At least 100 Israelis have been arrested for social media posts supporting Palestinians in Gaza and 70 remain in detention, according to a legal advocacy group in the country. Adalah, which represents Arab Israelis in human rights cases, said the arrests are part of an unprecedented crackdown on freedom of expression in Israel.
“We’re seeing things we didn’t see before,” Adi Mansour, an attorney in Adalah’s civil rights unit, said in an interview. “There’s a change in the perception of what is allowed and what is prevented.”
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Israel Police posted a video to its Arabic TikTok account Tuesday in which the police commissioner said that he would not allow demonstrations in support of Palestinians.
“Anyone who wishes to show solidarity and support Gaza is invited to board the buses heading there now,” Yaakov Shabtai, the commissioner, said, according to the video’s caption.
"Every single empire in its official discourse has said that it is not like all the others, that its circumstances are special, that it has a mission to enlighten, civilize, bring order and democracy, and that it uses force only as a last resort. And, sadder still, there always is a chorus of willing intellectuals to say calming words about benign or altruistic empires, as if one shouldn't trust the evidence of one's eyes watching the destruction and the misery and death brought by the latest mission civilizatrice."
Edward W. Said, Orientalism.
Hoodoo, Rootwork and Conjure sources by Black Authors
Because you should only ever be learning your ancestral ways from kinfolk. Here's a compilation of some books, videos and podcast episodes I recommend reading and listening to, on customs, traditions, folk tales, songs, spirits and history. As always, use your own critical thinking and spiritual discernment when approaching these sources as with any others.
- Hoodoo in America by Zora Neale Hurston (1931)
- Mules and Men by Zora Neale Hurston (1936)
- Tell my horse by Zora Neale Hurston (1938)
- Let Nobody Turn Us Around: An African American Anthology by Manning Marable and Leith Mullings, editors (2003)
- Black Magic: Religion and the African American Conjuring Tradition by Yvonne P. Chireau (2006)
- African American Folk Healing by Stephanie Mitchem (2007)
- Hoodoo Medicine: Gullah Herbal Remedies by Faith Mitchell (2011)
- Mojo Workin': The Old African American Hoodoo System by Katrina Hazzard-Donald (2012)
- Rootwork: Using the Folk Magick of Black America for Love, Money and Success by Tayannah Lee McQuillar (2012)
- Talking to the Dead: Religion, Music, and Lived Memory among Gullah/Geechee Women by LeRhonda S. Manigault-Bryant (2014)
- Working the Roots: Over 400 Years Of Traditional African American Healing by Michele Elizabeth Lee (2017)
- Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo" by Zora Neale Hurston (2018)
- Jambalaya: The Natural Woman's Book of Personal Charms and Practical Rituals by Luisa Teish (2021)
- African American Herbalism: A Practical Guide to Healing Plants and Folk Traditions by Lucretia VanDyke (2022)
These are just some suggestions but there's many many more!! This is by no means a complete list.
I recommend to avoid authors who downplay the importance of black history or straight out deny how blackness is central to hoodoo. The magic, power and ashé is in the culture and bloodline. You can't separate it from the people. I also recommend avoiding or at the very least taking with a huge grain of salt authors with ties to known appropriators and marketeers, and anyone who propagates revisionist history or rather denies historical facts and spreads harmful conspiracy theories. Sadly, that includes some black authors, particularly those who learnt from, and even praise, white appropriators undermining hoodoo and other african and african diasporic traditions. Be careful who you get your information from. Keeping things traditional means honoring real history and truth.
Let me also give you a last but very important reminder: the best teachings you'll ever get are going to come from the mouths of your own blood. Not a book or anything on the internet. They may choose to put certain people and things in your path to help you or point you in the right direction, but each lineage is different and you have to honor your own. Talk to your family members, to the Elders in your community, learn your genealogy, divine before moving forwards, talk to your dead, acknowledge your people and they'll acknowledge you and guide you to where you need to be.
May this be of service and may your ancestors and spirits bless you and yours 🕯️💀
BIBI
ANIMAL FARM, 2022
October 7, 2023 - Palestinians tear down part of the apartheids-wall around Gaza at the start of their attack against the Israeli occupation. [video]
Baby Storme - this city is a graveyard (Official Music Video)
NAMJOON PERFORMING STRANGE WITH YOONGI
this Jamie Foxx situation reminded me of the time when nonblack trans ppl on tumblr decided Black ppl using the word trap was trans misogynistic was a kiiii bc girl these niggas dont know about no damn niche Japanese hentai slurs, they selling CRACK. 😭
Seriously. It happens every time with the most common phrases baked into AAVE and American Black culture too. Between tumblr and twitter you can’t make up the reaches NB ppl make to center themselves in the conversation.
How do assumptions like this even happen unprompted
OH MY GOD 😭😭😭
I PRAY AND WISH we weren't on they mind 25/8. It fucking exhausting
What they trying to pin on Jamie?
Jamie posted this right
Now obviously, nigga knows what this means, we know that Jamie Foxx is alluding to when Judas betrayed Jesus which lead to the Romans killing him. Everybody and they Black mama who grew up in church knows what this means. It's a common saying in the Black community.
And here comes Ms. Friendly Sofa herself, Jennifer Aniston not minding the white business that pays here claiming Jamie Foxx was being antisemitic and getting the rest of the bleach brigade up in arms over nothing
And even if mfs didn't know about this being a common older Black saying. The refuses to use a fucking context clues of the hashtags ON Jamie's post. #fakefriends.
Nowhere did Jamie mention Jewish people and nowhere was he being antisemitic to ANYONE. He was calling out fake people in HIS life.
It's irritating how much mfs wanna twist something they don't understand.
It’s joever…. (d-day tour)
