#Everyone is talking about Palestine

[ibtisams]

David Azoulai, head of the Metula Council, proposed sending all Gazans to refugee camps in Lebanon and flattening the whole Strip so it becomes an empty museum like Auschwitz

#I haven’t been online did everyone already talk about this 😭😭 #how is this real #palestine #🦢

[boysborntodie]

“I don’t talk about Palestine because I don’t like going into politics : /” fuck you. The existence of Muslims and MENA people has always been political to the West. Their lives and their deaths. Their happiness and anger and sorrow. Their love and hatred. Their sweat and blood and tears. Everything has always been reduced to politics when they are more than you could ever begin to comprehend. Palestine will be free. And so will Sudan and Pakistan and Lebanon and Yemen and Syria and every other country, place and people who suffer only for their pain to be called political by those responsible for and complicit in it

#before anyone starts i fucking know you personally aren’t responsible #that doesn’t change the fact everyone in the west benefits from this system that has historically oppressed and harmed non-western countrie #and it’s your responsibility to acknowledge and understand this #i also have been living in a western (generalised not geographically #and it’s easier and i know why it’s easier #my heart goes out to non-muslim and mena countries and people but i wanted to talk about their very specific plight they experience #pakistan #middle east #north africa #free palestine #palestine #falesteen #lebanon #syria #yemen #sudan #free sudan #non-outsiders

[seraphdreams]

finding out that israel is carpet bombing all around the last working hospital in khan younis, mind you, the place where millions of displaced gazans were told to go to seek refuge, how is this happening? i was wondering why i haven’t been seeing bisan or motaz giving any updates recently, palestine is going through a blackout and can’t even connect to internet to share their stories. this is not war, it’s genocide.

#from the river to the sea palestine will be free #and it will be in this lifetime #do not stop talking about palestine #to everyone who remains silent and complacent about these issues #go to hell #seraph.announces!

[thyrell]

aaron stated his pronouns were he/him to jounalists and news outlets before his self-immolation. speculating someone else's gender, especially after his death is disrespectful and not your business. even if he went by lilly and used other pronouns, you are essentially trying to out him and disrespecting his wishes. maybe you should do as aaron asked and keep your focus on palestine instead of sending hate to a black trans person on here

im not sending hate to this person, i havent even interacted with him unless those anons were sent by him. i continue to use he/him for aaron bushnell, as per his last public communications, because as per the original post this is about, this is all speculation. i appreciate you coming to me off anon to tell me this, but i want you to think about whether this discussion is genuinely harmful to aaron bushnell's legacy or the palestinian freedom movement as a whole, whether it is just uncomfortable or in poor taste, and most importantly whether it warranted the widespread backlash against trans women on this website that it elicited.

#i guess my point being that #the post people are talking about IS an uncomfortable read - and i would not blame you for saying its in bad taste #but as it stands i dont see it detracting from awareness of the situation in palestine or from the statement aaron made #THAT is what ive been trying to say this whole time - not that i even agree with the original post #but that the backlash against it has been disproportionate #and indicative of a wider pattern of scrutiny towards trans women on this website that is not applied to everyone else

[menalez]

might be controversial but i’ll say it. if all you’ve said about the situation in palestine has been condemnations of hamas then you do not care about palestine. no i’m not saying you can’t condemn hamas before one of you twists my words! i’m saying you are not showing care for palestine if you have said nothing at all about the fact that people in gaza are currently at extreme risk of starvation due to their coloniser withholding food, the fact that palestinians have no electricity now, the fact that 1500 palestinians have died (500 being children), or the fact that entire neighbourhoods have turned to rubble.

#israel #palestine #like hamas is awful. i’d say almost everyone agrees from what i’ve seen #terrorist groups are generally awful. rape is awful. but palestinian civilians are at risk of genocide so why don’t u talk about that too? #emphasis on TOO.

[kiwi-draws]

i suppose nows a time as good as any to say, if ur a zionist get the fuck off my profile. apologies for being gone for months and not saying this sooner, but genuinely if you're excusing a genocide i want you as far away from me as possible. you're the scum of the earth, kay?

#was gone before this shit started #and i feel bad for being gone for it #but god dude #dont stop talking about this #you cant #people are still suffering and even tho the world court gave their ruling its so so so far from over #please dont give up on palestine #everyone who dies was someones everything.

