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#iof failing their own people as well#free gaza#free palestine#gaza#palestine#palestine resources#social justice#gaza genocide#gaza strip#imperialism#israel is a terrorist state#al quds#jerusalem#yemen#human rights
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we NEED to keep talking about Palestine. we NEED to keep talking about the death and famine in Gaza. we NEED to keep talking about the war crimes the IOF is committing and shamelessly flaunting online right in front of us. Why aren't there any tags regarding this on the trending tags page anymore?
I am so ashamed we can all sit comfortably in our homes and enjoy our fandoms while nearly almost 30,000 Palestinians, 29,692 human lives, have been mercilessly slaughtered and starved out, and thats only since October 7th to this day. The injured count lies almost around 69,879.
In the past 24 hours, at least 86 people were killed, and around 131 others are left injured.
These are not just numbers. They are REAL people who just had their whole lives violently torn apart in just a day. Entire family lines massacred and wiped out in just a day.
UNRWA says the last time it was able to deliver food to northern Gaza was January 23rd.
January 23rd.
That is well over a month by now, and people are starving. People are using donkey fodder to keep themselves going. They have so much hope and determination, but the world is still failing them.
Keep the discussion open. Keep reblogging and tagging updates on Palestine. Keep doing your daily clicks, and donate somewhere if you financially can. Keep striking. Keep sharing the atrocities committed by the I"D"F and its supporters (our own complicit countries) so the innocent people of Palestine aren't swept under the rug like the rubble that burries their martyred mothers, fathers, sisters, brothers, and children. I am painfully reminded of my own people lying in unmarked graves somewhere forgotten and hidden away, the horrors of residential schools shared to me by my poor grandmother and Canada's continued silence. And that pales in comparison to the mangled bodies piling up in Gaza before our very eyes.
This is genocide.
This is not a trend, this is real life. They are still dying, starving, mourning, and petrified. Never forget the genocide the IOF is carrying out for the whole world to see. Never stop talking about it long after Palestine is free.
From the river to the sea, Palestine WILL be free. 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸
#I stand with palestine#i used the same kinda format as other posts on here cuz i dont post my own stuff that often and felt like i should at least try too#i dont have a lot of followers but im counting on my mutuals to spread the word too#current events#palestine#free palestine#feed north gaza#north gaza famine#north gaza is starving#gaza#gaza strip#free gaza#save palestine#save the children#save the palestinians#save gaza#jerusalem#yemen#israel is a terrorist state#israel#israeli war crimes#fuck israel#fuck canada#fuck trudeau#genocide#gaza genocice#palestine genocide#from the river to the sea palestine will be free#children of gaza
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Israel ignoring Egypt's warnings, Israel's chaotic "recovery" (a.k.a. their explicit non-recovery and bombing of hostages), and the IOF's chaotic engagement with Hamas fighters on Oct. 7th and 8th that caught hostages and civilians in crossfire should be proof enough that Israel cannot and will consistently fail to provide for the security and welfare of Jewish people. It should also be proof enough that Netanyahu's government doesn't give a shit about Israeli lives unless they can be weaponized to serve his political and regional goals.
The argument that the only way for Jewish people to have safety and comfort is through a Jewish ethnostate ignores how the violence necessary to establish an ethnostate breeds extremism and a cycle of violence. It ignores how Israel consistently fails to protect and provide for its citizens, how vulnerable the Israeli state would be without US support, and how politically and numerically insecure settler-colonial populations are without ethnic and genocidal violence to reproduce their position in the social hierarchy. This argument also allows countries in the Global North to wipe their hands of their own country's antisemitism. For them, Israel is the solution to their country's "Jewish Question."
Some of Zionism's basic assumptions about Jewish people and the need for a Jewish state come from antisemitic assumptions. Advocates for a Jewish state frequently invoke antisemitic stereotypes to make their case. Like... literal fucking fascists in the US support Zionism because they want to empty their country of Jewish people and then watch them die in Israel.
