yes. boycotts are for life. even when Palestine is finally liberated, we will remember that Starbucks would rather sue its employees for supporting Palestine than be associated with the free Palestine movement. i don’t buy from businesses that tacitly support genocide.
it's the "again" that really kills me. Ahed Tamimi had been abducted and tortured in November at the start of the genocide before being released. she was imprisoned by Israel for the first time as a 17 year old child for speaking up about her cousin's murder by the IOF.
this btw is why calling only for a ceasefire won’t be enough for me to praise a celebrity. because in the same breath Annie Lennox is also repeating Zionist propaganda. let celebrity worship die already.
Andrew Tate is using Palestine as a way of developing a Muslim men user base as a form of spiritual abuse and conmanship. he's literally no different than Jackson Hinkle. let's not be providing a known sex trafficker with any credit or attention.
Palestinians like Salma are asking the book community to speak more on the fact that Israel has deliberately bombed every university and many libraries in Gaza as part of the genocide.
but let’s keep arguing about whether or not boycotting zionist authors matters.
‼️EXTREMELY IMPORTANT UPDATE WRT GAL GADOT’S SCREENING‼️
it’s a trap to capture POC protesting outside the Museum of Tolerance and show them being “antisemitic”
if you’re not jewish and/or white, this protest isn’t for us. we have to sit this one out.
yall it’s not radical to call for a ceasefire and say free Palestine six months into the genocide. i enjoy Hozier’s music but can we please stop obsessing over below bare minimum statements from celebrities?
making these paper lanterns for Ramadan is a tradition i remember from my own childhood passed down to me from my mom who learned from her mom.
this is joy and celebration as resistance.
just an FYI. a lot of leftist Palestinian Americans are very critical of how Claudia de la Cruz and PSL are fully profiting off the images of Palestinian resistance. i won’t presume to tell people how to vote (except not to vote for Biden) but folks should be aware of this.
the official BDS list is the bare minimum. you don’t need to boycott every Zionist product but for God’s sake stop trying to justify buying Zionist luxury goods you actually don’t need to survive or be well.
add a few extra boycotts for things that would inconvenience you
This, & I want to add that I’m boycotting all Zionist products, even if they’re not on the BDS list. I understand that I’m privileged enough to be able to do that, but if you can, you should too. I check every product before I buy it. I won’t allow my money to be used for murder.
the Palestinian Youth Movement is calling for an official strike April 15. primary action items are to walk out of school and work, abstain from any spending.
i find it interesting that Faizal is openly supporting boycotts of her book that is contracted with Disney and admits her hands are tied due to contracts. idk how i feel about it yet but it does seem to indicate authors CAN speak up about their books having problematic contracts.
Hafsah faizal's new book is a jafar reimagining but unfortunately i cannot support it cause it's being published by disney books
This is hafsah's reply in her post.
@alicentsyn
just an FYI the commentary on rape is a method of distraction. no one disagrees that rape is bad. it’s a zionist tactic they use time and again to turn attention away from the fact that israelis have been brutalizing palestians systematically for 100 years
israel is trying to scare lebanon with threats and actual airstrikes meanwhile khalah over here is like, “why’s this israeli pilot so obsessed with me?” 😭😭
they literally do????? have yall not seen what traditional clothes look like in most cultures? it's full body covering lol. just a couple examples from my own culture. it's the western gaze that's promoted the taking off of clothes for all genders in our homelands
if you're not Muslim, i'm going to need you to read Colonial Harem and learn the history of white colonists forcing Muslim women to undress themselves for pornographic postcards before you comment on hijab and patriarchy. some of yall are fucking obsessed with undressing us.
idk who needs to hear this but saying that Palestinians should leave Gaza & go into another country is the very literal definition of ethnic cleansing, which is a tool of genocide.
that’s admitting out loud you support crimes against humanity, genocide, and ethnic cleansing.
Israel is committing a large scale massacre in Rafah where 1.9 million Palestinians have taken refuge because it’s a designated “safe zone” on the same day as the super bowl. tweeting about the super bowl or Beyoncé is contributing to providing Israel cover to commit genocide.
white people will act horrified at the idea of human sacrifice when it’s in the context of “savages” like the Mayans. but they will literally sacrifice entire races and nations of people for profit seeking endeavors and colonial projects and not even blink.
