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sundung · 3 months

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It has been brought to my attention some of the underlying context of posts regarding Bushnell. It saddens me that due to many factors, (at the forefront of my awareness: racism and transmisogyny), we cannot have the unifying message of "Free Palestine" from all this.

Succinctly blaming one group as detractors is not something I can do. Conversations on detracting quickly get complicated as accusations of such are also used to bury real harm. If someone feels the harm against them getting buried, obviously they will want to bring attention to that.

This is hard to navigate and I wish it didn't have to be.

Free Palestine. Free Palestine. Free Palestine.

#🧋⌚#ongoing nakba

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noctomania · 19 hours

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Watchtime: 9min

Publication year: 2022

"The Nakba (“Catastrophe”) refers to the forced displacement of at least 750,000 Palestinians from their homes during Israel’s creation in 1948. Thousands of Palestinians were massacred by Israeli forces as Palestinian families fled in terror to neighboring countries and to the West Bank and Gaza.

But the Nakba never ended.

Israel has continued its occupation, land theft, ethnic cleansing, and genocide of the Palestinian people. Just this week, as the world was focused on the brutal murder of Palestinian journalist #ShireenAbuAkleh by Israeli forces, Israel approved new 2,700 housing units in illegal settlements in the occupied West Bank, and advanced plans for another 1,600.

Today, there are over 7 million Palestinian refugees and displaced people, including Nakba survivors and their descendants. The Israeli apartheid regime still refuses to allow them to return to the land they were forced from, despite the internationally-recognized legal right of return.

We spoke to #Nakba survivors who recalled the grim details of the early days of their mass exodus. In the Naqab, Historic Palestine’s largest district, the younger generation of the Bedouin Palestinians described to us how they are organizing and resisting the ongoing land appropriation and deprivation of basic living conditions, where Israel does not “see them as human.”

Watch our report “The Palestinian Nakba: In Memory and the Present.” "

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makingcontact · 1 year

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The Nakba: 75 Years On

Palestinians fleeing from their villages as Israeli troops approach on October 30, 1948.(Photo by David Eldan, National Photo Collection of Israel, Government Press Office, under the digital ID D275-120) This week marks the 75th anniversary of the Nakba, or the “catastrophe” in Arabic. It refers both to the events starting in late 1947, when Zionist militias expelled over 700,000 Palestinians…

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news4dzhozhar · 2 months

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This is for those people who try to pretend that October 7th was the start of it all (or that the events of that day exist in a vacuum). People need to be reminded of the history.

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rumaan · 1 year

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May 15 is commemorated every year as Al-Nakba Day. The ethnic cleansing of Palestinians from their land began in 1948 and is ongoing 75 years later with Palestinians continually being removed from their land to this day (see Sheikh Jarrar in East Jerusalem and Masafer Yatta)

Palestinians are denied the right to return to their homeland to this day. The Palestinian refugee crisis is the longest ongoing refugee crisis in the world with many Palestinians born as stateless refugees.

#al nakba #palestine #the ethnic cleansing of palestine is ongoing #free palestine

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askinnyblackman · 6 months

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i finished that al jazeera docuseries on the nakba and all i have to say about it is [redacted] to zionism

#1948 nakba never ended #it is an ongoing genocidal settler-colonial project that will not stop until every palestinian is either permanently removed or dead #it is irredeemably evil #zionist politicians cannot be trusted with anything tbh #lookin at you fetterman you fuckin ogre #you too liz warren. self-proclaimed progressives incapable of seeing palestinians as human because of that AIPAC money #no such thing as ‘self-defense’ on occupied land

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the--sound--of--rain · 7 months

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Can we hold Hamas, and only Hamas, responsible for Israel is doing now in Gaza? (Because this is what some Western newspapers and politicians are claiming.)

No, of course not. It's nonsense in any context to solely hold a person or group responsible for the reaction of another person or group to their actions. If this were a valid stance, we wouldn't be expected to condemn Hamas for their actions on October the 7th, despite these actions being a reaction to the Israeli occupation.

Every person and group is responsible, at least in part, for their reaction to an action of another person or group, as long as they have another choice. No matter how understandable that reaction may be.