[wisefoxluminary]

I don't feel comfortable speaking out about things like this but I am deeply disappointed in Noah Schnapp. To have the audacity to wave around stickers that support and glorify literal genocide as "sexy" is just so disgusting. Palestinian people are being bombed and dying and here he is making jokes and having a laugh about it. I will continue to be a Stranger Things fan and will not boycott season five but Noah needs to grow up and take a good fucking look at his life.

#noah schnapp #stranger things #this is disgusting behaviour #i am sorry #he should know better #will byers #free palestine #free gaza #anti genocide #it's so fucking awful what's happening over there #my heart sinks for everyone lost to this conflict #i don't feel comfortable talking about news stories because I'm scared of saying the wrong thing #but I can't remain silent anymore

[cridhe]

wait so the woman who's "dead body was dragged naked through the streets" is actually still alive? and was taken to hospital in gaza?? and she wasn't naked but was still wearing the bikini she wore to the festival????? hello??

#everyone was talking about that. talking about 'parading dead bodies' and savagery and barbarism etc #and she was actually taken to hospital?? insane #palestine

[jewishbarbies]

someone questioned Leigh Bardugo at a BOOK Q&A what the “justification” is for “white authors writing rep for bipoc people and taking space from bipoc authors without advocating for them” unprovoked, and when Leigh looked confused and gently asked for clarification, this person said “well i mean with what’s happening in palestine” because Leigh hasn’t publicly commented on it. why the fuck are we now harassing jewish authors about palestine and making it out like we’re being heroes for bipoc as a whole? if you’re gonna be antisemitic do it with your fucking chest.

Leigh’s answer was “i realized after posting misinformation on instagram a while ago that I wasn’t focusing on actually being a good person and activist irl and was just performing for an audience so i stopped being political on main” and the audience was silent.

#g talks #saw the clip on tiktok and ppl were arguing in the comments #over whether or not it was right to ask her #like #what the fuck #why are you bringing up Palestine #in an author q&a #just because the author is jewish and writes a lot of bipoc lgbt+ and disabled rep #surely her writing would be enough for you in this case #not everyone is terminally online #and only doing what they post about #grow the fuck up you dumbasses #antisemitism #racism #mine #/mobile #/okay to reblog

[redvelvetwishtree]

People of Gaza are literally leaving their own land and homes on foot so that Israel can take over the land for money, and gas drilling deals and build fckng disneylands or idek whatever and everyone in the world is just watching. They have bombarded Palestinian land into nothingness killed 10k+, forcing thousands away from their homes for $$$. How is the world okay with this???

#all these self-righteous people make such lectures and talks and debates out of such issues #is all that just to show off? #are issues like these just for shallow academic purposes and to stroke your mighty egos so you can lecture the world about how politically c #politically correct you are #fuck everyone who was even slightly complicit in all this #imagine being forced outbof your own hime and your own land #just fckng imagineeeee #palestine #free palestine #gaza #gaza strip #free gaza #middle east #israel #fuck israel #death to israel

[eryanlainfa]

This time I've made watermelon themed outfits to dress up your blorbos with. You can mix and match them all you want or add more details, just keep the overall theme and keep a similar color palette (its the colors of the Palestine flag!), you can mix it with the pose bases post, have fun.

DO NOT use those to flood the palestine tags, use it to spread awareness in fandoms and other unrelated tags! Add useful links to your posts.

Dont forget your daily clicks

And here are some masterposts for Palestine : 🍉 🍉 🍉 🍉

#draw your oc #draw your characters #outfit design #outfit meme #art meme #art challenge #outfit challenge #drawing meme #eryart #art #artists for palestine #if aesthetic art memes is what gets you to start talking about palestine its fine. everyone starts somewhere. #just try to not stop at that. if you can do more : do more. #free palestine

[bandzboy]

this is so bizarre

#like i need everyone to talk about this #palestine #free palestine #rape tw

[noperopesaredope]

Disclaimer: I barely know what I'm talking about. I'm just putting some thoughts out there because I'm honestly confused about some things. These are the words of someone who can barely understand what anyone is saying and also trusts no one on the internet. I've accepted that I am too stupid to understand this conflict and no matter how much research I try to do, I will never understand any of it. Believe me, I have tried. These are the ramblings of a confused idiot who is out of the loop on everything and will never really be in the loop.

