#we all dream of living to see a free Palestine and to fight for it

[wearenotjustnumbers2]

"Why is there no doctors or scientists or educated people in gaza?" Because Israel is killing them all. The majority of the population in gaza are under 18, Israel kills them before they get to college, and also kills the ones who do.

[notalostcausejustyet]

Bisan knows she is on stolen time. She is ill, there is no treatment, no help, no shelter or safe place in the middle of a war zone in winter. She is still trying with everything she has. May Allah hold and keep you dear girl.

bisan has just posted a video that israel has lit up the sky, signalling they will bomb tonight, and that she has nowhere to go. she is in khan yunis--the south, where she was told to go to.

you can hear planes overhead as she speaks.

she wants israel to finally admit the truth--they do not want palestinians to go to "safe" parts of gaza, they want people to leave entirely and recreate the 1948 nakba.

please spread the word, please keep bisan in your thoughts, and do not let this happen in silence.

[fffreee]

Day 400 of Resilience in Gaza

Today marks the 400th day of the war on Gaza, where relentless attacks continue to deepen our suffering and sorrow. Among recent bombings, a painful atrocity struck four neighboring homes in northern Gaza, completely destroying them and killing everyone inside. These are not just numbers—they are lives that once dreamed and lived.

Despite all this, Gaza stands resilient, continuing the fight for a Free Palestine, which has become a global symbol of endurance. Recently in Amsterdam, we witnessed a powerful solidarity event calling for justice in our cause, sending a message that the world stands with us and sees the daily injustices we endure.

I urge you to amplify Gaza’s voice. Spread this message, talk about solidarity events like the one in Amsterdam, and share it with others to support a Free Palestine. Every word you share and every interaction brings us one step closer to showing the world the truth.

[aliz5karga]

Words about Gaza and Palestine

I'm not Palestinian. I have no family there. Yet, I mourn those who died, and I cry with those who lost their loved ones. I've been living those past days on autopilot mode. I'm stuck on my phone, looking to be updated on the situation. I am and will not be impacted by this. But my body, my heart is acting as if – because I realize how awful the situation is. It's called being human. It's called having compassion.

We live in a society that forces us to be selfish. To lack compassion, to be completely desensitized to atrocities happening around the world. To go on with our lives. We're a few realizing that the death toll isn't just a bunch of numbers, but a list of people, who had dreams and hopes, friends and a family.

We're a few realizing the importance of life, and how absolutely devilish politicians are. Every single government in this world has and will only care about power and money. It seems obvious, an equivalent to saying the sky's blue, but nobody really grasps how awful governments, worldwide, are...

The West is funding genocide. Joe Biden is supporting "Israel" in their genocide. The U.S. is sending troops and billions in aid to the Israeli regime – they're literally helping "Israel" to exterminate Gazans and colonize Gaza. At least 2000 Palestinian children have been killed and in total, at least 4000 Palestinians have been murdered by the illegitimate State of "Israel".

We live in a world where it isn't outraging and worth burning everything down to see babies being traumatized by war. Newborns coming into this world and whose first sound is either explosions, pain, fear and/or grief. Parents being forced to bury their kids. Children bidding a farewell to their siblings. Entire families being wiped out of the civil registry. Thousands of people have been murdered, and thousands of others are on death row, held hostages by the genocidal regime of "Israel". Because "Israel" decided to cut off access to electricity, water and fuel, hospitals in Gaza are even more struggling to help the injured. The world cries about 40 fake babies, but has nothing to say about 130 real newborns who will be sentenced to death by "Israel" if the blockade doesn't end immediately.

“130 babies at mortal risk in Gaza's hospitals as Israel continues to bar entry of fuel : Israel's 'insistence' to block fuel deliveries needed for hospital generators may cost lives of 130 premature babies, says Gaza Health Ministry” (Anadolu Ajansı)

Worse, they're funding it! They're aiding Israel to murder all these people.

It sends shivers to my spine, it makes my heart sink and it boils my blood when I see those videos of bombs further destroying Gaza ; every single time they touch the ground and detonate, they tear the lives out of many people at once, who thought they'd be safe. I wished those deaths were false, that "Pallywood", as so many disgusting, vile “Israeli” assholes think is real, truly existed. That all these people, all these children, were still among us…

Damn it. I don't know what to think or say. I just want to burn everything down. From what I've seen, many people (thankfully) feel the same.

We need to organize ourselves. We need to accept the (ugly) truth : the government doesn't give a damn about any of us. For the State, money is more important than anything, it's worth killing for. We need to accept it and start organizing ourselves and truly fight for justice. Making them know we don't agree doesn't change anything, voting doesn't change anything – we need to stop playing by their rules because it's useless : we're only fighting for a better illusion of a just society.

