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something incredibly powerful is how healing these encampments as community spaces have been for so many. I’ve seen undergraduates get tutoring from graduate students, students who are food insecure receive three meals a day, students share their art and exchange gifts…. Seeing students put aside these typical structures of power aside has been incredibly fulfilling to watch. So many different people from many different backgrounds have learned from each other and exchanged their resources. I wish student protestors all over the US the very best. There is so much selflessness and passion in these spaces

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at this point I've seen this being mentioned quite a few times.

That the reason Israel gets to do everything they do is because they're a jewish state so they can always claim the victim card.

And I feel like that is misleading. Like yes the Israeli state does use that excuse, but in the end it's really just propaganda.

The real reason Israel gets to do what it does is that it's beneficial to the west. Western countries have done all the same things.

It's not a product of Israel being given too long a leash. Because I can pretty much guarantee that this was the intent from the start.

It doesn't feed into some grand conspiracy that jews control the world. Because, well. They don't, at all.

The second Israel isn't beneficial to the west, and especially the US, then Israel is done for.

Like don't let yourself get hooked into anti-semetic talking points just because you hate Israel and want the palestinian people to live. Keep to the facts remember your love for people, and remember that many many jews across the globe and even in Israel oppose the regime. Remember that the world doesn't suddenly love jews. It's just been given an excuse to openly annihilate another group they hate, which in this case are the arabs.

We all have to be motivated by love rather than hate, it's the only way this whole situation can be anything but pure loss. It's the only way we can keep any humanity

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people are like “everyone has different levels of tolerance for risk ❤️ no one can tell you to take on a risk that you don’t want to take on” and while I generally think that’s true, I also do think there are risks slight enough and stakes high enough that it is in fact morally encumbent on you to take them

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The answer of "Well what's your plan??" When talking about Colonization or criticism towards colonial states of mind, being, etc is usually either 1. A reaction of fear that the colonized must be vengeful & evil & violent & the asker is trying to ask if they're 'safe' from a threat they've made up in their head or 2. They're not actually taking decolonization seriously & don't actually want to hear the answer, the asker just wants to go on with the colonial state and mindset as it is. But both still expect the colonized to do all the work & have all easy, quick answers within a second with no support

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If you see this you’re legally obligated to reblog and tag with the book you’re currently reading

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‘哀しみのベラドンナ’ BELLADONNA OF SADNESS 1973 | dir. Eiichi Yamamoto

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support group for guys who don’t have tiktok for a reason but are slowly watching all other apps turn into tiktok

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Eerie Photos Frame the Dense Fog Shrouding Waves as They Swell Along the Los Angeles Coast

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Jerry Hall in Thierry Mugler couture 1997

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Twenty-two years have passed since the furor erupted over the account of what occurred during the conquest by Israeli troops of the village of Tantura, north of Caesarea on the Mediterranean coast, in the War of Independence. The controversy sprang up in the wake of a master’s thesis written by an Israeli graduate student named Theodore Katz, that contained testimony about atrocities perpetrated by the Alexandroni Brigade against Arab prisoners of war. The thesis led to the publication of an article in the newspaper Maariv headlined “The Massacre at Tantura.” Ultimately, a libel suit filed against Katz by veterans of the brigade induced him to retract his account of a massacre.

For years, Katz’s findings were archived, and discussion of the episode took the form of a professional debate between historians. Until now. Now, at the age of 90 and up, a number of combat soldiers from the Israel Defense Forces’ brigade have admitted that a massacre did indeed take place in 1948 at Tantura – today’s popular Dor Beach, adjacent to Kibbutz Nahsholim. The former soldiers describe different scenes in different ways, and the number of villagers who were shot to death can’t be established. The numbers arising from the testimonies range from a handful who were killed, to many dozens. According to one testimony, provided by a resident of Zichron Yaakov who helped bury the victims, the number of dead exceeded 200, though this high figure does not have corroboration.

According to Diamant, speaking now, villagers were shot to death by a “savage” using a submachine gun, at the conclusion of the battle. He adds that in connection with the libel suit in 2000, the former soldiers tacitly understood that they would pretend that nothing unusual had occurred after the village’s conquest. “We didn’t know, we didn’t hear. Of course everyone knew. They all knew.”

Another combat soldier, Haim Levin, now relates that a member of the unit went over to a group of 15 or 20 POWs “and killed them all.” Levin says he was appalled, and he spoke to his buddies to try to find out what was going on. “You have no idea how many [of us] those guys have killed,” he was told.

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“The reality is, is that the military is full of native nomenclature. That’s what we would call it. You’ve got Black Hawk helicopters, Apache Longbow helicopters. You’ve got Tomahawk missiles. The term used when you leave a military base in a foreign country is to go “off the reservation, into Indian Country.” So what is that messaging that is passed on? You know, it is basically the continuation of the wars against indigenous people. Donald Rumsfeld, when he went to Fort Carson, named after the infamous Kit Carson, who was responsible for the deaths of thousands of Navajo people and their forced relocation, urged people, you know, in speaking to the troops, that in the global war on terror, U.S. forces from this base have lived up to the legend of Kit Carson, fighting terrorists in the mountains of Afghanistan to help secure victory. “And every one of you is like Kit Carson.” The reality is, is that the U.S. military still has individuals dressed—the Seventh Cavalry, that went in in Shock and Awe, is the same cavalry that massacred indigenous people, the Lakota people, at Wounded Knee in 1890. You know, that is the reality of military nomenclature and how the military basically uses native people and native imagery to continue its global war and its global empire practices.”

— Winona Laduke - Native American activist and writer. She lives and works on the White Earth Nation in northern Minnesota. She is the executive director of Honor the Earth. She has just published a new book, The Militarization of Indian Country. (via kenobi-wan-obi)

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Yves Oppenheim (Malagasy, b. 1948), Citrons [Lemons], 1989. Acrylic on four assembled paper sheets laid down on panel, 280 x 198 cm.

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queer housing groups are a great place to meet people you would never, under any circumstances, want to live with.

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dark ouside huh? :) thats because its winter now. & if you listen i can tell you more. about this world