Sunny Singh
@ProfSunnySingh
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Sunny Singh (she/her). It's Prof. Singh to you. Author. Academic. Director @jhalakprize. My TL is personal. Deal with it.
London, England
Joined January 2010
Happy paperback publication day to #ABollywoodStateofMind. Are you prepared to laugh, sob and dance? . PS Maal wahi lekin ab thoda sastay mein! 😜😜😜
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I love everything about this photo.
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Forced to wear yellow bands with numbers. But please don’t make any comparisons to the Nazis.
BREAKING: The Israeli occupation army published a formal photo of its recent operations at Al-Shifa Hospital. The image includes several doctors, including Dr. Murad Al-Qouqa, head of the orthopedic department, and a number of journalists, including veteran journalist Emad
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Israel has destroyed every Gaza university.
Write an academic horror story in six words or less, based on real-life experiences.
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Colonialism is abusing Japanese people in Japan and then being comforted by a white man saying “they don’t understand.”.The only country to be collectively punished hy nuclear weapons doesn’t understand war crimes?.
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Israel killed Omar and his kids today.
These are my children. 💔. Today, our campaign received the first contribution in search of an alternative shelter to the cloth tent to protect the children from the harsh winter cold.
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Reminder that Israelis have been accusing Hamas of stealing aid. As always EVERY accusation is a confession.
Interesting so they’re stealing the humanitarian aid to feed themselves. Logical.
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Reminder that Palestinians have one of the highest literacy rates in the world. After the Nakba, education became the way for refugees who had lost everything to navigate the catastrophe collectively and individually. Bombing of education infrastructure is intended to end this.
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“I miss myself.” . Three words yet so profoundly painful and heartbreaking.
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So all it took for Sweden’s liberal mask to slip was some young people asking for an end to a genocide. Funny that 😏.
Swedish police unleash their dogs on students of the Royal Institute of Technology as they demonstrate for Gaza in Stockholm, Sweden.
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Destruction of history is an essential part of genocide.
Here’s a video showing all the historical treasures, the 1 of 1 documents, letters, manuscripts etc that were blown to pieces by the Israeli military. We’ve just lost the most important collection of records documenting the history of Gaza
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Boycott this shit! There is something particularly obscene about film about pregnancy starring an actress who has cheerled the genocide which ensures that Gaza’s pregnant women have little medical care and C-sections must be performed without anaesthesia.
First trailer for ‘KINDA PREGNANT’, a film starring Amy Schumer as a woman pretending to be pregnant. Releasing February 5 on Netflix.
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White woman, world renowned academic, brutalised by cops in full view of video cameras and arrested. They still lied on court records about the event. Now think how often cops lie about those without similar privilege.
DeKalb, Georgia court records show Fohlin, the Emory professor seen on video being thrown to the ground and handcuffed by an Emory police officer for expressing concern at the violent arrest of a protester, was jailed for 11 hours and charged with "Battery Against Police Officer"
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My mother regularly sends me wise words. Today she sent me:. “Don’t get too efficient because then people will expect you to handle everything. It’s ok to not be able to do somethings because the lack of ability can protect you from exploitation.”.
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To be extremely clear: this is child abuse. From my understanding of international law, this is also likely a war crime and crime against humanity.
Israeli occupation forces detained Palestinian children for hours after forcing them to strip and mistreating them, then arrested the remaining family members in the Qarara area in central Gaza Strip. #GazaGenocide
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This should terrify us all.
Brutal heat. New Delhi, India 🇮🇳 just recorded its hottest night on record at the Safdarjung Observatory (data since 1901). The heatwave has been rewriting many records. New Delhi has hit 40°C or greater for 37 consecutive days now.
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We definitely need travel warnings for Germany which has enthusiastically reverted to its Nazi self.
The grim levels of state brutality in Germany against those demanding justice, accountability and dignity for Palestinians, and against genocide in Gaza, continue. This from the police in Berlin. There should be travel warnings for Germany.
