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The UNRWA is concerned that if they do not receive more funding they will run out by the end of February please spread this message

in case any of you missed it, despite the ICJ's ruling for Israel to facilitate MORE aid into Gaza, the global west has responded by cutting funding to UNWRA, which is responsible for delivering significant amounts of aid into Gaza, as well as surrounding areas such as Lebanon. The countries cutting funding consist of the US, Australia, the UK, the Netherlands, Swritzerland, Italy, Germany, Finland, Canada and Japan. This was all due to a claim by Israel that members of UNWRA were Hamas-members or sympathisers which, at the end of the day, is a claim that concerns only 12 members in a total of 30,000.

Without proper funding, UNWRA is likely to run out of resources by February of this year (only another month) and urges the countries that have suspended donations to reconsider. This is a blatant move from the colonialist countries of this world to starve Palestinians even further when they are already facing unforeseen levels of famine.

Please take some time out of your day to call your reps, your political leaders and urge them to restart their funding. In the meantime, here is a link to donate to the UNWRA.

#palestine

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Social media storm for Palestine 11/01/2024 and 12/01/2024

Palestinian advocacy groups are asking people online like you to partake in a social media storm in conjunction with the ICJ hearings of South Africa against Israel for violations of its obligations under the Genocide Convention; a Cyber Intifada (Cyber Revolution). For those who don't know, a social media storm is when people organize to simultaneously post about the same topic, with the same hashtag and about the same topic, to spread awareness and clog up Internet servers and feeds on social media platforms. It's a similar strategy to emailing and calling your representatives in large amounts so they're forced to face the issue you want to represent, but instead it targets everyone.

Instructions:

On Twitter, Instagram, Tumblr, Facebook, TikTok and whatever other platforms you have you should:

Prepare / schedule posts / content containing the hashtag "EndIsraelsGenocide". These posts should be of videos, pictures, statements, and other forms of evidence of the genocide Israel is committing against Palestinians.

If you can be active online at the time of the storm, interact with, comment, share, etc... each other's posts to maximize engagement with the hashtag and increase its effectiveness.

Schedule these posts for:

Thursday January 11th, from 10AM to 12PM in South Africa and Palestine time. This corresponds to 3AM in EST, 12AM in PST, 11AM Mecca time, 8AM GMT & UTC, and 4PM China time).

Friday, January 12th, from 10AM to 12PM in South Africa and Palestine time. This corresponds to 3AM in EST, 12AM in PST, 11AM Mecca time, 8AM GMT & UTC, and 4PM China time).

If you're unsure what time zone you live in, please consult this list and start trying to make the calculations now.

Prepare your posts, compile the evidence beforehand if need be. You can look through the tags in my blog "zionist occupation" to compile the stuff in there. Try to focus on statements from Palestinian survivors.

#wasnt awake for the 11th but 12th starts now #palestine

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i think i strained a tendon in my hand or something because it has been hurting for days

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still thinking about refaat alareer. we know now that refaat was assassinated by israel for a joke he made about the false (and ridiculous) israeli claim that a "baby was baked in an oven" on oct 7th

i can't stop thinking about how he was targeted for this joke. on the one hand you could argue, as many fascists and genocidal freaks have, that israelis wanted him dead out of grief or righteous anger that he was mocking their dead children—but the thing is by the time the order was given to kill him (we know he received a call informing him that he was a target around two days prior to his assassination) it was already well-known that this claim was false. no babies were baked in ovens on october 7th. there was a child thrown into a bakery fire in front of his father during the nakba in 1948, but that's besides the point.

what i can't stop thinking about is that refaat was then targeted not for mocking a dead baby, but for his disrespect. he refused to patronize israeli victimhood. and why should he? by the time he made that joke, on october 29th, over 7000 palestinians (including 3000 children) had already been killed by israel. israel had already burned, suffocated, crushed and decapitated 3000 palestinian children, hundreds of whom were under one year old.

its kind of crazy to me that people think this joke was off-color or inappropriate. it wasn't. there was no baked baby. it was simply propaganda. the children killed on october 7th would not be enough to justify the palestinian children who had already been and would be killed, and therefore the story needed embellishment to explain the horror to the israeli psyche. no baby was baked but perhaps it felt like a baby was baked. the important thing is that everyone needed to feel like a baby was baked because they need to get rid of palestinians, so whatever it takes to convince people that that is necessary, then it must be said and respected and repeated ad nauseam. people more generous than i have suggested that israelis who made these claims had first responder trauma. sure. but airing that first responder trauma, paying for ads to prominently display it across social media, editing videos and infographics with these claims, and reprinting them into magazines turns this trauma into industrialized propaganda that is incitement to genocide. that is not only worthy of criticism but necessary to criticize.

refaat refused to entertain that. he called bullshit on a bullshit claim. if anyone has a right to do that, it is palestinians who cannot afford to entertain the pearl-clutching of israelis who say they fear genocide so they can perpetuate genocide. israel demanded sympathy for their hypothetical baby, while by then they had already killed eight NICU babies and left four more to slowly die abandoned in their hospital beds. and they knew this. the idf knew it was slowly and swiftly killing palestinian babies, they knew the hypothetical baby wasn't real, they knew refaat was joking, and they just wanted him dead anyway. they would've likely killed him with or without the joke, but without the joke maybe it would have been in an airstrike on a whole building, or an airstrike on an entire refugee camp, or an errant sniper, instead of a targeted strike on his sister's apartment.

