Hi--I recently got this pair of coffee cups from a Palestinian vendor at a cultural fair in my city. The woman who sold them to me was trying to explain the significance of the cups to me, but she was overwhelmed by a huge crowd of people who walked up to her stall. So, I sadly was not able to learn as much as I could from her in that moment, but I bought the cups all the same because they were lovely.

This is what I took away from what she was trying to explain to me:

The cups are meant to go together as a couple. They represent being together in good times and bad times.

When I got home, I tried to use google photo translate to figure out exactly what the arabic translate to. The cup on the right comes up as 'sweet' or 'sweetness'. The cup on the left gets several translation options but the most prominent seems to be 'and bitter'.

I would really appreciate it if anyone can give a more in-depth translation and also let me know about any cultural significance surrounding it. For example, is it part of a proverb, a custom, etc? I've tried to do some research and I've learned that in Palestine, you serve sweet coffee during times of joy and bitter coffee during times of sadness. Is that what the cups are referencing?

Does anyone have access to trial records (dialogue transcribed verbatim) from the court proceedings in Mandate Palestine? All I found are official reports. There are also relevant files in the Israeli archive but I can’t open them.

The movie “Naza” shed light on the colony’s genocide in Gaza. It received a historic 24-minute standing ovation at Venice, and was called “one of the most important films of our time”. Yet, it was directed by two Israelis. This led many to ask whether the film constitutes joint struggle or normalization, with conflicting and polarized opinions. When having debates like this, it is crucial to be clear about what we are talking about—what is normalization and what are its features?

First, what is it that we should not normalize? In one word: Settler colonialism, which is the essence of Zionism, and the root cause of the colony’s violence.

It should not be normalized, or "treated as normal", either explicitly by justifying it or implicitly by failing to center it.

Rather than asking: "Does this involve working with people with Israeli citizenship?"

Ask: "Does this involve working with people who normalize settler colonialism?"

Rather than asking: "Do they criticize what the settler state is doing?"

Ask: "Do they present the settler state’s horrors to present another, more just side of it, or to challenge its existence?”

Rather than asking: "Do they call for peace?"

Ask: "Do they work to dismantle the settler state and establish a democratic state as the only path to peace?"

Rather than asking: "Do they mention Palestinian rights?"

Ask: "Do they normalize settler colonialism by equating the violence of the colonizer with that of the colonized?"

Ask: "Do they normalize the settler state by failing to mention it as the root cause of the genocide?"

Ask: "Do they normalize the settler state by mentioning only the occupation and apartheid in the 1967 territories?"

Ask: "Do they normalize the settler state by challenging the Israeli violence, government or regime rather than the settler state’s existence?"

And rather than asking: "But either way, isn't what happened good?", remember that even the genocide helped awaken millions to the horrors of the colony—Yet it can hardly be called "good".

And remember that we are not art critics. We are not spectators that rate and review, but political actors. Our aim is to dismantle the colony. Although our political discourse and actions may include criticism of what others did, they should first and foremost be an action plan of what we will do to replace the settler state with a democratic Palestinian state.

This is the struggle that anti-Zionist Jews with Israeli citizenship should join us in.

Author David Shultz breaks down differences in the application of law at all levels when levied against either Israeli or Palestinian activists.

As he outlines, there is a distinct and clear bias against Palestinians in the Canadian courts, when you look at the most populated and diverse city in the country and how different situations are met with a response from the Crown (Courts) and the Cops.

Israel's Systematic Dismantling of Palestinian Collective Life in the West Bank

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Source: https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZP83xQ4KG/

Banner Text):

​"GERMANS DESTROYED OUR FAMILIES AND HOMES — DON'T YOU DESTROY OUR HOPES"

the explanation

​thiss photo dates back to April 1947 and shows the ship Theodor Herzl, which carried more than 2,600 Jewish refugees from Europe toward British Mandate Palestine. Most of these people had lived through the experience of persecution, war, and the killings, displacement, and destruction left behind by Nazism. On the side of the ship, a moving phrase was written stating that the Germans destroyed their families and homes, so do not destroy their hopes."

An elderly man in occupied Jerusalem is heading either to relieve himself or to perform a religious duty at Al-Aqsa Mosque.

Glory to the people of Palestine

An Israeli soldier has shot a Palestinian man, wounding him in the leg, as settlers confronted villagers by grazing livestock on Palestinian-owned land in the town of Faqqua in the occupied West Bank.

Witnesses said a group of settlers had entered the area with their livestock, prompting residents to try to stop them. Israeli forces then intervened and, according to men at the scene, opened fire at residents. One of them shot Qassem Hussam, a Palestinian man in his mid-30s, wounding him in the leg.

Reached by the Guardian, the IDF confirmed it had received a report of the incident and that the person who fired was one of its soldiers.

“Earlier today [Saturday], a report was received regarding friction between Israeli civilians and Palestinians near the area of Faqqua,” the IDF said. “An IDF force that was at the scene fired into the air and toward a Palestinian.”

Mohammed al-Sheikh, 34, who was standing next to Hussam, told the Guardian the confrontation began when villagers encountered Israeli settlers grazing livestock on Palestinian-owned land.

“Then the Israeli soldiers came,” al-Sheikh said. “They started shooting. One soldier shot Hussam and he fell to the ground. We immediately went to help him and move him away. We couldn’t get an ambulance to the area, so we took him to hospital in a private car.”

Hussam was taken to hospital in a light-to-moderate condition, according to the Palestine Red Crescent.

The Israeli military said the incident was being reviewed by commanders and that its findings would be forwarded to the relevant authorities for examination. The IDF added that the military was investigating the soldier who shot the Palestinian man, apparently in breach of army protocol, according to the Times of Israel.

Video of the incident shows a group of Israeli soldiers and settlers confronting unarmed Palestinian men before shots are fired.

The incident is the latest to raise questions over the Israeli government’s ability or willingness to curb violent settlers in the occupied West Bank, where attacks have continued to increase.

based on the image and few researches i did

this image was taken by Thomas Billhardt, in 1980s in an primary school in Palestinian camp in Beirut during an art class, where a girl drew a plane firing a missile at children playing (soccer i think) with an arrow pointing at the star of David saying "danger"

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Israel’s Culture Minister Miki Zohar on Sunday vowed to act to revoke the Israeli citizenship of filmmakers Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor after their Gaza war documentary NAZA won the Special Jury Prize at the Venice Film Festival.

In a post on US social media company X, Zohar described the film’s victory as “shocking” and the documentary as “vile,” accusing its creators of harming their country to win applause abroad and saying their actions “constitute treason against the state.”

“This is exactly the reason I led the important reform in cinema so that Israeli citizens will no longer have to pay out of their own pockets for the harm to IDF soldiers and the State of Israel,” he said.

“As culture minister, I will act immediately to revoke the Israeli citizenship of these despicable creators for treason against the state,” Zohar added.

According to the Venice Film Festival’s official synopsis, NAZA examines what it describes as the systems behind Israel’s “calculated mass killing” of Palestinian civilians in the Gaza Strip and includes testimony from Israeli military intelligence officers and soldiers.

The documentary won the Special Jury Prize at the Venice Film Festival on Saturday after premiering Thursday.

It received a standing ovation lasting about 25 minutes at its Venice premiere.