When you see little setups of nativity scenes, remember the women of Palestine currently giving birth in atrocious conditions like Maryam - whom you call Mary - when she was giving birth to Issa, whom you call Jesus.

When you think of Maryam and Issa facing a hostile world together remember the impossible situation that families find themselves in in Ghazzah, suffering blockades, siege, bombings. Only to be labeled as terrorists and in need of extermination for the crimes of being Palestinians and Arabs.

When you think of Christmas, you should think of the Palestinian Christians who have been bombed in their churches, nearly exterminated in their own city of Ghazzah by the unending air strikes of the occupation.

When you think of Issa's childhood, you should think of Beit Lahm - which you call Bethlehem - being invaded. You should think of Christian Palestinians including little boys being kidnapped everyday to be tortured in zionist occupation prisons for the crimes of being Palestinian and Arab.

You should think of Palestinians as Issa and Maryam's people. Hundreds of generations later, their condition is now the condition of Palestinians in Ghazzah as a whole.

Christmas is a day of mourning.

The hometown of Issa, Beit Lahm, is not celebrating Christmas. There is nothing to celebrate when our people are being slaughtered.

when usamericans say "the state of the world right now" they just mean their country's current political climate. and when they say "you wouldn't understand what we're going through" they're always talking about something every other country has experienced ten times before and usually because of the US

If you're planning to eat good soon please think of your neighbors as well. Please help ease Palestinian hunger by donating to Ele Elna Elak (an organization that's been the most effective in providing clean water n food)

Mama Casset, Dakar, Senegal, 1950-1960

Random Fact #6,749

Brazil has the second-largest population of Romani people in the world (roughly 800,000).

Two of its presidents have been Romani.

please stop reblogging shit with additions from prismatic-bell starlightomatic and vaspider please god

i dont care how good you think their take is they are zionists

Proof?

prismatic-bell:

(these three are all the same post)

(these two are the same post, separate from the one above)

starlightomatic:

this is literally just their pinned post

vaspider:

(three separate posts)

“Hamas needs to stop slaughtering unarmed civilians and killing queer Palestinians” is a zionist take? Genuinely asking. What makes it okay when they do it?

israel has killed more queer palestinians than hamas ever has, most of the homophobia that palestinians face comes from family or other people they know and the lurid stories of beheadings or people being thrown off buildings are extremely rare; people have this image of gaza as a place where gay people are "routinely" subject to isis-style executions and it's extremely far from the truth. also "queer palestinians seek refuge in israel" is a blatant lie and an insulting one, we can't just go to "israel" and claim asylum, there is so much about that statement that makes it absurd if you know literally anything about the restrictions on palestinian movement and where people with palestinian IDs and no other citizenship are allowed to go, where they can live, the processes they have to go through to even work in "israel" etc. you clearly don't know very much at all and should probably do a lot of research before you go around "genuinely asking"

They support Israel kidnapping and jailing Palestinians by the thousands.

Maybe they say other shit too. That doesn't matter.

They support Israeli assaults on Palestinian dignity.

If this is "unlearning Zionism" they can hurry the fuck up.

https://www.tumblr.com/starlightomatic/734905377782693889/i-mean-lots-of-people-are-talking-about-why-they

P.s. the main crime that the kids released from Israeli prisons were accused of is throwing stones.

If you visited prismatics tumblr you'd see there so intensely racist. Like it actually disgusts me that people follow them or interact with them.

I'm going to be scratching at the surface of this, but when I use the term "calculated" when describing Israel’s genocidal tactics, I'm not using it arbitrarily. Military violence is in fact based on a lot of calculations, and here I don't mean figurative estimations but rather actual mathematical formulas.

The first example that comes to mind is from the Iraq war, where "the number of anticipated civilian deaths was carefully appraised beforehand in a calculation known as the collateral damage estimate".

A mathematical calculation was needed in order to determine the extent of casualties following US attacks. "The magic number was 30", meaning if the number of expected civilians killed in a US attack was ≥30, Rumsfeld or Bush had to sign off on the attack. Whereas if the number was less than 30, it was an automatic go-ahead.

This degree of dehumanisation is basically seen as setting a threshold so that military lawyers and humanitarian law can be able to determine what's “lawful” and what's "collateral civilian death".

Now of course this is something applied by Israel as well, where, for instance, formulas are created to predict the number of people necessary to be killed by Israel in order for a Palestinian organisation to be eliminated. One equation was created by Itzhaq Ben Israel, then chairman of Israel's space agency, in 2002. It goes: Q=1–(q ln q + 1/q ln 1/q), where Q stands for the probability of the collapse of the Palestinian organisation and q is the percentage of killings necessarily done by Israel. You can find the breakdown of it here.

Israel doesn't stop there. With its siege on Gaza since 2007, it relied heavily on daily calculations to enforce its blockade. You've likely heard about the Red Lines documents, in which Israel calculates the amounts of food allowed into Gaza through rationing calories using the following formulas:

These calculations usually use a "humanitarian minimum" threshold determined by lawyers, scientists, engineers, humanitarian experts, etc. Based on these thresholds, the formulas and equations also seep into things like the amount of electricity Gaza would receive. For example, in 2008 Israel would reduce the current supplied by each powerline by 5% every week for months to test how low the minimum threshold can be.

When Gaza's power plant required 3.5 million litres of diesel to work at full capacity, Israel's high court decided that the "humanitarian minimum" was 2.2 million litres, reducing the plant's operation to 68%, forcing Gaza to undergo routine blackouts (details here). Israel then reduced it to 1.5 million litres which affected fresh water supply, crops, and decreased sewage pumping, resulting in the sewage treatment plant to overflow and for millions of litres of raw sewage to pour into the Mediterranean for days, after which of course Israel decided to increase the amount of diesel allowed in as that started to affect Israeli beaches.

So yea, they may call it "calculating the economy of the violence" or "proportionality principles". But it's murder. It's genocide. It's incremental and it's grotesque.

Figures and Bird (1972) by Yannis Gaïtis (1923-1984)

Amulet necklace, 49 glass beads ressembling eyes, worn to avert Evil Eye, from Hebron, Palestinian, 1880-1930.

photography from abalone shells exhibition

But when I say the “wholesome and funny” YouTube short I have been handed of students surprise showing their teachers 10+ year old photos of themselves and most them were emo/goth in some way and every single one now has medium brown beach waves and is wearing head to toe beige and immediately screams and hides the photo like it’s the most embarrassing thing in the world is a hallmark of a deeply insidious tendency to associate socially acceptable WASPy aesthetics with maturity and responsibility and perpetuates the idea that everyone grows up, “gets right” and becomes the most digestible unobtrusive heterosexual I’m “taking it too seriously”

“It’s not that serious” oh but it issssss because every day we perpetuate the idea that non-conformity of any kind to the white straight middle class standard is inherently immature and gets “left behind” when someone becomes a socially acceptable adult

This idea that maturity is conformity is everywhereeee if you look for even a moment

Jean Delville The cycle of passions 1890

R&B busts, my final drawing of 2025!

Will be putting this on my TeePublic soon 👚

not buying the product isn't enough I need the company to know their advertising made me want to kill them with a golf club.

Socialism is bad because greedy people can corrupt it if not enough is done to stop them.

Instead, we need capitalism. Greedy people can't corrupt capitalism because they already control it entirely.

Similarly, houses are bad because they can catch fire. Instead, we need houses that are just on fire 100% of the time by default. You never have to worry about them catching fire because they're already on fire. You just wear fire protection at all times and convince yourself that living in a house that's constantly on fire is normal.