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"Welcome to the Decolonize Palestine myths database. Here you will find a continuously updated list of some of the most prominent myths and talking-points related to the Palestinian question, as well as their debunking.
We stress that these articles are not designed to teach you how to argue or manipulate your audience. That dubious distinction is relegated to Hasbara fellowships and manuals. Instead, we believe that light is the best disinfectant, and that when taken as a whole the historical record speaks for itself."
decolonizepalestine.com/myths/
@palestine@lemmy.ml @palestine@fedibird.com
#DecolonizePalestine #hasbara #FreePalestine #history #Israel #Zionism
“Have ye come far?”
“Only from America.”
#OnThisDay, 21 May 1932, Amelia Earhart became the first woman - and only the second person - to fly solo and without stops across the Atlantic.
She lands unexpectedly in Ireland. There’s some wonderful images of her here: joecampbellart.com/2015/03/12/…
Watch newsreel of her taking off here: youtube.com/watch?v=y-itPeJOyz…
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #AviationHistory @histodons #Histodons
Amelia Earhart in Ireland: Solo Atlantic Crossing, May 21st 1932
May 21, 1932, Amelia Earhart created aviation history as the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic. Landing just outside Derry in Ballyarnett.joecampbellart
"What is missing is a recognition of what it actually took, the first time, to pass federal civil rights legislation in the 1960s. The Voting Rights Act of 1965 was not the work of legal advocates alone." texasobserver.org/supreme-cour…
#politics #USpol #news #voting #democracy #SCOTUS #Trump #history
The Response We Really Need to the Supreme Court’s Gutting of the VRA
The instinct of the response so far has been right, but incomplete. New maps. New litigation. State-level laws. Congressional pressure. All necessary. None sufficient.Robert Ceresa (The Texas Observer)
#blackandwhitephotography #Scotland #History #SouthernScotland
Dag 165 / Day 165
Gamla ord, gammal värld. / Old words, old world.
#gammalbok #historia #vägmärken #antik #läsning #oldbook #history #antique #vintage #reading #blackandwhite #literature #bookcover #sverige #swedish #collectible #darkacademia #photography #bibliophile #365project
“I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions.”
#OnThisDay, 19 May 1952, Lillian Hellman writes to the House of UnAmerican Activities refusing to testify against others.
In the 1940s, Hellman had been twice nominated for an Academy Award for her screenplays. As a result of refusing to testify about others to HUAC, she was blacklisted by Hollywood.
#HollywoodHistory #AmericanHistory #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #Histodons
RE: mstdn.social/@History_of_Geolo…
This is a great look at an event some of you are too young to remember. It was absolutely huge, and it awoke in me the fear that Mt. Rainier would do the same thing. Unconsciously, that might be why I never lived in Seattle, a truly lovely city we even spent our honeymoon in. #history #MountSaintHelens
History_of_Geology (@History_of_Geology@mstdn.social)
Attached: 1 image At 8:32:21 a.m. in the early morning of May 18, 1980, a magnitude 5.1 #earthquake strikes 1 mile (1,6 km) below Mount St.History_of_Geology (Mastodon 🐘)
#OnThisDay, 17 May 1988, Dr Patricia Bath was awarded the first of her three patents on the methods and equipment for laser cataract removal.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #WomenInMedicine #AmericanHistory #BlackHistory #Histodons
☢️ The F-4 Object, or Rákosi Bunker, is a secretive Cold War atomic shelter hidden beneath #Budapest, Hungary. This vast subterranean complex, built in absolute secrecy during the 1950s and 1960s, was designed to shield top communist party officials from nuclear attack. Today, it stands as a fascinating, intact relic of Cold War paranoia.
More photos and history - obsidianurbexphotography.com/o…
#Fallout #ColdWar #Bunker #History #Urbex
F-4 Object / Rákosi Bunker, Hungary - Obsidian Urbex Photography | Urban Exploration | Abandoned Places
F-4 Object, officially known as Rákosi Bunker, is a once top-secret Cold War atomic shelter hidden beneath the streets of Budapest, Hungary.Obsidian Urbex Photography
From @joannechocolat
Lucy Eldine Gonzalez Parsons (c. 1853 – March 7, 1942) was an American labour organizer, feminist and radical socialist. She is remembered as a powerful orator.
Personal note: Her early days are difficult to pin down. It is believed she was born into slavery, although she said she was born to Mexican & Native American parents.
She led the first May Day parade in #Chicago in 1886, and also unionized the city’s only female workers organization at the time, Working Women’s #Union No. 1 (WWU).
