#armenian genocide

[palipunk]

Armenians have lived in Jerusalem for 1,600 years and Armenian Palestinians are the oldest group in the Armenian diaspora. From their indigenous land in Artsakh to the Armenian Quarter in Jerusalem, Armenians have been facing ethnic cleansing and persecution on multiple fronts. With the escalating genocidal violence in Gaza and the West Bank, armed settler encroachment into Armenian holdings in Jerusalem has fallen under the radar of some pro-Palestine activism and it is critical we do not allow this to happen.

Some context:

( In 1948, Armenians in Jerusalem numbered about 16,000. Today, that number has shrunk; estimates range from 700-1000, with a smaller community in Bethlehem. )

“We are not the objectives of the Israelis, but we occupy a huge chunk of Jerusalem. The fact that we’re here is an obstacle for them, but we’ve been here for 1,600 years and we’re not going anywhere.” "These are only the most visible of the challenges facing the community....Israeli discrimination, economic decline, and political insecurity have taken a toll on Armenians, encouraging emigration. A century after the community was nearly annihilated, Armenian Palestinians today say they feel deeply at home in the Holy Land, but fear how much longer they will be able to hold on."

“Don’t ask me about the massacres that happened 100 years ago [1915],” Annie Guluzian said when asked about her experiences as an Armenian Palestinian. “I won’t open [up about] those topics. Because if I do, I will start talking about my brother who was martyred by the Israelis in the [second] Intifada.” The toll of the Israeli occupation in Palestine is what defines her life today, Guluzian added. Source

Since October 26th, 2023, when the leader of the Armenian Patriarchate of Jerusalem announced it would cancel a once-secret 2021 land lease deal with a real estate company that has alleged links to settler interests, the company, Xana Gardens, has sent in armed settlers and bulldozers to steal the land (including Armenian Chruch property and several Armenian families). Armenians have been resisting the occupational forces day in and day out.

From November 5th:

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November 5th:

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November 22nd:

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November 25th:

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In response, Armenians have created an account on Twitter called SaveTheArq which has been documenting and updating on social media the recent land demolitions by Israeli settlers in the Armenian quarter, they have also launched a fundraiser for legal actions to protect the Armenian quarter and I highly recommend donating, if you can't, please share it around:

#palestine #jerusalem #armenia #armenian diaspora #save the Armenian quarter #free palestine #my liberation as a Palestinian is not complete without the liberation of Armenians and I stand by that #Armenian palestinians #armenian genocide

[haykhighland]

[left: Anam is 90 years old. She lived through the Nakba in 1948, and today she was displaced again from the city to the south of the Gaza Strip.]

via ig: belalkh

[right: Amalia born in Martakert, Artsakh in 1920. Older than the borders of her region. She has experienced genocide all her life. She is now a refugee.]

via ig: stufankjian

#armenia #palestine #freepalestine #free artsakh #Gaza #Artsakh #🍉 #west asia #middle east #armenian #Palestinian #nabka #genocide #armenian genocide #armenian palestinian solidarity

[diioonysus]

resources on how to help:

uyghur genocide palestinian genocide armenian genocide ukrainian genocide sudanese genocide

#armeian genocide #uyghur geneocide #palestine genocide #armenian genocide #ukrainian genocide #sudanese genocide #sudan #palestine #uyghur #armenian #ukraine

[metamorphesque]

do you want to know how one combats the venomous deafness of the world in the face of genocide? read about operation "nemesis"

#i wonder if it's mentioned in western history books at all #operation nemesis #history #armenia #armenian genocide #free palestine

[thesobsister]

"The images speak to what the Turkish state wants people to remember, and what it wants them to forget."

"Questioning the dominant narratives can be dangerous, however. Historians, authors, human rights activists, and ordinary citizens in Turkey have been investigated, prosecuted, or arrested for “insulting the memory of Atatürk,” a crime under Turkish law; while journalists and TV directors have been threatened with legal action for purportedly mocking or misrepresenting the Ottoman sultans. Statements related to the Armenian genocide are among those that have been deemed objectionable."

As we witness the ongoing ethnic cleansing by the state of Israel of the Palestinian people, we can look at its template, the progress of eradication by Turks of Armenians, both their persons and their culture, in the 108 years since Turkey launched the first genocide.

