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The Big Damn List Of Stuff They Said You Didn't Know

Five free eBooks on the colonization and ethnic cleansing of Palestine

Pluto Books Free Palestine Reading List 30-50% off

LGBT Activist Scott Long's Google Drive of Palestine Freedom Struggle Resources

(includes some of the reading material recced below)

The Cambridge UCU and Pal Society Resources List

List of Academic and Literary Books Compiled by Dr. Kiran Grewal

Academic Books (many available in Goldsmiths library)

Rosemary Sayigh (2007) The Palestinians: From Peasants to Revolutionaries, Bloomsbury

Ilan Pappé (2002)(ed) The Israel/Palestine Question, Routledge

(2006) The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine, OneWorld Publications

(2011) The Forgotten Palestinians: A History of the Palestinians in Israel, Yale University Press

(2015) The Idea of Israel: A History of Power and Knowledge, Verso Books

(2017) The Biggest Prison on earth: A history of the Occupied territories, OneWorld Publications

(2022) A History of Modern Palestine, Cambridge University Press

Rashid Khalidi (2020) The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917-2017, MacMillan

Andrew Ross (2019) Stone Men: the Palestinians who Built Israel, Verso Books

Ariella Azoulay and Adi Ophir (2012) The One-State Condition: Occupation and Democracy in Israel/Palestine, Stanford University Press.

Ariella Azoulay (2011) From Palestine to Israel: A Photographic Record of Destruction and State Formation, 1947-1950, Pluto Press

Jeff Halper (2010) An Israeli in Palestine: Resisting Dispossession, Redeeming Israel, Pluto Press

(2015) War Against the People: Israel, the Palestinians and Global Pacification

(2021) Decolonizing Israel, Liberating Palestine: Zionism, Settler Colonialism, and the Case for One Democratic State, Pluto Press

Anthony Loewenstein (2023) The Palestine Laboratory: How Israel exports the Technology of Occupation around the World (CURRENTLY FREE TO DOWNLOAD ON VERSO)

Noura Erakat (2019) Justice for some: law and the question of Palestine, Stanford University Press

Neve Gordon (2008) Israel’s Occupation, University of California Press

Joseph Massad (2006) The persistence of the Palestinian question: essays on Zionism and the Palestinians, Routledge Edward Said (1979) The Question of Palestine, Random House

Memoirs, Novels & Poetry:

Voices from Gaza - Insaniyyat (The Society of Palestinian Anthropologists)

Letters From Gaza • Protean Magazine

Raja Shehadeh (2008) Palestinian Walks: forays into a Vanishing Landscape, Profile Books

Ghada Karmi (2009) In Search of Fatima: A Palestinian Story, Verso Books

Fatma Kassem (2011) Palestinian Women: Narratives, histories and gendered memory, Bloombsbury

Mourid Barghouti (2005) I saw Ramallah, Bloomsbury

Izzeldin Abuelaish (2011) I Shall Not Hate: A Gaza Doctor’s Journey on the Road to Peace and Human Dignity, Bloomsbury

Cate Malek and Mateo Hoke (eds)(2015) Palestine Speaks: Narrative of Life under Occupation, Verso Books

The Works of Mahmoud Darwish

Human Rights Reports & Documents

Information on current International Court of Justice case on ‘Legal Consequences arising from the Policies and Practices of Israel in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem’

UN Commission of Inquiry Report 2022

UN Special Rapporteur Report on Apartheid 2022

Amnesty International Report on Apartheid 2022

Human Rights Watch Report on Apartheid 2021

Report of the United Nations Fact-Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict’ 2009 (‘The Goldstone Report’)

Advisory Opinion on the Legal Consequences of the Construction of a Wall in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, International Court of Justice, 9 July 2004

Films

Lemon Tree (2008)

Where Should The Birds Fly (2013)

Naila and the Uprising (2017)

Waltz with Bashir (2008)

Omar (2013)

Paradise Now (2005)

5 Broken Cameras (2011)

The Gatekeepers (2012)

Foxtrot (2017)

Gaza Mon Amour (2020)

The Viewing Booth (2020)

Innocence (2022) - Innocence (2022) | IDFA Archive

The Village Under the Forest (2013)

Palestine Film Institute's films on Gaza

Abby Martin - Gaza Fights For Freedom (2019) | Full Documentary | Directed by Abby Martin

Dan Cohen - Gaza Fights Back | MintPress News Original Documentary

‘The Promise’, directed by Peter Kosminsky (2010) (4 part miniseries on the creation of Israel)

Sources:

https://www.972mag.com/

https://jewishcurrents.org/

Jadaliyya ‘Gaza in Context’ Series

Jadaliyya “War on Palestine” podcast - The War on Palestine Podcast: Episode 1

Border Chronicle, Interview with Israeli anthropologist Jeff Halper

NGOs

B’Tselem

Breaking the Silence

Al Haq

Palestinian Feminist Collective

Yesh Din

DAWN

Amnesty International

Human Rights Watch

Gisha

Forensic Architecture

Instagram Accounts

gazangirl

mohammedelkurd

khaledbeydoun

motaz_azaiza

wizard_bisan1

etafrum

sara_mardini963

Twitter(X) Accounts

@PalStudies - Institute for Palestine Studies

@medicalaidpal

@middleeastmatters

@KenRoth - former executive director of Human Rights Watch

@YairWallach - Reader in Israel Studies at SOAS

@ PhilipProudfoot - researcher on development, humanitarianism and Arab states

@btselem - Israeli human rights documentation centre

@MairavZ - Senior Israel-Palestine Analyst at Crisis Group

@rohantalbot - Director of Advocacy and Campaigns at MedicalAidPal

@sarahleah1 - Executive Director of DAWN (democracy and human rights in MENA)

@alhaq_org - Palestinian human rights organisation

@FranceskAlbs - UN Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Territories

@Yesh_Din - Israeli human rights organisation

@sfardm - Michael Sfard, Israeli Human Rights Lawyer

@EphstainItay - Israeli international humanitarian lawyer

@saribashi - Program director for Human Rights Watch (Israeli living in Palestine)

@Gisha_Access - Israeli NGO

@_ZachFoster - Historian

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(if any links are broken let me know. Or pull up the current post to check whether it's fixed.)

