#falasteeni

[little-apricot-orchard]

"palestine was never a country in the first place!"

really?

explain my dad's PALESTINIAN birth certificate.

explain my dad and his parents PALESTINIAN passports.

explain why my grandparents still have PALESTINIAN currency, issued in the 1920s and 30s.

explain our name on the maps. explain our textile fame. explain our influence on european and middle eastern fashion for centuries.

explain our customs, our nations dress, fabrics, foods, dances, beliefs.

explain our caananite ancestry, how the land of caanan was called palestina by the ancient romans, that caanan, palestine, and judea were the names of the same country, just by other people.

[gastromancer]

This what it feels like, to live in Palestine. The constant awareness of the existence of a ferocious, hostile intelligence that is organizing the terms of one’s existence, but which, ultimately, does not wish one well. One never sees them. But one knows what they must be like: a brain trust of extremely well educated and sophisticated men and women meeting in air-conditioned offices, presenting power-points, tabulating research, and developing sophisticated plans and scenarios; except, all you know is that these people are utterly inimical to your existence, and you have no idea what they say and do. You can only grasp at rumors and analogies.

Hostile Intelligence: Reflections from a Visit to the West Bank, David Graeber.

Article discovered through sayruq’s post on why there are no women’s hair saloons in gaza.

[falasteenialive]

A place to post and reblog art and pictures and recipes celebrating Palestinian joy. While we have breath in our bodies, we will not be forgotten. Some will be posted by me, others will be reblogs. From the River to the Sea ✊🏽

ANTICIPATED QUESTIONS:

Q. Will you include links to fundraisers?

A. No. I want this page to be solely about the culture that Israel and Zionsim wants to erase. I want it to be joyful.

However, if you wish to make a donation, check out this website which links to a randomly selected vetted fundraiser, this one which helps maintain e-sims, and/or follow blogs like @helpgazachildren @fairuzfan @90-ghost and @apollos-olives.

More questions under the cut!

Q. Can I make a submission?

A. Not yet, but maybe down the line, so watch this space! I just want to get established and find a system.

Q. Where do I start learning more about the history of Palestine/debunking lies?

A. First, listen to Palestinian tumblrites. Second, Decolonize Palestine lays things out really well, and provides some good links to go to next, as well as an excellent reading list. I also recommend the Instagram @letstalkpalestine and The Palestinian Information Center.

Q. Who are you?

A. I am a queer, Palestinian transman in my mid 30s. I do not live in Gaza or the West Bank, but I have family who do. I have experienced racism first-hand both abroad and from Israelis in Palestine, and I have experienced shelling first hand. My family has generational trauma, but I want to be a voice saying “we are still here!”

Q. [Insert hateful thing here]

[shehzadi]

have tried so many different arab/middle eastern cuisines in the last week but nothing even came close to knocking indian out of the number one spot

[iwait4youalexg]

I can’t take the Zionist stupidity anymore. I want to scream

[little-apricot-orchard]

if people think my country can win its rightful justice and freedom in a "peaceful" manner, then they should try living in a death camp their entire lives, like gazans. live with a near thousand children being kidnapped and tortured every year like my people in the west bank. they should live their lives as refugees, under the constant threat of death like all palestinians.

when they lived my peoples pain, in its multi-generational entirety, then MAYBE they can get a right to being talking of "peace".

why should my people, who have never once known peace, be expected to give that ungiven boon to their opressors.

and why, pray tell, are people criticizing the actions of a group undergoing genocide for not being their palatable little victims, and not the colonizers CAUSING the genocide?

"B-but Palestinians can get their freedom with peace not violence 🥺🥺" no. Screw your feelings. The armed resistance against colonizers and murderers is what will give Palestinians their freedom and what will eventually achieve real peace.

