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Wang Yiguang (Chinese, born 1963)

Return of Spring, 2010

Oil on canvas

140 x 130 cm

Private collection

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need to arrange these thoughts somewhere so:

zionists will try to convince you any palestinian civilian "deserves to die" because they may have harbored ill feelings about israel as a result of running a decades-long campaign to frame opposition to israel as an unacceptable moral flaw rather than a logical political position.

this is obviously part of connecting anti-zionism to anti-semitism and why they have been utilizing every means at their disposal to prevent even seemingly benign criticism of israel

but i can't stress enough how this hasn't convinced non-zionists so much as it has convinced zionists themselves that criticism of israel is an unacceptable moral flaw. they regard any criticism of israel with deep suspicion and believe it has to be rooted in an inherent characteristic somebody has (that characteristic can be "being arab" or "being muslim" or born hatred etc) rather than a rational response rooted in anti-colonial and anti-apartheid principles.

the idea is that if a palestinian hates israel then they are antisemites who hate israelis for merely existing, and more significantly, tolerate violence towards individual israelis (and most extrapolate this to include the worldwide jewish population) on an interpersonal level. but they never pause to consider that supporting israel in any capacity requires co-signing far more violence towards individual palestinians, and is viewed as explicit approval of the violent subjugation and dispossession of palestinians. even supporting a fantasy version of zionism where everyone gets along requires, on some level, accepting the extraordinary injustice done to palestinians as the price paid to get there. and yet far fewer (if any) zionists are ever subject to a moral purity test of being asked if they wholeheartedly love and support palestinians and believe a palestinian state should exist at any cost to israelis. israeli hatred is tolerated and justified, while palestinian opposition (and here it is important to stress it is not hatred because it is not rooted in irrational fear but rational historical grievance) is demonized.

this is also why it is important to extend allyship to palestinians by normalizing criticism of israel. palestinians are quite literally being murdered in part because they are perceived to have an inherent hatred of israel. they are so dehumanized that their rational political stances as being denied because they are seen as incapable or undeserving of rational thought. to illustrate this point, israeli perceptions of european antisemitism dictate the conversation of how palestinians feel more than palestinian history itself. imagining, for example, that a palestinian needs a book about hitler or knowledge of antisemitic tropes to hate israel when israel is literally starving them and killing their children is the height of israeli (and western) arrogance and palestinian erasure. israeli logic contends that no palestinian is allowed to have a legitimate grievance with the state and soldiers carrying out their genocide; and if they do then they deserve to be eliminated so it wasn't a genocide but a righteous act.

so rather than saying "no palestinians don't hate israel!!!! look how many palestinians work in peace projects/advocate for tolerance/condemn violence" it's important to say why on earth are palestinians required to love their colonizers? why is anyone on earth required to lend approval and loyalty to an apartheid state? are palestinians supposed to salute the israeli flag in their refugee camps between checkpoints and bombings? by legitimizing a moral purity test of loving israel, you throw every palestinian who (quite rationally) does not like israel under the bus and validate the idea that loving or hating israel is a moral position about individual values rather than an explicitly political one about states and rights.

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got a new job that is exponentially more responsibility, time, and socializing than my previous one. my first time in a supervisory role/event planning and I'm essentially managing one branch of the company. gonna be working 3 jobs for a while also so. excedrin is about to become my main food group

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Marvelbros will try and trash filmbros by making up hypothetical films that sound fucking amazing, they'll be like "would you rather watch escapist superheroes or a 3 hour Yugoslavian film from 1971 about the friendship between a homeless man and his dog over the course of the dog's life" and I'll be like obviously it's the latter????

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Do not really know what to say. A year ago we were making posts about how Gaza was being bombed through Christmas- how the oldest Christian community was being bombed- how the birth place of Jesus was being destroyed and his people murdered. A year later, it is going to be Christmas again soon, and the bombings have not stopped. But the news, and the attention seems to have died down considerably. It feels terrible and scary.

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one of the things i despise the most about the world currently is how some people are never allowed respite. when someone experiences something horrific, if they are brought down to their knees, the logical response is to help them get back up. but the world has now normalized (universally) a decision to kick people while they're down. i can think of hundreds of examples. a cancer diagnosis that is exacerbated by insurance refusing to cover it. homelessness that is exacerbated by being arrested and your belongings confiscated. war that is exacerbated by countries refusing to allow refugees in. i can think of hundreds of examples. i think about it every time i see a gofundme campaign. to reduce people to begging, and then blame them for their own misfortune. palestinians have always been very good at refusing to forget who brought them down to their knees in the first place. the palestinian poet mourid barghouti talked about it as "beginning a story with 'Secondly:' "It is easy to blur the truth with a simple linguistic trick: start your story from "Secondly." [...] Start your story with "Secondly," and the world will be turned upside-down. Start your story with "Secondly," and the arrows of the Red Indians are the original criminals and the guns of the white men are entirely the victims. It is enough to start with "Secondly," for the anger of the black man against the white to be barbarous. Start with "Secondly," and Gandhi becomes responsible for the tragedies of the British." it feels counter-intuitive that the more information we have, the more aware people are of exactly where the oppression originates, the more they refuse to see it and instead blame the person on the ground. start your story with 'secondly,' and that's possible. and when you start your story with secondly, you prevent respite for the first act of harm. respite, it seems, will have to be seized, as it has been before and it will be again.

