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🧵The Israeli regime's ban on #UNRWA comes into effect today as part of the colonial regime's continued efforts to undermine the Palestinian right of return & redraw the humanitarian landscape in Palestine. In light of this news, here is some of our analysts' work on UNRWA⤵️.
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"I reject the premise of the question. As I said it's the responsibility of the Israeli regime to bring about peace & stability. And how can it do that? Quite simply by ending its occupation, its apartheid, & its colonization of the Palestinian people". - @yarahawari in @BBCWorld
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THREAD: In light of the rapidly unfolding events across Palestine that were sparked by the #SaveSheikhJarrah movement, it's important to amplify the voices & points of view of Palestinians. So here are a few articles published by Al-Shabaka analysts over the past few days:.
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BREAKING: Israeli top court offered Palestinian residents of #SheikhJarrah a compromise that would involve issuing them with “protected status” & prevent their expulsion in the “coming years.”. The catch: They would have to pay a “small rent fee” to the settler org Nahalat Shimon.
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"Here in the US we must make our demands for justice in Palestine resonate as powerfully as our demands for an end to racist police violence. Stop the evictions. Stop the bombing. And end the occupation. Justice for Palestine!" -Angela Davis on #SaveSheikhJarrah #GazaUnderAttack
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"Palestinians look on in absolute bewilderment at the Israeli regime’s new self-appointed role as mediator and potential peacemaker. If it was not so tragic, it would be a comedy" - @yarahawari
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“Israel has never ceased building settlements…This is to its core what the Israeli state was built on: expansion & dispossession of the Palestinian people.”. - Al-Shabaka senior analyst @yarahawari said on @AJEnglish’s special program on #Nakba74
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"You must demilitarize Israel. You must force Israel to sign the Non-Nuclear Proliferation Treaty. You must hold Israel to account. Otherwise, you are only asking Palestinians to die quietly.". Powerful words by @4noura on @democracynow
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THREAD: As @hrw comes out with a new report highlighting Israeli apartheid in Palestine, it is important to remember that Palestinians have been exposing Israeli apartheid for decades. Here are just some examples:.
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"The Israeli police broke into the houses of Fadi and his two brothers, breaking and destroying the contents of the houses and searching them for nearly three hours. The purpose was not to search but to terrorise"
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The Carter Centre has confirmed it would continue to support six Palestinian civil society groups controversially declared terrorist organisations by Israel
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"This is a context of ongoing ethnic cleansing of Palestinians & colonization of Palestinian lands & the latest goings-on in Jerusalem is one manifestation of that.". Al-Shabaka's @yarahawari does not mince her words in this @dwnews interview on #SheikhJarrah evictions
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The pro-Israel group StandWithUs accused GWU professor Lara Sheehi of antisemitism. A third-party investigation found the accusations were "inaccurate or taken out of context and misrepresented"
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THREAD: As Gaza returns to the public eye amid the latest #GazaUnderAttack, it's noteworthy that it's been under Israeli blockade for 14 years & has suffered 3 major assaults. Over the years our policy experts have provided valuable analysis on the Palestinian plight there:.
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In this powerful piece in the @washingtonpost, @4noura and @MariamBarghouti slammed the "empty both sides-isms" and called for solidarity to overcome apartheid & Zionist settler colonialism
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A statement from Al-Shabaka, in light of unfolding events:
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Commenting on the early Israeli repression against the #SaveSheikhJarrah protesters, @MariamBarghouti argued that the watered-down US political language "does not have the capacity to address Palestine because it is disabled by white supremacy"
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"Israel kills Al-Jazeera correspondent’s family days after Blinken demands the channel’s coverage be ‘toned down'". By @m7mdkurd for @mondoweiss .
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#THREAD: This morning @amnesty published a comprehensive report accusing Israel of committing the crime of #apartheid against Palestinians across historic Palestine. This latest report confirms yet again what Palestinian orgs, including Al-Shabaka, have been saying for decades:.
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THREAD: The US support to Israel, summed up in the "Israel has the right to defend itself" statements by US officials, faces heavy scrutiny after #SaveSheikhJarrah & #GazaUnderAttack. Here are a few pieces by our analysts exposing US complicity in violating Palestinian rights:.
