#Haifa

[last-tarrasque]

Plenty of Jews lived in Palestinian villages, cities and towns before the Nakba, then the Zionist leadership launched a campaign of ethic cleansing and genocide. Now Palestinians are rightfully against settlers moving onto the land they have left. When Israeli tried to move into Gaza back in 2008, they didn’t move into empty houses as friendly neighbors, they have the army, fortunately of it or murder anyone who is in there way, and then stole land which they build houses on.

Just reblogged a lot of good commentary on this take but I wanted to offer another perspective:

If you want a country where Israeli Jews and Palestinian Arabs live peacefully side by side, that nation already exists. It’s called Israel. Its population is 1/5th Arab.

On the other hand, there are no Jews living freely in Gaza.

Jews don’t dread living with Palestinians. We already do. Anyone can walk safely between Tel-Aviv and Jaffa. It’s the antisemitic Islamist extremists in Hamas who dread the day they might have to live peacefully with us.

[saddayfordemocracy]

How the Watermelon Became a Symbol of Palestinian Solidarity

The use of the watermelon as a Palestinian symbol is not new. It first emerged after the Six-day War in 1967, when Israel seized control of the West Bank and Gaza, and annexed East Jerusalem. At the time, the Israeli government made public displays of the Palestinian flag a criminal offense in Gaza and the West Bank. 

To circumvent the ban, Palestinians began using the watermelon because, when cut open, the fruit bears the national colors of the Palestinian flag—red, black, white, and green.  

The Israeli government didn't just crack down on the flag. Artist Sliman Mansour told The National in 2021 that Israeli officials in 1980 shut down an exhibition at 79 Gallery in Ramallah featuring his work and others, including Nabil Anani and Issam Badrl. “They told us that painting the Palestinian flag was forbidden, but also the colors were forbidden. So Issam said, ‘What if I were to make a flower of red, green, black and white?’, to which the officer replied angrily, ‘It will be confiscated. Even if you paint a watermelon, it will be confiscated,’” Mansour told the outlet.

Israel lifted the ban on the Palestinian flag in 1993, as part of the Oslo Accords, which entailed mutual recognition by Israel and the Palestinian Liberation Organization and were the first formal agreements to try to resolve the decades-long Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The flag was accepted as representing the Palestinian Authority, which would administer Gaza and the West Bank.

In the wake of the accords, the New York Times nodded to the role of watermelon as a stand-in symbol during the flag ban. “In the Gaza Strip, where young men were once arrested for carrying sliced watermelons—thus displaying the red, black and green Palestinian colors—soldiers stand by, blasé, as processions march by waving the once-banned flag,” wrote Times journalist John Kifner.

In 2007, just after the Second Intifada, artist Khaled Hourani created The Story of the Watermelon for a book entitled Subjective Atlas of Palestine. In 2013, he isolated one print and named it The Colours of the Palestinian Flag, which has since been seen by people across the globe.

The use of the watermelon as a symbol resurged in 2021, following an Israeli court ruling that Palestinian families based in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood in East Jerusalem would be evicted from their homes to make way for settlers.

The watermelon symbol today:

In January, Israel’s National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir gave police the power to confiscate Palestinian flags. This was later followed by a June vote on a bill to ban people from displaying the flag at state-funded institutions, including universities. (The bill passed preliminary approval but the government later collapsed.)

In June, Zazim, an Arab-Israeli community organization, launched a campaign to protest against the ensuing arrests and confiscation of flags. Images of watermelons were plastered on to 16 taxis operating in Tel Aviv, with the accompanying text reading, “This is not a Palestinian flag.”

“Our message to the government is clear: we will always find a way to circumvent any absurd ban and we will not stop fighting for freedom of expression and democracy,” said Zazim director Raluca Ganea. 

Amal Saad, a Palestinian from Haifa who worked on the Zazim campaign, told Al-Jazeera they had a clear message: “If you want to stop us, we’ll find another way to express ourselves.”

Words courtesy of BY ARMANI SYED / TIME

[sayruq]

Details about Iran’s drone attack on Israel so far

[secular-jew]

Jewish wedding in Jaffa Israel, circa 1899. In another Pallywood lie, the photo was promoted as "Palestinian" but they neglected to notice the key structure in a Jewish wedding ceremony, aka the "huppah" - the wedding canopy.

[nando161mando]

🚨🇾🇪 BREAKING: The Yemeni Armed Forces announce, in cooperation with the Islamic Resistance in Iraq, the targeting of a vital target at the Port of Asdod (north of #Gaza), as well as the targeting of an important target in the Port of Haifa.

Additionally, the Yemeni Armed Forces carried out a qualitative operation targeting the ship "TUTOR" in the Red Sea, due to its parent company's violation of the ban on the ports of occupied Palestine.