We can't live with illusions anymore. Be bad, be angry. Organize and fight for the insurrection. 🔥🏴

If Palestinian children can't dream, then we'll prohibit world leaders from sleeping.

RIOT, STRIKE AND BOYCOTT NOW!

Palestine will be Free, from the River to the Sea! We'll fight until the fall of the apartheid regime. 🍉

Here's what you can do to help the Palestinian cause :

Boycott! Preferably, boycotting all companies that funds the Israeli apartheid is good, but you must absolutely boycott...

Puma

AXA

HP

Siemens

Carrefour

SodaStream

Ahava

Isr*eli produce

Donate to the Palestinian Children's Relief Fund (PCRF) if you can. Uplift Palestinian voices and share everywhere, on every single platform you have, what's going on in Palestine, from Gaza to the West Bank. Settlers are committing an ethnic cleansing in the West Bank, and the IOF has shot dead numerous Palestinians in the West Bank. "Israel" has bombed a mosque in the West Bank too.

This isn't a "war", even less a war against terrorism. It's a genocide. We must fight.

[thewhisperingtwenties]

🇵🇸 ‼️PLEASE READ AND CONSIDER DONATING‼️. 🇵🇸

due to the large number of people in and from gaza reaching out to me for assistance, i have decided to compile a list of campaigns and pin it to my blog. if you want to see my introductory post, the link is here.

you could be the deciding factor in a families escape. the genocide is not over. disease is rampant and basic necessities are being withheld, so truly, there has never been a more crucial time to donate directly to those in need.

HELP 14 YEAR OLD SAHAR AND HER FAMILY OF EIGHT EVACUATE GAZA (vetted here ):

HELP 28 YEAR OLD AMINA YASSER PROVIDE A SAFE, NURTURING ENVIRONMENT TO HER CHILDREN AND FAMILY: https://www.gofundme.com/f/saaado-aaayl-amyn-yasr-llosol-al-br-alaman

HELP RECENT HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATE AND COLLEGE STUDENT ANAS BASIL AND AHMED REBUILD THEIR FUTURE (ONLY AT €849/€29,000) : https://www.gofundme.com/f/Help-Anas-and-Ahmed-in-Gaza

HELP RASHA SAAD AL-DIN EVACUATE GAZA WITH HIS MOTHER, FATHER AND SIBLINGS TO FIND A SAFER LIFE OUTSIDE: https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-me-get-my-family-out-of-gaza-their-lives-have-become-v

HELP THE SHAQQUORA FAMILY ESCAPE TO EGYPT, CAMPAIGN ORGANIZED BY THE BROTHER OF FATHER BASSAM SHAQQUORA IN HOPES OF ENSURING THEIR SAFETY (ALREADY €31,000 RAISED! YOU COULD BE THE DECIDING FACTOR IN THEIR ESCAPE) : https://www.gofundme.com/f/ne9gzx-help-them-to-survive?utm_campaign=p_lico+share-sheet-first-launch&utm_medium=copy_link&utm_source=customer

HELP FIVE YEAR OLD TAIM AND HIS PARENTS SURVIVE IN GAZA, $1 MAKES A DIFFERENCE: https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-ragheb-and-his-family-rebuild-their-life

MOHAMMAD, AN ENGLISH TEACHER FROM GAZA, HAS RECENTLY ESCAPED TO EGYPT. DONATE TO HELP HIM REBUILD HIS LIFE AND PROVIDE FOR HIS FAMILY, WHO ARE STILL TRAPPED IN THR GAZA STRIP: https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-mohammad-survive-the-genocide

HELP EMAN, A MOTHER OF THREE, PROVIDE FOR HER CHILDREN, SECURE BASIC NECESSITIES, AND REBUILD HER LIFE:

HELP OLA FERWANA PROVIDE FOR HER CHILDREN IN THE ABSENCE OF HER HUSBAND, WHO LEFT FOR EGYPT MERE DAYS BEFORE OCTOBER 7TH 2023 : https://www.gofundme.com/f/urgent-appeal-save-ola-family-evacuate-gaza-war

i have so much love and respect for all who have reached out, and all those suffering in the Gaza Strip. we must never cease our fighting, and never stop feeling angry at the israeli government and military for what they have done. do not become desensitized, never allow yourself to think for a second that this is normal.

FREE PALESTINE🇵🇸🇵🇸🍉

[gryficowa]

Boycott!

