whitepeopletwitter:

feluka:

Munther Isaac’s Christmas message from Bethlehem. It’s in English so there’s no mistaking who needs to hear it. Please don’t ignore it.

“We will be OK. Despite the immense blow we have endured, we, the Palestinians, will recover. We will rise. We will stand up again from the midst of destruction, as we have always done as Palestinians. Although this is, by far, maybe the biggest blow we have received in a long time, but we will be OK.

But for those who are complicit, I feel sorry for you. Will you ever recover from this? Your charity and your words of shock after the genocide won’t make a difference, and I know these words of shock are coming, and I know people will give generously for charity, but your words won’t make a difference. Words of regret won’t suffice for you.

And let me say it; we will not accept your apology after the genocide. What has been done has been done. I want you to look in the mirror, and ask: Where was I when Gaza was going through a genocide?”

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drmajalis:

Too good to stay on twitter

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holyfigtree:

Baby boy reunited with his Mama.

Long live the Resistance ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

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leroibobo:

when the homes in the depopulated palestinian village of lifta were originally built is impossible to tell and most likely varies from house to house. the area’s been known since ancient times, including having been written about in the hebrew bible. it’s retained multiple different names throughout history - lifta by romans, nephto by byzantines, clepsta by crusaders, then lifta again by arabs. in more recent times, the area saw battle in the early 19th century, when it saw a peasant’s revolt against egyptian conscription and taxation policies. (egyptian-ottoman ruler muhammad ali had attempted to become independent from the ottoman empire, and sought to use the area of “greater syria” which palestine was apart of as a buffer state.)

the village was predominantly muslim with a mosque, a maqām for local sage shaykh badr, a few shops, a social club, two coffee houses, and an elementary school which opened in 1945. its economy was based in farming - being a village of jerusalem, farmers would sell their produce in the city’s markets. an olive press which remains in the village gives evidence to one of the most important crops its residents farmed. the historically wealthy village was known for its intricate embroidery and sewing, particularly of thob ghabani bridal dresses, which attracted buyers from across the levant.

lifta also represents one of the few palestinian villages in which the structures weren’t totally or mostly decimated during the 1948 nakba. 60 of the 450 original houses remain intact. from zochrot’s entry on lifta:

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israel’s absentee property law of 1950 permits the state to expropriate land and assets left behind, and denies palestinians the right to return to old homes or to reclaim their property. it’s estimated that there’s around 400,000 descendants of the village’s original refugee population dispersed in east jerusalem, the west bank, jordan, and the palestinian diaspora.

like many depopulated palestinian houses, some of those in lifta were initially used to settle predominantly mizrahi immigrants and refugees, in this case 300 jewish families from yemen and kurdistan. the houses weren’t registered in their names, and the area generally saw poor infrastructure and no resources including water and electricity provided by the government. most left in the early 1970s as a part of a compensation program which aimed to move out refugees which had earlier been settled in these abandoned houses - if they didn’t, they were referred to as “squatters” and evicted. (holes were even drilled in the roofs of evacuated buildings to make them less habitable). the 13 families which remain there today only managed to do so because they lived close to the edge of the village, next to a neighboring highway. most houses remain empty.

in 1987, the israeli nature reserves authority planned to restore the “long-abandoned village” and turn it into a natural history center which would “stress the jewish roots of the site”, but nothing came of it. several more government proposals on what to do with the land had been brought up since then. this culminated in in 2021 when the israel land administration announced without informing the jerusalem municipal authorities that it issued a tender for the construction of a luxury neighborhood on the village’s ruins, consisting of 259 villas, a hotel, and a mall. since 2023, they’ve agreed to shelve and “rethink” these plans after widespread objection.

the reasons for the objections varied significantly between the opposing israeli politicians - who see the village as an exemplar of cultural heritage and “frozen in time” model of palestinian villages before 1948 - and palestinians - who largely see the village as a witness of the nakba and a symbol of hope for their return. lifta is currently listed by unesco as a potential world heritage site, a designation the netanyahu has threatened to remove several times.

many palestinians who are descendent from its former residents still live nearby. like with many other depopulated palestinian villages, they’ve never ceased to visit, organize tours of the village, and advocate for its preservation.

fairuzfan:

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ladyofthislake:

ladyofthislake:

on december 9th, there is a wisconsin all out for palestine rally in madison. i really encourage anyone who is in this state and has the means to travel to madison to show up for this especially as more people are showing “fatigue” for the palestinian cause and social media posts dwindle.

if you’re in milwaukee, the local chapter of JVP is arranging transportation help if you dont have a car and the badger bus is also a relatively inexpensive and convenient option, it runs multiple times per day and will take you about 30 mins walking or a quick uber trip to the capital if you select the ‘campus and lake’ stop.

p.s. i know madison in general is pretty milquetoast + white liberal-y, but the activism and rallies for palestine specifically lately have been extremely well organized, meaningful, actually leftist and abolitionist, calling for more than a ceasefire, and led by/centered palestinian-americans & other SWANA organizers.

please please reblog, even if you’re not from here, to boost! already 1 person in wi has learned about this action from THIS POST at less than 100 notes. like Yara Eid said, we must keep fighting for their lives!

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tamarrud:

The “truce” had ended as of 20 minutes ago. This means the Israeli warplanes are already back to bombing all parts of Gaza and god knows what the next few days will look like

Just a reminder though that Israel never abided by the “ceasefire”, and had in fact been shooting at Palestinians who were trying to make their way back to their homes in northern Gaza

flowergirlmiwa:

thefirsthogokage:

Absolutely. Fucking. Disgusting.

(link to post) (link to Clerk House vote results)

(link to Business Insider’s article confirming this)

From that article:

“Antisemitism is deplorable, but expanding it to include criticism of Israel is not helpful,” Massie wrote on X.

I hope everyone of those islamophobic, arabphobic, Palestinianphobic, antisemitic 412 members of house lose their elections to people who actually give a damn about Palestine.

ALL of them put their seats in jeopardy with this shit.

Anti-zionism isn’t antisemitic, Palestinians are native to the region AND EXIST and NONE of them are listening to anyone about that. Fuck all of them.

Death to America