Dive Deep into Creativity: Your Ultimate Tumblr Experience Awaits
West Bank - Blog Posts
โผ๏ธPlease donโt skip taking a look ๐๐ต๐ธ
You don't imagine how support can help my family secure basic needs in these difficult situations and famine .๐๐ป๐๐ป
Now I ask that you please share their story and donate if you can bc they're very low on funds!
๐ Your Donation Can Make a Big Difference! ๐
๐จ๐จ๐จ You can save a life! Act nowโผ๏ธโผ๏ธ๐๐๐๐๐
@fancysmudges @brokenbackmountain @just-browsing1222-deactivated20 @mothblossoms @aleciosun @fluoresensitive @khizuo @lesbiandardevil @transmutationisms @schoolhater @timogsilangan @appsa @buttercuparry @sayruq @malcriada @palestinegenocide @sar-soor @akajustmerry @annoyingloudmicrowavecultist @feluka @tortiefrancis @flower-tea-fairies @tsaricides @riding-with-the-wild-hunt @visenyasdragon @belleandsaintsebastian @ear-motif @kordeliiius @brutaliakhoa @raelyn-dreams @troythecatfish @theropoda @tamarrud @4ft10tvlandfangirl @queerstudiesnatural @northgazaupdates2 @skatezophrenic @awetistic-things @camgirlpanopticon @baby-girl-aaron-dessner @nabulsi @sygol @junglejim4322 @heritageposts @chososhairbuns @palistani @dlxxv-vetted-donations @illuminated-runas @imjustheretotrytohelp
in case you missed it
yesterday the US HOUSE VOTED TO HIDE Gaza death toll statistics.
this is far morethan just an institucional genocide denial, this is one half of American Congress giving a foreing nation green light to kill with billions of dollars and blind eye.
this measure, if passeed in Senate, would make illegal for the US state Department to cite genocide stadistics.
in other words, illegal to do its job.
The thing is that getting Palestine free is both very difficult but not as difficult as getting South Africa free. South Africa had more resources than Israel does, it could hold out so much longer and still the apartheid was ended by people working tirelessly and boycotting and pushing for divestment and sanctions. These methods will work for freeing Palestine too.
I know it doesn't feel like there have been many successes, but all the politicians are feeling the pressure. Pressure that we are able to sustain and even increase as we come up with new initiatives and convince new people to join.
One of the reasons they're resisting our pressure so strongly is because they know that when we see gains we will push harder, we will continue to push until the stones falling becomes a rock fall and Palestine's freedom is secured. They know if we get a taste of the power we can wield we'll turn that onto freeing Congo too. They know we're unhappy and have been for a long time and their very secure system starts to look a lot less secure when we start mobilising to change things.
I feel I should specify when I talk about the vast majority of Israelis supporting this genocide it's not to call for violence of them or even to demonise them. It's to call attention to Israel having a genocidal education system which dehumanises Palestinians from the moment Israelis start school. Ilan Pappรฉ did a study in 1994 of the Israeli education system and raised the alarm that it would raise a generation who are even worse than those who first colonised Palestine in 1948. We're seeing the truth of that now.
I raise this point because we're seeing this attempt by politicians and the media to claim that it's just Netanyahu who is to blame for this genocide and not a systematic problem that requires boycotting, divestments and sanctions to push them to correct. This lie is being pushed because they do not want to change the status quo which allows for Israel to steal Palestinian land and homes and keep Palestinians under military occupation.
According to the Palestinian Prisonerโs Club, the occupation released the prisoner Moaziz Abayat after several months of detention, where he was subjected to a systematic assassination attempt during his time in โOferโ Prison.
He faced systematic and brutal assaults that included the breaking of all his limbs, visible in circulating videos, and he was left without treatment until his liberation.
It is worth noting that Moaziz is the nephew of martyr Hussein Abayat, who was martyred 24 years ago in 2000 during the Second Intifada. His uncle was one of the early founderโs of Al-Aqsa Martyrsโ Brigades in the southern West Bank and became one of the occupationโs most wanted resistance fighters due to his executing of several significant resistance operations which killed and wounded many zionist soldiers.
After receiving treatment for the first time since his abduction, the barbaric torture Moaziz endured and witnessed at the hands of zionist soldiers has become even clearer in a video where he is heard saying,
โThey killed meโฆput me in a bag, in a black bag. I have been martyredโฆโ
Resistance News Network
the fact that y'all r ignoring the suffering of palestinians just like your 'leader' is so funny that next time u see this post Palestine no longer exist, keep that in mind we don't have much more time.
