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Mr.Azura

Hi everyone, I hope you are able to support this family in any way possible. They reached out to me personally via message and have worked hard to verify themselves. They are really really trying and any help would be greatly appreciated!

Love and Free Palestine.

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Donate to Help Mahmoud's Family Overcome War Tragedy, organized by Heyam Sharif

I am Mahmoud Al-Sharif, married and have 3 children, and my wife is about to g… Heyam Sharif needs your support for Help Mahmoud's Family Ov

‎‏We are from the Gaza Strip, which suffers from wars. I lived through 5 of these wars, and I lost my eyes and fingers hand , and my other eye was damaged. These were the previous wars until this 2023 war came and destroyed everything from my home and my workplace

Hello everyone, I have an update to make.

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Donate to Supporting my family in Gaza amid the crisis, organized by Yara Mohammed

Have you ever experienced seeing your dream broken in front of your eyes an… Yara Mohammed needs your support for Supporting my family in Ga

Yara and her family have been displaced after their home was destroyed. They now suffer in Mawasi, Khan Younis without any of the basic necessities for life. Yara herself is also unable to complete her physical therapy studies since Islamic University, the place she studied, was destroyed by the occupation.

In order to help her family of 9 survive this genocide, Yara is trying to raise €20,000. Since my last post on this campaign, she's raised only €988; this puts her at only €1,385/€20,000.

Please do whatever you can to help Yara and her family. Donate to her if you can and share her campaign. Help them survive.

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I am sorry to whoever has been reaching out that I have not been on this app. I promise you I am working offline and supporting families directly, I will do my best to loop others but there is so much need.

An urgent call for humanity

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We need your solidarity with us at this bad time.🇵🇸🍉🙏

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Here in Gaza after a cruel war, We are a family of 15—10 adults and 5 children. Every day is a battle for survival. Food is scarce, humanitarian aid is not reaching us, and my little nieces and nephews go to bed hungry. Among them is my sister, who is deaf, and another sister who has a newborn baby. They, too, are suffering in this crisis, and I’m doing everything I can to protect and provide for them.

We need your support to save us and to help us after the destruction that surrounding us here in Gaza.

Please if you can't donate you can share it with your friends, family, and networks. Together, you can help me give my children hope, warmth, and sustenance in this critical time.🙏🙏🙏🍉💔

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Bethlehem, Palestine

This was my favourite part of the House of Banksy art exhibition

I never was in Bethlehem/Palestine, I always wanted to see the local people there and Banksy's hotel. But I was very happy to see even the replica of one of the hotel rooms and the art works in it.

It is called the hotel with the worst view. They even tried to make a window that should replicate the ugly ass wall with Banksy's art.

Sadly Banksy's hotel closed shortly after the genocide in Gaza started, I mean 2 million lives are literary starved to death or constantly attacked after all... what even more devastating is, that the genocide will continue for almost a year a now. It is just sickening to see that no politician gives zero fucks about it ...

Here are more information about the wall.

Also one of my fav artworks:

And one of Banksy's recent art works ... it was call for a ceasefire. He posted it on his Instagram. But shortly after he posted it, a fucker stole the stop sign wtf ...

Streetart is made for everyone to see and enjoy. But it is also completely unprotected and has a short live ...

I need to be honest with myself ... him being pro palestine and including palestinian people in his projects is my main reason why I love his artwork so much.

He built this the Walled of Hotel to help the local people and even made an art gallery inside the hotel to show more about Palestinian history and Palestinian art. The money the hotel earns was used to fund local project and help the Palestinian people.

Miriam Makeba’s portrait greets and grounds you near the entry of Africa Fashion. 

Makeba’s emergence as a singer on the global stage coincided with the emergence of an independent African continent. Her songs blended popular musical styles like Jazz with indigenous South African melodies, often incorporating Swahili, Xhosa, and Sotho lyrics. Well-known globally for her songs Pata Pata and Qongqothwane (the Click Song) Makeba’s music and self-fashioning embodied African liberation and identity. 

For many Africans, her music gave voice to the dawn of a new independent era and the liberation struggles that remained. Affectionately referred to as Mama Africa by her legions of fans, Makeba came to embody a forward-looking Pan-Africanism and Black Power. 

