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This is the current state of Gaza tonight.

Communication and internet have been cut off. Palestinians have resorted to communication through mosque speakers to express their fear and pleas for help.

Why are world leaders continuing to turn a blind eye and permitting this blatant genocide?

Western media and rhetoric coupled with the destructive Zionist ideology, has dehumanised Arabs to a point where no nation is willing to condemn the vile acts being perpetrated by Netanyahu.

Israel is an apartheid and settler colonial state that seeks to completely obliterate Arabs.

The irony is not lost on me that the people who were thrown into prisons and gassed in chambers have shoved 2 million people into a single city, controlled their every action and carpet bomb them indiscriminately.

Let’s talk about cultural appropriation.

For some people, cultural appropriation is just this generations constant attempt at being offended by anything and everything. However, it’s far more complicated than that.

Cultural appropriation reflects the dominant societies attempts at using minority groups symbols and identifying objects in a manner that not only advances them in some form, but is inherently disrespectful.

Above, Fendi has commodified the Arab Keffiyeh “coincidentally” at a time when its use has never been so meaningful. So too has Louis Vuitton joined the bandwagon of blatant capitalist exploitation charging $705 for a monogrammed “keffieh”. The fashion industry reflects what is a prime example of how meaning is ultimately lost just for some profitable agenda by people who have no regard for the deeper implications.