#chilean palestinians

[latin-american-diversity]

A Chilean Man of Palestinian ancestry partakes in a pro-Palestinian protest

Chilean-Palestinians

Outside of the Levant and the Arabian Gulf nations, Chile is home to the largest Palestinian diaspora in the world with up to 500 thousand Chileans having Palestinian ancestry. 

Palestinian immigration to the country began in the middle of the 19th century during the Ottoman rule. Like other immigrants from the Ottoman Empire, whether Arab, Slavic, Assyrian, or Greek; Palestinians were often called Turcos (Turks) since they usually entered the country with Turkish documentation. This denominate remains common in Chile and neighbouring Latin American countries to this day; which has erroneously lead many Latin Americans with non-Turkish ancestry and little information about family history, to be under the impression that they are of Turkish ancestry. 

Historically, the majority of Palestinians that arrived in Chile were Eastern Orthodox Christians, as most countries in Latin America barred the immigration of Muslims; for this reason there are more Christian Palestinian descendants in Chile than in Palestine itself. However, in recent times Chile has also taken in Palestinian refugees, the majority being Sunni Muslims. 

Many of the first waves of Palestinian immigrants lived in abject poverty and were illiterate. In addition to this like many other immigrant groups to Latin America, particularly those coming from the Ottoman Empire, Eastern Europe, and East Asia they were faced with xenophobia; a product of Chilean nationalism and rising post-independence ethnic/racial tensions. This xenophobia spread as far as the Chilean media, with one of country’s oldest national newspapers "El Mercurio,” writing:

“Whether they are Mohammedans or Buddhists, what one can see and smell from far, is that they are more dirty than the dogs of Constantinople...“

Despite the fact that the majority of people coming from the Ottoman Empire and Eastern Europe were Christian, the stigma of living in an empire ruled by Muslims or around Muslims was enough for them and other Christians such as Slavs, Greeks, and Armenians to be targets of Islamophobic sentiments that were prominent in Iberian American societies. 

Similar to other immigrants from the Ottoman Empire, many Palestinians began to work in commerce as merchants. This factor alongside their gradual assimilation into the white Chilean population, began their upward social mobilization. By the 1950′s Palestinian Chileans garnered a significant economic and political position in Chilean society, a good example of this is the recent presidential candidacy of Daniel Jadue.

The majority of Chilean Palestinians are inhabit the nations capital, and also the city of La Calera in Valparaiso Region, which attracted not only Palestinian immigrants but also other Levantine, Balkan, Italian, French, and German migrants.

[delarverie]

i love my mom and my siblings god knows that but questioning my beliefs because of me having a different ethnic background is uhm. not nice? i think.

[zenlesszonezero]

Join Zenless Zone Zero with Tsukishiro Yanagi, the deputy leader of Hollow Special Operations Section 6! Beneath her ordinary office lady exterior lies a meticulous, emotionally intelligent big sister to the team.

[tierras]

palestinian-chilean singer, elyanna, covers jeanette's "el muchacho de los ojos tristes"

[ahaura]

(Nov. 13)

@QudsNen #Chilean football team Deportivo Palestino players came to a match with the Palestinian flag and Kufiyyah. #Palestine

[firstfullmoon]

Palestinian poet Najwan Darwish: ‘We can’t begin to comprehend the loss of art’

“Poetry has been the colossal record of violence and. . . the colossal record of compassion,” the Chilean poet Raúl Zurita wrote in the foreword to Exhausted on the Cross [Najwan Darwish’s latest collection], and it’s a duty that the poet takes seriously.

[tortiefrancis]

Global Strike Day 3): Negro Matapacos

[ ID: Digital, stylized artwork of Negro Matapacos, a black dog with a graying muzzle, running and smiling, a red and white kufiya wrapped around his neck. There's a darker red border around him, as well as white doodles. Red text around him reads: "Palestina Libre". Background is green. /End ID ]

Negro Matapacos was a Chilean dog who become a symbol against police brutality due to his anger towards cops in protests, specially during the 2011 student protests in Chile. He was often seen wearing a red bandana around his neck.

The kufiya is a traditional scarf worn in western Asia, most often by men. It's often associated with the movement for Palestinian liberation.

[starlightshadowsworld]

On the 14th December 2023, Palestinian Chilean artist Elyanna performs her song Ghosn Zeytoun (Olive Branch) at the El-gouna film festival in Egypt.

A song about sending peace to a land that knows none while the world is silent.

[vampiricvenus]

Making it into a separate post from my own tags because I'm pissed at homonationalism.

I know I'm not the first to express similar sentiments, but it's honestly horrifying that Palestinians even have to clear their names regarding the assumption that they monolithically are homophobic and transphobic.

Even if every single Palestinian had any sort of bias against the LGBT community I, as a non-binary lesbian, still wouldn't fucking want them to be fucking genocided.