You can add your own thoughts or disagree. But don't yell at me for my thoughts. I've tried to educate myself, but that has failed. But I still want to throw some thoughts into the discussion using my limited understand of everything. I will likely be turning off notifications to this post if too many people shout at me for not understand shit or agreeing with them, so probably don't try to change my mind. Just say what you want to say and add your own essays in the reblogs.

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I've been trying not to say too much about the Israel-Palestine conflict (not just Gaza, but in general) since it's so complicated and messy and I'm not informed enough on another country's massive, decades-long conflict for me to feel comfortable commenting on it. However, I have had a little nugget in my brain that has been bothering me for a while now. A common Zionist argument I occasionally see is that Palestinians aren't actually "indigenous" to the region of Israel-Palestine, and that they are invaders. They came from somewhere else to live in that area, and therefore aren't "the true people of Israel." But I find this argument rather silly and a bit hard to believe.

First off, and I'm not even saying this as an argument against Israel, but isn't the whole point of Jewish mythology (mythology is the technical term) that Israel is "the Promised Land?" As in, the end point? The final destination rather than the start? Maybe I'm confused and need to brush up on Jewish mythology, but from what I remember, the Hebrews came from a different region in the Middle East, then migrated to the region where Israel is. Therefore, they didn't exactly "originate" from there either.

It's also kind of hard to believe that there weren't already other people who were living there already. And then Abraham and his family moved to Egypt anyways due to drought, and the Hebrews were there for hundreds of years before coming back to Israel. And by the time they'd come back, a bunch of other ethnic groups had already made their homes in Israel, as people had been doing likely long before Abraham and his family first came to the region.

And even if Abraham and his family originally came from that region, Abraham already lived in civilization. Civilization still existed there, and people were still living there. Abraham was basically part of a different ethnic group before he created the Hebrews. Therefore, the Hebrews would be from Israel, but so would all of the other people already living there who weren't descendants of Abraham.

Whether or not you believe that the region belonged to the Hebrews by the will of God, all those other mfs were still living there first. You can say that you own the land because God said so, but you can't truthfully say that all the people who were there before Abraham was even born are not native to the region.

Even if we're not looking at Biblical accounts, realistically discussing archaeology and patterns throughout history leads us to the conclusion that there was no singular native ethnic group in Israel.

It is well known that Israel has had, like, hundreds of different peoples who have lived there at different points throughout history. It has switched around a lot of times, and has definitely had multiple ethnic groups living there at the same time. It is a region that has historically been diverse, and many have called it home.

On top of that, who is to say that Palestinians aren't actually also natives to that region? I've heard some people say that the Palestinians are decended from Arabs who invaded the region, but is it really true that all of them are of Arab decent? Again, this area is incredibly diverse, and I'm pretty sure it was ethnically diverse even before Israel was founded. It's unlikely that

Also, haven't the Palestinians been living there for thousands of years anyways? Because in that case, I'd say it's questionable to declare a pretty diverse group of Middle Eastern brown folks to not be native to a region they have been living in for hundreds/thousands of years.

Especially when a large number of those who moved to Israel when it was founded (refounded?) back in 1948 were of white European decent. I believe that Israel is still the homeland of the Jewish people, but is a white Jewish person whose family has been living in Europe for hundreds of years really more native to the Middle East than a brown person whose family has been living in Palestine for hundreds of years?

Like, I see these white ass mfs sitting here saying "I belong here more than you" to these brown people who have been there for generations. This statement is not about Jewish folks who have been living in the Middle East for generations, mainly just those of European decent who declare that the land belongs to them more than those who have been there forever.

I still believe that the Hebrews should be considered "indigenous" to Israel, but to say that they are more indigenous seems disingenuous when both groups migrated to the region. No one group has ever been the true native group of that area, and I feel that either side arguing that the other is not native to the region is full of shit.

We don't know who is native to the region. We barely even know if Israelis and Palestinians each are made of singular ethnic groups. So I feel like declaring the "One True Indigenous Group" is pointless and redundant to the discussion. Either both are or neither are. Shut the fuck up.

#israel #israel palestine conflict #israel palestine war #israel palestine tensions #palestine #indigenous #middle east #gaza #gaza strip #i'm praying that this isn't anti-semetic since i don't want to be #i personally believe in the #two state solution #they don't even have to live together everyone can just have equal rights and leave each other tf alone #religion #jewish mythology #btw mythology doesn't imply that something is made up or whatever it's just a term used in the study of religion and beliefs #i try not to talk too much about this conflict since i WILL fuck it up #i don't know what i'm talking about #so i don't think i'm qualified to talk about such a sensitive and divisive subject and i'm using my bare-minimum understanding #but i will say that i want a #ceasefire in gaza #that's all i'll really say

[mintaikcorpse]

The Burning Man

The Burning Man. 

