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goodafterwoon · 4 months

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🕊️🍉💚 In solidarity with the people of Palestine. (A contribution for @freewatermelonartjam )

#I live in a country that has continuously turned down protest requests and discourages people from displaying any political symbols.#Any form of activism is tightly restricted or kept subtle #hence this “educational animal poster” was made.#This artwork may be subtle in speech but my stance and views are not. Genocide is genocide.#free palestine #palestine #free gaza #ceasfire now #art for palestine #gaza genocide #gaza #apartheid #palestine mountain gazelle #Gazella gazella #mountain gazelle #animal art #zoology #taxonomy #wildlife art

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tortiefrancis · 3 months

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Global Strike Day 6): Climbing up the mountain

[ 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.

#sam.message #sam.arts #palestine #free palestine #palestine mountain gazelle #mountain gazelle #history #palestine art #global strike for palestine #artblr #digital artist #digital art #krita #artists on tumblr #artists of tumblr

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dartxo · 2 months

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"Vanishing Homeland"

2024

Palestine Mountain Gazelle (Gazella gazella)

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.

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kristiliqua · 3 months

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PALESTINE WILL BE FREE 🍉🌟

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sugarfrostedmoth · 3 months

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From the river to the sea 🇵🇸🕊️

#palestine #free palestine #freepalastine🇵🇸#free gaza #from the river to the sea palestine will be free #from the river to the sea #palestine will be free #anti zionisim #artists for palestine #mountain gazelle #digital art #lineless art #my art

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kazenorth · 3 months

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May you one day look up to the night sky and see only stars again...

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lasagnelover420 · 3 months

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The dancing of the Gazelles featuring the Palestinian Sunbird's choir.

Watch Palestinian Sunbird: A stamp of defience | Al Jeezera World

Keep boycotting ,Donate E-sims and keep showing your support, speak up and keep talking about Palestine.

The Strike may be over but the Fight for the Palestinian Liberation is NOT.

WE DEMAND A PERMANENT CEASEFIRE

#ceasefire now #free palestine #palestine will be free #freepalastine🇵🇸#art for palestine #mountain gazelle #palestine sunbird #connecting gaza #art #palestine

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sofiaspeaksart · 3 months

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ceasefire now

praying for peace and healing

let there be an end to the violence

mountain gazelle, Palestinian sunbirds, and twigs from an olive tree

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franki-lew-yo · 3 months

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Enough silence.

#FreePalestine

Donate to Care For Gaza (@UsmanaliF on Paypal) now.

#from the river to the sea palestine will be free #my art #palestine #gaza #current events #peryton #free gaza #ceasefire now #it's based on a mountain gazelle/palestinian sun bird ftr

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ballbrain · 6 months

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FREE PALESTINE / END THE GENOCIDE ON GAZA

This piece was made to show support for Palestinians. This mountain gazelle was created with the colors of the flag and the meaningful patterning of the keffiyeh.

#ceasefireNOW #my art #illustration #animal art #samidrawsdogs #free palestine

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goodafterwoon · 13 days

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Gazelle Quartet 🌹

(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.

#animal art #wildlife art #illustration #palestine mountain gazelle #mountain gazelle #palestine sunbird #tatreez #free palestine #palestine #art for palestine #fundraiser #donations #gofundme

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tortiefrancis · 5 months

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a drawing of the Mountain Gazelle (gazella gazella) in the Palestine flag colors. to learn more about Palestinian history, culture and liberation, see here (link)

second drawing of Palestinian native animals, first being the Palestine red fox (link). once again, i appreciate suggestions

[ ID: Traditional drawing of a Mountain Gazelle colored in the Palestine flag colors, surrounded by red poppies. Below it is a red star with black text next to it, which reads: gazella gazella. /End ID ]

#sam.arts #sam.message #palestine #free palestine #arab #west asia #levant #mountain gazelle #palestine mountain gazelle #gazella gazella #animals #nature

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demiurgee · 3 months

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💟 solidarity from the peoples of brazil to the people of palestine—

last year, @fairuzfan suggested that people make art in support of palestine. i planned something that was supposed to be posted on the last strike, but it took me longer than expected.

