #solidarity #current events #activism #protest #human rights

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jasminechi · 6 months

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for various reasons i'm frustrated by how widely the puget sound anarchists' reportbacks on the tacoma block the boat action have spread. tacoma mutual aid collective (which provided a lot of support signal boosting the action, mobilizing attendees and fundraising for/coordinating donations and supplies) just released their own statement on the action which i think provides a better picture of what happened and a good faith critique of the organizers.

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palipunk · 5 months

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There is a specific brand of tumblr user who says they’re pro Palestine but is entirely focused on how Palestinians act, resist, talk, and think - nothing about actually supporting Palestinian liberation - fixated on us like we’re unruly children and talking down to us and how we should ��actually” stop our own genocide. Stop amplifying these people. I do not care about their backhanded “solidarity”.

#they care about us only in an abstract manner but once they actually talk to us they back out or ridicule us #I’m tired of people who have never cared about Palestinians acting like they know us better than ourselves #palestine

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apollos-olives · 3 months

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hey! if you don't mind me asking(feel free to ignore this ask) what do actual palestinians think of hamas? I'm not asking to sow any discord or to "catch" you out, I'm asking purely out of curiosity. from where I'm from, people generally view hamas and the houthis positively (and by people i mean the vast Muslim majority of pro-palestine supporters) but i have seen than some Palestinians don't hold them in such a high regard. similarly some people supported the IRA whereas other irish people strongly were against them - so I'm wondering if this is a similar situation? again if this ask is uncomfortable for you to answer , don't feel obligated to

this ask is uncomfortable but i'll still answer because i think it's important.

we as palestinians are sick of getting asked about this. it's asked as though every palestinian somehow has the same opinion on hamas and that each singular palestinian can speak for the rest of the population, which is obviously not true. i don't know every palestinians' opinion on hamas and i cannot list every opinion out there because not all of us agree on one single thing. each palestinian has their own opinion on hamas and honestly, it doesn't matter. we are tired of this question. we don't care about hamas anymore. this shit isn't about hamas at this point. 30000+ palestinians are dead and people are STILL talking about hamas as if that's actually important and rather than protesting for a ceasefire or fighting for a free palestine.

my opinion on hamas is different than my friends' opinions on hamas. my opinion on hamas is different than my parents' opinion on hamas. my opinion on hamas is different than my palestinian mutuals' opinion on hamas. my opinion on hamas is different than a lot of other palestinians who are involved. palestinians who keep getting asked this are tired. we are so tired. i appreciate that you are asking in good faith, but we don't want to talk about hamas anymore. we want to have a free palestine. we want our children to stop dying. we want to return to our land.

my personal opinion is that i don't really care about them. i don't care for their policies or their political goals. i only support them because they are one of the largest and efficient groups who are trying to liberate palestine. many palestinians share this same opinion. they do not support hamas as a whole, but they still appreciate that hamas is trying to fight for a liberated palestine. we support their efforts for the fight against the occupation, but past that we do not care or do not support them outside of that. what they do as a political group isn't something that i'm interested in, because i'd much rather be focused on freeing and rebuilding palestine.

some palestinians hate hamas. my parents dislike them, but they won't criticize them for trying to fight against the occupation, because they know that hamas is one of the most powerful groups of resistance in palestine, and will not go against their efforts to try to help palestine. some palestinians love hamas. some palestinians don't care about hamas. every palestinian is different, but in the end it doesn't matter. hamas is fighting for the same goal as the rest of us. a free palestine.

@el-shab-hussein has a post on his own opinion on hamas that i think is worth the read.

in the end, it doesn't matter about what our opinions on hamas are. because hamas only exists because of israel. if israel didn't exist, hamas wouldn't exist. hamas is a large group working for the resistance and hamas isn't the reason of palestinians' suffering. israel is.

@fairuzfan says: "I know this was sent in good faith but it doesn't really matter what Palestinians opinions on hamas are because even before hamas existed 750,000 Palestinians were exiled and killed."

we suffered before hamas existed and we will continue to suffer as long as israel is in power. so again, it doesn't matter what palestinians' - or really anyone's - opinion is on hamas. what we should be focusing on is fighting for a ceasefire, fighting for a free palestine, and fighting for a free world.

