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so i study decolonization, as in i studied it as part of my degree, and i thought I'd make a list of some readings/films that might offer additional insight about decolonization (it also helps if you're tired of the christian moralistic thinking)
occupation 101 (can be found on youtube i believe, it's about the history between isreal and palestine, it focuses on palestinians and it is quite comprehensive. there's live footage, there's interviews with palestinian children, etc. it's a must watch i think, regarding palestine. it points the finger squarely at the united states.)
the wretched of the earth, franz fanon. fanon is really well known in the decolonization sphere because he writes about it in a very succinct and clear way. to him, decolonization can never occur peacefully, and i think that's a really important key lesson. he also talks about how colonizers don't just take land, they reframe ideas, they take language, art, thoughts.
the battle of algiers, 1966. this is a fascinating film, it's sort of a documentary, they got the actual people to play their parts. it describes and interviews the main individuals involved in the fight for independence within Algiers. i think understanding how a nation can gain independence over its colonial forces is really important in the grand scheme of decolonialism.
unthinking eurocentrism. if you can get your hands on it, i love this text. it's so poignant and it lays everything out so clearly and it really shows how we center our worlds around eurocentrism and westernism.
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Israel has deployed auto-firing quadcopters that emit the sounds of crying babies.
https://xtwitter.com/jam_etc_art/status/1780038184828608975
There is no possible reality where this is in any way capable of being passed off as self-defense. It was never self-defense. It is, and always has been, a genocide.
Crying babies. Crying babies. This is, beyond a shadow of a doubt, meant to draw out and kill civilians while also making it far more difficult to locate and aid children who are trapped or alone.
If you have money to spare, please consider donating to some of the fundraisers on Operation Olive Branch to help people escape this genocide.
End the occupation. Free Palestine.
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Pray for everyone in rafah there's heavy bombing right now there. I can't sleep thinking of my family 😭
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Hey guys, I have a priority fundraiser rotation for you:
Fadi & Shahed: 2,044 USD out of 62.5k
Sana'a & Sujood: 12,016 £ out of 50k
Mahmoud Qassas: 9,994$ out of 200k
Ezzideen Shehab: 10,296€ out of 32.5k.
Hussam Aburamadan: 16,374€ out of 148k.
Hamdi Hijazi: 1,511$ out of 25k.
Suheir Hojok: 16,897 AUD out of 70k.
Madleen Abu Jayyab: 29,005$ out of 70k.
I have personally verified every one of these campaigns listed here.
As Mona's campaign nears completion I'm preparing for you this list so we can show these families the same amazing and unbelievable support we showed Mona and her family. The invasion of Rafah grows nearer everyday. Please understand the urgency of this campaign.
Version date: April 25th 2024.
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The student protests for Palestine have been an amazing show of solidarity and support and seeing thr way that so many young people are willing to stand up for their values is admirable when so many others stay silent. But this is all to say that we are entering a pattern of glorifying these white “martyrs” from the global west to put all of this effort and resources and media coverage into instead of the actual cause they are fighting for.
I saw the same thing happen with Aaron Bushnell, when his self immolation was being talked about more than the actual genocide in Gaza (which went against everything he said he was self immolating for in the first place).
And again this happened with the prisoner from the US who worked 136 hours just to be able to donate his $17 check to Palestine aid efforts. In response to this, people wanted to help him and ended up raising over $100,000 in a gofundme for him. This feels almost satirical, as every gofundme to help Gazans evacuate Palestine and get to safety has a goal of less than $100,000 and most of them are not even close to reaching it.
And now, there are more and more posts on how to get aid to the college student encampments, and the “urgency” of getting enough bail funds for the students who have been arrested during them. Talking about Palestine itself and getting resources to Palestine has almost been put on the back burner in favour of making all Palestine related news about college students in the United States.
It think it is valuable to recognise the selflessness and importance of these protests, and getting these students resources but what is MORE important, and what these people are truly fighting for, and protesting, and make a statement about is PALESTINE. We have unsurprisingly reached the point where there are people who care much more about the white people fighting for the cause from the comfort of living in the global west than they care about the Palestinians undergoing a genocide in Gaza. It’s become almost blatant racism, the way people begin to drop everything the second a white/usamerican person does something in regards to helping Palestine, but will not put the same effort into a Palestinian IN Gaza who is telling their story or asking for help. I respect anyone who has done absolutely anything to help Palestine, but I hope people are starting to see the pattern of how the media gravitates towards the “white saviour/perfect martyr” instead of the first hand accounts coming from those in Gaza.
