#but I’m trying my best to spread awareness about the genocide that Palestine is going through!!!!

[blahaj-is-magic]

Hi! My name's Aisha , I'm disabled Palestine queer. my situation is really concerning🚨 I am a pregnant woman who lives with my children and lives in a tent my blood sugar is high and I'm last to my pen. I need my insulin to bring my blood sugar back down. And medical care for the past 2 months. Everyday I am dying of fear and starvation.The cold is brutal.

As much as you can donate and sharing my campaign. Things have been really hard for me as only is at 60% of my final goal and needs as much as possible to be safely.

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[dionysusprteam]

Prediction: Eurovision is gonna be a disaster this year, not just from people boycotting (me included), but because it’s gonna be held in Malmö, and if you know anything about Malmö you know Israel preforming there will not go down well. I honestly wouldn’t be surprised if they have to cancel or delay the show (fingers crossed).

In all seriousness, as a Swedish person, it makes me nauseous to think that we’re giving a platform to Israel so they can continue spreading their disgusting hateful agenda. The double standard is so insane, Russia is banned from competing two seconds after invading Ukraine (which was good, they should be banned) but Israel is actively committing genocide and that’s just fine?

I’m never watching Eurovision again, it used to make me really happy but the truth is that it has always been problematic. I’ve been against Israel participating for many years now because of what they’ve continuously done to innocent Palestinians, but I can’t just turn a blind eye anymore. In reality I probably should have stopped watching Eurovision a long time ago but I really didn’t know any better, I wasn’t aware of all the strange and bad things that Eurovision has done/endorsed because I was a kid for most of it.

I’ve linked two videos I think are good that explore how Eurovision has been problematic in the past as well as currently (one is more in depth than the other).

If I’ve said something offensive or insensitive please let me know (unless its from a pro-Israel perspective), if anyone has any resources or recommendations on where I could learn more about what is happening in Palestine and/or how I could help (like books and/or charities) I’d really appreciate it! I try my best to educate myself and I always want to know more so I’d love any kind of help or direction if it’s something you feel like doing.

[arcofacatboy]

is it weird to say i feel like i'm mourning arc of a scythe? like it'd be one thing if the book was actually just not that great n whatnot like harry potter but. the book is actually good. i almost wonder if neil tripped and fell into writing a book with good commentary when he seems to be so incapable of understanding those same things

its not that its nessecarily that its just good, perse, but it made me want to read again. i felt like this series was meant for me, and it permanently affected my taste in books

sorry if it seems like im venting in your askbox its just. im kinda just wondering if my feelings are just felt by me or if others understand

No it’s okay - I’m gonna break some of this down with my own thoughts where I can.

First of all, I can’t really say how you should label your feelings about Neal and his books. I’ve personally tried to avoid using words like mourning or grieving due to the context of why I’m retracting support from Neal in the first place. People, children, are being ruthlessly murdered every day. Me being upset that my (now former) favorite author is completely apathetic towards the victims of genocide will never compare to the grief, pain, and trauma that the people of Gaza and Palestine have been made to face for months now. That doesn’t mean you can’t label your feelings that way! That’s just something I try to keep in mind when talking about Neal myself.

The reason I shifted the focus of this blog, while keeping its original branding, is because I want to at least try to help in a way Neal is refusing to - making his fans aware of the absolutely inhumane treatment of Palestinians at the hands of the Israeli government. Like Neal, I’m by no means an expert on… anything going on right now. I try my absolute best to spread accurate information, but that doesn’t make me a professional or expert. I’m not Israeli, and I’m not Palestinian. I’m a white person living in the relative safety of the USA, who isn’t going to be the target of antisemitism or Islamophobia. I should not be anybody’s primary source of information. But, unlike Neal, I feel like I’m at least doing something, and I want to keep trying to do as much as I can. I’m not trying to one-up Neal here, this isn’t a competition - but I’m saying that all the excuses he’s used for saying nothing could easily be applied to me, and many of the people who have spoken out against him. And yet, here we are.

I haven’t reread Arc Of A Scythe with knowing the additional context that Neal is okay with being completely silent on a genocide, but I have been rereading Dry while keeping that in mind, and, yeah. Neal makes a lot of parallels to real-world crises in that book, and how governments, people in power, and regular people treat them - with where I am in the book right now, everyone not affected by the Tap-Out seems to be completely apathetic and not concerned, because the Tap-Out hasn’t made their life any worse… so it can just be swept under the rug while the people of Southern California lose access to potable water. Literally most of my notes are pointing out how hypocritical Neal is being with his commentary - he’s doing things right now that he portrays as bad things to do in the book. The most egregious example so far is linked here.

So, I can’t say why Neal has taken the stance that he has right now. There’s no point in speculating if he was always this performative in his activism, or if he’s fallen into the Israeli propaganda trap, because it ultimately doesn’t matter. He’s being ignorant and harmful, and he deserves to be condemned for that either way.

You’re not alone in how you feel, I think - a lot of former/current AOAS fans have been really thrown for a loop by Neal’s shit. We have to move forward from here, but no one person can tell you how to do that. (Also, none of this was me trying to be rude or disrespectful, so I’m sorry if it came off that way. One adjustment I’ve had to make for this blog is not talking like a YouTube shitpost, so my tone probably seems a little different from posts I made pre-“Neal being a colonialist sympathizer”.)

P.S about the Harry Potter thing: I’m not sure what you mean by “not that great”, but I agree with you there. There’s so much “not that great” stuff in Harry Potter that the average person doesn’t even know about - the entire franchise is rooted in these really weird ideas about race, class, and a million other things, so it’s bad beyond “oh the goblins are antisemitic caricatures and the author is a terf”. Those things are still extremely bad, don’t get me wrong. But if you want to know more about how bigotry permeates into every part of the franchise - not just the movies, books, and Hogwarts Legacy! - I recommend this video essay by Lily Simpson. It’s ten hours long, but definitely worth a watch. (Yes I did watch the entire thing over like, a week this summer.)

[existentialcrisis-24-7]

Listen I dont want to be rude but I do need to be blunt: if you truly support palestine you should reblog information, news and resources daily and generally interact with palestinian content to learn how to best help

It is important to be vocal as there are too many zionists on tumblr.com

Useful links:

https://www.arab.org/

https://www.protectpalestine.org/links

https://app.jotform.com/233132600098852?utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=website&utm_campaign=portal-app&utm_term=233132600098852

I totally understand where you’re coming from and I appreciate the links, but you don’t at all what I’m doing outside of tumblr that I simply just don’t talk about.

Plus, I am just one below average person. It might seem crazy to think about through the barrier of the internet, but I am. I already have so much weighing me down in my daily life, that, again, I tend not to bring up. I know how privileged I am to be able to take that step back, which is why I make sure to donate and do my daily clicks, but I cannot, in my state right now, handle the activism.

Not everyone can be loud and vocal about support unfortunately.

There is also the problem of misinformation in a lot of these informational posts too. And I do not have the time to go do the research on every post I see. Which, btw, is important because spreading misinformation on an actual genocide that is currently happening is a terrible idea.

I know you’re trying to spread awareness, but going into ask boxes and guilt tripping random people is not the way to do it. Send another ask in the same vein and I will be turning off anon.