She was feared & revered for her ability to organise, and in the words of the Chicago police she was “more dangerous than a thousand rioters.”
For readers, you might be interested in a biography titled 'Goddess of Anarchy : The Life and Times of Lucy Parsons, American Radical' by #Jacqueline_Jones
#CelebratingWomen #Lucy_Parsons #Lucy_Eldine_Gonzalez_Parsons #Resistance #History #HistoryMatters #BlackHistory
#OnThisDay, 16 May 1975, Japanese climber Junko Tabei reaches the summit of Everest. She is the first woman to make it to the peak of the world's highest mountain.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #Histodons
Our reporting found at least 79 children have been harmed by tear gas or pepper spray during Trump’s deportation campaign.
To better understand the chemicals’ effects on children, we spoke with an activist tear-gassed as a teenager at Selma in 1965.
propublica.org/article/charles…
#News #CivilRights #History #BlackMastodon #Children #Immigration #ICE
At 17, He Was Tear-Gassed at Selma. At 78, He’s Watching Kids Tear-Gassed During Trump’s Deportation Campaign.
At least 79 children have been harmed by tear gas or pepper spray during Trump’s deportation campaign. Charles Mauldin, a civil rights activist tear-gassed as a teenager at Selma, warns them to get mental health support.Peter.DiCampo@propublica.org (ProPublica)
45 years ago
The Beastie Boys (previously: The Young Aborigines) form with Michael Diamond (later Mike D), John Berry, Kate Schellenbach, and Adam Yauch (later MCA) as a hardcore punk band, May 1981
#punk #punkrock #beastieboys #hardcorepunk #hardcore #history #punkrockhistory
#OnThisDay, 14 May 1943, Vera Leigh returns to France to work as a courier for the British Special Operations Executive.
A fashion designer, Leigh had fled France in 1942 after running escape lines for Allied airmen.
After her return, Leigh carried documents and equipment such as guns and explosives around her network's area. Arrested by the Gestapo in 1944, she was executed at Natzweiler-Struthof concentration camp.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #WorldWar2 #Histodons
Happy Birthday to David Byrne, Scottish-American musician, founding member, lead singer and guitarist of the American band Talking Heads, born on this day in 1952, Dumbarton, Scotland
📸 Rob Verhorst
#punkrock #postpunk #newwave #davidbyrne #talkingheads #history #otd
#stevieWonder #illustration #music #vegan
I gotta black belt in the American South. 😉
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Be…
Jim Crow is a fucking zombie.
nathangoldwag.wordpress.com/20…
#JimCrow #USA #Southern #history #BlackBelt #Gerrymander #gerrymandering #USPol
Delegitimizing the Juristocracy
A week ago, the Supreme Court of the United States decided to eviscerate the Voting Rights Act, clearing the way for Southern states to reimpose discriminatory maps that strip representation from A…Goldwag's Journal on Civilization
An abandoned Soviet culture house, somewhere in the mountains of Georgia.
Once a focal point for workers’ culture and community in a prosperous Soviet-era tea-growing region, it now sat disused and decaying for decades.
More photos and history - obsidianurbexphotography.com/l…
#Abandoned #Soviet #History #Photography #Travel #LostPlaces #Urbex
Culture House S, Georgia - Obsidian Urbex Photography | Urban Exploration | Abandoned Places
Culture House was once a focal point for workers' culture and community in a prosperous Soviet-era tea-growing region of western Georgia.Obsidian Urbex Photography
A Victorian woman painted 350 fungi, germinated spores decades before formal science caught up, and got dismissed by Kew Gardens as delusional. She giggled, went home, and drew a rabbit in a blue jacket. Beatrix Potter: spurned mycologist.
#Histodons #HistSci #SciComm #History #SmallStories
#OnThisDay, 11 May 1978, Margaret Brewer becomes the first woman to reach the rank of General in the US Marines.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #AmericanHistory #Histodons
#OnThisDay, 9 May 1922, the International Astronomical Union formally adopts Annie Jump Cannon's stellar classification system. The principles in it still underpin modern classification.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #Astronomy #WomenInSTEM #AmericanHistory #Histodons
Dalton Mills, Keighley. A beautiful abandoned Victorian textile mill in West Yorkshire. I had the privilege of exploring and documenting this historical place a few years ago. Sadly, a huge fire destroyed it in 2022.