Hamas did have another choice. Logically it would not be possible for them to wage a "classical" war on Israel as they are inferior in number, weaponry and sovereignty (because remember Israel holds the most power over the Gaza strip), but they could have decided to not resist, give up their land, and let Israel continue controlling the lives of people in the Gaza strip, randomly taking people (including women and children) prisoner, and killing Palestinians every now and then. You may argue that this would have been a better option.

And this is why Hamas should be tried in an international court for what they have done.

In what world would you not apply the same rules to Israel? They had an array of choices other than what they are doing now. They could have sent in special forces to get to Hamas fighters, they could have tried to negotiate to get their hostages out – the list goes on. Carpet bombing an entire area and cutting off all supplies (electricity, water, food) to hospitals and households, then bombing those hospitals and and houses and bombing the refugee camps that people have fled to in order to escape the bombing and then driving in and running over civillians and shooting at rooms with newborns in them should have been the last one on the list of all the choices they had. And you may argue, even, that every single one of Israel's choices other than to do what they are doing now, would have been more favourable to them than it would have been to Hamas and Palestinians to simply surrender to the occupation.

Is Hamas solely responsible for everything following October the 7th? If you follow that logic, it's not Hamas responsible at all: Israel would be solely responsible for everything following the 1948 Nakba.

#Palestine #Israel #free palestine #and yes personally i do hold Israel accountable for everything that happened since the Nakba #but this isn't because of an isolated action #but because what they did turned into an ongoing process #taking more and more from palestinians and terrorising them while doing so #before Hamas existed and in the West Bank where there is no Hamas #while without Israel Hamas would not exist at all #but it you're really doing the childish 'who started it?' game #it's still Israel

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tikkunolamresistance · 24 days

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Rapper Macklemore is releasing a track called “Hind’s Hall”, speaking out on the genocide of Palestinians, and the United States complacency in this ongoing violence. Macklemore has stated that once the track drops on streaming, all proceeds from streams will be going directly to UNRWA— the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees in the Near East.

The new tracks namesake Hind’s Hall echoes the honours that Columbia University encampment protestors bestowed the Morningside Heights campus’ Hamilton Hall— in memory of Hind Rajab, the 6 year old Palestinian girl in Gaza who was shot by Israeli soldiers after being trapped inside a vehicle, with her dead family. She had begged to be rescued as tanks closed in on her.

Macklemore using his platform to vehemently speak out against genocide, the Israeli occupation and United States-led violence is what every single artist should be doing right now. The power of art should not be underestimated. Macklemore started out in the Hip-Hop scene within communist circles, namely working alongside Blue Scholars, and has never neglected his Leftism through out his career: the artist has spoken on issues regarding mental health, addiction, racial profiling and police violence, Capitalism, women’s rights, LGBTQ+ rights and toxicity of American culture.

“The Nakba never ended, the colonizer lied” Hind’s Hall, Macklemore, 2024

#hinds hall #free palestine #palestine #anti capitalism #anti imperialism #jumblr #israel #judaism #jews for palestine #anti zionism #anti zionist #macklemore #music #art

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sundung · 2 months

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The fact I cannot scoop up the children of Palestine and go coochie coo and say You are safe and loved little one is breaking my heart and the way that is oh *i* can't do this is it's my government that distances me from these babies and tells me to believe they are monsters and my wages are used to garnish the bombs that kill them but it's like, not about me it's just Can't someone do that for them? But their parents are starving and may not have the energy to hold them if they aren't already dead and no amount of hugs will make things ok and they cannot do what we should do for all children of telling them we will keep them safe. This basic thing is not being afforded to the Palestinian people.

#🧋⌚#ongoing nakba

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heritageposts · 3 months

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🇵🇸 From BDS:

This year’s Israeli Apartheid Week will be the most important since IAW was launched 20 years ago! With the ongoing Nakba at its height, Israel is carrying out the world’s first ever live-streamed genocide against 2.3 million Palestinians in Gaza while it continues to entrench its 75-year-old settler-colonial apartheid regime against all Indigenous Palestinians. Over the past few months, people around the world have carried out inspiring actions building people power to end state, corporate and institutional complicity in Israel’s #GazaGenocide and contribute to the Palestinian struggle for freedom, justice, and equality. With the failure of the international system, under US and Western hegemony, on full display, we will organize IAW throughout the month of March to bring justice from below. Save the date - March 1st - March 30th; an entire month of action and BDS mobilizations to end complicity in genocide, build grassroots power towards liberation and the dismantling of Israel’s settler-colonial apartheid regime. Let’s make this year’s IAW our most impactful ever!

