Aamer Rahman: "A colonizer’s favourite trick is to start the timeline when it's convenient for them."
A clear example of the gradual transformation of a Reuters headline from actual news to israeli propaganda: facts are lost (school & 100 are gone), doubt casted ("Hamas-run"), Israel's unsubstantiated statement incorporated ("hit militants").
Israelism (Erin Axelman & Sam Eilertsen, 2023)
Easy to use and simple. Just share the site whenever someone asks for GFMs for Palestine.
Poster spotted in Columbia, South Carolina
“Hello from my house” - Alaa Shahwan from Gaza
Rafah-born author and poet Khaled Juma wrote a heartbreaking tribute to the children of the Gaza Strip amidst the missiles striking his hometown. At least 506 Palestinian children have been killed since Israel commenced its latest invasion of Gaza on July 8, 2014
Photograph #1: A Palestinian boy, who fled with his family from their home during Israeli air strikes, bathes his brother at a United Nations-run school in the Jabalya Refugee Camp in the northern Gaza Strip on July 31, 2014. The school is a designated shelter for Palestinians who were displaced by Israel’s offensive. Photo credit: Mohammed Salem
Photograph #2: A Palestinian girl reacts at the scene of an explosion carried out by the Israeli military that killed at least eight children and wounded 40 more in a public garden in Gaza City on July 28, 2014. Photo credit: Finbarr O’Reilly
Photograph #3: A traumatized Palestinian child is comforted by a man arranging care for him in a hospital in Gaza City following an Israeli air strike on July 9, 2014. Photo credit: Momen Faiz
Photograph #4: A Palestinian child pulls out toys from a box at a local market in Gaza City during a temporary ceasefire on August 6, 2014. Palestinian and Israeli delegations met in Cairo with Hamas demanding an end to the siege on Gaza and Israel demanding a demilitarization of the territory. Photo credit: Lefteris Pitarakis
Photograph #5: A Palestinian boy sleeps at a United Nations-run school in Gaza City on July 14, 2014, after fleeing with his family from their home in Beit Lahya. Photo credit: Mohammed Salem
Photograph #6: Doctors tend to injured children while a young girl sitting on her mother’s lap cries at a hospital in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on August 4, 2014. Photo credit: Eyad El Baba
Photograph #7: A Palestinian girl cries while being treated at a hospital in Beit Lahya following after sustaining injuries from an Israeli air strike on a United Nations school in the Jabalya Refugee Camp on July 30, 2014. Photo credit: Khalil Hamra
Photograph #8: Two Palestinians girls celebrate the first day of Eid Al-Fitr on the grounds of a United Nations school in the Jabalya Refugee Camp in the northern Gaza Strip on July 28, 2014. Their families are among the dozens that have fled their homes and sought refuge in the school. Normally, Muslim families in Palestine celebrate Eid Al-Fitr by visiting one another and gifting children with new clothes and shoes. Photo credit: Khalil Hamra
Photograph #9: One-and-a-half year old Razel Netzlream was killed after she was fatally hit by shrapnel from an Israeli air strike on an adjacent home the previous day. Her father carries her body to the funeral in Khan Younis on July 18, 2014. Photo credit: Alessio Romenzi
Photograph 10: A portrait of Shahed Quishta, 8, is fixed to a pillar in her home in Beit Lahya on August 16, 2014, after an Israeli tank fired a shell into the living room. She was killed on July 22, 2014. Photo credit: Khalil Hamra
This post is from August 2014. It’s ten years old and yet it could have been written just yesterday!
“Mistake”
I'm very tired of this "queer college students should stop supporting Palestine, they'd kill you there!" I watched a hijabi ask a trans man, "but what name do you want to go by?" A butch giving a woman their hoodie so that she could keep her hair covered after the cops took her scarf. Muslim girls making sure the lesbian couple got through the system together. Religious men making sure purple haired protestors got out safe. I don't want to hear it. Solidarity forever, free Palestine.
verified ways to send aid to gaza directly
Help a Palestinian family directly:
- gazafunds.com - Donate directly to a Palestinian family in urgent need of evacuation, medical attention, food, rebuilding homes/businesses etc. (Spotlights 1 verified gfm at a time so if you don't know who/where to donate to just go here and donate to the one they show you!)
Help provide tents (urgent):
- The Sameer Project: Currently providing tents for displaced families in Gaza (emergency bc tents in Rafah are being burned as we speak) (paypal) (gfm)
Food, cash & essentials:
- Care for Gaza: Working on the ground in Gaza to distribute food, cash, medicine & other essentials to displaced families. (paypal) (gfm)
- Direct Aid for Gaza: also working on the ground in Gaza to distribute food, cash & other daily essential suppliess to displaced families. (paypal) (gfm)
Water:
- Gaza Municipality's water project: The official Municipality of Gaza needs help rebuilding the water infrastructure in Gaza City to restore access to clean water and waste management services for the people of Gaza. (This campaign only has a couple of weeks left but it's still only at 15%!)
eSIMs (urgent):
- guide to buy & send esims for gaza
- crips for esims for gaza: If you don't know how to buy esims or don't have the capacity to manage them (e.g. topping up regularly), this team of volunteers are collecting funds to buy & manage gaza esims regularly
Medical Aid
- Palestine Red Crescent Society: Provides emergency medical and ambulance services and humanitarian relief on the ground in Gaza e.g. rescuing and treating the wounded.
Art by: Henry James Garrett
Gaza 2023 vs 2024 💔🇵🇸
thinking about this today
to the sea
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The hardest thing about all this was learning that the Holocaust is in fact a colonialist hoax cooked up by the Zionists to garner sympathy. And it worked on so many of us for so long. How do these people keep getting away with this??
Alright this isn’t no fucking gotcha moment, I feel sick. This is so disgustingly wrong and disturbing. The Holocaust HAPPENED. The scar it left on the Jewish people is something we are still grappling with and healing to this day. The hole it left in Europe still remains.
Holocaust denialism is so deeply antisemitic, it is facist, it is evil. Millions of Jews lost their lives due to white supremacist, Nazi ethnonationalism. Millions of Communists, Hungarians, Rroma, Poles, Black, Queer and disabled people violently lost their lives. This conspiracy theory is dangerous and damaging to progressive spaces, do not ever consider yourself a Leftist or even an anti-Zionist if you possess even an inch of Holocaust denialism.
The United States and State of Israel weaponise the Holocaust to justify crimes against Palestinians— no hoax, it is just that now, unfortunately, the memory of the Holocaust has been warped into a tool for empiric expansion and less of a lesson on the dangers of ethnonationalism, capitalism and white supremacy.
Fuck you, never speak on my people like that.