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Fun fact: the 2022 valedictorian speech at USC commencement was by a student whose family is from Ukraine. He devoted the majority of his speech to talking about Ukraine. This is an UNBELIEVABLE double standard.

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It's actually crazy talking to friends and relatives about what's going on because very few of them know that this is a retaliatory attack. I keep seeing people online call the attack unprovoked too.

So those who don't know, on April 1st Israeli warplanes bombed Iran's consulate in Damascus. The attack killed 7 of Iran’s military advisers including 3 senior commanders.

This attack on the embassy is against international law. Embassies are protected sites. But instead of condemning the attack and putting pressure on Israel, the US has spent the past week and a half calling West Asian countries to put pressure on Iran, with Biden going as far as to warn Iran not to attack Israel and saying that his support for Israel is 'iron clad'.

The West, the UN, and UN Security Council have largely failed to condemn the attack which means Iran has no choice but to retaliate with force in order to prevent future attacks. Otherwise, the country will look vulnerable and weak, especially to the Israeli occupation government which has spent months bombing neighbouring countries like Syria and Lebanon

Fundraiser masterpost

This is a masterpost for the evacuation fundraisers I've vetted so far, a few other fundraisers I find trustworthy but have not been able to vet (inability to communicate with the organizer), and a few semi-completed fundraisers or fundraisers for a different purpose (like house rebuilding, or aid distribution). The numbers next to the names have no significance beyond ease of navigation for me for when I check their progress in the future. You should look at the disclaimers instead and focus on those. Occasionally I will update these with new info, including new fundraisers, and the amount of cash that's been raised. Check in regularly on the original post when you see it being reblogged. In all likelihood once its reached you it's already outdated. Also please don't overlook the Sustainable Aid options near the bottom! The brain drain is already creating problems but having another way of keeping or creating new knowledge and key members of a functioning society is important.

VETTED FAMILY ESCAPE FUNDRAISERS

MORE VETTED FAMILY ESCAPE FUNDRAISERS (tumblr has a character-per-block limit, there's no difference between the following fundraisers and the previous ones).

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These murderers are admitting they lied only after the damage has been done and is STILL ongoing, and I am beyond pissed.

But if we want to talk about dead children, imagine this stadium filled with children.

That's 10,000. There aren't even enough seats. We need 2000 more. That's how many children we know Israel has killed since October.

That we know of, mind you. They destroyed the ways to count the deaths, and the people counting them, so this is very much an inaccurate number. It's in truth much higher, possibly multiple times as many. We have no way to be sure. Israel made sure of that.

This doesn't even count all the children killed in the last 75 years while the world was silent. This brutality is much older than Hamas.

And this is just the children. Adults don't deserve starvation, rape, torture, and genocide either. No one does.

The truth is that Hamas could have done every single thing they are accused of ten times over, and it wouldn't matter right now. There isn't a single goddamn thing that can justify genocide in any circumstance. Period.

Israel will answer for its crimes against humanity, and Palestine will be free.

And to be clear, if anyone tries to twist this genocide into justification for antisemitism, fucking die. You're no different than Israel. Jewish people have been fighting against this evil since the beginning, long before the rest of the world knew or cared. You don't get to stir up nazism 2.0 just because Israel claims to speak for Jewish people (they don't). Don't forget just how many Palestinians were and are Jewish. And don't forget just how poorly Israel treats holocaust survivors. Israel is just standard western imperialism lIke any other. And they need to be stopped.

also two of the speakers were banned (?) from germany

Gonna look for confirmation but I've seen a claim relating to the news that the NHS is going to force GICs to hand over patient records to look for evidence of detransition, that the criteria they are going to use is if the patient has a GRC.

I dont have a solid source yet. Do not panic yet. But if true I will lose my fucking mind.

Confirmed by prof. Stephen whittle. Fuck.

The reccomendation is write to your GIC with the following:

“I do not give my permission for any aspect of my patient data to be submitted to, or collected for, the purpose of any research without my express permission in writing being obtained in advance”.

AND if you want a GRC get one ASAP. The wait time has increased so do both.

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Who are big name tumblr users who post trans politics that we can tag

I've said the source. Professor Stephen whittle. He is on twitter.

stephen whittle on twitter:

"(...) The data link study looks at whether transition leads to a Gender recognition certificate, as ‘evidence of successful treatment”. That implies if a GIC patient doesn’t obtain gender recognition the treatment & transition has not been successful.

As I research showed most people only apply for a GRC when needed eg to marry, adopt or retire. I advise ALL GIC clinic patients (including PAST) patients who do not wish their data to be used in this way to write to their GIC a short letter stating'

“I do not give my permission for any aspect of my patient data to be submitted to, or collected for, the purpose of any research without my express permission in writing being obtained in advance”.

I also suggest that all who are able to meet the current criteria, apply for Gender Recognition as soon as possible."

the twitter thread is twelve tweets long and you can find it here at this link or just search @stephenwhittle on twitter and he has his thread and replies to it right at the top of his profile currently (12th April). risu is sharing the exact advice shared by prof whittle and now yall have the link so please keep yourselves aware of what's going on.

also about to go chain smoke about this since nonbinary genders aren't legally recognised here so the grc option for a lot of people (including me) isn't fucking possible.

I don't have Twitter and so can't view more than the first tweet, so I don't know if this is clarified in the thread. But:

Is this in England specifically, or UK-wide? Because healthcare is a devolved issue, so is this so institutional that Westminster is forcing it through on Wales, Scotland and NI, or is this limited to England?

Everything surrounding the cass report (including this) applies only to England

Thank you!

Hold the fuck on no way WW3 jokes are trending on Twitter when this is an extremely serious situation that’s threatening to destabilize an entire region. No way everyone’s gleefully looking at this as if it’s the grand show finale they’ve been waiting all along. There is no fucking way

I actually can’t right now I’m so angry. Do westerners realize that a direct Iranian attack against Israel is literally unprecedented & that this strike marks a major shift in all that’s been happening & that this is grounds for interception by the US. Does anyone realize that Iranian drones have to cross Iraq to access and strike Israel, making it an all too perfect situation for Iraq to be sucked into what could be a regional war. Does anyone realize how serious this is. We have families there.

All I ask is for you guys to take this situation with the gravity it deserves. Please don’t make jokes. Please review all updates carefully. Please try not to spread misinformation. Arabs like me have relativrd in the countries that are on the brink of getting involved in this. The US has never been kind to the SWANA region. Please please please be careful with what you say and spread.

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Not a good look when you refuse a famous plastic surgeon and genocide survivor entry to your country with history like Germany's.... lol.

this is what i was just posting about, and it's not just that he was denied entry: he was meant to speak at the Palästina Kongress, a congress that was supposed to be held this weekend in Berlin. they not only denied him entry into Germany at Berlin airport, but also informed him that he would not be allowed to join the congress via zoom or even send a recording of his lecture.

at the same time, German police stormed the stage at the congress and eventually shut it down completely. according to the organizers, there were about 2,500 cops present (for an event with 250 attendees). several people have been arrested, including a guy who did nothing other than hold a sign saying "Jews against genocide".

the organizers have called for international solidarity in the form of protests in front of German embassies and institutions on Sunday, April 14th:

let your local orgs know about this!

you can also look at their instagram page @ palaestinakongress for info on how everything went down and the repression from police