@chimppower1
@blklilacc
they’re selling Palestine merch in their official store to fund their campaign and folks in my community aren’t very happy with that. just passing along a sentiment i’ve been hearing from the Palestinians i know personally.
KPOP stans are doing their own collective boycott for Palestine meanwhile SAB/SOC, GO, OFMD, and PJO fandoms on twitter can’t even pirate their little shows and not break the universal global boycott to not organize to get their dumb little shows back.
Here in Tel Aviv, there’s this long Shabbat dinner table with 241 empty seats to remember the hostages kidnapped by Hamas and taken to Gaza. Let’s hope they come home soon.
she’s praying that if she and her family dies that the cat dies with them. or that if the cat survives that her cat eats other people, preferably strangers. let that sink in. she’s praying her cat dies with her so her cat doesn’t eat her.
"Please don't eat us if we die"
A little girl from Gaza begs her cat not to eat her and her family if they die in light of the ongoing Israeli aggression.
the fact that this cop’s first instinct when seeing a young man self immolate in protest of genocide was to pull a gun on him is extremely dystopian and completely on brand for America
“Hamas talking points.”
Hamas doesn’t have multiple twt accounts, soldiers posting tiktoks, lobby groups, ambassadors, news outlets, an international flyer campaign, paid celebrity endorsements, or social media ad campaign.
how do u think Hamas is spreading “talking points?”
you blocked people for telling you to support Palestine and a ceasefire and when people tried to educated you on BLM. but sure. you’re an authority on diversity and inclusion.
Palestinian Dr. House has done so much more for Palestine than almost any major celebrity.
in all seriousness though, supporting Zayna’s campaign is a great way to donate direct aid to Gaza in effective ways. if you want to donate but don’t know where to start, try here.
IN FOUR DAYS WE HAVE RAISED 7000 FOR PALESTINE
specifically:
3000 for care for gaza
2500 for PCRF
1000 for pious projects
500 for esims and medglobal!!!
KEEP ON GOING!! we have so so so many amazing artists authors and video editors still available!
@anakinskvwalkcr
no Armenians? no Sudanese? no Uyghur? no Congolese?? funny how they make no mention of any of the other peoples experiencing genocide right now
those are clovers right? like wild clovers. Gazans are eating weeds found on the ground and being thankful for their food.
(and some of us still can’t boycott fast food chains)
i contrast this when authors who have contracts with Israeli publishers who have stayed completely silent. they could also say “unfortunately my contract makes it impossible to pull out at this time but i support the boycotts and a free Palestine.”
hypothetical question: if Israel can get away with approx 9 war crimes in response to 1,400 people being killed on Oct 7, how many war crimes can Palestinians get away with after they’ve had 10,000 people killed 32,000 injured? do Palestinians have a right to defend themselves?
remember when Suzanne Collins wrote the Hunger Games in response to watching young soldiers kill Iraqi & Afghan civilians & children on tv?
& now IDF soldiers are posting tiktoks of them torturing Palestinians and Gazan journalists are posting videos
of their dismembered kids
i’m muting but i want to add that i’m a long time Hozier fan & im still a fan. i know he’s been pro Palestine for a long time. but i reserve the right to want more explicit statements from public figures, especially ones who have a lot of background knowledge and a huge platform.
while you’re here consider donating an esim. with journalists evacuating to understandably save their lives and escape the genocide, Gaza needs connection more than ever to continue reporting and sharing.
Palestinians are reporting that communication is PARTLY restored in SOME areas in Gaza, but INTERNET IS STILL DOWN due to destruction of infrastructure. Let's keep donationg, every donation matters. Let's keep
#ConnectingGaza
@GoddessTriV
yeah i’ve also heard this. idk the extent to which PSL is a grift but they don’t seem to have the best reputation in leftist organizing circles.
in 2021 i was literally trying not to k*ll myself every day. but Israel was violently evicting Palestinian families from Sheikh Jarrah in East Jerusalem. so i stayed as informed as i could and helped student organizers from my alma mater.
you’re an unprincipled coward.
