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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.

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a friend of mine has been asking why i'm an anti-zionist and has shown eagerness to learn about my POV. what do i answer them and what resources should i give them? (lemmygrad.ml)

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they have been (for whatever reason) studying about wars currently going on in the middle east since apparently brazil doesn't document on this enough, as well as reading up on zionism. they've been seeing "a LoT oF eXtReMiSm FrOm BoTh SiDeS" and assured me that they weren't trying to "question in defense of zionism because they don't know everything about the subject and that they are just a student seeking further information about it"

i was already thinking of:

showing them pictures of disgusting zionist settler colonialists sitting on roofs watching IOF genocide and bomb on palestinians live
showing them pictures of the barbarianism committed by the IOF (stuff like them descerating a lifeless palestinian's body? wearing a bra on their genocidal missions? idk, pics of them had surfaced on lemmygrad some months back)
that one video where a zionist settler-colonialist goes "if i don't steal it, someone else will" to a native palestinian
a news article where despite having the deeds to the house, zionist settler colonialists just up and start living on the palestinian's house and kick them out
mention how the IOF murdered palestinian babies and pulled an US by expanding more than they were permitted to
mention that it's pretty disgusting/insensitive to paint this as a case of "extremism from both sides" when it's clearly about a group of oppressed people being genocided on their own lands finally fighting back against the show of power they've been doing for the past decades. (i wonder if they'd ask "further proof" of this)
show proof about the zionist project's existence being only a recent thing over palestine's, which had existed for a long time (though i wonder if they'd try to pull the bible verse about "israelis" and shit)

is there anything else i'm missing here? or am i good to go?

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

Abby Martin and Empire Files have a bunch of videos about Palestine. The most impactful for me is the documentary Gaza Fights For Freedom, about the 2018 March of Return. There's also the interviews she did with Israelis on the street, asking what they think about Palestinians. In fact, this whole playlist is worth watching.

This travel documentary filmed by a Japanese tourist who visited the West Bank in 2022 shows the daily reality for Palestinians dealing with checkpoints, settler violence, etc.

I've heard good things about The Hundred Years' War on Palestine by Rashid Khalidi, but I haven't read it myself.