#palestinian right of return

[haneen-t-nasr]

العودة حق كالشّمس..

We will return…

#palestine #فلسطين #filasteen #jerusalem #alquds #savesheikhjarrah #genocide #freedom #free palestine #israeli occupation #ethnic cleansing of palestinians #genocide in palestine #massacre #nakba #al nakba day #nakba day #palestinian right of return #return #1948

[dikleyt]

Palestinian right of return is morally a no-brainer:

Jews get to return to a place we haven't been in for thousands of years, so why shouldn't Palestinians get to return to their homes?

Palestinian labor has played a major role in building modern Israel. They should get citizenship and the right to return, at minimum.

If the Sheikh Jarrah residents can be kicked out because the property originally belonged to Jewish people (who later sold it to a sketchy settlement company), why shouldn't Palestinians get the right to return to the land they lived on? And make claims for the property just like the original Jewish owners had done in Sheikh Jarrah?

Literally there were people kicked off their land and told they can't come back. That's wrong, can't everyone agree with this?

Genetic evidence supports the idea that Palestinians, on the whole, are not Arab invaders but are descended from people who were in the land at the same time Jews were in the land, but who have never left.

Self-described "realists" often say that the problem with this is that it would mean Hamas supporters (i.e. theocratic fascists) would become a majority in Israel. Is that really true, though? The vote for Hamas-like groups would become diluted, and Palestinians who support more marginal parties would find themselves suddenly far less isolated, part of new, more powerful voting blocs.

Not to mention that a lot of the eligible people are unlikely to move back, since they live abroad and have lives, families, jobs, etc.. The same reason why so many Jews don't make aliyah.

It's important to repair the mistakes of the past.

#palestinian right of return #israel #palestine

[theopossuminyourgarbagecan]

"Antisemitism is bad, always, in every situation, and is still a prominent issue that needs to be solved"

and

"The atrocities Israel has been committing towards the Palestinian people since 1948 are completely unforgivable, and the Israeli state cannot continue to exist"

are two viewpoints that can and ABSOLUTELY SHOULD coexist.

#palestine #free palestine #fuck israel #to clarify i did not mean forced exile of Jewish people from Israel #but rather the dissolution of the Israeli government and the return of Palestinian land to Palestinians #forced exile would be unjust and unnecessary right Israel? #RIGHT ISRAEL?!?!?!?!

[arabian-batboy]

Wanting to only give back the West Bank and Gaza to Palestinians while continuing to occupy the rest of historic Palestine and not allowing the Palestinian refugees who were ethnically-cleansed from there to return doesn't make a person any less of a Zionist from those who want to continue occupying all of Palestine from the river to the sea, no matter how much they swear they are not a Zionist.

#At least we reached a point where SOME of these colonizers are ashamed from being called Zionists #not because they don't support Zionism or the genocide of Palestinians #but because they don't want to deal with the negative connotation that comes with that word #so they will hit you with the I'm not a Zionist I just believe innocent Jews have the right to live in stolen homes :'( #but only in 75% of Palestine! The poor Palestinians deserve to keep at least 25% of their homes #because they're equally as much of a victims as us <3 #except the ones who want to return to their homes form -pre-1948 Palestine #those are evil Jew-killing monsters who should be grateful that peace-loving Israelis even want to return an inch of their land back #anyways wanna talk about Hamas? #palestine #palestinians #anti israel #anti israeli #anti zionist #anti zionism

[tanadrin]

BDS is a political program with the practical end result of "mass murder of jews," so yes it's pretty definitively antisemitic.

I don't think I've ever specifically mentioned BDS, have I?

In general, I think arguments of the form "X program would have Y result, therefore supporters of X support Y" are very weak unless you can make a very direct argument that X is inextricable from Y. It is not clear to me that the objectives of BDS, which per Wikipedia are

to pressure Israel to meet what the BDS movement describes as Israel's obligations under international law,[7] defined as withdrawal from the occupied territories, removal of the separation barrier in the West Bank, full equality for Arab-Palestinian citizens of Israel, and "respecting, protecting, and promoting the rights of Palestinian refugees to return to their homes and properties".[8]

is inevitably functionally equivalent to "mass murder of jews." There seems to be a pretty long inferential chain there that I guess I'm missing.

#if by 'right of return' people mean a 'one state solution' #i'm skeptical that's workable #given the low support by both palestinians and israelis #but if by 'right of return' you mean compensation for lost land and property inside the 1967 border or w/e #that seems a pretty obviously necessary component of any serious peace process #the first three points just seem like they have to happen regardless #unless israel intends to ethnically cleanse all of gaza and the west bank #which needless to say #would be pretty bad!

[fairiedance]

A new Palestinian key design featuring poppies, found here. The key is a common symbol for the right of return.