In anticipation of the upcoming Israeli Apartheid Week, BDS has called for an escalation of our boycott campaigns.

To find out how you can join a specific BDS campaign, or how you can contribute towards IAW, you can use the search function on their website to find a BDS-affiliated organization in your country.

If you and your organization have an event planned for Israeli Apartheid Week (IAW), you can register them with BDS here.

🇵🇸 For individuals unaffiliated with an org, you can still support and participate in IAW by:

Boycotting all products from Israel and from companies profiting off the occupation of Palestine. Here are the official BDS targets. For a more extensive list of products, check in with one of the BDS affiliated organizations in your country (they might tell you, for instance, what processed food items at your local grocery store should be avoided).

Share information about BDS on social media, with friends and family, and with your local community.

For BDS targeted brands, refrain from making or sharing any content that helps that company's outreach and branding. No more memes mentioning the brand, no pictures showing their logo, no more free advertising. Boycotting here isn't just about the loss you as a costumer can inflict on the company by not purchasing their product, it's also about damaging the brand's reputation, and limiting their customer outreach.

I highly encourage you to join a BDS-affiliated org, but if for whatever reason you can't, then these are concrete and actionable steps you can take.

Again, for more information about BDS and Israeli Apartheid Week, you check in with the official BDS website.

#free palestine #palestine #israel #gaza #bds #boycott divest sanction #i'll set this up to be queued throughout feb/mar #and i'll also be sharing more BDS info/campaigns on this blog

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trans-girl-nausicaa · 9 days

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Things that are NOT antisemitic (anti-Jewish):

Comparing the (ongoing) Nakba to the Holocaust

Comparing the Israeli government to Nazi Germany

Comparing Zionists to Nazis (including the term “Zionazi”)

This is simply comparative analysis. Zionism is a far-right ethnonationalist ideology, and Zionists have been aiding and abetting OTHER far-right and/or ethnonationalist actors throughout the past century.

Among other things, they presented the personal journal of General Ratko Mladić, currently on trial at the International Court of Justice for committing war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide. Mladić’s journal explicitly mentions Serbia’s ample arms ties with Israel at the time.

Although there is limited political, diplomatic, and intelligence cooperation between the two countries, the relationship centers on arms transfers and related service and training matters. Israel--which is now Santiago's most important weapons supplier after the United Kingdom-- has sold Chile a wide variety of hardware, including air-to-air missiles, patrol boats, tanks, jet aircraft and advanced elctronics gear.

#israel #palestine #bosnia #myanmar #south africa #zimbabwe #serbia #rhodesia #chile #augusto pinochet #rwanda #genocide

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pal1cam · 4 months

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The year 2023 has been regarded the deadliest year for Palestinians since the 1948 war (also knows as the Nakba, which means Catastrophe in Arabic).

During the Nakba war about 250 Palestinian villages faced the fate of being demolished (some to the point of not existing on the map anymore) and their residents were forcibly displaced.

Today in Gaza, the numbers of the martyred and the injured are increasing every single day and yet the whole wide world is watching from afar, as if the Palestinian life is cheap or not worthy of speaking out for…

Don’t repeat the mistake made in 1948, because the damage done by the Nakba will never be forgotten and Palestine will never recover from it, but today it’s 2024 and you have a voice and you can use it to change something, and you have the ability to make your governments not repeat that same mistake once again 76 years later.

So use that voice and maximize your abilities, talents and the resources that you have to let the whole entire world know about what is happening in order for the whole world to rise and revolt against the ongoing Nakba against not only Palestinians, but also every oppressed people in the world that faces a horrible fate due to colonialism and white supremacy.

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rumaan · 1 year

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Farha is such a beautifully shot film. With the subject matter it deals with, it could be so graphic and unbearable to watch but instead it’s a love letter to a land and a people who have been traumatically separated from each other - some to live insecurely on the lands they own but aren’t allowed to truly own and others to be so achingly close to their land but unable to return as they are not allowed because their oppressors, Isr@el, say they cannot.