There's plenty of vicious fucking deranged homophobes and transphobes in the US and other imperial core countries. Does that warrant a genocide? Should we nuke the UK for being the world's capital of virulent TERFism?

My own parents are barely like 0.1% reformed homophobes. I still wouldn't fucking want them to suffer a fucking genocide.

And regardless. For any society to include homophobes and transphobes, there has to be [dramatic pause] gay and trans people in it too! A society that includes homophobes and transphobes cannot exist without there being gay and trans people present to react to.

Do LGBT Palestinians not matter? They're the only ones who'll ever be actually affected by homophobic and transphobic Palestinians anyway. No matter how intensely bigoted any Palestinian might be, Twink Connor from Seattle, Transgender Francesca from Milan, Bisexual Heidi from Munich, and Non-Binary Sock from Melbourne will never be affected by them, it'll only be LGBT Palestinians who'll be facing those bigots, and it's clear they don't want this genocide either.

I know for sure that if Chile ever got couped again like it happened in 1973 on the basis of ~*homophobia*~ I'd be against it because what the Chilean LGBT community would need wouldn't be extreme violence and death like that, what we'd need and want is a chance for an actual better future in which homo/transphobia can be overcome so we can exist freely and safely among our own people in the country we were born in. I know LGBT Palestinians feel similarly because they've made statements expressing as much, REPEATEDLY, both as individuals and in a more organized manner.

And bombs and bullets don't discriminate! LGBT Palestinians are being genocided too!

Fuck, I'm so pissed. Fuck pinkwashing. Fuck homonationalism. Nothing but liberation for all oppressed peoples of the world, whether you personally fancy them or not.

[livelaughlovepedri]

CD Palestino showing support for Gaza at the start of one of their latest league matches 🇵🇸

‘Club Deportivo Palestino’ is a chilean football club founded in 1920 by Palestinian immigrants in Chile.

[ghostatrandom]

It fills me with rage how can people be such fucking hypocrites when it comes to defending third world countries, WHERE THE FUCK IS YOUR SYMPATHY FOR THE LATINOS AND ESPECIALLY FOR THE VENEZUELANS WHO SAW HOW LITTLE THEIR VOTE COUNTS IN A COUNTRY CONTROLLED BY A DICTATOR

You cannot pretend to care about Palestinians while trashing Venezuelans, just shows how little you actually care about the lives of people and how much you take a political stance as a be all end all of morality WHICH IS JUST A RESULT OF YOU BEING UNABLE TO SEE AND CRITIQUE THE DIFFERENT PARTIES OUTSIDE OF WHAT FUCKING COLOR THEIR FLAG IS.

I'm Chilean, so I have met Palestinian and Venezuelan refugees and inmigrants. Let me tell you they would be DISGUSTED by your hypocricy and performative activism. If Israel claimed to be a leftist country you would no doubt support them even with all their crimes against humanity.

[leftistfeminista]

From Gaza to Chile, revolutionary women's brassières hanging like hunting trophies

Reflecting on the haunting imagery from Gaza of IDF thugs displaying the bras of Palestinian women as obscene trophies, I'm reminded of an art exhibit by the Chilean artist María Verónica San Martín. Basing her sculpture on the first hand testimony of women political prisoners who survived Pinochet's camps. How Junta guards relished in a hanging gardens of shame, the bras of arrested Marxist women hanging from above. It was designed to intimidate and demoralize newly arrived detainees with the sheer scale of the mass of stolen bras of their compañeras. Each bra telling a lurid story of how a proud militant activist woman stripped it off or had it torn off by a leering Junta guard. A macabre spectacle of degradation and humiliation.

It was a show of force boasting just how many socialist women had been captured, and gloating their bodies were now owned. Later seeing your own bra you were arrested in hanging, it would be a cruel reminder of your old life in your current hell. As Marxist women we share a sisterhood with Islamic women suffering the same mockery, in both our cases our underwear has been used to taunt our seriousness.

A bra is a deeply personal intimate garment to women, and a girl's first bra is a defining moment of her life. The frat boy humor of stupid men sees it as a hunting trophy to show off. Robbing a woman of it as a way of robbing her of her dignity. With both Communist and Islamic women there is an obscene fascination from the political enemy, that women who take themselves seriously wear underwear and yes sometimes fashionable sexy underwear. The grotesque IDF wall of bras hanging from barbed wire echoes this forced juxtaposition of the serious political and the frivolous feminine. Political prisoners wrote about how there was almost a brute natural animal dignity and seriousness in complete nudity, but keeping proud women in lingerie stripped them of all dignity. María Verónica San Martín's artwork turns it into an act of pride. Yes we are revolutionaries, and we are women and we wear bras. And for women leftists who were abused especially for our female traits, these hanging bras is a gendered memorial and symbol of our gendered ordeal.

