#platform gaza

[autismserenity]

Palestinians to platform, part 1

مؤمن الناطور / Moumen Al-Natour

@MoumALnatour

رئيس الشباب الفلسطيني للتنمية / President of Palestinian Youth for Development

Moumen Al-Natour is amazing. Not only does he run a Palestinian youth organization that is doing great work in Gaza, but he's also one of the organizers of the 2019 anti-Hamas protests.

Even to criticize Hamas, in Gaza, means to be interrogated, and potentially jailed, tortured, and/or killed. To actively protest Hamas is many times more dangerous.

To have survived that work and continued doing it? I cannot imagine the emotional strength this dude has.

Here's what Center for Peace Communications (another great organization) has said about him:

So many Palestinians, in or from Palestine, are out there talking about what everyday life in Gaza is like. About Hamas, about Israel, about what they want and what they need, about their struggles and their interests and their families.

My goal, in finding people for you to follow and platform, is to help more voices get out of Gaza after years of suppression, and to help more outsiders (like me) connect with them.

People care SO MUCH about Palestine. But frequently, all there is to share is outrage, semi-accurate news, and more outrage. Frequently, we're not calling for the same things they are. We call for a ceasefire; they demand Hamas return the hostages and surrender. We call for Israel to let aid in; they say Israel is letting the aid in, but it's being stolen, and call for air drops rather than trucks. We call for Israel to stop fighting; they say they hope Israel takes Hamas out first.

We aren't centering their voices and experiences. We aren't lending our reach and our strength to their demands.

I want to make that possible.

Ala Mushtaha, the son of this imam, evidently said, “On Saturday December 30, our front door was busted down and twenty masked men barged in and took my father, a widely respected and deeply learned imam here in Gaza."

“One dragged him by his head and another grabbed him by his beard. My younger brother tried to intervene and reason with the kidnappers, but they beat him. I have a medical condition that makes it hard for me to breathe, so all I could do was watch as the horror unfolded.

“He wouldn’t preach what Hamas told him to. He refused to tell Gazans that violent resistance and obedience to Hamas, is the best way out of our current hell.”

ok this dude needs his own post honestly, he goes on to say so much intense stuff about their lives.

OMG his dad was actually released!

This is what I'm talking about. This is effective activism. Imagine what all these people could do if they had the entire global pro-Palestinian movement behind them.

Al-Natour posts a fair amount of political commentary.

The "we want to live" hashtag is a callback to the amazing "We Want To Live" protests he co-organized against Hamas, in Gaza in 2019, and again in the summer of 2023. Activist Hamida Howidzy (who will also be getting a separate post) wrote about them in Newsweek recently.

Some things he posts in Arabic and then in English. Some of his posts are in Arabic only. In the thread above, he actually posted a couple more that were just in Arabic, presumably aimed at Arabic-language comments.

What I like about Twitter is that you can whack the "translate post" button and get a pretty decent translation most of the time.

Translation:

"I saw all the responses... What is wrong and forbidden in reuniting the West Bank, Gaza and Jerusalem through elections in which the people choose who will represent them??!?? Why are all the responses offensive...a collaborator, a traitor, and contain insults that indicate that whoever wrote them needs restructuring?! What prevents us, after ending the war, from returning our choice and choice to the Palestinian people?!+

"Everyone wrote that I opened??!! how did you know???!! Stopping the war is the most important thing now... Whoever sees the condition of the people and feels all this is easy for him does not have humanity, and is not a human being... Whoever, after the destruction of more than 80% of Gaza and the North, and still writing in a way that wants the war to continue while he lives abroad, should reconsider. He accepted to live the same suffering!++"

Note: I copied the "I opened" bit and threw it into Google Translate separately, because that cannot be right. It still insisted that it meant "I opened".... but it gave me the transliterated words, "ani fatah."

Everyone wrote that he's Fatah -- the party that runs the West Bank, the one Hamas violently kicked out of Gaza in 2007-08.

"The end of my speech... I know... whoever is not with you is a traitor and an agent... shameful... by God, by God, by God... there will be an account[ing] for all of this talk... so that you understand the word agent... and the account will be through a government of law... It is clear that there are many who benefit from the poverty and destruction of Gaza, and they must be held accountable according to the law.

"Have mercy on people with your tongues"

The comment on that one is noteworthy:

"Yes, whoever is not with the resistance is indeed a traitor, and those who must be held accountable are the traitors, agents, hypocrites, liars, and racists who slander the resistance and who want to hold it accountable only because it fights the enemy of humanity and defends truth and the oppressed. If you want to apply the law, apply it to yourselves first."

