#palestine archives

[fairuzfan]

For those of you wondering about the Palestine museum in DC I mentioned it's called the Museum of the Palestinian People! It's a bit small but has a bunch of stuff, and the people there are very sweet. You can even visit their museum virtually, which is super cool!

[queerstudiesnatural]

funny how celebrities will raise $26M for a fashion institute but can't be bothered to mobilise even a fraction of that energy and money to help the people being tortured and killed in an unapologetic genocide as we speak. love that for society. what a moment for The Culture.

[themilfking]

If you're not familiar with the Accountability Archive I highly recommend checking it out. It's a website dedicated to keeping record of journalists, politicians, and public figures who endorse/encourage the ethnic cleansing of Gaza/Palestinians.

The goal of this website is to archive the data to be used in a number of ways. It will be available to future historians and researchers to understand how this type of mass killing can take place through research. It will also potentially be a resource for lawyers looking for supporting evidence in trying defamation and war crime cases.

I urge you to visit their website and submit evidence you've gathered. I don't think people who support an apartheid state/genocide should get to walk around without being held accountable.

[spooky-month-archive]

I don't know how many people are aware, but on the 2nd of March, there will be a shutdown for Palestine. It's a one-day strike.

For one day, everyone is encouraged to stop posting as they usually would and instead focus on Palestine. Please use this day if not any other to share information, to protest, to donate, etc. Do what you can. Even sharing information and speaking up helps.

Of course, it is encouraged to share and post about Palestine every day you possibly can. But this day is more important than ever as it marks the day that a global call to end the genocide is occurring.

I recommend going to the website Shut It Down for Palestine (linked below) for more information.

[emiiii980]

Thank you so much for standing by us for the past 11 months.

I'm grateful for your unwavering support. We wouldn't have reached here without you❤️🙏

Please keep sharing and donating cause the fighting is still going on in Sudan and we don't know what will happen next.🙏

[scarletamethyst7654]

@aburakhiaibrahim and his family of 28(15 of them being children) need help.

Like many people in Gaza, Ibrahim Mohammed and his family have lost more in a year than most people lose in a lifetime. Their home was bombed while the children were playing, injuring them, they no longer have access to education, Ibrahim lost his job and his car, family members have passed away... Ibrahim's elderly parents need operations as soon as possible, but they can't get them due to the lack of healthcare were they are. This isn't the only right they've been denied. Like I've mentioned already, the children have lost their right to education, and they don't have any drinking water. Another very important thing I should mention is that the youngest child in this family is a baby who's only a few months old. Winter is coming and they need financial aid, they are very low on funds. If you can, please donate. If you can't, then please share their campaign.

Samah Aburakhia‬‏ is Ibrahim's sister in Canada. Here are some more accounts owned by members of the family: @salamamohammedr and @moatazmohammedr. If you know of any others please let me know.

This campaign has been vetted by @gaza-evacuation-funds. Thank you for reading!

[theinsomniacindian]

FYI, this blog is pro-Palestine so DNI if you are:

Pro-Zionist

Anti-Palestine

Islamophobic

Antisemitic

If you are any of the above, I will block you on sight

[laylaayman-blog]

🚨 A mother's cry from the heart of suffering🥺🍉🕊️🇵🇸!

The World is still silent when those eyes speak everything 😔💔!

Your small donation can provide my children with a better life in these very difficult circumstances 💔😞.

No one can protect them from bombing and death, but your donation can help make their lives a little better by providing for their current needs 🥹💔.

Do not hesitate to help us, we need your support and donations, and if you cannot donate, do not hesitate to spread our story and protect us as much as you can 🙏🇵🇸🕊️🍉.

Vatted by @bilal-salah0 here, and Reblogged by @90-ghost here, and by @a-shade-of-blue here 🕊️🇵🇸!!

[southernsolarpunk]

Original post:

[helpdoaafm]

🆘️please one minute of your time 🙏😢

Hello, this is my daughter Razan, an eight-year-old child who lost her bedroom, which was the most precious thing she owned💔😢.

She has been deprived of her childhood and always cries over it.😢

Please donate to help her live like other children in the world.🙏🤗

Your donation could save an entire family.😊

I kindly ask you to support my campaign so we can rescue our family from loss and rise again. Thank you🤗💜.

This is my campaign link if you intrested in help 👇

[walaa95famely]

My name is walaa moneer, I am 28 years old, and I live with my family in northern Gaza, which has been devastated by war. My husband and I, along with our three children: Yamen (10 years old), Kinan (8 years old), and Alma (3 years old), are struggling to survive after losing our home and all our belongings due to the bombing. For more than a year and two months, we have endured the horrors of war, including relentless bombing, destruction, and starvation. We are desperately trying to raise the necessary funds to escape this catastrophic situation, but the cost of traveling and leaving the area is extremely high. We need $25,000 to save our family from these tragic conditions, and I deeply hope you can help us secure a safe and stable life away from this destruction.

The cost of travel for people over the age of 18 is $5 and for children is $2,500

And the amount is

For myself (walaa) $5000

For my husband Ahmed, $5000

My son, Yamen, $2500

My son Kenan $2500

My daughter alma $2,500

The full cost of securing our exit from the Gaza Strip is $17,000

The rest of the amount is to provide a place to live and basic needs

@tamamita @dlxxv-vetted-donations @comrademango @anneemay @irhabiya @nabulsi @paper-mario-wiki @opencommunion @cantsayidont @thatsonicblog-blog

[fairuzfan]

hello sorry if this is not really the point of this blog feel free not to answer if ya don't want to!!

you mention that you read a lot of academic books and papers, i wanted to ask do you know any good page/website/browser to do investigations without paywall and a bunch of adds???

