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albertserra · 3 months

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Nakba: Palestine, 1948, and the Claims of Memory

Introduction by Lila Abu-Lughod & Ahmad H. Sa’di

#nakba: palestine 1948 and the claims of memory #lila abu lughod #ahmad h. sa'di #lit

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aronarchy · 3 months

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A copy of the first reading list, if you dislike clicking on Google docs links:

The liberal news media is working overtime to silence Palestinian voices. As we sit thousands of miles away, witnessing the massacre through social media, the least we can do is educate ourselves and work to educate others. Apartheid threatens all of us, and just to reiterate, anti-Zionism ≠ antisemitism.

Academic Works, Poetry and Memoirs

The Revolution of 1936-1939 in Palestine: Background, Details, and Analysis, Ghassan Kanafani (1972)

Palestinians: From Peasants to Revolutionaries, Rosemary Sayegh (1979)

Popular Resistance in Palestine: A History of Hope and Empowerment, Mazin Qumsiyeh (2011)

My Life in the PLO: The Inside Story of the Palestinian Struggle, Shafiq al-Hout and Jean Said Makdisi (2019)

My People Shall Live, Leila Khaled (1971)

Poetry of Resistance in Occupied Palestine, translated by Sulafa Hijjawi (Baghdad, Ministry of Culture and Guidance, 1968)

On Palestine by Ilan Pappé and Noam Chomsky (2015)

Gaza in Crisis: Reflections on the US-Israeli War Against the Palestinians, Noam Chomsky and Ilan Pappé (2013)

The Politics of Dispossession: The Struggle for Palestinian Self-Determination, 1969-1994, Edward W. Said (2012)

Queer Palestine and the Empire of Critique, Sa’ed Atshan (2020)

Stone Men: The Palestinians Who Built Israel, Andrew Ross (2019)

Ten Myths About Israel, Ilan Pappé (2017)

Blaming the Victims: Spurious Scholarship and the Palestinian Question, Christopher Eric Hitchens and Edward W. Said (2001)

Palestinian Walks: Notes on a Vanishing Landscape, Raja Shehadeh (2010)

The Gun and the Olive Branch: The Roots of Violence in the Middle East, David Hirst (1977)

Gaza: An Inquest into Its Martyrdom, Norman Finkelstein (2018)

Fateful Triangle: The United States, Israel and the Palestinians, Noam Chomsky (1983)

Israel and Palestine: Reappraisals, Revisions, Refutations, Avi Shlaim (2010)

Politicide: Ariel Sharon’s War Against the Palestinians, Baruch Kimmerling (2006)

The Holocaust Industry: Reflections on the Exploitation of Jewish Suffering, Norman G. Finkelstein (2015)

Light in Gaza: Writings Born of Fire, Jehad Abusalim (2022)

Nakba: Palestine, 1948, and the Claims of Memory, Ahmad H. Sa’di and Lila Abu-Lughod (2007)

Peace and its discontents: Essays on Palestine in the Middle East peace process, Edward W. Said (2012)

Three Poems by Yahya Hassan

Articles, Papers & Essays

“Palestinian history doesn’t start with the Nakba” by PYM (May, 2023)

“What the Uprising Means,” Salim Tamari (1988)

“The Palestinians’ inalienable right to resist,” Louis Allday (2021)

“Liberating a Palestinian Novel from Israeli Prison,” Danya Al-Saleh and Samar Al-Saleh (2023)

Women, War, and Peace: Reflections from the Intifada, Nahla Abdo (2002)

“A Place Without a Door” and “Uncle Give me a Cigarette”—Two Essays by Palestinian Political Prisoner, Walid Daqqah (2023)

“Live Like a Porcupine, Fight Like a Flea,” A Translation of an Article by Basel Al-Araj

Films & Video Essays

Fedayin: Georges Abdallah’s Fight (2021)

Naila and the Uprising (2017)

Off Frame AKA Revolution Until Victory (2015)

Tell Your Tale Little Bird (1993)

The Time That Remains (2009)

“The Present” (short film) (2020)

“How Palestinians were expelled from their homes”

Louis Theroux: The Ultra Zionists (2011)