It highlights how much of what we hear in the West is Hamas propaganda. That's a whole other post too. But Hamas claims to be "the resistance," to "defend truth and the oppressed," while arresting people who refuse to preach its propaganda. While jailing and torturing someone 20 times for organizing a protest.

Which are the exact tactics that make it so easy for their propaganda to reach us . And so hard for us to even know that there has been an entire protest movement against Hamas in Gaza, much less to support its activists.

I'll just cut and paste the translations from his most recent thread, above. All emphasis is mine:

"When demonstrations took place in Israel demanding that Netanyahu stop the war and free the hostages, Al Jazeera and Hamas considered it a victory and an achievement, and that the Israeli government was under pressure. But what is striking is that these demonstrations were not suppressed. They were secured. The hostage issue and public pressure were dealt with professionally.

"The demonstrations that took place in Gaza demanding an end to the war and the return of the displaced...they were classified as suspicious [by Al Jazeera etc] ...even though the displaced Israeli lives in a 5-star hotel and has the privileges of the displaced, and when the Palestinian displaced in Gaza receives help, he needs a mediator, and if he wants a tent, he needs leadership intervention, and if he does not have the mediator And the intervention wants to scratch his pocket..+++

"Why did Israel allow demonstrations and look pressured, always trying to contain everything... while we have a displaced person lost, homeless, and no one is trying to contain him, and when he talks, they call him a fifth column???"

Last month, he posted about pregnancy in wartime. Note the cost of the tent later in this thread! Numerous Palestinians have posted about humanitarian aid getting stolen -- by Hamas, by NGOs, by others -- and sold on the black market. Food and tents especially get mentioned a lot. Everyone mentions the tents are being sold for more than (the equivalent of) $700, even though they were supposed to be free.

I'll leave you with this one for now:

You can read all the posts in this series in my "platform gaza" tag.

#platform gaza #free gaza #the hospital #free palestine #free palestine from hamas #long post #wall of words #please note i specifically said platform gaza and not just platform palestinians #platform the west bank too #don't platform and center palestinians who have never been to palestine on issues that specifically affect people IN PALESTINE #like I'm 3/4 Italian and I'm not gonna tell you about what to do for people in Italy ok #I can give you perspective that you may not have otherwise #but there are multiple really awful orgs that claim to be palestinian-led and are in fact led by people in Canada or Brooklyn #it's extremely ironic that I've seen a lot of people accuse each other of like “sitting at your computer in your apartment in Brooklyn” #to mean being out of your lane and talking about stuff you don't understand in I/P discourse #when in fact the woman who runs within our lifetime is literally in and from brooklyn #that's the org that was caught on video doing a protest march that stopped to scream at cancer patients #about how their hospital was “complicit in genocide” #how was it complicit in genocide you might ask? well i guess memorial sloan kettering cancer center accepted a $400M donation #from “a zionist billionaire” which is a gross antisemitic trope thansks #the “zionist billionaire” hilariously turned out to be a billionaire Protestant #whose “zionism” was... that he's a Harvard grad and he told Harvard it should make a statement about the massacre #so obviously #by accepting a massive donation from some rich white guy who #UNRELATEDLY #thought Oct 7 was bad #the CANCER CENTER #is clearly COMPLICIT in GENOCIDE. #this makes zero sense and is bad activism #and the reason i consider it to be bad activism is specifically that it's not trying to achieve anything

[brightokyolights]

Hello UK peeps 📢🇵🇸📢🇵🇸

Parliament is going to be voting on a ceasefire again on Wednesday 21st February 2024!

Please email your MP to ask them to join in voting for a ceasefire (template in link) and there will also be a demonstration that you should attend if you can!

More info available on the *Palestine Solidarity Campaign website.*

Keep speaking up, keep donating and keep educating yourself ❤️💚🖤🤍

Free Palestine 🇵🇸

(Pic from PSC)

#uk #uk politics #free palestine #palestine #idk what other tags to post i havent really done this before lmao just saw it on another platform and wanted to spread the word <3 #signal boost #england #scotland #wales #northern ireland #labour #snp #tories #conservatives #green party #if anyone knows any good tags to add please let me know DX #le mine #gaza

[kodzukate]

“The Palestine situation is making me uncomfortable, I don’t want to speak of it” Good. It should make you uncomfortable. While you’re at home, relaxing in the comfort of your bed on your phone with the power functioning there are people out there suffering. They have been completely shut off from the world. Parents are losing their children right in front of their eyes. Families are being torn apart, bloodlines and generations are being ended. Imagine how it must be out there experiencing that.

Staying ‘neutral’ is NOT an option, you will be blocked immediately if you think being neutral is an option. Silence is ignorance. Focus on what’s happening, this is absolutely sickening.