#armenia #armenian genocide #turkey #türkiye #israel #palestine #genocide #ethnic cleansing

[blackpearlblast]

all slides have alt text! list of links under the cut for those who don't want to bother with retyping the tinyurl

[1] https://www.warresisters.org/resources/pie-chart-flyers-where-your-income-tax-money-really-goes

[2] https://www.politifact.com/article/2023/oct/18/us-aid-to-israel-what-to-know/

[3] https://www.sipri.org/research/armament-and-disarmament/arms-and-military-expenditure/international-arms-transfers

[4] https://israeldefense.co.il/en/node/49077

[5] https://imeu.org/article/an-overview-apartheid-south-africa-israel

[6] https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2023-10-06/israeli-arms-quietly-helped-azerbaijan-retake-nagorno-karabakh-to-dismay-of-armenians

[7] https://nwtrcc.org/resist/consequences/

[8] https://nwtrcc.org/resist/consequences/war-tax-resisters-taken-court/

[9] https://nwtrcc.org/resist/consequences/irs-property-seizures-war-tax-resisters/

[10] https://nwtrcc.org/PDFs/practical3.pdf

[11] https://nwtrcc.org/resist/consequences/war-tax-resisters-taken-court/

[12] https://nwtrcc.org/resist/consequences/irs-property-seizures-war-tax-resisters/

[13] https://nwtrcc.org/resist/redirection/#altfunds

[14] https://nwtrcc.org/PDFs/practical5.pdf

[15] https://nwtrcc.org/resist/how-to-resist/

[16] https://nwtrcc.org/resist/w-4-resistance/

[17] https://nwtrcc.org/PDFs/practical1.pdf

[18] https://nwtrcc.org/resist/consequences/war-tax-resisters-taken-court/

Other Links:

Slide 6 - https://youtu.be/watch?v=WkWvP32BMUo

Slide 7 - https://nwtrcc.org/2023/12/11/call-to-action-taxblackout2024/

Slide 7 - http://tinyurl.com/WTRLearnerSlide 7 - http://tinyurl.com/WTRSources

#free palestine #free gaza #tax resistance #war tax resistance #anti imperialism #gaza genocide #armenian genocide #sudan #free sudan #keep eyes on sudan #(not on here but israel is also responsible for supplying weapons to the RSF so still relevant) #anti apartheid

[sayruq]

Expect the same thing to happen once Israel signals that they're done with their genocide

#yemen #jerusalem #tel aviv #current events #palestine #free palestine #gaza #free gaza #armenia #armenian genocide #genocide

[esmemarion]

I've been really angry and drained from the state of the world at the moment, so I felt the need to draw something that spelt out my desire for peace. Spread awareness for all of this.

#repost due to using the wrong afghanistan flag #my art #cease fire now #ceasefire now #free palestine #congo genocide #armenian genocide #war in ukraine #free sudan #tigray genocide #free syria #rohingya genocide #uyghur genocide #free afghanistan

[haykhighland]

I will never get over the fact that thousands of Armenians were massacred in 2020. The grief that has been left behind in their passing. The lives they were meant to live. I shouldn’t be seeing graves marked with the dates “2001-2020”.

These people were not killed in a war, they were killed in a genocide. They were murdered defending their native land against colonizers. Those who seek to use and destroy our land for its natural resources. Those who wish to see Indigenous populations destroyed or Turkified.

Armenians have been resisting genocide and Turkification since the Turks entered our highlands in the 10th century.

I understand the complexities of many Azerbaijani’s and today’s Turks being mixed with the indigenous populations of our region— including Armenians. However, that acknowledgment can only go so far when they choose to identify with the colonizing group, and commit genocide against indigenous people that resisted assimilation. When you choose to identify with the colonizer, when you take on their identity, you become them. You are them.

#armenian #west asia #indigenous #armenia #artsakh #middle east #armenian genocide #genocide #armenian highlands #colonization

[raisunii]

Palestine will be free.