1. Mental health
Many people are struggle day to day so come on here to talk to people about things that bring them joy (kids, cats, crafts etc). The world is tough enough, they don't want to magnify the things that trouble them by entering a discussion about it with strangers.
“dozens?” wtf kind of journalism is that? it was 400. that’s hundreds. 400 Palestinian refugees killed by Israeli bombings in Gaza. that’s what this should read
bringing back my recommendation to read this book on the history of French colonialist obsession with sexualizing Muslim Algerian women.
because that’s what this propaganda video is doing. it’s literally dehumanization through sexualization and pornography.
Israeli soldier rummages through a woman's lingerie and personal belongings in Gaza
"I always said Arab women are the sluttiest"
"Look what they're wearing under the hijabs"
Is Hamas hiding in women's underwear,
@netanyahu
?
@LauraRival1
sympathy for Palestinians doesn’t make him pro Palestine. so long as he continues to believe that Israel should exist, he is by definition a Zionist and we need to be critical of that. the screenshot for the first pic was taking late Oct 2023.
we need to talk more about how violence is murder only when civilian non state actors commit it while violence is “national security” when industrialized and sanctioned by the government and backed by billions of dollars. 🧵
aggressive reminder that Stephen King still associates with and promotes JK Rowling who is a famous TERF asshole. nothing this man says or thinks has any weight or merit.
yall are so annoying. leave the girl alone. and to people annoyed specially because she’s giving hijabis a bad name or whatever, grow the hell up and realize no one hijabi should have to carry the weight of being representative of all of us. she’s just having fun.
Gazans are trying to fundraise that amount of money to pay off extortionists at the Rafah border for one person to leave Gaza. if someone has that kinda of money in Gaza i promise you they’re not buying a rotting head of their oppressors.
I woke up to an article from The Atlantic asking why Israel was accused of genocide and not Hamas. The author, James Smith, is the co-founder of the
@Aegis_Trust
, an NGO to prevent genocide. And yet he dares to call Israel’s actions self-defense.
The jokes write themselves.
i love that this implies that Columbia and Harvard are pro Palestine when really the universities are collectively punishing and criminalizing pro Palestine students and orgs.
Zionists want to be oppressed so bad they have to make bad memes up.
i think what pisses me off the most is that Palestinians have been telling us from day 1 that they clearly understand Israel’s actions and stated intent as genocide. it’s now day 112 and over 30,000 are dead. but sure, lets allow the ICJ a couple more years to decide.
Amy Schumer: “People get really mad at women. They save a special kind of vitriol for us. It’s not new. I think it’s because they fear women. That’s my guess.”
McDonald's CEO said,
"We do not expect to see meaningful improvement until there is a resolution in the Middle East" This suggests he may not be aware that the BDS campaign can continue after the war.
reminder that Care of Gaza provides a lot of food relief and that they get paid through interactions since they are verified. if you can’t donate, always try to interact with them.
@artan_ayan
@FlLMDORK
i think about this documentary all the time. especially as it so clearly exposes the way the media propaganda machine works. i started to fully understand how the events on the ground are purposefully misrepresented because of this doc.
i’m gonna go to bed but in case this thread continues to gain traction consider visiting this thread to check out ways you can continue to support for a liberated Palestine and Congo. daily click is embedded in it.
I’ve been seeing less about palestine + Congo so I’m making a thread of threads of resources that I’ve bookmarked. A few will be more protest or strike-oriented than information-oriented.🧵
nah we’re not doing Taliban apologism today when literally every Afghan woman i know is begging people to listen to the sheer level of violence the Taliban enact on Afghan women and girls every day.
idc about their symbolic attack on the West when they’re attacking Afghans too.
Some actual context for those crying about "Heritage".
