going insane all by yourself, handsome?

AID REQUEST FROM GAZA: PLEASE HELP THIS BEAUTIFUL FAMILY GET TO SAFETY.

PLEASE REBLOG / REPOST / INTERACT TODAY!

This family of seven lost everything, and need immediate medical assistance for the Father, Mohammad, requiring urgent surgery. Please consider donating as little as $5/$10 dollars— everything helps!

AID FOR GAZA !

I notice the part beginning to mention the SC is cutoff in the first screenshot giving a false impression of what happened. If you see the UN say anything about this, your next question should be “what are they going to do about the Security Council?” to which the answer is nothing, basically.

and look at their response, so no real progress here.

Don't get distracted, don't stop agitating, don't give them any peace until someone does something meaningful instead of doing this bullshit over and over again.

The UN will not do anything for Palestine if they don't bypass the SC, and you should always always always ask how the SC plays into any news from the UN on this, this is not the time for anyone to let up. Do not get comfortable.

We should also be more responsible in how we're sharing these updates because I also was under the impression that something meaningful happened here.

sources x x

disabled people are allowed to have hobbies that clash with our disabilities by the way

I'm allowed to like journaling even if my hand tremors make it so I can't do something as "pretty" as an abled bodied person

I'm allowed to like crocheting even if it's bad for my joints and it takes me double the time it would take someone else to finish a project

and yes I'm trying to switch to knitting which is lighter on the hands, but even that - even fucking using my phone - makes my finger hurts

I'm allowed to complain about it, just like you - specially if you're abled - are not allowed to tell me off about it

it's so hard for us to find joy, you're not allowed to police the small things that help

I laughed so fucking hard at this

This is literally how I talk to conservatives, and it doesn’t always work, but it works way more often than you think. You gotta speak their language to get through to them. It may not change their mind immediately, but it gives them a chance to think about where their morals stand. And that’s the best you can do sometimes. Change begins with individual’s growth.

Urgent Appeal for HelpGazaChildren: Help refugees flee to Khan Younis!

Because of the looming invasion and brutal bombing throughout the most densely populated area in Gaza, Rafah, many refugees are looking to evacuate to Khan Younis!

The bombing is random and even the areas not included in the evacuation notices are bombarded. Many refugees are asking Hussam for funds to help them evacuate to Khan Younis to help keep their families safe.

The above is a screenshot of a facebook post from someone in Rafah. A tent can be as much as $700 and the transportation costs anywhere between $250-$400 per family. This cost is primarily for gas alone!!

Please donate so that people may be able to evacuate while also being able to afford basic necessities.

Even if you're unable to donate, please share this post and the fundraiser even outside of tumblr and on other platforms! This is incredibly urgent!!

Donate to our GoFundMe which goes directly to Hussam, who manages camps in Rafah, with NO middleman in between!

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UPDATE: Rafah and North Gaza Invasion!

Hussam received this brochure from the IDF warning them to leave Rafah and head to Khan Yonis, and those in North Gaza where our friend Mahmoud Abu Salama resides are also warned to move to the west.

People say there is no space left to settle, the areas are severely damaged and crowded and it is not suitable for living!

They are warning people in the North to flee despite already withdrawing troops from the North! They are preparing for a second invasion!

Here, they are warning people in Rafah to flee to Khan Younis.

This is incredibly devastating! If you take a look at Mahmoud Abu Salama's IG story, you can see people try to help a person from underneath the rubble:

Please keep them both in your prayers and thoughts! Reminder that people still require funds to help them buy basic necessities!!

the reason i shared my great-grandmother's story on here a few months ago is not for sympathy or anything, its to illustrate to you just how deeply, deeply anti-Palestinian the idea of zionism is.

i remember my grandmother, the one who watched her mother die in her home, she called us with a plain tone of voice, and she said "she asked to be buried in [her village] but of course the the zionists wouldn't let that happen." the thing that will not leave my head was the way my grandmother said it, the way it just seemed so natural and so obvious to her. my grandmother is *not* a quiet woman, she yells everything she ever says, whether happy or sad but this she said softly. like she was resigned to this, she expected this.

this woman was exiled once from her village, then again from Palestine, then again and again and again and eventually forced to live in poverty in a refugee camp, she knows the 'israeli' state more intimately than anyone i know, she knows what it will and won't allow in its genocidal apparatus and to her it was obvious that they would not respect her mother's body or last wishes. she knew that.

and i always go back to it when i see discussions on here or on twitter or in academia, like you guys (the moderates, the apologists) have never ever spoken to a nakba survivor or a naksa survivor. you don't know just how deeply its affected our families.

so when we ask you to completely reject zionism, when we demand it from allies, we aren't saying this to be stubborn or nonsensical, we're saying it because we know where zionism will lead us. we've been through the "we just want peace" and the "we need to just talk it out" phases already, how can you not think we've been through those phases after 75 years. we've had our meet and greets and our appeals and now we're at literally the worst stage of genocide against our people and you're still insisting on "talking it out" or some variation of it.

the truth of the matter is that we don't have patience for zionism anymore because look where it got us. look where we're at. even soft zionists, you need to stamp those people out from pretending they've got good points, or that you need to build community with them or whatever. we are literally at the worst part of Palestinian history ever, we need to stop pretending there are grey zones to this. Zionist apologists and the like are creating ambiguity that literally gets our families killed under the guise of "complication". I'm sick and tired of watching these same discussions over and over again about how "Israel is a result of antisemitism" when it very much is not. I'm sick of seeing people who know NOTHING about colonization push their own agendas and provide cover for zionists to do whatever they want. Just stop talking about things you don't understand because I promise you, you're directly contributing to the violence you claim to abhor.

18k raised out of 20k goal as of reblog, May 2nd

goal raised to 37k to help evacuate more family members, 23k raised as of May 11th

btw every time i say 'oaaough' or some variation of that i am trying to convey this emotion

🇵🇸 Happening right now in Malmö, Sweden.

A huge crowd of pro-Palestine protests have gathered ahead of tonight's Eurovision semi-final in Malmö, where Israel will be one of the participating countries.

Israel's representing artist, Eden Golan—who was initially supposed to perform tonight with the song "October Rain," before the EBU forced Israel to rewrite it into the little less overtly genocidal "Hurricane"—has promised that the first thing she'll do after returning from Eurovision, is to join the IDF:

Reminder again to BOYCOTT EUROVISION 🇵🇸

And if you're in Malmö, please join the protesters!

There are snipers on the roofs

Eurovision would rather see snipers and massive protests than kick out the genocidal apartheid state

the idea of public restrooms as "women's spaces" continues to confound me. you know who I hope is in a public bathroom when I go in?? no one. I would prefer no one else be in the bathroom. and if someone else is in the bathroom I am going to ignore them as much as possible. I did not go into the bathroom to connect with other women. I went into the bathroom to piss and/or shit. it's a toilet's space, not a women's space. shut the fuck up and let trans people piss and shit in peace. let's all continue to avoid eye contact with each other and any and all interaction in the toilet's space.