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Eduardo Kobra

#eduard kobra #street art #urban art #grafitti #muralism #wall art #pop culture #contemporary art #brazilian artist #peace activist

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Israeli or Palestinian?

Canadian-Israeli peace activist Vivian Silver, currently missing after the attack by Hamas.

Something tells me if she was wearing a hijab, a lot of you on this site would suddenly see her as looking a lot "darker" or more "ethnic."

#Israeli or Palestinian #vivian silver #israel not so white #israeli #israelis #israel palestine conflict #israel #hamas #peace activist #jewish #jew #judaism

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#Mairead Corrigan #peace activist #activist #nobel prize winner #nobel peace prize #northern irish #mairead #women for peace

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Yoko Ono (born February 18, 1933) is a multimedia artist, singer, songwriter, and activist. She is known for her performance art and filmmaking. She mixes various medium of art that doesn’t seem to make sense on paper, but when you see it, you’re like,“ oh, I get it !“she is mainly known for being the second wife and widow of the famed Beatle John Lennon. Yoko also keeps her late husband’s desire for peace for everyone alive. When  John was performing with Chuck Berry, Yoko was in the background screaming into a microphone as her version of backup vocals. The sound guy ended up cutting up her mic. As a couple, John and Yoko were activists known for their elaborate protests for peace and their experimental music with John and The Beatles also, their band Plastic Ono Band. Yoko is still performing her form of art and music occasionally with her son Sean Lennon.

#Artist #Singer-Songwriter #Peace Activist #Plastic Ono Band

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A tribute to Vivian

I know you will be greeted up above by your Palestinian and Israeli partners in activism, and the thousands of other victims of this pointless war.

Samah Salaime is a feminist Palestinian activist and writer. https://www.972mag.com/vivian-silver-tribute-peace-activist/

+ https://www.972mag.com/israel-ground-offensive-gaza-city-children/

+972 Magazine is an independent, online, nonprofit magazine run by a group of Palestinian and Israeli journalists. Founded in 2010

Palestinian Activist Remembers Vivian Silver, Israeli Canadian Peace Activist Killed in Hamas Attack

"Silver co-founded the Arab-Jewish Center for Equality, Empowerment and Cooperation, sat on the board for the human rights group B’Tselem and was an active member of Women Wage Peace. Silver’s friend and colleague Samah Salaime, a Palestinian feminist activist, says Silver would have pushed for dialogue to find a peaceful solution to the conflict. “This was her legacy, and this is what we have to march for and fight for after her death.”

"The minister of security, on internal security in Israel, Ben-Gvir, he’s this extremist fascist minister in Netanyahu’s government, also posted in his — tweeted on his Twitter account saying that this is what the Palestinian do with people who believe in peace, and she paid the price.

And this kind of ugliness and harassment and incitement against peace activists, this is the atmosphere here. We were not allowed to demonstrate, and still, against the ministry, against the war. We cannot shout, as Palestinian activists inside Israel, that we need and we want ceasefire. Any gathering between Arab and Jewish is now forbidden in Israel. But what the death of or the murder of Vivian succeeds to do is to gather hundreds of people in her memorial, Arab and Jewish, Palestinian and Israelis, men and women, religious and secular, from all the aspect, all the region, came to say goodbye to this wonderful, amazing, prominent woman."

Nov 20, 2023 LISTEN READ MORE Transcript https://www.democracynow.org/2023/11/20/vivian_silver

#peace activist #Vivian Silver #Democracy Now

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"Sweet memories on John Lennon's birthday" - Paul McCartney

#paul mccartney #john lennon #photography #concert #performance #visual #memories #the beatles #get back #singer #musicians #peace activist

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#rest in peace #vivienne westwood #fashion #icon #celebrity death #designer #dame Vivienne Westwood #activist #punk

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Where did this idea that aggressive harassment, sending death threats, bullying, doxxing, telling people to kill themselves, using homophobic and antisemitic slurs, attacking people’s looks, encouraging hate crimes, threatening to release sex videos, and engaging in a wide range of genuinely psychotic behaviors from behind a screen is reasonable and acceptable and even necessary “progressive” activism come from?

Yes, this is about the Noah Schnapp situation, but it’s about more than that, cause I’ve noticed this kind of mindset becoming more and more normalized, and I’ll never agree with it. How does this kind of behavior help the Palestinian people (or any other cause you’re being an “activist” for?) How does this kind of behavior encourage Noah or anyone else to change their views? How does wishing for Hamas to brutally murder the entire Schnapp family lead to peace and justice? How does saying Noah should dig up his dead dog and eat it stop bombs from dropping on Gaza???

I think all of us can agree that what’s happening in Israel/Palestine is horrible and stomach-churning. And I think most of us can agree that Noah wielding “Zionism is sexy” stickers when children are dying is tone-deaf and extraordinarily foolish at best. Please don’t mistake my words for saying that no one should ever be criticized or an endorsement of Noah’s reckless actions. But if you don’t have ANY compassion for the anxieties Jewish people face at a time when antisemitism is skyrocketing, that’s very concerning to me. Why can’t two things be true at once?