Watching people prefer to spend their energy on creativity because something doesn't feel right to them (Miracolous/HH/HB) is interesting when your biggest concern is that many fundraisers don't get done and people have to wait for it to get done , not sure whether they will die today… I know, dark thoughts…

Or seeing drama because the creator led the character than they wanted (Tia… I was with Chloe myself, although it wouldn't be so bad if Thomas didn't act like a child… THE CHARACTER HE HATES IS A CHILD, although we should be critical here, because it's an animation for children and has a fucked up message, but it's weird when it comes to adult productions like HH/HB, you don't have to be a fan of Vivzipop to facepalm over this… PEOPLE, IT TAKES PLACE IN HELL, WE KNOW PEOPLE SUCK THERE)

I think the strangest drama was about Alastor being asexual and it was so dramatic that it made you shake your head.

The second stupidest drama is about the art style being too detailed (Oh yes, because we have erased the medium of animation as an art… Great)

But yes, this drama is absurd, both in fandom and anti-fandom, both piss me off the same

Now that I have your attention:

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By the way, greetings to the TOH fan who wanted the redemption of Belos, i.e. the genocider, after everything in the world, do you think he is worth redeeming?

Seriously, there are limits to what you can do when you have a tragic past, and that limit is killing someone (Serial Killer Stories, man, Adolf Hitler himself had a tragic past… His mother died and his dream of being an artist fell apart, and his father was a toxic person, does that mean that the entire holocaust can be fucking explained by his trauma? No, man, these are unforgivable crimes)

I just don't like the mainstream media justifying genocides and murders, somehow…

Damn, in Miracolous they justified the abusive father who terrorized the city (And was complicit in the genocide during akumanization), so in the new productions this shit still exists

Can we stop normalizing murder and genocide, I beg you, creators?

Even if a few characters forgive this monster, it's strange that it takes a short time for the rest… I would just prefer not to forgive the side characters for a long time, it would be natural, because it looks like the greatest crime is to offend someone or steal something from someone from the market, not murder or genocide…

Even if this character saves another, it's strange that this character forgives, WTF, this character with a history could have been faking it, saving doesn't fix all the shit (Even if he dies), yes, I wrote it down because it's an internal frustration with pop culture and the fact that crimes of this type are normalized…

I don't know when I can understand characters forgiving it when that character was a victim of possession or did that crime unintentionally, but that's the only thing I can understand being forgiven so quickly, the problem is that many characters who are immediately forgiven , they did everything with premeditation and it is even more terrifying, good deeds won't erase crimes, so creators, don't do this, I'm begging you…

I just have the impression that these types of crimes are quickly forgiven, I know, fictional characters, but seriously, it looks like they forgive robbery or injury, not murder and genocide… Because if a child's character I can forgive that he forgives crimes (Because is too young to understand the seriousness) it's like adult characters seeing a murderer/genocide, they forgive immediately, it's sus

I'm not in favor of killing the evil characters who commit these crimes (It's taking the easy way out), I just would prefer that these types of characters weren't forgiven too quickly…

Okay, remember about the fundraisers I linked to above

Also remember about the boycott

[hey-name-arya]

Okk so just random thoughts i had while i was repeatedly listening to empire now by hozier i am not sure if anyone will read this but will still add hastags in hope of finding people who i can maybe talk with

The lyrics go so well with the current situation of the world i mean i know it was written about the irish independence but the lyrics resonate to me so much about palestine and the current situation of manipur and kashmir and every place going through oppression around the world i was hoping for some edits for palestine to pop up on this song but sadly saw none and not only palestine it goes so well with the stories of so many places taking in the example the native americans or may it be the british colonisation in India the song was written for the hearts of all the people who at one point of time saw what it was like to not have what was their's.

Some of my thoughts with these lyrics

The lyrics

"Sun coming up on a dream come 'round

One hundred years from the empire now"

Made me think how the current comforts i have and live with right now, the peace and freedom that i can enjoy was something my ancestors fought for it was a dream for them which let me have it their struggle in the past has brought the privilege i have in the present and now the same comforts i am enjoying is a dream for the people in palestine fighting for their land, it is a dream for the people i manipur of my very own country whose people are bleeding it is a dream for the people of ladakh who are losing their land to industrial plants while i sit here writing all these are people bleeding, straving, fighting, struggelling to keep what is THEIR'S.

Rightfully so.

"Darling, I wouldn't sell the world

The way that things are turning

If it falls

I would hold on for all it's worth"

These lines remind of how in the past my ancestors found the land that was exploited, that the land they were refused to have freedom on was deemed unusable that the west had deemed backward, the land the west had pride on occupying, and still found for it cause it

WAS THEIR LAND

It made me think of all the people who are making sure to keep records of the truth of what is happening in the world like bisan, before oct 7th i never knew who she was now i check for her updates just to know she is alive to know what is going on in gaza and always hoping for some positive news to come the fact that i was blind to all this before 7th oct it took soo long for people to realise what is happening there makes me sad. It makes me mad at myself for not having learnt all this before. It made me think of sonam wangchuk who has been restlessly posting and fighting for the people of ladakh for their demands to be heard for them to get what they require and deserve.