I donโt think you all understand the absolute fucking torture that Palestinians are facing from Israel. Could you, just for one second, pull your head out of your ass and analyze your cushy, privileged life. Just for one moment, think about how good you have it. You have a home, food, water, youโre not dying of infection from untreated wounds or running with no place to go from constant bombings. You donโt know what it feels like to have your skin burnt off by white phosphorous. You donโt know what it feels like to have your limbs cut off without anesthesia. You donโt know what it feels like to watch your dead children get pulled out of rubble, in pieces. You donโt know what it feels like to drink dirty water and go days without eating. You donโt know what it feels like to watch the neighborhood you grew up in be wiped off the face of the earth. You donโt know what it feels like to hear nothing but screams and the rumbling off bombs going off. You donโt know, because you have it SO much better than you realize. The people, the human beings, in Palestine are being brutalized and you couldnโt be bothered. Feel shame, feel guilt. If there is a hell, we are all going there.
Israel detains hundreds of children every day without question. They take children to prison and torture them.
There is no ceasfire. Every day Israel detains many times more than it releases.
Israel is a terrorist organization established under the name of the state.
This is the moment israeli soldiers shot and killed 9 year old Palestinian Adam al-Ghoul in Jenin in the West bank.
They also killed another child today ( Basil al wafa) a bit later. See the child who pulled Adam, he had to hide because israeli forces were still shooting. In Jenin, no hamas, no ceasefire. When zionists say they want peace this is what they mean, Palestinians going back to being killed in silence.
Some of y'all are just so insensitive, this is not some Twitter drama and it shouldn't be reduced to Twitter drama
Reblog to tell zionists to fuck off your blog. If you say you aren't a zionist but still get offended then uhhh sorry hun but this is exactly for you <3
.
๐Please listen and help me. ๐
โ ๏ธVetted by @gazavetters, my number verified on the list is ( #365 )โ ๏ธ
I am Mahmoud from Gaza๐, specifically Khan Yunis. I hope that no one will experience the suffering I am experiencing. After the collapse of the last ceasefire, Israel launched strangely manufactured and developed missiles. We are not human beings to them. Every moment we hear a sound. The planes, the sound of the bombing, and the crossings are all closed in an indescribable way. No one can bring a cup of water into Gaza๐ต๐ธ. We are dying of hunger, bombing, and burning. Every minute, thousands of us are dying. The least you can do is donate so that we eat food that is not even good.Prices here are very expensive and things are more dangerous than you expect๐. You do not know the extent of what we are suffering. We are hungry and we are losing our families and loved ones at every moment. Please do not leave me like this. Help and donate as much as you can. I deserve a better life.
https://www.gofundme.com/f/ch8x7k-help-mahmoud-and-his-family-survive
What could i say? We all know what they're doing, we all know they wont stop until somebody actually stops them.
FUCK THE FAKE STATE OF ISRAEL.
Bethlehem, Palestine
This was my favourite part of the House of Banksy art exhibition
I never was in Bethlehem/Palestine, I always wanted to see the local people there and Banksy's hotel. But I was very happy to see even the replica of one of the hotel rooms and the art works in it.
It is called the hotel with the worst view. They even tried to make a window that should replicate the ugly ass wall with Banksy's art.
Sadly Banksy's hotel closed shortly after the genocide in Gaza started, I mean 2 million lives are literary starved to death or constantly attacked after all... what even more devastating is, that the genocide will continue for almost a year a now. It is just sickening to see that no politician gives zero fucks about it ...
Here are more information about the wall.
Also one of my fav artworks:
And one of Banksy's recent art works ... it was call for a ceasefire. He posted it on his Instagram. But shortly after he posted it, a fucker stole the stop sign wtf ...
Streetart is made for everyone to see and enjoy. But it is also completely unprotected and has a short live ...
I need to be honest with myself ... him being pro palestine and including palestinian people in his projects is my main reason why I love his artwork so much.
He built this the Walled of Hotel to help the local people and even made an art gallery inside the hotel to show more about Palestinian history and Palestinian art. The money the hotel earns was used to fund local project and help the Palestinian people.
This deserves another re-post in light of the escalation in the West Bank. #Neverforget
On January 2, Netanyahu declared that: โOur problem is finding countries willing to absorb Gazans and we are working on it.โ
Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich corroborated: โencouraging voluntary immigrationโ because โtwo million people [in Gaza] wake up every morning with the desire to destroy the State of Israel.โ
Intelligence Minister Gila Gamliel told Zman that โvoluntary migration is the best and most realistic program for the day after the fighting ends.โ
Thus, Israel's official discourse adopted the term โvoluntary migrationโ, even though we know that there is nothing โvoluntaryโ about it, after all, bombing houses and hospitals, punishing the people collectively through starvation, pushing the people to the Egyptian border and other areas that were supposed to be safe, but in the end they are invaded and bombed like all the others were, among everything we have seen so far, there are no actions that give meaning to such a term (a term that should not even exist, just like the Terrorist and Illegitimate State of Isnotreal).