There’s this insidious notion that cruelty/calls for suicide/bullying are tools to weaponize against “bad” people, as if human decency, kindness, and empathy are food items to be snatched away whenever folks are deemed problematic (whether the reason is valid or not). People fancy themselves radicals, as if they are fighting in the French Revolution, when they are… not. I promise you that tweeting like this all day doesn’t make you a hero. It makes you look foolish:

#noah schnapp #byler #I know this is a controversial post but please know that it comes from a place of love and compassion and kindness #I know emotions are at an all time high and I debated whether I should post this but I believe it’s important #I just want there to be peace #in our world and in our fandom #the best way to be an activist is NOT by sending death threats on social media #the best way to be an activist is to be an activist

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when i see yt americans tell black and brown americans to vote for biden bc “trump will be worse” or “trump is extreme right”, i roll my eyes bc where on the political spectrum does joe biden, who is financing and supporting multiple genocides as well as restricting the human rights of MILLIONS of people, fall? yt ppl think that bc he tweets abt roe v wade (which he could’ve codified but didn’t btw) that that makes him left wing

#yt self proclaimed liberals piss me off so bad #yt ppl just generally be pissing me off but GOD #like i’ve made my peace with yt conservatives and right wingers #but it’s the damn liberals that throw me #bc for all the shit you spout #you are so damn useless #thinking abt how genocide joe’s speech at the church where 9 black ppl were killed #his speech was interrupted by pro palestine activists asking how many kids he has allowed to die in gaza #and these DUMB bitches were like 4 more years!!! #do you know how fucking sick you have to be #ym saying trump will be worse when him and biden have the same damn stance on palestine #and then trying to suppress the valid concerns of black and brown ppl #yeah fuck you guys

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Dahomey (2024) dir. Mati Diop

Mati Diop (Atlantics) just won the Golden Bear at Berlin and shouted “I stand with Palestine!” as she accepted her award. Her film deals with the returning of plundered royal treasures from the African Kingdom of Dahomey from Paris to the present day Republic of Benin.

#undeniable #neotai's song #mati diop #master teacher #free gaza #free palestine #Palestine #dahomey #cinema #German arts scene revealed itself to be deeply anti Palestinian and even more racist and Islamophobic than previously thought #cutting funding for anyone who dares to speak out about palestine so this was a great venue for Palestine to be mentioned within... #Germany standing on the wrong side of history…again and again...but german activists outchea raising hell... #you saw how they turned hilary clinton's cinema for peace (the AUDACITYYYYY) event upside down #MUCH RESPECT TO THOSE ACTIVISTS #and to mati showing out #look forward to seeing the movie as atlantics was dope and needs a rewatch tbh #the 'after atlantics' marketing is dope cos black artists are so often cut off from their own continuity and context by the establishment #movies

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IDF officials reported yesterday they found the body of Vivian Silver from Kibbut Be'eri in an open area near the Gaza border.

Silver was believed to be among the captives held by Hamas in Gaza, but it appears she was executed by her captors before reaching their destination. Her remains had to be identified by DNA.

Silver was a Canadian-Israeli peace activist and women's rights activist. A leading member of several liberal peace movements, Silver believed that a soft-handed and diplomatic approach could win the Palestinians over and bring peace and security. 

And then they killed her.

#Israel #IDF #BDE #Hamas Massacre #October 7 #Iron Sword #Canadian Peace activist

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Israeli or Palestinian?

Palestinian peace activist Ahed Tamimi

#Israeli or Palestinian #palestine #Palestinian #woman #peace activist #israel palestine conflict #gaza #peace #women #diversity #middle east #middle eastern #arab #blonde #white #poc #race and ethnicity #ahed tamimi

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Goyim non Muslim/Arab/Palestinians who are trying to help with the situation have to understand this:

Reading one book. Reading 3 news articles. Reading even three scholarly articles. Watching the news every day. Even doing ALL OF THESE THINGS EVERY DAY since 10/7—this is nothing more than a drop in the bucket of the work you need to be doing to contribute to conversations about this conflict, let alone leading any kind of charge.

I have been intimately aware of the conflict and it’s intricacies since I was seven years old. I have been learning and unlearning things my whole life. I am Jewish and pro-Palestine and have spent my adult life learning about Palestinian needs as well as combatting pervasive propaganda from extremists on BOTH SIDES meant to confuse newcomers to the situation like most of you are.

It is, honestly, entitlement that makes you think you can’t waltz into a complex situation involving a 2,000+ year old conflict, multiple identities of non-western origin, multiple cycles of extremism and expulsion and ethnic cleansing and wars from all sides—and take the lead on any of this. You can’t. You don’t know enough. You don’t even know enough to know what you don’t know or how to tell if what you know is wrong.