Anyway FIND A GOFUNDME AND DONATE TO HELP FAMILIES IN GAZA ESCAPE GENOCIDE
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THIS WILL BE NEW YORK CITY IN 2050
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Ghazzans are not your property to sacrifice. Ghazzans are not yours to decide the fate of. Ghazzans are not going to die for your luxury. Ghazzans are not going to die for you. Ghazzans have the right to live like everyone else. Ghazzans have the right to a peaceful life like everyone else. Keep fighting for Ghazzah. Keep fighting for our loved ones.
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do you have any book recommendations on zionizm or israel/palestine conflict
I had a screenshot of my reading list going around for awhile but I’ve updated it since. Here’s what I have so far:
- The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine. Ilan Pappe
- The Jewish State. Theodore Herzl
- The Iron Wall. Ze’ev Jabotinsky
- Lethal Theory. Eyal Weizman
- The Returns of Zionism: Myths, Politics and Scholarship in Israel. Gabriel Piterberg
- Palestine: A Four Thousand Year History. Nur Masalha
- Legacy of Empire: Britain, Zionism and the Creation of Israel. Gardner Thompson
- Land, Labor and the Origin of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, 1882-1914. Greshon Shafir
- Comrades and Enemies: Arab and Jewish Workers in Palestine, 1906-1948. Zachary Lockman
- The Revolution of 1936-1939 in Palestine. Ghassan Kanafani
- Palestinians: From Peasants to Revolutionaries. Rosemary Sayigh
- The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917-2017. Rashid Khalidi
- Zionism During the Holocaust: The Weaponization of Memory in the Service of State and Nation. Tony Greenstein
- Zionism in the Age of Dictators. Lenni Brenner
- The Transfer Agreement: The Dramatic Story of the Pact Between the Third Reich and Jewish Palestine. Edwin Black
- In the Shadow of the Holocaust: The Struggle Between Jews and Zionists in the Aftermath of World War II. Yosef Grodzinky
- What Must Be Forgotten: The Survival of Yiddish in Zionist Palestine. Yael Chaver
- Hebrew Fascism in Palestine, 1922-1942. Dan Tamir
- The Jewish Radical Right: Revisionist Zionism and its Ideological Legacy. Eran Kaplan
- The Iron Wall: Zionist Revisionism from Jabotinsky to Shamir. Lenni Brenner
- The Making of Israeli Militarism; War Over Peace: One Hundred Years of Israel’s Militaristic Nationalism. Uri Ben-Eliezer
- Fortress Israel: The Inside Story of the Military Elite Who Run the Country - And Why They Make Peace. Patrick Tyler
- The Dark Side of Zionism: Israel’s Quest for Security Through Dominance. Baylis Thomas
- Evangelicals and Israel: The Story of American Christian Zionism. Stephan Spector
- Hollow Land: Israel’s Architecture of Occupation. Eyal Weizman
- Israel: A Settler Colonial State. Maxime Rodinson
- Israel and Settler Society. Lorenzo Veracini
- Israeli Exceptionalism: The Destabilizing Logic of Zionism. M. Shahid Alam
- Imperial Israel and the Palestinians: The Politics of Expansion. Nur Masalha
- The Iron Wall: Israel and the Arab World. Avi Shlaim
- War Against the People: Israel, the Palestinians and Global Pacification. Jeff Halper
- Disappearing Palestine: Israel’s Experiments in Human Despair. Jonathan Cook
- The Palestine Laboratory: How Israel Exports the Technology of Occupation Across the World. Antony Loewenstein
- Palestinian Identity in Jordan and Israel: The Necessary "Others" in the Making of a Nation by Riad Nassar
- We Look Like the Enemy: The Hidden Story of Israel’s Jews from Arab Lands. Rachel Shabi
- On the Arab Jew, Palestine, and Other Displacements. Ella Shohat
- The Mizrahi Era of Rebellion: Israel’s Forgotten Civil Rights Struggle 1948-1966. Bryan Roby
- Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Makings of a Movement. Angela Davis
- Zionism and its Discontents: A Century of Radical Dissent in Israel/Palestine. Ran Greenstein
- Rebels Against Zion: Studies on Jewish Left Anti-Zionism. Jack Ross
- Strategy for the Liberation of Palestine
- After Zionism: One State for Israel and Palestine. Antony Loewenstein, Ahmed Moor
