Crochet watermelon slices and Right to Return Keys - these homemade bag charms and other crafts will be for sale for donations to Medical Aid Palestine plus I will be sharing the patterns at our Crafts for Palestine afternoon at the Devonshire Arms, Cambridge on Sunday 14th April between 12 and 4pm. All welcome, come and craft together, share skills and raise funds for MAP. #MedicalAidForPalestine#Palestine#CraftsForPalestine#Crafts#Crochet#CrochetWatermelon#Watermelon
#ProPalestineAlgoSpeak: After the 1967 Mideast war, the Israeli government cracked down on displays of the Palestinian flag in #Gaza and the West Bank. In Ramallah in 1980, the military shut down a gallery run by three artists because they showed political art and works in the colors of the Palestinian flag — red, green, black and white…
In protest, people began to wave the fruit in public.
“There are stories of young men who defiantly walked the streets with slices of the fruit, risking arrest from Israeli soldiers,” Jerusalem-born author Mahdi Sabbagh wrote. “When I see a #watermelon, I think of the unbreakable spirit of our people.” #AntiPalestinianMcCartyIsm#SurveilanceCapitalismBorderRule
Students expressed their thoughts on signs - “Yes we should all be in school even the children of #Gaza” - as they marched through the city.(ABC News: Bridget McArthur)
The watermelon emoji may be universally used to represent Palestinian resistance to occupation, but its meaning isn’t as widely understood — especially for users who aren’t as familiar with internet culture’s coded language. Tech Crunch explains: https://flip.it/8DzkQV #Tech#Technology#Watermelon#Palestine
"The European Patent Office (EPO) has rejected an opposition filed against a BASF (Nunhems) patent on watermelons with bushy growth habit (EP2814316). No Patents on Seeds! filed the opposition because the patent is not inventive and patents on conventionally-bred plant varieties are prohibited."
Just eating a salad of #watermelon, tomatoes, feta and chickpeas, and remembering an article that was so shocking to read, in which they indicated watermelon was the most nutritious of a big list of fruit. It seems so unlikely.
Sure it's tasty, but it always just seems like little more than some water and cellulose.