The Nakba, commemorated annually on this day as “Nakba Day”, was the destruction of Palestinian society and homeland in 1948 following Israel’s creation. Nakba Day protests take place around the world and have been attacked by Israel.
The foundational events of the Nakba took place during and shortly after the 1947-1949 Palestine war, including 78% of Mandatory Palestine being declared as Israel, the exodus of 700,000 Palestinians, the depopulation and destruction of over 500 Palestinian villages and subsequent geographical erasure, the denial of the Palestinian right of return, and the creation of permanent, stateless Palestinian refugees.
Although May 15th had been used as an unofficial commemoration of the Nakba since 1949, Nakba Day was formalized in 1998 after Yasser Arafat proposed that Palestinians should mark the 50th anniversary of the Nakba during the First Intifada.
The Nakba was a key event in the development of Palestinian culture and is a foundational symbol of Palestinian identity, along with “Handala”, a ten-year old cartoon character developed by Naji al-Ali; the keffiyeh, a checkered black and white scarf worn around the head; and the “symbolic key” (many Palestinian refugees have kept the keys to the homes they were forced to flee).
On Nakba Day 2011, Palestinians and other Arabs from the West Bank, the Gaza Strip, Lebanon, and Syria marched towards their respective borders, or ceasefire lines and checkpoints in Israeli-occupied territories, to mark the event. At least twelve Palestinians and supporters were killed and hundreds wounded as a result of shootings by the Israeli Army.
“In resisting the Nakba, the Palestinians have struck at the heart of the Zionist project that insists that the Nakba be seen as a past event. In resisting Israel, Palestinians have forced the world to witness the Nakba as present action; one that, contrary to Zionist wisdom, is indeed reversible.” - Palestinian scholar Joseph Massad
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Al-Nakba: The Palestinian catastrophe - Episode 1 | Featured Documentary
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Farha (2021) internationally co-produced historical drama film about a Palestinian girl’s coming-of-age experience during the Nakba, the 1948 displacement of Palestinians from their homeland. Its on Netflix
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The History of “Socialist” Zionism | Leftist Zionists did the Nakba & founded Israel
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Reddit personified, CGP Grey, once made a video arguing that an ideal work week would make Wednesday a standard day off in place of Saturday. So you would work two days, have one day off, work three days, have Sunday off, etc.
As someone who has been working this type of schedule for a few months I can confirm this is absolute shit.
Have you considered this:
i’m joining the war on sex on the side of sex
Nature is healing.
The illusion of free thought
Hexbear users when they see a nationalization policy
When I’m in a fake news posting competition and my competition is all posting the same fake news.
I deleted my post because I’m a free thinker
So far I have spent over a thousand dollars cleaning up after my late boomer parents. I am filled with disgust over the endless pils of garbage. They weren’t horders. They were downwardly mobile middle class but the garage just had shelves of infinite decorative glassware. Stuff we never used. Stuff that was “going to be ours someday” or “worth something” after trying to sell the stuff and realizing everyone already had too much I tried to give it to like thift stores. They are downing in the stuff and no one wants it from them. It hurt to just throw it away. The waste is offensive. The waste they spent on keeping it all their lives. The waste it was produced. The fact I am wasting it because no one wants a mass produced princess house punch bowl. All my people I talk to tell me I am crazy and that the stuff must be worth something. However at best it could probably break even with transportation and handling. That would just be putting this infinite boomer shit problem someplace else. I did a yard sale where I ended up just trying to give it away and boomers were dutifully appraising the stuff to see if it could have some place in their hord. “Can you tell me about this one?” No, it was a shitty overpriced decorative teapot. Just take the damn thing. I am not even thinking about the fact this is what we did with the colonialism we spent everyone else’s lives on. It is so galling that capitalism can’t even be good at the shit it was designed for.
'Collectors items" from the 20th century could probably be analyzed in terms capitalists trying to sell people who have dishes more dishes.
It offends me on so many diffrent levels. Like. It is hard to pick one. The fact that it is conspicuous consumption based on the preferences of dead people that only vaguely triggers the nostalgia of even worse slightly less dead people.
It’s real weird shit. I was around for Beanie Babies. People genuinely, absolutely believed that cheap polyester toys stuffed with plastic pellets were going to be worth huge sums of money decades later. The same kind of thing we saw with crypto and NFTs. Folks buying “rare” mass produced cheap sweat shop plastic and making it their hope for the future. Marx would have loved it.
That picture of the divorcing couple kneeling on the floor of the courtroom dividing their collectible beanie babies is a classic
People genuinely, absolutely believed that cheap polyester toys stuffed with plastic pellets were going to be worth huge sums of money decades later.
That was so weird. I don’t even know how that idea got into anyone’s head, much less like hundreds of thousands of people’s heads. But I’m sure capitalists spending tens of millions of dollars on controlling people’s thoughts had something to do with it.