#Yorkshire #History #Heritage #Abandoned #Photography #Explore #Mill #Industry #Decay
#OnThisDay, 8 May 1946, Estonian teens Aili Jürgenson and Ageeda Paavel blew up a Soviet war memorial in response to Soviet destruction of Estonian war memorials. They served eight years in the gulag as punishment.
In 1988 they were awarded the Estonian Order of the Cross of the Eagle to recognise their fight.
We only have a photo of Aili Jürgenson.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #EuropeanHistory #Histodons
Always Go Pee, Even at a Formal Party — The Death of Tycho Brahe
Tycho Brahe Died Because He Refused To Pee — A blog about toiletsToilets of the World
#OnThisDay, 5 May 1938, Dorothy Anderson presents her medical research identifying cystic fibrosis at a meeting of the American Pediatric Association.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #WomenInMedicine #CysticFibrosis #Histodons
Fifty years ago, music was on the brink of major change with seismic arrival of punk rock to centre stage
The music industry is always in a state of flux, but what was happening in 1976 was akin to the dinosaurs looking up and seeing a meteor on the way.Matt Neal (ABC News)
🕊️ Imagine a world without war, where the machines and structures of destruction fall silent.
Warplanes grounded and swallowed by vegetation, tanks seized in place. The waves reclaim coastal fortresses left behind. Bunkers forgotten below city streets. Propaganda fades and loses meaning
Some of my photos of #AbandonedPlaces in Georgia, Germany, Hungary, Latvia, Poland and England.
#Abandoned #History #War #History #Photography #Military #War #Decay #Bunker #Tank #Plane #Airplane #Fortress
#OnThisDay, 1 May 1944, South African Phyllis Latour parachutes into occupied France to be a radio operator for the British Special Operations Executive.
She's never captured.
She died in 2023, in New Zealand.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #WorldWar2 #Histodons
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38 years ago today
Fugazi at Lafayette Park, Washington DC, May 01, 1988.
All for zero bucks 👍
Photo by Bill Crandall
#punk #punks #punkrock #hardcorepunk #hardcore #fugazi #history #punkrockhistory
'Lifelong monogamy' and 'half orphans': DNA analysis reveals clues about life on the Roman frontier after the fall of Rome. Via @live_science #archeology #History #Anthropology #sociology #Science 🔭🔬🧪🥼🧑🔬
A twelve-year-old redesigned safety for the New England cotton industry. A man stole her work; she buried him in court with blueprints and witnesses over sixteen days. She held 27 patents, co-founded an all-women car company at 74, and died worth $275.05. Margaret Knight, the ghost of American invention.
#Histodons #HistSci #SciComm #History #SmallStories
Very early #OnThisDay, 30 April 1944, New Zealander Nancy Wake parachutes into occupied France to be a courier for the Special Operations Executive. The British SOE supported French Resistance to Nazi occupation.
Couriers like Wake would take messages and materials such as explosives, guns or grenades around the patch their network covered.
Nick-named 'the white mouse' by the Gestapo, she's never captured. She died in 2011.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #WorldWar2 #Histodons
In *Erasing History: How Fascists Re-write the Past to Control the Future,* Jason Stanley observes the “mutually reinforcing” relationship between representation and practice.
How we describe and talk about the past informs how we practice politics and frame the rights of citizenship today.
These stupid A250 trucks are driving around today as SCOTUS guts the Voting Rights Act (6-3) and these two things are mirror images of each other.
Per Guardian:
The man who launched his first bid for the presidency by descending a golden escalator, who has sloshed gold paint all over the White House, not to mention the Aurelian hue he has coloured his own skin, would like us to believe that he, and he alone, is the channel through which America’s so-called “Judeo-Christian” lineage now flows, and that he, and he alone, should be credited for all its future greatness.
#history #uspol #semiquincentennial
theguardian.com/us-news/2026/a…
‘Freedom Trucks’: a tour of Trump’s skewed tribute to American history – on 18 wheels
Ahead of the US’s 250th birthday, the president has launched six mobile museums that celebrate a white, Christian rewriting of the nation’s storyEd Pilkington (The Guardian)
ON THIS DAY
❝ Benito Mussolini, the deposed Italian Fascist dictator, was summarily executed by an Italian partisan in the village of Giulino di Mezzegra in northern Italy on 28 April 1945, in the final days of World War II in Europe.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of…
the biggest mistake? not going after #USA and #Eu #oligarchy that kept Hitler and Mussolini in power for so long.
#antifa VPOTUS Wallace said as much ―and that’s why he was ousted, so he wouldn’t succeed a dying #FDR.
