Hey! Ahmed’s brother Salah is also fundraising for he & his four children, including his baby girl born during the war. www.gofundme.com/f/help-salah-maters-family-find-safety?
@azulafan1512 hey uhm, did you think about that maybe it's because this video is a fundraiser and she needs it to not be demonitised or suppressed? I'm sure there's something more useful you could be doing with your time than berating allies to the cause for not saying or doing exactly what you want them to, when and where you want them to..
In the 00s, my mum visited the Holy Lands meeting Christians living in both Israel and Palestine. She returned angry. Having originally believed the media that this was an equal conflict, she then saw with her own eyes the oppression that Palestinians faced every day at the hands of Israel. What upset her the most was a visit to an orphanage that regularly had no electricity or water due to Israel cutting lines to that area for no reason. For fun, perhaps. Or for power. I don't understand why people believe this 'war' began last year when Palestine has suffered for decades.
that's a powerful story! if you don't mind me asking, what prompted her to visit palestine? i can kind of understand why she might visit israel, it's advertised as this great, perfect place, but did she go to palestine because she wanted the other side of the story? i guess i don't know anything about your mom, though. i'm assuming she went on vacation but for all i know she could be a reporter or something
At least for Americans (speaking as one), part of it is the lack of education about this and other such topics, at least in general courses even in well funded areas. When ones knowledge is such a blank slate, it's easy for that slate to get written on it with untruths. It wasn't until CrashCourse History came out and did an episode on the conflict that I even got an inkling of the history and how much more it was.
So often, I think about a young woman in Gaza who received admission into a UK university and was able to leave Gaza to study. Suella Braverman personally denied her request to enter the country. I don’t know what’s happened to her, but I hope that she’s safe and lives long enough to see justice for what was done to her
She was denied entry because she openly supported proscribed terrorist organisations, and would have been a security risk. Do you want Islamic extremist attacks within the UK?
12:06 a 14 year old asking her family to flee without her and leave her on the ground because her disability makes her a "burden" is so, so, so cruel. And for what? Gas? Real estate? Oil in neighbouring countries? I am sick to my stomach
Fun fact, you are the first youtuber I have seen talking about Palestine in months. I am very glad you are sharing Ahmed's and Nermen's stories and fundraisers
It should be noted that a lot of videos on this topic get suppressed by the algorithm. I like to stay active with many politics UA-camrs, and yet a few times I've stumbled on videos on the topic on their channel that I never remember seeing promoted or in my notifications. It's possible that these channels have posted these kinds of videos and it's not being promoted in any way.
I don't usually comment, but it's important to do so right now. When you spoke about "winning the geographical lottery" it resonated a lot. A lot of us, aren't going through a hellish g3noc1d3 because of pure luck, because we were born in a country that's not going through such atrocities. And it's not just Palestine, it's Congo, it's Sudan, it's so much more and it's so easy to feel helpless and hopeless. Thank you for this video
It's Myanmar and China (Uyghurs) as well. And arguably, it's something that trans folks face, as least in the US; some states, like Montana, have legislated us out of existence
As a Polish, in school I was learning about crazy history of Poland (having to fight neighbouring countries many times) so to see how other Poles doesn’t care about Palestine and other countries in the similar position… it’s crazy…
Deaf person here, I can only imagine what it’s like to not be able to detect any sounds from the air, the ground, everywhere. Thank you for bringing awareness about the disabled communities in Palestine!!! From the river to the sea!!! ❤️🇵🇸
Thank you so much for talking about this. There is so much suffering over there no matter who you are, but even idea of the visceral never ending terror of not even being to hear where the danger is coming from made my heart stop.
it also needs to be pointed out that the "mass disabling" of Gazans is absolutely intentional. for quite some time (at least the first intifada) it's been a tactic of IDF to "shoot to injure", or rather to disable. in order to keep kill count low, they have used nonlethal but fragmenting bullets, aimed at kneecaps, and destroyed medical care apparatus.
it also needs to be pointed out that the "mass disabling" of Gazans is absolutely intentional. for quite some time (at least the first intifada) it's been a tactic of IDF to "shoot to injure", or rather to disable. in order to keep kill count low, they have used nonlethal but fragmenting bullets, aimed at kneecaps, and destroyed medical care apparatus.
I have seen deaf people in Gaza talk about the experience and also there is a Gazan who is like a deaf journalist, giving news to people like him in other parts of Gaza. There is a large number of dead community in Gaza BC of Israeli oppression and weapons. 💔 Lots of love & Sign language rocks!
I'm glad you mentioned Shireen Abu Akleh because when she was killed I was working at a grocery store in the United States. And I had a coworker from Lebanon who was family friends with her. That really shook me, and from then on I couldn't help but notice the many products in the same store that were made in Israel. I already wanted a free palestine before that moment, but I don't think I could ever put the veil of ignorance back on again.
When I was around 14, I read the autobiography of a survivor of the Warsaw ghetto under Nazi occupation. A few years later, a young doctor from my home town was on the news describing the conditions in Israeli occupied West Bank. The stories were almost identical, particularly the ones about very young children risking (and losing) their lives to squeeze through small gaps in fences to scavenge for food for their families. I have never understood how a people who endured such atrocities could then inflict the same on others. This was in the 1980s. What is happening now is a million times worse 😢
I recommend reading book Maus. There is this feeling most people have that people who experience intense abuse and see horrific things gain some sort of important lesson, enlightenment. This is simply not true. Holocaust didn't make anyone of the people that survived it into better people. It just broke them.
The very people who survived in Europe are the ones who fought in the war of 1948. The only reason the Mizrahi were brought into the fold is because the Ashkenazi were originally outnumbered. It was supposed to be for only Ashkenazi originally, ie whites only
How people who endured those atrocities could inflict the same on others? It is because that is how human beings learn. People who are abused learn to abuse others. The founders of Israel learned all the wrong lessons from the Holocaust and what they mean when they use the phrase "Never Again" is not what people thought it meant, it doesn't mean that they will never again allow genocide to occur, but instead it is a call to arms saying that never again will they allow their people to be attacked without retaliating 10 or 100 times more viciously against whoever dared to attack them.
I'm Eastern Cherokee. As a Native American, I see what's happening in Palestine and it makes me - viscerally angry. I know this level of evil in my DNA, as its happened SO many times before - and it effects families for generations. Not only are people suffering and dying in the most inhumane ways - their children and children's children will bear the scars of this atrocity (at least those lucky enough to live through this). None of these people should be dying. None of these children should be starving. None of this should be happening...again. I've told everyone I know my Christmas list is just donations for Palestinian families. I need nothing, I have a roof, running water, and access to food. They have none of that. It's not enough, not nearly enough, but at least it's something.
I am Irish on my mother's side and Native on my father's. I discovered my grandmother's secret when I found a picture of her, and she was NOT white! After talking with her sister's descendants, it was confirmed that she was Native, probably Oneida. I found a piece of "memorabilia" from the Carlisle School in her jewelry box after she passed. We had nothing to do with her 3 sisters when I grew up. It was one of their children who told me about being Native. My grandmother was ashamed, her sisters were not.
God... To think that we are doing the same exact mass slaughter and genocide, but with modern jets, bombs and guns... Sometimes I worry we just don't learn from the past and keep repeating these acts of cruelty with increasingly bigger weapons...
@@ville-c4uAw, are you confused about where you are or how UA-cam engagement works? Or how public forums attached to publicly consumed media work? Or maybe critical thinking is hard for you? I can explain it all to you if you want, I'm good at communicating complex ideas to children.
the way palestinians are dehumanised, even by those who are trying to support them, is so devastating. each palestinian is a complex individual, not just a nameless victim
name one you know as a human being then if youre so personally involved. i bet you dont know a houseless person or single mothers name in your own town or whether they are cold. get real.
@@hellohello-ic4dh you don’t get the same online performativity points for giving a crap about homeless people or single parents though. TikTok has simultaneously ruined these people’s attention spans and inflated their ego to the point of thinking they know the black and white solutions to the vast complexities of conflict in the Middle East.
focusing in individuals deviates attention of the problem that is the stolen land and destruction of a collective, individualism does not help in this.
I remember Awni's UA-cam channel, a big YouTubre from Iraq I think (I am talking about 20M subscribers big) received a fan video from the little boy but he only managed to watch it after the boy died, the YouTubre just broke down he was sobbing like a small child, he asked people to subscribe to his channel so his dream can be made true. What broke me personally was the boy telling the YouTubre in the video " I wish you can come to Gaza the winter is so beautiful here".
The Nazis called what THEY were doing a defense of their people, too. They framed Jewish people and undesirable as a "threat", too. If Jewish prisoners had lashed out at their captors, nazis would've called their retaliation "self defense", too. The truth is, this is an unforgivable situation. The oppression of the Palestinian people has gone on longer than the holocaust, and the world abandoned Palestinians much the same as Jewish people were abandoned. All the decent Jewish people I know call it genocide and are miserable that their faith and their people's suffering is being used as an excuse for this. It's disgusting. Israel does not deserve to exist, especially not on the blood stained and bombed land they've tortured for decades.
I am a palastinian that was born in Jordan since me and my family can't go back home. I am very grateful that the internet now seems more empathetic with palestinians than ever. Our gratefulness as palestinians (especially ones that live outside of palestine) doesn't stop at how much we feel heard now, but also the the warming comfort of sometimes sitting down and take a breath, since I feel like I have been fighting the battel of being accepted for who I am my whole life. Not to mention that I live in germany and mentioning that I was palestinian was completely out of question for me and others few years ago but now I have been seeing people of all races wearing the koffieh in public places. I still don't feel comfortable saying that I am palestinian to anyone, but I have been feeling a level of hope that I never thought I would have.
I really hope that you and other Palestinians can feel safer saying it in the coming months. The world is changing - slowly - but it is. I wish you the best
I am Palestinian, born in Jordan. Lately, I have found the courage to say that I am Palestinian-it feels like such a relief. I know exactly what you’re talking about. Last year, I had to travel to many places for work, and whenever someone asked me where I was from, I answered 'Palestine.' For the first time in my life, I chose to give that answer, and I am almost thirty years old. The burden has truly lightened for me, and I feel like, for the first time, I am being heard. Unfortunately, I’ve only met a few Germans, and it was in the context of work, so our side conversations didn’t go too deep. I hope that you and your family live in peace wherever you are
Same here, but I live in the US. Whenever I told people I was from Palestine they thought I meant Ohio, then they would get all defensive or at best ignore the conversation when I correct them.
@@ariellll-vb5nmhopefully not before some justice or relief. Hopefully not before people are allowed to get to safety. It’s on us to keep being vocal about it.
