BDS has added a specific MARVEL BOYCOTT because the next Captain America film features “Sabra/Ruth Bat-Seraph”—a character that personified apartheid israel.
This character is known to:
work for mossad
continually talk about her hatred towards palestinians and arabs in the comics
have attacked the hulk for helping a palestinian child (hulk briefly convinced her that palestinians are humans)
have a syrian character (batal) as her antagonist
bear the name of a horrific massacre (the sabra massacre—where pregnant women were murdered and their babies were cut out of their wombs) *i am aware sabra refers to a fruit but let’s be real: it is still connected to a massacre carried out by israeli armed forces on innocent civilians. (here’s a longer statement)
Marvel is complicit in anti-Palestinian racism, israeli propaganda, and the glorification settler-colonial violence. Having this character in a movie by of the biggest franchises in the world, especially now while there is a genocide going on, is appalling and disgusting. There is no new approach one can take when the character has always been grounded in racism and propaganda.
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like what’s up manger
shoutout to everyone dealing with. thhe fucking difficulty
when jay and the ninja finally reunite, it’s obviously going to be incredibly angsty, but it’s also going to be incredibly hilarious. the ninja will mention something that’s a completely normal, “just another day in ninjago”-type thing to say - and jay is left in absolute shock and horror because who did what now? cole turned into a ghost? lloyd’s ex-girlfriend resurrected his dad?
cole: uh, jay? bud, you okay?
jay, tears streaming: zane… zane died? twice?!?
cole: no, of course not
cole: it was more than twice
for jay, it’s the equivalent of being hit by a cargo truck, then being crushed by a tank, then getting divebombed by a helicopter.
The absolute disrespect the occupational army shows to our Martyrs' bodies will never cease to shock me. Demolishing gravesites, setting fire to a morgue, setting dogs to eat their bodies, running them over with bulldozers.... this is something that depraved, hateful people do. And they even take our BODIES hostage so that people can't mourn their loved ones. Not even in death do Palestinians get to rest.
Hey— Serious post for a second
The House of Commons in Canada has initiated a petition for a ceasefire in Palestine. Canadian followers and Canadian Tumblr users as a whole— please take a few seconds to stop and sign this.
After you sign, you'll need to confirm your signature through the email you provided on the form. It may not come through immediately, but make sure you do so, or your signature will not count.
Here's the link to the petition.
Tournament of Elements, but Kai gets really carried away. It's definitely one of my favourite seasons 👀
For everyone panicking, it has NOT become a law. It has passed its first round and has been put into a markup stage
For more information on who to contact and what exactly the process is for something to pass into law, go HERE^
So I haven’t talked about this on main before, but the situation in South Gaza has gotten so horrifying that I’m p much throwing caution to the wind to desperately plead for eyes on this. I’m raising awareness about stories from activists in Gaza right now, including one of our own.
My lovely, wonderful friend Swin (aka tumblr user @combaticon) was deployed as a volunteer medic to a Gaza hospital on the 9th.
When the bloodshed started, she heard they needed extra hands in Gaza, she spoke Arabic and had the training, and she went.
I’ve been in contact with her throughout. She’s so incredibly brave it takes my breath away. My heart bleeds for these children she’s taking care of and how resilient they are is… astonishing.
Swin and these poor people have been under siege for so long, and they’re in desperate need of critical supplies. They have to filter water through their clothes, and it’s getting dangerously cold. Foods finally been getting through, but there’s not enough blankets and jackets to go around and there’s no fuel for the generators.
Their comrades in the West Bank have been completely pushed out by settler thugs. It’s incredibly unsafe to even be doing humanitarian work for Palestinians. Remember this the next time a Zionist tells you they’re doing this to ‘feel safe’. The IOF is arming lynch mobs.
On a personal note, this has been the most gut-wrenching week of my life. Every day when I wake up without a text from her I feel so much fear. I fight back the grief but I don’t know how to help or what to do. It’s terrifying.
Swin has asked for nothing, absolutely nothing other than something it can show the people around it to make them feel like they’re not going to be abandoned. To make sure they’re not forgotten in some pit praying Rafah opens before Israel decides to slaughter them all.
Today was a bad day. She’s alive but beyond worrying about her privacy now; she’s asked me to share this and to beg that we not lose steam and forget about them. Please share this, and please keep being fucking annoying and loud and digging your heels in with fury because we cannot let these people die silently.
[Times of Gaza] [QUD network] [Eye on Palestine]
@thoraoffbeat: THIS IS NOT TEMPORARY. The last cable connecting Gaza to the world has been destroyed!! WE WILL NOT HEAR FROM PEOPLE IN GAZA AGAIN UNTIL THE GENOCIDE ENDS. If we don't make it stop WE WON'T HEAR FROM MOST OF THEM EVER AGAIN.