It truly built the tension of Farha being locked away, safe for now but a witness to the destruction of her village and murder of her people who she cannot help even though she desperately wants to. And then when she gets out, she’s so heartbreakingly alone, looking at the ruins of familiar places that just days ago were teeming with life. Her home forever destroyed and taken from her. It’s so sad that I couldn’t cry, I just felt my heart crack and break open with grief.

#no people can recover from this trauma and more than 70 years later #it’s still ongoing as Palestinian communities are forced from their lands and villages and openly killed for any show of resistance #al nakba #farha #Netflix farha #palestine

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i-am-aprl · 15 days

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Palestinians in the 1948-occupied territory march to the sites of the pre-1948 villages of Hawsha and Kasyer marking the 76th anniversary of the ongoing Palestinian Nakba, today.

The March of Return occurs yearly as a commemoration of the Nakba, the “catastrophe” in Arabic, when armed militias, which would later become the Israeli military, expelled 75% of Palestinians from their homes and lands to establish the State of Israel.

Each year, Palestinians commemorate the Nakba in this symbolic demonstration at the site of a city or town that Israel destroyed in 1948, honoring the Palestinians who were violently uprooted and demanding that one day all Palestinians in exile can return.

#palestine #gaza #nakba 1948 #israel #free palestine #jerusalem #i stand with palestine #فلسطين #free gaza #israel is a terrorist state #israeli war crimes #al nakba #nakba

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luthienne · 7 months

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it is beyond disingenuous at this point to center the conversation about israel-palestine on hamas. it is unacceptable. it is actively harmful to the people of palestine who are fighting to survive an ongoing genocide. the state violence and ethnic cleansing inflicted on palestinians by the israeli military & by israeli settlers predates, by far, the existence of hamas. what the state of israel has done from its conception in 1948, the nakba, is beyond the scope of language. the catastrophe. 750000 palestinians displaced, dispossessed of their homes, stripped of their rights, subjected to every unimaginable type of violence, unlawfully detained, separated from their families, prohibited from leaving, prohibited from returning. held walking distance from the place they grew up, never able to go back. harassed by israeli soldiers and settlers. indiscriminately killed. incarcerated. unable to attain the same workers' rights. forced to endure the burning of their villages, of their olive trees, of their gardens, of their homes. and still they survive, they resist, they endure.

this conflict, this genocide, this occupation did not begin on october 7th, 2023. this conflict, this genocide, this occupation did not begin with hamas. the apartheid state of israel exists and has existed since 1948 through means of settler colonialism; it maintains its power through brutal state violence. it is delusional to believe that the inherent violence of a state conceived in settler colonialism will not beget more violence.

#sick to my stomach about this #free palestine #palestine #settler colonialism

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paper-mario-wiki · 5 months

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genuine question coming from someone who is trying their best to support palestine but can't stomach condoning hamas's actions. how can you justify the murder of civilians and sexual violence that happened on october 7th? i know the fight for palestinian liberation is more important but they said orders to rape israeli women came from higher up in hamas. how can we support these people?

I will not be debating people in the notes of this post or in followup asks. I am not an authority on this subject, I am an individual giving commentary as I see it.

Do not attempt to follow this discourse up with intent to own me. You will waste your time and look stupid, I promise. Just unfollow and block me.

If your intent is genuine, and you are sincerely confused, then I will tell you that the first thing you must do is understand that your perspective of what happened on October 7th was not your own. It was made by a committee of communications officials and sold to you by news organizations to implant within you a version of what happened so that you would feel this precise feeling of hesitation, discomfort, and desire to withdraw yourself from the discussion. And that version is often full of blatant, contradictory, and easily fact-checkable lies. Israel knows that it doesn't have to make everyone support its cause to get away with it: if they can make enough people look away while they commit genocide, this too is a victory.

The sexual violence against Israeli women by Hamas has been vastly unsubstantiated, especially in comparison to the verifiable claims of IDF soldiers using sexual violence against Palestinian women. Go to any news articles and you will see "Claims of [number] of Israeli women raped by Hamas". You don't see firsthand reports, and you don't see consistent numbers, just people speaking for this group of unnamed and uncounted women. Further, many of the photos and videos of violence happening to women you see typically attached to these articles have turned out to be verified as Israeli soldiers assaulting Palestinian women during previous conflicts.