The day that the US election results were announced it occurred to me that in the weeks leading up to it, as I was following news and the like, the conflict in Gaza had just slipped to the back of my mind. That realisation hit me like a brick because I saw how easy it is to become apathetic, and that’s really scary
@@figthegiant4065 that was my experience as well! I got caught up in the potential fall out for me as a targeted group, and the people who are currently, not potentially, suffering so greatly were not so on my mind anymore. It’s so easy to become apathetic, it scares me a bit.
@@mellsc9412 I do think that awareness and reflection is important. It scares me too, and I feel like those feelings are important. It's vital that we not lose sight of the fact that theses issues are connected, because these systems (colonialism, imperialism, white supremacy, capitalism, eugenics) create and reproduce oppression and harm. Thank you for your words and care. We are not immune to the propaganda, because nobody is. But that doesn't mean we can't fight like hell to break through the gaslighting and distractions whenever possible, to try to prioritize safety everywhere and for those who need it most, while understanding that our fates are bound up in each others' collective liberation.
This last year has infuriated me to the point of tears. I’ve known all my life that America is pro genocide. I am black it’s a very large part of how the way I’m treated was made possible. But I hadn’t been old enough or had the ability to engage enough in global politics to understand anything about what was going on until around middle school. I didn’t start engaging in the redirect and seeing the apathy that people treat genocide with. My family is very mixed, and I have loved ones who are Sudanese, Muslim, and are and have been very close to the genocides currently. It’s actually why they are in America. They were forced out Egypt from the danger. I will never forget the day they walked into my grandma’s house for the first time to be here permanently and how gutted they were and how fast they’re joy at seeing us turned into deep pain as on the tv was coverage of bombings. Right around where they had just left the day prior. I very much could have lost them all. Even if my cousins were Muslim, Palestine has shown so much solidarity and support for BLM despite being victims of a far more urgent level of violence. I resist apathy because this is a people that has done nothing but fight to survive and fight to be seen. Their rights and lives have been stripped in brutal, slow, and cruel manners, and yet they showed up. They held protests. They showed solidarity. I wouldn’t be me or a human being if I didn’t care. I hate just how much I expected the response to this, but having the counter response of people really speaking out and doing everything they can to help has returned some hope that enough people will finally be outraged enough to care about genocide that it can be stopped. I hadn’t realized just how little people care about genocide when it is brown and black people until Oct 7. 2023. I am deeply disgusted at the things I have seen and heard in the time since. The ignorance that people are fighting to maintain boils my blood. There are so many people who’d rather have peace of mind, even if it comes at the price of millions of human lives
"There are so many people who'd rather have peace of mind, even if it comes at the price of millions of lives" 🔥 well said! I naively thought this would all be over within months. The images and video were too much to bear, and I thought if enough people, including politicans, just saw them, this would stop. How naive I was to think the world cared.
Thank you Tara for highlighting what disabled people in Gaza are going through. As a disabled Westerner I think about them all the time, and feel so guilty about the accident of birth that means I’m here in a safe warm home while they suffer through unspeakable horrors. I think about the people of all ages who have lost limbs and now need to adjust to a new life without access to rehab, prosthetics or mobility aids, and in many cases without any surviving family to support them. I think about those with severe chronic illnesses like mine, and how the hell they must be coping without any medication or even a warm bed to sleep in. I think about how Gaza already had the highest rate of childhood PTSD in the world even before this jennaside began, and how much worse it must be now. My heart breaks for them daily. Free Palestine 🇵🇸✊
Me too, about everything. I have a chronic condition and I cannot imagine how difficult probably impossible it would be to live with it in Gaza. I cannot stop thinking about it.
it also needs to be pointed out that the "mass disabling" of Gazans is absolutely intentional. for quite some time (at least the first intifada) it's been a tactic of IDF to "shoot to injure", or rather to disable. in order to keep kill count low, they have used nonlethal but fragmenting bullets, aimed at kneecaps, and destroyed medical care apparatus.
it also needs to be pointed out that the "mass disabling" of Gazans is absolutely intentional. for quite some time (at least the first intifada) it's been a tactic of IDF to "shoot to injure", or rather to disable. in order to keep kill count low, they have used nonlethal but fragmenting bullets, aimed at kneecaps, and destroyed medical care apparatus.
please don't feel guilty. like you said, it is an accident of birth. no one chooses to be born where when or to whom they are born. solidarity to you & to palestine
I am so happy to see individuals stepping up and taking action in whatever way they can. Its been such a rough year and even though I don’t have family in Gaza directly, at the same time it feels like they all are my family
Also i have to say that i have been struggling with apathy and just burn out with how hopeless this all feels. a few months ago I was at protests, on tiktok everyday, calling my reps, donating and then I just reached a wall. this video inspired me to donate and start paying attention again. thank you.
Burnout is real. Please find a way to engage with this sustainably. I burnt myself out so badly that I was a liability for other activists for a while. Ask yourself, is what I'm doing productive? Is it helping anyone? How can I better direct my energy? Then do that. I could not stand more footage, I still have images scorched into my brain. It would take me out for days of crying. So I just don't. I try to stay informed but focus on what I can do, even if it's just a few bucks to organizers who are able to do more than I can in the moment
Another thing that can help with apathy is giving yourself time away from news stations and if possible, time away from social media. A constant flow of horrific news that makes you feel small and helpless can burn you out so fast. Taking a day or two a week to completely disconnect has been helping me regulate myself and re-ground myself so that I can go back to it with additional energy. It is of course a privilege to even be able to take a break, but it is one that we can take part in so that we can give our all to doing what we can.
Yes, I am in that current position right now as I have recent problems myself. And this video helps a lot, it's okay to feel burnout, it's humane. Sending love and healing your way❤
As someone who has been advocating for the Palestinian cause for years atp, I always recommend that all people should (and can) do to help is donating and protesting. You don't need to be on the internet all day learning about atrocities you can't do anything about, just donate and protest whenever you can. Doing either of those things imo makes you way more useful to the cause than someone who sits on the internet all day debating people and trying to make them see brown people as humans.
I was born and raised in Germany and had to UNBRAINWASH myself on the whole situation regarding Palestine and Gaza. This happened only after my relationship with a lybian queer woman, herself a victim of war and DEEPLY traumatized, and then triggered by the events following the Hamas attacks in October 2023. The German government plays a huge role as a supporter of the opressor by financially ading Netanjahus racist ideology. Free Palestine 🕊
I really appreciate this video. It’s not that I have been apathetic to the situation, but so burnt out and caught up in my own immediate problems that I haven’t had the spoons to think about other things. I’m glad to have been presented with the opportunity to help a little bit
I learned about the cause of Palestine since I was a children. My mom went to Gaza for humanitarian relief. You wouldn't believe the vitriol, the disgust, the hatred of speaking on behalf of Palestinians plea before October 7th. It's disgusting, really. Outside of few circle, a slight empathy towards Palestinian is a sin. A sympathy towards terrorism. Every effort to educate people meets with cynicism and disgusted face. The propaganda was strong and effective. But October 7th really burst that bubble. I cannot imagine how it feels being gaslighted by the world for decades and still have more compassion for other people. I hope we witness a free Palestine in our lifetime. Free Palestine. Glory to the resistance.
U will see the free palastine soon enough brother, it will take time and huge sacrifice from the us palestinian and from others like the lebanese ppl too like u saw. The Nazis no one even thought they will lose when they was in power, the British from India, the France from Africa, the British from Ireland, the Americans from Afghanistan, how knows if it go for a worst after this switch or for better. All we can do is We depend on Allah and move forward to figure out. Free palastine Glory to resistance
you all are just a bunch od terror supporters. the "resistance" that you are talking about is a terrorist organizion that make evryones live worst and will hapily murder innocent pepole becuse they think god want them to do this.
Something about the phrase “allowed to grow up” really stuck with me. As though children in Palestine have to ask for permission to live. What a sickening amount of power, to decide whether or not an entire people’s children will get to grow up.
it also needs to be pointed out that the "mass disabling" of Gazans is absolutely intentional. for quite some time (at least the first intifada) it's been a tactic of IDF to "shoot to injure", or rather to disable. in order to keep kill count low, they have used nonlethal but fragmenting bullets, aimed at kneecaps, and destroyed medical care apparatus.
Im a sobbing mess after watching this! Thank you for bringing me out of my apathy and reconnecting me to my humanity. My ancestors were irish and fled ireland during the so called "famine" and thats how i ended up in america. I love the solidarity between Ireland and palestine it warms my heart! And it has helped so many of us learn more. The erasure of palestine is heartbreaking and despicable. Everyone should know, every child should know! They never taught us about palestine in school and i learned what palestine was in november of last year (im 19). I wish i had known sooner.
Thanks for speaking out. Humanity first. I donated what I can spare, but also: I go out on the streets. PROTEST against this inhumane way of the western governments.
I am beyond words. You have nailed it. I have been crying from the bottom of my heart and forcing myself to go through reels to never ever lose myself and become apathetic. So many of us are aware of this absolute mania that is playing out right infront of us and we feel so paralyzed and angry for how there is "nothing" we can do to stop it immedaitely. But who are we to give up hope if the Palestinians themselves haven't? Thank you for your video. I usually don't comment but I want this video to gain attention so badly because this matter is too big and important to be shrugged away to lack of empathy. This is much bigger than sustaining our comfort. The least we can do is to continue watching and learning.
I’m Malaysian and we were taught about the evils of Israel from childhood. I recently got married and I have been neglecting reading about/reposting/sharing pro-Palestine posts mainly because it has really brought down my morale. It’s affected my mental health a lot because I was posting about it ALL the time for months on end. I just wanted to be happy with my husband for the time being. I have to start posting again. I need to go all out again and be more consistent with my boycotting. My Palestine be free. 🇵🇸❤️🕊️
Tomorrow is Thanksgiving in the US, and there's been a lot made of avoiding politics when visiting family, not bringing up touchy subjects that would ruin the holiday. I'm struggling to maintain that composure already, I will hold the people of Palestine in my heart all day and night, I will think of their starvation when I sit down to eat, and I will not entertain any sort of debate over their lives should it come up in conversation.
If it helps, remember that not talking about it for a night does not mean you don't care or that it isn't still important. Getting into fights at Thanksgiving dinner ultimately doesn't help the people of Palestine, unless that fight motivates another to help (and fights don't often do that). You aren't trying to win, much less win a fight - you're trying to help the people of Palestine live dignified lives.
I too will think of their starvation when I sit down to eat... 😢😢😢 what a fucked up world, and people believe there is a God when there is so much suffering 💔
For me last year I made (veganized) Palestinian dishes and listened to Palestinian music this year im doing the same and thankfully I have enough money this year to donate ❤
My usually empathetic father grew up in a very pro-Israel bubble, and after trying to point out that people are people whichever nation they are from eventually got too much for me to discuss with him given the absolutely callous things he would say about Palestine. The depths Bibi has gone to in this latest round of intensified violence has even shocked him into changing his tone. You might find more compassion than you expect, and I hope you do.