[radicalgraff]

"24,000 killed, 10,000 of them children.

Stop the genocide"

Anti-war graffiti seen in Haifa

[matan4il]

Missing traveling and seeing my beautiful country. </3

[odinsblog]

“That’s my history. Strange thing, that I and my family would do it again,” he said.

Safad, which is the city that my father lived there for hundreds of years, with his father and grandfather and great grandfather and so on, when a ship came from Poland with refugees, Jewish refugees from Poland and Germany, whatever, and they went to several countries first went to America, and they went to Cuba and they won't let them off.

So they came to Haifa.

And funny enough, Haifa is a port that my great grandfather built, and they had a banner on the side of their boat saying, “We lost our homes in Germany and our hope can you, don't let us lose our hope here in your country.”

And they took them, they took two families each. Took two families and others did, and brought them to our house, to my father's house, and they lived with us for two and a half years.

And when I was, when my mother was pregnant with me, my mother went to Nazareth to her parents house.

She had me and I was nine days old when she came back to Safad to take me inside our home, and we were locked out. The fact I came back home and they won't even let us in into our home.

When my mother begged them to get a shershef or something to put around me, they wouldn't let her.

So she moved on down to the refugee camp in Syria somewhere.

—Mohamed Hadid

[wgm-beautiful-world]

Bahá'í Garden in Haifa, ISRAEL

[lets-make-light-now]

Zionist have also harmed the reputation of every Jew on this planet.

My concern is that people have difficulty to differ between a Zionist and a Jew.

Zionists are no Jews. They miss use the Jewish faith to justify genocide, child rape and land theft. They openly give hate speeches, they consider them selfs better than the non Jews animals, also white Jews are better than Asian and much better than African Jews.

Jews are not like that at all. They want to practice a peaceful religion with coexisting with other believes in harmony. This behavior that 80% of Israeli have has nothing to do with Judaism but with racism equal to that Jews revived from the third Reich.

So if Zionists have painted a target on every Jews back, please don't punish Jews for it.

There are Jews for a Free Palestine too!

[girlactionfigure]

Medics are responding to reports of rocket impacts in Haifa.

[hebrewbyinbal]

Perched on the slopes of Mount Carmel, the Bahá’í Gardens in Haifa unfold like a stunning green staircase, with 19 terraces descending toward the Mediterranean Sea.

This UNESCO World Heritage site is a blend of natural beauty and spiritual tranquility, where vibrant flowers, manicured hedges, and flowing fountains create a sense of perfect harmony.

At the heart of the gardens stands the golden-domed Shrine of the Báb, shining as a symbol of hope and unity. As you walk through this breathtaking landscape, each terrace feels like a step closer to peace, offering visitors a serene space to reflect and connect with nature and spirit.

By day or night, the Bahá’í Gardens are a true gem of Haifa, representing a message of unity for all.

[athena5898]

OCCUPIED INTERIOR (RNN) — Additional scenes of the last dinner for a number of zionist soldiers after they were targeted by a Hezbollah drone (https://t.me/PalestineResist/62498) at the Golani Brigade base (https://t.me/PalestineResist/62496?single) in "Binyamina" south of Haifa (https://t.me/PalestineResist/62487), flying over 80 kilometers without interception (https://t.me/PalestineResist/62482?single). About 70 soldiers were killed and wounded, according to zionist media, in Hezbollah's precise strike of the military base. Over 110 soldiers were wounded (https://t.me/PalestineResist/62429) by the Lebanese resistance today, and Hezbollah continued to strike bases repeatedly, undeterred. As Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah said before his martyrdom: "The message of the drones is just the beginning.. A modest beginning of where we can go. If the matters reach negative outcomes…God knows what we could do. We could flip the table on the whole world." As the food of the criminal soldiers mixes with their blood, a scene that has reoccurred countless (https://t.me/PalestineResist/30817?single) times (https://t.me/PalestineResist/32481) in Gaza repeats in the zionist depth, this time with soldiers in a military base instead of innocent children.

[humanoidhistory]

The abandoned Haifa Bat Galim central bus station, Israel, built in 1968. Photo by Eli Singalavski. Via Domus.

[palestiniansilk]

What Is Home? Falasteen on 08 March ´24

For years, I believed that home was simply where family dwelled—a truth, yet incomplete. I never imagined that home could transform until I first glimpsed Palestine. There, I felt the echoes of longing from those who were torn away from this land. A veil of sorrow draped over me, mingled with an unexpected warmth, as if the earth itself whispered, “Welcome.” I found myself home… Was I a voice for those who could never return? Or was it my soul that ached for this place, yearning for a home it had never known?

[radicalgraff]

"In Gaza and Sderot children want to live"

Anti-war stencils on a pro-war banner that says "together we'll win" hanging outside of a highschool in Haifa.