An enemy that bombs and uses white phosphorus against civilians doesn't know nor practice what your broken moral compass describes as "peace". Freedom was proven throughout history not to be achieved through kneeling and asking the oppressor to kindly stop. Freedom needs to be taken by force. Your little Utopian way of thinking doesn't work in the real world. Your feelings don't matter because you're not the one living under occupation. Your feelings don't matter because you're not one of the thousands of children who lost their limbs. You're not one of the children who became orphans due to this genocide. You're not the mother who lost her child to the carpet bombing. You're not the father carrying the remains of your child in plastic bags. You're not the newlywed woman who lost her husband. You're not the one at risk of either getting killed any second or losing your loved ones in the blink of an eye!

"Peace" is not really a thing you see during a live ethnic cleansing!

[fairuzfan]

I'm Falasteeni and I can't read/write Arabic, and I only speak it at a childish level. I think being in America, my focus went to learning English instead, and I forgot everything. Every time I try to learn Arabic, I struggle. I also can't dance at ALL, especially dabke. And I can't cook many of our cultural dishes... I feel bad about all of this. There are Arabic classes I'd like to take, but I can't afford them. There are dance classes I'd like to take, but same. I'm not really asking if I'm valid or not, because I don't feel like I am. I guess I just want to point out how fractured I feel from my community, despite having lived in it for my whole life. And I always remember I should've grown up with these things...

i feel you, im bad at arabic and dancing so i feel kinda like a fake and i kinda dont super like cooking lol but something i talked about with a friend of mine recently is that really, palestinian culture is palestinian culture if its done by ANY palestinian. there are palestinians who do not know much arabic in the world. there are some who dont partake in all the types of cultural heritage. but they do partake in other parts.

anything you do as a falestini IS palestinian. i guarentee you out of the literal MILLIONS of us around the world, there is a community that is just your type. i recently found my community despite being geographically far from them by taking a chance and messaging someone on twitter. so like there are niches and there are communities that you'll feel right at home with.

something that i try to do, personally, is reach out to falestini artists and writers online. if you're a writer, i would check out RAWI (radius of arab american writers) and see if you can join in. poetry is a really connective force for me personally. There's also Palestinian Feminist Collective.

also an aspect of falestini culture that i always fall back on: wanting, with our entire hearts and minds, to change the world for the better. resistance is in our very bones. love is in our blood. we grow with the knowledge that a better world IS possible as long as we live and fight for it. and that can happen in any way possible. so remember: you as a falestini are connected to the idea of justice and love because that's part of our culture.

i hope that one day you get to find your falestini community that you feel right at home with. and its difficult but it might be cool to investigate other ways you can contribute to arts and culture. anything you do as a palestinian IS palestinian art and we need it so dearly.

thank you for sending this message.

[agirlwithimaan]

I was teaching my five year old daughter Surah al Kauthar and instead of saying "fa sal li li Rabbika wanhar" she keeps saying "falasteeni Rabbika wanhar." 😅🇵🇸

[aethelredtheunready]

this song goes hard af everyone play it super fucking loud please

[little-apricot-orchard]

if attempting to kill over 2 million people, half of them children, is justifiable because of the 500 settlers hamas killed on october 7th...

then ask yourself why is palestinian revolution not justifiable when you consider the 500,000 killed in the nakba, 1.5 million displaced in the nakba, additional millions killed and displaced since, 500-700 children in the west bank abducted every year for 75 years, and the literal ethnic cleansing and genocide taking place in palestine since 1940 thanks to the zionist settlers?

if youre going to have one line of logic, then KEEP IT.

[fallensxvior]

A leader who is a great oppressor lacks understanding, But he who hates unjust gain will prolong his days.

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[flowersofjannah]

They lit our falasteeni brothers and sisters on fire now, but in the hereafter, they will be the ones in the fire. The fire of the hereafter is hotter than the fire of this world. And the martyrs of Palestine will be eternally blessed with rivers of milk and honey, fruits close within reach; never to be hungry, thirsty, hurt, or scared again.

[qalma-e-azadi]

inn ann, amrikka, anna dammi falasteeni literally make me feel like...

[pinkpinkmermayyy]

The best song ever actually

FREE PALESTINE 🇵🇸

[shehzadi]

my keffiyeh tying skills bring all the guys to the yard