Palestine was never empty. The camera already knew that.
In 1896–97, the Lumière brothers sent Alexandre Promio to film the Holy Land under Ottoman rule. What he captured is among the earliest moving images of Palestine: Jaffa Port, the courtyard of Bethlehem’s Church of the Nativity, Jerusalem’s railway station, sacred sites, and people in the streets.
Muslims. Christians. Jews. Walking the same gates, the same roads, the same land.
Not a slogan. Not a later map. Actual footage of a living country called Palestine — ports, churches, stations, markets, worshippers — before partition, before occupation, before the claim that this was a vacant stage waiting for someone else.
Watch the people, not the propaganda. Jaffa was a port. Bethlehem was a town. Jerusalem was a city of three faiths under one sky. That is the historical record, not a talking point.
Palestine had a name. Palestine had people. The film is still there.
#Palestine #FreePalestine #HistoryNotMyth #Jaffa #Jerusalem #Bethlehem
I'd posted this comment 2 years ago in response to a tweet about Kristofferson showing support for Sinéad O'Connor. And then I forgot about it until somebody reposted it. In a world of @Pink and @edsheeran be a @SineadOConnor or @kkristofferson or @macklemore or @MsRachelSongs
I'd posted this comment 2 years ago in response to a tweet about Kristofferson showing support for Sinéad O'Connor. And then I forgot about it until somebody reposted it. In a world of @Pink and @edsheeran be a @SineadOConnor or @kkristofferson or @macklemore or @MsRachelSongs
@MJMcKean He recognized her courage and he recognized that she had stood up for something that was important — children. Both of them showed courage and compassion by standing with the Palestinian people and putting their careers at risk because of that.
@kkdumez@bobbergdahl@ButchWare I agree.
And related to that, will the subject of Palestine be addressed? It played such a huge role in this election and was very much swept under the carpet, especially by Christian leaders.
@chrisfirsttt @yashar And also maybe stopped funding a genocide?… Oh and also stopped the fracking while we’re facing global climate change etc etc… Running out of space so let’s just summarize it by saying she didn’t listen to her base in SO many ways.
@CTVNews This whole long article and not one mention of Palestine? How about talking about how the mainstream media contributed to her loss by sweeping things under the carpet? In the end she handed the election over to him on a silver platter because she couldn’t say the word “embargo”!
@MJMcKean He recognized her courage and he recognized that she had stood up for something that was important — children. Both of them showed courage and compassion by standing with the Palestinian people and putting their careers at risk because of that.
@MJMcKean He recognized her courage and he recognized that she had stood up for something that was important — children. Both of them showed courage and compassion by standing with the Palestinian people and putting their careers at risk because of that.
@HMcPhersonMP @NDP If this is the official @NDP statement why can’t I find anything on @theJagmeetSingh ’s social media about it? Not to mention condemning Israel. Hard to find anything from him on Gaza as well & we’re almost a year into a genocide. Where’s the outrage? Where’s the action?
@HMcPhersonMP @NDP If this is the official @NDP statement why can’t I find anything on @theJagmeetSingh ’s social media about it? Not to mention condemning Israel. Hard to find anything from him on Gaza as well & we’re almost a year into a genocide. Where’s the outrage? Where’s the action?
@GeorgeTakei As someone who had an election handed on a silver platter by someone who refused to stand against a nation committing a genocide, refused to listen to 100s of 1000s of her party who voted some version of “uncommitted” — young people, swing states, Palestinians, none of them heard