The part where you talk about the amputations really hit my heart. My dad had an amputated leg and adopted me and my brother, who were undocumented, and he wasn't a rich man or a perfect human. It reminds me that even in our flaws we too can do our little part. Maybe we can't change the world, but we can change one heart at a time, one mind at a time, and ultimately save a life. Thank you for this video.
It’s more than grief for those who survive or come out of this alive. It’s c-ptsd, it’s trauma, it’s feeling unsafe and uncared for by the rest of the world. The helplessness. And for those of us who are only watching this from a screen and not experiencing it personally, you’re very right: apathy is (very privileged and) not an option but community is. The fact that it is still ongoing is heart-shattering, and it shows the greed of those in power to “support” whatever benefits them the most personally. The censoring is on full display though.
I think I'd choke on rage and disgust and despair if I was them. The world wants to make excuses for shitty men blaming the world for hurting their feelings as an excuse to commit senseless violence, but there's never any consideration at all for the trauma of colonized and genocided peoples and THEIR pain, THEIR acts of defiance, which are way more justified and more about survival.
it also needs to be pointed out that the "mass disabling" of Gazans is absolutely intentional. for quite some time (at least the first intifada) it's been a tactic of IDF to "shoot to injure", or rather to disable. in order to keep kill count low, they have used nonlethal but fragmenting bullets, aimed at kneecaps, and destroyed medical care apparatus.
As a Ukrainian becoming homeless because of war and displaced (not to mention PTSD) scares you for life. It's like you don't have any comfort left in this world, you even have no memories to go back to. It's beyond traumatising.
Tara, I don’t know you on a personal level, but from one individual to another; thank you so much for reminding us of how important it truly is to be collectively conscious of our fellow humans, and for personally reminding me that like-minded individuals are out there, and thank you for using your platform to spread such an important and impactful message 💜
Thank you for holding space for the individuals that are being/have been/will be affected by this, for all the souls who were displaced in every way. I love you all 💜
The point of personal relatability being the entry point for empathy is so fucking true. Here in Sweden we have a charity event called Musikhjälpen that runs for one week in december every year and is televized. Last year the goal was to help people who were starving in eastern Africa. They had sent a reporter there to interview people and I remember when they were in Ethiopia, and sure, it was sad and I understood the situation was grim, but it was still so easy to subconsciously disconnect, like it didn't have anything to do with me. And then they interviewed this super thin, young, starving Somali mother and suddenly it all became so, so much more real. There are a lot of Somalis in Sweden. I grew up around Somalis. One of the hosts of Musikhjälpen that year was Somali. That woman could have been the sister of my highschool classmate. It became so much more immediate, like just like that. So yeah, that stuff is really, really important and thank you for pointing it out.
Commenting to also gain engagement. As an irish person this has been talked about in my country for years because its similarity to our own history and if anything remotely positive can be taken from this awful situation its that everyone is now talking about it
I'm Irish too. It's nice to live in a country where support for Gaza is the norm and speaking out for zionism would basically be political sewer slide. Don't forget to vote on Friday! 🫣
Saw someone the other day who had interviewed a lady who the Hiroshima bombing and asked her for advice to young people. And the advice was "make friends". Making friends from all over the world makes it difficult to look away when they are being bombed or discriminated against. See the humanity is all of us.
Those in power who keep us in positions where we're unable to donate or spend time and effort to help are complicit. Keeping people focused on survival means they get away with atrocities that we don't have the resources to fight. And yet we persist.
What else are we supposed to do? The powerful aren't just complicit, they are directly responsible. What do you think the war itself is for? Global rising prosperity is a lie, an illusion. There always have to be populations worse off and in sh.ttier conditions. To do our labour, to give us their resources for cheap etc. If they're not worse off by nature, then by force. Wars are great for the weapons industry. Weapons are great for taking other people's resources. Resources are great for the economy. War is great for the economy. Of course the powerful make sure the poor devour eachother or have nothing to help eachother with. It's always been that way.
As someone with young kids, watching what these children are going through, imagining what their parents must be experiencing, is so heartbreaking. I've donated to the campaigns - thank you for sharing them.
Commenting for engagement. Despite how paralyzing and hopeless it feels, we do what we can and don’t give up. Take breaks if you need to keep going long term. Our people need us
What if your country’s the very place that’s sending weapons to Israel? How can one person help when it’s a wholeass government with trillions of dollars at hand? I don’t know, it just feels fruitless to keep saying “have hope”, when there seems to be more proof that humans can go lower to hell.
I hope Ahmed and Nermen's campaigns get continued support!! All of our struggles are connected, let's do all that we can to fight for a free Palestine and keep building community!!
it just breaks my heart, as someone soon turning 21, how young most of the people in Palestine are. most of the people i see that are displaced and with degrees without a chance to build a future, are around my age, or even younger, and it's just all so frustrating. Palestine has a great literacy rate, and so many people aren't able to pursue their passion and their true calling due to the threatening life conditions. Free Palestine.
Love this video. It seems folks are getting burned out from discussing this (which I get!) but we must persevere for our fellow humans. We mustn't give up, for they surely haven't.
Thank you for sharing this Tara! It's sometimes "easy to forget" that this war has been ongoing for a very long time and affects real people, if you aren't directly affected by it!
I live in Denmark but I'm from Congo originally. One day I was talking to a friend from Iraq and we realized that bc our parents moved and brought us along, just from growing up in Denmark, we gained 20-30 years of life expectancy. Outside of conflicts and crime, just doing everyday stuff, we get to live longer. That is... I can't quite describe this feeling, bc we both still have family over there
Thank you for using your platform to highlight this. I don't know who said it, but there is no 'post traumatic' in Ga za. As someone who's living with C-PTSD I can't even begin to imagine what that's like without bursting into tears.
What you talked about with the lottery of birth and how sobering it is to think about how different their lives are... I feel that every single day when I see the images from there. I was born on the same day as Motaz Azaiza who has, in our short 25 years on earth, experienced so much incredible hardship, so much pain, seen so many people die... While only wanting to be a photographer capturing the beauty of his home and the people there. Him talking about how homesick he is, I cannot stop myself from crying, not just being homesick but also knowing that the places you miss so much are currently filled with suffering, have been destroyed beyond recognition where truly "going back there" is impossible. We have had the same amount of time and it is just not fair, its injust.
i love that you connected to palestine because you're irish. i connected with it because i'm black. when you understand the details of how israel is treating palestinians, you realize it's apartheid, it's impossible NOT to see the similarities between that and america's jim crow era. like you, i felt that connection in my bones. thank you so much for speaking up.
i'm not subscrived to your channel, nor do I watch your content regularly, but i got this video in my homepage. i really appreciate that you decided to talk about the spreading of apathy, expecially as time passes and the situation doesn't change. let's all remember that people - actual complex people with their own lives, dreams and fears - are still going through this. i hope those 2 fundraisers (and all of the others that have been started because of this situation) can reach their goal!
I couldn't hear this without crying. Even though I'm not Palestinian, I do have a personal attachment. Not just with Palestine, my own country Pakistan's crimes, congo, Ethiopia, Sudan, Syria, Yemen, Kashmir, Mayanmar, Manipur, Uygur and countless I don't know of. I hope we all get justice.
The indigenous Jumma people of Bangladesh have been enduring apartheid and ethnic cleansing for more than 50 years. The Bangladeshis are totally apathetic toward their suffering, while crying their eyes out for Palestinians. It's just sad.
your video is truly like a wake up call for me, maybe i've been interacting with videos and boycotting and praying for them, doing what i can. but the apathy part is sadly true, its so easy to feel detached and apathetic when its been going on for so long, but its extremely important to have empathy, its the key to consistency in doing what we can. thank you so much for this.
I'm so glad UA-cam randomly recommended this video to me. Thank you so much Tara for this video and your beautiful words. You've voiced a lot of my own thoughts and I feel saner for it. You've earned a new subscriber because I absolutely want to support UA-camrs and social media people who use their platform to center voices that are oft hidden from our view. You are a lovely person Tara and I hope your online presence grows and more people discover you. Thank you so much Tara!!
It is strange that there are no ads for this video no matter what I've tried. Does UA-cam block ads for anything the algorithm recognizes as involving Palestine and charitable giving? I know that sounds kind of paranoid and conspiratorial, but since the algorithm is optimized for selling ads and serving the advertisers' agenda, it might avoid some subject matters that aren't going to help convince people to spend money on unnecessary things, rather the opposite.
The world is full of beautiful, smart, kind people, and the most beautiful, smartest, kindest people are the people of Gaza. I live in Portugal, an ally of Israel, and a country that serves the interests of the US and EU by allowing this genocide to continue. I think about Gaza every single day, and I will forever do what is in my reach to fight against the actions of my government, and for the freedom of the children of Gaza to grow up and experience adulthood. Love and solidarity forever, from Portugal, and from the entire world, for the people of Palestine
Edit: furthermore, ever since I began to grow more educated on Palestine in the past couple of years, I often think of a quote by James Baldwin, which is as follows, "I am terrified at the moral apathy- the death of the heart which is happening in my country. These people have deluded themselves for so long that they really don't think I'm human." This is something that really grounds me whenever it comes to mind, whenever I feel those around me are trying to normalise the increasing apathy to the plight of those not just in Palestine, but in Sudan and DRC, West Papua and all those oppressed in all corners od the world. I also believe it ties into Tara's point on humanisation; that these people are people and go beyond numbers or statistics, but are those with dreams just like us.
Thank you for posting this video. I took pride in continuously sharing stories from Palestinian journalists on social media, engaging with posts, attending protests, donating, etc. However, at some point recently, I realized I had taken an unplanned Instagram hiatus and hadn't posted in about a month. I needed this type of encouragement because hearing all the usual "don't give up" stuff - or worse, shaming - really wasn't working anymore after fighting for over a year
Please, ask your audience not only to give visibility to this video and donate... But also to take on the streets. To join the protests. Your government is actively supporting the army committing those war crimes. But that can change. In my country (Belgium) thanks to huge protests, our government took a stance in favour of a ceasefire. A regional government banned all munition sales to I***el. We are still protesting to ban all weapon trade and for sanctions against that country. That's what the BDS movement is asking now. We have a huge responsibility in the Western world to hold our own governments accountable.
As she's talked about how disabled people are affected in Palestine right now, here are some good things I've learned about disabilities since I've been in a wheelchair: Most wheelchair users are ambulatory, meaning they can stand and/or walk short distances, but still need their wheelchairs. Physiotherapy can be really fun especially as a group, when I was in a clinic for my tetraplegia and had to do a lot of physio, we had some group activities, and they often let me put the music on, because I grew up listening to my dad's favorites from the 70's I'd usually ask for some of those, most of the people in the clinic were older and really enjoyed some 70's bangers, it kept everyone's moral up and made it easier to workout through the pain. And to leave you off with some good news because this video was hard to watch, after almost a full year of hard work, my wheelchair is going to be able to go to someone who really needs it, I got cleared by the docs to use crutches from now on!