"The future's so bright it's burning"

I took this one line separately cause when i hear this one particular line unlike the others i can't make a connection to the past i only connect with my worry for what the future has in hold, is mother nature going to surivive that long will we humans kill each other till no one is there to exist just cause we hate each other and keep finding differences among ourself even though at the end of the day we are all human i don't know i feel like we are just killing our future not letting it to stay and we will be the reason our earth will end.

"Martyrs of our revolution

Their spinning caused the earth to shake"

Today even after years have passed from our freedom struggle we remember the names of the brave hearts that fought for our country that gave their blood sweat and tears in hopes of seeing a freeland there are so many people who were involved in the struggle and their names have become immortal even after them passing away

In the same manner the names of the people who are now struggling for freeing palestine will become immortal in the future while it may seem like there is no impact from them the content they have put up and are continuing to put up is the record of history and what the future generations will be learning about cause they are the true heros

Bisan

Motaz azaiza

Plestia alaquad

Saleh jafarawani

And many more names are the ones keeping palestine alive right now for the very existence of the palestine people is making the earth shake cause for them existence is resistance.

In the same manner sonam wangchuk is keeping ladakh alive, who is letting us know how the people are and what they are doing putting forward peoples demands and educating people about it this man is not only a person but is an educational reformer and teacher to us and hope for the people his name should be one that should remain in history.

"The problem brought its own solution

They power now the world we've made"

It has happened in the past the one who colonised thought they were doing a favor by solving the problems of the people who were captive when really them leaving would have been the greatest gift and it's happening in the present with isreal acting as if they are the one that actually own the land they don't and influctung suffering on the indigenous palestine people as if they have any damn right to do so they don't they never had they never will they are the problem and they cannot play the victim.

"Sun coming up on a world that's easy now"

The sun is shining on us all who are now comfortably sitting in our homes enjoying the freedom we have my ancestors dreamed of this world for their future generations, today i am the future generation who is living it in the same way the people of palestine and people of ladakh and the people of manipur are going through the struggle so that some day in the future the sun will shine for the same comforts i am living in

I really wanted to write a bit more about manipur but from what i have researched i only know the conflict has not ended but other then that i have no information while i was only able to write about what i know i want to dedicate this to all the people who are suffering and i pray for a peacful world.

[arislary]

I just saw a tweet from Motaz that read he felt shame for just being able to report the genocide happening, wishing he could do more and that just breaks my heart. Like he doesn’t know just how much he’s doing, how much Bisan is doing, how much Plestia is doing, how much Wael is doing. If it weren’t for them and all the other people in Gaza reporting/documenting what’s happening, I truly don’t believe the western world would care. But we can’t turn from them. We now know them. We know how they used to live, what they loved doing, what they hoped to do in the future. We all have to lay witness to this genocide, we can’t turn away from it. I will continue to hope, fight and dream for their futures. They will see a Free Palestine in their lifetime. From the river to the sea.

[notalostcausejustyet]

I will never stop harping on context matters SO much in what is happening right now. Hamas did not spring into existence in a vacuum. And I’m not saying deliberately involving civilians is ever ok, it isn’t. Of course it isn’t. But desperate people who have been abused mercilessly for generations are going to do desperate things.

When Hamas took hostages into Gaza, their goal was a hostage exchange that would free thousands of Palestinian civilians from this. Last month, Israel kidnapped 4,000 Palestinians, bringing the totally of imprisoned and tortured Palestinians to 10,000. That number has undoubtedly gone up.

[h0pelezromantic]

Written by Essafa

9 December 2023

It’s not just a number. At least 17,000 Palestinians have been killed. More than 46,000 have been injured since October 7th. About 1.9 million people have been displaced. About 70% women and children are the victims. Thousands are still buried under the rubble. They’re not just a number. These are people. People with dreams, hope, and future. But, now it’s all destroyed.

In Gaza, dreams are something you hold on to, while the future isn’t promised. We get to dream big but at the same time Palestians dream to live. Living for us is something we take for granted as in Palestine living is something you fight for. Millions of Paestinians living in uncertainty between death and alive, which we have to acknowledge that now death is more certain for them.

They are not just a number. Unborn, babies, children, men, women, elders are victims of an apartheid country. These are innocent people who just want to stay alive, live their life like it should be–seeing their children grow up, able to achieve their dream job, play with their friends, or even just enjoy the fresh air.

