Prayer

One of the most reliable and popular instagram accounts covering what has been going on in Gaza @/sbeih.jpg has started a free online crash course about Palestine history and the decolonisation movement to help educate more people and spread awareness. It is on instagram @/palestine.academy and their website is thepalestineacademy.com. It is completely free and has tons of resources on how to get informed, find further information, and how to help Gaza right now. If you have the time I recommend exploring the website and following their instagram!!!

Winter Gaza 2022

📸 @Motaz Azaiza

We are watching over a million people starve in real time. Do you see why we're angry?

I hope you all know that what I'm posting is but a microcosm of what's actually happening. Please seek out the Palestinians on the ground like Bisan or Motaz Azaiza, or check eye.on.palestine on Instagram daily.

As much as I really want to be a source of information, my real life obligations make it really hard to maintain a steady stream of info on my blog for you all to see while maintaining my life and trying to stay sane.

snoopy image of the day

"Why is there no doctors or scientists or educated people in gaza?" Because Israel is killing them all. The majority of the population in gaza are under 18, Israel kills them before they get to college, and also kills the ones who do.

Biden could end this with just one call. Previous presidents had little issue curbing Israel. Reagan went against Israel several times including forcing them to halt the building of new settlements for a period of time and intervening to prevent Israel from killing 100 journalists in a hotel. George H W Bush delayed loan guarantees until Israel stopped building settlements in the West Bank and Gaza.

Biden, on the other hand, cosigned everything Israel did in 2021 and especially this year. In fact, any talk of humanitarian pauses and asking the other nations not to join in the fighting (his administration has been threatening Iran and Hezbollah, and presumably nations like Egypt) is merely meant to buy time for America to get its soldiers and weaponry in place for a regional war.

The fact that two of the most ghoulish republican presidents kept this rabid dog on a tighter leash than the Lesser Evil really puts things in perspective

I hope that when the day comes that Palestine is free, people don't expect everything to suddenly be alright overnight, because that won't be the end of it. There's this thing called intergenerational trauma that as an Indigenous person on Turtle Island, let me say, can fuck a People up for a long time. It will take generations to recover from such catastrophic and longstanding colonial violence. And when current leftist allies start back-peddling on their support and villainizing Palestinians if they aren't "perfect citizens" (a measurement that is highly westernized anyway), remember that trauma, especially on such a large scale, does things to people. What I'm saying is, the support shouldn't end there.

(Nov. 7)

Also don’t buy nasty pasta from her company Goodles.

Hope people use this time to check themselves on their internalized Islamophobia and anti-Arab racism— especially if you’re American or European. It is not “normal” for the Middle East to be “constantly at war”. Muslims are not more inclined to violence and “barbarism”.

The state of the region is the product of decades of colonialism, exploitation, and racism in play. The word “Middle East” itself stems from those very same things.

“We are citizens of the most powerful country in the world, and it is a country that stands upon the wrong side of every liberation struggle on Earth. I want you to feel what that means.”

— Audre Lorde

Nov 4th 2023

have you all seen how the can*ry mission tracks palestine activists? at this point, I’m sure I’m on the list but it would be nice to do work for Palestine without being on their list.

anyways, I’d like to get a group of pro-Palestine Jews together to make blog posts, infographics, and/or videos dismantling the narrative that not supporting Israel is somehow antisemitic but also how Israel has used this thinking within our community.

The Israeli govt have not only weaponized Holocaust history, they have used the fears of the Holocaust and pogroms (along w/ mass censorship) to keep our community living in constant fear (a historically legitimate one) to largely propagate Z*onist propaganda to. much of what they have convinced any diasporal Jews of, is a lie and at the very least, heavily distortions of the truth.

Hell, Israel doesn’t even seem to interested in their hostages since their efforts seem to be targeting civilians (I’ve got more on that one) but I’m not here to get side tracked. I used to rage and ask why no one cares about my family dying during every pogrom, the Holocaust? Now a genocide that uses me and my families history to kill Palestians?! No… that’s just not sitting with my soul.

I have literally been in the hospital most of October. I’m severely anemic and feel like barely there half the time but I know that I, we, have to do more. I’m only disclosing this because I’m at my worst and I realize that this has to change so I’m hoping other people are feeling similarly to me.

Seriously…I can’t have Amy Shumer literally use our history to justify killing Palestinian CHILDREN. I’m just done and the only thing I have is my voice and my knowledge of Israeli, MENA, and European history so I’ve got to use it.

I just think it would be much more powerful to create a collective of like minded Jews that can stop Israeli influence over this narrative (which should be underscoring the current genocide & death of children / the newest generation of Palestinians but it’s not) and maybe we as Jews can alter the current narrative/thinking/mentality with information, with TRUTH.

reblogging for my morning audiences lol

reblogging for the night time folks!