Born in Gaza (2014)

5 Broken Cameras (2011)

Little Palestine: Diary of a Siege (2021)

Al-Nakba: The Palestinian catastrophe - Episode 1 | Featured Documentary

Organisations to donate to

Palestine Red Crescent Society - https://www.palestinercs.org/en

Anera - https://support.anera.org/a/palestine-emergency

Palestinian American Medical Association - https://palestinian-ama.networkforgood.com/projects/206145-gaza-medical-supplies-oct-2023

You First Gaza - https://donate.gazayoufirst.org/

MAP - Medical Aid for Palestinians - https://www.map.org.uk/donate/donate

United Nations Relief and Works Agency - https://donate.unrwa.org/-landing-page/en_EN

Palestine Children’s Relief Fund - https://www.pcrf.net/

Doctors Without Borders - https://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/what-we-do/where-we-work/palestine

AP Fact Check

https://apnews.com/article/israel-hamas-gaza-misinformation-fact-check-e58f9ab8696309305c3ea2bfb269258e

This list is not exhaustive in any way, and is a summary of various sources on the Internet. Please engage with more ethical, unbiased sources, including Decolonize Palestine and this list compiled by the Palestinian Youth Movement.

#repost of someone else’s content #Palestine #free Palestine

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garadinervi · 3 months

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Nakba. Palestine, 1948, and the Claims of Memory, Edited by Ahmad H. Saadi (احمد سعدي) and Lila Abu-Lughod (ليلى أبو لغد), Columbia University Press, New York, NY, 2007 [Institute for Palestine Studies, Beirut]

#graphic design #history #historiography #book #cover #book cover #ahmad h. saadi #lila abu lughod #institute for palestine studies #2000s

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zucchinimalfoy · 7 months

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I don’t know if this will reach anyone, and quite frankly, I don’t give a fuck. I have shit I need to say and shit that people need to hear.

First and foremost, Free Palestine. It has always been Free Palestine, and will always be Free Palestine.

My earliest memory of the occupation of Palestine was when I was seven. At the age of seven, I had the emotional maturity, the human decency to look at what was happening and come to the conclusion that the Palestinians were innocent. They were being forced out of their homes by the settle colony isr*el, and that they needed to be freed.

If I, at the mere age of seven, can come to that conclusion, then what the fuck are the world leaders in GOVERNMENT doing? I’m a Muslim, Alhamdulillah, and as a Muslim, I have utter belief in the fact that Palestine will indeed be free one day, by the will of Allah S.W.T. I have no doubt about it, but as a human, I am begging for a ceasefire on the attacks in Gaza, on innocent civilians. isr*el has cut off water, food, electricity and fuel. They had previously prevented aid from entering from Egypt, only just allowing twenty trucks of aid in to Gaza, which we all know does nothing to help the 2.2 million people there.

For 75 years, Palestine has been illegally occupied, Palestinians have been slaughtered and forced out of their homes. Everyday, they live in constant fear. Not just in Gaza, but also in the West Bank (which Hamas has no presence there, if you were wondering). Everyday of their lives, they’ve been beaten, hit, killed. And on October 7th, they decided to fight back.

And before you come for me, I do not condone the murder of innocents, like children. But, I cannot also say that all those isr*elis are innocent. Just them calling themselves isr*elis makes them somewhat accountable as they are saying they accept the apartheid, the genocide and ethnic cleansing. isr*el is not a state. It is a settler colony, and in my eyes, I will never ever recognise them as anything else.

Also, not to mention that in 2019 69% of men and 56% of women were serving in the army (I couldn’t find more recent statistics than that, I’m afraid.) But, at the same time, a life lost is a life lost. It’s heartbreaking, and my prayers are with all those who have lost family.

But, let’s move onto Gaza.

2.2 million people. 25 miles long and 5 miles wide. Over 1.1 million are children. The death toll is now over 5000. Over 1700 of them are CHILDREN. Over 51% of people in Gaza are now homeless, due to their homes being bombed and having no safe place to go. If you look up the amount of people who are homeless in the UK and the US, add those two figures together, and you’ll see that it still doesn’t come close to the amount of displaced people in Gaza. Two of the most powerful countries in the world, the US being one of the largest, and Gaza being literally 25 miles long.

