Dr Zahira Jaser
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Italian-Palestinian 🇮🇹🇵🇸 Associate Prof @SussexuBusiness Director Sussex MBA Fellow @digitcentre Views mine! RT+like≠endors. #antipalestinianracism #غزة👀
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Joined February 2013
My essay on Anti-Palestinian Racism is out today as the Leading online article of the Financial Times Magazine. It is a big moment for me as Palestinian woman to speak up about this in such a public way. 🧵."Coming out as Palestinian"
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Let me repeat this slowly for you:.The.Polio.Virus.Has.Reappeared.In.Gaza.So.Israeli.Soldiers.Are.Getting .Vaccinated.For.Polio.Whilst.The.Palestinian.Health.System.Is.Collapsing.Under.Israeli.Bombs.And.Palestinian.Children.Are.Unprotected.From.The.Virus.
The ICJ was clear—Israel's responsibilities to the population in Gaza under the law of occupation are commensurate with its level of authority. In this context vaccinating IDF soldiers for polio while failing to ensure Palestinians are vaccinated is evidence of genocidal intent🧵.
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Finally the correct language.
As Gaza is destroyed, Israel is killing dozens of children in the West Bank
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When I grow up I want to become Cate Blanchett, and have the subtlety to think the carpet is already red, so I can just wear a black & white dress with green lining to make such a strong point. #cannes2024
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If you understand that Beirut is an international city, in a sovereign country, inhabited by people with lives like you and me, how can you stay silent when 2000lb bombs are dropped on densely populated quarters? .I cannot comprehend. Unless you participate to the dehumanisation.
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Epistemicide - the killing of knowledge systems. 👇🏼.
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This is the first time in my life that as Palestinian I am hearing someone speaking my voice. I am witnessing a miracle at the @CIJ_ICJ .
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My heart cries for Jabalia, we are reading in real time the testimonies of innocent people under siege, we read their last words, we see their last pictures. How is this our new normal?.
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Respect to @DrAllyLouks , who just finished her PhD and she is using her academic privilege of free speech beautifully to point at injustice. Senior colleagues in academia, your silence is loud - you have so much to learn.
@BBCWorld If anyone ever needs an exemplar of the media using the passive voice to obscure the reality of a situation, this is it.
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During a genocide being neutral means being complicit.
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With the rejection of the ICC allegations by US & UK we are witnessing the dismissal of the rule-based order they created after WWII, which they held as the foundation of their foreign policy for 3/4 of a century. In other words we are witnessing the self-destruction of the West.
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Just imagine your university has materially and ‘virtually’ (no URL) disappeared. How absurd is this annihilation of education? How many years to recover what is lost? How is this even possible in 2023? Where has this even happened on such a scale? Yet you are all silent.
Gaza’s universities is gone forever . Main Institutions like IUG and Al-Azhar Universities have been completely erased from the map & their online presence has also been deleted from the electronic realm.
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Oh, now that the BBC Verify has confirmed it, we can believe what we have all seen. Why does colonial violence become seen only when we get confirmation by western sources, and not the local people victims of the violence?
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🚨My 18yo daughter on a train going to the march for Palestine (@PSCupdates) in London, sits next to an elderly man who asks here where she is going and then tells her: ‘I would line you all up and shoot you all’. She changes seat and calls me crying. #antipalestinianism.
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Epistemicide - the killing of knowledge systems.
Exclusive:. Israeli soldiers set fire Aqsa University [@AqsaUniversity]’s library in Gaza City and took pictures of themselves in front of the flames.
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Shirion Collective has finally been unmasked as an online operation that since late 2023 has operated on platforms including X, coordinating the spread of pro-Israel and anti-Palestinian propaganda + harassment & doxing of of pro-Palestinian protesters. 👇🏼
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We need a new word: antipalestinianism. It is different from Islamophobia, as it doesn't have to do with religion, it has to do with ethnicity. I'm Cristian, and like my Muslim and Jewish brothers and sisters who are part of the Arab Palestinian ethnic group I feel dehumanised.
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The gaslighting of Palestinians is unbelievable. Whilst the North of Gaza is ethnically cleansed live on our screens, the headlines are focusing on football hooligans in Amsterdam.
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@alijla2021 The entire world is attempting to reinforce a symmetry between the conditions of Israeli and Palestinians. How clueless this is of historical facts and of the lived experience of Palestinians on the ground. It’s so painful to read your testimony, yet so real to many of us. 💔.
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As an Italian-Palestinian I absolutely adore @FranceskAlbs expressions when she is asked a stupid question. As an Italian, because I have similar expressions when I am asked stupid questions, as a Palestinian because I know she is genuinely speaking up for us.