It’s very sad to hear about all the struggles and losses they go through every day, and it’s easy to ignore when it’s not happening to us, but hearing Ahmed’s dreams and strength makes it clear we can’t just look away. Anything we can do that shows that we care makes a huge difference.
Greetings from Ukraine I know first hand what it’s like to have your life, your childhood and your dreams destroyed, so my heart goes to the people of Palestine. Nobody deserves this, and I hate to live in a world in which this is allowed. I’m trying not to lose hope of a brighter future, but it’s really hard given how unjust the world is and has always been
this video really encapsulates my feelings on all the horrible things happening in the world. about Gaza, about climate change, and feeling overwhelmed and full of despair. so true that it's a privilege to disengage and feel apathetic. thank you Tara. free Palestine 🇵🇸
I’ve thought about the lottery of birth a lot not just in context of Palestine but in how it privileges us in all aspects of our lives. For example I’m a PhD student and I learned that someone in my program just had to drop out because they left the country to visit family and were denied entry back. It was just heart breaking. The idea of weak passports, strong passports, and in the case of Palestine no passport at all leading to this open air prison condition is truly maddening. It’s so unfair I get to travel the world while other students can’t often travel to conferences to present their hard work, or even get to start or continue their education. Thanks for the video to make sure we don’t fall into apathy and continue fighting in whatever way we can. Free Palestine 🇵🇸
The apathy of people is what is so frustrating and the wilful ignorance people display is astounding. I’ve tried to educate people around me for years about the horrors that Palestinian people have faced for 75 years under the foot of Israeli oppression and people block their ears. I have been absolutely floored by the sheer lack of empathy for the people of Palestine. It is refreshing to see how many people are speaking up for them now!! My one true wish is for a free Palestine. For freedom of all people under oppression. Viva Palestine 🇵🇸
i pray that ahmed and his family remain safe and protected. and may them and all people of falasteen be able to walk the soils of a free falasteen in this lifetime
Thanks for talking about this! i'm still pretty young and don't have a job yet so I don't really have much money to donate. But its really good to see people talking about this on their public platforms as you have a big audience to reach. Which can really go a long way, even if it's just one family you are helping. Also thanks for bringing up the apathy and empathy topic. I think it's really important to make sense of the way we feel during these times. It is extremely hard to feel hopeful during these times and normally I also start becoming more apathetic and hopeless, even though that will not help anyone. At the very least, we should keep raising awareness of all of these atrocities happening around the world right now and not let the victims be forgotten.
I am someone who is paralyzed by anxiety in my daily life. I am so, so afraid of so many things in the world around me, and I am so, so exhausted by my fear. I try my best to still maintain my sense of care about these sorts of issues that are far from me, because I know they matter, and I manage through regular donations and the like, but it's so, so hard for me to engage with these sorts of issues beyond that because I'm paralyzed by fear that even a fraction of the same hardship will affect me and the ones I love, given the changing state of the world. I nearly didn't click on this video because I knew it would paralyze me even more, and it did, but I'm also glad I watched. I've been feeling myself become more disconnected recently because of how much stress I've been under on top of my default anxiety levels, and I hate being that way. I wanna think about other people and what they need, I don't wanna spend so much time drowning in my own fears and my own needs. There are people who deserve to live dying while I'm afraid of being hurt. I'll be donating what I can again today, I hope that makes any kind of difference.
You're brave for sharing how you feel. :') Please don't hate yourself.. please don't punish yourself. I know from experience that bashing yourself will only steal your energy. Have faith, you are more powerful than you know
This is exactly how I have been feeling for the past year, and although I've tried donating and boycotting the brands that support this genocide sometimes there are just so many that it seems impossible to even make the slightest difference.
Working for this cause teaches people that no single person can fight for Palestine alone. When one person is unable to carry the load, we’ll carry it for you. And sometimes, when you’re able, you can carry it too for someone else. 76 years of brutal occupation is a long time. Those of us who have been in this for a while will tell you that it’s easy to let it consume you. We need to do this together so we can fight for many years to come, until Palestine is free. We’re no use to the cause when we’re burnt out, so please know that you’re doing the right thing when you take the time you need so when the batten gets passed to you, your hands are free to grab it to pass it to the next person. I hope that makes you, or anybody else reading this who needs to, feel better.
It's a very dangerous thought spiral to fear fear or be anxious about anxiety, but I sympathize and understand it well. Just keep pushing through it and expanding that comfort zone. These things are rarely as hard as we think them to be, but I say that knowing it's not easy for you either. One day it will be, though. You're stronger than you give yourself credit for, and I know that because I've known what it's like dealing with that torrent of thoughts and stress. If you're still pushing through, that's strength, but our minds can only take so much before they can't carry anything more. I hope you can find a way to lessen that load, so you can choose what you want to carry.
Commenting for support :) Obviously as an Irish person the genoc*de in Palestine is heartbreaking and so frustrating to see history repeating itself. Saorise don Phalestine!
It’s so true that apathy is a luxury as those affected directly don’t have it as an option. In October 2023 I had a 2 month old newborn and I was struggling with the general things related to having a newborn- breastfeeding, lack if sleep, the like. I remember holding her and trying to picture myself having to flee on foot with her, being bombed at, no food or nappies or supplies. I started avoiding the headlines as they would literally paralyse me, and I every time I feel that mixture of guilt and relief that I am in a position to even choose to avoid thinking about this genocide. The world will have to reckon with how badly we have failed the Palestinian people. I hope our leaders grow a spine soon, as it’s already way too late.
This video is a great reminder. As an American, I have been struggling with feelings of helplessness and burn out especially after the recent presidential election. I hope this video makes it far and is encouragement for anyone who may need it ❤
Hey! Ahmed’s brother Salah is also fundraising for he & his four children, including his baby girl born during the war.
www.gofundme.com/f/help-salah-maters-family-find-safety?
Thanks for sharing!
Im Irish , you should come back to Ireland to escape the united shitdom, we all support Palestine except for the protestant colonialists
Why didn't you say Palestine is facing a genocide at any moment in the video
You will not deny it to be a genocide. I want to see you say it is a genocide.
@azulafan1512 hey uhm, did you think about that maybe it's because this video is a fundraiser and she needs it to not be demonitised or suppressed? I'm sure there's something more useful you could be doing with your time than berating allies to the cause for not saying or doing exactly what you want them to, when and where you want them to..
In the 00s, my mum visited the Holy Lands meeting Christians living in both Israel and Palestine. She returned angry. Having originally believed the media that this was an equal conflict, she then saw with her own eyes the oppression that Palestinians faced every day at the hands of Israel. What upset her the most was a visit to an orphanage that regularly had no electricity or water due to Israel cutting lines to that area for no reason. For fun, perhaps. Or for power. I don't understand why people believe this 'war' began last year when Palestine has suffered for decades.
that's a powerful story! if you don't mind me asking, what prompted her to visit palestine? i can kind of understand why she might visit israel, it's advertised as this great, perfect place, but did she go to palestine because she wanted the other side of the story?
i guess i don't know anything about your mom, though. i'm assuming she went on vacation but for all i know she could be a reporter or something
Oh wow what else did she see
@weranoutofgoodusernames3105 my guess is she went to the West Bank where many historical religious sites are at
@@weranoutofgoodusernames3105it sounds like she was doing missionary work, so it would make sense that she would visit distressed areas.
At least for Americans (speaking as one), part of it is the lack of education about this and other such topics, at least in general courses even in well funded areas. When ones knowledge is such a blank slate, it's easy for that slate to get written on it with untruths. It wasn't until CrashCourse History came out and did an episode on the conflict that I even got an inkling of the history and how much more it was.
So often, I think about a young woman in Gaza who received admission into a UK university and was able to leave Gaza to study. Suella Braverman personally denied her request to enter the country. I don’t know what’s happened to her, but I hope that she’s safe and lives long enough to see justice for what was done to her
Holy shit you’re not wrong, I can’t say I’m surprised but fucking hell
What a fucking monster
Cruella Cowardass
That woman (Braverman) is despicable 🤮
She was denied entry because she openly supported proscribed terrorist organisations, and would have been a security risk.
Do you want Islamic extremist attacks within the UK?
I'm from Labanon, and we too were affected by the war. Cease fire started today, but yesterday night, the bombing was intense!! :(
I hope the ceasefire begins progress for peace in your country
Keeping you all in my prayers
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@@FairFeline thank youu
I hope you and your loved ones will be safe. We will see Lebanon and Palestine beautiful and green one day.
12:06 a 14 year old asking her family to flee without her and leave her on the ground because her disability makes her a "burden" is so, so, so cruel. And for what? Gas? Real estate? Oil in neighbouring countries? I am sick to my stomach
Yes indeed😭😭 it brough tears to my eyes
I guess there must be thousands of children like this, right now as we're talking😞😭
I think it's for Lebensraum
As a disabled person, the section of the video discussing what is happening to the disabled community over there broke me.
Much love to you ❤
I’m disabled too, and that made me feel so saddened for them over there😢
Yes, same
Cried here too
Israel‘s disabling campaign leaves people with life changing injuries every single day! Gaza has the biggest number of amputees worldwide 😭
Fun fact, you are the first youtuber I have seen talking about Palestine in months. I am very glad you are sharing Ahmed's and Nermen's stories and fundraisers
You follow the wrong UA-camrs. Seek out Shaun.
It should be noted that a lot of videos on this topic get suppressed by the algorithm. I like to stay active with many politics UA-camrs, and yet a few times I've stumbled on videos on the topic on their channel that I never remember seeing promoted or in my notifications. It's possible that these channels have posted these kinds of videos and it's not being promoted in any way.
There are many UA-camrs who talk about it. Maybe it’s your algorithm. I keep getting recommended videos from different people who talk about it.
I do recommend watching Owen Jones Videos 🇵🇸❤️
Algorithm at play
I don't usually comment, but it's important to do so right now. When you spoke about "winning the geographical lottery" it resonated a lot. A lot of us, aren't going through a hellish g3noc1d3 because of pure luck, because we were born in a country that's not going through such atrocities. And it's not just Palestine, it's Congo, it's Sudan, it's so much more and it's so easy to feel helpless and hopeless. Thank you for this video
It's Myanmar and China (Uyghurs) as well. And arguably, it's something that trans folks face, as least in the US; some states, like Montana, have legislated us out of existence
@@r82033 In the US it's now the entire country. It needs to be acknowledged that the US is basically a second Russia now.