Put that into perspective.

I’m fucking sick to death. Sick to death of bitch-ass celebrities like the Kardashians and the Jenners and Jamie Lee-Curtis and so many more who post their support for isr*el, without having a single fucking clue about the historical context of this genocide.

Palestine was always, and has forever been Palestine. The brits ‘gave’ Palestine to the jews after the atrocities of WWII, and Palestinians welcomed them.

Then the Nakba happened in 1948.

This is a crime against humanity, a massacre of Palestinians, a slaughter of children. This is another Holocaust.

And, if you support Palestine, that does not make you antisemitic. It makes you human. Orthodox Jews from all over the world have showcased their support for the Palestinians- they do not claim Israel, do not believe it to be their land, and have and always will recognise it as Palestine.

This is not a war. This is not a conflict. This is ethnic cleansing. It isn‘t limited to religion, as there are Muslims, Christians and Jews in Palestine.

You don’t have to be Muslim to support Palestine, you just have to be human.

I’m sorry if this is all over the place. There’s so much I want to say, and it’s difficult to articulate when I’m this angry. I’m just going to say one last thing.

From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free. 🇵🇸

#palestine #free palestine #from the river to the sea palestine will be free #freepalastine🇵🇸#end apartheid #palestinians #is not real #islam #muslim #i stand with palestine #end genocide #end settler colonialism #end ethnic cleansing #free palestine until its backwards #it’s free palestine until palestine is free #فلسطين 🇵🇸#filistin 🇵🇸#free palestine 🇵🇸#from the river to the sea 🇵🇸

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readingsquotes · 1 month

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The state of Israel is the purveyor not only of a settler-colonial project but also of one that actively continues its violent expansion in the 21st century. Over the past months we have witnessed widespread, unnecessary death and extraordinary devastation that has led to the uprooting of practically the entire population of Gaza. Massive demonstrations all over the planet and deep collective grief about the conditions in Gaza have turned my attention back to the emotion-laden political mobilizations during the summer of 2020. People everywhere, including in Palestine, felt both rage and profound sadness at the racist police lynching of George Floyd. Some might say that the issues driving the George Floyd mobilizations and the current protests against the war on Gaza are different. But are they?

The collective mourning elicited by the racist violence that claimed the lives of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and so many others galvanized demonstrations aimed at the systems, structures, and histories that enabled such racist state violence. And those demonstrations were implicitly directed at the global imperialism that furthers the proliferation of racial capitalist strategies. Some of the protests also highlighted the lessons the U.S. has learned as a direct result of its close alliance with Israel, which has included trainings offered by the Israel Defense Forces to U.S. police departments all over the country. Whether or not the Minnesota police ever directly learned combat moves from the IDF, the increased militarization of policing here is directly related to global capitalism, including the economic and military ties between Israel and the U.S."

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It was clear then that the Zionist lobby was stepping up its offensive because it had been losing ground. .....I see a direct line connecting this recent history — and, of course, all the history linking Black and Palestinian movements since the Nakba in 1948 — with the rising numbers of Black people who now refuse to toe the Democratic Party line on support for Israel.

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Today the unceasing military assaults on Gaza are reason for deep despair, especially as we learn every day about a loss of life and community destruction that is unprecedented in comparison to all recent wars. Despite the obvious need for a cease-fire — a permanent cease-fire — the U.S. government continues to lend aid and support to Israel. Young activists today are trying to unravel this conundrum, even as the government and both major political parties remain in thrall to Zionism. Despite efforts to persuade the public that any critique or even questioning of the state of Israelis equivalent to antisemitism, astute young people, including radical Jewish activists, are pointing out that the most effective struggles against antisemitism are necessarily linked to opposition to racism, Islamophobia, and other modes of repression and discrimination. This is the first time in my own political memory that the Palestine solidarity movement is experiencing such broad support both throughout the U.S. and all over the world. Here in the United States, despite the McCarthyist strategies employed against those who call for freedom and justice for Palestine on campuses, in the entertainment industry, and elsewhere, we are in a new political moment, and we cannot — we must not — capitulate to those who represent the interests of racial capitalism and the legacies of colonialism."

