#silence is compliance

[captaingenocideevans]

Captain Genocide

[ontheoutside-lookingin]

You can’t “stay out of it” in a genocide

“I don’t wanna pick sides” you just did

“I don’t want to upset anyone” you will

Neutrality does not exist in a genocide

Your silence is costing human lives

Speak the fuck up

[rosielindy]

For those who can’t protest in person today, flood the zone to get the word out!

Silence is compliance. Get loud now, the constitutional crisis is escalating exponentially.

Our sense of urgency needs to escalate with it.

[mileymint]

I want it to be known that Palestine is the number one trending tag today here on tumblr. Please don't stop. Don't stop talking about Palestine. Don't stop fighting for Gaza.

Palestine will be free.

[strangerinalostworld]

it kind of fucking astounds me how people can choose to be ignorant about so many things. i don’t get how you can see people dying and NOT CARE? why does it take convincing for you to say fucking SOMETHING about the millions of people right now who are dying or suffering because of the system YOU uphold. over 31,000 people have died in gaza. over 10 MILLION people in sudan have been displaced. over 580,000 people in the USA are homeless. on average, black women are 6 times more likely to be homicide victims than white women are. i don’t know how many more fucking numbers you guys need to see to care, since apparently you lack the sympathy to give a fuck when we tell you that PEOPLE ARE DYING. PEOPLE’S LIVES ARE BEING DESTROYED. i don’t give a shit about your politics or your opinions. don’t wait until you are effected, say something now.

[caramel-covered-apples]

politics vs. genocide

this is what they want us to believe when we think of the palestinian genocide. they want us to believe that this is a debate or conflict among individuals or parties having or hoping to achieve power. they want us to believe that this is a governmental activity.

no. this is not a conflict, not a war, not a debate, not something to keep quiet on because it’s “too political.” this is not political. this is the ethnic cleansing of millions of people. this is the slaughtering of women, men, children, elderly, pets, loved ones, friends, family.

this is not a conflict. why? because it has escalated. a conflict is defined as such:

this is not a serious disagreement or argument. this is not a simple argument that can be resolved with an easy solution. this is not something to be stuffed into a singular word with only two definitions when people’s lives are at stake every single day, every hour, every minute, every second.

a child in gaza dies every 10 minutes.

put that into perspective. most households have 3-9 people, depending on where you live, and 2-5 of those people are kids.

say you’re doing the laundry. 10 minutes pass, and then one of those kids dies.

20 minutes pass. the neighbor’s kid dies.

30 minutes pass. the kid you saw at the store the other day who wouldn’t stop crying dies.

everyday people with everyday lives and dreams that you won’t remember, and I’m not blaming you. they’re just background noise, and why would you wanna remember the kid that wouldn’t stop screaming about his toy that fell on the ground?

but they are children, regardless. they could’ve had the chance to live, to grow, to learn, no matter how forgettable they are, and they didn’t.

there are 1,440 minutes in a day.

divide that by ten.

144 children in gaza, some just turning one, some barely out of the womb, some nearing adulthood, some just breaking into their teenage years.

144 children in gaza, who perish at the hands of israel.

this is not a war, either. why? because a war means both sides are fighting against each other. palestine is not fighting back in the sense that they are fighting with an army, because that has been revoked. (this is not to say palestine isn't fighting back, it's just that their means of defense has been stripped away)

this is a war. armed conflict. palestine is not armed. palestine is helpless while bombs are being dropped on innocent people.

do you see palestine on the front lines? no, you don't, because everything has been taken from them - electricity, water, medical aid, a military, their land - while israel has bombs and fundings from the usa and other countries. israel has an army. israel has hospitals that aren't reduced to rubble because of airstrikes. israel has clean water that people can drink from freely. israel has warm places to stay and safe places to sleep.

palestine doesn't.

this is not a debate.

a debate is defined as such:

this is not formal. this is not something to be discussed. it is facts.

palestine is under attack.

palestine is currently having bombs dropped on them.

we cannot debate this simply because there is nothing to debate about. zionists can pull the antisemitic card all they'd like and word the narrative differently so it's in their favor, but facts are facts. no matter how hard the damn pill is to swallow, you've got to take it or else you fall into sickness.

if you don't swallow the "speak-now-for-palestine" pill or the "genocide-isn't-political-it's-slaughter" pill, you fall into the sickness of complicity.

you comply with what they want. they want you to be silent. it gives them more support. they don't want you to speak. they want you to be obedient. they want you to live your consumeristic lives and wonder about whether you should buy an apple or a samsung instead of donating to families who need it more than you. they want you to remain focused on your first-world problems. they don't want you to look outward.

speak up for palestine, or you risk being on the wrong side of history. of things that will be in your children's textbooks and of their children and of their children.