The Burning Man burned for what he believed in. The Burning man has seen so much from the lives that have been taken. The Burning Man has seen countless unspeakable actions. Actions that would make any humane person cry out in horror as they watched the bodies of millions. Actions that would make any humane person protest and scream and weep in sheer terror. 

But instead, the actions cause triumph. The actions that have murdered thousands cause a celebration. A celebration of new land. A celebration of freedom. A celebration of beliefs. 

A celebration of beliefs that cost millions. 

The Burning Man didn't think it was right. The Burning Man was terrorized by the actions he saw. He was terrorized by the millions of people shouting for joy at the genocide of others. He was terrorized st the countless of people calling the actions necessary. 

And so, the Burning Man took his fire, and on a bright sunny day, with clear skies and colorful flowers, took his match, and turned it on himself. But even then, in the worst pain a man could face, the Burning Man fought for what he believed in. The Burning Man shouted his please for freedom; that our triumph for murdering thousands isn't right. 

And as the Burning Man's body turned into Ashes, his words echoed through the air. The words of a hero. The words that filled thousands with hope. And as an angel flew down to take his last breath, he didn't give up his fighting, nor his words. He shouted 

“Free Palestine!”

Some will say the Burning Man died a pitiful death. That the Burning Man was a traitor that went against what he was raised to fight for. But I don't see it that way. The Burning Man was the bright lights of a fire you see in a cold, miserable tundra. The Burning Man was a beacon of hope for so many. The Burning Man sparked something in so many people. That we could stand up and fight for what we believe in. That our actions can cause a difference. 

Rest in peace, Aaron Bushnell. May your words spark hope in millions. May your words screech of the horror so many are blind to. 

Rest in peace, Aaron Bushnell. 

Free Palestine. 

(Art by @theartisticapparition )

#im not good at poetry but I dunno what else to say but I felt like I had to say something #i'm not good with putting my thoughts down so I might just write like this about them #and bcuz i know he will I want everyone to make sure that Aaron Bushnell isn't erased from history books #bcuz ik damn well he wont be talked about for long #please dont stop talking about People like Bushnell and Hind Rajab and Motaz and Bisan #please keep talking #free palestine #free gaza #rafah #palestine #free rafah #aaron bushnell #poetry #writblr #poets on tumblr #writers on tumblr #writblur

[unityrain24]

guys. please. please. please do not let kosa pass.

#please put some of the energy youare putting into palestine posts into this. bc if this passes you may not even get to talk about palestine! #or queer things! #or lots of things! #it's a censorship bill!! #unityrain.txt #kosa #stop kosa #i almost feel like they are doing this while palestine is really hot so so everyone's distracted

[royalberryriku]

Thinking about how "self defence" is considered okay until a country the west is not allied with does it.

#yes this is about iran #israel attacked first and then they responded and now everyone is like “wait wait they can't do that!” #and I'm just sitting here looking at Palestine like ??? #And look I'm not saying I condone any violence esp against civilians #but I am saying it's bery ironic and telling #when Israel fucks around and finds out #I am kind of here like damn finally tasting the taste of your own spit that you spat at another #must feel like throwing stones in a glass house eh Israel is kinda the feel I'm feeling rn #but anyway #also a note while I say I'm generally against violence I do think resistence is expected and deserved when colonial powers oppress people #I'm specifically talking about how I'm not condoning any attacks on civilians #BUT resistance is justified while Palestine is occupied #and long live the Antifada #both are two things that coexist for me here #and things I think are being honoured in the resistence the more I hear of personal accounts of said civilians #*civilians #When one military side says “oh this happened!” only to be proven as liars over and over again #then the hostages themselves say “no we were attacked with friendly fire from israel” #and for that to be proved?? #Then hearing how said hostages say “Hamas put their bodies on the line to cover us from said friendly fire” like?? #maybe Hamas aren't the aggressors when they treat their hostages like this and israel has killed their own just to get at Hamas and civ- #-illians alike #tag comments are a mess and probably don't accurately portray feelings fully but long live the antifada and down with colonialist lies