#settler violence

Today is Nakba day, please take the time to educate yourself - 

The Nakba, meaning catastrophe in arabic, is the event marking the mass murder and expulsion of Palestinians in 1948 during Israel’s creation as a deliberate and systemic act to create Jewish Majority state. 

By the numbers: between750,000andone million Palestinians were expelled and made refugees in 1948 by Zionist militias, more than 530 Palestinian villages and towns were destroyed or repopulated by settlers, over 15,000 dead Palestinians, and 70 massacres committed against Palestinians, and approximately 4,244,776 acres of stolen land - when Palestinians say this state is built on our graves - we mean it in the most literal sense. 

On top of all of this, there are over 7 million Palestinian refugees today, which includes Nakba survivors, their descendants, and Palestinians who were expelled in events after the Nakba - who are denied their legal right of return (which is internationally recognized).

It is critical to understand the Nakba if you want to support Palestine, and how Palestinians, 74 years later, cannot reclaim their stolen land, homes, and belongings.  And not only that, but to many, the Nakba never ended. Palestinians are still having their homes stolen or demolished, still in refugee camps, still having to deal with settlers encroaching on their land and committing acts of violence against them, Palestinians are still being murdered and left under brutal settler military occupation. 

If you want to read and learn more about Palestinians from Palestinian voices please check out Decolonize Palestine.Al Jazeera has a database here on destroyed Palestinian villages as well you can look at. 

And I will leave my friend’s post here about more ways to amplify Palestinian voices.From river to sea, Palestine will be free, we will return. 

royalhandmaidens:

hayatin:

honestly speechless

may the occupation and it’s evils come to an end, ya rabb

western news sources already calling this “clashes” as “violence broke out”

watch the video again.

what about any of this is a clash?

was it a clash when the sniper’s bullet hit her in the face? was it a clash when they shot at anyone trying to get to her as she lay in a pool of her own blood? was it a clash today, when they forced a young boy to take off his clothes in public and a young woman to take off her hijab while they filmed it? when they bombed a civilian’s home in jenin today? when soldiers shot grenades at civilians trying to hold a funeral? when they ripped a kuffiyeh off shireen abu aqla’s dead body?

how long will the world call genocide and ethnic cleansing a clash?

palipunk:

The level of evil it is to shoot a Palestinian journalist in the head, falsely claim you didn’t do it, and then send the military to attack her funeral, the mourners, and forcefully rip the Palestinian flag off her coffin. It’s monstrous.

While all of this is happening: 

Israeli police tried to force a Palestinian Muslim woman to remove her headscarf because it “matched the colors of the Palestinian flag”

And in Hebron, busloads of settlers have taken over a building and run towards it with sleeping mats, all from just today. 

ID: Tweet one by Yara Alafandi @/ AfandiYara reads:  Israeli police forcing a Palestinian woman to take off her hijab because it’s the same colours as the Palestinian flag and you’re still arguing that Israel isn’t an apartheid state? #Shereen_Abu_Aqleh

Tweet two by disorientalist @/ princessmlokhia reads:  Colonizers in Hebron took the collective Palestinian mourning for Shireen as a chance to sieze a new building in the city. Look at them, bold and pathetic. When we say Israel is a settler-colony we mean it in the most literal sense.

ava-du-mortain:

ava-du-mortain:

ava-du-mortain:

i wanted to post more abt what’s going on in alaqsa today but i can’t right now. im incredibly triggered and on edge

im sorry if you’re someone who’s been getting all the palestine news from me and other bloggers on tumblr but, eye on palestine has been posting all day

https://instagram.com/eye.on.palestine?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=

please check them out. spread their posts. be proactive instead of waiting for posts to show up on your dashboard

khalil awawdeh is still not free. ahmad manasra is still not free. israa jaabis is still not free. countless innocent people imprisoned without trial are still not free.

Israel has murdered another child on Friday, zaid ghnaim

Israel is still suppressing journalists because they don’t want people to know about how depraved they are. threatening them with arrest.

Palestinians are being arrested en masse to protect ultra nationalist Israelis who want to see us “shipped off to a refugee camp in Jordan” or killed in a “second nakba”.

There’s violent disgusting Islamophobic and racist vitriolic garbage all over twitter courtesy of zionists. and im just at my limit.

I’m tired. im just exhausted.

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Just gonna leave this here before i explode. ✌️

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seriously follow Jalal btw as he’s been posting about the flag march today

soullsword:

Gaza is being bombed again. It’s the same cycle of violence that happened last year, when Gaza endured a 11 day siege. First, the IOF deploys its forces on Al Aqsa, attacking and blocking access by worshippers. Then when Hamas retaliates, they bomb Gaza.

It’s inhumane. Palestinians have no one to recurr to inside their land but themselves. People in Gaza are trapped by the gigantic wall built around land and sea, not even able to flee and seek refuge because the two routes out of the wall are controlled by Israel or Egypt.

