#answered: palestine

[tamarrud]

Do you think there shouldn’t be a Jewish state at all? Not even in a different continent?

You might need to sit down for this one but ethnostates shoud not exist, regardless of what continent they might be on lmao

The existence of an ethnostate by default means the subjugation and violence committed against other groups of people and you cannot name anywhere, definitely not a continent, where a homogenous ethostate can be established without displacing the people already living there who are not part of the ethnic group.

The only way this can ever be achieved is through ethnic cleansing and you're literally asking me if I'm in favour of that and the answer is fuck no

#answered: palestine

[pal1cam]

Favourite book (fiction or otherwise)

I’ve been reading books in Arabic for more than 10 years now, and have been mainly reading in English for the past year or 2 (fiction and non fiction)… and these are some of my favorites in both languages :

-> Favorites in Arabic :

[the books in green are ones that are translated versions of books that are originally in English or other languages]

"إبتسم فأنت ميّت" - حسن الجندي

"أثر الفراشة" - محمود درويش

"١٠٠ حلم قبل الموت" - محمد جلال

"الحفيدة الأمريكية" - انعام كجه جي

"أنا الموقّع أدناه" - محمود درويش

"آخر الأبواب الموصدة" - ابتسام ميّالة

"الفيل الأزرق" - أحمد مراد

"عائد إلى حيفا" - غسّان كنفاني

"لا تخبري ماما" + "تركوا بابا يعود" - توني ماغواير

"كزهر اللوز أو أبعد" - محمود درويش

Book number 4 is : “The American Granddaughter” by Inaam Kichachi

Books Number 9 are : “Don’t tell mummy” & “When daddy comes home” by Toni Maguire

-> Favorites in English :

“Take me with you when you go” - David Levithan & Jennifer Niven

“A good girl’s guide to murder” & “Good girl Bad blood” - Holly Jackson

“The Cousins” - Karen M. McManus

“My Sister Lives On The Mantelpiece” - Annabel Pitcher

“Treasures of The Rolling Stones” - Glenn Crouch

#answered #book suggestions #bookblr #books and reading #books #booklr #bookish #literature #palestinian literature #english literature #mahmoud darwish #a good girls guide to murder #good girl bad blood #books & libraries #reading #favorites #favorite books #book recommendations #book reading #book reccs #bookworm #palestine #answered: palestine #asks open #send asks #send me asks #asks #answered asks

[hassanatforusmk]

We have now finished burying our forty neighbors. Five families are on their graves, including the beloved Mazen, who is thirty-six years old, his wife, and their children, Abdul Rahman, Rahaf, Arwa, and Rafif. Two of them were buried with their father and two with their mother. We finished burying the forty, but we forgot their grandfather, so we reopened the graves and arranged the bodies and put him with them

#gaza #free gaza #gaza strip #gaza news #gazagenocide #gazaunderfire #gazaunderattack #palestine #save gaza #stand with gaza #israel is a terrorist state #anti captialism #israeli apartheid #never again #anti semitic #artists on tumblr #every gazan has now been visited by grief and destruction #israel is an apartheid state #answered: palestine #anti zionisim #israelterrorist #israeliterrorism #is not real #pro israel #boycott israel #israel news #isreal #israel

[luthienne]

i wake up thirsty and i think of palestine. i go to the doctor’s office and i think of palestine. a sign in the corner of the waiting room says ‘this is a place of healing, disruptive behavior will not be tolerated’ and i think of palestine. they probably weren’t thinking of bombs and snipers and mass graves in parking lots. i call my parents and i think of palestine. i drive to the grocery store and i think of palestine. i look at the clear blue sky and i think of palestine. i put the dishes away and i think of palestine. i feed my cat and i think of palestine. i listen to music and i think of palestine. i read poetry and i think of palestine. i text my friends and i think of palestine. i think of palestine and i think of palestine and i think of palestine

#i check the news and there are more olive trees burning i call my reps and my reps don’t answer i am losing my mind #palestine

[tekehu]

if you're european, you can go to this site, click on your country at the top bar, and it will tell you how to reach your representatives and also provides an already written script which you can simply copy and paste. alternatively, this google doc also provides scripts for different countries.