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A technical error on Israel's state archive website has revealed that a prominent Israeli politician said in 1948 that he could "forgive instances of rape" committed against Palestinian women in the violence that preceded the founding of the Israeli state
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Zionism today simply reveals its full, true face that it had previously camouflaged under the soothing lies – such as being the region’s “only democracy,” or turning a barren desert into a garden
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Israel has used collective punishment against Palestinians since the military occupation began in 1967 through home demolitions and psychological and economic warfare against the families of alleged attackers – a violation of international law. (2019).
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In this @Independent piece, Al-Shabaka's Muna Dajani (@muna_d) spoke of her deep connection to the unfolding events as her own family is one of those facing expulsion in #SheikhJarrah. "This is our city. These are our homes. We refuse to be erased"
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Israel has not passed domestic legislation prohibiting torture, and its courts have allowed for torture to be used in cases of ‘necessity,’ giving Israel free rein to torture Palestinian political prisoners (2019)
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The fact that the Israeli state uses several measures to put an end to hunger strikes & to re-assert its power over the prisoners & over the use of violence demonstrates the challenge that the bodies of the hunger strikers pose to the Israeli state (2016)
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🧵 March 30th marks the Palestinian #LandDay commemorating the same day in 1976 in which Israeli regime forces killed six Palestinian citizens of Israel as they protested the expropriation of thousands of dunums of Palestinian land. .
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“I think it is very important that these words . start entering the mainstream lexicon because they reflect the reality on the ground & something that Palestinians have been saying for decades," @yarahawari tells @CBSNews regarding Israeli ethnic cleansing & settler colonialism
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In this great analysis in @guardian, @ziadqattan argues that for Palestinians everywhere, "moments like these, and the resharing of them online, have become symbolic of what our struggle is about: the right to return and to live in freedom in our homeland
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Amnesty Germany’s discomfort with publicizing the new report on Israeli apartheid highlights the sorry state of human rights discourse in the country
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"Israeli information operations are benefiting from a media network acting not as unbiased reporters, but as enablers of Israeli mass atrocities.". - Al-Shabaka's US policy fellow @tksshawa. 🔗 #GazaGenocide #StoptheGenocide
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"Approximately 30 kilometers from the Hebron Hills, my neighborhood, #SheikhJarrah, fights its own battle against colonialism. Perhaps because I was born into it, I didn’t think our reality was bizarre until I stepped out of it" - @m7mdkurd in @thenation
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#THREAD: Palestinian youth activists & grassroots orgs have launched #PalestineEconomicWeek to support Palestinian products & businesses. Here are a few pieces by our analysts on the devastating condition of the Palestinian economy under Israeli occupation & settler-colonialism:.
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“Israel is practising racial discrimination against us. Five-hundred metres away from us, the settlement of Hamra enjoys its swimming pools and unrestricted water access and all the infrastructure it needs"
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"Zionist settler colonialism must be understood as an ongoing structure aiming to eliminate the Palestinians through the fragmentation of the people and land.". NEW must-read commentary by al-Shabaka analyst @jamal_nabulsi
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"When I was in jail, solidarity coming from Palestine was a major source of courage for me. In Ferguson, Palestinians were the first to express international solidarity," Angela Davis told @democracynow on Palestinian support for #BalckLivesMatter.
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THREAD: As all eyes turn to Jerusalem amid the ongoing Israeli crackdown on the #SaveSheikhJarrah movement & today's attacks on #AlAqsaMosque worshippers, we share these pieces by our analysts over the years to give some historical & political context to the unfolding events:.