75 years and 63 days is just not a number. Thousands of days in which Palestinians have to endure all the pain in their own land by an apartheid Israel claiming it’s theirs. Millions of people have been displaced and have nowhere to go. All these years, they scream for help while the world goes silent. They are even slowly losing hope in the world. What the world needs to stop the massacre, the genocide in Gaza?

Please, don't get tired of voicing the truth. Our voice is working, the world is shifting. We are their voice, we are their hope. From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free.

[sastielsfandom]

How aren't you grieving for these losses and fighting to do something about it? How can you watch a mother lose their child, and not want a better reality for her? How can you see kids clinging onto their siblings in desperation, crying as they're forced to say goodbye? How can you watch any of these videos and not be moved? I can't handle the cries of the parents losing their children, I can't handle the devastation of these small children losing their parents. I didn't let myself cry because I knew that once I started I wouldn't be able to stop and I haven't. I couldn't hold it back anymore and now I'm just angry at the stupid things people are focusing on. Who the fuck cares about awards right now? Who the fuck cares about fast food? Who the fuck cares about any of this stupid shit? I care about a ceasefire! I care about aid getting into Gaza, I care about the babies being born into a fucking genocide and the people who can help keep getting distracted with their comforts. They can't give up some shitty food, and drinks. They can't stop talking about themselves and how uncomfortable they are. Good, don't be comfortable while there's multiple genocides happening! Call for a ceasefire over and over until we get one. Call your representatives and demand them to stop this! Share links, share resources, tell people about what's happening! Stop being so fucking scared to help, so what if you misstep? Even with that misstep what if you save a fucking life? Like this is bigger than me and you. Do whatever you can to help and then some! Even after this week there should be information about Palestine, what we can do to help. Their history, their people. Do you know how beautiful their stories and dreams are? How many of them started their dream just for it to all be taken away before they could live it? They are all people. With stories and experiences of more than just suffering. They still have joy, there's still hope. We need to do more for them. If you're too scared to make a post just share the links and talk to the people around you. Just do something.

Here's some links, use them, share them. Donate where you can:

Care For Gaza, they make food packages and deliver them to families in Gaza.

Simly - E-sims, they're very important. They need that connection with how often their internet is completely cut off.

Daily Click, there's absolutely no reason utilize it, all you do is click a button. If you can't donate, click the button. If you can donate, click the button.

Pious Projects, they distribute hygiene kits, including pads, shampoo, and soap. They have multiple plans you can contribute to starting at $5.

Add more links, share this. Don't be a coward!!

[riondisease]

i completely understand why people are saying to “not forget about palestine” after palestine is free. the internet moves on so quickly. but i don’t understand how anyone could ever forget. there are children on the internet right now seeing the corpses of children their age, they scream and cry to their parents, they hug their friends and family. we will grow up traumatized and we aren’t even the ones in danger. i’ve felt so fucking disconnected from life for the last month. how could i ever be normal again after this.

A GIRL MY AGE WAS MURDERED AND I SAW A PICTURE OF HER WHEN SHE WAS ALIVE SHE WAS SMILING SHE HAD HOPES AND DREAMS AND ASPIRATIONS SHE HAD A FAMILY AND FRIENDS AND PEOPLE WHO LOVED HER SO MUCH SHE WAS ONLY FUCKING 15 YEARS OLD AND I CAN SEE HER FACE THEY KILLED HER THEY MURDERED HER SHES GONE AND SHE WILL NEVER COME BACK HOW AM I SUPPOSED TO FUCKING LIVE WHEN SHE DIDNT GET TO

i’ve cried so much i try to tell my family what’s actually happening but they don’t believe me, they don’t listen. i’m not trying to make this about me, it’s not about the children in the west when children in gaza are dead. i just hope people understand i, and people all over the world, will never mentally recover from the murders of thousands of people. over a thousand children. we could never grieve all of them for the amount they deserve.

i know we won’t forget because so many children all over the world will grow up traumatized. we will be able to remember the faces and names and pictures of mutilated children our age that were murdered. we will grow up afraid, paranoid of the government above us that could decide to bomb us, to bomb other children, at any moment. we will remember for the rest of our lives. our lives that were arbitrarily deemed more important than the people of gaza.

we can cope but we will never be the same people we were. children in gaza, the people of gaza, have lost their fathers. their mothers. their siblings. their pets and their friends and the people they love. no matter if you choose to deny it or not. in the matter of a someone’s right to live, there is no difference between an arab child and a white one. we will not choose to distance ourselves from them. they are just like us and now they are fighting for their lives, or dead.

please, i know your afraid, i know you’re mentally devastated, but we cannot look away. we cannot force their suffering out of our minds. we cannot give up fighting just because we feel helpless. your trauma, your mental breakdowns, no matter how much it fucking hurts, we need to remember everyone in gaza who’s been murdered by israel and the us. no matter what it takes away from us. no matter how we change for the worse. they need to be remembered. and more than anything we have to keep fighting for the living palestinians. please keep going, keep fighting, keep grieving, no matter what.