That doesn’t mean you aren’t necessary for helping to solve this conflict. It means a lot of people are being more vocal than they have any right to be about a situation they know almost nothing about. And they’re doing it so they can feel morally righteous and on the right side and like they’re helping.

But if you actually want to help rather than just looking or feeling like you’re helping, then you need to listen to affected groups when they are speaking. You need to not declare either side right or wrong. You need to learn the difference between terrorism and activism. You need to understand the impact of your words on Muslim, Palestinian, Arab, Jewish, Israeli, and even south Asian communities who are constantly roped into the conflict by racists who just hate all brown people.

You need to learn about the foundations and warning signs of antisemitism. You need to learn about the same about Islamophobia. You need to be open to being wrong. A LOT. Because you will be. Because this conflict is complicated and even those of us who have been in it forever learn things and have to revise our opinions and stances. You need to not assume you are correct about anything and you should have reliable sources for anything you add to this conversation.

You outnumber ALL OF US. You outnumber everyone who is actually affected by the conflict by A SUBSTANTIAL AMOUNT. And your job should be to focus your efforts on FINDING A PATH TO PEACE. Move the conversation away from the personally fulfilling but globally damaging good guys v bad guys narrative. Move it towards a mutually beneficial peace agreement that keeps both Jews and Palestinians safe and protected and equal in their shared homeland.

This is not a Western European-American Christo-centric conflict. Stop applying your principles to it. Start considering that marching, calling senators, and calling for more or less bombs to happen to the “right” people isn’t helping. It’s not helping. You’re not helping.

What will help is listening to people who are actively working to achieve peace. Listening to concerns about ongoing attacks against Israeli civilians during ceasefire. Listening to ongoing segregation of Palestinians and depravation of essential resources from Palestinian Territories. Learn about the official political history of the international community with Israel and Palestine and what the motivations of EACH NON-I/P COUNTRY might have been over the course of Palestine’s 2000yo history. Learn how that might still influence modern western nations today. Learn about Jewish diaspora. Read about counterterrorism and propose or spread awareness of methods and means that can both protect Israeli and Palestinian civilians and defang or eliminate antisemitic or Islamophobic extremists and terrorists. Look for organizations devoted to SHARED PROSPERITY FOR PALESTINIANS AND ISRAELIS.

Furthermore, anyone who tells you that the conflict is simple or repeating a phrase over and over is simple or tells you there is an obvious good answer is at best uninformed but is most likely operating in bad faith. Their “simple” answer isn’t something every world leader ever has magically overlooked. It is one of the routine, recurring “solutions” that depend upon the disenfranchisement, death, or displacement of an affected population that they deem unworthy of consideration.

Israelis aren’t going anywhere. Palestinians aren’t going anywhere. Both populations deserve safety. Both populations’ religions and cultures deserve equality and, yes, explicit constitutional guarantees that they will have their religious and cultural practices respected and protected from violence or suppression. That may not fit with your modern secular ideas that having any guarantees for any religion in a constitution is inherently evil.

But we are dealing with two groups who have been brutalized to near extinction on the grounds of their religion and culture for millennia so consider that asking for guaranteed safety in writing is a pretty reasonable thing to want for everyone, actually.

#I/p #i/p conflict #peace #activism #jewish muslim solidarity #western activists have main character syndrome #stop it #antisemitism #islamophobia #I dare a goy to reblog this challenge #critical reading #cite your sources #history #israel #Palestine #jumblr #Zionism #anti zionisim #racism #bigotry #ethnic cleansing #ID yourself as a goy if you rn and are goy #cuz I feel completely abandoned tbh

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Yoko Ono (born February 18, 1933) is a multimedia artist, singer, songwriter, and activist. She is known for her performance art and filmmaking. Ono is mainly known for being the second wife and widow of the famed Beatle John Lennon. Yoko has kept her late husband’s desire for peace for everyone alive. When  John was performing with Chuck Berry, Yoko was in the background screaming into a microphone as her version of backup vocals. The sound guy ended up cutting up her mic. As a couple, John and Yoko were activists known for their elaborate protests for peace and their experimental music with John and The Beatles and their band Plastic Ono Band. he mixes various art mediums that are seen as extreme but make sense when you give them a second look. She still performs her form of art and music occasionally with her son, Sean Lennon.

#Artist #Singer-Siongwriter #Peace Activist

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#israel #palestine #i/p #israel palestine #pro peace #pro palestine #pro israel #two state solution #palestinian activist #israeli palestinian solidarity #israel hamas war #i stand with palestine #i stand with israel #i stand with gaza #fuck hamas #fuck netanyhu

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#jerusalem #Israel #police #police brutality #activism #activist #Israeli activism #Israeli activists #free palestine #palestine #gaza #free gaza #current events #israel news #palestine news #gaza news #gaza genocide #keep protesting #global protest #protests #protest #save gaza #save palestine #Israelis against genocide #jews against genocide #jews for peace #I don’t know why the clown is there