#monologues #palestine #i wrote mine several days ago but no answer thus far of course

[blackpearlblast]

a rundown on the listed e-sim platforms from this tweet from mirna el helbawi. visit esimsforgaza to learn about this effort. (they also have a tutorial on how to purchase an esim and send it to them)

update v10 (4/9/24) nomad (regional middle east), holafly (israel and egypt), simly (palestine and middle east), and airalo (discover) are currently in the highest in demand. platforms. if it has been more than 3 weeks since you initially sent your esim and your esim has not been activated, you can reforward your original email with the expiration date in the subject line. you can see gothhabiba’s guide for how to tell if your esims have been activated. if your esim has expired without use, you can contact customer service to renew or replace it.

troubleshooting hint 1: if you are trying to pay through paypal, make sure you have pop-ups enabled! otherwise the payment window won't be able to appear. (this issue most frequently seems to occur with nomad)

troubleshooting hint 2: if you are trying to purchase an esim using the provider's app, it may block you from purchasing if your phone does not fit the requirements to install and use their esims. use their website in your browser instead and this problem should go away.

nomad

you can use a referral code to get $3 off your first purchase and also make it so the person whose code you used can buy more esims for gaza. many people have been leaving their referral codes in the replies of this post and supposedly a referral code may eventually reach capacity so just keep trying until you find one that works! BACKPACKNOMAD is another code to get $3 off your first purchase, it's been working for some people but not others so try out a referral code instead if you can't get it to work. NOMADCNG is a code for 5% off any middle east region nomad esims posted by connecting gaza. it can be used on any purchase, not just your first but is generally going to give less off than the first-purchase only codes, so use those first. it can be used in combination with nomad points. (nomad promo codes do not work on plans that are already on sale, unlimited plans, and plans under $5)

weekly tuesdays only code on nomad web, PST timezone! it gives 10% off plans 10gb and above. NOMADTUE

nomad also seems to be kind of sluggish sometimes when it comes to sending out emails with the codes. you can look for them manually by going to manage -> manage plans -> the plan you purchased -> installation instruction and scroll down to install esim via QR code or manual input then select QR code to find the QR code which you can screenshot and email to them. often just the act of logging back into your nomad account after purchase seems to cause the email with the code to come through though.

mogo

mogo's website is fucking annoying to navigate and i couldn't find any promo codes, but their prices are massively on sale anyway. you have to pick if you want your esim to be for iphone, ipad, or android for some reason. according to statcounter, android makes up approx. 75% of mobile markets in palestine while iphone represents approx. 25%. so i would probably recommend prioritizing donations of android esims but if you can afford multiple, try buying an iphone one too? if i can find any official direction from the connecting gaza crew on this i will update with it.

a good referral code to use for mogo is 8R29F9. the way things are worded are confusing but as far as i can tell, if you use it we both get a 10% discount on your first purchase. (the referrer gets a 10% voucher that allows them to top up in use esims, they are someone who i know has bought a lot of esims and will be able to make good use of the top-up discount vouchers!) also upon signing up it automatically generates a password for you which you can change by downloading the app. (check your email to find your account's current password)

holafly (also looking for holafly esims for egypt now)

holafly is pricier than the others and the only promo code i could find was ESIMNOW for 7% off. someone in the tags mentioned GETESIM7 as another 7% off code they had received, so if you have already used ESIMNOW or can't seem to get it to work, try GETESIM7. referral codes only seem to give 5% off and they don't stack. (i don't remember the source, it was on some sketchy coupon site i don't want to link to and only can recommend because i tried it myself) you can also use my referral link for 5% off if you can afford the 2% worse deal on your end, it will give me $5 credit which i can put towards buying more esims. connecting gaza has also posted the promo code HOLACNG for 5% off but since it is less than the 7% off codes and as far as i can tell does not give credit towards others to buy esims like the referral links, i would consider it lower priority for use.

simly (note: simly must be downloaded as an app to be used, the website link is to help people confirm they are downloading the right app)

i have not personally used simly so i am going to be going off of the sixth slide of mirna el helbawi's instagram guide, with some corrections from someone who has successfully purchased an esim from simly. after downloading the app and making an account, search for palestine or middle east and purchase your preferred package. the page the app takes you to after your purchase should have the QR code to send to the esimsforgaza email, it won't show up in your email receipt. someone kindly left her referral code in the tags of this post, it gives $3 off your first purchase and will give her $3 credit to put towards purchasing more esims for gaza. the code is CIWA2. (if this referral code doesn't work, try one from the notes of this post!) according to someone in the notes, ARB is a simly promo code for 25% off esims that is still working as of march 3rd.

