No Blood On The Knife, I Doubt The Palestinian Boy Stabbed Anyone

since you're here, please take a moment of your time to read about @samirahmed125 's campaign, which is verified on @gazavetters 's list at number #428:

gofundme.com

Donate to Urgent Aid Needed for Ahmed and Son, organized by Abeer Sa

To those who have a living conscience and good hearts who feel us despite the distances a… Abeer Sa needs your support for Urgent Aid Needed

Ahmed's son, Samir, is in grave conditions as you can see from the pictures posted on their profile. On top of that, the campaign has only reached 33% of its goal! This is UNACCEPTABLE.

Please, show some support to this family by donating what you can and sharing this campaign widely, with anyone you know 🙏

DON'T SCROLL PAST WITHOUT DOING ANYTHING. YOU COULD MAKE A DIFFERENCE IN THIS WORLD BY HELPING THIS FAMILY.

🇵🇸 From BDS:

This year’s Israeli Apartheid Week will be the most important since IAW was launched 20 years ago! With the ongoing Nakba at its height, Israel is carrying out the world’s first ever live-streamed genocide against 2.3 million Palestinians in Gaza while it continues to entrench its 75-year-old settler-colonial apartheid regime against all Indigenous Palestinians. Over the past few months, people around the world have carried out inspiring actions building people power to end state, corporate and institutional complicity in Israel’s #GazaGenocide and contribute to the Palestinian struggle for freedom, justice, and equality. With the failure of the international system, under US and Western hegemony, on full display, we will organize IAW throughout the month of March to bring justice from below. Save the date - March 1st - March 30th; an entire month of action and BDS mobilizations to end complicity in genocide, build grassroots power towards liberation and the dismantling of Israel’s settler-colonial apartheid regime. Let’s make this year’s IAW our most impactful ever!

In anticipation of the upcoming Israeli Apartheid Week, BDS has called for an escalation of our boycott campaigns.

To find out how you can join a specific BDS campaign, or how you can contribute towards IAW, you can use the search function on their website to find a BDS-affiliated organization in your country.

If you and your organization have an event planned for Israeli Apartheid Week (IAW), you can register them with BDS here.

🇵🇸 For individuals unaffiliated with an org, you can still support and participate in IAW by:

Boycotting all products from Israel and from companies profiting off the occupation of Palestine. Here are the official BDS targets. For a more extensive list of products, check in with one of the BDS affiliated organizations in your country (they might tell you, for instance, what processed food items at your local grocery store should be avoided).

Share information about BDS on social media, with friends and family, and with your local community.

For BDS targeted brands, refrain from making or sharing any content that helps that company's outreach and branding. No more memes mentioning the brand, no pictures showing their logo, no more free advertising. Boycotting here isn't just about the loss you as a costumer can inflict on the company by not purchasing their product, it's also about damaging the brand's reputation, and limiting their customer outreach.

I highly encourage you to join a BDS-affiliated org, but if for whatever reason you can't, then these are concrete and actionable steps you can take.

Again, for more information about BDS and Israeli Apartheid Week, you check in with the official BDS website.

April, discovering an entire Hidden City beneath NYC and going up against a fish-man making, warring warrior scientist:

There's one charity that I haven't seen shared here personally, and that's Care for Gaza.

They're shared a lot on twitter as a reputable on-the-ground relief source. You can donate to their gofundme to help their efforts here.

Image source: Josh Mayfield

I’m feeling completely hopeless today…💔💔

We haven’t received a single donation in over 24 hours, and it’s putting my life and my children’s lives in real danger 💔

We rely entirely on this campaign to survive – it’s our only lifeline ❤️‍🩹

With every moment that passes without support, our struggle grows heavier, and the burden on my heart as a parent unable to provide the basics for my kids becomes unbearable 💔

Please… any help, no matter how small, can make a huge difference in our lives 🙏🏼

They must mean consensual sex because - even your women are rapists

They were volunteers for the International Kitchen Relief Organization. Their nationalities are Palestinian, Irish, Polish, Australian, and British.

the Guardian

Four foreign aid workers and Palestinian translator killed in Israeli strike, Gaza officials say

Israeli military investigating after nationals from UK, Australia and Poland, working for World Central Kitchen, were reportedly in convoy s

Ah for sure the metaphors is simpler than the situation and but for clarification the carving out part I’m mostly referencing the colonisation of Palestinian land that took place after both states were established out of the Ottoman Empire/British protectorate. Plus while there are different definitions of Zionism the philosophy being pushed by the people in charge of Israel right now and what a lot of people seem to be consciously or unconsciously legitimising holds that Israel must take over the entire area and palestine has no right to exist and Palestinians have no right to live there.

( I’d love a equitable one state solution but I don’t see it realistically happening this century given the amount of blood spilled so a roughly equal sized/resourced two state with free movement might be the best we’d see in our lifetimes)

so I had a whole, far more elaborate response on the day you sent this- and then trying to post my internet cut out and the whole write up was lost, and I just don’t have energy to reproduce it

In short summary - I agree with much of what you’ve said here, the variety of views in Zionism is important and key to progress moving forward, and particularly within Israel, supporting leftist, pro-peace, groups is important

I think peace - whatever form it takes, whether it’s two state, one state, whatever - is a long way off, and there’s gonna be a lot of in between stages, and we have to be okay with those in between stages.

the Guardian

‘Not like other Passovers’: hundreds of Jewish demonstrators arrested after New York protest seder

About 300 people were detained near Senate majority leader Chuck Schumer’s Brooklyn home

Hundreds of Jewish anti-war demonstrators have been arrested during a Passover seder that doubled as a protest in New York, as they shut down a major thoroughfare to pray for a ceasefire and urge the Senate majority leader, Chuck Schumer, to end US military aid to Israel.

The 300 or so arrests took place on Tuesday night at Grand Army Plaza, on the doorstep of Schumer’s Brooklyn residence, where thousands of mostly Jewish New Yorkers gathered for the seder, a ritual that marked the second night of the holiday celebrated as a festival of freedom by Jews worldwide.

The seder came just before the US Senate resoundingly passed a military package that includes $26bn for Israel.