@hussyknee actually has a google drive of a bunch of books if you want it. i dont have access to it right now.

there's the palestine land society and palestine institute.

my absolute favorite is palarchive.org, it has so much information and its so amazing. There's also palquest.org and palopenmaps. And don't forget poha.

i believe i have a post about palestinian digital archives actually somewhere if you wanna try and find it. i dont have the bandwidth to try and find it.

palestinian archives/open access resources are my favorite thing to look for so if i find one, i'll be sure to share it with the tag #palestine archives.

[heritageposts]

[...] More specifically, the cycle of violence in The Last of Us Part II appears to be largely modeled after the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. I suspect that some players, if they consciously clock the parallels at all, will think The Last of Us Part II is taking a balanced and fair perspective on that conflict, humanizing and exposing flaws in both sides of its in-game analogues. But as someone who grew up in Israel, I recognized a familiar, firmly Israeli way of seeing and explaining the conflict which tries to appear evenhanded and even enlightened, but in practice marginalizes Palestinian experience in a manner that perpetuates a horrific status quo. The game's co-director and co-writer Neil Druckmann, an Israeli who was born and raised in the [occupied] West Bank before his family moved to the U.S., told the Washington Post that the game's themes of revenge can be traced back to the 2000 killing of two Israeli soldiers by a mob in Ramallah. Some of the gruesome details of the incident were captured on video, which Druckmann viewed. In his interview, he recounted the anger and desire for vengeance he felt when he saw the video—and how he later reconsidered and regretted those impulses, saying they made him feel “gross and guilty.” But it gave him the kernel of a story. “I landed on this emotional idea of, can we, over the course of the game, make you feel this intense hate that is universal in the same way that unconditional love is universal?” Druckmann told the Post. “This hate that people feel has the same kind of universality. You hate someone so much that you want them to suffer in the way they’ve made someone you love suffer.” Druckmann drew parallels between The Last of Us and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict again on the official The Last of Us podcast. When discussing the first time Joel kills another man to protect his daughter and the extraordinary measures people will take to protect the ones they love, Druckmann said he follows "a lot of Israeli politics," and compared the incident to Israel's release of hundreds of Palestinians prisoners in exchange for the captured Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit in 2011. He said that his father thought that the exchange was overall bad for Israel, but that his father would release every prisoner in every prison to free his own son. "That's what this story is about, do the ends justify the means, and it's so much about perspective. If it was to save a strange kid maybe Joel would have made a very different decision, but when it was his tribe, his daughter, there was no question about what he was going to do," Druckmann said.

And continuing, on the security structures featured in the The Last of Us Part II:

Besides the familiar zombie fiction aesthetics of an overgrown and decomposing metropolis, The Last of Us Part II's main setting of Seattle is visually and functionally defined by a series of checkpoints, security walls, and barriers. There are many ways to build and depict structures that separate and keep people out. Just Google "U.S.-Mexico border wall" to see the variety of structures on the southern border of the United States alone. The Last of Us Part II's Seattle doesn't look like any of these. Instead, it looks almost exactly like the tall, precast concrete barriers and watch towers Israel started building through the West Bank in 2000.

Illustrations, from the article:

The first barrier Ellie and Dina encounter when arriving in Seattle / West Bank barrier.

. . . article continues on Vice (July 15 2020)

Backup -> archive.today link /archive.org link

[sayruq]

[strangerinaholyplace]

If you haven't heard, otw (in other words ao3) have forced a volunteer to resign because they had "from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free" as their status on messaging platfrom slack, which otw use for communications.

They were denying that Israel is an apartheid settler state or that the genocide in Gaza is even happening.

This is unforgivable in my opinion, and I have sent a message to otw through their official contact form here, and I suggest you do the same. Below you'll see my message as well, in case you want to copy and paste, or just use it as a template of sorts.

I urge you also not to donate to otw anymore, unless the zionist volunteers and members of otw are removed from their positions and banned from otw.

"I am disgusted and enraged about the treatment of otw volunteer bjorn due to their pro-Palestine message status on slack, and even more so about the fact that zionists are allowed to run free amongst otw/ao3 volunteers, claiming that what Israel is doing in Gaza is not genocide, and claiming that Israel is not an apartheid settler state. As a person who has donated to the otw many times i wish I could revoke my money. But also as a donor I as well as many others demand the otw to resign fully, ban all zionist volunteers, have a written apology to bjorn and all users repudiating zionist actions in Gaza, donate to the Red Crescent to support Palestine, and reinstate bjorn as volunteer. If this is not done I as well as many others will no longer post on ao3, use it, volunteer for it and definitely not donate any more. You should be ashamed of yourselves. "

From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free. 🇵🇸

PS. If anyone decides to start talking about ao3 tagging systems or content allowed on the platform on this post you are getting blocked immediately. I dont care about your views on this, and you should think for 2 seconds before putting silly fanfic discourse on the same level as the murder of thousands.

[pikachic]

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