airalo

some people have noted issues trying to sign up for airalo using the browser version of the website, it worked for me but if you are struggling you can give the mobile app a try and that should work. you can use a referral code to get $3 off your first purchase and give the code suppler a $3 credit for buying more esims. KARINA9661 is a code sourced from this post which is also a wonderful example of how using people's referral codes can really make a difference. if for some reason that referral code isn't working, you can find more in the notes of the original esim post i made here.

@/fairuzfan also has a tag of esim referral codes for various platforms!

(note: mogo and holafly both link to israel esims as there are no general regional packages for the middle east like on nomad and the esims for gaza website specifically linked to the israel package on mogo, so i linked to the equivalent on holafly.)

#esims for gaza #esims #gaza #palestine #free palestine #connecting gaza #despite not having used simly myself i'm fairly experienced with esim services at this point so i will likely be able to answer some #questions and i also have someone familiar with simly i can ask if i am not sure of the answer myself. so please go ahead and ask questions #if you're struggling with donating an esim from any of these sources!

[duckiemimi]

western intervention, seen and unseen, is the greatest tool in stirring destabilization within regions of potential capital. it’s done under the guise of “democracy and development towards civility,” but really, it’s all a major venture to monopolize—kill, steal, corner: profit.

the struggles of all marginalized peoples are interconnected, so truly, liberation for Palestine is a step in the direction towards liberation for everyone. this includes liberation for Sudan, who despite its crisis, hasn’t been covered much in the media. this includes liberation for Congo, who is also going through its own genocide, all for the sake of minerals.

don’t take my word for it—please seek information and speak on what you know. the enemy of fascism and its propaganda is the thirst for knowledge and knowledge itself.

#peace is not the answer; liberation is the answer #resources #palestine #free palestine #sudan #congo

[useless-englandfacts]

calling south africa the legal arm of hamas was. a choice. (a bad one if that wasn’t obvious)

#also krishnan is maybe the only mainstream uk journalist i’ve seen pushing back on some of the answers given #israel #palestine #south africa #krishnan guru murthy #channel 4 #video #admin dominique

[gillianthecat]

300,000 in DC!

Today, the people made history!

300,000 marched in Washington DC to demand an end to Biden and Israel's genocide against Gaza and demand freedom for Palestine!

#march for palestine #gaza #palestine #free palestine #free gaza #save gaza #protest for palestine #ceasefire now #stop the genocide #answer coalition #political action #political actions #Instagram

[tamarrud]

Hi, I'm sorry if this is a dumb question. Gaza has been has been bombarded, cut form electricity, not received aid, etc. So how do we get pictures and videos of what's happening there? Because surely , Israel would've cut internet at the same time than electricity.

I'm not trying to deny what's happening in Palestine , just understanding better. Where I live there's not coverage or news about it in the media so all I know is from social medias and we all know we can't trust everything on here.

Thanks

I think that’s a fair question to have.

Palestinians have always had to be creative when it comes to finding ways of survival.

For starters, when this aggression was in its early stages, telecom companies like PalTel would assure everyone that their coverage is built to last longer than other companies because, according to their CEO, they have been preparing for war for 15 years. For example, contrary to what other telecom companies do, PalTel run their cables way deeper than necessary to ensure less effects of bombing.

Later though, even PalTel had to go out of service for the most part due to Israel’s relentless bombing. Not to mention, Israel deliberately targets and kills telecom company workers who even try to repair damages to what remained of the network.

Now, the only viable option that Palestinians in Gaza have to connect with the outside world is in fact through e-SIMs. This initiative was started by Egyptian activist Mirna El Helbawi which you can actually donate to and help connect people in Gaza to reach their loved ones and to get help when needed. We hear stories every day of people not being able to notify the civil defense or medics about wounded people following airstrikes who later succumb to their injuries.

As for electricity, at the beginning of all of this carnage, people would use generators. This is actually quite a normal practice as the electricity in Gaza was never provided consistently so people would switch to generators regularly. However, generators are powered by fuel, which is something else that Israel cut off the strip.