As a Polish, in school I was learning about crazy history of Poland (having to fight neighbouring countries many times) so to see how other Poles doesn’t care about Palestine and other countries in the similar position… it’s crazy…
No one asked
@@aw3299 hasn't ever been far off
because of gaza, watching or hearing babies or children normally laugh or cry in public makes me tear up
Almost as much as the ons that Hamas murdered and hostages they took that started the war.
What's wrong with g string?🤣
David love it😂😂😂
That means he sacrifice his dignity and his own health 😂😂for
What a sergeant major 😂😂😂😂
Hahag
David baptism 😂😂😂😂
Funny
Blame Hamas for that, for sarting a war against Israel they knew they couldn't repel
Deaf person here, I can only imagine what it’s like to not be able to detect any sounds from the air, the ground, everywhere. Thank you for bringing awareness about the disabled communities in Palestine!!! From the river to the sea!!! ❤️🇵🇸
It may even be good. Because the drones there are buzzing so loudly, they’re driving people crazy.
Thank you so much for talking about this. There is so much suffering over there no matter who you are, but even idea of the visceral never ending terror of not even being to hear where the danger is coming from made my heart stop.
it also needs to be pointed out that the "mass disabling" of Gazans is absolutely intentional. for quite some time (at least the first intifada) it's been a tactic of IDF to "shoot to injure", or rather to disable. in order to keep kill count low, they have used nonlethal but fragmenting bullets, aimed at kneecaps, and destroyed medical care apparatus.
it also needs to be pointed out that the "mass disabling" of Gazans is absolutely intentional. for quite some time (at least the first intifada) it's been a tactic of IDF to "shoot to injure", or rather to disable. in order to keep kill count low, they have used nonlethal but fragmenting bullets, aimed at kneecaps, and destroyed medical care apparatus.
I have seen deaf people in Gaza talk about the experience and also there is a Gazan who is like a deaf journalist, giving news to people like him in other parts of Gaza. There is a large number of dead community in Gaza BC of Israeli oppression and weapons. 💔
Lots of love & Sign language rocks!
Irish people earned world respect for supporting Palestine. Thanks for your efforts.
You try to impose sharia wherever you go
@@viskyboi1275 cool story, bot
I'm glad you mentioned Shireen Abu Akleh because when she was killed I was working at a grocery store in the United States. And I had a coworker from Lebanon who was family friends with her. That really shook me, and from then on I couldn't help but notice the many products in the same store that were made in Israel. I already wanted a free palestine before that moment, but I don't think I could ever put the veil of ignorance back on again.
seeing the attack on her funeral changed me irrevocably
Products might also be marked as made in israel but come from Palestinian areas in some cases. A bit of whitewashing of the truth, as always
Before Shireen there was razan alnajar, a medic
Same thing
They keep getting away with it
Before they “pulled out” of Gaza, they killed James Miller, Tom Hurdall and Rachel Corrie.
They also killed Tom hurdall, James Miller and Rachel Corrie in Gaza back in 2003 and 2004.
It’s great to see one of my favorite creators talking about this issue. Free Palestine 🇵🇸
When I was around 14, I read the autobiography of a survivor of the Warsaw ghetto under Nazi occupation. A few years later, a young doctor from my home town was on the news describing the conditions in Israeli occupied West Bank. The stories were almost identical, particularly the ones about very young children risking (and losing) their lives to squeeze through small gaps in fences to scavenge for food for their families. I have never understood how a people who endured such atrocities could then inflict the same on others. This was in the 1980s. What is happening now is a million times worse 😢
I recommend reading book Maus.
There is this feeling most people have that people who experience intense abuse and see horrific things gain some sort of important lesson, enlightenment. This is simply not true. Holocaust didn't make anyone of the people that survived it into better people. It just broke them.
The very people who survived in Europe are the ones who fought in the war of 1948. The only reason the Mizrahi were brought into the fold is because the Ashkenazi were originally outnumbered. It was supposed to be for only Ashkenazi originally, ie whites only
How people who endured those atrocities could inflict the same on others? It is because that is how human beings learn. People who are abused learn to abuse others.
The founders of Israel learned all the wrong lessons from the Holocaust and what they mean when they use the phrase "Never Again" is not what people thought it meant, it doesn't mean that they will never again allow genocide to occur, but instead it is a call to arms saying that never again will they allow their people to be attacked without retaliating 10 or 100 times more viciously against whoever dared to attack them.
@@GeneralPublicGood point
@JackMehof-g1q
sounds like they shouldn't have been under 76 years of illegal occupation :)
I'm Eastern Cherokee. As a Native American, I see what's happening in Palestine and it makes me - viscerally angry. I know this level of evil in my DNA, as its happened SO many times before - and it effects families for generations. Not only are people suffering and dying in the most inhumane ways - their children and children's children will bear the scars of this atrocity (at least those lucky enough to live through this). None of these people should be dying. None of these children should be starving. None of this should be happening...again.
I've told everyone I know my Christmas list is just donations for Palestinian families. I need nothing, I have a roof, running water, and access to food. They have none of that. It's not enough, not nearly enough, but at least it's something.
I am Irish on my mother's side and Native on my father's. I discovered my grandmother's secret when I found a picture of her, and she was NOT white! After talking with her sister's descendants, it was confirmed that she was Native, probably Oneida. I found a piece of "memorabilia" from the Carlisle School in her jewelry box after she passed. We had nothing to do with her 3 sisters when I grew up. It was one of their children who told me about being Native. My grandmother was ashamed, her sisters were not.
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God... To think that we are doing the same exact mass slaughter and genocide, but with modern jets, bombs and guns... Sometimes I worry we just don't learn from the past and keep repeating these acts of cruelty with increasingly bigger weapons...
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@@ville-c4uAw, are you confused about where you are or how UA-cam engagement works? Or how public forums attached to publicly consumed media work? Or maybe critical thinking is hard for you?
I can explain it all to you if you want, I'm good at communicating complex ideas to children.
the way palestinians are dehumanised, even by those who are trying to support them, is so devastating. each palestinian is a complex individual, not just a nameless victim
name one you know as a human being then if youre so personally involved. i bet you dont know a houseless person or single mothers name in your own town or whether they are cold. get real.
@@hellohello-ic4dh you are a sick individual to respond this way. Get some empathy
@@hellohello-ic4dh absolutely nothing you said has any relevance whatsoever to my comment. just baseless assumptions for the sake of arguing.
@@hellohello-ic4dh you don’t get the same online performativity points for giving a crap about homeless people or single parents though. TikTok has simultaneously ruined these people’s attention spans and inflated their ego to the point of thinking they know the black and white solutions to the vast complexities of conflict in the Middle East.
focusing in individuals deviates attention of the problem that is the stolen land and destruction of a collective, individualism does not help in this.
I remember Awni's UA-cam channel, a big YouTubre from Iraq I think (I am talking about 20M subscribers big) received a fan video from the little boy but he only managed to watch it after the boy died, the YouTubre just broke down he was sobbing like a small child, he asked people to subscribe to his channel so his dream can be made true. What broke me personally was the boy telling the YouTubre in the video " I wish you can come to Gaza the winter is so beautiful here".
The Nazis called what THEY were doing a defense of their people, too. They framed Jewish people and undesirable as a "threat", too. If Jewish prisoners had lashed out at their captors, nazis would've called their retaliation "self defense", too. The truth is, this is an unforgivable situation. The oppression of the Palestinian people has gone on longer than the holocaust, and the world abandoned Palestinians much the same as Jewish people were abandoned. All the decent Jewish people I know call it genocide and are miserable that their faith and their people's suffering is being used as an excuse for this. It's disgusting. Israel does not deserve to exist, especially not on the blood stained and bombed land they've tortured for decades.
I am a palastinian that was born in Jordan since me and my family can't go back home. I am very grateful that the internet now seems more empathetic with palestinians than ever. Our gratefulness as palestinians (especially ones that live outside of palestine) doesn't stop at how much we feel heard now, but also the the warming comfort of sometimes sitting down and take a breath, since I feel like I have been fighting the battel of being accepted for who I am my whole life.
Not to mention that I live in germany and mentioning that I was palestinian was completely out of question for me and others few years ago but now I have been seeing people of all races wearing the koffieh in public places. I still don't feel comfortable saying that I am palestinian to anyone, but I have been feeling a level of hope that I never thought I would have.
@@HatemSinokrot don’t worry, you’ll be scared to share that you’re a Palestinian for the rest of your life
I really hope that you and other Palestinians can feel safer saying it in the coming months. The world is changing - slowly - but it is. I wish you the best
I am Palestinian, born in Jordan. Lately, I have found the courage to say that I am Palestinian-it feels like such a relief. I know exactly what you’re talking about. Last year, I had to travel to many places for work, and whenever someone asked me where I was from, I answered 'Palestine.' For the first time in my life, I chose to give that answer, and I am almost thirty years old. The burden has truly lightened for me, and I feel like, for the first time, I am being heard.
Unfortunately, I’ve only met a few Germans, and it was in the context of work, so our side conversations didn’t go too deep.
I hope that you and your family live in peace wherever you are
we see you, we're here for you. please stay safe friend ❤
Same here, but I live in the US. Whenever I told people I was from Palestine they thought I meant Ohio, then they would get all defensive or at best ignore the conversation when I correct them.
im glad people arent letting this issue fade into the background like a passing trend
It will eventually fade, just like all crimes.
@@ariellll-vb5nmhopefully not before some justice or relief. Hopefully not before people are allowed to get to safety. It’s on us to keep being vocal about it.
The day that the US election results were announced it occurred to me that in the weeks leading up to it, as I was following news and the like, the conflict in Gaza had just slipped to the back of my mind. That realisation hit me like a brick because I saw how easy it is to become apathetic, and that’s really scary
@@figthegiant4065 that was my experience as well! I got caught up in the potential fall out for me as a targeted group, and the people who are currently, not potentially, suffering so greatly were not so on my mind anymore. It’s so easy to become apathetic, it scares me a bit.
@@mellsc9412 I do think that awareness and reflection is important. It scares me too, and I feel like those feelings are important. It's vital that we not lose sight of the fact that theses issues are connected, because these systems (colonialism, imperialism, white supremacy, capitalism, eugenics) create and reproduce oppression and harm. Thank you for your words and care. We are not immune to the propaganda, because nobody is. But that doesn't mean we can't fight like hell to break through the gaslighting and distractions whenever possible, to try to prioritize safety everywhere and for those who need it most, while understanding that our fates are bound up in each others' collective liberation.
This last year has infuriated me to the point of tears. I’ve known all my life that America is pro genocide. I am black it’s a very large part of how the way I’m treated was made possible.
But I hadn’t been old enough or had the ability to engage enough in global politics to understand anything about what was going on until around middle school. I didn’t start engaging in the redirect and seeing the apathy that people treat genocide with.
My family is very mixed, and I have loved ones who are Sudanese, Muslim, and are and have been very close to the genocides currently.
