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samzoral · 2 days
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peachybruiseslego · 2 months
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its not a trend
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fluffysheeps · 30 days
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Whalermelon sharks 🍉🦈
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biophonies · 2 months
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made in honor of the now-extinct population of Falasteen crocodiles, the sunbirds that almost lost their names, and everyone else surviving the attempted erasure.
posted the other week as part of an ongoing fundraiser offering free prints and paid, with 100% of proceeds going to Care for Gaza. it has since been translated, wheatpasted, and flown on kites all over the world from Saigon to Scotland...!!!
monetary donations are never a substitute for holistic political action, and a push for a different world... but the shows of solidarity and support have lifted my spirits so much.
this is now available on a t-shirt too, screenprinted by hand in Texas!same deal: all profits go to food, medicine, and other critical supplies via Care for Gaza (& the PCRF). thank you for sharing.
image description below:
a Palestine sunbird holds red poppies in their beak next to the text RIGHT TO EXIST. a Palestine crocodile (a subspecies of the Nile, now extinct thanks to occupying forces) guards a shining key next to the text RIGHT TO RETURN. a Palestinian olive tree, full of fruit is next to the text RIGHT TO RESIST. a Palestinian family of five, all embracing each other next to the text RIGHT TO REMAIN.
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chuchayucca · 2 months
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Original thread repost | Original thread | Original Article (Source of the posters)
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The image descriptions were written by @/carstairsbur and Mohammed Haddad, Konstantinos Antonopoulos and Marium Ali.
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draakart · 2 months
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If I must die, let it bring hope Let it be a tale 🪁🍉🇵🇸
resources below!🕊️
DONATE:
Buy an eSim for someone in Gaza
The Palestine Children's Relief Fund IG: @thepcrf
Sulala Animal Rescue IG: @sulalaanimalrescue
Care for Gaza, a grassroots organisiation in Gaza that gives care packages to Gazan families
United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees
Operation Olive Branch
GET INVOLVED:
Join your local rallies!
Australia Palestine Advocacy Network (APAN) Twitter: @APAN4Palestine IG: @apan4palestine
Justice for Palestine Magan-djin (Brisbane) FB: justiceforpalestinebrisbane IG: justiceforpalestine.magandjin
Justice for Palestine Melbourne FB: FreePalestineMelbourne IG: freepalestinemelb
Friends of Palestine (Western Australia)
Wage Peace, Disrupt War (Australia) IG: disruptwars
BOYCOTTS:
Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions
Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions Australia
LEARN:
Decolonise Palestine
If you have any additional resources or funds that aren't listed, let me know and I will endeavor to add them on.
170 hours later and this behemoth project is completed. After being moved to tears three times by Dr. Alareer's poem, I needed to create something. Hopefully this honours his memory.
Hoping to get some funding from local orgs to get this printed into a physical booklet for distribution.
From the river, to the sea!
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rongzhi · 2 years
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A watermelon eating contest
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English added by me :)
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mueritos · 2 months
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Palestina libre!!!
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starkksilva · 2 months
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Here's the point! They are all trying to get the word out in English for the world to hear, see and help them. Besides, they are all very young and have to deliver news like this. At a time when teenagers their age are having fun going to clubs and whatnot, meanwhile they (motaz and another journalist in Palestine) have to deliver the genocide that is happening in their country, in their homeland.
I'm sure we all know this, but some of you are still reluctant to talk about Palestine, still reluctant to stand up for Palestine.
fuck israel, israeli, joe biden, Netanyahu!!!
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prinnay · 11 months
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melon
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samzoral · 2 days
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fairydropart · 10 months
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A refreshing snack!
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kaatokunart · 18 days
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🍉 miku
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saddayfordemocracy · 5 months
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How the Watermelon Became a Symbol of Palestinian Solidarity
The use of the watermelon as a Palestinian symbol is not new. It first emerged after the Six-day War in 1967, when Israel seized control of the West Bank and Gaza, and annexed East Jerusalem. At the time, the Israeli government made public displays of the Palestinian flag a criminal offense in Gaza and the West Bank. 
To circumvent the ban, Palestinians began using the watermelon because, when cut open, the fruit bears the national colors of the Palestinian flag—red, black, white, and green.  
The Israeli government didn't just crack down on the flag. Artist Sliman Mansour told The National in 2021 that Israeli officials in 1980 shut down an exhibition at 79 Gallery in Ramallah featuring his work and others, including Nabil Anani and Issam Badrl. “They told us that painting the Palestinian flag was forbidden, but also the colors were forbidden. So Issam said, ‘What if I were to make a flower of red, green, black and white?’, to which the officer replied angrily, ‘It will be confiscated. Even if you paint a watermelon, it will be confiscated,’” Mansour told the outlet.
Israel lifted the ban on the Palestinian flag in 1993, as part of the Oslo Accords, which entailed mutual recognition by Israel and the Palestinian Liberation Organization and were the first formal agreements to try to resolve the decades-long Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The flag was accepted as representing the Palestinian Authority, which would administer Gaza and the West Bank.
In the wake of the accords, the New York Times nodded to the role of watermelon as a stand-in symbol during the flag ban. “In the Gaza Strip, where young men were once arrested for carrying sliced watermelons—thus displaying the red, black and green Palestinian colors—soldiers stand by, blasé, as processions march by waving the once-banned flag,” wrote Times journalist John Kifner.
In 2007, just after the Second Intifada, artist Khaled Hourani created The Story of the Watermelon for a book entitled Subjective Atlas of Palestine. In 2013, he isolated one print and named it The Colours of the Palestinian Flag, which has since been seen by people across the globe.
The use of the watermelon as a symbol resurged in 2021, following an Israeli court ruling that Palestinian families based in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood in East Jerusalem would be evicted from their homes to make way for settlers.
The watermelon symbol today:
In January, Israel’s National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir gave police the power to confiscate Palestinian flags. This was later followed by a June vote on a bill to ban people from displaying the flag at state-funded institutions, including universities. (The bill passed preliminary approval but the government later collapsed.)
In June, Zazim, an Arab-Israeli community organization, launched a campaign to protest against the ensuing arrests and confiscation of flags. Images of watermelons were plastered on to 16 taxis operating in Tel Aviv, with the accompanying text reading, “This is not a Palestinian flag.”
“Our message to the government is clear: we will always find a way to circumvent any absurd ban and we will not stop fighting for freedom of expression and democracy,” said Zazim director Raluca Ganea. 
Amal Saad, a Palestinian from Haifa who worked on the Zazim campaign, told Al-Jazeera they had a clear message: “If you want to stop us, we’ll find another way to express ourselves.”
Words courtesy of BY ARMANI SYED / TIME
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chuchayucca · 2 months
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Common Palestinian symbols
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I got permission from @/carstairsbur to repost this thread
The image descriptions for the posters were written by @/carstairsbur and Mohammed Haddad, Konstantinos Antonopoulos and Marium Ali.
Original thread | Images only | Original Article (Source of the posters)
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