- Decolonizing Israel, Liberating Palestine: Zionism, Settler Colonialism, and the Case for One Democratic State. Jeff Halper
- Zionism from the Standpoint of its Victims (1979). Edward Said
- Sephardim in Israel: Zionism from the Standpoint of its Jewish Victims (1988). Social Text. Ella Shohat
- Zionism’s Internal Others: Israel and the Oriental Jews (1996). Journal of Palestine Studies. Joseph Massad
- The Great Chain of Orientalism: Jewish Identity, Stigma Management, and Ethnic Exclusion in Israel (2003). American Sociological Review. Aziza Khazzoom
- Zionism in National Socialist Jewish Policy in Germany, 1933-39 (1978). The Journal of Modern History. Francis Nicosia
- Ethnoreligious Fundamentalism and Theoethnocratic Politics in Israel (2014). Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism. Nissim Leon
- The Hebrew Reconquista of Palestine: From the 1947 United Nations Partition to the First Zionist Congress in 1897 (2009). Journal of Palestine Studies. Walid Khalidi
- Settler Colonialism and the State of Exception: The Example of Palestine/Israel (2012). Settler Colonial Studies. David Lloyd
- The Surrogate Colonization of Palestine, 1917-1939 (1989). American Ethnologist. Scott Atran
- Zionism and Imperialism: The Historical Origins (1977). Journal of Palestine Studies. Abdul-Wahab Kayyali
- The Political Economy of Israel’s Demand for Palestinian Labor (1998). Third World Quarterly. Ali Kadri, Malcolm McMillen
- The Political Economy of Israeli Occupation: What is Colonial About It? (2008). Electronic Journal of Middle Eastern Studies. Leila Farsakh
- Communism versus Zionism: The Comintern, Yishuvism, and the Palestine Communist Party (2007). Journal of Palestine Studies. Johan Franzen
- The Nakba Did Not Start or End in 1948 (2017). Al-jazeera. https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2017/5/23/the-nakba-did-not-start-or-end-in-1948
- Zionism, Anti-Semitism and Colonialism (2012). Joseph Massad. Al-jazeera. https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2012/12/24/zionism-anti-semitism-and-colonialism/
- Anti-blackness and the Core Logic of Zionism (2017). Devyn Springer. Mondoweiss. https://mondoweiss.net/2017/10/blackness-logic-zionism/
- Blowback: How Israel Went From Helping Create Hamas to Bombing It (2018). Medhi Hasan, Dina Sayedahmed. The Intercept. https://theintercept.com/2018/02/19/hamas-israel-palestine-conflict/
- Zionist Role in 1950s Attacks on Iraqi Jews ‘Confirmed’ by Operative and Police Report (2023). Rayhan Uddin. Middle East Eye. https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/iraq-jews-attacks-zionist-role-confirmed-operative-police-report
- How Benjamin Netanyahu Became a Holocaust Revisionist (2018). Anshel Pfeffer. Ha’aretz [Zionist publication] https://www.haaretz.com/world-news/2018-12-13/ty-article-opinion/.premium/how-netanyahu-became-a-holocaust-revisionist/0000017f-ded1-d3ff-a7ff-fff1b72a0000
- Scholars Call Bullshit on Netanyahu’s Speech Blaming Palestinians for the Holocaust (2015). Avi Asher-Schapiro. Vice News. https://www.vice.com/en/article/vb83gm/scholars-call-bullshit-on-netanyahus-speech-blaming-palestinian-for-the-holocaust
- Trump Accuses ‘Liberal Jews’ of Voting to ‘Destroy America and Israel’ in Rosh Hashanah Message (2023). Summer Concepcion. NBC News. https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-goes-liberal-jews-israel-rosh-hashanah-message-rcna105540
- Majorie Taylor Greene Calls Israel-Gaza Ceasefire Protest an ‘Insurrection’ (2023). Heather Hunter. MSN News. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/marjorie-taylor-greene-calls-israel-gaza-ceasefire-protest-an-insurrection/ar-AA1itAHG
- Government Said to Use Canary Mission Blacklist to Bar Visitors (2018). The Times of Israel [Zionist publication]. https://www.timesofisrael.com/government-said-to-use-canary-mission-blacklist-to-bar-visitors/
- Jewish Establishment Needs to Take on ‘Islamo-leftist’ Jews Who Are Undermining Israel’s Security - Zionist Thinktank (2022). Phillip Weiss. Mondoweiss. https://mondoweiss.net/2022/01/jewish-establishment-needs-to-take-on-islamo-leftist-jews-who-are-undermining-israels-security-zionist-thinktank/