#palestine #free palestine #isreal #gaza #apartheid #genocide #colonization #us politics #american imperialism #police state #angela davis #settler colonialism

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motifcollector · 6 months

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there's a really fascinating chapter by samera esmeir in nakba: palestine, 1948, and the claims of memory about a prominent controversy among israeli historians in the late 1990s and early 2000s. theodore katz, a master's student, wrote an initially very well-received thesis about a 1948 massacre in the palestinian village of tantura by israeli soldiers. an israeli newspaper covered the thesis and katz's research, and veterans of the brigade who committed the massacre were angry and sued katz for libel. katz ended up settling out of court after two days of testimony and signed a statement saying no killings happened after the village surrendered (which is what his thesis had argued did happen), but soon regretted this statement.

what's particularly notable to me is that katz was/is no radical--he consistently characterizes the massacre as an exceptional incident and is firmly a zionist, certainly not against the nakba as a whole. much of his defense rests on the argument that regardless of what really happened, he did not intend to spread falsehoods. so the fact that his work was (and continues to be--there was a new documentary in 2022!) so controversial is all the more damning of his society, considering that he's not actually challenging the fundamental myths of israeli society--he sees israel's founding as essentially good w/ a few regrettable but ultimately very atypical acts of unjustified violence.

also notable is that both ilan pappé and benny morris, perhaps the two most famous israeli historians, supported katz. pappé supports bds and one-state solution for both palestinians and israelis, but morris is firmly a zionist and belives the nakba was fully justified. again, striking that even morris found katz's work to have truth and merit to it.

if you want to read the article, it can be found in this book, and then it's chapter 9, "memories of conquest: witnessing death in tantura." the katz controversy itself is fascinating and telling imo, but esmeir's article also does a great job of challenging the fundamental conceptions about history that both katz and his detractors relied on.

#palestine #on history #history

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i-am-aprl · 7 months

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Holding a map drawn by his uncle, aged 96, Maher Shamma, born in Al-Yarmouk Refugee Camp in Syria, arrived in Palestine as a U.S citizen this time in search for the family house in Acre.

The story started months ago when Maher told me that he intended to come to Palestine for the first time in his life looking for his family house in Acre. We had nothing to guide us except for some old pictures and word of mouth describing the house. The most important of which was a simple map drawn by Maher’s uncle, now in his nineties and a refugee in Jordan, four days before his arrival to the Occupied Territories. “You enter from Beirut-Haifa Street, half a kilometer from the West Sea. On the opposite side is the house of Abdul Fattah Al-Saadi. Our house is surrounded by tens of cypress trees.

It was almost impossible to rely on this map only. I used a British mandate map of Acre in an attempt to locate the house. We arrived in Acre and started our search in the so-called New Acre nowadays. Maps, photos and mixed feelings imposed by the city. I was struck by the strong intuition of Maher after a bit of loss; That Palestinian Syrian, born in the refugee camp, and who has never seen Palestine before: “Tarek, go left and then take the first right.” And I did.

There stood the house. We were then standing in front of the house of the deceased Moustafa Shamma. The 25 cypress trees surrounded the house from 3 sides. The entrance, the windows and the garden are just as described by his uncle, the refugee in Jordan. There stood Maher, amazed and in tears, sad and glad at the same time looking at his house in contemplation. The house has turned into a nursery under the Ministry of Education after being inhabited by an Israeli family right after Nakba. What left Maher feeling a bit at ease is that the nursery, called "גן ברושים'' meaning Cypress Nursery is open to the Arab kids of Acre.

In a complete coincidence, an elderly woman named Um Ihab Al-Shawish stopped us while we stood next to the house. She was a conscious child at the time of Nakba and remembers what happened well. She was able to figure out we were not from Acre from our dialect. Just like any other “Akkawi”, she insisted on having us over at her house overlooking the sea to “offer us a cold or hot drink in addition to lunch before even asking about our names”. As we were a bit tight on time, I told her that Maher was born in Al-Yarmouk Refugee Camp and was visiting his hometown for the first time… “love, Acre is honored to receive you. You are our people. What happened to us in 48 didn’t happen to anyone. They took everything from us. My relatives and uncles were displaced and are now in Lebanon. Uncle Munir is now in Sidon and we are still staying steadfast in Acre. Um Ihab didn’t stop to talk for ten consecutive minutes. I did not interrupt her as she was very enthusiastic and her memory was extremely sharp and active.