it's finished now! this is in solidarity with palestinians, including palestinian-brazilians, who have been working tirelessly for justice in brazil as well.

i chose to highlight aspects of the land that are important to palestinians and the palestinian cause: the olive trees, jaffa oranges, the figs, poppies, faqqua irises and the palestinian mountain gazelle. the figure of the woman itself is wearing the traditional thobe and headwear of ramallah, which i found! so beautiful!

for the brazilian figure i asked my grandma what she used to wear and what our family used to plant decades ago, when she lived in the northeastern countryside (she is way more familiarised with the land than me). had some help from friends of the region as well, so i drew a jaguar, manioc roots, corn, cashews, sweet potatoes, a carnaúba palm tree and mandacaru flowers.

some of those, such as manioc roots and mandacaru cacti, remind me of resilience and the sustaining of life in difficult times, and what they may allow to flourish and to go on:

vida e não apenas sobrevida. that is, "life and not only survival!"

may palestine and it's people live! live free from every form of oppression that allowed this genocide, this nakba to take place.

inspirations & sources bellow the cut.

inspired by the art of sliman mansour and dana barqawi, as well as palipunk & orangeblossombitch @ tumblr and nadasink @ instagram.

the books recommended by @palipunk (much thanks to you for making them available)

♥️ palestinian costume por jehan rajab ♥️ palestinian costume por shelagh weir ♥️ traditional palestinian embroidery and jewelry por abed al-samih abu omar

al-jazeera documentary about the preservation of palestinian thobes (i do not understand arabic yet but! it allowed me to have a closer look at the coins and headwear):

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sites about tatreez

♥️ https://www.folkglory.com/ (i based the chest pannel on this item from their shop here.) ♥️ https://www.tatreezandtea.com/ ♥️ https://tirazain.com/archive

and the palestinian museum digital archive!

♥️ https://palarchive.org/

#palestine #free palestine #strike for palestine #full color #original #marion draws a thing #@troopingfairy is my main in case this seems sudden; i have been keeping up with what's happening in palestine for a while now

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palipunk · 6 months

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do you know anything about native wildlife or plant life in palestine? particularly interested in primates because that's always what i'm most interested in but i'd really like to know more about what the animals and plants native to the land are like. what they were like pre israeli occupation and what sort of animal and plant life will need repairing when palestine is free. i hear a lot about the people and the human palestinian culture and it's wonderful but it's difficult for me to find anything regarding nonhuman life and i would like to learn more about it.

Honestly, the topic of Palestinian wildlife and its intersection with colonialism has been something that has increased a lot over the past couple of years. I can't offer anything about primate species (Palestine doesn't have any) but we do have lots and lots of very cool native animals like Gazelle and Caracal and Sand foxes and lots of bats and gerbils and snakes.

The Palestine Wildlife Society actually has a website with lists of all the animals found in Palestine and what level of conservation status they are at (plus the Arabic names): https://www.wildlife-pal.org/en

The Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics also reported back in 2012 that:

There are about 51,000 living species (flora and fauna) in historical Palestine, constituting approximately 3% of global biodiversity. In the West Bank and Gaza Strip there are an estimated 30,904 animal species, consisting of an estimated 30,000 invertebrates, 373 birds, 297 fish, 92 mammals, 82 reptiles, and 5 amphibians. Recent studies on birds in Palestine indicated that there are 373 species, which represent 23 Orders, 69 families, 21 Subfamilies, and 172 genera. The country also hosts 2,850 species of plants from 138 families.

And also added in 2014:

Israeli Violations are the main causes of Biodiversity deterioration Based on 2012 data from ARIJ Research Institute, the Expansion and Annexation Wall has a total length of about 780 kilometers, of which 61% has been completed. The route of the Wall has isolated 680 km2 of Palestinian land between the Wall and the Green Line, comprising approximately 12.0% of the West Bank. This land comprises about 454 km2 of agricultural, pasture land and open areas, 117 km2 that were confiscated for Israeli settlements and military bases, 89 km2 of forest and 20 km2 Palestinian built-up land. During 2013, more than eight thousand dunums of land were confiscated from Palestinians and more than 15 thousand horticultural trees were destroyed, causing considerable damage to the Palestinian environment and biodiversity.

