#Refugee (2000)

[gregor-samsung]

Desert Flower (Sherry Hormann, 2009)

[amygdalatraxx]

Most of the Gummy Bear fanart I've made!!!

[keenbugg]

i hate australia. stupid fuckass evil country

[saddayfordemocracy]

A refugee camp in Ingushetia, June 2000. 

Stanley Greene—NOOR

[sanstoons]

you know what i think i'm gonna actually join julance

no art block allowed in this house!! plus i need to do more of that "draw everyday no matter what" thing and this serves as a great motivation, so let's go

plus i don't know if i'm using tumblr right it feels so weirdkshdjdk too many options to talk in general

[thequickslash]

here's some gennie doodles I did yesterday!!

[bollywoodirect]

24 Years of #Refugee (30/06/2000). "Panchhi nadiya pawan ke jhonke, Koi sarhad na inhe roke Sarhade insano ke liye hain Socho tumne aur maine kya paya insan hoke" Refugee is written and directed by J.P. Dutta. It marked the debuts of Abhishek Bachchan and Kareena Kapoor. The film also starred Jackie Shroff, Suniel Shetty, and Anupam Kher. Songs by Anu Malik and Javed Akhtar.

[jamezuse]

shit... you got me i live here now

[rebelsouljah]

Like a queen upon her throne. . .

[piieot]

HI I M PILEOT IM RLY COOL GUY

HE HIM WITH A LITLE THEY AS A TREAT

I HATE SPOTIFY AN D USE WINDOWS MEDIA PLAYER FOR MOST OF MY MUSIC BUT MOST PEOPLE WILL Be LISETNIJG TO THEIR MUSIC ON THEIR AND I CANT POST AUDIO FROM WINDOWS MEDIA PLAEYYER LOL^w^

[dozydawn]

“A Palestinian girl sits under a mural of a dove holding an olive branch on the wall of her home in the Shatti refugee camp in Gaza City.”

Photographed by Fayez Nureldine.

20 July 2000.

[gregor-samsung]

Desert Flower (Sherry Hormann, 2009)

[sayruq]

Everyone knows a family that has lost a child in Zamzam, a camp for hundreds of thousands of displaced people in Sudan’s Darfur region. Hunger and disease have become grim features of daily life, and a child is dying in the camp every two hours, according to the medical charity Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). “There have been many, I cannot remember them all. The latest died yesterday,” says Laila Ahmed, who lives in the camp with her nine children. Like most of Sudan, Zamzam has had no phone or internet connection for the past two weeks, but the Guardian managed to talk to refugees through a satellite link.They described a desperate situation, with no clean drinking water and little access to medical treatment. Families share meagre food stores. Almost 25% of children are severely malnourished. Dengue fever and malaria are sweeping through the camp. Beyond its perimeters roam militiamen who kidnap or attack women who venture out to collect firewood or grass for their donkeys. Apart from one small distribution in June, no food aid has arrived since fighting erupted across Sudan on 15 April. “I think we are approaching starvation,” says Abdullatif Ali, a father of six. “The people are suffering from malnutrition, disease – many issues.” Zamzam was set up in the mid-2000s in the wake of the genocide in Darfur, carried out by predominately Arab militias called the Janjaweed. Before the current war between the Sudanese army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), which grew from the Janjaweed, a patchwork of international aid agencies provided services to Zamzam, but they abruptly pulled out when the fighting started. Since then, the camp’s population has swelled with new arrivals fleeing fighting farther south. “This is a vast, overpopulated camp that needs a large amount of support, but it has been completely left on its own,” says Emmanuel Berbain, an MSF doctor, who visited recently. “It’s a complete catastrophe, to be honest.”

[opencommunion]

my friend @mohammedhaboubsblog is back in school full time, while also working to support himself and his sister as refugees in Egypt, as well as their parents who still face genocide in Gaza.

Mohammed hoped to raise enough this month to evacuate his parents, but donations have been very slow, so he's adjusted the goal to $2000 by November 20th to cover his parents' rent in Gaza so they're not displaced to the streets again.

if you have anything to spare, please help keep Rania and Adli out of the cold. every $5 counts!

November 11th: $295 / $2000 (short term goal for rent)

tags for reach, thank you!

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[bunnis-monsters]

I don't know if you're over bee hybrids, but if not, then I have a small inquiry... How many bee hybrids per hive? I'm just imagined that the 60-80,000 in an actual bee hive would be way too much.

Definitely not over the bee hybrids, I have quite a few things in my drafts!

I’d say around 200-2000 bees per hive, depending on the queen and how good she is at running the hive. The biggest hive in history consisted of 5000 bee hybrids, and all hives want to be like that one.

Your hive starts out with around 250, and by the end of the first year it’s at nearly 500. You take very good care of your hive, and the new bees are a combination of both baby bees and refugees from other hives!

You’re so soft, warm, and kind, sometimes bee hybrids follow you back to your hive to join when you go on walks. They’re put into quarantine(I can elaborate on this) for a while and then can be integrated into the hive.

So there’s a steady influx of new bee hybrids to mate with and it’s good for the hive’s gene pool. A lot of queens are jealous of how bee hybrids flock to you.

[matan4il]

An incomplete "there's a good chance the icon you love and support is a Zionist" list

🌟 Raphael Lemkin, a Jewish Holocaust survivor, whose family was murdered during it. Lemkin is responsible for coining the term "genocide," and for every legal provision that exists today against it. His work against genocide was inspired by his Zionism.