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Al-Shabaka is proud to announce the appointment of @TareqBaconi as its new president of the board of directors. “Al-Shabaka has long been a home for me, and I am honored to be given the opportunity to serve the organization and its brilliant team"
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The Irish government has recognised Israel's illegal settlements as a de facto annexation of Palestinian land. "The scale, pace and strategic nature" of Israel's settlement action "is de facto annexation", Minister for Foreign Affairs, Simon Coveney said
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In her latest for @AJEnglish, @yarahawari exposes 'The Skunk', an Israeli-made "crowd control weapon" known for its toxic, & at times, lethal effect, which Israel is deploying against #SaveSheikhJarrah protesters & other demonstrators across Palestine
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THREAD: To date, Israeli forces have murdered over 3,000 Palestinians in their latest assault on Gaza with no end in sight. Al-Shabaka analysts continue to respond to the brutalization of Palestinians with necessary grounding to the root cause that is Israeli settler colonialism:.
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“Palestinians have been united in this latest uprising. They have have been protesting all around Historic Palestine. And this really is an unprecedented show of unity for the Palestinian community and I think this is something that Israel fears," @yarahawari tells @SkyNews
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Providing a sobering analysis, @alaatartir argued that with "the ultimate goal being to attain national rights . victory must not be celebrated too early. True victory requires safeguarding achievements & continuing the popular action" #SaveSheikhJarrah
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Documents show that in 2021, arms made and funded by the United States destroyed UNRWA schools, USAID projects, and a Coca-Cola plant
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A lawmaker setting up a political office in someone’s private property might seem like surrealist performance art. But to Palestinians, it is neither shocking nor new. It is the perfect metaphor for how the Israeli state came to be, writes @m7mdkurd
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In this @SkyNews interview, Al-Shabaka senior analyst @yarahawari pushed back against the Israeli and Western narrative of "unprovoked attack". "This was not a provocation by Hamas, the provocation is that Israel has for decades placed Palestinian under colonial occupation"
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"The word “resist” terrifies Israel. But for Palestinians, resistance is survival. Resistance is our people’s refusal to be silenced in the face of physical, psychological, economic, social, and political violence.". By @MariamBarghouti in @restofworld
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WE NEED YOUR HELP!. Palestinian-led orgs Al-Shabaka, @visualizingpal & @makanrights launch a joint fundraising campaign to support movement education & justice work for Palestinian rights in the face of Israeli settler colonialism & apartheid. Join us 👉
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"These protests and demonstrations are taking place across Palestine and they have have been inspired by the steadfastness and the resistance of Palestinians in #SheikhJarrah . who are facing eviction by the Israeli regime," Al-Shabaka's @yarahawari tells @euronews
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"British banking giant Barclays is planning to withdraw from new Israel government bond auctions amid pressure from pro-Palestine activists, the Financial Times reported.". - via @middleeasteye
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In our age of crisis, the fight for freedom and justice is imperative. But, as Nelson Mandela noted, “we know too well that freedom is incomplete without the freedom of the Palestinians.”. By @jeremycorbyn in @Mondoweiss
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In yet another important piece in @washingtonpost, Al-Shabaka's @danaelkurd writes of how the #SaveSheikhJarrah action is facilitating unparalleled connections with Palestinians in communities within Israel, in places that haven't seen protests for decades
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"Israel has recently completed a 65-kilometre, iron-and-concrete "smart fence" around Gaza, turning the siege into a cage. Is this even making it into your news? Or do you think it's normal?" asks @AyaAlGhazzawi
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"More than any Democratic presidential candidate, Sanders is well positioned to break that bipartisan pro-Israel consensus" @jacobinmag
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Do not miss this 17 minute @Mondoweiss documentary film by @yumna_patel on the protests going on in Beita village against a new Israeli settlement. We're really excited to get this work from our Palestine team in front of a lot of people
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On May 18th, 2021, Palestinians called for a general strike in arguably one of the biggest shows of collective unity in years. @yarahawari details its significance and impact in this 2021 commentary:
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A study published in 2012 by The Applied Research Institute Jerusalem (ARIJ) estimated that since 1967, Israeli authorities have uprooted 800,000 Palestinian olive trees in the West Bank
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Jerusalem2050: A largely-Jewish high-tech tourist destination with a minimal Palestinian presence. This is Israel’s vision of the city, & it is being implemented through three master plans. Nur Arafeh provides a succinct analysis of all three plans (2016)