I asked her about the Shamma family. She replied: “there is their house; an Israeli family lived in it before it turned into a nursery. Right opposite to it is the house of Abdul Fattah Al-Saadi, it was demolished by the Jews”.

Um Ihab told us that she knew a woman from the Shamma family and together we went to see her to find out she was one of Maher’s relatives. She said her father stayed in Acre on behalf of the family to look after its properties until things get back to being calm. “We thought things would take a week only and then we would return to our homes. My father hardly stayed to take care of the houses and at the end everything was gone.”

Maher is one of million Palestinian refugees around the world. His house in Acre that fell on the 17th of May 1948 is one of 1125 houses that were taken over by Israel Land Authority in Acre and are now run by two state-owned housing companies; Amidar and Acre Development Company.

A right is never lost as long as someone is striving to claim it, even after 70 years, 39 days and 8 hours!

#palestine #arab #gaza #jerusalem #free palestine #i stand with palestine #فلسطين

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sincerelyveronica · 7 months

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The last few days have been heavy. I haven’t really found the words to describe all the emotions running inside me. Everything going on in Gaza and Guatemala have kept me on high alert. At times, I feel like making a “statement” is irrelevant to all the life lost in Palestine and Israel. I have thoughts on it like many people who’ve been sharing non-stop. I don’t feel equipped to comment on the matter cause I’m not there. I’m not Muslim or Jewish. But that’s it, isn’t it. It’s because one person is one while the other is another — that we seem to lack compassion or empathy. They’re children dying. They’re people dying for some unjust war. I don’t understand how we can’t figure out how to stop bloodshed. I don’t understand the need for oppression. I don’t understand the need for control and power. I don’t understand the need for profit. Why do the children have to suffer? Why do the people have to suffer? Why must there be genocides and mass killings?? Why is there war? Just why.

I know I don’t have the answers. Hell, I don’t know much and that’s why I’ve been helpless this past week. My need, my desire, my painful ache to know and understand has been driving me. So that’s why I’m going to do. LEARN. READ. LISTEN. SUPPORT. SHOW UP. ACT. CARE. RESIST. LEARN. LOVE. LISTEN. BE FUCKING COMPASSIONATE.

I’ve been sharing gofundme links to aid in Gaza. I have donated and I will keep taking action because that is what I need to do. It’s what I want to do. I will continue to share links, resources, books, gofundme and anything else I can find to help everyone in Gaza. To help people in Israel. To help people in Guatemala. To be there for my people too. Mi gente and todo el resto del mundo. 🌍

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https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9516

#gaza #guatemala

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kafkasmelomania · 3 years

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June 5, 2021: American Queers by SuperKnova

*Bandcamp here

SuperKnova is SO cool. Did you know that she not only writes all her songs and records all of her songs completely by herself but also taught herself how to produce and master music so that she could have total creative control? That’s really impressive! What’s also cool about her is that she’s setting an example for people who feel like outsiders in the music scene, especially queer people of color. She talks about that in this article, which is really good and something that you should definitely read:

Only now, as SuperKnova, Ellie is beginning to finally overcome the impostor syndrome that influenced her artistic confidence for the majority of her professional life. “I had a degree in music and I still felt like I wasn’t a real musician”, she looks back on her younger self. Today, Ellie strives to create “more of these media images, the ones [she] never had growing up” in all of her work.

She also discusses why she wants to be a role model in this article:

She also said her art is intentional. She hopes to make the kind of art she needed but never found in the world while younger. Whereas other artists might balk at a role model designation, Kim somewhat embraces it, or at least embraces the responsibility, actions, and intentions of someone set on giving voice to populations often ignored.