- Israel Lobby Group ADL Rehabilitates Hitler’s Accomplices in Ukraine (2022). Ali Abunimah. The Electronic Intifida. https://electronicintifada.net/content/israel-lobby-group-adl-rehabilitates-hitlers-accomplices-ukraine/35021
- San Francisco Federation Funds Far Right U.S. Groups, Not Just Canary Mission (2018). Allison Kepler Sommer. The Forward. https://forward.com/israel/411787/san-francisco-federation-funds-far-right-us-groups-not-just-canary-mission/
- Israel is Arming Neo-Nazis in Ukraine (2018). Asa Winstanley. The Electronic Intifada. https://electronicintifada.net/content/israel-arming-neo-nazis-ukraine/24876
- Israel is Still Arming Ukraine’s Nazis (2022). Asa Winstanley. The Electronic Intifada. https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/asa-winstanley/israel-still-arming-ukrainian-nazis
- Anti-Semitism and Orthodoxy in the Age of Trump (2019). Eliyahu Stern. Tablet Magazine [Zionist publication] https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/arts-letters/articles/anti-semitism-orthodoxy-trump
- The New Heimish Populism (2020). Joshua Leifer. Jewish Currents. https://jewishcurrents.org/the-new-heimish-populism
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Life looks soooooo good. Can’t wait to have one someday
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made a flyer with information on how to donate to mona, who is distributing food and supplies throughout north gaza. i've been printing them out and putting them up all over and you can too! download it here
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a flyer titled "food for north gaza." below that it says "mona abo hamda is distributing food throughout north gaza, which is facing famine. donating to her initiative is a concrete way to feed starving people. scan to learn how you can get involved!" below that there is a qr code that leads to mona's gofundme. below that it says "follow her on instagram! she uploads proof of donations there: @/monaa__e98." below that is an image of the palestinian flag.
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Happy Earth Day: celebrate by getting clean water in to Gaza!
(via unrwa): “Gaza: access to water is extremely limited and sanitary structures are insufficient to meet people's needs. Gaza's water supply remains at only 7 per cent of its pre-October 2023 levels.”
Gaza has been in a water crisis for months now, there is virtually no clean/drinkable/accessible water due to Israel’s occupation and siege.
With the summer months approaching, the temperatures in Gaza are rising (it will be nearly 40 celsius there this week) and the lack of viable water is going to continue to cause extreme destruction.
Here are some orgs to donate to that are getting water into Gaza/working on making water in Gaza accessible:
بلدية غزة(Municipality of Gaza)
Anera
UNRWA
FOR SUDAN:
Barana Hanabneiho
Happy Earth Day 🤍🌍 choose to be kind
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Yemen’s armed forces threatened on 22 April to expand military operations against Israeli-linked ships in the Red Sea, Arab Sea, and Indian Ocean following the discovery of mass graves in Gaza’s Nasser Medical Complex.
“For the seventh month in a row, the genocidal crimes of the Israeli enemy continue, the latest of which is the brutal massacre in the Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Yunis,” the armed forces said via a statement on Yemen’s Al-Masirah channel.
The statement continued, “the genocidal crimes that the Palestinian people are facing in Gaza and the occupied West Bank reflect an unparalleled level of Zionist hatred and crime.”
The statement by Yemen called to “escalate their operations in the Red Sea,” adding that Sanaa continues its full support for the people of Gaza.
On Sunday, over 200 bodies were found across two mass graves located in Khan Yunis’ Nasser Medical Complex. Gaza’s Government Media Office announced that about 700 victims are expected to be found.
“We found in the Nasser Complex corpses without heads and bodies without skins, and some of them had their organs stolen,” the media office said. “The occupation executed dozens of displaced, wounded, sick, and medical staff.”
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