probablyasocialecologist:

In many ways it is stunning that the Palestinian people have not responded with more violence, given the years of peaceful protest that did not stop the occupation. That did not stop the murders, the lockdown of Gaza, the creation of a people without a passport, the creation of a people without a future, and in a place where more than half of the population is under 18, the creation of a children without a future. You can find the violence distasteful, wrong, horrible—how can one not? It is, after all, violence. But to withdraw support because of it, to justify the hammer raised above the small, impoverished strip of land, is to mistake the symptom for the disease. Per Fanon: “Whatever may be the headings used or the new formulas introduced, decolonization is always a violent phenomenon,” because decolonization involves “the replacing of a certain ‘species’ of men by another ‘species’ of men.” You can replace a people with yourselves: genocide. Or you can replace two peoples with new peoples: decolonization.

Timothy Demay, The Café and the Colony

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determinate-negation:

NYC

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fiercynn:

palestinian poets: mosab abu toha

mosab abu toha is a palestinian poet, short story writer, and essayist from gaza. abu toha is the author of things you may find hidden in my ear: poems from gaza, which won a 2022 palestine book award. abu toha is the founder of the edward said library, and from 2019 to 2020, he was a visiting poet and librarian-in-residence at harvard university.

he is currently in gaza at the jabalia refugee camp with his family and has been writing about what they’re all experiencing, including this piece published today (october 20, 2023) for the new yorker: “the view from my window in gaza”

IF YOU READ ONLY ONE POEM BY MOSAB ABU TOHA, MAKE IT THIS ONE

What a Gazan Should Do During an Israeli Air Strike | Mosab Abu Toha

a poem

The New York Review of Books

OTHER PIECES I LOVE BY MOSAB ABU TOHA

• “Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear” at poetry magazine (march 2021) - some would probably put this as the One You Must Read which would also be extremely valid
• “my grandfather and home” at poetry magazine (march 2021)
• “Like a Cloud, We Travel” included in this article at literatures of annihilation, exile, and resistance at the university of notre dame (october 2021)
• “Mouth Still Open” at poets.org (originally published april 2022)
• “The Journalist in Jenin: a Poem for Shireen Abu Akleh”, also read aloud, at dawn (democracy for the arab world now) (june 2022)

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museiums:

loré pemberton

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donnatarttpdf:

gustaving:

From Palestinian poet Najwan Darwish

i hope this is alright for me to add, but this poem references a line from one of hitler’s speeches ordering the genocide of polish jews. at the end of the speech, he justified the genocide by saying “who, after all, speaks today of the annihilation of the armenians?” in a very literal way, genocides are interconnected and used to justify one another. after all, the holocaust was partially modeled after the united states’ genocide of indigenous people. this is why it is so important to remember the victims of all genocides across history, and why it is so important for oppressed peoples to stand together in solidarity.

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cathkaesque:

mishpacha:

class-struggle-anarchism:

While all of Europe is responsible, I think it’s also important for people from the UK to acknowledge the particular and direct culpability of our government in what has happened in Israel and Palestine - mostly because it never is. Politicians don’t mention it, the media never mentions it, they tell you nothing about it in school, no one talks about it. I was just saying exactly the same thing about India, but if you ask an average British person if they think their country did a good job of ruling Palestine you’ll get a blank stare, maybe they’ll pull a massively uninformed opinion out of their arse, I doubt many could tell you exactly when it was. But the fact is that when Britain assumed control of the Holy land in 1918 both Zionism and Palestinian nationalism were relatively minor concerns, and when we left in 1948 there was a civil war raging between those two sides. All of the important seeds of the conflict were sown and took root while Britain was in charge. The first major Palestinian uprising of 1936-39 was an anti-colonial struggle against the British Empire. 

But today, watching the news, British people are like ‘wow guess we’ll never understand why Jews and Arabs just naturally hate each other’… just like those Hindus and Muslims in India and Pakistan, and those Catholics and Protestants in Northern Ireland’….. and all of those other places on earth where the legacy of British occupation and partition is division, violence and misery. The Empire is not a distant memory we can feel vaguely proud and nostalgic about (as most British people apparently do) it was a global crime of almost unimaginable proportions and it’s still (in some cases quite literally) blowing up in our faces. 

Or Nigeria with the Igbo and Yoruba.  Or Sri Lanka with the ‎Sinhalese‎ and Tamils.  Or Zanzibar with the Arabs and Bantu.

If you want a good documentary on the unholy mess Britain made of Palestine, I really recommend End of Empire. It’s part of a series that looks at a whole host of British attempts at decolonisation. 

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thunderstruck9:

Billy Sullivan (American, 1946), Summer Sunday Breakfast, 1984. Ink on paper, 60 x 42 in.

loveletter2you:

dadu shin

thunderstruck9:

Raoul Dufy (French, 1877-1953), Oliviers à Golfe-Juan [Oilive Trees, Golfe-Juan], c.1923. Watercolour on paper, 49 x 63 cm.

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stanleyscubrick:

A Burst of Light, Audre Lorde

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tunisian:

oh my god. most of life really is about the little things. a good haircut, a nice playlist, trying a new recipe that turns out well, a poem that hits home, a comfortable spot in the sun, spontaneous messages, a pen you enjoy writing with, tea with the right temperature to drink, buying that thing you’ve been eyeing for a while, a warm bed. yeah. im so grateful for the little enjoyments

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