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In three plus decades of studying armed conflict across the world, I have not seen this scale of recorded and shared gleeful depravity from soldiers. The consequences and corollaries of this vile behaviour shall reach far into the future.
Israeli soldiers mock hungry Palestinians as they feast & write messages on bombs for more mass massacres. Zionists have zero humanity.
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The White Feminist silence on Gaza is LOUD.
Women and girls in Gaza using tent scraps in place of period products . Read more .
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A year ago it was to “end Hamas”.
Israel Finance Minister Smotrich says the war will not end until Israel topples the Iranian government and ends its nuclear program.
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1. Note how grace and love is required of the POc, not the hateful white woman?.2. Coz PoC are required to centre white comfort at ALL times
Woman assumes Sikh politician is Muslim, angrily attacks him for supporting sharia. He responds with grace and love.
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WHO destroyed it? Who? Say it!.
Gaza's water system, destroyed by war, is sickening its children
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Violent racism IS British values.
Tory police commissioner says right wing protesters are 'upholding Brit values'
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If this is how they behave in public, I fear for the women in their lives. These are violent abusers.
German police slapped a pro-Palestine girl in the streets of Berlin for taking part in a protest for Palestine.
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Israel won’t allow insulin pens for children into Gaza. Read this again. And again. This is what USA, UK, EU et al support. How is barring children from insulin “right to self-defence”?.
The #UN Humanitarian Coordinator for #Palestine @jamiemcgoldric8 says #Israel recently added insulin pens for children to the list of prohibited items that are not allowed into #Gaza and he does not know why. He adds that other medicines for chronic illnesses are also not
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I keep thinking of this. I think every woman of colour in Britain knows this expression, the way it is deployed and the racist meangirling that it signifies. We see it in offices, pubs, nights out, classrooms, academic conferences, department meetings….
So this is Meghan Markle trying to shake hands with the British public. She gets ignored, laughed at and humiliated. This country has a rotten racism problem… & notice how they’re all middle aged white women?.Daily Mail reading, racist Karens. Absolutely abhorrent behaviour.
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Is he carrying a baby in that seat? Just utterly heartbreaking.
"God, I'm so scared, God help us !.I can't take it anymore !.I want to go home !”. 🚨Heartbreaking: A frightened child trembles and cries among the forcibly displaced inside Al-Shifa Medical Complex in #Gaza City, under heavy and intense Israeli army bombardment.
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Repeat after me:. Identity politics is a right wing slur to describe civil rights. Repeat. Till it sinks in.
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Funny how the racists are never told shit like this.
NEW: UK judge tells Muslim man jailed for twenty months for throwing cans at rioters who hurled alcohol at him to "rise above" racism.
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The courage of Gaza’s reporters should shame all who call themselves journalists.
I’ve been very sick lately, you can see the exhaustion on my face here while filming a video about last nights massacre. But we are here , we are documenting, we will not stop .
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Hassan was 19. He is the age of most undergrads. He’s the age of kids I teach who are full of enthusiasm, hope, curiosity, life. And then I think how Western press/leaders are quick to call Israel’s uniformed genocidaires “kids” but not a dedicated reporter like Hassan.
Listen, If you continue spreading lies about Israel, we'll come for you next and turn your family into [. ] This is your last warning". Journalist Hassan Hamad received this message on WhatsApp, along with several calls from an Israeli officer ordering him to stop filming in
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Was sent this and truly confused. I mean this is LITERALLY what prejudice IS:
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Good! May they never be comfortable again.
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“Many men couldn't bear to look and were shot in the head. My husband was very stubborn. They raped me in front of him and then killed him before my eyes.”. The silence of White Imperial Feminists about sexual violence perpetrated by Israel damns them all.
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Destruction of records is essential to a genocide. Thinking how Britain continues to destroy colonial documents; how libraries were destroyed in 1857; also how Brazil spent 20 years destroying documents about enslaved people. It is how empire erases history. Memory remains though.
