its horrid that gazans have to post their private, painful moments of saying farewell to their dead families. its so fucking terrible they have to post it online instead of being allowed privacy - and all so that the west can see their suffering because it doesnt even believe them. and even when they show it openly, the west still lies and fabricates lies and fake narratives. they literally have to humanize themselves. what the fuck. how does this not fill you with anger
it goes against so much of what i stand for to share "palestinians are humans, they have hobbies, they have pets, they laugh and cry" kind of posts because i've spent so much of my life and career completely rejecting the notion that we should humanize ourselves, that we should ever be defensive, that we should entertain this racism at all
but it breaks my heart when i have to share them from people in gaza, who are using their five minutes of internet connection, their 25% of battery charge collected from a macguyvered car battery, emotionally exhausted, thirsty and hungry, sleeping in schools that have turned into refugee shelters and still making the time to say "please, i am human too, i am still alive, please fight for me" in english to appeal to the only people who have the power to help
i shared a tweet from a jjk artist in gaza i follow about a bts photocard being found in the middle of the rubble. even the love of anime and kpop and sports is no longer just a hobby, but an appeal to humanity. what was once a source of joy is now proof of life.
the worst part is that you won't find this content in arabic. palestinians don't post like this in arabic. but when they translate themselves, they recognize that they must humanize themselves first. it's an unspoken understanding of dehumanization, one that has dictated a whole region's understanding of the value of human life. in arabic they speak with dignity, with anger, with sorrow. in english, they appeal for their existence.
i share these posts not just because we have to reach everyone we can, because im being asked to and i will not refuse. but i also share them because they're evidence of how deep the racism has run. at what dehumanization leads to. of war crime after war crime. this too i will not forget.
gaza has just been completely cut off from the world.
after increased intensity of israeli aistrikes tonight, the last cable providing communications was destroyed. telecommunications have been completely cut off. they cannot reach one another. they cannot reach paramedics. the red crescent society has completely lost contact with their branch in gaza. nobody inside can reach anyone inside, and especially not outside of gaza to tell us what is going on. this is a complete atrocity.
al jazeera has managed to maintain infrequent communication with their journalists in gaza. from their reporter wael dahdouh: “we are not fine. body parts are everywhere, missiles are targeting everyone, and the bombing hasn’t stopped for a second.”
do not stop talking about gaza. they are trying to commit genocide in the dark. do not stop talking.
Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP) works for the health and dignity of Palestinians living under occupation and as refugees. We provide immediate medical aid to those in great need, while also developing local capacity and skills to ensure the long-term development of the Palestinian healthcare system.
you can read more about their ongoing emergency response here
Responding to this emergency situation, Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP)’s team on the ground in Gaza are releasing all of our pre-positioned stocks, worth $570,000 USD (approximately £465,000), to ensure hospitals and emergency responders have the supplies they need to cope with an unprecedented influx of casualties. The list of supplies provided by MAP includes essential drugs and disposables, lab reagents and support for Gaza’s blood bank services. Some of these supplies are already being delivered to Al Awda Hospital.
Update: MAP are reporting that their website has been under cyber attack
It seems to be working fine now, but if it goes down again, here is a link to their justgiving campaign
the death toll of the turkey-syria earthquake has now reached over 30,000. those who survived are in desperate need of food, clothes, shelter and medical aid. please please please donate if you haven’t done so yet; even ten dollars can make a difference.
ahbap (turkey) | white helmets (syria) | CARE (turkey & syria)
The Death Toll of the Earthquake that hit Turkey and Syria may have reached 20,000 people, and that’s outside of all those who are injured and lost.
If you could donate PLEASE do!!!
Here’s a post full of charities you could donate to, but I’ll add my own trustworthy ones here:
please PLEASE reblog. Syria and Turkiye need our help!!!
“there are many children in afghanistan, but little childhood.”
please consider donating/sharing this list of trusted organizations to help those in need. please add to the list as well.