So when people and shops ran out of fuel, people started utilising solar panels and continue to do that as their main source to charge phones. Some people would even start applying a fee to allow people to use their charging stations, which are usually set up in tents or on top of cars. Others would walk miles every day to access free solar powered charging stations to be able to charge their phones.

Still, Israel started targeting solar panels specifically so they are not as widely available as before and the dust and debris from bombing rendered a lot of those panels useless. Some people started using car batteries to set up charging stations now. 

With all of that, connections are weak and spotty and some people literally travel to other areas under so much threat just so they can connect and hear the voices of their loved ones. I was actually watching a video earlier today that shows people going on hilltops, raising their arms up hoping to "catch" a signal. 

When it comes to the pictures and videos, remember that what you’re seeing, with all its magnitude, is a drop in a sea of Israeli terror against Gaza. Journalists have literally sacrificed their lives trying to get the word out. Kids started to record and share videos because even they realise that this horror is too much for them to bear alone. This is why it is crucial to amplify their voices and share their stories because they’re literally doing it in the most impossible of situations. 

#palestine #gaza #israel #answered: palestine

[gentil-minou]

can't we do smth for palestine like we did for ukraine like miraculers for palestine? i just think it'd help.

Monetary aid is useless in Gaza right now because Israel has the entire area under siege. We could raise a million dollars for them, and in fact many have, but it will rot in trucks trapped at the border because Israel refuses to let them in. They don't even have fuel or medical supplies or electricity or water or anything, not because there isn't anyone donating but because Israel refuses to let it in.

Their goal is to slowly starve and kill them all, or push them out of their homeland forever and steal more land for themselves

BUT YOU CAN HELP

WE NEED A CEASEFIRE

The majority of countries and citizens all throughout the world agree that we need an immediate and permanent ceasefire. (Not a humanitarian pause the US keeps trying to push like letting them have 5 days to breathe before Israel slaughters them all).

The majority agrees but a handful of countries, primarily the USA, Canada, and the UK have refused. And because the UN is a joke because the US gets whatever it wants even when it's the only one who wants it, a ceasefire is impossible.

So what can you do?

Easy

Contact your representatives and government

Flood their lines. Call them everyday. Fax them. Email them. Send them written letters. Join a protest. Disrupt the system

Make it clear you will not vote for them if they do not listen to you. Make it clear you want a ceasefire

Here are a few sites to get you started (these are US based but there are plenty of resources for other countries around)

This is just the link I have on hand there are COUNTLESS ones there are ones that will make the call for you, like this one that I used

Physical mail is better. Faxzero is a website that let's you send faxes for free. There are even pdfs and premade letters

Let's say you're not from one of these evil countries, what can you do?

There are protests around the world. Find them and join. Show the world Gaza is bleeding and Palestinians are screaming and that their screams are being heard. Show the world that you refuse to plug your ears and lie silent. Be their voice.

Educate yourself

Read books by Palestinians watch movies and documentaries. Follow their journalists, give them a voice especially now when the rich and powerful are trying so desperately to smother them.

Israel and the western powers want you to be ignorant.

DONT LET THEM

And whatever you do: don't stay silent. Don't treat this like a trend. Do not stop fighting

Even after a ceasefire, we need to keep going. There needs to be a complete dismantling of the Israel terrorist state. We have to keep fighting so Palestinians can live in Palestine the way they have for centuries. We need to show the corrupt governments in this world that we are not going to live under their tyranny

So be LOUD

#palestine #gaza #israel #free palestine #free gaza #Jerusalem #social justice #ceasefire now #gaza strip #palestinian #israeli apartheid #terrorism #jews of tumblr #jewsforpalestine #jumblr #asked and answered #miraculous ladybug

[myymi]

with the knuckles series airing tomorrow, this is your friendly reminder that paramount supports isreal.

do not give them your money.

pirate the knuckles show. pirate sonic 3.

and if you bitch at me about how "it's not the same as watching in cinema!!" or whatever i am blocking you.

your experience watching a show/movie isn't more important than genocide.

get over yourself.