The Taliban left this statue all alone after its discovery by them for three years. The decision to destroy it only came after an absurd reaction of the west regarding the circumstances in Afghanistan. The Taliban...
i wish nothing but pain and suffering on every employee of every news outlet who was complicit in covering up the genocide. and i wish that pain and suffering tenfold on everyone who changed their minds about the genocide after 7 foreign aid workers were targeted.
interesting that the acc that seems to have pushed the “strike” deleted the post and then went private. idk if they originated this strike or not but definitely noteworthy.
reminder to listen to Palestinians and let them take the lead on organizing actions for the genocide
hi — im palestinian
i haven’t heard of this UNTIL today. which is both irresponsible and immature to do. a strike needs to get provided with information, this barely has anything and atp you guys are just doing this for activism point to look and feel good about yourselves.
you describe the org as a coalition of Israelis. so BDS’s criticism of Standing Together as normalizing Israel is in fact true even based on your description.
just say you’re a liberal zionist and go.
BDS has called to boycott Standing Together (
@omdimbeyachad
), an org I proudly support.
BDS describes it as a "Israeli normalization org" that “whitewash[es] Israel’s ongoing genocide."
This is counter-productive, circular firing squad purism. 🧵
some people on booktwt will literally read fantasy (both high fantasy and romantasy) whose plots revolve around politics and wars but say they don’t want to be political. like bffr
@rhijazi
fuming about what exactly? Sudan is also experiencing a famine and humanitarian crisis. and Gaza received aid months ago that was supposed to go to Sudan.
the El-Farrah family is trying to evacuate 14 people from Gaza, 9 of whom are children. this gfm is being managed by family members outside Gaza and can be trusted. they’re only halfway to their $82k goal. please share if you can.
poster translation:
first line: “I will not be complicit in genocide”
second line: “Aaron Bushnell”
third line: “The American who burned himself for Palestine”
i understand the sentiment but Wael Dahdouh was a known Al Jazeera journalist for years and Motaz, the most visible journalist from Gaza, has been begging to be evacuated for months. they aren’t celebrities. please for God’s sake listen to yourself.
this is a good reminder that posting fundraisers without explicit calls for a free and liberated Palestine and the dissolution of the zionist state doesn’t make someone pro Palestine. it just means they feel a little sad sometimes that babies are dying in genocide.
for everyone who dared to defend leigh taking her absolutely worthless “apolitical” stance when someone asked her about her stance on palestine, just know she’s driving it home. she knows damn well what she’s doing.
@darlingsterned
“i understand if that’s not enough.” well it’s not enough. she could have easily said “i support a free Palestine and a ceasefire to the genocide” instead of whatever nonsense she ended up saying.
#withHandala
#Gaza
#ceasefireNowPermanently
This thread is to alert you of the upcoming strike for Palestine from the 18th to the 25th February.
In this 🧵 some resources to make the strike effective and links to campaigns you can donate to.
GO, OFMD, SAB, and PJO fandoms on twitter are for real the weakest links. all this energy and organizing for some dumb little shows. all this bootlicking for casts and crews indifferent to or supportive of genocide.
Apparently from today, on Noorii’s internet.
Zionists don’t know that Hebrew and Arabic are both semitic languages that originate from Aramaic. The joke is Zionists are dumb and don’t know what cultural appropriation means.
i can confirm that they did not! i know this because Napoleon when he came to Egypt in 1789 wrote an open letter telling the Egyptians to accept his rulership. to which an Egyptian intellectual wrote back, “sir, you don’t even know how to wash your ass. no.” i’m paraphrasing ofc
remember when Billie Eilish wore the artists for a ceasefire pin then went to starbucks the next day and tried to hide from the photographer to avoid responsibility? pins don’t mean anything. Danielle is a Zionist until she apologizes and directly advocates for a free Palestine
additionally, if Israel can get away with 9 war crimes for the return of 200 hostages, how many war crimes can Palestinians get away with after 800,000 Palestinians were illegally detained and held hostage by the IDF since 1967?
hypothetical question: if Israel can get away with approx 9 war crimes in response to 1,400 people being killed on Oct 7, how many war crimes can Palestinians get away with after they’ve had 10,000 people killed 32,000 injured? do Palestinians have a right to defend themselves?
