as the horrific assault on Gaza continues, I encourage you all to find at least one action you can take to aid and support Palestinians this weekend. there is a long list of organizations and fundraisers you can donate to, petitions you can sign, and info for contacting your government officials collected in this post here.
[ ID: Digital, stylized, lineless artwork of a group of mountain gazelles going up a green-ish mountain filled with rocks and bushes against a beige sky with a yellow, cartoon sun above. Dark brown text next to the sun reads: "Ya taleen eljabal". Around the piece is a thin, green frame. Background is transparent. /End ID ]
"Ya Tal3een El Jabal (يا طالعين الجبل)" is a Palestinian folk song that was sung by women to imprisoned men, hiding its meaning and messages through the use of a repeating "le" sound. Its origins are unsure, though it's thought to have originated in either Otoman or Mandatory Palestine.
(Edit: made a few edits as I wasn’t happy with the overall look)
This will be available as a sticker and print for a Gaza fundraiser that I’ve set up in my new INPRNT store!
All proceeds will be donated to fundsforgaza, a Linktree fundraiser set up by letstalkpalestine that prioritises different fundraisers for families in Gaza, with fundraisers rotated out once their campaigns are complete.
A Palestine Mountain Gazelle surveys the ravages of colonialism on its habitat.
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The myth that Israeli settlers are indigenous to the land of Palestine is absurd on many fronts, among them being their mistreatment of that same land they claim to belong to. For starters, the state of Israel is highly dependant on and contributing to the military industrial complex, one of the most oppressive and polluting entities on the planet. They're also famous (or rather, infamous) for uprooting and destroying native crops and trees and replacing them with invasive plants that not only require more water to tend, but that are also more susceptible to fires. In attempts to greenwash their occupation, they raze Palestinian villages and neighborhoods and build natural parks and reserves on top of them, thus continuing on with a centuries-old colonial practice that has been put to use on stolen lands everywhere. And just like the US-Mexico border wall on my side of the world, the equally racist Apartheid Wall on the West Bank divides up the landscape and severely impedes the free movement of both people and wildlife. The list goes on.
I guess the ecological impact of the current genocidal aggression on Gaza will not be fully apparent until the smoke clears. But already we do know that the first months of the bombing released more emissions than 20 climate vulnerable nations do in a year...so there's that.
All this to say that for people that are so zealous of their supposed "rights" to the land, Israeli Zionists really do seem to go out of their way to hurt it...to carve it up...to destroy it. And that's what colonizers, anytime, everywhere, do.