SUPPORT PALESTINIAN BUSINESSES
while it’s important for us to protest, raise awareness, boycott, and pressure our governments… it is also important that we appreciate palestinian people and palestinian culture. they are more than just victims. they are artists, entrepreneurs, fashion designers, movie makers, writers, musicians, scholars—they are people. so let’s celebrate all that makes palestinians who they are by supporting their businesses and showing our appreciation and solidarity.
hirbawi
handmade in palestine
watan studio
hilweh market
sitti soap
yafa queen
nominal jewellery
nurnei
levantinian
dār collective
wear the peace
pali roots
west bank apparel
bella hijabs
anat international
inaash
nöl collective
deerah
darzah
falastini brand
interlink publishing
philz coffee
zatoun oil
knafeh queens
kuvrd
the coffee queens
pali apparel
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watching the south african speech by tembeka ngcukaitobi at the ICJ on israeli genocide of gaza and... wow. this is a thorough and clear explanation of why israel is committing genocide. and at this point I do not see how someone could hear all of these things and not agree that this is in fact a genocide.
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Wanna sing this next year on Christmas
Christmas song parodies -> 365 12 days of Tumblr
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every time I see those screenshots from queering the map it makes me fucking weep
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I grant you refuge
from hurt and suffering.
With words of sacred scripture
I shield the oranges from the sting of phosphorous
and the shades of cloud from the smog.
I grant you refuge in knowing
that the dust will clear,
and they who fell in love and died together
will one day laugh.
“I Grant You Refuge” by Hiba Abu Nada
(trans. Huda Fakhreddine)
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South Africa invoked the genocide convention.
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Meta has engaged in a “systemic and global” censorship of pro-Palestinian content since the outbreak of the Israel-Gaza war on 7 October, according to a new report from Human Rights Watch (HRW).
In a scathing 51-page report, the organization documented and reviewed more than a thousand reported instances of Meta removing content and suspending or permanently banning accounts on Facebook and Instagram. The company exhibited “six key patterns of undue censorship” of content in support of Palestine and Palestinians, including the taking down of posts, stories and comments; disabling accounts; restricting users’ ability to interact with others’ posts; and “shadow banning”, where the visibility and reach of a person’s material is significantly reduced, according to HRW.
Examples it cites include content originating from more than 60 countries, mostly in English, and all in “peaceful support of Palestine, expressed in diverse ways”. Even HRW’s own posts seeking examples of online censorship were flagged as spam, the report said.
“Censorship of content related to Palestine on Instagram and Facebook is systemic and global [and] Meta’s inconsistent enforcement of its own policies led to the erroneous removal of content about Palestine,” the group said in the report, citing “erroneous implementation, overreliance on automated tools to moderate content, and undue government influence over content removals” as the roots of the problem.
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Users of Meta’s products have documented what they say is technological bias in favor of pro-Israel content and against pro-Palestinian posts. Instagram’s translation software replaced “Palestinian” followed by the Arabic phrase “Praise be to Allah” to “Palestinian terrorists” in English. WhatsApp’s AI, when asked to generate images of Palestinian boys and girls, created cartoon children with guns, whereas its images Israeli children did not include firearms.
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At least seven bodies of forcibly displaced Palestinians, including children, who were ‘shot point-blank’, were recovered at the Shadia Abu Ghazala School in north Gaza
— Al Jazeera English (@AJEnglish) December 26, 2023
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"There's a Palestine that dwells inside all of us, a Palestine that needs to be rescued: a free Palestine where all people regardless of color, religion, or race coexist; a Palestine where the meaning of the word "occupation" is only restricted to what the dictionary says rather than those plenty of meanings and connotations of death, destruction, pain, suffering, deprivation, isolation and restrictions that Israel has injected the word with"
-- Refaat Alareer, from Gaza Writes Back
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