The Israeli army blew up the Palestinian Legislative Council (parliament) Building in Gaza City.
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My unpopular opinion is that folk at the imperial core who are newly learning about anticolonial struggles need to pause their imperial views stated with loud imperial hubris because work of learning is done in silence and must be done in humility.1/2.
Extremely unpopular opinion (I suspect): hakas will not get Maori people their rights, just as Debka won't work for Palestinians. Anger, direct action, strikes, and serious disruptions will. There are very clear rules for effective political struggle, and indigenous culture is.
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If the BBC is calling it ‘huge,’ it was probably gigantic. Definitely felt like one of the bigger marches I have been on. And as ever, super mixed in terms of demographics, friendly, and really lovely.
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"I come here for a climate demonstration not politics" says the old white man. The scale of deliberate ignorance of the Global North is horrific. These kids though. thank you for your courage, strength and persistence.
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People (mostly white) who have said nothing over 4+ months about the genocide in Gaza because their feeds are ‘not political’ or they ‘don’t know enough about the issue’ or because ‘it’s too conplex’ are blithely posting about Navalny today. Funny that….
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I get regular invites to debate on various platforms. I always say no. Because debate is an imperialist capitalist white supremacist cis heteropatriarchal technique that transforms a potential exchange of knowledge into a tool of exclusion & oppression. My standard reply:
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I am a nearly 50 year old, financially independent, never married Indian woman with no children, living the life I dreamt of, built and love. Male authors can’t even imagine me, forget describe me
@kateleth new twitter challenge: describe yourself like a male author would.
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We need to talk much more about transphobia as the gateway into far right radicalisation, especially for middle class, cis white women of a certain age….
We can confirm that JK Rowling is now liking tweets by Libs of TikTok - a far right, racist, homophobic, transphobic account which frequently targets and harasses marginalised communities. This instance relates specifically to Kanye's antisemitic comments.
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Bearing witness is not a neutral act. It requires us to name the perpetrator not only the victim. Israel has killed almost 30,000 Palestinian men, women and children. Israel’s genocide is funded, armed, supported by USA, UK, multiple EU nations. These are the perpetrators!.
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Reminder that Jimmy Carr’s joke went through a whole production process in order to appear on @netflix. Dozens of people were part of scripting, filming, post-production, marketing…the whole apparatus. His agent/manager would also have been known. Yet not one person spoke up?.
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My TL is full of videos of beheaded babies. But they are Palestinian so their murder by Israel will be reported in the passive voice, if at all. And it will provoke no rage, concern or shame from Western leaders and press.
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Watching people (mostly white/global north) getting more upset about this than the killing of scores Gaza’s artists, writers and scholars, and the destruction of nealy all its universities, libraries, and archives. Your reveal yourselves and what stands revealed is rotten.
BREAKING: Palestine Action spray and slash a historic painting of Lord Balfour in Trinity College, University of Cambridge. Written in 1917, Balfour’s declaration began the ethnic cleansing of Palestine by promising the land away — which the British never had the right to do.
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How TF is a nuclear bomb NOT political?.
Imagine thinking you had a right to lecture Nagasaki on how to commemorate the slaughter of its citizens. Imagine thinking bombing was ever a-political.
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The silence from western leaders, media and especially feminists about the UN report on sexual violence inflicted on Palestinian women by Israel soldiers continues. This is not mere perverted posturing but an indication of far more severe gendered and sexual war crimes.
Meet Benjamin, a French-Israeli soldier/pervert. For some reason he thought he could get more dates by posting a photo of himself with a collection of displaced women's underwear.
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Boycott works. The self appointed ‘gods’ of sports management will crumble when they see empty stadia.
Terrible atmosphere minutes ahead of kick off between France and Israel at the Stade de France. As it should be. Bravo to every football fan who has refused to normalise having a genocidal state playing football. Governments don’t represent the people.
