notre dam had people crying on their floor and raising money for it to be rebuilt but ppl are silent abt this? scholars and universities all over the world should be in shambles at this. they should be ashamed of themselves.
A reminder that olive trees contribute 14% to Palestine’s economy. Olive trees have been there before the Israeli occupation. Those trees are sacred to Palestinians.
When Israel settlers do this, they are trying to erase as much of Palestinian identity as possible.
Update: the "Block the Boat" action is ongoing. Protestors need food and phone battery charging packs. Things like pizza are always good and convenient. If you have pizza or batteries to spare, please bring them to the drop-off spot on G between 25th and Puyallup. #BlockTheBoat
last year, i bought a kufiya from the last remaining factory in Palestine. this week they messaged me that they are surviving. i asked them what they want americans who want to support them can do. they responded today
The basic (colonial) double standard of the Israel Palestine "conflict" is that any Palestinian violence justifies any Israeli violence, but no Israeli violence ever justifies any Palestinian violence, and once you see it, you'll never stop seeing it.
I hope everyone who played along with the condemnation game in hopes of finding the right set of words that no one could object to sees this. this is a fucking candlelight vigil. they’re not mad at word choices. they’re mad at Palestinians being seen as fully human
UPDATE: Indigenous activists are now blocking the weapons shipment to Israel from leaving the Tacoma Port from the water.
The boat is still unable to leave the port.
Israel has killed over 10,000 Palestinians in Gaza.
Babies who never celebrated a birthday. Child cancer survivors. Children who loved football and surfing. Entire families.
These are some of their names and faces.
In the middle of a climate emergency and cost-of-living crisis – Justin Trudeau is more concerned with helping his Big Oil friends than helping everyday Canadians like you.
My plan will take the GST off home heating and make Big Oil pay for it.
Really though “as 10,000 Palestinian civilians are killed, the US congress plans to send more bombs to kill them, while trying to censure the only Palestinian-American member of Congress, who is calling for a ceasefire” is not complex at all. It’s very straightforward.
Your reminder that Gazans protested peacefully for two years in #GreatMarchOfReturn. They just walked - just WALKED - to the fence that cages them. Israel killed 214 of them, including 46 children. Left over 36,000 maimed for life. Including almost 9,000 children.
The attitude that mass death in “the Middle East” isn’t a big deal because that’s just what happens there…
WOW that’s incredibly RACIST. Y’all don’t realize that??
You’re spouting white supremacist ideas about Arab & Muslim ppl being uncivilized, violent savages who don’t value their own lives & kill themselves all the time
—so what does it matter if we kill them too?
That’s the basic logic behind racism, incl racism against Black people
“Black people don’t value their own lives & engage in ‘Black on Black crime’ so why should we value Black lives?”
Y’all are taking the same exact logic used against us in America & projecting it onto African & Arab people you view as foreign/un-American.
Please free yourselves
The pro-Palestine demos are full of loving solidarity between Muslim, Jewish, Christian, people of all faiths + none. You can see it.
That’s exactly what they’re scared of. Zionism is an ideology predicated on division. Love between all these disparate groups is its kryptonite.
I saw my Palestinian grandmother today—she’s older than the state of Israel. Expelled in 1948, made a refugee. She raised 8 children, born refugees in exile. She got sick with pneumonia last week and got out of the hospital today. All she wanted to talk about was the march in 1/