This is baby Tariq, and his parents, Mohammed & Nour. Tariq was born October 5th 2023. His whole life has been war, and his parents are trying to find safety for their son. When you donate or spread awareness, you provide help for their evacuation. https://t.co/pFDYcnpCNw
Until this feature, I didnโt think The Years of Blood was a coming-of-age body of work, but yes, it is. If you grew up around the horrors of ritualism, kidnapping and human/organ harvesting, you will understand that arriving at โageโ means someone else didnโt.
Without a shadow of a doubt, all those keeping silent or moaning about complexity (not to mention worse) this year would have done the same during slavery, apartheid, Jim Crow & the Holocaust. Retrospective condemnation is safe & easy. You're doing now what you would have then.
The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality.
- James Baldwin
Yes that video is real. Yes you just watched Palestinians be burned alive in a hospital. Yes one man was still in his hospital bed. Yes you can still speak up about this. Yes you can change your mind. Yes you can start now. Yes we need you to start screaming alongside us.
Israeli occupation forces just bombed the tents of displaced people around Al-Aqsa Hospital, causing citizens to be trapped and burn inside their tents while they were sleeping , massacres are non stop.