As usual ALL PROCEEDS from my shop go to my Palestinian best friend to help him support his girlfriend in remaining safely in America until things calm down and to help his other loved ones around the Levant who are being hurt directly and/or financially by the attacks on Gaza, the raids in the West Bank and the collateral damage in surrounding countries. He will donate anything his family doesn't need to the Palestinian charities he works with.

Some product examples:

You can find all my designs here. Redbubble will display them with a random product, click on each to see all product options (shirts, stickers, bags, hats, etc).

Thank you to everyone who has helped so far!

#palestine #free palestine #gaza #free gaza #jerusalem #colonialism #decolonization #فلسطين #social justice #human rights #art #palestine art #palestinian solidarity #right of return #art for palestine #gaza strip #gazaunderattack #ceasefire #save palestine #stickers

[koheletgirl]

ok so i don't personally believe in the 2 states solution (for a myriad of reasons i won't get into now), but why does it seem like everyone who supports it these days is labeled as a zionist? i know why i might think that, but i doubt it's for the same reasons so i'm genuinely asking here

#it's just that the two states solution is still seen as a leftist delusion in israel #which i think is laughable like i know why i hate it #but idt tumblr.com hates it for the same reasons? #again like maybe im reading this wrong but. to me it seems like a not insignificant amount of ppl here oppose any solution in which -> #<- jews would remain here? #or like i have seen ppl suggest that palestine should become a nation state in which jews can choose if they want to become citizens or go #and from a historical justice pov i completely understand that but u understand why that would be impossible to achieve realistically right #so actually what im saying is. are u really opposed to the 2 states solution for real reasons (valid) #or are you opposed to any solution that doesn't fit perfectly with your ideals and thus preventing any actual progress from happening #for the sake of us having this discussion in good faith. i personally believe in 1 secular state + right of return to palestinians #+ reparations + full equality under the law #which also doesn't sound very realistic in the current climate but yk #politics cw #did i make any sense at all with this

[fromtheseventhhell]

People from all across the world being able to freely travel to Israel, join the IDF, and participate in a genocide with no repercussions is such a difficult concept for me to wrap my mind around

#Isnotreal is committing a genocide unchecked so it's not surprising but it's also just... #you shouldn't be able to fly out to participate in a genocide and then return home like nothing happened #american canadian european japanese etc. citizens are receiving dual-citizenship from Israel and somehow??? we're supposed to just #accept that it's them /returning home/ and that said people have more right to that land then Palestinians? #what's terrifying is that their propaganda machine isn't entirely ineffective #even if the majority of people on social media see it for the bullshit colonizing it is there are still people who fall for that narrative #this is why it's so important to educate yourself and share resources to others #free palestine #palestine

[imperiuswrecked]

"We should call out Egypt & Jordan for not accepting Palestinian Refugees"

Baby girl you can't even call out genocide that's happening live on your screens in full color. Sit down.

#if the Palestinians leave then its 1948 all over again and they will never be able to come back #we learned the first time that if we leave then we have no rights to return #we dont want to leave #we want them to stop killing us #its not that hard to understand but sure blame others blame everyone except the ones killing us let me know how that works out for you #tw: genocide #palestine #current events #sometimes I actually feel insane bc you do know thats what they want right? thats exactly what they want #they want us to leave #they want to make it hell for us to ever set foot on our land #did you know that if you are Palestinian and anytime you travel even with legal documents in or out of the country #they can stop and harass you? #did you know anytime I travel I have to account for at least 4 hours of interrogation at an airport? and I have legal documents #I account 4 hours bc thats the longest time they've held me in a windowless room #anyways im so done with people who do not understand the history every fucking year its the same thing: just go somewhere else #we dont want to go somewhere else

[hero-israel]

Palestinians saying they are refugees and are barred from returning to their land. How true even is this, bc in my own experience meeting and talking with many they can go they just choose not to. Is there really some policy Israel has barring them from returning? And last I checked only ~750000 Palestinians were actually evicted and exiled, so the millions we see today living outside of Palestine were not there due to a Israel kicking them out.

Palestinians, like anybody else, can visit Israel if they like. Linda Sarsour and Rashida Tlaib conspicuously visited in recent years. Immigration and citizenship laws are set by every country, and most countries have far more preferential, specific immigration and citizenship laws than anything an American would recognize. Israel is preferentially a Jewish state - it's a feature, not a bug. There is a Right of Return Law for Jews, not for others.

Of the 750,000 Palestinians exiled in 1948, nearly all are dead; it was a long time ago. Multiple sources say there were about 30,000 remaining as of 2012, so how many can there possibly be today? I think it should be very much on the table for Israel to readmit the remaining survivors of 1948 as part of broader negotiations.

