Hundreds of Jewish anti-war demonstrators have been arrested during a Passover seder that doubled as a protest in New York, as they shut down a major thoroughfare to pray for a ceasefire and urge the Senate majority leader, Chuck Schumer, to end US military aid to Israel.

The 300 or so arrests took place on Tuesday night at Grand Army Plaza, on the doorstep of Schumer’s Brooklyn residence, where thousands of mostly Jewish New Yorkers gathered for the seder, a ritual that marked the second night of the holiday celebrated as a festival of freedom by Jews worldwide.

The seder came just before the US Senate resoundingly passed a military package that includes $26bn for Israel.

[ID: tweet from Jewish Voice for Peace NYC: "Bus drivers refused to transport protestors from last night's Seder in the Streets to the precinct, forcing cops to drive the busses. Power and solidarity to the union bus drivers with @ twu100 who refuse to collaborate with the NYPD, which commandeers MTA busses for mass arrests." with a picture of a protestor wearing a kufiya and a "Jews Say Cease Fire" T-shirt with their hands cuffed behind their back. a cop stands to their right and a bus is pulled up to their left.

it is quote retweeted by Sarah Friedland with the addition: "We spent 4+ hours waiting cuffed in the bus blocking grand army traffic because none of the dozens of cops knew how to drive it! Solidarity w/ the bus drivers! ✊🏻 (raised white fist emoji)" end ID]

Made the worst brownies ever created just now

Chat where did I go wrong

the reviews are in

Another fundraiser I trust!

Please consider donating to Hussam's family! They are low on funds and in need! They're trying to evacuate 14 different family members!

Hey, guys, this fundraiser has been pretty stagnant for a while and hasn't received many donations. I know the goal is very daunting, but every dollar goes a long way to making this goal happen! Please don't be afraid to even donate however little you have. You're not going to be donating by yourself, we will all work to make this campaign and all the others work.

I know this is a personal/fan blog but this man reached out to me despite being a stranger.

His family are trapped in Gaza. As things are becoming rapidly worse, I wanted to share his campaign here so they may have a better chance.

Please donate if you can!!

If you can’t than please share this post so it can reach more people

Gaza's municipality is trying to raise money to fix and restore Gaza's water system. Please support them by boosting and/or donating

broke mentally ill tgirl onto my 5th blog now, you may know me as sapphicinsatin

in and out of homelessness, my paypal is here if you can donate, anything at all makes a big difference and is greatly appreciated.

On that note, I want to spotlight the fundraiser for an Afro-Palestinian journalist, and Lama Jamous' uncle. He has less of a following amongst allies because he posts almost entirely in Arabic, so I'm going to spotlight him on my blog and put him on the fundraiser list as well.

And please follow him on IG as well, even if you only speak English he has small captions on the videos he posts that translate his Arabic.

2000 notes but only 180 donations, give a dollar and make a difference!

Thank you :)

You wonderful people have helped Shahed and Fadi raise 1k already since I posted this! Please keep donating! They need to reach 12.5k$ to register for evacuation!!

My friend Mona has asked me to share her story with you all.

Here's the link to the evacuation gofundme. They're very close to their goal. They legitimately only have less than 10k USD left to go before all 9 of them can evacuate.

imo its important to discuss ashkenormativity but it does trouble me when people think ashkenazi and sephardi/mizrahi are shorthand for "white" and "brown" like there are plenty of ashkenazim of color and white sephardim lol

its the same reason it makes me uncomfortable when people (usually white american liberals who learned about palestine/zionism from tiktok and haven't read any anti-colonial literature) act like the problem with zionism is because "jews are blonde and palestinians are dark." like that implies that fair-skinned mediterranean-looking palestinians have sme kind of privilege over yemeni or ethiopian israelis in israel's racist hierarchy. did ahed tamimi have privilege over the ethiopian policewoman who arrested her?

Heyo folks in a bit of a tough spot at the moment while I sort out my travel back home next month could anyone spare a little bit of money <3

Paypal: Lillymarch16

Cashapp: £Lillymarch*

*cashapp no longer works internationally.