The largest group of Zionists in the US are Evangelical Christians. Not just in sheer numbers, but as a percentage of their population. And you know what they believe? They believe that all Jews need to return to the Holy Land to be massacred and raptured so Jesus can return. The majority of Zionists in the US are Zonists because they're antisemitic. Their antisemitism informs their support for Zionism, and their belief in Zionism informs their antisemitism.
It boggles me how the US government, literal fascists, and Evangelicals have so many of you legitimately believing that critiquing a man and a government that throws their lot in with Holocaust deniers is antisemitic.
There are experts out there who attest that Zionism encourages and spreads antisemitism around the globe and that it is a contributing factor to increases in antisemitism in the Global North. Some have gone so far as to say it is a literal threat to the well-being of Jews worldwide and a roadblock in the fight against antisemitism.
#israel#zionism#in college the professor who taught me about authoritarianism and right-wing violence stressed that Zionism would get Jewish people killed#he is a Jewish man himself#he spoke about how few in the region actually support extremist groups in the area#and about how Zionism and the violence in the West Bank was poking a great bear#he talked about how if the radicalization from violence mobilized. it could mean the blood of Jews worldwide#especially as the Zionism popular in the Global North encouraged and reproduced common antisemitic tropes#he explained that if the Israeli state does not agree to two people of equal rights under one democratic & pluralistic state#they would be faced with both Jews and Palestinians living under the authoritarian and reactionary rule of an extremist govt.#i remember him talking about the (at the time) regional insecurity of the position of the Israeli state#he was more concerned about the exportation of extremism from Saudi Arabia or Iran than a group like Hamas or Islamic Jihad#he was firm about Hezbollah being more of an existential threat than any of the reactionary groups in Palestine
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you don't get to say "don't come for me i won't respond" on MY post and expect me not to reply. you wanna say dumb shit you could have made your own post or just blocked me
i made it explicitly clear that it's wrong to give democrats your vote for free. if you say "i'll vote for you but im really mad!" you're not giving them any incentive to do what you want them to do. what you say is "you have to earn my vote and i wont vote for you if you continue to support genocide and settler terrorism". that's not the fucking same as "give up on voting" or even "vote for trump"
"if your sole worry is about how biden is handling the genocide-" cannot describe how ghoulish and vile and depraved it is of you to make it out like the murder of tens of thousands of men, women, children, and infants and the in-progress extermination of an entire people, culture, and history is "just one issue." if you talk to a palestinian there's a really good chance their family member, extended family, or friends have either been murdered by the israeli occupation (american-backed, american-funded, american-armed, btw) or are at eminent risk of being murdered (by bombing, execution, or the manufactured famine of deliberately starving over a million people after months of bombardment and cutting off of aid and the deliberate targeting of any and all civil and social services and structures in place to save lives). entire families have been exterminated and continue to be murdered with every means available to the iof to murder palestinians and maximize their suffering the utmost level.
the point of this post is that you SHOULD NOT be blaming palestinians for anti-biden and anti-democrat sentiments that are increasing as the genocide goes on. it IS very much the fault of biden and the democrats. the vast majority of americans want a ceasefire but to maintain their glorified military base in the region the united states still allows genocide (and, prior to the genocide going into full gear, ethnic cleansing, apartheid, and settler terrorism). you're not going to change the minds of people who have lost loved ones, or who are seeing their people murdered, or people who have a SHRED of moral decency and do not want to vote for someone who is currently doing THE evil thing and NORMALIZING said evil. it's wasteful, ineffective, cowardly, gutless, and racist. you want people to vote for the democrats? push the democrats to change their stances; get them to change their positions. the fact is that you are so servile and cucked to the democratic party when they do NOTHING to alleviate the suffering of palestinians AS WELL AS capitulate to right ring framing on, say, the fucking border.
