The genocide is still ongoing and many things are still developing in Palestine, but we are removing the limitation on only posting things related to the operation Flood of Al-Aqsa to this thread, you can now freely post over Lemmygrad again.
Please don't stop talking about Palestine.
Due to popular demand, please keep all posts about the operation to this megathread, sitewide.
A community for everything related to Palestine and the occupation currently underway by the occupying force known as Israel.
Anti-Zionism is not anti-Semitism. Existence is resistance for Palestinians.
Please refer to Israel as Occupied Palestine, or occupied territories. The IDF is a fascist and ethnonationalist occupying force. Israelis are settlers. We understand however that the imperial narrative (which tries to legitimise Israel) is internalised in the imperial core and slip-ups are naturally expected.
We always take the sides of Palestine and Palestinians and are unapologetic about it. Israel is an occupying power whose "defence force"'s (note the contradiction) sole purpose for existing is to push Palestinians out so they can resettle their rightful land. If you have anything positive to say about Israel we do not care.
When I was around your age, I used to do meditative empathy exercises. I'd try to feel the weight and the hurt of other proletarians worldwide, and imagined that I was taking some of their hurt away; bearing its brunt myself.
I do not know what to think of it now, if it was simply a desparate attempt on my part to feel like I was making a difference... idk. Not even sure it was healthy for me lol, trying to tackle the weight of the world within the confines of a dark closet and and an otherwise emptied mind.
I might have to try that. I’ve been doing some loving kindness meditation so maybe that can be a dialectical balance for empathy exercises. I’ve found that I’m not that particularly empathetic feeling people’s pain, but I do learn pain I haven’t experienced and feel good on behalf of those who fight injustice. I also am too young to do any organizing so that’s kind of hard, though of course the organizing would be a sacrifice too.