🌟 Martin Luther King, Jr., who did not only support Israel and its right to security, a fellow participant at a dinner with MLK shortly before his assassination quotes him as having stopped a student attacking Zionism, and replied, "When people criticize Zionists, they mean Jews. You’re talking antisemitism." He also encouraged Americans in 1967 to support the Jewish state, as Egypt blockaded the Straits of Tiran, endangering Israeli citizens by cutting the country off from its oil supply.

🌟 Emma Lazarus, a Jewish American poet, whose words ("Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breath free") are engraved on the Statue of Liberty's pedestal, after they helped raise the money needed for its completion. Drawing from the value of Jewish solidarity, she also wrote, "Until we are all free, we are none of us free," adopted as a slogan by intersectionality (while many in the movement exclude Jews from it). She was a great supporter of establishing a state for Jews in the Jewish homeland, having argued for this idea years before the word "Zionist" was even coined.

🌟 The 14th Dalai Lama, the leader of the fight against the occupation of Tibet, who was invited in 1994 to Israel, at a time when China's communist regime did its best to prevent his visits anywhere in the world, and who came to Israel more than once, talking about the 2000 years long Zionism of Jewish culture in exile as an inspiration and role model for Tibetans. "Among Tibetan refugees, we are always saying to ourselves that we must learn the Jewish secret to keep our traditions, in some cases under hostile circumstances."

🌟 Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who spoke more than once about how her pursuit of justice is a continuation of that very same thing in Jewish tradition. She had repeatedly referred to American Zionist Jews as sources of inspiration. For example, in 2018, during her fifth visit to Israel, in a speech she gave when receiving the Genesis Award, she mentioned two such women, Emma Lazarus and Henrietta Szold.

🌟 Nelson Mandela had an ambivalent view of Israel, but repeatedly recognized its right to exist, which makes him a Zionist, he also called upon Arab states to do the same, and was favorable towards the Zionist Jews who supported him during his underground days. Mandela being critical of Israel and still a Zionist is an apt reminder that criticizing the Jewish state and opposing its very existence are NOT the same thing, and only one's antisemitic.

🌟 Felix Salten, the Jewish author of Bambi (the book Disney's movie is based on). The tale was originally a metaphor for Jews suffering antisemitism, something Salten personally had to cope with. He was also an ardent Zionist, feeling the self-liberation at the core of this ideology suited his idea of how to deal with Jew hatred.

🌟 Sun Yat-Sen, who helped end the rule of China's last imperial dynasty, was its first provisional president, and is nowadays honored as an important Chinese leader in both China and Taiwan (sometimes referred to as "Father of the Chinese Nation"). He was an enthusiastic supporter of Zionism. Among other instances of expressing that, he wrote in a 1920 letter to a leader of the Jewish community in Shang Hai about Zionism that it is, "one of the greatest movements of the present time. All lovers of Democracy cannot help but support wholeheartedly and welcome with enthusiasm the movement to restore your wonderful and historic nation, which has contributed so much to the civilization of the world and which rightfully deserves an honorable place in the family of nations."

🌟 Magnus Hirschfeld, a gay Jewish sexologist, nicknamed among other things "The Einstein of Sex" and "The Father of Gay Liberation," because his medical and scientific work on human sexuality, as well as social advocacy for women's, gay and trans rights, was nothing short of pioneering. He was persecuted by the Nazis to the point where he died in exile. They broke into his institute of sexual research, where the world's first clinic performing sex reassignments surgeries was located, and burned down the institute's library. Hirschfeld had attended a Zionist conference following the Balfor Declaration of 1917, and his work on sexual liberation found inspiration in young socialist Jewish Zionist workers he met during a visit to the Land of Israel in 1931-2.

🌟 Marcia Langton, a professor and prominent Aboriginal rights activist from Australia, who has been leading the fight against racism and for her community. She spoke out against the hijacking of native rights movements by terrorist sympathizers and antisemites, and has clearly stood against all loss of life, including that of Israelis.

🌟 Felix Zandman, a Holocaust survivor whose work on resistors is integrated into many smartphones, laptops, cars, satellites, hospital ventilators (saving many Covid patients), airplanes and more. Whenever the anti-Israel crowd is scrolling social media on their phones, they're enjoying the work of a Zionist, who enthusiastically supported the State of Israel, and even introduced an important improvement to the Israeli Merkava tank, which has likely saved many Israeli lives, Jewish and non-Jewish alike, and others like him, since Israel's high tech is considered only second to Silicon Valley (going back to at least the 1990's). If they truly wish to boycott everything that's been "contaminated" by Zionism, they should probably just boycott technology.

🌟 Rosa Parks, an African American leader of the civil rights movement (and someone who personally demonstrated how one can resist without turning violent). She was one of 200 notable black American leaders who publicly organized to express their support and respect of Zionism as the Jewish right to self-determination, and Israel as the manifestation of that right.

-> Like I said, this is VERY incomplete, even just in terms of how the overwhelming majority of Jews are Zionist, and have been since the inception of Judaism, which is itself Zionist. Over the years, this led to many non-Jewish human and native rights champions to be supportive of Zionism, too. Take note of who is being vilified, when the term "Zionist" is ignorantly used as if it means anything other than belief in the equal right of Jews to liberation and self-determination in the Jewish ancestral land. Especially when it is used as being inherently evil.

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