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They’ll never see this but every day I have endless love and admiration for the organizers of the Palestine solidarity movement in my state. I’m so honored to be part of this movement and sharing this space with y’all. You inspire me every day to do more, to be bolder and braver and louder. To be more myself. To be fiercer in my commitment and my morals and values. To lean into my identity and embrace who I am and where I came from. To test my limits and expand my horizons and to do things I never thought I’d be brave enough to do. you, my fellow organizers, have given me community and belonging and friendship. You have given me clarity of mind and soul. You have given me confidence and support and a place to be myself and grow into a new, fuller, more complete version of myself. you have given me the space and helped me grow into the person I always dreamed of being. every day you inspire me. Every day you give me love and support and friendship and a place to belong completely as I am.

my fellow organizers, you are an amazing group of people. but my god do you make me worry. you sacrifice time and money and sanity and so so so much sleep for the movement. It is a labor of love. Yet still I worry about you all. You beautiful people who stay up until all hours of the night planning actions, making calls, coordinating donations, and bail funds, and legal defenses, who run campaigns and risk arrest, who write speeches and mobilize people and phone bank, and bring people together. You who stay out all night marshaling, and get up at the crack of dawn to do the same, who drive miles and miles to pick up supplies and people, who offer rides and bring food, and give every minute of your free time and every cell in your body to this movement, and make sure everyone else is okay. You who put your bodies on the line, and brave the cold and the dark, and the consequences. May fellow organizers, my friends, my community, I worry about you. because you all show up for everyone else but never yourselves. I worry about you because I love and respect and admire you all. I worry about you because we organizers are a self-destructive self-sacrificial bunch. We push ourselves and push ourselves and then push ourselves some more. I worry about you because someone has to and because I love you all so dearly. You people who have given me so much.

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@wizard_bisan1 and AJ+ have been nominated for a Peabody Award for her coverage of Gaza. ⁣

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For over 6 months, Bisan Owda has shown the world how life in Gaza has been through her eyes. She has told the story of Palestinian survival in the face of the Israeli genocide. ⁣

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Before Oct. 7, Bisan was making films about cultural life in her native Gaza for her own YouTube channel. ⁣

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In 2023, AJ+’s @denatakruri won a Peabody Award for her story “One Day in Hebron,” which gave a firsthand account of the Israeli occupation in Hebron, in the occupied West Bank. ⁣

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Among those arrested in Atlanta today were Noelle McAfee, Chair of the Philosophy Department at Emory University. You can hear her ask the PhD student taking the video:

“Can you call the Philosophy Department office and tell them I’ve been arrested?...I’m Noelle McAfee, I’m Chair of the Philosophy Department”

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When I made this post just ten days ago, it was about mass graves discovered at Al Shifa hospital and now we have learned that the same had happened at Nasser hospital in Gaza. The same genocidal pattern: a hospital is put under siege, patients and medical staff are abducted, tortured and buried in mass graves.

But to build on the last point I wanted to bring attention to in the previous post, it is very crucial to also keep in mind is that the Palestinian Civil Defence have reported that Israel had deliberately concealed the identities of those it killed and buried in these mass graves. Close to 400 bodies have been buried in these mass graves, 58% of the recovered bodies have not been identified.

In a press conference, a spokesperson of the civil defence in Gaza said that Israel had intentionally disfigured the bodies postmortem in order to remove any identifying markers such as birthmarks. He also mentioned that they suspect that the bodies have been placed in body bags that expedited the decomposition process, destroying any possibility of them being identified.

One of the main and only ways families have been able to identify the bodies of their loved ones is through the clothes they remember them wearing the last time they saw them. I saw a video of a mother identifying her son by his striped jacket. You can see the grief mixed with relief that she will be able to give her son proper burial.

Remember when months ago I said that to be identified and buried in Gaza has become a luxury? This is very much still the case.

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Havent been on tumblr much lately, been running around helping students with their encampments

#Crazy time to be an adult in the movement #Wild stuff going on in my state #Kudos to all the kids #But massive fucking shout out to all the adults behind the scene doing some of the vital work to help make it all possible #And to keep everyone safe #To plan programming #To coordinate supplies and supply runs and donations and drops and get donations #To give legal advice and know your rights training #To help marshal #To reassure and support the kids #To sacrifice so much fucking sleep #It’s one thing to stay out all night at an encampment when you’re a student #It’s a whole nother when you have joint pain and have to get up for work the next day #So much love and admiration for my friends in the movement #So so so much love #But by god do I hope we all get to sleep soon #personal #free palestine #anti war #student protests #Palestine

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My colleague @ismail_gh2 and his team were kidnapped by Israeli occupation forces during their coverage of the Alshifa hospital attack. They were held for 10 hours and subjected to intense interrogation and dehumanization by the Israeli occupation forces. 40 days have passed, and not a single Western media outlet or journalists' advocacy agency has made any effort to reach out to him.