It’s actually why they are in America. They were forced out Egypt from the danger. I will never forget the day they walked into my grandma’s house for the first time to be here permanently and how gutted they were and how fast they’re joy at seeing us turned into deep pain as on the tv was coverage of bombings. Right around where they had just left the day prior. I very much could have lost them all.
Even if my cousins were Muslim, Palestine has shown so much solidarity and support for BLM despite being victims of a far more urgent level of violence.
I resist apathy because this is a people that has done nothing but fight to survive and fight to be seen. Their rights and lives have been stripped in brutal, slow, and cruel manners, and yet they showed up.
They held protests. They showed solidarity. I wouldn’t be me or a human being if I didn’t care.
I hate just how much I expected the response to this, but having the counter response of people really speaking out and doing everything they can to help has returned some hope that enough people will finally be outraged enough to care about genocide that it can be stopped.
I hadn’t realized just how little people care about genocide when it is brown and black people until Oct 7. 2023.
I am deeply disgusted at the things I have seen and heard in the time since. The ignorance that people are fighting to maintain boils my blood.
There are so many people who’d rather have peace of mind, even if it comes at the price of millions of human lives
"There are so many people who'd rather have peace of mind, even if it comes at the price of millions of lives" 🔥 well said!
I naively thought this would all be over within months. The images and video were too much to bear, and I thought if enough people, including politicans, just saw them, this would stop. How naive I was to think the world cared.
"It dawned on me that the people there aren't just numbers" is one of the most impactful statements here
My wife and I have been supporting a dozen and a half families in Gaza as best we can. Thank you so much for this, every bit of awareness helps❤️
God bless your family ❤
Thank you Tara for highlighting what disabled people in Gaza are going through. As a disabled Westerner I think about them all the time, and feel so guilty about the accident of birth that means I’m here in a safe warm home while they suffer through unspeakable horrors. I think about the people of all ages who have lost limbs and now need to adjust to a new life without access to rehab, prosthetics or mobility aids, and in many cases without any surviving family to support them. I think about those with severe chronic illnesses like mine, and how the hell they must be coping without any medication or even a warm bed to sleep in. I think about how Gaza already had the highest rate of childhood PTSD in the world even before this jennaside began, and how much worse it must be now. My heart breaks for them daily. Free Palestine 🇵🇸✊
Me too, about everything. I have a chronic condition and I cannot imagine how difficult probably impossible it would be to live with it in Gaza. I cannot stop thinking about it.
it also needs to be pointed out that the "mass disabling" of Gazans is absolutely intentional. for quite some time (at least the first intifada) it's been a tactic of IDF to "shoot to injure", or rather to disable. in order to keep kill count low, they have used nonlethal but fragmenting bullets, aimed at kneecaps, and destroyed medical care apparatus.
it also needs to be pointed out that the "mass disabling" of Gazans is absolutely intentional. for quite some time (at least the first intifada) it's been a tactic of IDF to "shoot to injure", or rather to disable. in order to keep kill count low, they have used nonlethal but fragmenting bullets, aimed at kneecaps, and destroyed medical care apparatus.
please don't feel guilty. like you said, it is an accident of birth. no one chooses to be born where when or to whom they are born. solidarity to you & to palestine
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I am so happy to see individuals stepping up and taking action in whatever way they can. Its been such a rough year and even though I don’t have family in Gaza directly, at the same time it feels like they all are my family
In the three days that this video was posted. Ahmed reached $195k out of his original goal of $185k and Nemren has raised 19k/40k euros
Also i have to say that i have been struggling with apathy and just burn out with how hopeless this all feels. a few months ago I was at protests, on tiktok everyday, calling my reps, donating and then I just reached a wall. this video inspired me to donate and start paying attention again. thank you.
Burnout is real. Please find a way to engage with this sustainably. I burnt myself out so badly that I was a liability for other activists for a while. Ask yourself, is what I'm doing productive? Is it helping anyone? How can I better direct my energy? Then do that. I could not stand more footage, I still have images scorched into my brain. It would take me out for days of crying. So I just don't. I try to stay informed but focus on what I can do, even if it's just a few bucks to organizers who are able to do more than I can in the moment
Another thing that can help with apathy is giving yourself time away from news stations and if possible, time away from social media. A constant flow of horrific news that makes you feel small and helpless can burn you out so fast. Taking a day or two a week to completely disconnect has been helping me regulate myself and re-ground myself so that I can go back to it with additional energy. It is of course a privilege to even be able to take a break, but it is one that we can take part in so that we can give our all to doing what we can.
Yes, I am in that current position right now as I have recent problems myself. And this video helps a lot, it's okay to feel burnout, it's humane. Sending love and healing your way❤
😂😂😂😂😂 good
As someone who has been advocating for the Palestinian cause for years atp, I always recommend that all people should (and can) do to help is donating and protesting. You don't need to be on the internet all day learning about atrocities you can't do anything about, just donate and protest whenever you can. Doing either of those things imo makes you way more useful to the cause than someone who sits on the internet all day debating people and trying to make them see brown people as humans.
I was born and raised in Germany and had to UNBRAINWASH myself on the whole situation regarding Palestine and Gaza. This happened only after my relationship with a lybian queer woman, herself a victim of war and DEEPLY traumatized, and then triggered by the events following the Hamas attacks in October 2023.
The German government plays a huge role as a supporter of the opressor by financially ading Netanjahus racist ideology.
Free Palestine
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I really appreciate this video. It’s not that I have been apathetic to the situation, but so burnt out and caught up in my own immediate problems that I haven’t had the spoons to think about other things. I’m glad to have been presented with the opportunity to help a little bit
I learned about the cause of Palestine since I was a children. My mom went to Gaza for humanitarian relief.
You wouldn't believe the vitriol, the disgust, the hatred of speaking on behalf of Palestinians plea before October 7th. It's disgusting, really. Outside of few circle, a slight empathy towards Palestinian is a sin. A sympathy towards terrorism. Every effort to educate people meets with cynicism and disgusted face.
The propaganda was strong and effective. But October 7th really burst that bubble.
I cannot imagine how it feels being gaslighted by the world for decades and still have more compassion for other people.
I hope we witness a free Palestine in our lifetime.
Free Palestine.
Glory to the resistance.
U will see the free palastine soon enough brother, it will take time and huge sacrifice from the us palestinian and from others like the lebanese ppl too like u saw.
The Nazis no one even thought they will lose when they was in power, the British from India, the France from Africa, the British from Ireland, the Americans from Afghanistan, how knows if it go for a worst after this switch or for better. All we can do is We depend on Allah and move forward to figure out.
Free palastine
Glory to resistance
U watched and then write this comment?
May Allah guide
I have nothing else to say
october 7th killed my people???? are you insane????
Amen.
you all are just a bunch od terror supporters. the "resistance" that you are talking about is a terrorist organizion that make evryones live worst and will hapily murder innocent pepole becuse they think god want them to do this.
Something about the phrase “allowed to grow up” really stuck with me. As though children in Palestine have to ask for permission to live. What a sickening amount of power, to decide whether or not an entire people’s children will get to grow up.
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@@ville-c4u it is a public comment section you "dumb dumb"
@@ville-c4u I asked
it also needs to be pointed out that the "mass disabling" of Gazans is absolutely intentional. for quite some time (at least the first intifada) it's been a tactic of IDF to "shoot to injure", or rather to disable. in order to keep kill count low, they have used nonlethal but fragmenting bullets, aimed at kneecaps, and destroyed medical care apparatus.
Sounds like they shouldn’t have done October 7th then
Im a sobbing mess after watching this! Thank you for bringing me out of my apathy and reconnecting me to my humanity. My ancestors were irish and fled ireland during the so called "famine" and thats how i ended up in america. I love the solidarity between Ireland and palestine it warms my heart! And it has helped so many of us learn more. The erasure of palestine is heartbreaking and despicable. Everyone should know, every child should know! They never taught us about palestine in school and i learned what palestine was in november of last year (im 19). I wish i had known sooner.
@@comrade_kittygirl cry more please
@@JackMehof-g1q Why you gotta show us that your mom and dad were siblings man?
@@JackMehof-g1qlol get a life…they way u are replying to every comment is sad and shows a lot about u.
Touch grass
Thanks for speaking out. Humanity first. I donated what I can spare, but also: I go out on the streets. PROTEST against this inhumane way of the western governments.
Hey hot tip for those who want to help with Tara's corner of the algorithm: if you click on the ads then Google will push her content to more people.
Never knew this, thanks for sharing!!
How do you know that
Thank you
@emptycinema I write ads for social media for my job
@@emptycinema You would have to work in the business or be able to look into how these things work.
Thank you for talking about Palestine ❤ I'm Irish and my husband is Palestinian so I totally understand the Ireland-Palestine connection.
I am beyond words. You have nailed it. I have been crying from the bottom of my heart and forcing myself to go through reels to never ever lose myself and become apathetic. So many of us are aware of this absolute mania that is playing out right infront of us and we feel so paralyzed and angry for how there is "nothing" we can do to stop it immedaitely. But who are we to give up hope if the Palestinians themselves haven't? Thank you for your video. I usually don't comment but I want this video to gain attention so badly because this matter is too big and important to be shrugged away to lack of empathy. This is much bigger than sustaining our comfort. The least we can do is to continue watching and learning.
@@BlueMelonCream why don’t you go to Palestine and help? Oh wait, that would require you to actually do something
@@JackMehof-g1qwhat is the point of this comment? just to be an ass?
@JackMehof-g1q a xioshitbag on the scene. Must really hurt to see the rogue state being exposed 😅 day in day out.
But you are about Syrians and other places in the world because you’re an hyp9crite and only care about a people that brought this on themselves
I’m Malaysian and we were taught about the evils of Israel from childhood. I recently got married and I have been neglecting reading about/reposting/sharing pro-Palestine posts mainly because it has really brought down my morale. It’s affected my mental health a lot because I was posting about it ALL the time for months on end. I just wanted to be happy with my husband for the time being. I have to start posting again. I need to go all out again and be more consistent with my boycotting. My Palestine be free. 🇵🇸❤️🕊️
Tomorrow is Thanksgiving in the US, and there's been a lot made of avoiding politics when visiting family, not bringing up touchy subjects that would ruin the holiday. I'm struggling to maintain that composure already, I will hold the people of Palestine in my heart all day and night, I will think of their starvation when I sit down to eat, and I will not entertain any sort of debate over their lives should it come up in conversation.
If it helps, remember that not talking about it for a night does not mean you don't care or that it isn't still important. Getting into fights at Thanksgiving dinner ultimately doesn't help the people of Palestine, unless that fight motivates another to help (and fights don't often do that). You aren't trying to win, much less win a fight - you're trying to help the people of Palestine live dignified lives.
