العودة حق كالشّمس..
We will return…
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"Antisemitism is bad, always, in every situation, and is still a prominent issue that needs to be solved"
and
"The atrocities Israel has been committing towards the Palestinian people since 1948 are completely unforgivable, and the Israeli state cannot continue to exist"
are two viewpoints that can and ABSOLUTELY SHOULD coexist.
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Wanting to only give back the West Bank and Gaza to Palestinians while continuing to occupy the rest of historic Palestine and not allowing the Palestinian refugees who were ethnically-cleansed from there to return doesn't make a person any less of a Zionist from those who want to continue occupying all of Palestine from the river to the sea, no matter how much they swear they are not a Zionist.
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BDS is a political program with the practical end result of "mass murder of jews," so yes it's pretty definitively antisemitic.
I don't think I've ever specifically mentioned BDS, have I?
In general, I think arguments of the form "X program would have Y result, therefore supporters of X support Y" are very weak unless you can make a very direct argument that X is inextricable from Y. It is not clear to me that the objectives of BDS, which per Wikipedia are
to pressure Israel to meet what the BDS movement describes as Israel's obligations under international law,[7] defined as withdrawal from the occupied territories, removal of the separation barrier in the West Bank, full equality for Arab-Palestinian citizens of Israel, and "respecting, protecting, and promoting the rights of Palestinian refugees to return to their homes and properties".[8]
is inevitably functionally equivalent to "mass murder of jews." There seems to be a pretty long inferential chain there that I guess I'm missing.
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A new Palestinian key design featuring poppies, found here. The key is a common symbol for the right of return.
As usual ALL PROCEEDS from my shop go to my Palestinian best friend to help him support his girlfriend in remaining safely in America until things calm down and to help his other loved ones around the Levant who are being hurt directly and/or financially by the attacks on Gaza, the raids in the West Bank and the collateral damage in surrounding countries. He will donate anything his family doesn't need to the Palestinian charities he works with.
Some product examples:
You can find all my designs here. Redbubble will display them with a random product, click on each to see all product options (shirts, stickers, bags, hats, etc).
Thank you to everyone who has helped so far!
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People from all across the world being able to freely travel to Israel, join the IDF, and participate in a genocide with no repercussions is such a difficult concept for me to wrap my mind around
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ok so i don't personally believe in the 2 states solution (for a myriad of reasons i won't get into now), but why does it seem like everyone who supports it these days is labeled as a zionist? i know why i might think that, but i doubt it's for the same reasons so i'm genuinely asking here
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"We should call out Egypt & Jordan for not accepting Palestinian Refugees"
Baby girl you can't even call out genocide that's happening live on your screens in full color. Sit down.
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Palestinians saying they are refugees and are barred from returning to their land. How true even is this, bc in my own experience meeting and talking with many they can go they just choose not to. Is there really some policy Israel has barring them from returning? And last I checked only ~750000 Palestinians were actually evicted and exiled, so the millions we see today living outside of Palestine were not there due to a Israel kicking them out.
Palestinians, like anybody else, can visit Israel if they like. Linda Sarsour and Rashida Tlaib conspicuously visited in recent years. Immigration and citizenship laws are set by every country, and most countries have far more preferential, specific immigration and citizenship laws than anything an American would recognize. Israel is preferentially a Jewish state - it's a feature, not a bug. There is a Right of Return Law for Jews, not for others.
Of the 750,000 Palestinians exiled in 1948, nearly all are dead; it was a long time ago. Multiple sources say there were about 30,000 remaining as of 2012, so how many can there possibly be today? I think it should be very much on the table for Israel to readmit the remaining survivors of 1948 as part of broader negotiations.
But their millions and millions of descendants are not refugees and are entitled to nothing. The core concept of modern Palestinian identity is based upon an INHERITED refugee status that has never been applied to any other group in history and is, simply, a lie. I can be sympathetic to Palestinians from a basic human perspective, but I don't indulge them or anyone else on this lie. It should be shouted down, loudly if need be.
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weird talking to a white liberal from my work randomly talking to me about palestine i was like okay cool and then j realized they were a white lib who i think made up their own idea of who i was in their head and randomly started saying "remember the people aren't their country's leaders" about israelis of all places... like unprovoked they just started saying that. i said nothing, they just started saying random shit like that 😭 please get a diary. only a white lib would believe that omg. remember you guys, the settlers blocking aid in the gaza strip, the settlrrs who sit watching the bombings saying it's better than fifa, and the settlers in the west bank who beat the crap out of palestinians are innocent to their oppressive government 😵💫 wah wah they are just babies and israel is making them be racist killers and if you don't serve in the iof you end up in jail (regular jail, not the torture-palestinians-,jail).
it always feels like when a social issue makes it into the mainstream, white people MUST make their baseless negative assumptions about those in solidarity, as well as posit the oppressors as victims. probably because they can identify more w their fellow settlers and white supremacist societies. but c'mon 😭 it has been almost half a year of this bloodbath. even liberal jewish organizations have made the decision to be antizionist (IJV) after years of calling for centrist ideas of peace and harrassing/speaking over palestinians, and still believing in the ethnostates right to existence... even *they* have finally called themselves antizionist, and white liberals will still say random unprompted shit trying to both sides freaking genocide 😭
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my grandfather and home // Mosab Abu Toha
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my grandfather used to count the days for return with his fingers
he then used stones to count
not enough
he used the clouds birds people
absence turned out to be too long
thirty six years until he died
for us now it is over seventy years
my grandpa lost his memory
he forgot the numbers the people
he forgot home
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i wish i were with you grandpa
i would have taught myself to write you
poems volumes of them and paint our home for you
i would have sewn you from soil
a garment decorated with plants
and trees you had grown
i would have made you
perfume from the oranges
and soap from the skys tears of joy
couldnt think of something purer
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i go to the cemetery every day
i look for your grave but in vain
are they sure they buried you
or did you turn into a tree
or perhaps you flew with a bird to the nowhere
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i place your photo in an earthenware pot
i water it every monday and thursday at sunset
i was told you used to fast those days
in ramadan i water it every day
for thirty days
or less or more
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how big do you want our home to be
i can continue to write poems until you are satisfied
if you wish i can annex a neighboring planet or two
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for this home i shall not draw boundaries
no punctuation marks
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person who reblogs posts mocking people who actually haven’t had sex or done drugs or firebombed a walmart also reblogging posts about how calls for palestinian freedom and the return of their land is naive:
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