Palestinian children deserve to have a peaceful, happy childhood.

Colonization never really stop it only takes on new faces because who you come to a country to live and you do not adapt to its customs and way of living? worse if you only come to visit and learn? The point of tourism is to get to know new cultures but instead you want to come and have your life be the same as in the United States and that we locals have to adapt (in Mexico the gringos began to complain about the noise that the sellers make in the streets that are why they don't buy local and in Mazatlan together with the help of businessmen they want to ban the bands of cultural expressions that have been part of our country for decades just because that bothers them but if we Mexicans go to the USA and want to speak a litle of Spanish we get crucified)

white american liberals love seeing poc as victims who constantly have to beg for a shred of white liberals' attention so they may throw some solidarity our way. the moment we refuse to audition for their sympathy and instead empower ourselves to fight back directly against our oppressors, these same liberals are not so comfortable with the idea of us as victims or innocents - how dare we resist or have our own agency? if a poc takes up a rifle after seeing their entire family be killed, and then is bombed by the killers for fighting back against the killers, then is that poc a victim? oh but how could they be? - they had a gun. the gun becomes our symbol of liberation and hope, not mindless vengeance, but as a means for the destruction of the power structures that our oppressor rests on. stop prefacing your support of poc with condemnations of our resistance. negotiations will never free oppressed people because our oppressors do not have a conscience. you cannot reason with somebody who thinks you are inherently worth less. resistance is the only way forward.

remember that the violence of the oppressed is in no way morally equivalent to the violence of the oppressor. and the oppressed do not have to justify the means of our resistance to the oppressors / the sympathizers of the oppressors.

maybe this is me having too much faith in the people calling for the extermination of an entire ethnic group but idk. i feel like the fact that israel has the most powerful settler colony on the fucking planet bending over backwards to defend them from literally every other country should be enough to make at least some zionists realize that they are not the good guys

I think it’s weird how at least I was taught in school that shit like manifest destiny was bad because it lead to the intentional death and displacement of an uncountable amount of indigenous peoples, but somehow Israel is okay because it’s totally Not The Same Thing

Tumblr/Twitter when they love a movie in which the villain species came where the good guys' species lives, passed as good at first by earning their trust and brought "civilization" but then show their true colors and exploit, destroy and kill : This is an anti-colonialism movie :) awesome allegory, very deep

Tumblr/Twitter when they dislike a movie in which the villain species came where the good guys' species lives, passed as good at first by earning their trust and brought "civilization" but then show their true colors and exploit, destroy and kill : THIS IS AN ANTI-IMMIGRANT MOVIE WE HAVE TO CANCEL IT >:(

Onyx Prime = Shockwave time travel plot is such shitty writing I could and WILL (eventually) write multiple essays about it it's so fucking bad.

Maybe I am just insane but I have such critical views of tourism as someone because my whole family lives in Mexico. Seeing ppl go on vacations and only staying in resorts and not really getting to know the culture or the people and seeing Mexico or any country / culture as this “paradise” but not engaging with any of the issues those communities are facing.

It’s the reason indigenous communities are displaced bc the people with class / racial privilege are always prioritized.

Yes people often rely on tourism to survive but that’s bc communities are economically devastated by years of colonization, especially in places like Hawaii that are still under occupation.

I love black sails! but my favourite part is enjoying it in my own private thought prism because for years I firmly believed flint was the hero and silver was the villain for betraying him and it wasn’t until last week when I checked the internet I realised a shocking number of people think silver is the protagonist and flint is just his antagonist? makes you think. they’re wrong but. makes you think.

God I fucking hate the US military. The most predatory institution in the world tbh.

It's a brand new year and Palestinians are still being attacked, silenced, and slaughtered in Israel.

when i go into the ‘jungle’ tag i wanna see actual pictures and videos of wild jungle flora and fauna from around the world not rich people’s perfectly manicured sterile tropical island get aways

I think it’s funny how Wednesday and Enid are like one skin tone apart and yet gringos will draw her as almost black because she’s supposed to have Mexican background

in light of recent events: still feeling kinda "huh." about the fact that they canonized what was most likely a formatting error on bungie's part that occurred when the info sheets for noble team were being published as part of the promo campaign way back in the day. as of 2022, it's just. canon now. huh. alright.

Palestine Action ruined a 1914 painting by Philip Alexius de László inside Trinity College, University of Cambridge of Lord Arthur James Balfour – the colonial administrator and signatory of the Balfour Declaration [1]. An activist slashed the homage and sprayed the artwork with red paint, symbolising the bloodshed of the Palestinian people since the Balfour Declaration was issued in 1917.  Arthur Balfour, then UK Foreign secretary, issued a declaration which promised to build “a national home for the Jewish people” in Palestine, where the majority of the indigenous population were not Jewish [2]. He gave away the Palestinians homeland — a land that wasn’t his to give away.   After the Declaration, until 1948, the British burnt down indigenous villages to prepare the way; with this came arbitrary killings, arrests, torture, sexual violence including rape against women and men, the use of human shields and the introduction of home demolitions as collective punishment to repress Palestinian resistance [3] [4]. The British were initiating the ethnic cleansing of Palestine, fulfilling the Zionist aim to build their ‘home’ over the top of what were Palestinian communities, towns, villages, farms and ancestral land, rich in heritage, culture and ancient archeological history [5]. The Palestinians refer to this time as the Nakba — which translates into the great catastrophe. In 1948, the Zionist militia, trained by the British, forced over 750,000 Palestinians into exile, destroyed over 500 villages and forced those who remained to live under a brutal reign of occupation [6].

I don't know if you realise the level of displacement that the people of Gaza are facing at the hands of Israel right now.

Take Rafah for example, which is in the most southern part of Gaza, it used to be one of the most densely populated areas with over 300,000 Palestinians living there before the start of the aggression. Now, following three months of forcible evacuation and terror by Israel (remember this map?), the number of people living in Rafah went from 300,000 to 1,300,000, some reporting that half of all of Gaza's population is now condensed in Rafah.

A reporter was describing how not even a single sidewalk is vacant. People are everywhere, yet there is practically no place to live. This of course comes with severe health risks with diseases spreading rapidly, as well as humanitarian risks with no adequate shelter, access to water (Gazans were saying water comes on once every ten days in Rafah), electricity, food or fuel.

But then again, those who are currently displaced have no way to know when or if they are ever going to go back to their homes as Israel destroyed about 70% of homes in Gaza. Additionally, and according to UN reports, due to the insane amount of destruction caused by Israeli bombardment in Gza, it is likely going to take between 7 and 10 years just to rebuild destroyed homes, let alone infrastructure.

Bisan showed yesterday how people have set up their tents in Rafah and it is honestly terrifying to see. All I could think of while watching her video is that the way older Palestinian women would describe their tents following the Nakba is the exact same way these displaced Palestinians are describing theirs 75 years later.

This displacement has obviously always been deliberate as Israeli officials openly declare, and it is also intended to be long term. Displacement doesn't only mean being forcibly removed from your house, but it also means being removed from your community and land and all the significance they hold. This fragmentation of identity is something Israel has been keen on since its inception as a colonial state built on ethnic cleansing.