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if anyone needs me i’ll be ripping the LED headlights out of every vehicle in the country

Happy Thanksgiving, to those who celebrate!

Psylocke by Vincenzo Riccardi

despite everything, actually it means a lot to see people who don't need to care posting for palestine. i often see zionists aghast that "some too-online white leftist in the united states thinks they understand the middle east" but i think this anger and panic and ensuing discourse has (deliberately) overshadowed how much of this solidarity has been clear, straight-forward and compassionate.

i think about how arab countries stood up for palestine first (not their governments, but their people) and how between 1948 and today the united states and israel have categorically and systematically destroyed our abilities to do so, destroyed our abilities to speak at all, destroyed our attempts at self-determination, destroyed our countries, and now antizionist jews, black people, queer people, indigenous people, immigrants and other minorities have taken up this mantle worldwide. and yeah, the too-online white leftists too.

i actually find it very touching to see how diverse pro-palestine protests are. i find it very touching to see someone articulate clearly that they understand what happened to palestinians despite 75 years of historical revisionism and propaganda. i find it very touching when people aren't intimidated by the middle east like it's some unknowable no-man's land full of terrorists and challenge that narrative.

i saw the video of that man who worked for the white house under obama, you probably know the one i'm talking about, taunting an egyptian man at a halal food cart in new york. he specifically taunts him about the mukhabrat, the egyptian secret service, and he says "i hope they take your father's fingernails out." he's openly gleeful to know the term, the access provided by the violence of the state department. i think about how suspicious i've always been of americans who speak arabic because they're usually here to spy on us, modern-day orientalists and arabists who see us as assets or threats.

i think about how these are the people who parrot "the middle east is so complicated" rhetoric—people who say it's complicated because they hate us, because they see us as savages, because they don't actually know anything about us and don't want anyone else to. this is what they're desperate to hold onto, this monopoly on 'expertise on the middle east' so that nobody can say, hey, they're just people. its not more or less complicated than anything else. it's only complicated because you're racist.

its easy to use platitudes like "i see all people equally" but it's more difficult to demonstrate it when it counts and even moreso when someone claims your bravery and compassion is actually hatred. thanks for doing it.

The death toll in Gaza has reached 13,000, with at least 5,500 being children and 3,500 being women

It is now at over 14,000

Lindsey Hartman on Instagram, 14/11/2023.

obviously the crackdown on student protest is happening at universities everywhere but damn columbia suspending their jvp and sjp chapters is extra insane bc they are literally still trading on edward said's name and milking his legacy like the fucking bald faced shamelessness of it… phew

omg they really said oh you wanna try it? well you can't ban all of us ajsjdkjdkdkd

tbh insane that COLUMBIA out of all university administrations would not get this like do they not remember 1968???? anyways

i for one am not impressed when a company says some shit like "we will be carbon neutral by 2050" that is a long time from now and it is 80 degrees in october

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This is not a war; what Israel is doing to Palestine is genocide. Do not sit idly by and do not stay quiet. Now more than ever is the most important time to not look away.

news media not even referring to palestine by name but instead using hamas as a rhetorical scapegoat and ‘front’ for the ‘other side’ of the ‘war’ i see you and i will not forget your morally bankrupt ‘neutral’ framing

what is there to say anymore when the occupier bombs a hospital and kills a thousand people, mostly children, who were already under seige for eleven days and you know nobody is going to stop them. now a thousand people are dead, hospitals are out of power, there is no food or water, and none of us can do anything. egyptian truck drivers are screaming at the border because they won't let them in with aid and keep sending them back. what is there to say. what is there to say. what is there to say. what is there to say.

normally we do not post images so horrible but this is a direct request from palestinians not to look away. this is what they're speaking from. this is what we're letting happen. this will never be forgiven.

over 500 civilians, aid workers, and medical personnel were just slaughtered after israel intentionally bombed a hospital, this after they bombed a school where many had taken shelter. this number is expected to rise drastically.

there is nowhere to flee, there is no food, there is no water, no electricity, nothing. they’ve bombed the only border crossing that could have let people out, and they are threatening to bomb aid trucks trying to get in. 6,000 bombs in 6 days in the most densely populated area on earth where over half the population is under the age of 18. they are bombing civilians as they flee. read that again.

there is no justification, wallahi this is genocide

walkable cities also means sittable cities send tweet

some people are responding to this like its a joke and im going to assume u are the type of people to say "its only a 3 minute walk" when i tell them the nearest bench is too far away

also anyone who thinks "3 minutes isnt THAT bad" you will be old one day. and you will wish the bench was closer

“Wow, does Seoul University have a major in document forgery? Ki-jeong would be top of her class.” PARASITE | 기생충 (2019) dir. Bong Joon-Ho