I too will think of their starvation when I sit down to eat... 😢😢😢 what a fucked up world, and people believe there is a God when there is so much suffering 💔
God could be omnipotent, omniscient, or benevolent. Pick two.
For me last year I made (veganized) Palestinian dishes and listened to Palestinian music this year im doing the same and thankfully I have enough money this year to donate ❤
My usually empathetic father grew up in a very pro-Israel bubble, and after trying to point out that people are people whichever nation they are from eventually got too much for me to discuss with him given the absolutely callous things he would say about Palestine. The depths Bibi has gone to in this latest round of intensified violence has even shocked him into changing his tone. You might find more compassion than you expect, and I hope you do.
The part where you talk about the amputations really hit my heart. My dad had an amputated leg and adopted me and my brother, who were undocumented, and he wasn't a rich man or a perfect human. It reminds me that even in our flaws we too can do our little part. Maybe we can't change the world, but we can change one heart at a time, one mind at a time, and ultimately save a life. Thank you for this video.
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@@ville-c4uAbsolute scum behavior on your part
Beautifully put, what an extraordinary soul your dad is. In my faith god says, “whoever saves a life, it will be as if they saved all of humanity”.
It’s more than grief for those who survive or come out of this alive. It’s c-ptsd, it’s trauma, it’s feeling unsafe and uncared for by the rest of the world. The helplessness. And for those of us who are only watching this from a screen and not experiencing it personally, you’re very right: apathy is (very privileged and) not an option but community is.
The fact that it is still ongoing is heart-shattering, and it shows the greed of those in power to “support” whatever benefits them the most personally. The censoring is on full display though.
I think I'd choke on rage and disgust and despair if I was them. The world wants to make excuses for shitty men blaming the world for hurting their feelings as an excuse to commit senseless violence, but there's never any consideration at all for the trauma of colonized and genocided peoples and THEIR pain, THEIR acts of defiance, which are way more justified and more about survival.
it also needs to be pointed out that the "mass disabling" of Gazans is absolutely intentional. for quite some time (at least the first intifada) it's been a tactic of IDF to "shoot to injure", or rather to disable. in order to keep kill count low, they have used nonlethal but fragmenting bullets, aimed at kneecaps, and destroyed medical care apparatus.
Thank you for these words. I feel this so much.
As a Ukrainian becoming homeless because of war and displaced (not to mention PTSD) scares you for life. It's like you don't have any comfort left in this world, you even have no memories to go back to. It's beyond traumatising.
Thanks for doing this, it's great to see people using their platforms for the right cause ❤
Tara, I don’t know you on a personal level, but from one individual to another; thank you so much for reminding us of how important it truly is to be collectively conscious of our fellow humans, and for personally reminding me that like-minded individuals are out there, and thank you for using your platform to spread such an important and impactful message 💜
Thank you for holding space for the individuals that are being/have been/will be affected by this, for all the souls who were displaced in every way. I love you all 💜
The point of personal relatability being the entry point for empathy is so fucking true. Here in Sweden we have a charity event called Musikhjälpen that runs for one week in december every year and is televized. Last year the goal was to help people who were starving in eastern Africa. They had sent a reporter there to interview people and I remember when they were in Ethiopia, and sure, it was sad and I understood the situation was grim, but it was still so easy to subconsciously disconnect, like it didn't have anything to do with me.
And then they interviewed this super thin, young, starving Somali mother and suddenly it all became so, so much more real. There are a lot of Somalis in Sweden. I grew up around Somalis. One of the hosts of Musikhjälpen that year was Somali. That woman could have been the sister of my highschool classmate. It became so much more immediate, like just like that. So yeah, that stuff is really, really important and thank you for pointing it out.
Commenting to also gain engagement. As an irish person this has been talked about in my country for years because its similarity to our own history and if anything remotely positive can be taken from this awful situation its that everyone is now talking about it
I'm Irish too. It's nice to live in a country where support for Gaza is the norm and speaking out for zionism would basically be political sewer slide.
Don't forget to vote on Friday! 🫣
Saw someone the other day who had interviewed a lady who the Hiroshima bombing and asked her for advice to young people. And the advice was "make friends". Making friends from all over the world makes it difficult to look away when they are being bombed or discriminated against. See the humanity is all of us.
Those in power who keep us in positions where we're unable to donate or spend time and effort to help are complicit. Keeping people focused on survival means they get away with atrocities that we don't have the resources to fight. And yet we persist.
What else are we supposed to do? The powerful aren't just complicit, they are directly responsible. What do you think the war itself is for?
Global rising prosperity is a lie, an illusion. There always have to be populations worse off and in sh.ttier conditions. To do our labour, to give us their resources for cheap etc.
If they're not worse off by nature, then by force. Wars are great for the weapons industry. Weapons are great for taking other people's resources. Resources are great for the economy.
War is great for the economy.
Of course the powerful make sure the poor devour eachother or have nothing to help eachother with. It's always been that way.
Speak that truth ❤
This!!!
Thank you for this great video ❤ Free Palestine, Congo and Sudan 🇵🇸🇨🇩🇸🇩
And Ukraine too! 🇺🇦
im palestinian and I've been a subscriber of your channel for years. thank you for speaking about this ❤🇵🇸🇮🇪
@@suksuk5191 found the terrorist voter
Children should all grow up in peace, happiness, comfort. The fact that this isn’t the case breaks my heart.
As someone with young kids, watching what these children are going through, imagining what their parents must be experiencing, is so heartbreaking. I've donated to the campaigns - thank you for sharing them.
Commenting for engagement. Despite how paralyzing and hopeless it feels, we do what we can and don’t give up. Take breaks if you need to keep going long term. Our people need us
starting a thread for engagement. stay strong.
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What if your country’s the very place that’s sending weapons to Israel? How can one person help when it’s a wholeass government with trillions of dollars at hand?
I don’t know, it just feels fruitless to keep saying “have hope”, when there seems to be more proof that humans can go lower to hell.
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PALESTINA LIBRE 🇵🇸
Greetings from Chile.
Thank you for talking about this
شكرا لك
I hope Ahmed and Nermen's campaigns get continued support!! All of our struggles are connected, let's do all that we can to fight for a free Palestine and keep building community!!
Love you even more for speaking about this. From Mexico, free Palestine!
it just breaks my heart, as someone soon turning 21, how young most of the people in Palestine are. most of the people i see that are displaced and with degrees without a chance to build a future, are around my age, or even younger, and it's just all so frustrating. Palestine has a great literacy rate, and so many people aren't able to pursue their passion and their true calling due to the threatening life conditions. Free Palestine.
@@deliacordero110 it does not and never has had a great literacy rate, if anything that would be thanks to Israel
Love this video. It seems folks are getting burned out from discussing this (which I get!) but we must persevere for our fellow humans. We mustn't give up, for they surely haven't.
Hi, I dont usually comment but i want to let you know that your content is very much appreciated
Thank you for commenting!!
Thank you for sharing this Tara!
It's sometimes "easy to forget" that this war has been ongoing for a very long time and affects real people, if you aren't directly affected by it!
And especially if you’re indirectly supporting it by your existence due to the country you live in.
I hate it here.
I live in Denmark but I'm from Congo originally. One day I was talking to a friend from Iraq and we realized that bc our parents moved and brought us along, just from growing up in Denmark, we gained 20-30 years of life expectancy. Outside of conflicts and crime, just doing everyday stuff, we get to live longer. That is... I can't quite describe this feeling, bc we both still have family over there
Thank you for using your platform to highlight this.
I don't know who said it, but there is no 'post traumatic' in Ga za. As someone who's living with C-PTSD I can't even begin to imagine what that's like without bursting into tears.
Thank you for the practical tips on practicing empathy. It is truly morbid how detatched we can be from the humanity and personhood of others.
Cosign.
What you talked about with the lottery of birth and how sobering it is to think about how different their lives are... I feel that every single day when I see the images from there. I was born on the same day as Motaz Azaiza who has, in our short 25 years on earth, experienced so much incredible hardship, so much pain, seen so many people die... While only wanting to be a photographer capturing the beauty of his home and the people there. Him talking about how homesick he is, I cannot stop myself from crying, not just being homesick but also knowing that the places you miss so much are currently filled with suffering, have been destroyed beyond recognition where truly "going back there" is impossible. We have had the same amount of time and it is just not fair, its injust.
Thank you for speaking up, visibility and not being silent is so important, I’m so glad one of my favourite UA-camrs spoke up
Thank you for speaking up. It feels so hopeless at times but this is the gentle reassurance we need to keep caring
i love that you connected to palestine because you're irish. i connected with it because i'm black. when you understand the details of how israel is treating palestinians, you realize it's apartheid, it's impossible NOT to see the similarities between that and america's jim crow era. like you, i felt that connection in my bones. thank you so much for speaking up.
Its Whitism ideology and "Manifest Destiny" exapnsionism
Focus on your own community.
@@Malll2-c6r assuming this person already doesn't. get a life and touch grass
@@Malll2-c6rget bent
@Malll2-c6r maybe take your own advice cause you may not even be Jewish
Thank you for sharing this. What is happening in Palestine is devastating.
Thank you for this video, I've been feeling so hopeless because I can't help those in need. All I have is empathy, I wish I could do more.
i'm not subscrived to your channel, nor do I watch your content regularly, but i got this video in my homepage. i really appreciate that you decided to talk about the spreading of apathy, expecially as time passes and the situation doesn't change. let's all remember that people - actual complex people with their own lives, dreams and fears - are still going through this. i hope those 2 fundraisers (and all of the others that have been started because of this situation) can reach their goal!
I couldn't hear this without crying. Even though I'm not Palestinian, I do have a personal attachment. Not just with Palestine, my own country Pakistan's crimes, congo, Ethiopia, Sudan, Syria, Yemen, Kashmir, Mayanmar, Manipur, Uygur and countless I don't know of. I hope we all get justice.
The indigenous Jumma people of Bangladesh have been enduring apartheid and ethnic cleansing for more than 50 years. The Bangladeshis are totally apathetic toward their suffering, while crying their eyes out for Palestinians. It's just sad.
your video is truly like a wake up call for me, maybe i've been interacting with videos and boycotting and praying for them, doing what i can. but the apathy part is sadly true, its so easy to feel detached and apathetic when its been going on for so long, but its extremely important to have empathy, its the key to consistency in doing what we can. thank you so much for this.
I'm so glad UA-cam randomly recommended this video to me. Thank you so much Tara for this video and your beautiful words. You've voiced a lot of my own thoughts and I feel saner for it. You've earned a new subscriber because I absolutely want to support UA-camrs and social media people who use their platform to center voices that are oft hidden from our view. You are a lovely person Tara and I hope your online presence grows and more people discover you. Thank you so much Tara!!
I didn't get any ads :( but I'll comment here, because this video is important, like, and listen to it a few times for the algorithm
Same!!
