decolonizepalestine.com is an easy to navigate website run by two palestinians which breaks down common myths about palestine and provides a reading list organized by a wide variety of categories ranging from history and culture to media and censorship. it’s a good starting point to use if you want to learn more about the modern day situation in palestine and understand the truth behind myths that have been perpetuated about israel’s occupation of palestine.
A dear, courageous activist friend from Gaza is still trying after months to raise enough money to get his parents out of Gaza and getting them the medications they need. If you could please share or donate I’d appreciate it so much. He’s been an incredible advocate for years, and his family deserves our support!
https://www.gofundme.com/f/saving-lives-of-our-precious-relatives-in-gaza
Found this quiz on the wordpress blog arabicbooksculture!
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iD: digital art of outstretched hands holding a young olive tree growing in the dirt. only the person's arms are visible, including the sleeves of their green thobe wth intricate tatreez in purple, yellow, red, and gold. text over the image reads, in all caps, "Palestine will be free and the trees will grow again". /end ID.
excuse me what the fuck
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It's as bad and worse than it sounds.
hearing officials and public figures criticize biden openly on talk shows and seeing newspaper headlines sharply decry israel killing aid workers is making me feel kind of crazy. like it could've been like this the whole time. before 40,000 palestinians were killed and the infrastructure of gaza destroyed. it could've been like this when people gathered their children in plastic bags at al-ahli hospital, when a poet and his family were assassinated for a joke, when journalists buried their families on air, when children were targeted by drones on camera, when a little boy holding his grandmother's hand in one hand and a white flag in another watched her get shot and die in front of him, when a cameraman was left to bleed out with a live counter for hours while his rescuers were shot, when patients were bulldozed in their tents in the courtyard of a hospital, when four babies were left die and decompose alone in their hospital beds, when six year old hind rajab was crying for help trapped in a car with the corpses of her family on the phone with the red crescent for hours until she and the rescuers sent to get her were killed too.
The music over the ruins of Aleppo, Syria, 2017 - by Joseph Eid (1976), Lebanese
my broken heart, i know that it is nothing short of a miracle that i can hold warmth into your bones when you wake shaking that i can kiss air into your lungs when you cannot breathe for screaming that i can curl a smile into your lips when you are worn from crying.
but my broken heart, i pray that somewhere in the vast unending stretch of worlds there is still a version of you that does not know the taste of gunmetal and still a version of me that does not know the sound of breaking bone and still a version of us that does not know the feeling of tragedy.
my broken heart, i hope in that world we taste happines that isn't tinged with iron and rust. in that world we speak legends that do not carry our names within them. in that world we blush pink with blood that isn't choked with ice chips and frost.
my broken heart, i promise even if in that world i do not get to hold you when you wake and i do not get to kiss you when you breathe and i do not get to make you smile when you cry
i would let you go, my broken heart so that you may be whole again.
- by sylvie (j.p.)
‘I wish for death’ - Twelve-year-old Alma says. She fled bombing and shelling twice before the third place they sheltered was bombed, She was rescued from the rubble only to find out both her parents and all four of her siblings had been killed. She found her 18-month-old brother in an unimaginable state. Her little brother was beheaded from the rubble after the IOF massacred them.
Source: BBC
they should invent spines that dont hurt
A band needs a slut on bass to have any modicum of success
i love spring because the whole day feels like summer morning