Spacial Rend

and the best part is his team actually does go "he sucks. worst motherfucker on earth (affectionate) stop making excuses for him"

but it breaks my heart when i have to share them from people in gaza, who are using their five minutes of internet connection, their 25% of battery charge collected from a macguyvered car battery, emotionally exhausted, thirsty and hungry, sleeping in schools that have turned into refugee shelters and still making the time to say "please, i am human too, i am still alive, please fight for me" in english to appeal to the only people who have the power to help

i shared a tweet from a jjk artist in gaza i follow about a bts photocard being found in the middle of the rubble. even the love of anime and kpop and sports is no longer just a hobby, but an appeal to humanity. what was once a source of joy is now proof of life.

the worst part is that you won't find this content in arabic. palestinians don't post like this in arabic. but when they translate themselves, they recognize that they must humanize themselves first. it's an unspoken understanding of dehumanization, one that has dictated a whole region's understanding of the value of human life. in arabic they speak with dignity, with anger, with sorrow. in english, they appeal for their existence.

"Via Scott Long. For those interested, I've uploaded my entire library of books on Palestine/Israel to the cloud, in digital form (mostly pdf and epub) so you can access them. It's a little over 1700 books, a lot of them good and important, some of them historical or political curiosities. Nearly all are in English, I'm afraid. You can download any that interest you individually, or the whole library (about 13 GB). And feel free to share this."

After the end of Apartheid in South Africa, white South Africans have continued to dominate the country economically. In fact, the richest white South Africans have only INCREASED the amount of wealth they're hoarding since Apartheid ended. South Africa has the worst wealth gap on the planet, with race remaining the largest determining factor in a person's socioeconomic standing. Despite white South African moral panics about "white genocide," Black people are disproportionately at risk of violence in post-Apartheid South Africa. Based on historic precedent, Palestinians are at higher risk of socioeconomic exploitation and ongoing violence than their colonisers even if the Israeli state is abolished.

If you're genuinely concerned about Israelis, maybe consider that living in a fascist state that is arresting people for social media posts that aren't genocidal enough is something that already exists and is happening to them right now and that not living in a genocidal fascist state would be better for anyone who isn't fascist and genocidal.