#palestine #free palestine

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determinate-negation · 6 months

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what are your thoughts about hamas / or do you have marxist oriented or just good not western media biased resources for understanding them?

theyre an islamist anti colonial organization, theyre also a political party with a military wing (al qassam brigades) which is what people usually are referring to when they talk about ~hamas~. they won in elections and have a degree of popular support and, because they are the ruling political party, theyre in charge of civil institutions in gaza, like schools and hospitals etc. when reporters describe things like the gaza health ministry as “hamas run” when they would never say this about another political party, they are purposefully trying to delegitimize it and obscuring the fact that they are the government that won in elections, not a rogue terrorist cell. al qassam brigades was not the only part of the resistance that took part in the attack on october 7, there are a bunch of other factions like the islamist PIJ, marxist PFLP and DFLP, and some others. im not the most knowledgable on like politics within gaza and exactly how people feel about hamas but theyre absolutely not a terrorist group, i think theyre much closer to other anti colonial militant organizations like the viet cong and algerian national liberation front. theyre also fighting an asymmetrical war using guerrilla strategies like the viet cong and nlf, and western media misrepresents this with all the shit about “hiding weapons by civilians” or whatever. i would recommend looking into the history of guerilla warfare and anti colonial struggle to understand why im criticizing media representations of it. they also make a lot of their rockets from scraps of israeli bombs! i think people should make a better distinction that hamas is a political party with a military wing (al qassam brigades) because then its more obvious that bombing civilian infrastructure thats allegedly “hamas run” is a war crime. also i heard in their statements that most of their militants are orphans whos parents were killed by israel and i think that should be noted. i think its also incorrect to say they have an issue with jews in general and are rabidly antisemitic as if their main aim is to kill jews, the way most media portrays them. they very specifically exist because of the continued occupation of palestine and without that i do not think they would give a shit about jews. they attack settler because theyre settlers, not because theyre jews. idk this article was pretty good and has a link to their 2017 charter where they specifically say their struggle is against zionism not jews

heres their charter thats linked in the article but ngl i just recommend reading their statements and material in general. not saying take every single thing at face value but theyre a political party with issues like any other, not evil sadistic terrorists. and why let mainstream media set the terms of your understanding of them

#palestine #mine #hamas

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jloisse · 1 month

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Reality of Mothers in Palestine.

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tamamita · 6 months

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how is isis different from hamas?

Gonna make it easy and comprehensible:

ISIS or DA'ISH is a transnational terror organization consisting of Iraqi Baathists, former Syrian rebels or moderates, recruited fighters from all over the world, former US captives in Iraq, and oppressed and disenfranchised Sunnis. Wahhabi in nature, ISIS subscribes to the literalist tradition of Islam, based on a strict adherence to Tawhid (Islamic monotheism), rejecting the concept of intercession and saint venerations, seeing them as an act of idolatry. Their religious verdicts are based on the literal interpretation of the Qur'an and Sunnah, rejecting metaphorical exegesis. They aim to establish a global caliphate, seeking to eliminate anyone who opposses it regardless of religious or ideological differences. They see their cause as a hastening of various Islamic end time prophecies in their interpretation of Islamic eschatology. Like many Salafis, they reject Taqlid, which is to conform to one of the four schools of thought in Sunni Islam. On top of that, they reject religious innovations (Bid'ah), which is the idea that anything introduced to the religion without any religious basis is heresy. Whether it be practical or theological, they deem any Muslim who engage in Bid'ah to be an apostate or heretic. They are notorious for their intolerance of non-Muslims and application of Takfirism (excommunication) on Muslims, whether Sunni or Shi'a. Christians had to pay the Jizya (poll tax) in their territories, while in other cases, they were murdered, expelled and had their churches destroyed or converted. They have no tolerance for Shi'a Muslims and will kill them on the spot (see: Speicher Massacre), and have often targeted them with IEDs or suicide bombers. Non-Muslims, like the Ezidis or Ahlul Haqq, were often subjected to execution whereas their women and children were either married away, converted or used as sex slaves. DAESH is not interested in national liberation, seeing it as a blasphemous innovation. DAESH does not consider Hamas to be Muslims due to struggle for national liberation which is supported by Iran and various Shi'i proxies.