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This is ethnic cleansing. Don’t let western euphemisms of ‘evacuation’ lull you.
Israel faces global criticism over the mounting death toll and devastating humanitarian crisis in Gaza, with more than 900,000 Palestinians forcibly displaced in two weeks and now lacking shelter, food, water and medicine. 🔴 Follow our LIVE coverage:
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At this pount, these briefings serve no real news purpose. They are however essential for establishing US culpability in this genocide. Not only for law but in history.
Wow, watch reporters push StateSpox on Israel use of human shields. @nadia_bilbassy: You often condemn Hamas for using Palestinians as human shields, Israeli media reports Israel systematically uses human shields, do you condemn. Patel: We urge Israel to look in it. Nadia: What
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Very revealing that so far most of these these generated profiles I’ve seen being discussed (not interacting with any as I refuse to help train this sh*t) are of people from minoritised communities. This matters A LOT! .A 🧵.
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So Iran launched hundreds of drones, missiles, etc last night and managed to NOT hit any hospitals, universities, schools? . Just checking.
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A reminder that Gaza is essentially an open air prison. It is also one of the most densely populated places in the world. Nearly HALF the population of Gaza is made up of children! Children who have known nothing but deprivation, imprisonment and war.
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Will say it again: EVERY ACT OF PHYSICAL VIOLENCE STARTS WITH WORDS. Rhetoric matters. Op-eds matter (looking at journalists who have told me nees and op pages are ‘separate’). Clickbait, hate reads, ignoring hate speech, gaslighting. These make us complicit.
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I keep thinking of the many White/western/Global North people who shared this Naomi Shulman quote some years ago. And how few have spoken up about the genocide(s). I guess “nice people” don’t change over time?
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“Telling women they can be superheroes and have it all is the patriarchy’s trick for making women do all the work for little of the credit. It isn’t worth the toll on you, your relationships, your energies, your life.”. My mum rocks 😁.
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Her employer - University of Portsmouth - reported her to Prevent!!! I want every white academic who doesn’t believe us when we say academia is a hostile space to read this. And speak up, you cowards!!!.
"The police took all the devices inside my home, a protest sign that had 'Palestine' written in Arabic, any notebook with 'foreign writing' and my powder eyeliner to test it in the lab because they thought it was gun powder." @Tree_Top_Dr
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I fear this sloppy and barely coherent defense at ICJ is not incompetence. I fear that it may be a sign that Israel knows its allies will ensure it is not held responsible for its genocide. That this is a massive FU by Israel, USA, UK and EU to the world.
I had to take out the brandy because my brain cells started to wither after the first minute. Now my liver is shrivelling a little more each minute 🤦🏽♀️🤦🏽♀️🤦🏽♀️🤦🏽♀️.
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His expression is chilling. No Nazi movie can capture the ice cold hatred and violence like his.
German police officer wearing a medic badge punches a woman full in the face
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Haka, Dabka, toyi toyi and myriad cultural forms of resistance, defiance and challenge are not for the imperial core to judge and value. These are not for the coloniser. Just like the cotton weaving charkha of of India was not for the British. 2/2.
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Oh my heart.
A bookshop in time of a genocide. Deir Al-Balah. By Saed Abu Aita
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“Raheem Sterling would discover his name has Scottish origins, that he’s one of 1,972 adult Sterlings and they most commonly live in Durham.” . This is not a feel good, multicultural, national unity story you are trying to spin
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20 years ago, an indigenous Australian writer told me to observe who cared for for the land vs who destroyed it. Former are of the colonised, latter the coloniser.
Breaking: Israeli settlers set fire to olive trees and agricultural crops in the village of Al-Mughayyir, north of Ramallah.
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Despair is not solidarity. Bearing witness can leave us feeling powerless and hopeless. Find whatever it takes to keep hope burning bright. Despair is not an option. Despair is not solidarity.