“Half of what I do as SuperKnova is create interesting, creative music. But I want to create the art I wish I had growing up as a closeted trans teenager growing up in a transphobic community, to be like queer therapy,” Kim said. “I never started this to be some mainstream thing like Justin Bieber or Ariana Grande. I want to make the art for my community and then if people outside of the community like it, great. If not, they don't need to listen to it.”

Also! She has a Tumblr! You can follow her at @superknovamusic.

Because it’s Pride Month:

Here’s some queer history from around the world, not just the United States.

Here are some LGBTQIA+ GoFundMe campaigns: Rent Fund For Black LGBT Family, Help Roze get somewhere safe (Non-Binary LGBTQ), Survival and Gender Affirming Needs for Black Enby, College Fund for a Black Trans Woman, Tito’s top surgery and recovery fund, Omi’s Transition Fund: Health, Housing, & Security, Help Emmett Pay for Emergency Surgery

If you’d like to get involved with stopping the atrocities against Palestine, here’s where you can start (text in bold for readability):

This Carrd is full of information, petitions, and places to donate.

Here are some organizations to which you can donate. This post now includes a list of corporations to boycott.

Here is some information about the Palestinian Children’s Relief Fund and a list of other organizations.

Decolonize Palestine has an FAQ about Palestine here.

This is a list of actions you can take (somewhat UK-specific). This is a reading list of texts with more background information.

UK petitions: This is a petition for the UK government to formally recognize the State of Palestine. This is a petition to introduce sanctions against Israel. This is a petition to condemn Israel for their treatment of Palestine and Palestinians.

Here’s the Wikipedia overview of the current iteration of the crisis.

If you’re curious about the United States’s involvement: this is a report about U.S. foreign aid to Israel. This is the Wikipedia page for Palestine-United States relations and this is the Wikipedia page for Israel-United States relations.

Here are some perspectives from on the ground in Gaza. This is also explains why spreading the Palestinian point of view. is so important.

This is one Jewish person’s explanation of the conflation of Jewish identity with the modern Israeli state. They mention the Nakba, which is important – per Wikipedia, “the Nakba, […] also known as the Palestinian Catastrophe, was the destruction of Palestinian society and homeland in 1948, and the permanent displacement of a majority of the Palestinian people.”

This Vox video gives a brief overview of the conflict from its inception until the present day, although it’s from 2016, so it’s not entirely up to date. This CrashCourse video does the same, and I think it’s actually a little better than the Vox video because within the first minute they shut down everyone who claims that this is a religious conflict. That video is also not entirely up to date, as it is from 2015.

This post has some resources with information about the history of Palestine, Israel’s occupation of Palestine, and updates about the current situation.

Do you like podcasts? Here are some podcast episodes about Palestine.

Here are some miscellaneous resources for helping Palestine.

Black lives matter and here are some ways you can get involved in the fight against racism, specifically anti-black racism (text in bold for readability):

This Linktree and this Carrd are full of ways to confront and fight against anti-black racism: places to donate, advice for protesting, educational resources.

This post is specifically about Daunte Wright and how to help his family. This is Daunte Wright’s memorial fund.

The Minnesota Freedom Fund is doing good work, and since so many people have been recognizing that work and donating to them, they ask that you instead donate to Families Supporting Families Against Police Violence, the Racial Justice Network, Communities United Against Police Brutality, the Minneapolis NAACP, the Council on American-Islamic Relations in Minneapolis, and the Black Immigrant Collective. You can also donate to the Bail Project, which operates in multiple states.

Other organizations to which you can donate are the Black Trans Advocacy Coalition, the NAACP, the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, the Okra Project, the Solutions Not Punishment Collaborative, For The Gworls, G.L.I.T.S., the Marsha P. Johnson Institute, the Black Trans Travel Fund, the Sylvia Rivera Law Project, and the Black Trans Femmes in the Arts Collective.

