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“You never completely have your rights, one person, until you all have your rights.”

Palestinians will tell you that one of their greatest wishes is that the world would not forget them; this is what their oppressors are aiming to do. Unfortunately the attacks in Sheikh Jarrah and Al-Aqsa mosque are just instances in decades of horrific oppression and ethnic cleansing. You can directly help Palestinians by buying from them and helping them take economic power back.

The above are some examples of the beautiful and high quality products available at Shoppalestine.org including their honestly addictive Olive wood series and stunning embroidered goods (just to name a few).

!!! Hadeel.org is a UK alternative !!!

Similar and equally beautiful products here too^

You can also donate to one of the emergency appeals here:

it’s unfair of us to have platforms and not use it to speak up for palestinians. i have resources provided below for how you can educate yourself on the ethnic cleansing that is happening in israel right now and how you can help.

educate yourself

thread on what is occurring in sheikh jarrah, another thread

thread of infographics about misconceptions regarding israel and palestine

tw bombing video of al aqsa mosque being bombed

tw violence, tw bombing, tw shooting video of palestinians in al aqsa mosque

tweet explaining importance of al aqsa

a website where you can learn more about palestine

a video breaking down the history of the israeli oppressing palestinians

video of palestinian explaining the importance of spreading awareness

tw violence video of 16 yo palestinian boy being forcefully evicted from his home by israeli solders

tiktok of palestinian speaking about what is going on in her country. please see the links in her bio for more information— tiktok will not let me copy and paste her linktree

tiktok of palestinian speaking on situation in gaza

instagram page for jewish voices for peace, an organization working for liberation and justice for palestine

infographics explaining how to be an ally for palestine

some of the posts are triggering instagram of journalist sharing what is happening in palestine

free ways to help if you cannot donate

do NOT sign petitions !! they are not accounted for in the middle east and do nothing.

go to this website and simply click. update: i have heard from some people that this helps and from other people that it does not. please be wary with this source and do not depend on it.

watch this video to donate, it’s 3 hours long but just playing it in the background can help

watch this video to donate, it’s 1 hour long but just playing it in the background can help

if you are from the U.K., follow these instructions to call local MPs into action

if you are from the U.S., text RESIST to 50409 to urge congress to help palestine

thread of dua’as muslims can make to pray for palestinians

boycott israeli products

donate— it is better to donate directly to people rather than organizations, but i do have a few organizations listed.

do NOT donate to change.org

help children and hospitals affected by gaza bombing

help hungry children in palestine

donate to palestine child relief fund, known to be reputable

donate to united palestinian appeal, a direct charity

donate directly to journalist injured in gaza

ramadan zakat fund for palestinians in gaza

raise money for palestinian woman escaping toxic household

i’ll add more links as i continue to find reliable sources and proper donations. please dm me other resources and i can add them to this list. if anything here is not trustworthy, please let me know immediately and i will take it down. free palestine until it’s backwards, pray for palestinians who do not know whether they will be safe in their own country.

35 deaths. 12 of which are children.

Photos credited to AJ+. The woman in the video and her family, Thanks To Allah , survived

The Israeli-Palestine situation is not religious based, it’s land based. Religion came in the picture incidental decades after the conflict began.

Free Palestine is not an antisemitic statement.

Calling out “Israel” for it’s violence against the land currently known as Palestine is not blaming Jewish people and communities for said violence. There are Israeli Muslims, Palestinian Jews and Christians of both backgrounds.

There were already thousands of Jewish people in Palestine before British rule.

Calling out “Israel” means holding accountable the government/military actions oppressing the people of Palestine. Not blaming the innocent Jewish citizens of the land.

Free Palestine is not an antisemitic statement.

It’s an opposition to this loss of life and land, not to any religious belief.

Free Palestine is not an antisemitic statement.

Freeing Palestine means giving its people self-determination on what is and is not their own ancestral land. The optimal way is to peacefully decide this.

The government/military of the state known as Israel have killed hundreds of innocent civilians of Palestine. They were met with peaceful protests. They responded with violence. Then they were met with violence in the name of self-defense. They responded with more violence.

Free Palestine is not an antisemitic statement.

Of course, Jewish people know far too well the cost of bloodshed and religious persecution that force innocents to become refugees, lose their families and have their homes ripped apart bloodily, inhumanely and unjustly.

That is the current state of innocents in Palestine.

Free Palestine is not an antisemitic statement.

No, the issue is not black and white. Innocents in the land known as Israel have been hurt regardless of religious affiliation. Innocents in the land known as Palestine have been hurt regardless of religious affiliation.

The black and white of it is that there are the oppressed and the oppressors.

Free Palestine is not an antisemitic statement.

Freeing Palestine does not mean being diametrically opposed to the original definition of Zionism which is reparations for Jewish peoples in the form of a partial ethnic-state. 

The land currently known as Israel was not the only place considered for said goal; Madagascar, Ethiopia, Germany and several others were considered before outer Western oppressive powers mandated the state of Israel - a choice done with only temporary consent by those of the land then known as Palestine. 

Those same Western oppressive powers would have hurt whatever country they’d chosen and none of that would’ve been the fault of the Jewish people. 

Free Palestine is not an antisemitic statement.