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Again note that the IOF spent time rigging up these explosives. They frlt safe enough to do so. This is not self defense as Israel claims. This is domicide. And yes that is an essential part of genocide.
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I keep thinking of how often colonial histories, legacies and identities are erased by Whiteness. About how ‘success’ often requires such erasure. And how often that erasure is gendered. And yes that is Eddie Van Halen’s family.
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I could never understand how normal people lived next to Nazi death camps and didn’t notice/care/speak. As I started travelling in Europe, I realised the scale of complicity, active collusion, hatred and desire for violence that enabled the horror.
What Gaza looks like from the other side of the perimeter fence: never forgive never forget never rest #StopGazaGenocide | @EyeonPalestine
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NO! No, Owen Jones, you don’t get to fucking walk away. Labour took their share of respinsibility the moment Corbyn whipped the first vote (with Euratomm thrown in because hey, cancer patients don’t need radiotherapy). YOU cheerled Lexit for months!
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PSA to fellow Hindu SAsians in the UK: racists will not ask your religion before kicking in your head. Their children will not ask your kids’ religion before racially bullying them in playground. Your wealth won’t keep you safe. Radical solidarity is all that will keep you safe.
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So Israel changed the status of its largest concentration camp to a death camp?.
Update: . No one in Gaza is allowed to travel + all aid has been stopped from entering Gaza.
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Notice how @SkyNews does not mention that Israel bombed Rafah SIXTY times in the 48 hours after the ICJ order was issued? . This is how they peddle propaganda to enable genocide.
Presenter: "Israel was retaliating for rockets that were fired by Hamas. earlier in the course of the day". Carefully chosen language when it comes to what happens to Palestinians, "feared dead" & "medics said", but not when it comes to reporting Israels narrative as fact.
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That very London moment. Heading to the march. Run into my Somali neighbours, both carrying Palestine flags. We walk to the bus stop and the Ukranian lady who lives down the road is also heading there. Finally a woman almost in tears. She’s a Kosovan refugee and lost family there.
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I didn’t take many pics at the march . But this carefully crocheted doll moved me. Sharing for every journalist from Gaza, because you are in my thoughts every day. And I am grateful to you 💜💜💜
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Remember how some of us have long noted that transphobia is a far right project (and been abused for it by people insisting these are progressive/leftist folk)? . Yes well about that….
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WHAT THE UTTER FUCK?! This is psychopathic. It would not be allowed to be done to Western children so why the adoring write up
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Israel has shared this footage as propaganda. Except the courage and brotherhood of these two men under overwhelming fire undermines its intent. As with other clips released before, this too is a propaganda fail.1/2.
Your arm fell, so pick it up and strike your enemy with it, and I fell near you, so pick me up and strike your enemy with me, for you are now free, free, free.
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So at least six kids with three women. Wonder how UK press would report this if he were not posh and blinding white 😏😏😏😏.
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Thinking back to the London march against genocide in Palestine yesterday and how things have shifted in the last 11 months (and the many previous years). The big change (and my white friends noticed this too) is that numbers of white people at the marches has visibly risen.
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A kindergarten turned to a torture chamber. No words.
After some research. I have located the area. This is a Christian kindergarten and school called “@GazaCollege”. It is east of Rimal Neighborhood but is in fact on Jala Street near Barbari gas station. Found more documentation
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The West will soon have to choose between the safety of its citizens in their homes and coddling Israel’s genocidaire tourists and returning war criminal foreign fighters.
Israelis harassing pro-Palestinian activists in Porto, Portugal.
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The “community note” on Shola’s tweet is a perfect example of Whiteness enabled and encouraged on this site by Apartheid Clyde. We have DECADES of research on medicine as a racialised firld at every level. Pretending otherwise, esp in this case, is morally bankrupt.
Lucy Letby exemplifies how ideology of Whiteness keeps Britain in a chokehold. They believed her tears/denials even though evidence said otherwise for no other reason than she’s White. A Black or Brown nurse would’ve been reported to the police immediately & sacked for suspicion.