[thewafflescientist]

Image was downloaded off of @/solarkarii from twitter. I'll also link it.

An image, showing some of the babies killed in Gaza due to Israel airstrikes, last updated Jan. 9th. Someone calculated it to be over 8600 babies.

Please click on the full image.

[f00fle4cakes]

My mother told me to peacefully protest at school

So, I will

[mulletmitsuya]

please support the global strike in solidarity with palestine

[inafever]

[ashadowofburnedoutstardust]

You ever read that one Christopher?

What fucking side of history are you going to be on?

[rosielindy]

From the 50501 protests yesterday, from our friends on reddit ❤️ c: Tamra Linn

[future-dregs]

To borrow a slogan from the U.S AIDS epidemic, "Silence = Death"

Call your representatives. Uplift Palestinian voices. Make noise.

Don't get used to the death and the trauma.

Don't get accept it.

Palestinians don't have the luxury of staying silent. And we mustn't let ourselves do that either.

[caramel-covered-apples]

just thinking about how future american schoolchildren will learn about palestine and they’ll think it was just a minor conflict, nothing too big, surely america was helping all throughout it, because they don’t know any better.

just thinking about how american schoolchildren will read about the image of palestine in their textbooks and won’t bother to look into it any further because ‘it’s in the past’

just thinking about how future generations will be raised to believe that israel was justified in committing genocide on the state of palestine because they’re born of the country that supplied israel money to do so

just thinking about how textbooks will paint the literal genocide to be a war or a conflict.

to all future children,

this is not a conflict.

this is a not a war.

israel was not justified.

america is not justified.

palestine is under genocide.

millions of schoolchildren- your age, and younger - are being blown up and people are calling it a conflict

silence is complicity.

you have to act.

america’s first amendment was freedom of speech. we all learnt that in school.

then why does the internet filter out news about palestine?

why are kids at columbia having their scholarships revoked when they’re speaking?

america was supposed to be built on freedom.

america is just destroying everyone else’s freedom so it can defend itself.

[z0mb1e-sl1me]

IF WHAT YOU WERE DOING WAS FROM A PLACE OF JUSTICE YOU WOULD NOT NEED TO WISH DEATH AND HATRED UPON OTHERS FOR YOUR SUCCESS!!!!!!!! FREE PALESTINE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

it's funny when my sister shows me videos of a few pro-Palestinian protesters calling for the death of all Jews and saying that they love death. I've seen hundreds of videos of pro-Palestinian protesters being peaceful and actually treating people with kindness. All videos of Palestinian activists have no trace of antisemitism.

yet, whenever I see a video of a pro-Israeli activist or someone protesting for Israel, there's always hate. I have seen videos of nine and ten-year-old children saying that they wanted to kill the arab child they met and how they want to make all Arabs their slaves.

every single video I have seen of an Israeli official speaking about the genocide has nothing but hateful and disgusting things to say.

the double standard is real. it is real and it is very much still present in today's world.

one video, just one video, of a pro-Palestinian person who says they wish all Jews were dead can outweigh the millions of other activists who know that Judaism and Zionism are fundamentally different and cannot be correlated.

yt no matter how many videos of Israelis and Zionists being hateful come up, people will never say anything.

it disgusts me that this is the standard our world has adopted.

[rosielindy]

If you use the Google maps app, first STOP! They renamed the Gulf of Mexico. Before you delete the app, leave a review for it like the ones shown below. I made a video of scrolling through the recent reviews for five minutes and saw only two that praised the name change.

Never forget, we are the majority. Please take some time to add your voice to these reviews. It’s a small thing, but it gave me hope to see so many other like-minded people out there.

Also, if you Google Gulf of Mexico, the first thing that comes up is Gulf of America. You can use the three dots to the right to report inaccurate content by sending feedback.

Please remember, small act of resistance add up!