Yeah same here, and on the iPhone app the video didn't start autoplaying like usual either! (I checked and the video above did)
I bet UA-cam removed the ads on purpose. UA-cam is anti-Palestine.
It is strange that there are no ads for this video no matter what I've tried. Does UA-cam block ads for anything the algorithm recognizes as involving Palestine and charitable giving? I know that sounds kind of paranoid and conspiratorial, but since the algorithm is optimized for selling ads and serving the advertisers' agenda, it might avoid some subject matters that aren't going to help convince people to spend money on unnecessary things, rather the opposite.
@@ObakeOnna I don't think it is paranoid. I'd be willing to bet that this is exactly what is happening.
The world is full of beautiful, smart, kind people, and the most beautiful, smartest, kindest people are the people of Gaza. I live in Portugal, an ally of Israel, and a country that serves the interests of the US and EU by allowing this genocide to continue. I think about Gaza every single day, and I will forever do what is in my reach to fight against the actions of my government, and for the freedom of the children of Gaza to grow up and experience adulthood. Love and solidarity forever, from Portugal, and from the entire world, for the people of Palestine
Commenting for engagement. Freedom for Palestine and all the other oppressed peoples of the world. 🙏🏾
Edit: furthermore, ever since I began to grow more educated on Palestine in the past couple of years, I often think of a quote by James Baldwin, which is as follows, "I am terrified at the moral apathy- the death of the heart which is happening in my country. These people have deluded themselves for so long that they really don't think I'm human." This is something that really grounds me whenever it comes to mind, whenever I feel those around me are trying to normalise the increasing apathy to the plight of those not just in Palestine, but in Sudan and DRC, West Papua and all those oppressed in all corners od the world. I also believe it ties into Tara's point on humanisation; that these people are people and go beyond numbers or statistics, but are those with dreams just like us.
Thank you for posting this video. I took pride in continuously sharing stories from Palestinian journalists on social media, engaging with posts, attending protests, donating, etc. However, at some point recently, I realized I had taken an unplanned Instagram hiatus and hadn't posted in about a month. I needed this type of encouragement because hearing all the usual "don't give up" stuff - or worse, shaming - really wasn't working anymore after fighting for over a year
Please, ask your audience not only to give visibility to this video and donate... But also to take on the streets. To join the protests.
Your government is actively supporting the army committing those war crimes. But that can change. In my country (Belgium) thanks to huge protests, our government took a stance in favour of a ceasefire. A regional government banned all munition sales to I***el. We are still protesting to ban all weapon trade and for sanctions against that country.
That's what the BDS movement is asking now. We have a huge responsibility in the Western world to hold our own governments accountable.
So true ❤ unfortunately where I'm from (Hungary) pro-palestine protests are banned. Please protest in our names too ❤
There’s a March in London this Saturday! Everyone who can, should go
I'm also attending protests but tbh. I'm from Germany, I see no hope that our government will change its stance on Israel...
Hear hear
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As she's talked about how disabled people are affected in Palestine right now, here are some good things I've learned about disabilities since I've been in a wheelchair:
Most wheelchair users are ambulatory, meaning they can stand and/or walk short distances, but still need their wheelchairs.
Physiotherapy can be really fun especially as a group, when I was in a clinic for my tetraplegia and had to do a lot of physio, we had some group activities, and they often let me put the music on, because I grew up listening to my dad's favorites from the 70's I'd usually ask for some of those, most of the people in the clinic were older and really enjoyed some 70's bangers, it kept everyone's moral up and made it easier to workout through the pain.
And to leave you off with some good news because this video was hard to watch, after almost a full year of hard work, my wheelchair is going to be able to go to someone who really needs it, I got cleared by the docs to use crutches from now on!
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@@ville-c4u no one asked your opinion
I'm so happy for you and your tremendous progress and effort🎉 you're a kind hearted human, thank you for being you❤
thank you for this ❤
Goat
Animal fact for the algorithm, dragonflys have a hunting success rate of 95%
Damn how did they measure it
Another animal fun fact there is a type of bee which produces honey from the flesh of carcasses the feed on
@LHZOZ777 seeing their body plans(big eyes and 4 wings that can move independently) and seeing them on cameras
So they are even much more successful than cats.
@@M0TH3RRDamn I’m not sure that was very fun
It’s very sad to hear about all the struggles and losses they go through every day, and it’s easy to ignore when it’s not happening to us, but hearing Ahmed’s dreams and strength makes it clear we can’t just look away. Anything we can do that shows that we care makes a huge difference.
Greetings from Ukraine
I know first hand what it’s like to have your life, your childhood and your dreams destroyed, so my heart goes to the people of Palestine. Nobody deserves this, and I hate to live in a world in which this is allowed. I’m trying not to lose hope of a brighter future, but it’s really hard given how unjust the world is and has always been
Thank you. Thank you a million times. I knew I had good intuition when I followed you back in the day. Thank you for being a good person.
Rest in peace all our martyrs
this video really encapsulates my feelings on all the horrible things happening in the world. about Gaza, about climate change, and feeling overwhelmed and full of despair. so true that it's a privilege to disengage and feel apathetic. thank you Tara. free Palestine 🇵🇸
This might be one of the best essays on the topics of apathy and detaching from conflicts that I‘ve ever heard. You hit the nail right on the head.
Truly
I wish I could say something, but damn... what can you say at the face of such unimaginable injustice and tragedy?
Free Palestine 🇵🇸
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@@ville-c4u leave from here with your inhuman condecendance for genocide
@@ville-c4u Love to everyone pitching into to help boost the video! Thanks pookie 😘
To see another human being in this wild wild world. It is a pleasure madam.
I’ve thought about the lottery of birth a lot not just in context of Palestine but in how it privileges us in all aspects of our lives. For example I’m a PhD student and I learned that someone in my program just had to drop out because they left the country to visit family and were denied entry back. It was just heart breaking. The idea of weak passports, strong passports, and in the case of Palestine no passport at all leading to this open air prison condition is truly maddening. It’s so unfair I get to travel the world while other students can’t often travel to conferences to present their hard work, or even get to start or continue their education. Thanks for the video to make sure we don’t fall into apathy and continue fighting in whatever way we can. Free Palestine 🇵🇸
My fun fact is that I’m proud of you for making this video x
The apathy of people is what is so frustrating and the wilful ignorance people display is astounding. I’ve tried to educate people around me for years about the horrors that Palestinian people have faced for 75 years under the foot of Israeli oppression and people block their ears. I have been absolutely floored by the sheer lack of empathy for the people of Palestine. It is refreshing to see how many people are speaking up for them now!! My one true wish is for a free Palestine. For freedom of all people under oppression. Viva Palestine 🇵🇸
I have no words after the video, but commenting to get this very important video pushed and to thank you for it 🙏🏽
i pray that ahmed and his family remain safe and protected. and may them and all people of falasteen be able to walk the soils of a free falasteen in this lifetime
Thanks for talking about this! i'm still pretty young and don't have a job yet so I don't really have much money to donate. But its really good to see people talking about this on their public platforms as you have a big audience to reach. Which can really go a long way, even if it's just one family you are helping. Also thanks for bringing up the apathy and empathy topic. I think it's really important to make sense of the way we feel during these times. It is extremely hard to feel hopeful during these times and normally I also start becoming more apathetic and hopeless, even though that will not help anyone. At the very least, we should keep raising awareness of all of these atrocities happening around the world right now and not let the victims be forgotten.
I didn't get any ads but I'm so thankful for you making this video. Beautifully and sensitively done as always
It is extremly important, because she has such a large platform and can reach many people.
Thank you for your incredible support
Greetings from Germany for the algorythm. Thank you for this video.
I am someone who is paralyzed by anxiety in my daily life. I am so, so afraid of so many things in the world around me, and I am so, so exhausted by my fear. I try my best to still maintain my sense of care about these sorts of issues that are far from me, because I know they matter, and I manage through regular donations and the like, but it's so, so hard for me to engage with these sorts of issues beyond that because I'm paralyzed by fear that even a fraction of the same hardship will affect me and the ones I love, given the changing state of the world. I nearly didn't click on this video because I knew it would paralyze me even more, and it did, but I'm also glad I watched. I've been feeling myself become more disconnected recently because of how much stress I've been under on top of my default anxiety levels, and I hate being that way. I wanna think about other people and what they need, I don't wanna spend so much time drowning in my own fears and my own needs. There are people who deserve to live dying while I'm afraid of being hurt. I'll be donating what I can again today, I hope that makes any kind of difference.
You're brave for sharing how you feel. :') Please don't hate yourself.. please don't punish yourself. I know from experience that bashing yourself will only steal your energy. Have faith, you are more powerful than you know
This is exactly how I have been feeling for the past year, and although I've tried donating and boycotting the brands that support this genocide sometimes there are just so many that it seems impossible to even make the slightest difference.
Working for this cause teaches people that no single person can fight for Palestine alone. When one person is unable to carry the load, we’ll carry it for you. And sometimes, when you’re able, you can carry it too for someone else. 76 years of brutal occupation is a long time. Those of us who have been in this for a while will tell you that it’s easy to let it consume you. We need to do this together so we can fight for many years to come, until Palestine is free. We’re no use to the cause when we’re burnt out, so please know that you’re doing the right thing when you take the time you need so when the batten gets passed to you, your hands are free to grab it to pass it to the next person. I hope that makes you, or anybody else reading this who needs to, feel better.
It's a very dangerous thought spiral to fear fear or be anxious about anxiety, but I sympathize and understand it well. Just keep pushing through it and expanding that comfort zone. These things are rarely as hard as we think them to be, but I say that knowing it's not easy for you either. One day it will be, though. You're stronger than you give yourself credit for, and I know that because I've known what it's like dealing with that torrent of thoughts and stress. If you're still pushing through, that's strength, but our minds can only take so much before they can't carry anything more. I hope you can find a way to lessen that load, so you can choose what you want to carry.
Commenting for support :) Obviously as an Irish person the genoc*de in Palestine is heartbreaking and so frustrating to see history repeating itself. Saorise don Phalestine!
It’s so true that apathy is a luxury as those affected directly don’t have it as an option. In October 2023 I had a 2 month old newborn and I was struggling with the general things related to having a newborn- breastfeeding, lack if sleep, the like. I remember holding her and trying to picture myself having to flee on foot with her, being bombed at, no food or nappies or supplies. I started avoiding the headlines as they would literally paralyse me, and I every time I feel that mixture of guilt and relief that I am in a position to even choose to avoid thinking about this genocide. The world will have to reckon with how badly we have failed the Palestinian people. I hope our leaders grow a spine soon, as it’s already way too late.
This video is a great reminder. As an American, I have been struggling with feelings of helplessness and burn out especially after the recent presidential election. I hope this video makes it far and is encouragement for anyone who may need it ❤