So now it turns out that because of the booking agency I got my flights home with my name was fucked up and I gotta pay £150 to change it. If folks wanna send me to help me do that so I can actually get home that would be great!

£30.70/£150

So I just got an email from the agency I booked with and the price to change the name is £250. This is now somewhat urgent since if i don't pay within the next week the price will increase by like 200. I've had no donations and the post is kinda rolling to a halt so if folks could reblog/donate any amount that'd be great <3

£30.70/£250

Hi folks! Thank u all every one who donated so far as well as everyone who shared Thanks to u folks I'm this close to my goal! If anyone can spare anything more to get to £250 I would be forever greatful:

£215.17/£250

i just found out tumblr was storing over three GIGABYTES of cookies on my device without me knowing and that's why it's been running so fucking slow recently... incredible. anyways everyone go clear your fucking cookies. don't let this website run a goddamn video game's worth of disc space in the background for no good reason.

on firefox: settings → search "cookies" → scroll down → "manage cookies" → tumblr should be at the very top because of how much space it's taking → select it → clear cookies → save changes. done

CONTEXT: the gaza freedom flotilla coalition aims to bring emergency aid (food, medical supplies, etc) to a starving and besieged gaza. activists and journalists from all over the world (including diaspora palestinians like dylan) will be participating, and they know the risk — in 2010 turkish activists attempting a similar mission had their flagship raided by israeli forces, who murdered 10 activists aboard (9 died on site and another died later from critical injuries).

i’d like to note additionally that i believe this kind of pressure on representatives is especially important considering the 2010 raid was defended by biden. (definitely recommend reading this article — from 2010, mind you — which has him spouting the same bullshit he’s regurgitating to this day.)

Please don't forget Armenians

Today is Armenian genocide remembrance day. On april 24, 1915 started mass deportations of hundreds of Armenian intelectuals and community leaders, who were (most of the time) eventually killed. Armenian women and children were systematically r//ed and forcibly converted into islam. There were more than 2 milion Armenians in ottoman empire prior to ww1, 1,5 milion of them were viciously killed. Three millennia of Armenian civilaziation in eastern Anatolis was fully destroyed. Turkey today refuses to acknowledge genocides of christian minorities in early 20th century.

Do you know that mass ethnic cleansing of Armenians in ottoman empire inspired Lemkin to coin the term 'genocide'?

Last year in september azerbaijan allied with turkey initiated a war against Armenia. More that 5000 Armenians were murdered, thousands of Armenia families had to live their ancestrial land to not get murdered. There are hundreds of vids on internet where armenian p.o.w.s are tortured. Recently azerbaijan opened a "museum" displayind dead or dying Armenians and kids were allowed to visit it.

Please educate yourself on Armenian genocide. You can also donate here to help Armenia. Thanks for reading!!

This post is from 2021.

Last September, Artsakh was completely cleansed of its indigenous Armenian population. 3000 years of history were violently disturbed. Now the anti-Armenian propaganda and hatred is increasing and they are openly talking about taking over all of Armenia. Please take your time to read about these issues.

so: masking: good, unequivocally. please mask and please educate others on why they should mask to make the world safer for immune compromised people to participate in.

however: masking is not my policy focus and it shouldn't be yours, either. masking is a very good mitigation against droplet-born illnesses and a slightly less effective (but still very good) mitigation against airborne illnesses, but its place in the pyramid of mitigation demands is pretty low, for several reasons:

here are my policy focuses:

the last thing to note is that these things stack; upgraded ventilation systems in all public buildings mean that students and employees get sick less often to begin with, making it less burdensome for students and employees to be absent due to sickness, and making it more likely that sick individuals will choose to stay home themselves (since it's not so costly for them).

masking is great! keep masking! please use masking as a rhetorical "this is what we can do as individuals to make public life safer while we're pushing for drastic policy changes," and don't get complacent in either direction--don't assume that masking is all you need to do or an acceptable forever-solution, and equally, don't fall prey to thinking that pushing for policy change "makes up" for not masking in public. it's not a game with scores and sides; masking is a material thing you can do to help the individual people you interact with one by one, and policy changes are what's going to make the entirety of public life safer for all immune compromised people.