GoFundMe: Justice for Breonna Taylor, In Memory of Jamarion Robinson, Rent Fund For Black LGBT Family, Esperanza Spalding’s BIPOC Artist Sanctuary, Survival and Gender Affirming Needs for Black Enby

(via https://open.spotify.com/album/3HAKCGSBK2CdNR94iSKMLS?si=ifgUe8PhQrC8Q4ipuGqGqQ)

#superknova #american queers #alt pop #alternative pop #electropop #synth pop #indie rock #indie pop #2010s music #2019 #english #english language #united states #american music #album of the day #music rec #album rec

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grootpoepjeplasjehoofd · 4 years

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Reminder about the Israeli history recs :( (in case you forgot; if not, no hurries)

Oof I’m sorry for keeping you waiting for so long! Most of these are available on libgen. It goes without saying but I don’t necessarily endorse all of the conclusions of these books and some of them are from historians who fall squarely into the Zionist camp, but if it’s in here it’s the product of good research. These should keep you busy for a while.

Abu-Lughod. Nakba: Palestine, 1948, and the Claims of Memory.

Gorenberg. The Accidental Empire: Israel and the Birth of the Settlements, 1967-1977.

Kramer. History of Palestine: From the Ottoman Conquest until the Creation of the State of Israel.

Flapan. The Birth of Israel: Myths And Realities.

Khalidi. Palestinian Identity: The Construction of Modern National Consciousness.

Khalidi. The Iron Cage: The Story of the Palestinian Struggle for Statehood.

Khalidi. The Hundred Years War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917–2017.

Khalidi. From Haven to Conquest: Readings in Zionism and the Palestine Problem Until 1948.

Kimmerling. Palestinians: The Making of a People.

Laqueur. A History of Zionism: From the French Revolution to the Establishment of the State of Israel.

Masalha. Expulsion of the Palestinians: The Concept of "Transfer" in Zionist Political Thought.

Morris. The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem Revisited.

Said. The Question of Palestine.

Pappe. A History of Modern Palestine: One Land, Two Peoples.

Pappe. The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine.

Pappe. The Rise and Fall of a Palestinian Dynasty: The Husaynis, 1700–1948

Segev. One Palestine, Complete: Jews and Arabs Under the British Mandate.

Segev. 1949: The First Israelis.

Shafir. Land, Labor and the Origins of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, 1882-1914.

Shapira. Land and Power: The Zionist Resort to Force, 1881-1948.

Shlaim. Collusion across the Jordan: King Abdullah, the Zionist Movement and the Partition of Palestine.

Shlaim. The Iron Wall: Israel and the Arab World.

Shlaim. The War for Palestine: Rewriting the History of 1948.

Shindler. A History of Modern Israel.

Sternhell. The Founding Myths of Israel: Nationalism, Socialism, and the Making of the Jewish State.

#can't really separate neatly into right this is Israeli and this is Palestinian because of how intertwined the history is

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xtruss · 4 years

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For “God’s Fucked-up Zionist Cunt Bibi and Pussy Grabber-in-Chief Trash Trumpet,” Peace Means Palestinian Submission

To say that Israel has 'yearned for peace' since its creation is to utterly deny the state's violent legacy.

— By Nooran Alhamdan | Dr. Norman Gary Finkelstein | January 29, 2020

Israeli soldiers arrest a Palestinian youth during a protest against Donald Trump's recognition of Jerusalem as Israel's capital, Hebron, West Bank, December 7, 2017.

The “Deal of the Century,” revealed on Tuesday at a White House press conference by U.S. President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, is wholly insulting to Palestinians. But one statement in particular made me jolt out of my seat. Early in his speech, Netanyahu said: “Since the moment of its birth, Israel has yearned for peace with our Palestinian neighbors.”

I paused the live stream, feeling myself shaking with anger. Anger: the trait used to dehumanize Arabs, especially Palestinians. Our anger makes Western pundits and many Jewish Israelis squirm with discomfort.

The violence in Netanyahu’s shameless statement is the root of the conflict. His words explain generations of Palestinian rage, revealing that the occupation is not just about land, but about the theft of a people’s narrative.

Claiming that “Israel has yearned for peace” since its creation is an utter denial of all the ways in which that state has intentionally wronged Palestinians. It declares the very existence of our people a roadblock to peace.

The belief that we could simply forget the violence Israel has perpetrated against Palestinians since 1948, without even a shred of its acknowledgement, is why Israel’s outstretched hand “yearning for peace” is invisible to us. This statement is the very reason why Palestinians don’t trust “negotiations,” which have historically been used to maintain our oppression and erase our story.