#FREE PALESTINE #SILENCE IS IGNORANCE #SAVE GAZA #USE YOUR PLATFORMS #SPREAD AWARENESS

[emmamushi]

Hey staff could you make it a little less obvious when you suppress trending topics? I’ll regularly log on and see:

Trending

Palestine

Gaza

Egypt

Free Palestine

Some specific anime shit

Only to log back in later to see it’s now the most sanitized shit I’ve ever seen:

Trending

✨Art✨

Photography🤌

Writing😌

✨Cottagecore✨

The same specific anime shit from earlier

#palestine #free palestine #gaza #rafah #Like just come out and say you love genocide already #and that your current business model is to fuck over all the artists that made your platform popular in the first place #oh and I almost forgot! #You hate trans people and BIPOC people too! #*claps like it’s the end of Evangelion* #congratulations! #you did it!

[copingchaos]

Israel is now bombing Rafah and executing ground operations there. Let that sink in. The Gazan people have already been displaced under threat of violence, and consequently they moved to the South where it was alleged to be "more safe". And now not even the literal Southern border of Gaza is safe anymore.

#this is a genocide #current events #news #world #we cant look away #social media #platforms #humanity #rights #international #law #humanitarian #crisis #justice #gaza #palestine #israel

[demonzoro]

i will be posting more news about palestine along with the various call-to-actions i have been rbing to this blog. it's my hope that everyone continues to hold their governments accountable for their complicity through protests, but also witnessing and remembering the cruelty of israel and their coloniser allies.

this is especially important to me now with the news of south africa taking israel to international court, with yemen halting trade to israel, with nations actually finally taking action for palestine.

please, if you do see posts about palestine on your dash, don't bury your head in the sand and lament about doom-scrolling. the state of affairs in the world is horrific right now, but you DO have power to make it a better place by criticising what our governments are hoping we'll turn a blind eye to.

#i know i have a small platform on here #so i'm asking for your solidarity and your action #this post is as much of a reminder to myself as it is #a genuine plea to everyone else to keep your eyes on palestine #there is just something. so discouraging #abt knowing people see these posts #but won't engage with it. we're nearing a 100 days #of the current bombing and genocide in gaza #tbt

[nando161mando]

The amount of bizarre arguments I've heard about these campus protests is amazing. Surely, they can't just oppose genocide?

#The amount of bizarre arguments I've heard about these campus protests is amazing. Surely #they can't just oppose genocide? #usa news #usa politics #usa #palestine #free palestine #freepalastine🇵🇸 #universities #university #college #imagine targeting a large platform at college kids in this way. we have lost the plot that this is acceptable. #america #free gaza #gaza strip #gaza genocide #gazaunderattack #gaza #ausgov #politas #auspol #tasgov #taspol #australia #fuck neoliberals #neoliberal capitalism #anthony albanese #albanese government #israel #israhell

[onlyalittlesuspicious]

I’m putting a message out to all of the saw fandom and just generally everyone I interact with. If you haven’t heard than that’s fine but if you have heard about the global strike going on and are still choosing to post and interact with unrelated things please think twice. this strike still applies to us not just big and mainstream creators. I have seen so many people continue to post about saw and unrelated things. just one week, that is all they are asking from us. After you can go back to posting your usual content if that’s what you want but just for this week please refrain. Educate yourself on what you can do in this strike and how you can help.

#saw #freepalastine🇵🇸 #free palestine #sawposting #saw movies #free gaza #saw fanart #Please guys everyday I see y’all posting like they haven’t called for a strike #You have a platform and you can use it #Just for this week at least

[mayrine]

#This is why its important for content creators to use their platforms to help raise awarness during a genocide #im not super familiar with dan and phil but in non the less super proud of them and wish more content creators acted like them #dan and phil #palestine #free gaza #free palestine #pcrf #danandphilgames #dan and phil games

[cutloin-grip]

Not going to lie; I kind of forgot The Weeknd existed. Until he donated 2.5 million towards food for Palestinians in Gaza. That was so unexpected but we love it, he is truly a good person

#gaza #palestine #freepalastine🇵🇸 #free palestine #free gaza #theweeknd #theres seriously not enough celebrities with huge platforms that care

[to-dance-beneath-the-diamond-sky]

taylor swift is the biggest celebrity in the world and not saying anything about palestinian people

yeah and she’s a piece of shit for it. Literally EVERY SINGLE PERSON with any kind of platform refusing to use their platform to try to help stop a fucking GENOCIDE is a selfish self-serving piece of shit who’s being willfully complicit in genocide. I said what I fucking said.