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Imperial/White Feminism 101. Now you see why those famous feminists are silent.
April 2023.Israeli soldier takes picture and publishes it showing a female Palestinian hostage kidnapped from the occupied #West_Bank!
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@theafroaussie I remember watching this in Delhi when it came out. When the chopper crashed, the whole audience cheered. My Western friends were horrified. It was an insightful moment.
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Reminder: Palestinian children are tried by military courts in a language many do not speak, most do not know what they are accused of, rarely have legal counsel or even a non-hostile adult beside them. And they are tried by a hostile occupying power which has no legal authority.
Of the list of 300 Palestinians to be released (only 150 will be released) there are:.- 270 children under age of 18.- 230 have never been convicted.- 4 are under age of 14.
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Short 🧵. There are too many instances of rape as a weapon of war. I cannot however think of another instance where rapists are explicitly glorified as heroes by the regime, press and society (as in the case of Israel).
The rapist from the Sde Teiman Israeli prison camp is now becoming a regular TV show guest in Israel. Inconceivable how this society can exist and be accepted in the modern age.
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As a desi, I enjoyed this meltdown. I would recommend sending it to all brown folk still deluding themselves that power adjacency will protect them and their kids.
It looks like MAGA didn't know J.D. Vance's wife was a brown immigrant and they are having a hard time accepting it.
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Reminder that sex crimes are more acceptable in the UK than a bit of extra melanin and this farcical bs has made it clearer than ever. My empathy and solidarity with all survivors of sexual violence today and always.
Prince Andrew arrives at coronation in full regalia as Prince Harry dressed in plain suit.
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Am old enough to have seen previous West backed/supported genocides. This is different. I have not seen this lack of shame, this brazen lack of even a pretence of caring for human right or basic morality. This is imperial Whiteness laid bare at its most monstrous grotesqueness.
I feel what is happening in my body. I've never felt like this before. I've felt revulsion at mass murder & I've felt anger. I've felt sadness and sorrow. I've never felt like this before in my life. All the most powerful governments in the world are backing speedrunning genocide.
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One day we will talk about how fascists and colonisers deploy nativist evocations of artificially created and carefully controlled ‘nature’ to push their violent ideologies.
This is my home. Here, in nature, with my loved ones, in the quietness of this village. This is where I find the strength and energy to keep fighting for our common home. For our Europe. For a strong Europe.
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The iron will, dedication and commitment of this young reporter should shame every journalist in the world.
#التغطية_مستمرة حتى مطلع الفجر .لعل العالم يتحرك ويشاهد ما يحصل بنا. #نحن_نباد
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Reminder: you can’t be anti-racist and monarchist for the same reason. Either you accept the full equality of humans or you believe some humans are better than others (and therefore entitled to more wealth and power) because of genetics. .
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🧵 A few thoughts on the USA presidential debate between Biden and Trump:. 1. I have long felt that we are living USA’s 1992 moment. Not the triumphalist end of history but the collapse of an empire. Last night confirmed it.
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Full academic boycott now! . PS a reminder that Western academia has long been an essential arm of the Empire.
An MIT lab is collaborating with the Israeli military to develop AI surveillance algorithms and the university censored a campus publication that tried to expose it. We refuse to be intimidated and continue to demand: No More Research for Genocide.
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I keep thinking about this. They “aren’t monsters. They are children of my relatives and friends” could be said about the Khmer Rouge, Myanmar, Sri Lanka, Guatemala militaries. It could also be said - yeah gasp - the Nazis. Along with every war criminal and genocidaire ever! .🧵.
@RitchieTorres Ritchie-IDF soldiers aren't monsters. They are children of my relatives + friends. But this is a monstrous war, which has left 20K children missing or dead + even Israel's military officials say Israel can't win. Remember when I suggested a public discussion? The offer stands.
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This could only be written by someone who has never experienced any form of racism and is working very hard to pretend they have not even observed it
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