On One Knee As We Speak. Come To Me Boy..

A Gazan's reflection on the ICJ rule and his family who is still living in Gaza.

Reel link for those with instagram--comment in support/visibility if you can: https://www.instagram.com/reel/C2kYzKbuzAy

Key takeaways, but please watch the reel. There are English captions.

Many Palestinians in Gaza (talking ordinary ppl, not influencers or activists) have been raised not to engage with politics. [I add for clarity, this is their parents trying to keep them safe] and as such may not have followed Western politics for the past few years.

Palestinians living in Gaza, including his family, genuinely thought this ruling could end the ongoing genocide. They had real hope that the ICJ could save them.

Many Gazans' hopes have completely evaporated as a result of the ICJ not calling for a ceasefire.

The ICJ ruling is an important start, but it is not enough for the hundreds who are dying each day as a result of this occupation.

We need to keep helping Gaza in any way we can.

Important: Mohammed, the creator of this video, has a GoFundMe for his family, which I have personally verified. Note that the narrative in the GFM is that of his brother Faress, a nurse at Al-Shifa hospital: https://www.gofundme.com/f/from-devastation-to-hope-a-nurses-family-journey

His family is currently living in a tent in Rafah after being displaced from Northern Gaza. Please donate if you can.

Mohammed's story was featured in the New York Times in November 2023 (un-paywalled) excerpt:

“Here I am having whatever I want,” said Mohammed Salah Arafat, a Washington, D.C., resident with a brother still in Gaza. “When it comes to food, when it comes to freedom, when it comes to rights, when it comes to freedom of movement, the feeling of guilt is killing me,” said Mr. Arafat, 30, who left Gaza in 2018.

Mohammed also has a poetry blog here: https://moharafat.wordpress.com/ and you can sign up for updates (like with substack or medium) if you input your email at the bottom of the page.

Don't stop demonstrating--find local actions from PYM, PSL, JVP, and SJP on Instagram, don't stop calling (It does help--leave your name and zip code so you're counted--Bernie just called for a ceasefire and Katherine Clark has come close), don't stop spreading awareness.

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some stu macher headcanons cuz it's late and i miss him

hes gross but not it the disgusting ewww way he's just gross. he likes dirt and bugs and brains and guts

bisexual king. presents himself as either masculine or androgynous. thinks gender is dumb and wants to push gender norms

he loves his friends :-) he loves hanging out with them and schtuff..... hence the impromptu party after the deaths (believe me he just wanted to hang out.... trusttttt me)

loud and gooberish

loves music more than anything and will literally kill for music (ha ha ha ha.)

made everybody a personal mix-tape, billy's featured a lot of love songs that stu believed to be stupid but billy adored the gesture

hes a very touchy person and has to always be making contact with somebody. loves to hold hands with his friends

ok im sleepy goodbye forever follow me on twitter @slasherbfs

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Israel bet that the long-term war would produce this terrible silence, consent to genocide, and getting used to the scene... and frankly, they succeeded in that.

I don't know what the end of all this is, the whole world has let them down and is watching their starvation and displacement

PLEASE DON'T STOP TALKING ABOUT GAZA

thinking about stuilly and how they died together . Maybe in another universe they died in an embrace .

having a uterus SUCKS man bc all day you'll be feeling the "hey bestie check your pants 😃 check it right now 😃 you might be getting your period 😃 hey bestie i think youre bleeding 😃" and then when you check if you got your period and your body is like WRONG ❌️ its The Slime

Your art omnomnom /Pos

Thoughts on drawing Jessica? If you want obviously

first sketches with jessica!!

Post corrections/clarifications are my favorite genre of humor: a compilation

i forgot i can draw . heres some art