Because there's no enthusiasm from Western allies, Israeli diplomats are scouring the world in search of governments willing to welcome Palestinian refugees.
There are no effective actions that punish Isnotreal and/or bring some justice to Palestine, the USA always vetoes the votes (useless and which have already become jokes) for a ceasefire resolution and the northern countries issue mere notes of repudiation as if, like Canada, were not erasing Palestine from their official documents.
It is worth remembering that the Zionist movement in its beginnings considered transferring the world's Jews to the African continent, to establish their own state there, before choosing Palestine as their destination for colonialism. And as Theodor Herzl, father of Zionism, said: โAntisemites will become our most reliable friends, antisemitic countries our allies.โ
Israel's Heritage Minister Amihai Eliyahu said on January 5 that settlers and soldiers โmust find ways even more painful than deathโ to โget rid ofโ Gaza's Palestinians. It's not difficult to draw parallels with the N4z1 movements in Germany.
Two new designs for my fundraising shop, found here and here. The first is the word ููุณุทูู (Palestine in Arabic) edited into a simple open source dove design. The second is a vintage photo of stained glass windows in a mosque in Bethlehem (West Bank) from the Library of Congress. The original is pretty faded and dull, I messed with the saturation and contrast to make it pop more for a sticker design. It's pretty low resolution so I only have it available on stickers and a couple other small products. I really love this photo, it looks like it would make a great metal album cover (kinda reminds me of Sick With Bloom).
ALL PROCEEDS from my work are for my Palestinian best friend, to help him support his girlfriend in remaining in America until it's safe for her to travel back home and to help his friends and family in Palestine and around the rest of the Levant who are being hurt directly and/or financially by the attacks on Gaza, the raids and economic devastation 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.
Here are the above displayed on a couple products:
You can find my full shop here. Here is a small sample of some of my other designs:
To see a design on other products click on the display product and scroll down or go here to browse by design. Thank you to everyone who has contributed so far!
I've been saving this bubble graphic for a while, I found this nice Dome of the Rock image on Pixabay and I really love how the colors work together! I think it would make a great sticker.
ALL PROCEEDS from my work are for my Palestinian best friend, to help him support his girlfriend in remaining safely in America until it's safe for her to travel back home and to help his friends and family in Palestine and around the rest of the Levant who are being hurt directly and/or financially by the attacks on Gaza, the raids in the West Bank (this has unfortunately hit his family quite hard) and the collateral damage in surrounding countries. He will donate anything his family doesn't need to the Palestinian charities he works with.
Theย Dome of the Rockย is a shrine in the Al-Aqsa mosque compound in Jerusalem. It's the oldest surviving work of Islamic architecture. The iconic gold color was actually added starting in 1959, before that the dome was covered in blackened lead.
Here is the above printed on a few things (shirts, sticker, pin, hoodie):
You can find this design on a bunch of products here, and you can find my full shop here. Thank you to everyone who has contributed so far!
Wildcat Wearing Keffiyeh
This one was inspired directly by my Palestinian friend, he's a labor activist and he has done some incredible work in various unions (and non-union movements) over the years. He's nice enough to have put some serious time into labor organizing for free for employees of organizations he doesn't even work for just because he hates seeing people being treated unfairly. When I tell you he is the nicest person I have EVER met I really mean it. I actually met him through his labor activism.
As usual ALL PROCEEDS from these will go to this wonderful man to help him afford to bring his girlfriend over to America and to help his other loved ones around the Levant who are being hurt directly and/or financially by the attacks on Gaza, the increasing Israeli raids in the West Bank and the collateral damage in surrounding countries. The cat is found here and here (on shirts, stickers, notebooks, etc). All designs found HERE (click on each to see more product options).
For those not familiar, this is the black cat/wildcat/sabo-tabby, an old union symbol likely designed by IWW member Ralph Chaplin. It is associated with sabotage, wildcat (unprotected) strikes and other radical labor actions.
By the way, did you know that Israeli trade unions have historically fought against the Arab workforce?
The tatreez (Palestinian embroidery) pattern I made has been more popular as a sticker than I expected, so I have just added the top two versions designed primarily to be used as stickers (also available as pins and magnets).
As usual, ALL PROCEEDS from this design are for my Palestinian best friend, to help his girlfriend afford to join him safely in America and to help his friends and family in Palestine and around the rest of the Levant who are being hurt directly and/or financially by the attacks on Gaza, the increasing Israeli raids in the West Bank and the collateral damage in surrounding countries.