Other links:
(National and international aid + direct aid)
Under international law, Israel is 100% obligated to vaccinate all the Palestinians living under its occupation, yet they have refused to provide Palestinians with vaccines since they started their vaccination campaign 6 months ago, despite the fact that 85% of Israel’s population are fully vaccinated (the highest percentage in the world) and despite the fact that Israel has been sending millions of vaccines to foreign countries in exchange for them moving their embassy to occupied Jerusalem instead of giving those vaccines to Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza.
Two days ago Israel has, oh so generously, decided to share some of the millions of vaccines that they have been hogging with the Palestinian non-Authority, but there’s just one small problem: all the vaccines that Israel has “donated” are either expired or near-expired and they were only given to Palestinians in exchange for them to give Israel a brand new vaccine shipment that’s supposed to be shipped to Palestinians this September directly from Pfizer as a form of charity, even though again, Israel is 100% obligated to vaccinate all the Palestinians without anything in return from them.
Gaza of course is left out of this deal, even though Israel bombed the ONLY COVID-19 facility in Gaza and their Ministry of Health just last month. Please keep that in mind when the media attempt to save Israel’s image by reporting on how they wanted to help out by donating vaccines, but it was the evil™ Palestinians who “refused” their generous offer.
(9 June 2021) You may have heard that the Keystone XL pipeline project, which environmentalist and First Nations protestors have been fighting for years, has been cancelled by developer TC Energy after Biden revoked its permit (in January 2021).
You can sign a petition to drop the charges against them (dated Jan 2021, updated March 25 2021) here (and watch this space for updates and requests for protesters to attend court dates). There is also a GoFundMe campaign to support Roots Camp (which was set up on the Cheyenne River Sioux Reservation in protest of the Keystone XL Pipeline, and will remain as the pipes are removed) and to help fight the charges against High Elk and Jasilyn (updated 23 January 2021). See here for more ways to help (including joining the camp and donating supplies).
“We know they'll be back, the oil companies," said Harold Frazier, the chairman of the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe in northern South Dakota. "We could have another president just four years from now. So it's kind of a temporary relief.”
As long as the U.S. president has the authority to issue cross-border permits for piplines (such as the permit that Trump issued for Keystone XL), any president (including Biden) could reinstate approval for it without warning. The pipeline was revoked solely on presidential authority and not for any reason that references First Nations sovereignty or the project's illegality. That's why there is currently (as of 2 June 2021) a lawsuit challenging the president's authority to do this.
"It's not about canceling one extractive project or another. It's about ignoring our sovereignty," said Angeline Cheek, an Indigenous justice organizer for the American Civil Liberties Union of Montana, who is from the Fort Peck Reservation.
"Keystone was canceled, but DAPL still exists. What is the logic in that?" Cheek said.
This overturns a decision last year (July 2020) to halt the running of the pipeline pending an environmental review. You can read updates on the Standing Rock Sioux litigation against the pipeline here.
Given the ever-evolving nature of the situation involving these pipelines, it seems irresponsible to share news about Keystone XL's cancellation without history, action items, or things to keep an eye on.
As of 10 June 2021, I’m not able to find any updates more recent than 27 March (including about High Elk's court date on 28 April). Please do add on here if you can dig anything up.
UPDATE: Jasilyn Charger has reached a deal with South Dakota’s state’s attorney and is free as of 9 June, 2021!
I don’t know how many times this needs to be said but zionism isn’t “Jews vs. Muslims” it’s “Occupier and Occupied”.
aside from how the “jews vs muslims” a. erases palestinian christians, druze and other religious groups b. makes it easier for zionists to claim every criticism of israel for you know, settler occupation, displacement, ongoing genocide, state terrorism and pretty much every war crime on the list is inherently antisemitic c. gives gentiles (who are “coincidentally” never palestinian) an excuse to be antisemitic (usually towards random innocent jews) as a way of “helping palestine” or “avenging palestinians” (it does neither)
theres this newer and ~woker~ version of this, “not all jews are zionists (but all zionists are jews”. is not only… misinformed and antisemitic but is often a distraction.