From River To The Sea Palestine Will Be Free 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸

(I took the first video down because turns out the animator is a terf and it links to her blog. Really sorry for any distress.)

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waterborn-phoenix · 9 months

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*Miguel's daughter is dead and he's clearly still grieving and traumatised*

#spider man: across the spider verse #across the spiderverse #atsv #miguel o'hara #atsv miguel #spiderman 2099 #peter parker #peter b parker #mayday parker #i did a little something #peter's entire atsv character in one meme

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waterborn-phoenix · 10 months

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All of ya'll getting pissy about Hobie being shipped with Gwen/Miles/Pavitr are only pissed because the age of consent in the USA is 18, right? But in England is 16, in Argentina it's 13, 15 in Costa Rica, 17 in Mexico, and so on...

It changes all around the world why do you think America is the only one that matters??

+ we are talking about superhumans who fight literal monsters?? I think the last thing on their mind is that this person is a few years older than me.

Has no one been a teenager before? Teens don't usually care about that stuff anyway

#across the spiderverse #atsv #hobie brown #gwen stacey #miles morales #pavitr prabhakar #i actually don't ship any of them #not even gwen and miles #found family trop is the best #but im not gonna actively hate on people for shipping them

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waterborn-phoenix · 10 months

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Spider-verse Teams

A Team: The Big Three

B Team: Shows Up Late

C Team: Hearts Of Gold

D Team: Desperately Needs Therapy

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waterborn-phoenix · 10 months

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📌MINOR ATSV SPOILERS AHEAD 📣

Okay but the fact that Hobie Brown and George Stacey canonically met at the end of atsv is so funny to me

Gwen's dad referred to Hobie as "a piece of work" (that's what I remember at least) so I really wonder how it went??

Was George referring to Hobie's appearance? His attitude? How was his attitude? Was he rude? Flirty? (Gwen's dad is hot and Hobie doesn't believe in heterosexuality sue me)

I just-

#atsv #atsv spoilers #across the spiderverse #atsv hobie #hobie brown #more like hubby #captain george stacy #gwen stacey #my two mans #as a side note #hobie's handwriting is so shit im crying

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waterborn-phoenix · 10 months

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Adventures in babysitting: a saga

One hour in:

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waterborn-phoenix · 11 months

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I need this written down. I'll pay

You know what this fandom doesn’t have, which is a cheesy staple of most fandoms?

Body swap.

Which is silly because elves are like barely connected to their bodies anyways.

Where is the horrific chaos fic of the house of Finwe all being reembodied in one massive Mandos dump and all ending up in each other’s forms?

Fingolfin in Curufin’s body just congenially trying to figure out if any of them are Feanor, because he just want talk, he crossed the ice to talk and he just wants to talk, he swears, WHERE IS HIS SHITTY BROTHER.

Feanor’s sons “no I’m sparticus!”-ing so no one can tell which pisses Feanor off cause he’s no coward. He’s in Amrod.

Amrod is in Amras and feels kind of cheated.

Finrod is in his real body b/c he was reembodied ages ago but no one believes he’s really Finrod.

Aredhel is in Maedhros and is delighted to be tall.

Fingon is in Caranthir and everyone is alarmed at how friendly he looks.

Turgon is in Celegorm and is probably a little too effusive about how upset he is by this development.

Just you know. Shenanigans.

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waterborn-phoenix · 1 year

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y’know i’m just suddenly being bowled over again by sephiroth and my own headcanons for him and just oh my god.

there’s so much of his odd behavior that can be understood and explained if you understand he was barely given any socialization throughout his formative years. hojo ensured that he wasn’t feral as a young child, if only just. but sephiroth did not know how to form connections until he was several years in age, not until he met the turks and came to understand that you were loyal to your partner.

but he wasn’t raised like a normal person. he didn’t have birthday parties and praise for accomplishments. he wasn’t held after nightmares or soothed when he wasn’t feeling well. they didn’t treat him like a child. sephiroth may have been eight years old when they took him from nibelheim to midgar but he was never a child.

children are allowed to make mistakes, to expand their horizons, to grow up and to explore their own boundaries and emotions and more.

he never had that chance. sephiroth, from the time he could walk, was treated solely in the fashion of being molded into a weapon of war. he was tutored in different languages and dialects. he was taught battlefield tactics. he was made to learn strategy. he did not understand anything close to what family is until he was in his teens and he met gillian when angeal and genesis took him to banora.

angeal and genesis mitigated a considerable amount of damage that had been done to sephiroth when he was so young; they taught him so much.

but sephiroth was never a child and it’s so easy to understand him if you comprehend that he just did not grow up the way everyone else had. he was never allowed to do that. he had to ever be strong and powerful and perfect. he didn’t have those little things other children do. he didn’t have a favorite spot ( until he began to learn to cook ) or wild imaginings or anything like that.

he was a weapon.

and weapons are made to be used.

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waterborn-phoenix · 1 year

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