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Does Israel's treatment of the Palestinian people constitute apartheid? And is apartheid the best framework to apply to Palestine and the Palestinians to achieve freedom, justice, and equality? (2018 collection)
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"Routinely withholding the bodies of Palestinian children shot and killed by Israeli soldiers is just one more injustice on the long list of cruelties enacted by Israel.". - Miranda Cleland is an advocacy officer at @DCIPalestine
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Palestinian fragmentation "is deepened by Western countries and by the Israeli regime who consider a fractured and fragmented Palestinian people the best kind of people to occupy.". - @yarahawari in @AJEnglish
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“'He was subjected, like many prisoners, to acts of torture & repeated attacks, especially during his transfer to the clinic,' his lawyer said, adding that prison guards would 'take him out to the clinic in chains and torture him'" despite his poor health:
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The credit for the narrative shift should be given to Palestinian journalists, analysts & activists who "refuse being ambushed by western TV journalists & presenters asking questions in bad faith or out of ignorance," @marwasf tells @yarahawari . Listen:
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“What is so scary about Palestinians having the right to narrate their own realities?” . @RabeaEghbariah's interview with @guardian on the weeklong censorship controversy surrounding his "Toward the Nakba as a Legal Concept" article published on @ColumLRev
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US court throws out anti- #BDS lawsuit, dealing major blow to #Israel lobby efforts @AliAbunimah @intifada
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"The myth of Palestinian intransigence was weaponized and used to argue that Palestinians could not be reasoned with, and that peace would continue to be rejected no matter how generous their settler counterparts were.". - Fathi Nimer
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We are podcasting! Introducing 'Rethinking Palestine,' hosted by @yarahawari! . In our first episode, @Zena_Agha discusses British & Zionist colonial mappings and how they have undermined Palestinian self-determination. Listen, subscribe & share 👉
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🚨NEW 🚨. Nadya Tannous discusses the history of the US aid to Israel, & the recent calls by US policymakers & activists for conditioning & halting this unconditional aid in light of the rise in global solidarity with Palestinians since the #UnityIntifada
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"I am a survivor of the 1948 Nakba who lived to witness the 2024 genocide. I may not live to see justice be made, but I am certain our long struggle will be rewarded. Our grandchildren will live at home once again.". - via @mondoweiss
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Before Monday, 4,650 Palestinians were being held in Israeli prisons. That number is now six lighter #GilboaPrisonBreak
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"Disrupting media corporations that act as bullhorns for our enemies is only part of the task—the challenge is engaging in journalism rooted in respect for one’s people.". The Stenographer Party . - By @m7mdkurd for @mondoweiss.
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A Nakba is unfolding in the occupied West Bank, too, writes @MariamBarghouti. "Israeli forces and settlers are terrorising the Palestinian population in the West Bank in preparation for its expulsion and the annexation of Palestinian land"
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Al-Shabaka expresses its unequivocal solidarity with the six Palestinian civil society organizations against the latest Israeli intimidation tactics. #StandWIthThe6
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"We often assume that just because you’re in the police, just because you’re an Israeli lawyer, you’re not participating in the ethnic cleansing. But they are colluding together," Al-Shabaka's @MariamBarghouti tells @democracynow
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When Palestinians go to Israeli courts, it is not in recognition of their legitimacy or with expectations of justice. Rather, for them, it is just a tactic in a toolbox of many tactics. @yarahawari's latest in @AJEnglish #SheikhJarrah
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"Jordanian journalist Hiba Abu Taha has been sentenced to a year in prison for publishing a report that exposed Jordan’s alleged role in exporting goods to Israel through a land corridor.". - Via @MiddleEastEye
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At one point, the soldiers allegedly told the boys that their families had been arrested, and that if they didn’t confess to trying to steal from the settlers or to damaging their property, the soldiers would “beat them up.”
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Violence against Palestinians by the Israeli govt is always framed as "security," not "terror," and "this term 'security' is used as a bludgeon by Israel" to justify and support colonization, Al-Shabaka policy member Rashid Khalidi tells @democracynow
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Palestinian youth activists across historic Palestine have organized the #PalestineEconomicWeek in a call to only buy Palestinian products. For those outside Palestine, you can be part of the mobilization by contributing to Palestinian-led orgs!
