#kurdistan

[autisticexpression2]

Seeing a lot of posts about the Palestinian flag, and it got me thinking about indigenous flags around the world.

Māori:

Kalaallit Nunaat:

Haudenosaunee

Nunatsiavut:

Australian Aboriginal:

Torres Strait Islands:

Rapa Nui:

Kurdistan:

Sami:

Ainu:

Of course, these are just a handful. May they all reclaim their stolen lands.

[soxiyy]

From Levantine_gay on insta

[poooooooooao3]

This is what happens when anti-Jewish radical leftists dominate western academia and historiography and antisemitic rhetoric repeated by the media.

You were biased to begin with. This isn't about Gaza or human rights. Where's your outrage for other ethnic minorities experiencing ACTUAL genocides? For women losing their right to self determination globally? For queers losing their lives globally? For children of any ethnicity killed for what?

It is and will always be about your hatred for Jews.

Believe all women #metoo, unless they're Jews

A safe space for LGBTQIA2S+ , unless they're Jews

Outrage for victims, unless they're Jews

Empathy for everyone, unless they're Jews

Justice for everyone, unless they're Jews

Self Determination for everyone, unless they're Jews

[henk-heijmans]

Kurdistan - by Kazuyoshi Nomachi (1946), Japanese

[underthewingsofthblackeagle]

[victusinveritas]

Kurdish and Turkish shepherds wearing the kepenek, a traditional felt shepherding cloak.

[koenji]

Children strolling through Wildflowers. Likely Northern Kurdistan. Late 2000s to early 2010s.

[redditreceipts]

Jinwar is a village for women and children in the Autonomous Administration of Nort and East Syria (also known as Rojava). It was built during the Syrian civil war, and is home to Kurdish, Arab and Yezidi women.

Some of the women have even been part of the YPJ, the Kurdish all-female fighting force within the Syrian Defense Forces.

Many of the women who have found refuge in Jinwar have been assaulted by soldiers or fled ISIS. In 2015, the UN concluded that about 40 percent of women and girls have experienced sexual violence while trying to access aid.

The village was inspired by the women's village in Umoja, Kenya, and the only men who are allowed inside the village are visitors who can come in by day. I think that this kinda shows how important it is for women all around the world to connect and to show to our sisters how stuff can be done.

I mean, building something like that in the face of ISIS???? In one of the most brutal warzones of the world, in Syria?? Building a multi-ethnic, multi-cultural and ecological village? Pardon me if I'm wrong, but I think that only women would be able to do something like this.

source, source, source, source

[guerillas-of-history]

Kurdish PKK guerilla at the Newroz celebration in Qandil, March 23, 2014

[bubblbudd]

kurdish miku. she would destroy a plate of yaprax

[anyahita]

Middle Eastern kids deserve to wake up to the sounds of birds chirping, not bombs and airstrikes

Middle Eastern kids should be carrying books and flowers, not the dead bodies of their loved ones

Middle Eastern kids deserve to run the streets in joy and laughter, not run away from bombs

[bobemajses]

Jews of Kurdistan, 1940s, by Anthony Kersting.

For much of Kurdish history, Jews were an integral part of cultural life in Kurdistan. Tradition relates that the Aramaic-speaking Kurdish Jews are the descendants of the Ten Tribes from the time of the Assyrian exile 2500 years ago. In the first century CE, the kingdom of Adiabene in Iranian Kurdistan became a Jewish one, after the monarch’s wife converted to Judaism and encouraged her subjects to do the same. It lasted until 115 CE, when Roman forces crushed its leaders, but Kurdish Jews continue to regard its descendants as part of their community. In the 17th century, Iraqi Kurdistan’s Jewish community had a female religious leader, Asenath Barzani, who was a renowned Torah scholar. Until their emigration to Israel in the 1950s, tens of thousands of Jews lived in isolated Kurdish mountain villages in harmony and friendship with their Christian and Muslim neighbors. Most worked as farmers and merchants, and their insular communities developed distinct customs, many of which have now vanished.

[pangeen]

" The Moon is a loyal Companion "

// © Darya Kawa Mirza

[medusa-is-a-terf]

Yazidi Sex Slave Escaped ISIS And Burned Her Burqa

[holidaysincambodia]

Yazidi traditional clothing

[intotheclash]

Non abbiamo altro alleato che le nostre montagne.

(proverbio curdo)