"the lesser of two evils" biden is currently doing the most evil. democrats are normalizing and facilitating the most evil. and since genocide is not enough of an issue for you there's many areas domestically in which the democrats are failing or aren't doing enough. they've capitulated to right wring framing of the border; how is that helping anyone? what have they done to improve healthcare? what are they doing about covid? what are they doing to protect lgbt people? what are they doing about gerrymandering? what are they doing about police brutality and white supremacy? what are they doing for education? how about gun safety? what about student loan debt? what the fuck about abortion? have they done ANYTHING even REMOTELY to pass anything on a national level?????
the reality is that democrats will not do anything worthwhile for their constituents unless they are forced to; if you are so ride or die for the democratic party then it is YOUR job to push the democrats to be electable. it is the DEMOCRATS' job to serve their constituents and not be the fucking absolute worst on almost every single conceivable issue either abroad or domestically. this idea that it's all on the voters is insane because democrats seem pretty content to not even TRY to do anything remotely positive for constituents (let alone anyone else). you want to tell me that's worth voting for? that people seriously should see ALL of that, FEEL the effects of the descent into fascism (which the democrats aren't preventing AT ALL), and tell them 'well, these guys are the lesser evil!' they have to PROVE they're the lesser evil. but if you're still going to be a bootlicker for the dnc for fucking free and tell people whose red line is genocide that they should still vote for the guy DOING and FACILITATING and NORMALIZING genocide and settler colonialism in broad daylight in real time then get off my post and shut the fuck up.
im sure its been said already but as the election draws near more and more liberals will come out of the woodwork to shame people with a conscience to give away their vote to the democrats for free i'm already seeing posts saying "why aren't people more concerned about a trump presidency?" you want to know why? it's because people already know he's bad. everyone already knows what he is and what he's done and what he'll do. there's nothing to discuss. he's a racist despotic worm of a man. there's nothing else to say.
biden is currently president. the genocide is happening under his watch. he's the one funding isra*l and arming them; he's sidestepped congress more than once to give them weapons. by oct. 27, the biden administration already knew that "Israel was regularly bombing buildings without solid intelligence that they were legitimate military targets." the state department/biden have engaged in atrocity propaganda, cast doubt on the legitimacy of the death toll recorded by the gaza health ministry, and so on. the united states is currently in the process of trying to pin the "war in gaza" on netanyahu (see sen. schumer's speech) after months of backing blatant genocide as a means to act as if they're "doing something" about the genocide (Instead of, say, threatening to cut off all aid to israel with the condition that all hostilities in gaza, the west bank, and occupied jerusalem are halted immediately and permanently, allowing palestinians freedom to travel, allowing aid into gaza, etc etc etc.)
the long and short of it is that liberals see that their own lives are worth more than palestinians. they'll vote for another 4 years of the guy ushering in genocide and supporting apartheid + settler colonialism because he isn't outright attacking them (despite various laws and rulings happening both at the supreme court level and at the local level all over the country that will endanger people). they'll settle for the illusion of safety and security and shame anyone with a conscience and accuse them of "supporting the republicans" when in an actual democracy you would be able to use your vote as leverage to extract concessions from those who want to be elected. that's how it's supposed to fucking work.
democrats are not owed people's vote. if biden loses, it will be biden's fault; it will be his campaign's fault; it will be the democrats fault. trump is bad; the republicans are bad. we already know this. this is not an endorsement of either. but if democrats are too cowardly and feckless and servile to the motivations of the american empire and never do anything for their constituents then why the fuck should anyone vote for them. you want to get mad at someone, why don't you do something useful and stop worrying about team-sports with a purely selfish basis and start hounding the people who are supposed to serve you, the voter.