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"Mass imprisonment, daily arrest, and torture are just as much a part of Israel’s assault as any airstrike. That is why it is so vital that we do not let those thousands behind bars languish invisibly.". - By Basil Farraj . Full Piece:
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Lifta was among the first of 38 villages in the district of Jerusalem to be forcibly depopulated in 1948, and dates back to the Canaanite era, when it was known by the name of Nephtoah #SaveLifta
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“We don’t need their acknowledgment,” says Salah Abu Salah, a survivor of the Al-Tantura massacre. “The land will testify one day and tell what happened.” via @Mondoweiss
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.@btselem shared video footage of Israeli troops in combat gear pushing visibly terrified Palestinian children into military vehicles. Betty McCollum vows to push that US aid to Israel is not 'used in any way that violates the rights of any Palestinian'
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It is time that people stop talking about the condition of Palestinians within Israel as an “internal” matter, a simple case of “civic strife.” We are integral part of the struggle against colonialism. Must-read by Al-Shabaka's @AbirKopty in @thenation
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Palestinian-led resources are needed now more than ever to shape the discourse on Palestine. That's why we've launched a joint fundraiser with @visualizingpal and @makanrights. Together, we're building movement education to change the narrative. Join us:
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"This is not about advancing any kind of. peace but instead about entrenching a geopolitical alliance that would otherwise increase oppression for people of the MidEast in Bahrain, in the UAE, in Yemen & in Palestine who are struggling for freedom," @4noura tells @democracynow
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The video showing Majdi Ikhtat's bloodied face as he begs his assailants for mercy has gotten a lot of play on the web. His physical wounds have healed since then, but the mental scars are still palpable.
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The hostility and racism of Israeli police toward Palestinian citizens has been well documented by local human rights organizations. We can imagine the horror and humiliation these detainees will endure during detention and interrogation, warns @AbirKopty
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L’Unione Sindacale di Base said the ship contained "weapons & explosives that will serve to kill the Palestinian population." . “The port of Livorno will not be an accomplice in the massacre of the Palestinian people.” #GazaUnderAttack #SaveSheikhJarrah
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The Palestinian national movement is in an acute state of crisis, & the political system & institutions are incapable of bringing Palestinians closer to realize their rights. In this selection of pieces, Al-Shabaka analysts discuss what needs to be done.
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A Local Call investigation reveals how on a single day in May, Israeli settlers and soldiers cooperated in attacks that left four Palestinians dead. The unprecedented spate of joint assaults has inaugurated a new era of terror via @972mag
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"Although I’ve experienced three major Israeli assaults on Gaza – in 2008, 2009, and 2014 – this time was undoubtedly the worst.". Must-read by @AyaAlGhazzawi on her personal experience during #GazaUnderAttack, and her thoughts on the uprising in Palestine
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From the perspective of historical justice, "uncensored, high-resolution images enable Palestinians to accurately catalog the remnants of villages and towns destroyed during the events of 1948 and beyond.". A must read by Al-Shabaka analyst @Zena_Agha
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The US, UN and ICC and other international organisations created by and for the Western world order cannot bring accountability for the crimes of the Israeli occupation. True justice will come from Palestinians themselves
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Non-violent resistance in Palestine has been met by tremendous suppression by Israeli occupation and Palestinian security forces alike. In this selection of pieces, Al-Shabaka policy analysts outline the trajectory of contemporary Palestinian resistance
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"The Palestinian life is never calm. We are in a constant state of survival and resistance to Israeli occupation and colonization.". - Al-Shabaka senior analyst @yarahawari tells @SkyNews
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Thank you Lara! . Journalists are welcome to contact Al-Shabaka and we are happy to put them in touch with dozens of Palestinian analysts and experts who are members of our network and can speak to what’s happening in Palestine right now.
I’m getting many requests to talk to media about what is happening in Jerusalem. I’ve refused every one. The media MUST center Palestinian voices. And it’s incumbent on non-Palestinians who get these requests to challenge the pervasive media practice that fails to do so.
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