[fairuzfan]

I’ve been really into Elyanna’s music lately. she’s Chilean-Palestinian. She like uses reference to classic Arabic poetry and SWANA culture and music in her work and blends it with modern beats and aesthetics and it feels like the most loving homage and it’s just soo good. Her song Al-Sham is one of my favourite ever

Oh I love her song "yabn El eh" also. But you're right she's really an interesting musician, I'd like to hear her collab with Dounia I think they'd make a good song.

[therewasabrowncrow]

The British Poem

Take some Picts, Celts and Silures And let them settle, Then overrun them with Roman conquerors. Remove the Romans after approximately 400 years Add lots of Norman French to some Angles, Saxons, Jutes and Vikings, then stir vigorously. Mix some hot Chileans, cool Jamaicans, Dominicans, Trinidadians and Bajans with some Ethiopians, Chinese, Vietnamese and Sudanese. Then take a blend of Somalians, Sri Lankans, Nigerians And Pakistanis, Combine with some Guyanese And turn up the heat. Sprinkle some fresh Indians, Malaysians, Bosnians, Iraqis and Bangladeshis together with some Afghans, Spanish, Turkish, Kurdish, Japanese And Palestinians Then add to the melting pot. Leave the ingredients to simmer. As they mix and blend allow their languages to flourish Binding them together with English. Allow time to be cool. Add some unity, understanding, and respect for the future, Serve with justice And enjoy. Note: All the ingredients are equally important. Treating one ingredient better than another will leave a bitter unpleasant taste. Warning: An unequal spread of justice will damage the people and cause pain. Give justice and equality to all.

Benjamin Zephaniah

RIP 🕊️

[atopvisenyashill]

The Ruling Princes and Princesses of Dorne

Leaders of Dorne During the Dornish Wars

Meria Nymeros Martell - Teresita Reyes

She’s Chilean and Palestinian, and I thought “casting” a few Latino Palestinians would be a fun little nod to Pedro Pascal, hah.

Nymor Nymeros Martell - Sami Bouajila

Deria Nymeros Martell - Iman el Deeb

she looks so much like the Deria art to me!

Voren Nymeros Martell - Motaz Malhees

We have several instances of Dornishmen with names that end in the -en sound. Doran, Oberyn, Llewyn, Yoren, etc. It seems like a common naming quirk in Dorne.

I thought Voren sounded the most like a real name, hah.

Morian the Mad - Mena Massoud

Mara Nymeros Martell - Salwa Nakkara

Explanation on her age is here in my Dornish Rulers Timeline.

Ellario Nymeros Martell - Hani Al Naimi 

We have Elia and Ellaria so I figured there should be a male version of the name.

I didn’t want to use Elio, so Ellario was born.

Qoren Nymeros Martell - Mahesh Jadu

[huariqueje]

In these critical times, it is essential that we raise our voices against genocide and war crimes in Palestine. We call on everyone to participate in a powerful demonstration in the heart of Rotterdam. Further information will follow: see RotterdamVoorGaza.nl.

The Rotterdam Palestine coalition supports and co-organizes this demonstration. These are the collaborating organizations: AFD International, AGD, BIJ1, Chilean Community Rotterdam, Denk, IGMG-Milli Görüs ZH, NIDA, Palestinian Community Netherlands, Palestine Komitee Rotterdam, Palestine Solidarity Rotterdam, Plant an Olive Tree, Rood Rotterdam, Rotterdam for Gaza, Samidoun, Socialisten 010, Palestine Foundation, Spior, Centrum de Middenweg, Charity from the Heart Foundation, Kifaia Foundation, Project Ummah Foundation, Stg FIO, SIORH, XR Rotterdam, 010 against racism.

12:00 – 17:00,

[honouredsnakeprincess]

reflecting on the issues somewhat this evening, and i think that every afghan in the world should have the right to rob any american or canadian he sees, and to take possession of his house on top of that. this right ought to also be extended to every iraqi, every palestinian, every lakota (i am unsure what the correct form of the word here is, and have not been able to find out, apologies), every chilean, and many more people i cannot exhaustively list here.

i remember a conversation with my mother and her husband (he is a contemptible fascist) in which i expressed outrage that our government would restrict migration into canada, that we would be so willing to loot the world and destroy nations and homes and lives and then turn round and say "ah, sorry, you can't come live here", and they both argued with me, as though my issue was that i did not think we would do these things, because surely i am irrational, "we can only support so many people".

this was fundamentally not my contention. i understand the canadian government's policies and intentions very well, and i despise them on the basis of what they are and what they are intended to do, not because i am at all surprised by their nature or conduct.

if canada dies in the coming decades, and i can't say for sure whether or not it will, i only hope that whatever replaces it will be better.