It is not about getting rights through Haka and Dabke, it is about keeping traditions and rituals alive. There is such a powerful healing function in what Indigenous nations carry, from the past into the present, and who are we to judge? Plus I have never thought of Palestinians or Mahori expecting to liberate themselves through "dances or songs" but if those dances and songs is what allow them to garner collective strength or simply express themselves, and us - non Indigenous- to see and hear their self-determination struggle, may their dance shake the ground, may their chants be a tunder.
Today marks 4yrs since our Isaac was taken from us in the #beirutblast.
Even if I had all the words in the world, they would never be enough to convey how much I miss him, or how cruel it is that a photo taken in a moment of joy now adorns his headstone.
There is no justice.
في غزة، إبادة جماعية
شهدنا بالأمس إبادة جماعية وانتهاكًا لكرامة الإنسان بحق أهل غزة بعد نقل الحرب إلى #رفح، أخر بقعة آمنة في #غزة، واستهداف مخيم للنازحين من شمال القطاع الهاربين من الموت.
"From now on, I'll be one of the millions of Iranians living abroad who are impatiently waiting to bury you and your oppression system in the dustbin of history..." #MohammadRasoulof
Our "Sustainable Fishing Training" has kicked off in Werdanieh, Lebanon, engaging coastal communities and empowering youth aged 18-35. Join the training for a thriving and responsible fishing future!
Thanks to @UKBCFs#darwininitiave#lebanon#friendsofnature#biodiversity#FON
Yesterday, I sent my letter of resignation as a board director to @CMA_Docs. As the national organization that represents physicians and medical learners in Canada, I am profoundly disappointed and appalled by their actions and behaviour.
Link to letter: https://t.co/5JpXUZjDuq
A proud moment as our FON team member Ghiwa engages in the insightful Biodiversity and cinema training by @ruralencounters.
#FriendsofNature Committed to continuous learning and preserving Lebanon's cultural heritage. 🌿🎬
I've just learned that Dr. Refaat Alareer, along with several family members, has been murdered in an Israeli airstrike.
I'm in tears and sick to my stomach as I write this.
I had the great honor to spend time with Refaat during my time in Gaza, including harvesting olives with him in 2015 in his home neighborhood of Shujaiya.
I visited him in the Islamic University of Gaza, where he used English-language literature and poetry to teach his students the difference between Judaism and Zionism, equipping them with the mental tools to resist Zionist propaganda that seeks to conflate the two.
Refaat was a guiding light as a I documented life and death for my documentary, Killing Gaza. He helped me gain access to elders in his neighborhood who provided testimony of shocking Israeli war crimes.
In one of our last exchanges, I told him that, in my time in Gaza, I felt as though I were documenting the Warsaw Ghetto before its liquidation by Nazis. I promised him that his writings would be featured in a future Victims of Zionism museum. I didn't imagine that would be my last message to him.
Refaat Alareer embraced everything good and pure about Gaza and Palestine. He will not be forgotten and his legacy will live on for many generations to come.
Rest in peace, Refaat.
@BrotherRasheed They were not occupied, they were supported by Western countries, and until this day, they receive huge amounts of money, and this is obviously how they were able to educate & build all that you mentioned. They built a state on a stolen land, on the blood of Palestinians.THE ENd
I just need to ask folks insistent on proving Hamas is the greatest evil on earth: does anything you say, if completely true, justify an unfolding genocide? Would you apply that as a principle to deal w societies of “evil” regimes? Just trying to understand what’s at stake here?
Racism is so very exhausting.
A nuclear power is destroying a people with precision technology, kidnapping children for military trials, unleashing talking drones to porches threatening them w violence, & claiming the mantle of victimhood.
#Gaza#Genocide#Freedom