RenĆ© Bull, Illustration for Jack Londonās āCall of the Wildā 1903
sun glowing thru my unicorn this afternoon (:
i made both her and the little wooden mini pallet this yearā¦
Iām reading about how Israel, in the immediate aftermath of the 1948 Nakba, deliberately replaced olive trees and other indigenous flora with European plants. This ecological disaster, which is now proudly hailed under the banner of āmaking the desert bloom,ā was done to 'de-Arabizeā the landscape, and to cover up - often with fast-growing European pine trees -the ruins of Palestinian villages that were destroyed by Zionists forces.
And I just need everyone to read this passage from PappƩ, because the symbolism of what happened to those European pine trees in the desert speaks for itself:
The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine, by Ilan PappƩ (2006, p. 227-228.)
For me to write poetry that isn’t political
I must listen to the birds
and in order to listen to the birds
the war planes must be silent
- Marwan Makhoul, Palestinian Lebanese poet.
i hate you “influencers”, i hate you tiktok, i hate you “content creators”, i hate you “unalive” and “s€x” and “dr/ügs”, i hate you instagram, i hate you consumerism, i hate you family friendly, i hate you puritans, i hate you facebook, i hate you family vloggers, i hate you violating other people’s privacy, i hate you modern day social media