Palestinian journalists continue to face disrespect and dehumanization every single day.

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Fuck Israel and fuck everyone who still wants to pretend this is confusing or complicated. Is it really that hard to point out the "bad people" in a scenario where a multi-billion military apparatus is handcuffing and killing children and medical staff inside a fucking hospital?

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im noticing that for a lot of americans “free palestine” has been an ideological motto and symbol rather than them actually believing in their heart that freedom is attainable and necessary

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LESS THAN AN HOUR AGO: this morning our comrades at emory university (not to be confused with emory college in boston) started a gaza solidarity encampment, not even three hours ago. and now students there on the ground are already reporting a violent response from atlanta pd pigs. its important to note these students were not only demanding divestment from israel's genocide in palestine, they were also echoing the calls of many atlantans to stop cop city.

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25 April 2024

Journalist Anas Al-Sharif documents an IOF attack on a horse-drawn cart carrying humanitarian aid in Beit Lahiya today. A sniper shot the cart’s occupants, killing 1 and wounding 2. The horse was also killed.

As we described previously, animal carts have been a lifeline for north Gaza (and the rest of the Strip) after the occupation’s complete blockade prohibited the entry of fuel. Gazans have relied on working animals to transport people and supplies and even function as ambulances. The occupation has observed this, and targeted these animals with drones, snipers, tanks, and other ground troops. They have also expressly forbidden the import of animal feed in order to starve both the humans and animals of Gaza. All of this is done in order to quash the resilience of the people of Gaza by removing a vital logistical force and perpetuating despair.

WARNING: The video is linked rather than attached, as the cover photo is very graphic and upsetting.

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If you're having trouble keeping up with what's going on in Palestine because of US news coverage of university protests, here are some articles you can read and a video you can watch:

While CNN & all the other mainstream media try to paint the university protests as "pro terrorism" (which they're not, they're literally anti-war protests.) Palestinians are being slaughtered by the minute.

Please don't stop speaking about Palestine.

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Sudan still desperately needs aid--it needs a lot of things, but it is approaching a dangerous point with famine and mass death due to hunger imminent.

These are the kinds of headlines we're getting now:

Here's an ongoing fundraiser:

I linked it before, to help with Ramadan, but it's an ongoing initiative, the need has not stopped.

I picked this gofundme because it's been boosted by people I trust and you can see pictures online of the food they've provided, e.g.:

But I also picked this because you can see the amount of donations. It's 2pm ET on Saturday, April 20th right now? For the next week, whatever's donated, I'll match for a total up to $2,000 (we'll say 2,750 CAD, since the gofundme is in Canadian dollars).

You don't have to send me a receipt, I just ask that you donate and boost.

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My friend Mona has asked me to share her story with you all.

Here's the link to the evacuation gofundme. They're very close to their goal. They legitimately only have less than 10k USD left to go before all 9 of them can evacuate.

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Is it really any wonder that people who support the dehumanization of Palestinians can't see you as anything more than a dopamine dispenser? "How dare this person who sends me bear pictures for free having feelings!!"

oh i fully don't give a shit what zionists think about me. pissing off zionists in real life is fun as fuck. they get sooo fucking pressed about everything. so it's very very fun and entertaining to rile them up and give them hell.

#free palestine #zionists can fuck off back to hell idgaf #ask

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quick PSA for all the bearotonin lovers: Zionists actually aren’t allowed to enjoy any bear photos i post. k thanks

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If they’re saying I should be persecuted can I cry antisemitism lmaoo?

This has gotta be the funniest and stupidest anon hate I’ve ever received. I can’t even with this actual fucking moron lmaooo

#I love when Zionists are actually super antisemitic #its so fucking funny #i have this one video of a zionist screaming “kill the jews kill the jews!” in my face while wearing an israel hat & holding an israel sign #and it's so fucking funny #because im jewish #so this bastard out here tryna make us look antisemitic when really he's the only antisemitic shitbag around #lmao #zionists gotta be some of the stupidest people alive