In Jerusalem, Palestinians were trapped inside the mosque and kept locked at the whim of the IOF soldiers, screaming out of the megaphones for the rest of the city to defend the mosque,while settlers walked around the courtyard chanting for a second Nakba and shouting Abu Khdair’s name, the 14 year old teen who was kidnapped and burned alive by settlers.

[ID: a video showing an IOF soldier stationed at the doors of the Al Qibli mosque in Al Aqsa, locked from the outside. You can hear screams from inside the mosque and people banging on the doors demanding to get out. The soldier stays impassive, and when she sees she’s being recorded, sighs and shifts from one feet to the other / end id]

I’ll leave this tweet here for anyone who feels powerless in front of these news. Direct action and protesting are options. Educating yourself and working to dismantle the propaganda machine in any way you can is the work you can do. Muna El Kurd has said that even tweeting helps to raise awareness to their cause.

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There will be a protest happening in front of the Zionist Mission in NY this Wednesday. Attend if you can.

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There will be another one in Houston

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FollowSamidoun Network,Within Our LifetimeandPalestinian Youth Movement to keep yourself updated on upcoming protests.

Here’s a link to Palestinian Action, a direct action organization in the UK that aims to shut down Israel’s weapons manufacturer

palipunk:

I’ve been getting a lot of asks and tags about how to support Palestine and Palestinians during this so here’s ways allies can support us (other Palestinians are welcome to add on): 

Spread Awareness: 

Taking a moment out of your day to spread awareness of the oppression Palestinians face is crucial to supporting our cause. You don’t need to be an expert on Israeli settler colonialism to speak out. Israel relies on media ignorance to enact most of it’s bombings and settler violence against Palestinians, silence equals Israeli violence - reblogging, retweeting and posting in Palestine hashtags (#freePalestine, #savesilwan, #savenaqab, #savesheikhjarrah etc) helps, please do not underestimate how much just interacting with our posts and sharing information helps us. 

Support BDS: 

BDS is a Palestinian-led movement to apply global pressure to Israel to comply with international law, part of the reason Israel maintains a regime of settler colonialism, apartheid, and military occupation over Palestinians is because of international support - so BDS calls for non violent boycotts, divestment, and sanctions on corporations and brands that are complicit with Israel’s oppression - this includes brands such as AXA, HP, Puma, Sodastream, Ahava cosmetics, Sabra, and Pillsbury. If you want to know more about BDS and other ways to support please check out their website here: x

Donate (if you can): 

Al-Shabaka 

Electronic Intifada 

Adalah Justice Project

IMEU 

Medical Aid for Palestinians 

Palestine Children’s Relief Fund

Addameer 

Muslim Aid 

Palestine Red Crescent 

Decolonize Palestine: 

Decolonize Palestine is an excellent resource for anyone wishing to know more about Palestine, Palestinians, myths and deconstructing over 70 years of Israeli propaganda. It goes into detail of Israeli propaganda methods including pinkwashing, bluewashing, greenwashing etc and includes reading sources and frequently asked questions about Palestine from Palestinian voices, please check it out if you haven’t: x

palipunk:

The level of evil it is to shoot a Palestinian journalist in the head, falsely claim you didn’t do it, and then send the military to attack her funeral, the mourners, and forcefully rip the Palestinian flag off her coffin. It’s monstrous.

thethief1996:

Gaza is being bombed again. It’s the same cycle of violence that happened last year, when Gaza endured a 11 day siege. First, the IOF deploys its forces on Al Aqsa, attacking and blocking access by worshippers. Then when Hamas retaliates, they bomb Gaza.

It’s inhumane. Palestinians have no one to recurr to inside their land but themselves. People in Gaza are trapped by the gigantic wall built around land and sea, not even able to flee and seek refuge because the two routes out of the wall are controlled by Israel or Egypt.

In Jerusalem, Palestinians were trapped inside the mosque and kept locked at the whim of the IOF soldiers, screaming out of the megaphones for the rest of the city to defend the mosque,while settlers walked around the courtyard chanting for a second Nakba and shouting Abu Khdair’s name, the 14 year old teen who was kidnapped and burned alive by settlers.

[ID: a video showing an IOF soldier stationed at the doors of the Al Qibli mosque in Al Aqsa, locked from the outside. You can hear screams from inside the mosque and people banging on the doors demanding to get out. The soldier stays impassive, and when she sees she’s being recorded, sighs and shifts from one feet to the other / end id]

I’ll leave this tweet here for anyone who feels powerless in front of these news. Direct action and protesting are options. Educating yourself and working to dismantle the propaganda machine in any way you can is the work you can do. Muna El Kurd has said that even tweeting helps to raise awareness to their cause.

ALT

There will be a protest happening in front of the Zionist Mission in NY this Wednesday. Attend if you can.

ALT

There will be another one in Houston

ALT

FollowSamidoun Network,Within Our LifetimeandPalestinian Youth Movement to keep yourself updated on upcoming protests.

Here’s a link to Palestinian Action, a direct action organization in the UK that aims to shut down Israel’s weapons manufacturer