Jews have ALWAYS existed in Palestine.

Free Palestine is not an antisemitic statement.

Free Palestine is simply a call to the end of illegal warfare, eviction, apartheid and religious persecution of innocent people in the land that is known as Palestine by the federal government of the state of Israel.

It is a call to prevent the exportation of refugees, the destruction of innocents, the airstrikes on public places and the bodies of innocent children lying dead and bloodied on the streets in the land of Israel-Palestine.

Free Palestine is not an antisemitic statement.

It is a call to end the expansion of an oppressive state. Not to hurt Jews, nor kick them out individually nor to kill them. Just to free all involved from the warfare of an imposed and invading state.

Plenty of people with argue against this. I pity them for being uninformed and so adamant on their beliefs which may unintentionally or intentionally perpetuate violence on both communities - to paint either the Jewish or Arab peoples and/or their respective religions as violent or propagandistic.

Free Palestine is not an antisemitic statement.

“Free Palestine” is a call for peace and justice in the face of violent, unjust colonial settlement and ethnic cleansing.

Don’t make me regret posting this.

I had a police officer stationed in my high school.  At one point he got a warrant to investigate me for a stolen calculator, that I didn’t steal.  He kicked down my door after school one day with 8 other cops in riot gear with guns drawn on my Grandma.

I ran upstairs and hid under the bed because I thought he was there to kill me.  He took my computer, phone, and trashed my entire room as an officer held me and my grandmother in my kitchen at gun point.

I was expecting to go to school the text day with him there.  I had to hold it all in.  I had nightmares about it for years.  I couldn’t focus in class, I was always terrified.  The white kids were getting stickers from him as I feared for my life.

I couldn’t get school work down the same as the other kids because I had no computer so I fell behind.  This impacted which colleges I could go to.

At one point he finally returned my items.  I was not charged.  But he would constantly pull me out of class in a public manner and question me about the calculator.  He would do so with my vice principle in the room.

Eventually everyone knew I was always being talked to by the officer so it impacted my reputation and only enforced the stereotypes my white peers already held.

Then, as I was in contention to become the captain of the track team, despite his efforts, he showed up at practice and handcuffed me in front of my coaches and teammates.

He took me to jail where I sat for hours.  My parents were on vacation, there was no one I could call.  He then told me I was not under arrest but that he was trying to teacher me a lesson.

After that the coaches would not let me become captain, again impacting me college options.  It also impacted which kids would risk associating with me.  For some kids this means hanging out with kids who are actually committing crimes and falling into that life.

I cannot state enough how terrified I was in school at all times.  Every morning I wondered if he would arrest me at school.  I saw him everyday.  Every night when I was supposed to do homework, I was worried he would kick my door in again.

Every knock on the door terrified me my entire life, up until this day.  The funny thing is, I was not political at all before this.  But this and other experiences I had with police throughout my life pushed me into fighting for justice.

The police didn’t just harass me and my high school friends at school.  It was just part of life being black in a white neighborhood.  Being stopped at the age of 14 and asked why I’m in my own neighborhood…

Or walking my dog and police pulling up and saying I was reported as a potential drug dealer by my own neighbors.

Being thrown to the ground at 13 because I matched the description of someone who got into a fist fight.

Being with my friend who was a recent rape victim when she saw her abuser and called the cops because she had a restraining order and police showing up and handcuffing me for their protection even though I wasn’t involved.  I was 14.  He didn’t cuff the white kids around.

Being stopped at 15 while walking down the street and drinking a water bottle because police said it looked like vodka.  At 15…

Being stopped at 16 while crossing the street because my pants were sagged and my backpack looked heavy so they thought I had a gun.

This is just the life of a black kid.  It’s just expected to be normal.  We thought that was just life.  We knew it didn’t happed to our white peers but we just thought it’s how it was.  We thought we were flawed.

So I say all this because these white school board members voting for more cops just don’t know what this all feels like.  I will have this trauma for the rest of my life.  It permanently messed me up.  It ruined high school and narrowed my opportunities.  

I was just a kid.  People of color already have the entire deck stacked against us but to then throw salt in the wound and have those officers sit in the room next to us and expect us to learn?  The same ones who harass us all day in and out of school?

And I didn’t even steal the damn calculator.  I wasn’t the best kid.  I smoked pot and cussed with my friends.  But I knew white kids doing cocaine at 16.  They had never had an interaction with police except when they got their damn stickers.

Our white students feared detention, I feared arrest.  To hear white people tell me that Officer was there for my protection is laughable.  He was there to oppress people of color.

And before you say I just had a bad cop, he quit being a police officer.  He told me through a mutual friend that he quite because of me.  He was horrified looking back at what he was forced to do to me.  Idk what forced means in this context.  Just what he said.

Anyways, just writing this thread really fucking hurts.  I am one of the lucky ones.  This isn’t about safety this is about trauma that you are giving little kids.  Just please don’t.

@AmandaFritzRN @ChloeEudalyPDX @joannahardesty @tedwheeler please read this before you vote for more cops.

I only added commissioner elect Hardesty and Commissioner Eudaly because they can use these stories as more fuel to convince their colleagues, I trust them.  I didn’t add Nick Fish coz I couldn’t find his twitter handle lol.  Someone tag him.

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