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Welcome to my blog :]

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☆ Art tag: #myart and #skeleart

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☆ Original posts: #skeletalk

☆ Helping Palestine doc here

☆ Current Interests: QSMP, Monster High, Baldur's Gate 3

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Hey! Did you know Google Has Deepened Its Ties with Israel During the Palestinian Genocide?

Not only did Google fire employees who spoke out against the genocide (as seen here)

But also allows Israel to utilize Google software to target Palestinians, despite the claim that Google prohibits its tech from being used to cause immediate harm (x)

The latest connection Google has made to Israel is a 1.2 billion dollar (USD) contract with Israel's Ministry of Defense, despite mass worker protest from Google's own (x)

What can you do to stop the support of Google? Utilize a different search engine! Consider using Ecosia, a search engine that helps plant trees, or if you're interested in keeping your privacy, try DuckDuckGo!

Of course it's very difficult to completely boycott such a large company, but being aware, spreading education, and doing what we can is always better than nothing!

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penflicks

The thing is that getting Palestine free is both very difficult but not as difficult as getting South Africa free. South Africa had more resources than Israel does, it could hold out so much longer and still the apartheid was ended by people working tirelessly and boycotting and pushing for divestment and sanctions. These methods will work for freeing Palestine too.

I know it doesn't feel like there have been many successes, but all the politicians are feeling the pressure. Pressure that we are able to sustain and even increase as we come up with new initiatives and convince new people to join.

One of the reasons they're resisting our pressure so strongly is because they know that when we see gains we will push harder, we will continue to push until the stones falling becomes a rock fall and Palestine's freedom is secured. They know if we get a taste of the power we can wield we'll turn that onto freeing Congo too. They know we're unhappy and have been for a long time and their very secure system starts to look a lot less secure when we start mobilising to change things.

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before i forget to tell you all

on wednesday my history professor pulled me out into the hall and asked me how me and my family doing. i told him about how we're trying to get people out of gaza but it's getting harder and egypt is upping the prices to leave. he nodded and then said "today i wanted to talk about the biden administration and how they're handling the situation in class" and i nodded and right before we headed back in, i stopped him and said "by the way palestinians are really sensitive over using the correct words for this situation. we don't like hearing 'conflict' or 'war' because that implies there are two militaries against each other and palestinians don't have a military, and 'war' implies it's an equal fight when it's not." and he nodded and said "okay what words do you want me to use" and i said "genocide. call it a genocide, that's what it is." and the LOOK. the LOOK he gave me. i can't even describe how horrible it was. just a pure look of surprise shock and disgust and it was like every single microaggression i've ever received all put in one face. you could instantly tell he was uncomfortable. i then said "you can also call it a humanitarian crisis" and he stared at me for a while and then nodded uncomfortably and said "yeah i'll just call it a humanitarian crisis". i shrugged, nodded, and we walked back into class.

the fact that people are SO uncomfortable with using the word genocide and refusing to use it to describe the situation in palestine is just so fucking frustrating. of COURSE genocide is uncomfortable, it SHOULD make you uncomfortable. but palestinians are suffering from censorship and people refusing to call it genocide is not helping our cause. call it what it is. a genocide.

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GLOBAL STRIKE ON APRIL 15

"The terrorist Israeli occupation, after half a year, is still insisting on entering Rafah, which is the last city that still contains most of the population of the Gaza Strip.

80% of the Gaza Strip is destroyed and suffers from continuous military invasions, the movement of the Israeli army, besieging hospitals, commit massacres, destroy and blow up residential neighborhoods. And besieging the population and starving them.

The terrorist occupation is committing these crimes in front of the world, and is trying to have more time to destroy the hopes of the displaced to return and kill them with hunger and disease, and make the world get used to what is happening in Gaza and reduce media coverage and solidarity with Palestine, in addition to causing more destruction and strengthening the presence of the Israeli terrorists in Gaza in preparation for stealing the land.

Be smarter than them, and do not leave us to be killed and forgotten. *April 15 is a day of global strike*.. No schools, no movement, no work, no electronic payment, no gas stations. Make more noise and disturb the peace of terrorist politicians in America and IsraHell.

In the picture, me after half a year of documenting the genocide and surviving it daily without being sure of surviving the next day, and I will not stop until this genocide ends and I sit in the middle of my city feeling safe while I help my people rebuild Gaza."