“Collectables” were a whole thing on cable TV and late night TV, and I guess there’d be adds in them in the back of magazines too. Like “Blah blah blah this will appreciate in value pass it on to your children once in a lifetime chance at a special discount” stuff. And all I can figure is, people without much understanding of economics and finance stuff, they get bombarded with this for years, I guess they believe it?
I know someone like that who is millennial but their hoard is D grade movies and music albums. Literally thousands of albums from bands nobody will ever hear about (because they suck) it will cost hundreds of hours to find out if any of them are even worth tying to sell and at best maybe a few of them will become worth a couple hundred bucks in 20 years. But its their “legacy for their children”
That would actually be cool if it was a coupple of hard drives networked up so it could be shared easily. You could have picture of the art. Or like 3D modles so you could recreate them as artifacts if you wanted them.
its all hard media.
FUCK
I made the fucking vegan dish too well tonight and all the fucking carnists in school are eating it, not realizing it’s vegan. I’m trying to leave early but I can’t fucking do that if they’re gonna run out of shit
They probably won’t care even if you let them know. My workplace has a few Hindi people so we always have vegan options for cookouts and whatnot, but most people like vegan food anyway, and we have to be careful to make a lot so that there’s enough for everyone.
no these people are americans who are actively anti-vegan. I literally try to get one of my coworkers to try some of the food and as soon as he’s told it’s vegan he’s like “nawww” and it’s like, dude, it’s just fucking… it’s just beans! it’s just a black-eyed pea salsa! eat it as a side with the other shit!!!
I usually make 1-2 hotel pans worth of vegan food and the entire school combined will eat maybe a third of that first pan. I think the only time I’ve ever not had leftovers or stuff to throw away was when I made some p. good butternut squash and black bean chili and they ate either all of it or at least enough of it that we didn’t save any (I think I went home early that night so i don’t remember)
The problem with tonight was that it was some vegan ground beef product that we were gonna use for a thai “beef” dish, basically a puree of jalapenos, basil, garlic and spices cooked then mixed with cooked vegan “beef” + some brown sugar and more basil (to wilt and add visual appeal and texture), served over jasmine rice
that last bit was the problem imo, I probably could have skipped the rice and just served the “beef” with peppers and onions and stuff, but putting it on rice made all these college students go
OMG RICE 
even though there’s literally a rice bar they can always get rice from and so they’d just shovel it onit didn’t help that I added sauteed onions and red bell peppers which made it look more visually appealing
my coworker solved the problem by mixing the whole pan up with a spoon, which made it look not as good even though the content was exactly the same, food psychology be weird
Normally I would be super happy they were eating it but, again, I was trying to leave early because I have to come in early tomorrow, and I didn’t want to have to cook more (which wouldn’t even have been as good because we’re out of basil (i used it all lmao)). Like every other day I would be stoked because tbh cooking the vegan food is a massive fucking waste of my time, each and every day, because it’s like 40-60 minutes of prep time I could be doing other shit just to feed literally 4-5 people, so it is nice when people do eat it
lol that does sound really good though
“Eat shit” “Lib” “Post hog” is unoriginal, basic. “I hope your crush starts a politcal substack” is terrifying. Realistic, hits at the heart. It could happen to you. It happened to me.
my deepest most heartfelt condolences, comrade
I should have moved on years ago tbh so this is the universe giving me a sign.
how bad are the politics
Not as terrible as it could be but mostly idealistic. Like, “we must demand better from our politicians when they put out policy they themselves don’t understand” (No duh) and leaving analysis at that only
Me, (a social democrat at the time,) listening to “Love Me, I’m a Liberal” back in 2014.
Which should I try to spread:
The German word for lawn, translated literally, means “ground beard” OR
The German word for beard, translated literally, means “face lawn?”
Ground beard seems more plausible
Yes. Beards existed before lawns did.
What is the German word for when you glue lawn clippings to your face?
I assume you have one.
face ground beard
Willst du mit mir auf den Grundbart laufen?
and I think that’s beautiful.
No thanks
“To hear incorrect views without rebutting them and even to hear counter-revolutionary remarks without reporting them, but instead to take them calmly as if nothing had happened. This is a sixth type.”
Mao didn’t have the internet. Back during the pleistoscene like, at most, only forty or fifty people could be wrong in your immediate area. Due to new technologies we now live in a world where thousands and thousands of people can be wrong at the sae time. No mortal communist could rebuke them all. That’s why I have built a large handsome robot communist.
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✅A Y Emy excessive twitch chatting has given me texting rizz on dating apps. unfortunately it has also given me brainrot. I’m still chatting with this Filipino guy and he was GIGACHADing me so I said
and he was really confused and slightly weirded out. Then I asked if he knew 
and he also didn’t know it 
I am deeply brokenMogged smh
i tried explaining that him not getting it made him even more of a gigachad and me even more soy but he didn’t like that
wow The Phantom Menace really hits you right out the gate with that bad japanese accent huh
funniest bit of the federation growing pains was some radlib saying they got afraid every time someone with pronouns replied to them in case they’d accidentally said something virulently racist