@LauraRival1
the definition of Zionism isn’t a debate. Zionism means a belief in the right of Israel’s existence. and Israel’s existence requires settler colonialism and land theft from the Palestinians.
Neil Gaiman believes in Israel’s existence. that makes him a Zionist.
@JustAPoeticMess
@beereadingshelf
can we add Laura Thalassa to the list? her book War takes place in post apocalyptic “New Palestine” and it’s very Islamophobic, racist against Arabs, and Zionist masquerading as liberal politics.
hi. certified muslim here. incest is STRICTLY forbidden in Islam. it’s considered a major sin. i hate that i have to say this but Islam is against incest. i’m sure this is rage bait but, please. if you’re gonna lie do it better.
@brandnewswiftie
@megwfc
did you ignore the part where Annie Lennox’s post is repeating Zionist propaganda? that’s not pro Palestinian liberation. i didn’t even show animosity toward her. i just said i’m not gonna praise her. go argue with someone else.
Let the hostages be freed immediately. Let’s think of the children, of all the children affected by this war, as well as in Ukraine and by other conflicts: this is how their future is being killed. Let us pray that there might be the strength to say, “enough”.
when i was 19 i didn’t make videos to post online about how i thought genocide was sexy.
19 makes him an adult btw. if 9yo Lama has to report on her genocide to a global audience to beg for ceasefire, then Noah can deal with the deserved backlash of his terrible opinions.
I feel bad for Noah Schnapp/the way he’s treated,it’s undeserved. Others with same view on politics don’t get the amount of hate/backlash he gets (most still loved),people pile onto the 19 year old who’s still a teen,it’s disgusting. Genuinely hope he’s okay/I’ve got his back🥺❤️
the chants about KKK, IDF, and LAPD (and other police departments) being all the same are not metaphors. it’s literal. US American police formed from slave catchers and KKK organizations and are currently trained by the IDF.
we can’t keep having this conversation every week. it’s been five months of genocide. we’ve been explaining the effectiveness of targeted global boycotts. at this point, some of you really care more about luxury comforts than learning and trying not to support genocide.
@inejmydarling
idk how people think Palestinians have the time, money, or effort to stage a video like this when there’s literally photographic evidence from even traditional news media that Gaza has been flattened by over 10,000 bombs in the last 3 weeks
the way this begins by positioning Orientalism and The Question of Palestine as two separate texts that must be chosen between and not part and parcel of one another is already insane. and then to make the genocide about themselves was an even worse choice.
it’s so clear and obvious that Israel is targeting ambulances, which is a war crime and an act of genocide. there’s no legitimate or justifiable reason to bomb an ambulance.
it literally wouldn’t have?? because 700 years ago Muslim scholars knew what a solar eclipse is and how that’s not the same as the sun setting???
Islam isn’t analogous to Christianity and our understanding at astronomy has always been sophisticated.
Islam on the whole is a religion of modesty and moderation. hijab is just ONE aspect and at no point does Islam shame women for their bodies as a reason to cover up. it's simply a practice of modesty and religious devotion.
The hijab is not based on the idea that a woman’s body is sinful. That just goes to show me you know nothing about Islam. Please educate yourself before you spread misinformation. Feel free to be an atheist, no one’s stopping you, but stop speaking on Islam if you’re ignorant.
@WonPeople
the Israeli government literally took credit for it before they decided to delete the tweets and blame Hamas. there’s proof. we know who to blame
Muslim women will be policed, sexualized, fetishized, commodified and criminalized no matter what we do. being a model minority has never convinced oppressors to stop oppressing. so i’m not gonna be acting like a cop and police other Muslim women for existing.
what is the point of bombing food aid (with illegal weapons) if not to explicitly starve a population you trapped? what is that if not explicit acts of genocide?
An hour ago, the Egyptian forces carried out an airdrop of aid north of the Nuseirat camp, specifically the Al-Zahraa area. The Zionist occupation burned it with phosphorus bombs.
@holdinontostars
personally i was extremely disappointed by his very sanitized and overly neutral statements back in November, especially because so much of his music directly speaks to the impacts of colonialism. he’s doing more than most but i still find his public statements lacking.