in truth refaat wasn't killed for his ridicule, nor for his disrespect. he was killed because he was a palestinian who dared to ridicule and disrespect israel. israel strives to isolate palestinians in this, to make ridiculing and disrespecting israel an unacceptable, 'palestinian' trait. but if palestinians are killed for ridiculing israel, then ridiculing israel is honoring these victims. it is israel that makes a mockery of itself by instituting a land grab in the name of its victims. in ridiculing israel, we honor those victims too. some of them deserved a better country, one that did not seize their death as a gleeful opportunity to murder ten thousand children. it might be said that israel can't take a joke about its useless propaganda, but it mostly just can't take the idea of a palestinian existing. it's oversensitive like that.

refaat had already lost his home and his family to israeli bombing in 2014. they could not take disrespect from someone whose family they had killed, whose childhood they had ruined, whose freedom they had limited, and who—for two months before his death—they had starved, terrorized and beseiged. in this aspect, refaat was no different to any other palestinian.

above all, israel can't take the existence of palestinians who never forget that it is a colonizer, a villain, and a tyrant to those it has dispossessed, and can so clearly and succinctly declare it to the world. and so israel finds it easy and correct to kill them. to many israelis, this too is "israel defending itself." israel is only defending its reputation—an honor killing, if you will.

ironically, of course, killing a poet is so pathetic it becomes its own joke. a nuclear superpower got ratio'd on twitter so it deployed an airstrike and killed his entire family, including his sister's children. haha! next time we'll make sure to dutifully repeat the propaganda of the only democracy in the middle east with sufficient respect.

refaat's body, along with his family's, are still under the rubble. they cannot be retrieved due to the siege on fuel, the sniper fire on emergency rescuers and the lack of heavy machinery.

but in the end, the pedestrian predictability of military regimes, colonizers and fascists who love killing poets, artists, satirists, academics always loses. they forget that in doing so they have granted each poet immortality, and given every word they have written eternal life. that includes "with or without baking powder?"

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#palestine #i read this last night and cried. very good article.

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If you want to honor Mr. Rafaat's memory in light of his passing, please download the book here:

And don't stop talking about Palestine!!

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told my mom about the james somerton stuff and she told me about how she knew a girl in college who constantly lied about stuff and then later she ran for state rep and got called out for lying about graduating from cambridge. classic politician behavior

#she could have been george santos. if it weren't for misogny #x

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i have covid :/

#x

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The Gaza Death Toll Has Now Hit 9,000.

Gaza’s health ministry has updated its death toll since the conflict broke out on October 7, to 9,061, including 3,760 children and 2,326 women.

Please, please do not be desensitized to the numbers. Please don't look away! Palestinians do not even have the privilege look away! Do not stop protesting, do not stop demanding for a ceasefire, do not stop donating esims or money or humanitarian aid, do not stop looking ways for help, do not stop talking about Palestine!

#2975 men based on those numbers #the lives of all palestinians are important #and deserve to be counted and mourned #palestine

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happy bday!

ty!!! hope you're having a good day too

#ask

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happy birthday ell <3

thank you fern sibley tzipporah <3<3 :)

#ily!!!! #ask

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Happy birthday!

thank you <3<3<3

#ask #anonymous

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well it's my birthday ....

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people (zionists) referring to the oct 7th attack on 'israel' as a pogrom really pisses me off. our ancestors were massacred for thousands of years by our oppressors for our religion and ethnicity, when we did no wrong to anyone. "israel" was attacked because it is a colonialist, apartheid state that brought all of this on itself. how the fuck is that the same.

same people would never call the ongoing genocide of palestinians a pogrom. they wouldn't even call it a genocide

#x #genocide #it feels so disrespectful to the victims of pogroms #like it is not the same thing

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yes not all jews are zionists and thinking that all jews are zionists is antisemitic. but i have seen so many obvious zionists (that antizionists on tumblr have known about for years) and cryptozionists on my dash recently. don't be antisemitic but also learn to recognize zionist talking points and propaganda. and if an antizionist jew tells you that someone is a zionist don't accuse them of being an antisemite themself??? stop promoting zionist voices and definitely don't look to them as an information source on antisemitism or occupied palestine. i understand that most of tumblr is not knowledgeable about jumblr but please. some of these users, you can literally just search their username and find posts calling them out or informing others about their zionism. and no i don't care if it was two whole years ago that they said that "free palestine is an antisemitic statement" or liked posts saying that "palestinian genocide is antisemitic lies". if they believed that as recently as then, i don't trust their opinions now and they certainly shouldn't be heralded as educators on antisemitism.

#x #zionism #im just. so sick of seeing these people

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LMAO tr/but/ry is supporting joe biden right now???

#x #censored bc they seem to be a namesearcher #this is a person who threatened to report a black user’s paypal for terrorism #and the user seems to be the main source of income for their whole family #but according to them that wld be totally justified #and they said they’re a good person because they AREN’T actually reporting #just threatening to… ok

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bro my cousin and aunt (not her mom) got in a facebook fight where my cousin tried to educate her on how zionism/israel is wrong and my aunt said that my cousin used AI to write her argument and that she doesn't believe that my cousin could be educated on things because she didn't graduate high school????? wtf

#well i did graduate high school and i agree with her #so what do you say to that nicole #x #fucking baffling