Who Remembers the Armenians?, Najwan Darwish / Myth of the Vanishing Indian, Rena Priest / Shadow Procession, William Kentridge / The Wretched of the Earth, Frantz Fanon / Darfur (Jesus Wept), William F. DeVault / Srebrenica, Safet Zec

#web weave #web weaving #webweaving #palestine #israel #israel palestine conflict #palestinians #gaza #middle east #crusades #armenia #armenian genocide #bosnian genocide #native american #native genocide #the black war #black war #massacre of salsipuedes #moriori genocide #herero and namaqua genocide #herero #namaqua #poetry #poems #colonialism #colonization

[vaporize-employers]

Kozandere served as the stage for a macabre spectacle: the corpses of Armenians tortured and killed there were dressed in Muslim costume, capped with turbans, and photographed. ...The pictures were then reproduced and widely distributed, first in Dyarbekir, later in Istanbul, and even Germany. They were supposed to show victims of atrocities committed by the Armenian “insurgents,” “in order to incite the population against the Armenians.”

— Kévorkian, The Armenian Genocide, p. 364

#palestine #free palestine #gaza #armenian genocide #i immediately thought of this. #all genocides are connected #described in alt

[metamorphesque]

Only 3 months after completing the long-planned ethnic cleansing of Nagorno-Karabakh (Artsakh) by forcing out Armenians, the indigenous population with a history of over 3000 years and, thus, having successfully carried out yet another step of turk-azeri multi-stage strategy of the (second!) genocide of Armenians...And yet, rather than be held accountable for the above-mentioned, azerbaijan recently won the bid to host the United Nation's climate summit next year.

REWARDED 3 months after carrying out an ethnic cleansing! It's funny how the world is so selective about which war crimes must be reprimanded and which ones— rewarded.

#un.. you've done it again my friend #at this point the only thing one can do is just laugh at this tomfoolery #armenia #artsakh #armenian genocide #history

[talkingattumble]

I feel like a complete asshole for saying this. But I wanna say it.

I feel like on these past few years, the internet has been focused on justice for horrible things happening everywhere. The war in Ukraine, the earthquake in turkey/Syria, the women’s rights situation in Iran, the ethnic cleansing in Palestine.

And I feel like every single time Armenia is left out of it. For so long we’ve been attacked. We lost Artsakh after almost a YEAR of the civilians being literally starved by Azerbaijan. And no one said a fucking word.

And it’s like no matter how many people I tell, no matter how many posts I make, no matter how many protests I go to, nobody cares about Armenia.

I learned about ethnic cleansing and genocide before I could multiply. I knew there were entire nations of people who wanted nothing more than to see my entire people wiped out before I knew what a cell was. I go to sleep most nights worrying about my family, terrified that I’ll wake up the next day and find that my country doesn’t exist anymore.

And nobody even cares enough to make a post.

The extent of most peoples knowledge about conflicts in Armenia is “well there was a genocide and then everything was okay again.” If they even know Armenia exists at all.

It’s just. When will it be Armenia’s turn? When will I start seeing people post about Armenia everywhere? When will I see the Armenian flag on lawns and profile pictures and bumper stickers, in solidarity with us? When will Turkey and Azerbaijan be called out for their disgusting actions?

Did you know that the Armenian genocide is the first to be described as a genocide? Did you know that Hitler mentioned Armenia by name? He mentioned us in one of his speeches, describing why the holocaust would work, why he would not be punished.

He said, “Who, after all, speaks today of the annihilation of the Armenians?”

No one. And their silence is deadly.

#armenia #armenian genocide #artsakh #east turkey is west armenia

[tankgotstuckinthecircusgate]

the most painful thing about artsakh to me is that my relatives had to emigrate from there in 1991, so it was 32 years ago. And today, once again, azerbaijan started shelling artsakh, while armenians in artsakh have been under blockade since december 2022

so. 32 years has passed and there's still war. this thought makes me want to cry. god, i wish people will learn to live in peace someday

#armenia #azerbaidjan #war #stop war #nagorno karabakh #artsakh #armenian genocide #news #politics #nagorny karabakh

[karineverse]

I really want to have fun with my mutuals and get a lot of asks and post my art but a person dies in Palestine every 4 minutes. That's not even the only genocide happening right now.

#palestine #free palestine #gaza #free gaza #end the occupation #end the war #end the colonialism #keep talking about palestine #talk louder about Palestine #congo genocide #sudan genocide #armenian genocide #end the genocide

[harminuya]

The Mountain People and The Refugees by Sarkis Katchadourian (1886-1947). Armenian Museum of France.

#armenia #armenian #armenianblog #armenian art #armenian artists #sarkis khachadourian #armenian genocide #մեծ եղեռն