#gaza 2023

[pilloclock]

Please share because alot of people think this is a War it’s not

[balasha7sanbardo]

honestly you must be a special kind of sick and evil to support israel. they bombed a fucking hospital. a hospital. how psychopathic, privileged, and ignorant do you have to be to support them. y’all make me sick. I want to grab your faces and force you to watch what’s happening.

[the-cunt-of-montecristo]

December 14th, on Tumblr:

Trending today:

9th and last is Malala Yousafzai, for replying to tiktoks about "feminism means I have homework now"

From what I can see it doesn't seem like the attention towards Palestine has lost *that* much momentum, with protests still all around the world and activity on social media. But not according to tumblr, since apparently we talk about hot chocolate and painting more than we do about the Palestinian genocide. Ok.

[tempestades]

[arablit]

New Report Details Damage to Arts & Culture Across Gaza Strip

DECEMBER 7, 2023 — A November 7 report from the NGO “Heritage for Peace” estimated that more than 100 heritage sites had been destroyed in Gaza since the start of the bombardment that followed Hamas’s October 7 attacks on Israel. These included a Byzantine church, a seventh-century mosque, and scores of other cultural monuments. Now, a month later, a new report from the Palestinian Ministry of…

[shysurvivor]

You know what really shocked me after reading this post... was that I immediately put it in a box. I immediately categorized it in the binary system of Pro Hamas vs. Pro Israel. Or rather that is my broad description of these two boxes. And then I stopped myself and re-read the whole post and nowhere did the poster excuse the violence and the atrocities that the Hamas carried out. Nowhere is this a denial of the suffering Jewish people had to endure.

And this made me pause. Because it showed to me how poisoned the discourse is. That it is all a binary. That it's all either-or. That one always feels as if acknowledging suffering of one group somehow means that one is justifying violence towards another. Because it isn't.

And while I think that people on the left, people who call themselves liberal and progressive, need to be way more critical of Hamas. Because this group is not supporting liberal values. Palestinians were protesting against their rule. (Additionally to that liberals can't simply brush the issue of a lack of women's rights under the rug, really.)

I can acknowledge the post-colonial theory inspired analyses of the conflict and I can say that this framework is indeed applicable here. At least to a degree. Still, I can also apply a lot of other philosophical and political theories and lenses to this conflict. But whenever I do, I feel as if I am discarding one groups suffering. And THAT feeling is terrible, because it shows how much power the current discourse has...

"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!

[captain-price-unofficially]

Shocking footage exclusively published by Al-Jazeera shows Israeli occupation forces demolishing the ancient Greater Mosque in Khan Yunis. Another video from an Israeli soldier's GoPro captures the raiding of a mosque and the burning of all Quran copies inside.

[cavalierzee]

THIS DIDN’T START OCTOBER 7th!!!

[her-moth]

[nando161mando]

In Melbourne/Naarm this Wednesday ...

'Stop genocide in Gaza now!

Protest Zim Shipping Line

5.30pm, Wednesday 8.11, 78 Webb Dock Drive

Protest to say: Block the boat

No Israeli ships in Port Melbourne

Hosted by Trade Unionists for Palestine'

via @slackbastard

@antifainternational @anarchistmemecollective @kropotkindersurprise @radicalgraff

[kropotkindersurprise]

November 4, 2023 - A protester raises the Palestinian flag as thousands marched in Berlin in solidarity with the Palestinian people, and in condemnation of the German government's reprehensible support for Israel's war crimes and apartheid. [video]

[huariqueje]

Supporters of Masha Gessen, who is Jewish, and whose grandfather and great-grandfather were among family members murdered by the Nazis, have been quick to point out the irony of suspending a prize awarded in memory of Arendt, the German-born Jewish-American historian, philosopher and antitotalitarian political theorist who coined the phrase “the banality of evil”, in connection with the trial of leading Nazi Adolf Eichmann, which she covered as a journalist for the New Yorker.

[baby-girl-aaron-dessner]

Palestinian poet, Refaat Alareer

[zegalba]

Lace Keffiyeh Veil by Nazzal Studio (2023)

[biladal-sham]

The result of Israeli airstrikes on Gaza.

[captain-price-unofficially]

Banners saying "Genocide Gaza" and "Victory looks like zero people in Gaza" hanging in Tel Aviv