Here's what to do:

  • Don't go to school or work (if you can)
  • Protest (if you can)
  • Do not shop anywhere
  • Do not use your credit card or use any money
  • Wear green, red, white and black clothes to show solidarity. Wear a badge, a keffiyeh, or anything that signifies your solidarity
  • Boost posts about Palestine, flood the media
  • Boycott!
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Btw Israel let Palestinians celebrate not one (1) holiday in peace. They didn’t grant Christian Palestinians access to Jerusalem on Palm Sunday, they actively attacked families who were already starving at Iftar during Ramadan, and now there are several reports of families being killed on Eid al-Fitr—a sacred multi-day holiday practiced by lots of Arabs. It breaks my heart imagining the Palestinian families in Gaza right now, most of whom are spending Eid mourning loved ones who were taken by Israeli strikes. Most of us will never understand the sheer magnitude of that pain.

I’m being completely serious when I say I can’t think of anything more dehumanizing than deliberately terrorizing Palestinians on their sacred holidays. It’s saying their culture is not worthy of being practiced with safety and security, it’s saying that they as human beings are not deserving of the luxury of culture and safety, it’s saying that they can do this over and over and get away with it because Arabs are invalids to the average person not directly affected by this. It should make you incredibly angry that every holiday so far has been grounds for a heightened volume of war crimes from Israel. It’s making me incredibly angry just typing this. Palestinians deserve better.

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Pieces of media to watch to educate yourself on Palestine’s long history of suffering from the zionist Israeli occupation :

  1. “Jenin, Jenin” a documentary by Mohammad Bakri (available on Youtube)
  2. “200 meters” a movie by Ameen Nayfeh (available on Netflix)
  3. “Born in Gaza” a documentary by Hernán Zin (available on Netflix)
  4. “Samouni Road” a documentary & animation by Stefano Savona (available on Netflix and Palestine Film Institute’s website)
  5. “Edward Said on Palestine (1988)” a TV documentary style film by Christoper Skyes (available on Youtube)
  6. “To My Father (2008)” a documentary style film by Abdel Salam Shehada (available on Palestine Film Institute’s website)
  7. “Salt of this sea” a movie by Annemarie Jacir (available on Netflix)
  8. “Children of Shatila” a documentary by Mai Masri (available on Netflix & Youtube)
  9. “The Present” a short movie by Farah Nabulsi (available on Netflix)
  10. “Frontiers of Dreams and Fears” a documentary by Mai Masri (available on Netflix & Youtube)
  11. “The Crossing” a short film by Ameen Nayfeh (available on Netflix)
  12. “Tantura” a documentary by Alon Schwartz (available on Youtube)
  13. “3000 nights” a movie by Mai Masri (available on Netflix)
  14. “Farha” a movie by Darin J. Sallam (available on Netflix)
  15. “Arna’s Children” a documentary by Juliano Mer-Khamis (available on Youtube)
  16. “Ma’loul celebrates it’s destruction” a documentary by Michel Khleifi (available on Youtube)
  17. “A World Not Ours” a documentary style movie by Mahdi Fleifel (available on Netflix)
  18. “Like Twenty Impossibles” a movie by Annemarie Jacir (available on Netflix)
  19. “Omar” a movie by Hany Abu Assad (available on Netflix)
  20. “Mars At Sunrise” a movie by Jessica Habie (available on Netflix)
  21. “5 Broken Cameras” a documentary by Emad Burnat & Guy Davidi (available on Youtube)

[this list will constantly be updated with more movies & documentaries that i’m reminded of, or with new pieces that i find and watch… if you have any suggestions please send them my way]

PS ; as this is a personal list coming from a Palestinian person, i will only be adding the movies and documentaries that i feel are MOST important and effective in transferring the message of the Palestinian cause… so all recommendations are highly appreciated yet this is just a personal list and doesn’t include all types of Palestinian (or Palestinian related) visual media 🙏
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sayruq

For those who don't know, Rafah Crossing is closed. Meaning Palestinians in the Gaza Strip are technically not allowed to go into Egypt through Rafah Crossing (with exceptions, like holding a foreign passport) so in order to evacuate, Palestinians need to bribe Egyptian border security officials. The standard price used to be about $5000 - 7000 per person but some Palestinians have been told to pay $10,000 per person just to cross the border, forget other expenses like food and boarding.

For a group of people who are enduring genocide and the complete destruction of their homes that money is impossible to raise without the help of fundraising. That and the collapse of the UNRWA is the reason you're seeing so many Gofundmes nowadays. The entire aid system is gone with the exception of local aid organisations that have limited reach.

So if you see a credible fundraiser, please at the very least share it so it can reach more people. This list by @el-shab-hussein is a good place to start.

There are a few fundraisers for Sudanese families also! Don't forget to donate to Mohammed Qadas, the first fundraiser in the 'Other fundraisers' section. His case is super urgent!!

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