But their millions and millions of descendants are not refugees and are entitled to nothing. The core concept of modern Palestinian identity is based upon an INHERITED refugee status that has never been applied to any other group in history and is, simply, a lie. I can be sympathetic to Palestinians from a basic human perspective, but I don't indulge them or anyone else on this lie. It should be shouted down, loudly if need be.

#palestine #palestinians #right of return #israel

[hesitationss]

weird talking to a white liberal from my work randomly talking to me about palestine i was like okay cool and then j realized they were a white lib who i think made up their own idea of who i was in their head and randomly started saying "remember the people aren't their country's leaders" about israelis of all places... like unprovoked they just started saying that. i said nothing, they just started saying random shit like that 😭 please get a diary. only a white lib would believe that omg. remember you guys, the settlers blocking aid in the gaza strip, the settlrrs who sit watching the bombings saying it's better than fifa, and the settlers in the west bank who beat the crap out of palestinians are innocent to their oppressive government 😵‍💫 wah wah they are just babies and israel is making them be racist killers and if you don't serve in the iof you end up in jail (regular jail, not the torture-palestinians-,jail).

it always feels like when a social issue makes it into the mainstream, white people MUST make their baseless negative assumptions about those in solidarity, as well as posit the oppressors as victims. probably because they can identify more w their fellow settlers and white supremacist societies. but c'mon 😭 it has been almost half a year of this bloodbath. even liberal jewish organizations have made the decision to be antizionist (IJV) after years of calling for centrist ideas of peace and harrassing/speaking over palestinians, and still believing in the ethnostates right to existence... even *they* have finally called themselves antizionist, and white liberals will still say random unprompted shit trying to both sides freaking genocide 😭

#still don't know what IJV's stance will look like considering they seem to be wanting to make up their own definition of zionism #and antizionism #only time will tell... but bro the focus must always be on palestinians - to stop the bloodshed. return stolen land. and right of return

[girlactionfigure]

#Palestinians #right of return #Hosni Mubarak

[manwalksintobar]

my grandfather and home // Mosab Abu Toha

i

my grandfather used to count the days for return with his fingers he then used stones to count not enough he used the clouds birds people

absence turned out to be too long thirty six years until he died for us now it is over seventy years

my grandpa lost his memory he forgot the numbers the people he forgot home

ii

i wish i were with you grandpa i would have taught myself to write you poems volumes of them and paint our home for you i would have sewn you from soil a garment decorated with plants and trees you had grown i would have made you perfume from the oranges and soap from the skys tears of joy couldnt think of something purer

iii

i go to the cemetery every day i look for your grave but in vain are they sure they buried you or did you turn into a tree or perhaps you flew with a bird to the nowhere

iv

i place your photo in an earthenware pot i water it every monday and thursday at sunset i was told you used to fast those days in ramadan i water it every day for thirty days or less or more

v

how big do you want our home to be i can continue to write poems until you are satisfied if you wish i can annex a neighboring planet or two

vi

for this home i shall not draw boundaries no punctuation marks

#poetry #Mosab Abu Toha #Palestinian poetry #Arabic poetry #home #displacement #longing #war #grandfather #grandfathers & grandsons #family #right of return #Palestine

[fairiedance]

Palestine Designs

A selection from the things I have made these past couple weeks. My best friend is Palestinian and ALL PROCEEDS from these designs will go first and foremost to helping his girlfriend afford to join him in America safely, and after that helping his other loved ones weather this war.

All these and a few more available here. All designs are available on multiple products (shirts, notebooks, pins, etc), the ones shown are just examples. Anything not showing up in the shop is being reviewed by Redbubble and should be up soon.

Thank you to everyone who has helped so far. This friend means a lot to me and anything to make this horrible situation a little easier for him is greatly appreciated.

#gaza #free gaza #palestine #free palestine #colonialism #imperialism #jerusalem #فلسطين #save palestine #stickers #illustration #shirts #right of return #palestine flag #keffiyeh #protest #solidarity #palestinian solidarity #social justice #redbubble

[hauntedmoors]

person who reblogs posts mocking people who actually haven’t had sex or done drugs or firebombed a walmart also reblogging posts about how calls for palestinian freedom and the return of their land is naive:

#like. what’s going on is very transparent. #you find delight in making fun of people and pretending that people know nothing about Adulthood unless they’ve actually done the above #mentioned or whatever other thing tumblr acts weird about (re: going to clubs). why do you get cold feet when people say palestinians #deserve the right to self determination and the return of their land. what version of history do you live in where the colonised peoples #have ever been treated fairly. this is not the case even in most if not all democracies.

[workersolidarity]

Jeremy Corbyn: Unite to end the Nakba

#nakba75 #nakba #israeli apartheid #israeli palestinian conflict #palestine #right of return #israeli cruelty #apartheid #israel is an apartheid state #socialist news #socialist politics #socialist worker #socialism #communism #marxism leninism #socialist #communist #marxism #marxist leninist #progressive politics #politics