FREE PALESTINE 🇵🇸

#free palestine #free gaza #gaza #palestine #taylor swift #and all these other shit ass celebrities refusing to use their platforms are cowardly and complicit #Fuck them all #rich ass privileged selfish pieces of shit #FREE PALESTINE 🇵🇸 #from the river to the sea palestine will be free #Ask

[vhstown]

f*ck you all actually

#this is why people forget so fast #use your platforms if you arent #your fandom garbage can wait for a second. do the bare minimum. #free gaza #gaza strip #palestine #gaza

[feral-ballad]

okay tbh though just because someone is being quiet on tumblr.com doesn't mean that they're being quiet in general. It's much more valuable to protest, to write to your mp, to bring up these conversations irl, rather than reblog a poem to your online echo chamber and then continue on with your day.

“reblog a poem to your online echo chamber,” do you realize how disgusting that sentence you just wrote is? hey, anon, if you’re doing all that, that’s fucking great. no applauses though, because that’s the fucking bare minimum. however, spreading awareness is not mere “reblogging a poem to your online echo chamber” on tumblr.com. educating people and allowing the palestinian voices/pain to be heard is SOMETHING. no, it’s not “more valuable,” because all of the above count for something. if you’re gonna sit there in your all-mighty high horse, then might as well shut up and have some respect for the people. the political discourse, in whatever form, is important. it’s not about the posts, it’s about people running away from the discourse.

and one more thing, social media IS important (whether it be tumblr or any other site) that’s why the israeli government is active on them for a REASON. it’s proof that they care about the public opinion. the posts matter, the stories matter, the protests matter. every little thing counts. reducing it to “reblogging a poem to your online echo chamber” is insane.

while you’re here, boycotting is VERY important and it’s the least we can do! 🇵🇸

#sorry that i have a platform and i want to educate people i guess #from the river to the sea palestine will be free #free palestine #🇵🇸 #gaza #ethnic cleansing #genocide

[blackpearlblast]

one of my nomad esims expired before it could get used and i'm very confused because i swear it was set to expire on the 22nd (which made sense since it would have been two months after i bought it) i remembered this so clearly and i literally sent it to the esimsforgaza email saying it was going to expire them. but i looked today and it expired on the 15th. i dont remember any of my esims expiring on the 15th. somehow either i completed misremembered despite double checking before sending the email or they moved the expiry date forward a week.

does anyone know nomad's policy on expired esims? i'm so tired right now and having trouble parsing informational texts that might be able to help me. i am very frustrated and baffled.

#esims #esims for gaza #apologize for putting this in the main tags my brain has been fried for weeks but i remember some platforms let you get credit back for #expired esims or soething?

[the-bibrarian]

@fellow europeans (and the rest of the world), here’s how your country voted on the UN resolution for immediate ceasefire in Gaza:

Austria, Croatia, Czechia, Hungary: against

Bulgaria, Cyprus, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Greece, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, the Netherlands, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Sweden: abstained

Belgium, France, Ireland, Luxembourg, Malta, Norway, Portugal, Slovenia, Spain : in favour

Source

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Additionally, EU leaders couldn’t agree on calling for a ceasefire, and settled on much tamer language:

Quote: Spain’s Pedro Sánchez, whose government holds the rotating presidency of the Council of the EU, had led calls for a humanitarian ceasefire, but senior diplomats said countries such as Austria, Germany and Sweden feared such strong language risked undermining the bloc’s support for Israel’s right to self-defence.

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Europe cannot claim to stand for human rights, peace and democracy and let the indiscriminate killing of civilians continue.

Call you representatives, email your president or chancellor or prime minister, idc, please use your voice to change their minds. If we’re divided our voices are inaudible. If the EU was united in favour of a ceasefire, it might have a small chance of influencing the US, which in turn is the only country that has any sway with Israel.

#I do realise it’s a long shot but the other option is sitting on our hands #must eu countries have online platforms to petition their representatives #*most #find yours! #gaza #palestine #israel

[thedisablednaturalist]

I am so, so sorry we couldn't save you, those who have already been murdered by Israel and those grieving the loss of them. I'm so sorry you died hungry and scared. Died slowly, trapped in a car or under rubble, or died quickly and violently, not even able to have a last thought.

All those kids, mothers, father, brothers, sisters..sons and daughters.. humans..earthlings

We need to save the rest. We have to help them. We need to fight like hell for the living. No more dead children. No more families torn apart. That's enough. It has to be. Enough Palestinian blood has spilled. Please end the nightmare.

If you haven't already, contact your representatives, it's the least you can do. While we lay safely in our beds, an unimaginable nightmare is being conducted by Israel in Gaza.

No rest for politicians and the rich until the genocide is stopped. Palestine will be free.

#wrenfea.exe #palestine #gaza #save palestine #save gaza #from the river to the sea palestine will be free #all eyes on rafah #genocide #im going to send another letter to my reps #and get some more esims on payday #zionists will be blocked on sight i will not give you a platform