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disasterhimbo asked

Is there anything I can do to help Palestinians besides call my representatives and beg them to stop killing people?

fairuzfan

This is a great question. There are a few things you can do—just off the top of my head:

• BDS (Boycott, Divest, Sanction) https://bdsmovement.net/
• Direct Action https://www.palestineaction.org/
• Urge your University/School/Organization to put out a statement denouncing Israel
• Organize a Protest/Participate in a local one
• You might already be doing this but while calling your reps, tell them that as a voter, you’re unwilling to support them in the upcoming election unless they urge the White House to take a stand against Israel and stop funding them
• Share art/writing/films around Palestinian culture
• If you’re part of a union, ask them what they’re doing to urge their industry leaders to take a stand against Israel + pressure the White House OR urge them to start a strike/walkout/etc if they’re not doing anything already
• Talk with your friends IRL about Palestine, whether in an activist capacity or watching a movie or literally anything
• Reach out to a mosque to see if you can help them with anything
• See if your city/state council has put out a statement in support of Gazans. If not, try to push them to do so.
• Donate to Palestine Legal or Direct Action if you have some money to spare
• KEEP TALKING ON SOCIAL MEDIA!!!!!!!! PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!!!

I know some of these don’t feel like they have as big of an impact on helping Palestinians, but we do need to make an effort not to forget their humanity in the face of continued erasure and the media’s sensationalist rhetoric.

Talking on social media and posting—while not seeming like a lot—does SO much. I know in USAmerica, it’s like yelling into a void, but political analysts are saying that most of the “Global South” has completely lost any amount of goodwill it may have had the past few years. Hopefully, countries will start to put sanctions and embargoes en masse on the US and Israel soon.

Our goals here are BOTH short-term and long-term. We hope for the life and liberation of the Palestinian people, so anything that you can think of might help at some point in the future is encouraged to at least try.

If anyone else has any more ideas, feel free to reblog and add on. Thank you for asking, and here is to a liberated Palestine where Palestinians can live and thrive without fear.

Anonymous asked

What happens when Israel dismantled and falls? Like I assume the ppl living there can’t stay even if they were born on that land so does anyone have like an idea of where to ship them off to? Cause I doubt anyone in the area wants to take care of their oppressors even if they are just civilians. Idk do u think the usa would take em? That’s honestly why I haven’t been Completely 100% anti-Israel despite being Pro-Palestine bc no one has explained what to do with Israeli’s once there is no more Israel. Like stopping the military and giving back some land is cool but if all of Israel is gone would Palestinians let them stay or would they tell them to get out by force, just as Israel did? Is this a cycle or is there an end in the works?

bloglikeanegyptian

how many times will it become patently obvious that you guys do not listen to palestinians and are influenced by hysterical zionist claims that palestinians will do unto zionists as zionists have done to them. this position is held by many palestinians

not a single thing any palestinians has said about a one-state solution where everyone is equal under a democratic law, not a single thing hamas has said, is as brutal as the reality israel currently enforces on palestinians

the reality is as long as this hysterical fear persists, the less diplomatic solutions are applied, the more people accept palestinian suffering and consider the occupation as a necessary evil, the less viable this solution will become. we are not past the point of no return, but the reality is there is no fear of persecution and no past suffering on the planet that can justify the existence of the israeli nation-state. it is doubtful that change will come from within israel specifically because the vast majority of israelis do not see palestinians as humans nor do they imagine anything better than “some land back” and “a little less mean military.” israel is a theocratic terrorist state. this is how it was established, how it functions and how it operates with impunity.

israelis have chosen military security, genocide and destruction as their only path forward to maintain their state. this is not sustainable. it requires the constant and tremendous ritual sacrifice of palestinian lives to keep going. israel has even called this “mowing the lawn” and every time netanyahu does this he enjoys a boost in the polls.

palestinians have asked for legal solutions, diplomatic solutions, humanitarian solutions, democratic solutions. and yet they’re the ones seen as monsters and human animals because they refuse to accept the violent dispossession of their land. it’s pretty straight-forward. whatever happens to israel is on israel, the united states, the eu, the uk, and every international entity that has refused to hold israel accountable for their crimes, that has refused to honor the agreement to a two-state solution, that has refused palestinian self-determination, that has refused international criminal court proceedings. palestinian liberation is a just cause.

if you continue to ask “what will happen to israel” while israel enacts a genocide of two million citizens under a siege, you do not see palestinians as human, either. because the question is not “what will happen to israel.” the question is “what is israel doing right now and how can we stop it by any means necessary”