See this portrait of Makeba and hear her singular voice as part of the African Cultural Renaissance that welcomes you in #AfricaFashionBkM.

📷 Jürgen Schadeberg (German, 1931–2020). Miriam Makeba, 1955. © Estate of Jürgen Schadeberg (Photo: Courtesy of the Estate of Jürgen Schadeberg)

In the process of our Western indoctrination in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, many of us were never introduced to who “Palestinians” where or the *mechanics* of creating a Jewish state. We’re taught romantic ideas of self-determination and simplified stories of refugees escaping the horrors of the Holocaust (despite this happening long after Zionist ambitions began). Israel was, and in many is, seen as a pragmatic solution to Europe’s problem (namely, the “Jewish problem”). The first thing to know about settler colonization is just how unpractical and unpragmatic it is. Settler colonies always have a “demographics” problem — which should already be a red flag if one has to say that. People need great incentive to leave their home countries, while people living there have no natural incentive to leave—hence why they’re there in the first place!

Of course when you learn who Palestinians are, and start to investigate Israel’s creation, the obvious dilemma stands out on the page:

How does one create a “Jewish state” on a land that is overwhelmingly not Jewish?

Many of us were trained to stay so far away from this conflict that we never reached this very obvious question, nor its very, very obvious answer. How do you create a Jewish state on a land that is overwhelming non-Jewish?

You remove the non-Jews.

Israel never wanted Palestinians in their country. Israel is not simply Jewish, it is also explicitly not Palestinian. To be Palestinian is to be the anti-thesis of Israel. Even the Arab Israeli minority, which is mostly Palestinian, is only referred to as “Arab”. And that experience and label is bad enough in Israel.

The idea that Israel has even been entitled to such aspirations is itself a crime against humanity and works to dehumanize Palestinians every single day. The idea that they could seize people’s land, kick them out of their homes of countless generations, then ham-fisted-ly “find” a state that was still after decades of disposession just under 50% Arab — and we *still* don’t abhor that — abhors me.

"Herzl replied—and quickly, in a letter on March 19. His letter was probably the first response by a leader of the Zionist movement to a cogent Palestinian objection to its embryonic plans for Palestine. Herzl simply ignored the letter’s basic thesis, that Palestine was already inhabited by a population that would not agree to be supplanted. Although Herzl had visited Palestine once, in an 1898 visit timed to coincide with that of German Kaiser Wilhelm II, he (like most early European Zionists) had not much knowledge of or contact with its native inhabitants. Glossing over the fact that Zionism was ultimately meant to lead to Jewish control of Palestine, Herzl deployed a justification that has been a touchstone for colonialists and that would become a staple argument of the Zionist movement: Jewish immigration would benefit Palestine’s Indigenous inhabitants. “It is their well-being, their individual wealth, which we will increase by bringing in our own,” Herzl wrote, adding that “no one can doubt that the well-being of the entire country would be the happy result.” Herzl’s letter addressed a consideration that Yusuf Diya had not even raised: “You see another difficulty, Excellency, in the existence of the non-Jewish population in Palestine. But who would think of sending them away?” But Herzl had underestimated his correspondent. From Yusuf Diya’s letter, it is clear that he understood perfectly well that at issue was not the immigration of (as Herzl put it) “a number of Jews” into Palestine, but rather the transformation of the entire land into a Jewish state. Instead, Herzl offered the preposterous inducement that the colonization, and ultimately the usurpation, of their land by strangers would benefit the people of that country. Herzl’s reply to Yusuf Diya appears to have been based on the assumption that the Arabs could ultimately be bribed or fooled into ignoring what the Zionist movement actually intended for Palestine. This condescending attitude toward the intelligence, not to speak of the rights, of the Arab population of Palestine was to be serially repeated by Zionist, British, European, and American leaders in the decades that followed, down to the present day. As for the Jewish state that was ultimately created by the movement that Herzl founded, as Yusuf Diya foresaw, there was to be room for only one people, the Jewish people. As for the others, “sending them away” was indeed what happened, despite Herzl’s disingenuous remark." - Rashid Khalidi, The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917–2017