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Tue, 15 May 2012 23:52:03 -0400

israelfacts: This Week In History: On May 14, 1948, the state...

Tue, 15 May 2012 21:19:37 -0400

This Week In History: On May 14, 1948, the state of Israel was established, creating the largest refugee population in the world. According to Israeli historian Ilan Pappe, “Jewish forces expelled over a million Palestinians from their homes at gunpoint, massacred civilians and deliberately destroyed hundreds of Palestinian villages”.

Palestinians who escaped persecution from Jewish forces fled to Gaza, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria and the West Bank. As a result, there are now 4.5 million Palestinian refugees without the right to return to their homes in the land now called Israel. Many refugees still retain old deeds and keys to homes now occupied by Israelis.

The ethnic cleansing of Palestinians is known as al Nakba, the Palestinian Catastrophe, and is commemorated on Nakba Day on the 15th of May every year, the day after Israeli Independence Day on the Gregorian calendar.

Throughout its 64-year history, Israel has denied that al Nakba — which happened just years after the Holocaust — ever took place, and last year the government passed a fascist law that allows the denial of state funding to NGOs that participate in Nakba commemorations. In 2009, it banned the use of the term “Nakba” in school textbooks.

Photos: Top: Thousands of Palestinians throng the beach as they are forced out of their homeland / Bottom: An elderly Palestinian couple during the mass exodus. Palestine, 1948 (UNRWA)

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Mon, 14 May 2012 19:04:04 -0400

jamestheniggerhatingdolphin: rratchetandshank: Okay I said I’d...

Mon, 14 May 2012 19:03:57 -0400

jamestheniggerhatingdolphin:

rratchetandshank:

Okay I said I’d never tell anyone I had this picture…but that was like four months ago…it’s time to bless the Internet with this example of being 2 turnt

2 turnt up
That’s fuckin nasty

rachell: Emily Browning in ‘Sleeping Beauty’ by Julia Leigh...

Mon, 14 May 2012 19:03:48 -0400

rachell:

Emily Browning in ‘Sleeping Beauty’ by Julia Leigh (2011)

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Mon, 14 May 2012 19:03:39 -0400

thedailywhat: African Stereotype of the Day: Gabriel, Benard,...

Mon, 14 May 2012 19:03:00 -0400

thedailywhat:

African Stereotype of the Day: Gabriel, Benard, Brian, and Derrik, who live in Kenya, were inspired to poke fun at the way African men are portrayed by Hollywood: “If people believed only what they saw in movies,” they said, “they would think we are all warlords who love violence.” Mama Hope — an organization that partners with African organizations to help transform their communities — was more than happy to hand them a mic as part of a video campaign to “Stop the Pity, Unlock the Potential.”

[boingboing]

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Mon, 14 May 2012 19:02:31 -0400

humansofnewyork: On October 31, 2011 a girl was dangling off...

Mon, 14 May 2012 19:02:22 -0400

humansofnewyork:

On October 31, 2011 a girl was dangling off the edge of the GW bridge. Several cop cars showed up a few minutes later after several 911 calls. Asked what she was doing, she said: “Enjoying life.” Strangely poetic that one person’s enjoyment of life can appear to so many as a desire for death.

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Mon, 14 May 2012 19:02:00 -0400

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Mon, 14 May 2012 19:01:48 -0400

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Mon, 14 May 2012 19:01:41 -0400

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ssdmmfr: Artist: Sophie Derrick “I photograph the act of...

Mon, 14 May 2012 19:01:14 -0400

ssdmmfr:

Artist:

Sophie Derrick

“I photograph the act of painting on to my skin and then paint on top of the photographs, creating a layering of image of paint and painted image. My body becomes the canvas for the paint, questioning the traditional concept of painting and portraiture, and the barriers between painting and photography.”

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Mon, 14 May 2012 19:01:00 -0400

scottlava: “So today’s lesson is, you kill each other off till...

Mon, 14 May 2012 19:00:35 -0400

scottlava:

“So today’s lesson is, you kill each other off till there’s only one left. Nothing’s against the rules.”

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Mon, 14 May 2012 19:00:31 -0400

scottlava: “Yes… No… I don’t know. I don’t know what I want.”

Mon, 14 May 2012 19:00:00 -0400

scottlava:

“Yes… No… I don’t know. I don’t know what I want.”

silfarione: Amazing photos of a family in the 1970’s that lived...

Wed, 09 May 2012 09:56:22 -0400

silfarione:

Amazing photos of a family in the 1970’s that lived with a lion by Michael Rougier. (LIFE Archive)

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Tue, 08 May 2012 00:36:43 -0400

"Your parents don’t want what is best for you. They want what is good for you, which isn’t always the..."

Mon, 07 May 2012 23:20:17 -0400

“Your parents don’t want what is best for you. They want what is good for you, which isn’t always the same thing. There is a natural instinct to protect our children from risk and discomfort, and therefore to urge safe choices. Theodore Roosevelt—soldier, explorer, president—once remarked, ‘It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.’ Great quote, but I am willing to bet that Teddy’s mother wanted him to be a doctor or a lawyer.”

- “What They Don’t Tell You At Graduation” via the WSJ (via nicetrybro)