it's honestly so bizarre to be told by your government, employers and educators that you are in mourning. "britain has been so shaken by this profound loss that everything has been put at a standstill" is just being blared on every tv station in the vain hope of making it come true. she was ninety fucking six!
some things that have happened since you stopped hearing about p/alestine after the “ceasefire” was declared
1,000+ palestinians were arrested in a mass-arrest campaign designed to, and i quote, “instill fear” - including children
al-aqsa mosque and worshippers were attacked and beaten
literal children, not even teens, children, were arrested and tried in a military court (this is not new, thousands of children have faced this terrorization over the years. Isr@el is the only country in the world that tries children in military courts. 500-700 children are prosecuted each year.)
a soldier deliberately ran over a child on a bike for having a pales/tinian flag on his bike. an adult man ran over a child with his car. on purpose. the child is 12. read that again.
sheikh jarrah was blockaded, illegally
whatsapp blocked the accounts of over 100 pal/estinian journalists
silwan, another pal/estinian neighborhood like sheikh j/arrah, is being violently ethnically cleansed to make way for more settlers
Isr@el has forced social media sites to censor the hashtags “free pal/estine” and “save sheikh ja/rrah” many posts and accounts have been deleted
25 pales/tinians have been murdered by the ID/F and settlers
in Jaffa, 300 arab families are under force expulsion orders to make way for more settlers. 300 families.
suicide rates in g/aza have risen to an all-time high due to PTSD and hopelessness
Pales/tinians in G/aza still do not have access to safe drinking water, electricity, medical care, and nutrition. families are still being displaced from their homes by settler colonialism. There is still an inability to mobilize freely, pursue a career, seek an education, or gain access to decent healthcare or mental health resources. The occupation, genocide, and ethnic cleansing continues whether you see on your feed or not.
I can’t believe dean’s test to see if Jack’s evil or not is by what cake he’d choose I can’t stop laughing that’s the most dean thing I’ve ever seen
Obviously, I hope that everyone in Ukraine stays safe and Ukrainians deserve all of our support right now but I also wanted to say that my heart goes out to all people in Eastern Europe and Central Asia who have been living with the fear of Russian intervention for years and now see their worst fears come true. I see so many posts about how "we shouldn't worry as Westerners because the war will not affect us directly" and while this is absolutely true, I wanted to take a second to acknowledge those who do have to live with the fear that it might affect them directly. I don't have anything more to offer than words and it's not worth much but if you are from Poland, Estonia, Kazakhstan or any other country close to Russia or Ukraine and you are afraid because you don't know what the current events means for the future of your country, I am with you in thought and sending you a warm hug with this post.
Don't stop talking about them. We need to be their voice.
Inspired by the amazing poem by dana
I genuinely don’t have the words to describe how horrible the situation is in Palestine. They’re killing people left and right. Every single day.
Like every time someone posts about a murder, i just don’t have the time to type something about it before a new murder is recorded. 4 Palestinians were murdered today. Including a 14 years old boy.
I’m not mentioning the people being shot. I’m not mentioning the arrests. The raids. The people put under administrative detention.
I’m not mentioning the way zionist extremists want to slaughter animals inside Al Aqsa mosque, and are giving rewards for those who do it, just to piss off muslim Palestinians during the most holy month of the year.
I have the tv on right now and I feel like I’m watching a war. It’s absolutely horrible. It just has a lot less media coverage than last year. Palestinians were already speaking about a huge possibility of a third Intifadah but now ? Genuinely if in the next few days the occupation keeps doing the sh*t they’re doing they’re the only ones who take responsibility for the consequences.
And this is not only about the past period of time. This has been going on for over 70 years.
You take a people’s land. Displace thousands. You murder them. Kill their men women and children. Like it’s nothing to you. Like they’re just numbers. You bomb them in an open air prison every couple years. You deny them water, medical care, you deny them from living in their homeland, and treat them like strangers in it. This was all gonna blow up in your faces one day. The occupation is the root of all violence. They’re the only terrorists here.
There is a genocide happening in broad day light. Pure and simple.
Resistance until freedom. By all means necessary.
Free Palestine
there was way too much second hand embarrassment in that episode so i made some extremely low-effort memes to cope
COVID is slowly becoming a “third world” disease. While first world countries are hoarding vaccines, having doses for populations many times their size, third world countries can’t get any because pharma companies want to sell to the first world countries first. Even then, first world countries will receive them first. While rich countries recover from COVID, they will forget about the pandemic while many other countries live the absolute worst moment of the pandemic without being able to vaccinate their population.
with enough support and coverage, this could really make a difference, so please sign and share if you’re a uk resident!
kate middleton allowing prince william to cheat on her because she's too "old fashioned" to PEG HIM is the most batshit insane thing ive ever heard