[notalostcausejustyet]

I’ll hammer home the context and history every chance I get. And yes, there is a lot of long historical context to consider as well. I understand that. I also understand that the world has changed drastically in the last 100 years and that we aren’t trying to address tribal disputes here. We are discussing the ongoing ethnic cleansing and genocide of a people that have effectively been held in a concentration camp for the last 75 years. By a country with the 4th largest army in the world and they aren’t allowed even the most basic of rights. Their water is controlled. Their fuel, their food, their access to power and internet. Their crops are destroyed, their farmland razed and the earth salted. Their people kidnapped and murdered with impunity for the crime of merely existing. And this has been happening for generations. It isn’t a new thing. They have been illegally occupied and subjected to numerous human rights violations and repeated flouting of the rules of war (and there are rules) by the occupying force. And what’s worse is that this isn’t a war. Not even close. War argues that the combatants have somewhat equal footing. This is one of the largest and best supplied militaries in the world standing on the neck of a population for the better part of a century and not even allowing them to have fucking water, let alone anything like an army.

Reminder that in Gaza alone, around 90-95% of the water supply is contaminated and unfit for human consumption...

If you dont believe israel is capable of this evilness (that they've been enforcing for OVER 50 YEARS) read it for yourself, from AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL

[pineboxing]

Arundati's New World

Syria is rising now

we don't know how it'll end

whether it's the apocalypse

or salvation's around the bend

Georgians have now risen too

they've also had enough

and Bangladesh pulled us up through

standing firm when it got tough

years of heart break and struggle

trying to fight and to still live

all come now to this moment

where something's going to give

Pluto's got Aquarius

in her tight and tidy grip

psychic forces once held at bay

spill force with this quip

‘the mother is now rising!’

she has heard Palestine’s grief

the land and people's cry so strong

it pierced right through the sheath

some certain gods had wrapped her in

to keep her safe and sound

to hide her from the patriarchy

detached from sacred ground

the time is now they've set her free

the last bits that they'd held back

the chthonic Kali tied to the land

warrior goddess now on attack

pachamama now guides us

her psychopomp now born

married to the god once dead

now reborn with his horns

Pan he was back in the day

father earth to mother sky

a tether linked the two of them

letting her fly so high

but certain gods tied to certain men

way back in the day

cut the tether that bound them

and their spirits drifted away

both from each other and the land

though pockets still remained

bonds of light and dark shadow

spots of peace safe from an ever growing stain

which brings us back to Syria

and the hopes now rising forth

at this catastrophic moment

when christofascists rise to abort

the new child of the mother

conceived globally now come to term

all our of hopes and dreams of peace

the fertilizing packets of sperm

Arundati’s new world

is breathing all around

the cataclysms we're facing

convulsive birth pangs from the ground

so I'm calling on you one and all

those with your spirits still intact

rise now forth with Syria

force the fascists to retract

out of the avenues of power

they've long colonized

psychopathic monstrosities

hiding long beneath disguise

but we can now see through them

the emperor has no clothes

merely veils of lies and flattery

more obvious than Pinocchio's nose

so come on people don't forget

something we always have repeated

in many tongues on many lands

‘the people united can never be defeated!’

[sophia-zofia]

my remarks at the Oxford Union debate

I will not take questions until I’m finished speaking; so please refrain from interrupting me.

Addressing the challenge of what to do about the indigenous inhabitants of the land Chaim Weizman, a Russian Jew, said to the World Zionist Congress in 1921 that Palestinians were akin to “the rocks of Judea, obstacles that had to be cleared on a difficult path."

David Gruen, a Polish Jew, who changed his name to David Ben Gurion to sound relevant to the region, said. "We must expel Arabs and take their places”

There are thousands of such conversations among the early zionists who plotted and implemented the violent colonization of Palestine and the annihilation of her native people.

But they were only partially successful, murdering or ethnically cleansing 80% of Palestinians, which meant that 20% of us remained, an enduring obstacle to their colonial fantasies, which became the subject of their obsessions in the decades that followed, especially after conquering what remained of Palestine in 1967.

Zionists lamented our presence and they debated publicly in all circles—political, academic, social, cultural circles—regarding what do with us; what to do about the Palestinian birthrate, about our babies, which they dub a demographic threat.

Benny Morris, who was originally meant to be here, once expressed regret that Ben Gurion “did not finish the job” of getting rid of us all, which would have obviated what they refer to as the “Arab problem.”

