Yesterday, Israel bombed one of the biggest bookshops in Gaza. The Samir Mansour bookshop was one of the few publishing houses in Gaza as well. I saw a video of the owner of the bookshop fighting tears and talking about how much this bookshop meant to him and how he used to skip meals to be able to save money to get this bookshop going. This bookshop was part of the Kahil building which had various stores and offices.

In another video that was circulating, a guy from Gaza was explaining why Israel targets these buildings and towers. Every day you hear about a building targeted and leveled. He explains that these towers have been the main destination for the youth of Gaza as they usually contain coffee shops, bookshops, restaurants, educational and learning centres. So by destroying them, Israel is destroying memories and any potential for communal relationships. 

This is what we mean when we say Israel is not only committing a full blown genocide as we have been witnessing publicly for days now, with over 200 deaths in the span of a week (as of May 19, 2021), but also this other form of incremental genocide that has been ongoing for decades; even when Israel isn’t bombing Gaza on a daily basis, there has always been an effort to erase Palestinian history and culture, from appropriating tatreez and the Palestinian cuisine to destroying literary works.

Highly recommend watching The Great Book Robbery documentary for more on that as it goes into the details about Israel’s appropriation of Palestinian books during the Nakba.

Erasing culture is an essential component of settler-colonialism, and what Israel is targeting in Gaza right now is by no means coincidental or “accidental”.

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Stop what you are doing. Seriously. Put it down and pick up the phone.

AOC, RashidaTlaib, and MarkPocan have introduced a resolution to BLOCK a $735 million weapons sale to Israel and we need all hands on deck to help them.

Take action NOW (link)

Do not relent in your advocacy for Palestine

Do not apologize for standing up to settler-colonialism

Remain unapologetic in tone and speech

Since the beginning of the latest uprising, Israel has arrested over 1400 Palestinians for taking part in protests. Over the next 48 hours, Israel has declared plans to arrest another 400.

Meanwhile, the Palestinian Authority has also arrested Palestinians protesting against them & organizers involved in coordinating the strike across borders.

Sure, there’s a ceasefire, but save for the slaughter in Gaza, nothing has ceased: Israel will continue to try and remove Palestinians from Sheikh Jarrah, Israel is continuing to punish those who dared stand up and speak out, Palestinians in the US continue to be targeted and harassed relentlessly, and the narrative is very actively being attacked and shifted to take focus off Palestine

Do not relent

Right now, the US is the sole nation blocking a statement from the UN Security Council calling for an immediate ceasefire in Israel and Palestine. All other 14 current members are in favor, but a UNSC joint statement requires unanimous support, allowing the US alone to block it.

If you’re not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.

- Malcom X

Please keep your attention on Jerusalem today. The Flag March, a nationalist demonstration by settlers protected by israeli armed forces, will march through palestinian neighborhoods. This is a recurrent event where they harass and abuse palestinians, and destroy their property and businesses while chanting "death to arabs". Since the cease fire, there's been massive arrests of palestinians, racist pogroms, and murders by israeli occupation forces and settlers (at least 30 people killed). Besides a new goverment and the cease fire on Gaza, nothing really changed, the apartheid regime and the genocide of the palestinian people continues. Keep talking about it, ask your representatives to cut ties with the Israeli government, and follow the BDSmovement campaign and the current protests and disruption of companies that contribute to and profit from the israeli military and settler industry.

(I'll link some news and precedents below)

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Israel is raiding Al Aqsa Mosque again and firing rubber coated steel bullets at worshippers. They're detaining Palestinians.

This is after the ceasefire. They're liars and war criminals. Scum of this earth.

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It won’t end until Israel has ethically cleansed all Palestinians! This cannot happen! Keep sharing and reblogging! It may not feel like much, but spreading awareness makes a difference!

important !! please read and reblog !!

it’s unfair of us to have platforms and not use it to speak up for palestinians. i have resources provided below for how you can educate yourself on the ethnic cleansing that is happening in palestine right now and how you can help.

educate yourself

thread on what is occurring in sheikh jarrah, another thread

tw violence video of palestinian explaining the situation in sheikh jarrah

tw bombing video of al aqsa mosque being bombed

tw violence, tw bombing, tw shooting video of palestinians in al aqsa mosque

tweet explaining importance of al aqsa

a website where you can learn more about palestine

a video breaking down the history of the israeli oppressing palestinians

video of palestinian explaining the importance of spreading awareness

tw violence video of 16 yo palestinian boy being forcefully evicted from his home by israeli solders

tiktok of palestinian speaking about what is going on in her country. please see the links in her bio for more information— tiktok will not let me copy and paste her linktree

tiktok of palestinian speaking on situation in gaza

instagram page for jewish voices for peace, an organization working for liberation and justice for palestine

infographics explaining how to be an ally for palestine

some of the posts are triggering instagram of journalist sharing what is happening in palestine

tiktok explaining the situation in al lydd

books/articles you can read to learn more

free ways to help if you cannot donate

do NOT sign petitions !! they are not accounted for in the middle east and do nothing.

go to this website and simply click. update: i have heard from some people that this helps and from other people that it does not. please be wary with this source and do not depend on it.

watch this video to donate, it’s 3 hours long but just playing it in the background can help. do not play on loop and do not skip ads.

watch this video to donate, it’s 1 hour long but just playing it in the background can help. do not play on loop and do not skip ads.

if you are from the U.K., follow these instructions to call local MPs into action

if you are from the U.S., text RESIST to 50409 to urge congress to help palestine

thread of dua’as muslims can make to pray for palestinians

boycott israeli products

donate— it is better to donate directly to people rather than organizations, but i do have a few organizations listed.

do NOT donate to change.org

help children and hospitals affected by gaza bombing

help hungry children in palestine

donate to palestine child relief fund, known to be reputable

donate to united palestinian appeal, a direct charity

donate directly to journalist injured in gaza

ramadan zakat fund for palestinians in gaza

raise money for palestinian woman escaping toxic household

buy palestinian goods

i’ll add more links as i continue to find reliable sources and proper donations. please dm me other resources and i can add them to this list. if anything here is not trustworthy, please let me know immediately and i will take it down. free palestine until it’s backwards, pray for palestinians who do not know whether they will be safe in their own country.

last but not least, if you are a pro-israel, unfollow me immediately. i don’t need you on my tumblr. and do not use what is happening in palestine right now to be anti-semitic.

Debunking misinformation around Palestine.

Please spread this truth!

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via Twitter

 When discussing Palestine/Israel, "It's an extremely complicated situation" is always code for one of two things:

"I'm a wolf in sheep’s clothing trying to obfuscate the reality that Israel is a settler-colonial entity engaged in daily terrorism and ethnic cleansing by confusing you and reducing your confidence to speak openly about this topic"

or

"I have no idea wtf I'm talking about"

There is absolutely no in-between

Sign the petition here:

http://bit.ly/StopJerusalemExpulsions

Do not let the momentum die, please spread this post!!

NDP Leader, Jagmeet Singh uses Question Period to ask Justin Trudeau to stop arming Israel while it is committing human rights violations in Palestine.

Tagging: @politicsofcanada

https://twitter.com/CJPME/status/1392559502860374019