#palestine #free palestine #if i get any bitchy anons or whatever i won't be answering the asks #im not debating people on this #paramount sucks. pirate them #knuckles series #knuckles show #knuckles wachowski #sonic movie

[sleepsucks]

#20.02.23 #3270 #ok hi resuming regular posts; do keep your attention on palestine though. also what's going on in congo & sudan #i might try to keep a day for sharing more non-comics stuff once in a while (also i still need to answer asks n stuff sometime) #anyway re: the above comic i am not on add meds nor do i rly know if that's to consider still idk if relevant to me #ive started some depresshun meds a while ago but questionable results sofar. life still needs work

[ourflagmeansgayrights]

okay I'm this is a tall order but I am so confused about Taika. Does he support Israel? I've seen so many posts about people spreading rumors about him and other people saying he does support Israel, so what's the haps??

so the rumor that taika supports israel comes from the fact that he (and like 200 other hollywood ppl including some very famous names like mark hamill or jack black but for some reason ppl only are talking abt taika) signed a letter thanking biden for working to release hostages and fight hamas. the language in the letter does not acknowledge that israel is a settler colonial state and that hamas exists as a direct result of settler colonial violence.

the letter is bad but it’s bad in the way that someone who is not informed about the conflict probably would not pick up on. it’s a letter that on its surface just looks like concern for civilian hostages, which is a good and normal thing to be concerned about. the letter was also probably about as effective as when all those celebrities sang “imagine” during covid lockdowns, which is to say that it most likely did nothing. i doubt biden is making global decisions based on what 200 rich people in hollywood think (if anything he’s probably making decisions based on what 200 oil executives think ahaha)

ppl have also connected taika signing this letter to guz khan getting fired from ofmd. there was a rumor that he was fired bc he supports palestine, which is almost certainly not true. guz was fired bc the show got a 40% budget cut for s2 and his character was the easiest to write off. guz has said he wouldn’t compromise his morals for a job but that this wasn’t the job where he had to do that, and he has blocked the person who started that rumor. ALSO several actors in ofmd have since posted supporting palestine so like?? this one is pure antisemetic conspiracy theory. if taika had a problem with guz supporting palestine why was guz even hired in the first place.

anyway signing the letter was a bad thing that taika should not have done but it is impossible to determine his stance on israel based solely on the fact that he signed that letter. he has also liked posts about freeing palestine so like, who knows. i personally have much better things to be doing than scrutinizing everything a famous poc does to try and prove if he’s a good or bad person

tl;dr there is no hard evidence that taika supports israel ppl just hate him for being a wildly successful brown jewish man

#ask #anon #mine #taika waititi #fandom crit #palestine #and now i’m gonna turn anon off bc i know answering this is gonna get a lot of angry ppl in my inbox lol

[wanderrnest]

I've seen "war crimes" is trending on this hellsite now so let me add one.

This is Avigail Idan. A 4 year old Israeli-American child.

On october 7th, hamas terrorists (or freedom fighters as you like to call them) entered her house and murdered both her parents. Her brother (9) and sister (6) were hiding in the closet and were saved that way. She was kidnapped. She was held in hamas captivity for 50 days. And this is just one story of one girl. There are thousands more. All of them met face to face with the worst kind of evil a human is capable of. Slaughtered, burned, raped, moletated, some in front of their loved ones. No mercy.

Tell me more about war crimes, about human evil and cruelty, about genocidal intentions. Tell me more about good and bad and right and wrong. Or just be a decent human being and stop justifying the brutul murder of jewish people.

How is it suddenly somehow okay to hold 4 year olds as hostages (after you murdered their parents)? How is it debatable? Why do I have to explain this to people who claim to care about human rights?

#war crimes #Avigail Idan #palestine #israel #abigail edan #hamas is isis #news #anti semitism #current events #hamas #antisemitism #please dont answer me these questions are rhetorical #im so tired

[duckiemimi]

happy international women’s day!

today i think specifically about the women in Palestine, in Congo, and in Sudan. in West Papua and in India, in every corner of the world in need of liberation, of freedom. if you are able, please consider donating to these campaigns or any other you find today:

and if you are unable, don’t forget your daily clicks!

#and friendly reminder (though i know u know this already) trans women are women #peace is not the answer; liberation is the answer #resources #international women's day #palestine #congo #sudan #free palestine #free congo #free sudan #keep eyes on sudan #please add or post more resources!