a good portion of violent antisemites, including neo-nazis, are zionists, because they want us gone. it didn’t work when they tried to kill us all, so getting us out of their sight is the best they can legally get.
it’s easier to say zionism is strictly “a jewish thing” than to examine how zionism feeds on antisemitism, and see the amount of governments that have and still do give and receive military assistance from israel. how the us has been complicit in genocide and war crimes alongside israel since it was founded? russia? chad? the philippines? bulgaria?
israel is collaborating and cuddling up with extreme right-winged European leaders. israel excuses and ignores violent antisemitism when it fits.
(people that are neither jewish nor palestinian are also encouraged to reblog)
You’re either brilliant of just hopelessly optimistic.
The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, Season 1 Episode 4: The Whole World Is Watching
White privilege is Bucky Barnes literally being THE most feared assassin of the modern era and STILL getting called “Mr. Barnes” by the police and them treating him with kid gloves while they’re arresting him and apologizing for doing it -
While they were primed to see Sam as a threat from the start AND ready to escalate things up to a thousand for no reason other than he’s Existing While Black.
Because, look, here’s the thing - Isaiah Bradley was absolutely right. He and Bucky were both experimented on and tortured for decades - but only ONE of them is allowed the luxury of the promise of a new life.
And Steve may have given the shield to Sam, but Steve’s white privilege meant he had the luxury of not having to think about what it would mean for Sam - a Black man - to carry the mantle of Captain America and the even target it would paint on his back.
And if that makes you uncomfortable and/or pisses off, then good. Because you should be.
it genuinely is important to acknowledge the role of pornography in fetishizing asian women’s entire existence specifically for the pleasure of white men, who then go out into the world and view asian women as objects for them to inflict their sexual desires and rage onto. asian countries are home to some of the highest prevalence of sex tourism, including child sex tourism, and southeast asia is still crippled by the sex trade that exploded during the vietnam war. the relationship between asia and the west, and also between asian westerners and white people, is defined by the sexual exploitation of and sexual violence toward asian women. within this country, asian women make up disproportionate shares of the domestic services industry, and frequently work in intimate service jobs such as nailcare and massages. that feeds that exploitation. my mom pointed out last night how anti-asian and anti-female bias in media was underscoring the decision to refer to the business in which these women were killed as “massage parlors,” which has the connotations of prostitution, rather than “day spas,” even though there was no indication that these businesses offered sexual services. its so pervasive
here is a twitter thread and constantly updating, currently active google doc that contains the gofundmes, paypals, cashapps, etc of victims of anti-asian hate crimes, asian-owned small business, and asians who need financial aid. please consider donating and/or boosting and adding more donations links if you have them.
Tiktok is on FIRE calling out the white supremacy we witnessed today!!!!
[Transcript: Regarding the news today, I don't see a lot of people making this connection, so I'm gonna make this connection. This is not the first coup to happen in America. The first successful coup in America was the 1898 Wilmington insurrection in which a biracial government was overthrown by white supremacists. 60-250 black citizens were murdered and over 100 black politicians were removed from their offices. In the aftermath over 100,000 black registered voters fled North Carolina. They will not teach you this in school. When I look at the attempted coup taking place right now, especially on the day where we just elected our first black senator from Georgia, all I can see is a nation that has failed to address white supremacy and anti-blackness at the core. I've been sitting around all day watching people on the news say “This is crazy. This is America, this shouldn't be happening.” Yeah. This is Amerikkka. That's why it's happening.]
Further reading on the 1898 insurrection if you're like me and had never heard of it until this post:
https://time.com/5861644/1898-wilmington-massacre-essential-lesson-state-violence/
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/08/wilmington-massacre/536457/
https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=93615391
https://www.history.com/news/wilmington-massacre-1898-coup
how come goyim will make 30k note posts about why not to use antisemitic memes but ignore the SEVERAL hate crimes that have been committed since chanukah started
for those who don't know