And that's another important note: previous conflicts. The date on everyone's mind has been October 7th, because that's when Hamas made an attack on the concert. Make no mistake, this was not the beginning of this conflict. And Palestine was not the aggressor.

Here is a graph of people killed as a result of the ongoing Israeli occupation of Palestine from 2002 to 2014. Notice, if you will, the yellow vs the pale blue. Can you guess which color represents which group? Just kidding you don't have to guess, the graph tells you.

After WW2, the European-Jewish population (which was 90% of the Jewish population at the time) emigrated to their holy land after over 1000 years. This land, now Palestine, had been under control by Muslim kingdoms since around 640 AD. The UN created a proposition following the Holocaust, submitted to create 2 states within Palestine: 54% would go to the Jewish population, and 46% would go to the Arab population. The Palestinian representatives rejected this proposal, but the Jewish representatives agreed, and over the next few years there would be a massive displacement of Muslims during what was called the Nakba; a cataclysmic event that saw 700,000 Palestinians (80% of them) displaced from the territory that the Israeli occupying force had claimed.

Since then there has been an ongoing pushing and cleansing of Palestinians over time. The remaining land that was not stolen during the 1948 mandate has been shrinking as Israel tightens its grip on the land and the people, exerting the force given to it by the United States to completely absorb the area. The process of which has been torturous and extraordinarily traumatic on the Palestinian population.

This map represents generations of murder, rape, and torture of Palestinians. A people who had their land forcefully taken from them, and have been made to be unwilling neighbors with their aggressors ever since. There are countless articles of IDF soldiers and Israeli citizens alike abusing Palestinians. Stealing their homes, starving their children, mocking their faith. This form of violent nationalism is born from Zionism, which was created by secular men, and has existed for less than a single century. The ideals of Zionism can only be seen out with the COMPLETE annihilation of the Palestinian people, something the terroristic Israeli force sees to go through with.

Hamas, at the moment, is fighting for the unconditional freedom of Palestine from their colonizers. We are seeing, in real time, the furious spirit of Palestine resisting what some of the worlds strongest military forces are trying to make to be their final death. In that impossible fight, they are seeing victories in urban warfare, and extreme coordination in guerilla tactics that we haven't seen since the Vietnam war. And during all of that, it has still been verifiably reported that they've been treating hostages well, many of them speaking positively about their time in captivity and expressing extreme dissatisfaction with Netanyahu's cabinet, something reflected in the staggering lack of direct interviews with hostages released.

Let's not mince words here, Hamas is absolutely killing people. Hamas is killing as many IDF soldiers as they possibly can, and yes, even some Israeli civilians have died. While it's true that these number significantly fewer than Palestinian civilian casualties, I'm not bold as to claim that that is not horrible. But this too is the fault of purposeful abuse of civilian population centers by the Israeli government. Ask yourself for a moment:

Why would Israel, being so aware of the horrifying whims of the savage Palestinians, allow a massive open-air concert to happen DIRECTLY on an unpatrolled border between Israel and Palestine? Why too does Israel insist on housing Civilian populations as close to Palestine as possible? They've already showed us: the military uses the deaths of their civilians as warrant to punish Palestinians in any way and to any extent they see fit.

Even if we're discounting the murderous occupier civilians shooting at Palestinian families and forcing them out of their life-long homes, it's still horrible to see otherwise incidentally innocent Israeli civilians die. Innocent death is inherently horrible. But even in a world where what happened on October 7th didn't happen, Israel intended to ensure the death, innocent or not, of all Palestinians who resist giving up their land. Hamas, Palestinian resistance groups, and now other Arab states have chosen to fight against this. Millions of people around the globe have chosen to unite and fight for them for this reason as well. It is why I support Palestine.

When a society lets mass atrocities happen in slow motion over decades, those atrocities become normal. And when those experiencing these atrocities fight back with economical blows of violence, it becomes a shocking disruption to the normal for those who haven't been paying attention, or were born into it; something the west relies on, and has packaged and sold as "terrorism" in the past few decades.

The modern Zionistic body of Israel has been a terroristic, murderous entity since its inception less than 100 years ago.

Do not let yourself be swayed into believing that murder, if done slowly enough, is not murder.

#anon #cw rape #long post

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