rasha abdulhadi
@rashaabdulhadi
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Where is the closest place to each of us that we can do more? Do even one thing more? That one more thing that could be -everything-? To not just throw sand into the gears of the death machine, but maybe, gods maybe, to snatch some of our own peoples from out of its mouth 🪨
Your actions matter more than your opinions. There is a freedom in this. May it find you. 🪨🌱
This is not an exaggeration. Everyone who follows me knows that I always convey the reality exactly as it is. If aid does not enter within the next 48 hours ، with infant formula and flour at the forefront ، then prepare for the largest mass death crime in history. We have been…
إذا وجد.. If found أسعار المنتجات الآن في غزة المحاصرة. Current prices of basic goods in besieged Gaza.
The number of times I've had to make my sentences shorter, use smaller words...with people who clearly want my personal approval or absolution...instead of acting, so they don't have to act, as reassurance they've "done enough"...as they ignore questions, invitations, & requests.
We do not exempt even ourselves. So please consider what is really being asked of you.
It's almost like there's some kind of supremacist ideology that is driving all this violence.
Nothing we have done, even as Palestinians, is enough! People should know we do not exempt even ourselves. Not until genocide stops, not until all Palestinians are free. 🖤🪨🌱
Thank you to anyone donating to emergency funds--for Palestine, Sudan, & in this brutal settler colony. Truly! AND, really absorb this: Until money is sent from these 🔥🚮 racist platforms, until people are safe(r), until the bombs stop, no one should cheer in this horror show.
The number of times I've had to make my sentences shorter, use smaller words...with people who clearly want my personal approval or absolution...instead of acting, so they don't have to act, as reassurance they've "done enough"...as they ignore questions, invitations, & requests.
If you are feeling overwhelmed, tired, exhausted, heartsick & sore, please know you can join a long tradition of being "sick & tired of being sick & tired":
Your refusal can be as powerful as any act of resistance. How can you refuse genocide today? Refuse it your labor, your body, your voice, your silence, your smile, your laughter, your money, your consent, your friendship, your trigger-finger, your defence of the indefensible.
Your refusal can be as powerful as any act of resistance. How can you refuse genocide today? Refuse it your labor, your body, your voice, your silence, your smile, your laughter, your money, your consent, your friendship, your trigger-finger, your defence of the indefensible.
A reminder for this strike week: Almost no "aid" is reaching Gaza. Many international aid groups have been complicit in this genocide. Your actions matter more than your money right now 🙏🏼🪨🌱
Palestinians are demanding liberation, not donations.
They are bombing individual patients, too. They have bombed burial grounds. What rescues are we prepared to offer in the face of this much? What would it take to truly *honor* the dead, our dearest dead, and be worthy of them?
Don't answer here with words. Answer with your actions.
So many of us are desperately raising funds for individual patients while they are bombing the hospitals.
You won't always know if you're doing the right thing, the best thing, the most strategic. You may not know--for months or years or ever in your lifetime--what impact or influence your actions will have. Do what you are clear about anyway, do what you dare. This is being alive.
"In the parking lot, I ask if this is what heroism is like: not quite/sure it should be done, uncertain/you’re the person to do it, concerned/you might hurt someone, cost too much/money or time, or somehow commit a crime/against the greased and broken order of the universe."
Your anger can be a prayer. Your clear, unapologetic words can be prayer. Your actions are the most powerful prayers. 🪨🌱
Your action, your action, your action counts more and matters most.
Money is such an obscenity. How can money exist in a field of slaughter. What could it possibly mean. These are not questions. This is an outrage. When we are honest about genocide, can we feel what an abomination money is? No intellectually. In our bodies.