Contrary to Netanyahu’s remarks, since the moment of its birth, Israel has actively worked to drive out the Palestinian people from their homes and lands. Before the state’s birth, Zionist militias expelled entire villages at gunpoint. After its birth, those militias became the Israeli army and continued the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians. As a Palestinian whose grandparents were expelled from their village in July 1948, I know this all too well.

President Donald J. Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stop to talk with reporters Monday, Jan. 27, 2020, along the West Wing Colonnade of the White House prior to their meeting in the Oval Office.

Since its birth, Israel has yearned to control the most territory possible between the river and sea with the least number of Palestinians living on the land. What more, it seeks to entirely erase the memory of the Palestinian people from the pages of history.

Is destroying and depopulating 500 Palestinian villages “yearning for peace?” Is displacing hundreds of thousands of refugees and denying their right to return “yearning for peace?” Is demolishing homes, confiscating lands, and building settlements “yearning for peace?” Is restricting Palestinian movement, building settler-only roads, and constructing checkpoints “yearning for peace?” Is bombing neighborhoods, firing at civilians, and arresting children “yearning for peace?” Is implementing a policy of apartheid “yearning for peace?”

If this is Israel’s idea of peace, then we Palestinians say, with justified anger: to hell with it.

A peace built on the full submission and silencing of the Palestinian people is far from sustainable. An enduring peace recognizes the Nakba, the tragedy that Palestinians have been experiencing since 1948; it holds Israel accountable for its repeated violations of international and human rights law; it promotes not only equality between Palestinians and Israelis, but equity. An enduring peace promotes transitional justice and decolonization.

The silver lining of the “Deal of the Century” is that it makes crystal clear what the options are in Israel-Palestine. In one scenario, Israel annexes areas of the West Bank while governing Palestinians under a different set of laws — and we finally call apartheid by its name. In the other, Palestinians and Israelis share equal rights: one person, one vote, with freedom of movement, of worship, and of land ownership for both peoples.

For years the international community has ignored Palestinian suffering, prioritizing Israeli “security” at the expense of Palestinian lives. Now more than ever, to truly yearn for peace is to stand with the Palestinian people and push for freedom and dignity for all.

Nooran Alhamdan is a Palestinian-American graduate of economics and political science at the University of New Hampshire.

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aparnesh · 5 years

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"Nakba: Palestine, 1948, and the Claims of Memory"

Edited by:

Ahmad H. Sa'di

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Lila Abu-Lughod

Published by: Columbia University Press, the USA, 2007

Full book in PDF format, 374 pages, 2.85 MB, shared via Google Drive link.

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motifcollector · 6 months

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As a war crime, rape has not been specifically recognized and prosecuted, jurist Mohamed Cherif Bassiouni conjectures, because "acts which primarily harm women have not been viewed by men who make policy decisions as violations of those women’s rights...; rape and sexual assault are often viewed as private aberrational acts, not proper subjects for an international public forum."

Susan Slyomovics, "The Rape of Qula, A Destroyed Palestinian Village," in Nakba: Palestine, 1948, and the Claims of Memory, citing The Law of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia by Mohamed Cherif Bassiouni

#rape #rape cw #misogyny

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motifcollector · 6 months

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Yet this destruction of Palestinian society was overshadowed by the heavy presence of what was represented and understood internationally as a birth or rebirth. The death-rebirth dialectic, a philosophical conception with enormous purchase in both religious and secular Western thought, was applied to the Jewish people. The 1948 War that led to the creation of the State of Israel was made to symbolize their rebirth within a decade after their persecution in Europe and subjection to the Nazi genocide. Israel’s creation was represented, and sometimes conceived, as an act of restitution that resolved this dialectic, bringing good out of evil. The Palestinians were excluded from the unfolding of this history.

Lila Abu-Lughod and Ahmad H. Sa'di, introduction to Nakba: Palestine, 1948, and the Claims of Memory

#lila abu-lughod #ahmad h. sa'di #palestine #history #colonialism #currently reading

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kafkasmelomania · 3 years

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