The Israeli settlements and military bases also contribute in the biodiversity deterioration since there were 482 Israeli settlements and military bases in the West Bank at the end of 2013 contained around 563,546 settlers at the end of 2012. Climate change is the most important natural factor that contributes to biodiversity degradation in Palestine. More animal and plant species have become under serious threat of becoming rare due to low rainfall, high temperatures, and the changing characteristics of the four seasons, in which drought is creeping into winter and spring.

The mountain Gazelle is currently endangered and this is due mostly to the building of roads and fences as well as predation and collisions with cars (the article also references the building of housing units in Mitzpeh Nafto'ah, which one of the areas where, in 2012, Israeli developers wanted to 'build up Jerusalem'). As of 2015, there were around 2,000 identified Gazelles within the Palestinian territories and historic Palestine. The mountain Gazelle look like this:

There have also been efforts for plant conservation in Palestine like the Iris Atrofusca, which has an extremely fragile population and is found almost exclusively within Palestine - a botanical garden was established for this particular Iris in the North Eastern Slopes of Palestine and in 2021, 120 clones of Iris Atrofusca were planted. Here is what they look like:

(also very interesting, sheep do not eat it!)

Probably most famous is the extinction of the Palestinian Crocodile, the last rhetorical circulation to 1935. Elizabeth Bentley wrote a great piece on it, you can read the full PDF on the Institute of Palestine Studies website or the edited (with permission) one published to Science for the People Magazine, I copied a segment from the latter here:

Colonial zoologists and collectors saw and appreciated Palestine’s bountiful plants and animals as objects of scientific inquiry. This scientific appreciation was inextricable from imperialist ambitions and the drive for profit. There were no wildlife protection laws in Palestine until 1924, which was after crocodiles’ likely regional extinction, and even then, the laws were loosely enforced. Colonial zoologists not only observed and wrote about Palestinian animals in their natural habitat. These zoological works were one of extraction and commodification. Euphemistically termed processes of “collection” involved a network of human and nonhuman actors, whereby colonial zoologists hunted and killed Palestinian animals, studied them, and transported their remains overseas. Disemboweled, stuffed with wire and flax, and then displayed in glass cases, Palestinian animals were reanimated as spectacles for the viewing pleasure of museumgoers in London and Berlin. While aligned with the broader trends in colonial zoology, the allure of the last Palestinian crocodile surpassed the confines of scientific inquiry; it adapted a symbolic, even mythical quality. Colonial zoologists’ ongoing speculation about Palestinian crocodile extinction necessitated a degree of willful (or internalized) unknowing about Palestine and Palestinians. Colonial zoologists were heavily dependent on Palestinians’ ecological expertise. Despite this, their writings convey mistrust and condescension toward Palestinians, along with a detachment from how local populations lived alongside Palestinian ecology. Colonial scientific literature on Palestinian animals frequently perpetuated the racist, historically inaccurate outlook of “science for the West, myth for the rest.” Yet colonialist writings on the last Palestinian crocodile reflected their own symbolic attachments and investment in mythical thinking.

So there is a lot of work to do in regard to animal and plant conservation and several extinct animals I didn't bring up here but It is a deep dive and goes a lot farther than a lot of people consider. The Palestine Wildlife Society has a massive catalog and I hope you look through it!

#palestine #free palestine #wildlife #plants #animals #gorillawithautism

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asterwild · 3 months

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Palestine mountain gazelle (Gazella gazella)

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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 in alt #mountain gazelle #animals #wildlife #nature #digital art

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aphrostiel · 3 months

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Jesus holding a Palestinian mountain gazelle. Palestine will be free. 🇵🇸🌿

#free palestine #stop the genocide #ceasefire now #ceasefire #palestine #palestine will be free #jesus christ #art

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