#liberals will do anything other than address the current issues at hand. nothing changes the fact that if trump#is elected it WILL be the democrats fault for not doing the basic fucking bare minimum THAT MOST AMERICANS WANT#it will be BIDEN'S FAULT for being a genocidal monster.#it is SO unbeliebably callous and cruel to say 'trump is worst case scenario' WHEN WORST CASE SCENARIO IS HAPPENING TO PALESTINIANS NOW.#but you clearly do not care enough to fucking incentivize your elected officials to do the bare minimum#anyway. the point still stands. liberals view their lives as worth more than palestinians and#as time goes on they will blame palestinians and arabs and muslims and the left and anyone expressing#a modicum of moral decency for opposing genocide. you should be fucking ashamed of yourself.#📁.zip#uspol
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sorry i’m not done.
there is violence and hatred happening on college campuses and in the streets, at synagogues and community centers, etc that has been happening for MONTHS now. SO MANY jews have been attacked, even killed, because of their jewish identity post-10/7. in countries that these idiot influencers and celebrities live in. they can’t bother to be concerned for them. they can’t even bother to be concerned for any other humanitarian crisis or war or ANYTHING, just this one. why? is it trendy? is it easy? is it a social pressure thing? is it better to be perceived as woke, socially aware, than it is to be perceived as pro-jewish, pro-peace? is it better to promote biased content, to stay quiet unless there’s something to share that demonizing jews and israel, than it is to exhibit nuance and empathy for all involved??
i’m fucking devastated by what happened in rafah. i haven’t seen pictures or videos but it’s been ALL i’ve thought about all day. i know the background information, i know the different players involved, i know most importantly that we won’t know the full story until it’s further investigated. but the people sharing things now are mostly sharing false information — they’re not just mourning the brutal losses, they’re pointing fingers and further demonizing israel, who very well may be accountable (likely). which is to say that they’re using this as a political tool, as social currency. “look at me, look what i shared because I Know!!!”
this is all a game to every stupid influencer, celebrity, random fandom tumblr or twitter account, each one with zero stake in this war.
elica le bon shared something today, she said this:
“The reason the war has failed and cost so many lives is because Israel tried to fight a physical war on the ground in isolation against Hamas. What should have happened instead is the entire world banding together to starve and isolate the Islamic Republic and its Empire (ie its terror proxies, networks, supporters, jihadist fighters, intelligence, propaganda machine etc) instead of pulling their fingers out of their asses only to hold a one minute silence for the butcher of Tehran. What you're witnessing now is a failure of every government on earth to do the right thing and protect all of us by isolating terrorists that have been emboldened for decades and sacrificed millions of lives for their own jihadist agendas. Their power and influence is the result of decades of appeasing, fraternizing with, and doing business with terrorists that have rocked the Middle East and the world to its core.
And the world looks on and says ‘what a failure’
It is you, world, that has failed us. All of us.”
this is what these dumb people/influencers etc don’t know. i wish they did, but that would be hard — to push a button and share a post about the “IOF and its bloodthirsty regime of apartheid” is way easier. so.
i’m seeing a lot of celebrities and “influencers” who haven’t said a word about the war until now speaking out and while i understand what happened in rafah was devastating, i think them deciding to speak out now is A Choice that i personally don’t feel comfortable with. was what innocent israelis went through not deserving of sharing, either, seven months ago and even last week when more footage was released? was footage of hamas shooting at innocent palestinians or stealing aid for themselves not worth sharing? no, they decide to share now.
why? why is that? i’m sorry but i have approximately eight months of pent-up cynicism and pain (and 7-8 years of built-up fear and doubt, mind you) that does not enable me to trust any single person, especially with a “platform,” who is choosing to share their thoughts now. you can be as kind-hearted as they come, i can’t trust you. sorry.
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PREACH IT
You can find her interview in NYTimes as well.
#iof failing their own people as well#free gaza#free palestine#gaza#palestine#palestine resources#social justice#gaza genocide#gaza strip#imperialism#israel is a terrorist state#al quds#jerusalem#yemen#human rights#important#truth#preach it
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