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An instagram account called @iheartisrael is spreading Islamophobic propaganda and hate. Please report them!!!!
Well considering Palestinian parents, not all, but some send their children to Hamas’s “Lets learn to be Martyrs” camp, this isn’t too far off. Not to say that all Arab mothers are like this of course, but come on. It’s not a complete evil islamophobia and propaganda when there is some truth to this.
The above comment… Serious?!
I have a distant relative who was a settler in the West Bank and was arrested for opening fire on Palestinians harvesting from their orchards. In fact, I can think of a few more examples of Jewish Israeli settlers opening fire on Palestinian civilians.
So if there’s “some truth” to Jewish Israelis opening fire like that, is it not evil anti-Semitism and propaganda to declare that Jews are bloodthirsty terrorists?
Of course it would be anti-Semitism and propaganda. Just as this picture is.
On Israel’s new economic budget, and how it aims to push Arab women and Haredi men to find jobs
“In the case of Arab women, this isn’t just wrong, it’s offensive. The government has invested in industrial parks for Jewish towns but for very few Arab ones. Public transportation to Arab communities is sparse. In Arab schools, classes are larger and schooldays are shorter. Far fewer Arab than Jewish two-year-olds are in preschools—which give children an educational head start and their mothers an opportunity to work. Thousands of Arab women who have nonetheless made it through the educational obstacle course and graduated from universities or teachers colleges are looking for jobs. If the government thought rationally about getting Arab women to work, it would invest in daycare centers, schools, and industry in Arab towns. It could also insist that Jewish schools hire Arab teachers.”
damn straight
Palestinian Activists Demolish Part of Israeli Apartheid Wall Near Ramallah
On Friday 17th May, a group of young Palestinians and activists from the popular resistance movements demolished part of the Israeli apartheid wall in Abu Deis village near Ramallah.
One of the activists told PNN that dozens of Palestinians protested near the Israeli apartheid wall that was constructed between the Abu Deis and Al-Eizariya villages and that a number of youngsters demolished part of the wall.
He said that Israeli forces arrived to the area and started firing metal-coated bullets and tear gas canisters toward the protesters.
Several Palestinians were arrested while others were able to enter into Jerusalem while holding Palestinian flags, he added.
A 17-year-old Palestinian was injured with a rubber bullet in his head during clashes erupted in Abu Deis village.
Eyewitness said that the injured boy was transferred to Al-Maqased Hospital in the same village for treatment. His injuries were described as serious and severe after being shot by the IOF, according to medical sources.
(via yanorayanora)
“If the Palestinians had been expelled from their land, as they had maintained already in 1948, the international community would view their claim to return to their homeland as justified.
“However, Ben-Gurion believed, if it turned out that they had left ‘by choice,’ having been persuaded by their leaders that it was best to depart temporarily and return after the Arab victory, the world community would be less supportive of their claim.”
- Shay Hazkani in the essay linked below. The author is a doctoral student in history at the Taub Center for Israel Studies at New York University.
—http://www.councilforthenationalinterest.org/israelpalestineconflict/missingheadlines/item/2767-catastrophic-thinking-did-ben-gurion-try-to-rewrite-history
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This post would’ve been fine had you not tagged it “#jewish bullshit.” Not all Zionists are Jews. Not everyone who supports Israel is Jewish. Not all Jews support Israel. Zionism isn’t necessarily stateist.
The history of the Israel-Palestine conflict is brutal, yes, but it is also COMPLEX and COMPLICATED and convoluted as all fuck. You don’t seem to realize that people will leave their homes voluntarily during wartime, for example, or that the movement of both Palestinians and Israelis was not uniform at all. (It’s a pretty standard reaction to being caught in a war zone!)
But most importantly of all, when you stick a phrase like “jewish bullshit” on a post about Israel-Palestine, you are being anti-Semitic, because you are blaming not just all Jews, but Judaism itself, in an issue on which there has never, ever been a Jewish consensus.
(via thearcanetheory)
Also what a ridiculous argument. Is Shay Hazkani really trying to say that the world community is always just and ready to support the victims of injustice? We should all know better.
Gross Anti-Semitism from one person and baseless anti-Palestinian rhetoric from another in one post.
(via thearcanetheory)
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articles like these make me sad
http://www.abc.net.au/religion/articles/2013/05/17/3761661.htm
A very powerful article. And yes, sad and shameful.
A collection of rare images of Palestine after the catastrophe (al nakba) in 1948
(via thehummusdance)
Palestinian traditional array of women dresses. Each represents a certain city, town, village in Palestine.
(via yanorayanora)
Newly arrived Bulgarian Jewish colonizers living the in recently ethnically cleansed Palestinian village of al-Bassa (1950). Click here to find how the indigenous population of the village left their homes.
While there is no excuse for the ethnic cleansing of Palestinian village, calling refugees from displaced person camps and Holocaust survivors fleeing Europe European colonizers is not exactly accurate. To say the least.
(via thehummusdance)
