Harvard University students have now set up their own encampment in solidarity with Palestine, demanding that the school also divests from Israel’s war on Gaza.
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BREAKING| The Ministry of Health: Israel committed 9 massacres in the past 24 hours, killing 97 civilians and wounding 132 others. This brings the death toll in Gaza in 139 days to 29,410 and the injuries to 69,465. (Illustrative photo)
Anyone know where one could find more maps of Palestine before 1948?
Lately I have been curious about how Palestine looked before the British decided to give a hunk of their land to the Jewish immigrants so they could found Israel and I had problems finding information on the internet. Don’t know if I just didn’t try hard enough, but with their deal with google, I thought Israel might try to bury any maps of the area before they were founded so to erase any mentions of Palestine so I went to the local library(hope that they never disappear) and I found what I was looking for.
When I compared those maps to one of modern Israel, I was surprised, and at the same time not, how much of the land they had taken from Palestine. Though anyone could probably guess that from how Gaza and the West Bank are separated by Israel like an inland ocean despite belonging to the same country. That makes me angry because of how much the West took from Palestine and didn’t even consider if they could take that many immigrants? That area is not that big and most of these people have never been to Palestine before!
Also, I have read from many sources that the area has been Palestine since the Roman Empire occupied it, maybe even before then! And to top it off, despite having been conquered by different countries and empires, the area has never really changed name! Meaning that despite what the zionists say, Jerusalem is a Palestinian city and you can tell that from their history and culture. Palestine has a mix of Muslims, Christians and Jews and probably more and that’s what Jerusalem is supposed to be about! To be a city where people of these religions can come together and pray. To live together and be able to practice their faith without discrimination! Does that sound like the occupied Jerusalem that you know today?
Israel has poisoned this great city for their own pride by treating it like a trophy instead of a place of worship and they are not the only ones. Maybe the Palestinians have been the only ones who have never seen the city like something to be owned and cared about being able to visit it and pray there. If you ask me the Israeli shouldn’t have Jerusalem, not just because I think it should be given back to Palestine, but because they don’t understand its importance to every practicing Muslim, Jew and Christian and why it exists.
Sorry about the soap box speech when I asked you about maps, it just had been on my mind this week. If you think I’m just pulling this out of a hat, one of maps I used is from the book “atlas of world history” so you can check it out for yourself.
I’m now pivoting my jewelry fundraiser to help my sister’s friend, Hanaa, evacuate her family! They’re currently $16,500/$100,000 of their goal, so they urgently need all the help they can get!
[ Palestinian model Bella Hadid wearing a traditional Palestinian Kufiya ]
Another way we’re supporting Palastine is by pre-ordering authentic kufiyas— Palestinians have confirmed that it is NOT appropriation to wear these, as wearing the kufiya shows solidarity to Palestine and keeps their beautiful culture alive all around the world. A symbol of hope, resistance, solidarity.
The Hirbawi Kufiya is now the only kufiya still being actively produced in Palestine— Yasser Hirbawi opened his historic factory in 1961, and they have been authentically woven in Palestine since.
The store is currently taking pre-orders to ship out when the blockade is lifted:
this will make water non drinkable in Gaza and destroy any future prospect of agriculture, all in the midst of a man-induced FAMINE in which Israel uses starvation as a method of warfare WHICH IS YET ANOTHER WAR CRIME!!!! one that israel proudly confirms because they know they will face ZERO repercussions for their acts
They are threatened, they say we are not changing anything, that we’re useless, that they are the victims, that we will never see liberation, While them reacting the way they do proves the exact opposite.
TikTok has been taking down a lot of Pro-Palestine content & accounts lately, so I’m going to start posting videos here as a way to save and archive them. This particular video is marked sensitive on TT, so I figure it’ll only be a matter of time before it gets downed too.
This creator is freespiritrida. Here is the link to her TikTok account, and here is her Linktree. She has lots of great Pro-Palestine resources on there. Please go give her a follow or show some support if you have a TikTok account. Boosting helps too!
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