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Full names and details of every man who was convicted of raping Gisèle Pelicot. The list includes 50 men who could be identified, besides Gisèle's husband, ranging in age from 27 to 74. Among them are a firefighter, a journalist, a nurse, a construction worker, and a prison guard. Most have families of their own, and only about half had previous convictions.

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URGENT: HELP SAVE THE LIFE OF MY CHILD

I'm Amal, a mother of three children, living under the weight of the genocide taking place in Gaza. 🍉

The Israeli occupation forces launched drone strikes on my husband, Fayez, and my son, Mohammad.

my husband was hit in the head, while my son Mohammad was wounded in his legs.

Although my husband's condition has stabilized, my son is still suffering immensely and urgently needs medical treatment outside Gaza.

So I started a fundraising campaign to save my son before he dies.

Ddonate Via Paypal 👇

I lost most of my family. I'm afraid to lose my son too 🥺 .

I need your help please donate and share, evry contribution, no matter how small, brings us hope in these dark times.

Mohammed deserves to live a happy and healthy life, just like every other child on this earth.

So I humbly ask you to donate even a little or at least reblog this appeal.

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via Macbaconai

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Help us from hunger😓💔

My name is Banan from Gaza 🇵🇸 I will tell you my story and the story of my family with a heart full of worry and sadness but full of hope, the story of my family consisting of 6 boys and 3 girls but two of them got married. I lived with my family in complete comfort. We have a simple house that is enough for us and we have the most beautiful clothes and we eat the best foods, but my father and mother suffer from chronic diseases. I finished high school and could not achieve my dream and complete my studies because of the war that prevented me from completing my joy and disappointed me and extinguished my life and the life of my family completely

October 7th, a new story began, a story of suffering 😓💔 The journey of displacement from one place to another began. The bombing was above us and we spent it crying and fearing a lot for our children 😥😥 We did not find safety anywhere, and on the second day of the war we received the shocking and painful news for our hearts and my father's heart more because he built it with effort and fatigue 😓💔, it was the bombing of our house in which we lived for twenty years and we have many memories that we will never forget

On 10/13/2023, we were forced to move to the Deir al-Balah area in the middle of the Gaza Strip. It was a very tiring day because we went there on foot. This area will remain in our memory because we found hardship, fatigue and extreme sadness there. We lived in a tent in the extreme heat, full of small insects and disgusting rats that no one could bear to live in such a place. We suffered from a shortage of water and food, and we faced great difficulty in buying them due to their high prices.

In addition to my family's children who lived their childhood in tents and war and endured hard work like carrying water and standing in long lines to get bread. This is their childhood, and they are supposed to be in school, enjoying themselves, happy and have all their needs that they are missing now.

Help me and my family from the genocide. Donate a little something, it means a lot to us

✅️Vetted by @gazavetters, my number verified on the list is ( #315 )✅️

@90-ghost

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Ad Reinhardt painting at the Museum of Modern Art, 1964. Photos by Burt Glinn.

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Phasmid eggs | Levon Biss

these are actual eggs of the stick insect family

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OFF FANS.. REJOICE

"One of the most influential RPGs of the last 20 years has finally arrived on the Nintendo Switch and Steam, featuring an all-new battle system and new areas and hidden bosses from the game’s creator, Mortis Ghost."

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grinding for gaza while trying to keep my sanity intact. i'm just here on tumblr writing post after post, asking, begging for donations, for help. i craft these words carefully hoping someone somewhere might care enough to hit that reblog button or send a few dollars. then i go hunting for the tagging list hoping someone with a bigger reach than me will help amplify my voice because seriously what else can i do? message after message, waiting for a reply, a reblog, anything. the silence is deafening. i wait for the donation notification to pop up like it’s some kind of life raft. maybe just maybe it’ll float my family out of this hell. but mostly i’m sitting here clicking, praying, hoping while my phone keeps buzzing with more bad news. sighs deeply. well back to the grind i guess. shuffle away quietly. maybe trip on a rock this time. who knows.

If you can't donate via GoFundMe, you can use PayPal instead. Please note that 100 SEK is approximately 10 USD, and 200 SEK is around 20 USD.

Donate on GoFundMe: Link

Donate on Paypal: Link

Vetted and shared by @90-ghost: Link.

Verified and shared by @el-shab-hussein: Link

Listed as number 282 in "The Vetted Gaza Evacuation Fundraiser Spreadsheet" compiled by @el-shab-hussein and @nabulsi : Link

Listed on the Butterfly Effect Project, number 957: Link

Additionally, Al Jazeera News has documented apart of my family's case: Link

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It's weird how prevalent "oppression is bad, but you know what's also bad? Fighting for liberation" narratives were at one point, especially in video games. Just the weirdest obsession with the whole narrative of "the status quo may be bad, but we can't just go and change the status quo."

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I have been trying my best to raise funds for my family, I think I am tired or bored, but now I feel very tired and frustrated, especially after I wrote a post yesterday that received 1400 Note , but we only received a small number of donations, in addition to the fact that the last donation was 4 hours ago. I really do not know what I should do to raise funds and save my family, but please again, donate to us.

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