alluraclaire
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luthienne
  • luthienne

    Oh Gaza, Oh Hiroshima, that gleams as brightly as animal skin on the threshold of the past, Oh Carthage, violated by the sea, Oh besieged Troy, with traitorous horses, Oh Sarajevo . . . Oh blood apple, Don’t go south, they massacre palm trees there at the crossings. Don’t go north, there are as many remaining body parts as there are eyelashes on your children. Don’t go east, the walls are covered in blood flowing since the beginning of time. Don’t go west, they set up the gallows for you there in the open desert.ALT

    Omar Ziyadeh, “Nobody Can Identify Their Own Remains, and I Am Unable to Identify My Own” (tr. from Arabic by Alice S. Yousef) [ID’d]

    • Nov 29 59282
    podencos
  • podencos

    i have the opposite of that “everyone is an npc” mentality people have embraced where i’m instead like. the person next to me in line has someone they can’t wait to go home to, the person picking up their mail has felt devastation before, everyone in this grocery store is doing their sunday shopping, maybe the person that just honked at me is having the worst day of their life, my neighbor has doctors appointments and favorite foods and a song they can’t stand to hear anymore… you are all fully realized complex people and that is overwhelming me on a spiritual level…

    • Nov 8 2659
    luthienne
  • luthienne

    This critical view of Zionism in relation to the formation of Israel is best articulated by scholar Noura Erakat, who writes: Had Jews merely wanted to live in Palestine, this would not have been a problem. In fact, Jews, Muslims, and Christians had coexisted for centuries throughout the Middle East. But Zionists sought sovereignty over a land where other people lived. Their ambitions required not only the dispossession and removal of Palestinians in 1948 but also their forced exile, juridical erasure and denial that they ever existed. So, during Israel's establishment, some 750,000 Palestinians were driven from their homes to make way for a Jewish majority state.... This is why Palestinians have been resisting for more than seven decades: They are fighting to remain on their lands with dignity. They have valiantly resisted their colonial erasure.... This resistance is not about returning to the 1947 borders or some notion of the past, but about laying claim to a better future in which Palestinians and their children can live in freedom and equality, rather than being subjugated as second-class citizens or worse.ALT

    Marc Lamont Hill and Mitchell Plitnick, from Except for Palestine: The Limits of Progressive Politics

    • Oct 31 1313
    undr
    undr: “Samuel H. Gottscho. Park Avenue looking south from 55th. New York. 1930s ”
  • undr

    Samuel H. Gottscho. Park Avenue looking south from 55th. New York. 1930s

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