These designs and a bunch more are found here (Redbubble will show you a random product, click on each to see more product options). Thank you to everyone who has helped out so far!
New Palestine Designs
I made a few designs this weekend with some open source patterns and a tatreez design I drew in FlossCross. Mostly made with clothing prints in mind, but also available on stickers, notebooks, phone cases, mugs, etc.
My best friend is Palestinian, and a lot of his friends and family in Palestine and around the rest of the Levant are being hurt directly and/or financially by the attacks on Gaza, the increasing Israeli raids in the West Bank and the collateral damage in surrounding countries. ALL PROCEEDS from these designs will go first and foremost to helping his girlfriend afford to join him in America safely, and after that helping his other loved ones weather this war.
All designs found here (Redbubble will randomize what it shows the print on, click on each product to see more options). I'm adding new ones roughly daily. Thank you to everyone who has helped so far!
Dove Wearing Keffiyeh
Thank you so much to the anonymous customer from Dublin who bought this keffiyeh-wearing dove on a shirt yesterday!
ALL PROCEEDS from Palestine related sales through my Redbubble shop will go to my Palestinian best friend (the most amazing person I've ever known) to help him bring his girlfriend over to America. Any left over will be used to help his family/other loved ones affected by the war.
Design found here, all Palestine designs found here. Available on shirts, stickers, hats, notebooks, mugs, pins, etc. New designs being added pretty much daily.
this pride, i learnt about the Palestinian trans woman Oscar Al-Halabiye, dancer and resistance fighter against the israeli occupation in Southern Lebanon. she named herself Oscar after Lady Oscar from the "The Rose of Versailles", a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Riyoko Ikeda.
her story is documented in Cinema Fouad(1993). zionists use pink washing to reinforce their genocidal terrorist narrative when queer Palestinians have been fighting against the occupation since the very beginning. you can watch it here with english subtitles. long live the intifada!
DONATIONS FOR GAZA
As you probably know, the situation in Gaza gets worse every day. At this stage, every donation, no matter how small, might make a difference between life and death for someone trying to escape Rafah.
Donate as little as 7$ today and you get a sketch or a small illustration of yourself, an animal, a friend - whatever it is that you want.
You can find the full spreadsheet of families here: Operation Olive Branch
or you can donate to one of the randomized gofundmes from here: Gaza Funds
Send me proof of your donations and the details for the artwork you desire. YOU CAN SEND IT THROUGH DMs OR EMAIL ME (email and useful links here:)
Depending on how busy this gets, commissions might take two days or more.
*Biggers commissions are available for bigger donations! You can see illustrations I did in the past here.
a lot of the coverage of the Palestinian genocide is focusing on the US student protests and the narrative is constantly in danger of shifting away from what the protests are actually about and a lot of the language is now speaking in terms of police brutality, silencing of free speech, etc. It's not a radical thing to say that this isn't exactly helpful to the Palestinian cause if the actual reasons for the protests aren't constantly front and center. A lot of people have already made this point. I do not think the genie can necessarily be put back in the bottle with how the protests and the police reaction to them are entering the public consciousness of the USian people. A lot of people are or will become aware of these protests through the lense of these simply being instances of police brutality, and police brutality is a critical issue that many USamericans are very passionate about thus making it difficult to reframe the context of these images of police slamming white professors into pavement towards awareness of Israels decades long illegal occupation and systematic and indiscriminate displacement and murder of Palestinians. What I feel needs to be done is try to reframe these images flooding the internet not *away* from issues of police brutality and homesoil fascism, but in the wider context of imperialist governments taking the lessons they learn oppressing "foreign peoples" and turning them inwards. That police brutality is not disconnected from imperialist mass murder. That the one thing connecting the assaulted USian protester and the trans israeli denied gender affirming care for refusing to serve in the fascist Israeli military and the Palestinian child buried alive for the crime of being Palestinian... the one thing connecting them is that, sooner or later, they are all victims of power. Our rights are granted to us inequitably, unevenly, and are just as quickly stripped away when we do not serve the interests of fascist power. We are either a tool of the state or an enemy of the state. The Palestinian, not the innocent or the guilty but the human being Palestinian, is murdered because she can not be useful to the state while she is still breathing. She can never have the "privilege" of being a tool. I'll say it again: We outside of Palestine who can go to protests, who have families, who are able bodied, who can work, who can keep their head down or speak without immediate retaliation have the "honor" of choosing to be a tool of the state or an enemy of the state. The Palestinian has no choice.
There will always be an armed cop ready to arrest you and kill your brother as long as there is a bomb ready to drop on the heads of Palestinian children. Fascism trickles up and inward.