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dont forget to celebrate palestinan joy

“The students don’t know what they’re talking about”

The students:

It hasn't stopped. For hours the IOF has been bombing Rafah, dozens of martyrs reached the hospital, many of them in shreds. The wounded can't be treated properly because of their large number & the state of Rafah's hospitals. Many remain under the rubble. The genocide continues.

Update:

No one in Gaza is allowed to travel + all aid has been stopped from entering Gaza.

something i can't stop thinking about is how vehemently young people do not want to enter the world as it exists, and their willingness to challenge and contest it.

#2024Graduate

Say Palestine and call them Palestinians. Don’t only refer to them as Gazans, because this contributes to the narrative that Palestine as a country doesn’t exist. Gaza is INSIDE Palestine. Gazans are Palestinians. The only illegitimate state in the narrative is Israel.

Back in November, I talked about how we see the use of the term ‘evacuation’ to soften the ethnic cleansing & forced displacement of Palestinians.

The most pernicious part of this language is that it characterizes the killer as also the protector.

Nobody ever talks about the Israeli school segregation, I was told today. I said, we've talked about it. Who is listening?

ALL EYES ON RAFAH.

reminder to share Palestinian joy too!

“People in Rafah are being evacuated” TO WHERE? There is literally no where they can be evacuated to now. Rafah was the evacuation zone. They even closed the borders to Egypt so those trying to seek refuge there can’t even do so.

I’m sick to my stomach.

In 7 months, Israel has killed 142 journalists in Gaza. This is more than the total number of journalists killed during the 20 year Vietnam War and the entirety of the 6 year World War II COMBINED!

❤️ Justice for missing indigenous girls & women.

May 5th is Missing and Murdered Indigenous Persons (MMIP) Day

A red hand over the mouth has become the symbol of the MMIW movement. It stands for all the missing girls & women whose voices are not heard.

This guy is defending his MA thesis in fucking refugee camp tent because Israel blew up every university in Gaza, along with 5500 students and 100 professors, and we have to waste precious energy hearing the US press talk about aggrieved zionists who “don’t feel safe on campus.”

israel shut down one of the only news outlets covering the genocide in gaza and its consequences as israel picks up its bombing in rafah