Hamas is a political and military resistance group that consists of Palestinians. After the failures of the Oslo accord, Hamas broke away from PLO and formed their own political party. They either subscribe to the Shafi'i school of thought or some form of Ikhwani Salafism (Salafism as envisioned by the Muslim Brotherhood). They're a semi-governmental power in Gaza and are responsible for upholding the social and civil institutions, such as hospitals, schools and etc. Hamas' specific aim is localized and seeks to destroy the Zionist entity in order to form a one-state solution under an Islamic emirate or Islamic democracy. Their only enemy is Israel and any of its allies. As of the Hamas charter of 2017, they do not have an intolerance for non-Muslims or people of different religious and ideological comportments, as seen by them holding ties with both Shi'a and Socialist militias, such as Hezbollah and the PFLP/DFLP. Hamas is concerned with the national liberation of Palestine and the Palestinians. Being an entirely localized resistance group, they do not engage in global jihadism like ISIS nor do they carry out attacks internationally.

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radiofreederry · 7 months

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What's your analysis of Hamas?

They’re a right-wing Islamist organization which was promoted and supported by Israel to eliminate secular organizations like the PFLP which it considered to be a greater threat, and now constitutes the largest and most well-supplied segment of the Palestinian resistance. I would much rather PFLP govern a free Palestine, but the immediate matter is Palestine’s liberation, to which any other concerns should be subordinated.

tl;dr they’re not great but the middle of an intifada isn’t the time to quibble.

#asks

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loving-n0t-heyting · 6 months

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I'm pretty pessimistic about attempts to dissuade the United States from bankrolling Israel's atrocities. I'm to young to remember much of Iraq but I know we did this whole song and dance then and nothing changed it still happened an a lot of people died. This is not really a pessimism I can voice to any of my friends as we are all struggling to figure out how to resist. I'm voicing this to you because I've long enjoyed your blog and consider your writing to be principled will still empathic and that is very important.

Behind the scenes, American officials also believe there is limited time for Israel to try to accomplish its stated objective of taking out Hamas in its current operation before uproar over the humanitarian suffering and civilian casualties – and calls for a ceasefire – reaches a tipping point.

In fact, there is recognition within the administration that that moment may arrive quickly: Some of the president’s close advisers believe that there are only weeks, not months, until rebuffing the pressure on the US government to publicly call for a ceasefire becomes untenable, sources told CNN.

Even aside from the above, I think Palestinian solidarity rn is in a pretty different position from the antiwar movement in the lead up to Iraq. Iraq was the culmination of decades of neoconservative organising with the invasion as its end goal; the current aid to Israel is a response to an increasingly inconvenient and unruly ally, with whom the current administration (odious as it is) is already expressing frustration. The support for the iraq war among mainstream pundits and officials was virtually unanimous; already we are witnessing dissent on the Gaza war reach high places. And most importantly, the protests against iraq were comparatively narrowly focused and time-bound, while the campaign for Palestinian liberation is a decades long international movement that has made real strides, especially in the U.S. The same kind of international movement that eventually helped the ANC to bring down apartheid in South Africa. There’s some room here for optimism of the intellect as well as of the will

#ask #anon

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apas-95 · 7 months

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To a certain extent I understand the point being made, but I think posts emphasising the supposedly ramshackle and improvised nature of Palestinian resistance feed into exactly the sentiment being criticised - of supporting liberation only when it's losing, only when it's the underdog.

What, precisely, does it matter if the Palestinian fighters have 'formal' training or not? What does it matter if their rockets are captured or purpose-built? If they were the ones fighting with advanced, modern equipment, and the IOF were the ones with improvised munitions, their cause would be equally as correct.

Some day soon it will come to pass that Palestinians will be in charge of their home again, and the zionist forces won't simply disappear - they'll be weak, largely overpowered, but they'll continue to fight, continue to be supported by their western allies, and *they* will be 'underdog' insurgents. Palestinians will be as justified in suppressing those would-be reinstaters of genocide as they are fighting the current IOF. They will be in power, and they will fight to maintain that power. At that moment, the fetishism of defeat would lead, inexorably, to the age-old trope - that they'd have become 'just as bad as the oppressors'.

Our analysis can't be based on aesthetics, can't be based on who appears the most ultra-revolutionary - it must be based on a systemic, factual view of who stands to gain. Don't settle for heuristics.

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