Benjamin Netanyahu, a Polish Jew whose real name is Benjamin Mileikowsky, once bemoaned a missed opportunity during the 1989 Tiananmen Square uprising to expel large swaths of the Palestinian population “while world attention was focused on China.”

Some of their articulated solutions to the nuisance of our existence include a “break their bones” policy in the 80s and 90s, ordered by Yitzhak Rubitzov, Ukrainian Jew who changed his name to Yitzhak Rabin (for the same reasons).

That horrific policy that crippled generations of Palestinians did not succeed in making us leave. And frustrated by Palestinian resilience, a new discourse arose, especially after a massive natural gas field was discovered off the coast of Northern Gaza worth trillions of dollars.

This new discourse is echoed in the words of Colonel Efraim Eitan, who said in 2004, “we have to kill them all.”

Aaron Sofer, an Israeli so-called intellectual and political advisor, insisted in 2018 that “we have to kill and kill and kill. All day, every day.”

When I was in Gaza, I saw a little boy no more than 9 years whose hands and part of his face, had been blown off from a booby trapped can of food that soldiers had left behind for Gaza’s starving children. I later learned that they had also left poisoned food for people in Shujaiyya, and in the 1980s and 90s, Israeli soldiers had left booby trapped toys in southern Lebanon that exploded when excited children picked them up.

The harm they do is diabolical, and yet, they expect you to believe they are the victims. Invoking Europe’s holocaust and screaming antisemitism, they expect you to suspend fundamental human reason to believe that the daily sniping of children with so called “kill shots” and the bombing of entire neighborhoods that bury families alive and wipe out whole bloodlines is self-defense.

They want you to believe that a man who had not eaten a thing in over 72 hours, who kept fighting even when all he had was one functioning arm, that this man was motivated by some innate savagery and irrational hatred or jealousy of Jews, rather than the indominable yearning to see his people free in their own homeland.

It’s clear to me that we’re not here to debate whether Israel is an apartheid or genocidal state. This debate is ultimately about the worth of Palestinian lives; about the worth of our schools, research centers, books, art, and dreams; about the worth of the homes we worked all our lives to build and which contain the memories of generations; about the worth of our humanity and our agency; the worth of bodies and ambitions.

Because if the roles were reversed—if Palestinians had spent the last eight decade stealing Jewish homes, expelling, oppressing, imprisoning, poisoning, torturing, raping and killing them; if Palestinians had killed an estimated 300,000 Jews in one year, targeted their journalists, their thinkers, their healthcare workers, their athletes, their artists, bombed every Israeli hospital, university, library, museum, cultural center, synagogue, and simultaneously set up an observation platform where people came watch their slaughter as if a tourist attraction;

if Palestinians had corralled them by the hundreds of thousands into flimsy tents, bombed them in so called safe zones, burned them alive, cut off their food, water, and medicine;

if Palestinians made Jewish children wander barefoot with empty pots; made them gather the flesh of their parents into plastic bags; made them bury their siblings, cousins and friends; made them sneak out from their tents in the middle of the night to sleep on their parents’ graves; made them pray for death just to join their families and not be alone in this terrible world anymore, and terrorized them so utterly that their children lose their hair, lose their memory, lose their minds, and made those as young as 4 and 5 year old were die of heart attacks;

if we mercilessly forced their NICU babies to die, alone in hospital beds, crying until they could cry no more, died and decomposed in the same spot;

if Palestinians used wheat flour aid trucks to lure starving jews, then opened fire on them when they gathered to collect a day’s bread; if Palestinians finally allowed a food delivery into a shelter with hungry Jews, then set fire to the entire shelter and aid truck before anyone could taste the food;

if a Palestinian sniper bragged about blowing out 42 Jewish kneecaps in one day as one Israeli soldier did in 2019; if a Palestinian admitted to CNN that he ran over hundreds of Jews with his tank, their squished flesh lingering in the tank treads;

if Palestinians were systematically raping Jewish doctors, patients, and other captives with hot metal rods, jagged and electrified sticks, and fire extinguishers, sometimes raping to death, as happened with Dr Adnan alBursh and others;

if Jewish women were forced to give birth in filth, get C-sections or leg amputations without anesthesia; if we destroyed their children then decorated our tanks with their toys; if we killed or displaced their women then posed with their lingerie…

if the world were watching the livestreamed systematic annihilation of Jews in real time, there would be no debating whether that constituted terrorism or genocide.

And yet two Palestinians—myself and Mohammad el-Kurd— showed up here to do just that, enduring the indignity of debating those who think our only life choices should be to leave our homeland, submit to their supremacy, or die politely and quietly.

