This is actually hella lot scary. A person's future could be ruined just because of their social media presence.
Just a little reminder for my followers who aren’t Palestinian: while this has occurred for decades, Palestinians are routinely blacklisted, doxed, expelled, fired for being Palestinian and speaking about Palestine.
There are websites and social media accounts dedicated to cataloguing Palestinians speaking out about Palestine and their own experiences to be used against them to deny them jobs, opportunities, schools/collages etc. - not to mention, these websites and accounts lump Palestinians speaking about their oppression in with actual antisemities and neo-n@zis, I’ve seen people be added to these websites with posts as simple as “fuck isr@el”.
I’ve seen my friends and mutuals be added to these listings for making posts about Palestine and sometimes I fear I could be next, and I would advise any Palestinian reading this post to be extremely cautious about the info you share about yourself online. The main target for these catalogues are Palestinian youth, usually those still in school or university (to get them expelled), and also often times women and queer Palestinians in the Diaspora. More recently, Palestinians on twitter, mainly young women, were doxxed en masse.
You may not realize it, but Palestinians, no matter where we are, are unsafe and speaking out, even on the internet, has incredibly serious consequences for us. So whenever you see a post by a Palestinian about Palestine, just keep in mind we are risking our futures speaking out, and we need all the help we can get
If you look at something long enough, you think it starts moving. A tree seems to sway, but you can't feel the wind. Nothing stays the same for too long. The universe in constant motion. We humans can't stay the same for too long too. Even if it is not visible to others, we sway from ourselves and move with the breeze of life.
I just started to wonder that when we're in love with someone we can't have, we start searching for that person everywhere. Someone walks by us, we turn our heads wondering if its them. Just like if we lost something valuable, something that is the colour of blue we, immediately search over anything of the same colour. Something we can't be able to find. Something that we've lost. Or maybe something that was never ours to begin with.