But you would be wrong to think that I came to convince you of anything. The house resolution, though well-meaning and appreciated, is of little consequence in the midst of this holocaust of our time.

I came in the spirit of Malcolm X and Jimmy Baldwin, both of whom stood here and in Cambridge before I was born, facing finely dressed well-spoken monsters who harbored the same supremacist ideologies as Zionism—these notions of entitlement and privilege, of being divinely favored, blessed, or chosen.

I’m here for the sake of history. To speak to generations not yet born and for the chronicles of this extraordinary time where the carpet bombing of defenseless indigenous societies is legitimized.

I’m here for my grandmothers, both of whom died as penniless refugees while foreign Jews lived in their stolen homes.

And I also came to speak directly to zionists here and everywhere.

We let you into our homes when your own countries tried to murder you and everyone else turned you away. We fed, clothed, gave you shelter, and we shared the bounty of our land with you, and when the time was ripe, you kicked us out of our own homes and homeland, then you killed and robbed and burned and looted our lives.

You carved out our hearts because it is clear you do not know how to live in the world without dominating others.

You have crossed all lines and nurtured the most vile of human impulses, but the world is finally glimpsing the terror we have endured at your hands for so long, and they are seeing the reality of who you are, who you’ve always been. They watch in utter astonishment the sadism, the glee, the joy, and pleasure with which you conduct, watch, and cheer the daily details of breaking our bodies, our minds, our future, our past.

But no matter what happens from here, no matter what fairytales you tell yourself and tell the world, you will never truly belong to that land.

You will never understand the sacredness of the olives trees, which you’ve been cutting down and burning for decades just to spite us and to break our hearts a little more. No one native to that land would dare do such a thing to the olives. No one who belongs to that region would ever bomb or destroy such ancient heritage as Baalbak or Bittir, or destroy ancient cemeteries as you destroy ours, like the Anglican cemetery in Jerusalem or the resting place of ancient Muslim scholars and warriors in Maamanillah. Those who come from that land do not desecrate the dead; that’s why my family for centuries were the caretakers of the Jewish cemetery in the mount of olives, as labors of faith and care for what we know is part of our ancestry and story.

Your ancestors will always be buried in your actual homelands of Poland, Ukraine, and elsewhere around the world from whence you came. The mythos and folklore of the land will always be alien to you.

You will never be literate in the sartorial language of the thobes we wear, that sprang from the land through our foremothers over centuries—every motif, design, and pattern speaking to the secrets of local lore, flora, birds, rivers, and wildlife.

What your realestate agents call in their high-priced listings “old Arab home” will always hold in their stones the stories and memories of our ancestors who built them. The ancient photos and paintings of the land will never contain you.

You will never know how it feels to be loved and supported by those who have nothing to gain from you, and in fact, everything to lose. You will never know the feeling of masses all over the world pouring into the streets and stadiums to chant and sing for your freedom; and it is not because you are Jewish, as you try to make the world believe, but because you are depraved violent colonizers who think your Jewishness entitles you to the home my grandfather and his brothers built with their own hands on lands that had been in our family for centuries. It is because Zionism is a blight onto Judaism and indeed onto humanity.

You can change your names to sound more relevant to the region and you can pretend falafel and hummus and zaatar are your ancient cuisines, but in the recesses of your being, you will always feel the sting of this epic forgery and theft, that’s why even the drawings of our children pasted hung on walls at the UN or in a hospital ward send your leaders and lawyers into hysteric meltdowns.

You will not erase us, no matter how many of us you kill and kill and kill, all day every day. We are not the rocks Chaim Weizmann thought you could clear from the land. We are its very soil. We are her rivers and her trees and her stories, because all of that was nurtured by our bodies and our lives over millennia of continuous, uninterrupted habitation of that patch of earth between the Jordan and Mediterranean waters, from our Canaanite, our Hebrew, our Philistine, and our Phoenician ancestors, to every conqueror or pilgrim who came and went, who married or raped, loved, enslaved, converted between religions, settled or prayed in our land, leaving pieces of themselves in our bodies and our heritage. The fabled, tumultuous stories of that land are quite literally in our DNA. You cannot kill or propagandize that away, no matter what death technology you use or what Hollywood and corporate media arsenals you deploy.

Someday, your impunity and arrogance will end. Palestine will be free; she will be restored to her multi-religious, multi-ethnic pluralistic glory; we will restore and expand the trains that run from Cairo to Gaza to Jerusalem, Haifa, Tripoli, Beirut, Damascus, Amman, Kuwait, Sanaa, and so on; we will put an end to the zionist American war machine of domination, expansion, extraction, pollution, and looting.

..and you will either leave, or you will finally learn to live with others as equals.

Susan Abulhawa, Oxford Union debate, November 28, 2024

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