Naturally, this question came from a German journalist working for a major Berlin newspaper. Watch @FranceskAlb's response.
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Thank you @AnnelleSheline for crying our tears. What you have done requires incredible courage and moral standing. 🙏🏼.
A segment from @democracynow's powerful interview w/ Annelle Sheline, who resigned from the State Department over the US's pro-genocide policy in Gaza:. Amy Goodman: "You said you're haunted by the final social media post of Aaron Bushnell the 25-year-old US Air Force serviceman
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Documentary about Palestinian displacement by Israel has won at the Berlinale film festival. “This film by a Palestinian-Israeli collective of four young activists has been made as an act of creative resistance on the path to greater justice.” .Shared resistance does exists. 👇🏼.
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The Palestinian cause is so challenging to Western democracies, that they can't function as normal when discussing it. It goes right at the heart of the taken-for- granted relationships of power in the Western world. That's why the Palestinian cause is symbolic and universal.
Chaos and confusion in parliament as the opposition argues how to word a call for ceasefire in Gaza, and the government says it will ignore them all.
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I cannot imagine such horror is going to be unpunished, because if this can happen to the Palestinians then it can happen to all of us.
Palestinians re-entering their abandoned neighbourhoods have found the bodies of loved ones crushed beneath the ruins of their homes. Gaza’s Civil Defence has said there are 10,000 bodies still trapped below the rubble
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Do you realise what just happened? Israeli warplanes just bombed a convoy of people, ambulances cars, children, doctors, teenagers, dreams, mothers, who were queueing to get in to a Gaza hospital. Unspeakable scenes! They are treating us like ants. Completely spendable lives.😭.
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Remember: food appropriation is a form of erasure. The Israeli right has painstakingly adopted laws to separate Palestinians from their land, to then appropriate the land and its produce and the Palestinian traditions & food . Za’atar is a case in point. (Short🧵).
Palestinian erasure takes many forms. Here’s @JewishFood taking the most quintessential Palestinian herb and spice mix and claiming it as Israeli.
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If you do not know what a qudcopter sniper drone is, here is a picture for you (see the rifle?). These pursue people in Gaza.
Breaking: Israeli quadcopter drones are pursuing citizens as they attempt to flee and displace, firing at them near Abu Rasas roundabout in Al-Bureij camp in central Gaza.
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Conflating the display of a Palestinian flag with antisemitism is a Zionist trope that aims at cancelling Palestinians from public spaces.
Miami - a woman with a Palestine sticker on her laptop was spotted at 'Motek', one of the most popular Israeli eateries in South Florida. Some patrons were extremely bothered by her/the Palestinian sticker - would you be?
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Christians left Palestine because of the Israeli occupation and the continued attacks by settlers in the West Bank and Jerusalem. My father, a Christian, was exiled and locked out of his native country forever in 1967 because of the Israeli occupation. Do not believe this guy. 👇🏼.
Something the BBC etc doesn't want you to know. There are almost no Christians left in Palestinian areas. CENTURIES of Islamic persecution chased them out. Even Bethlehem (88% Christian in 1922) is now almost empty. Also. There are 4x more Christians in Israel than in the PA.
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Today we learnt that all the news outlets of the world will ignore the pain of hundreds of Palestinian families holding their dismembered children, to amplify the joy of four Israeli families reconnected with their safe ones.
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What’s happening in the world? People are going mad. Just saying you are Palestinian gets violence and harassment. This is new and totally reinforced by the public narrative of our irresponsible politicians.
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The Easter time is a very important time, for us Palestinian Christians. The Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem - where my father was a coir boy in his childhood - is built on the tomb where Jesus was laid after death, from where he resurrected. But this Easter will be….
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Spain 🇪🇸is in a golden age:.Today the have won Wimbledon 🎾 and the Euro Uefa cup (winning every game!) ⚽️, and they have recently recognised the State of Palestine 🇵🇸. At these very dark times there are so many good reasons to like Spain.
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@ZuckermanRoy Sorry to break it to you, you have been brainwashed (in the best possible scenario) or you are a malicious racist, in the second scenario. Confounding all Arabs or Palestinians with terrorism is racism. This has to be de-escalated and talk for ceasefire need to happen soon.
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To my new followers, welcome! I am an Italian-Palestinian scholar of leadership & management. The existential threat currently suffered by the Palestinians is such, that posting about my academic activities has lost any meaning. Here I advocate for justice, dignity and freedom.
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As the sun is setting on 2023, few reflections for 2024 & beyond. Despite the unspeakable suffering afflicted on the Palestinian people by the Zionist politics of annihilation the only way fwrd is peace. Why? 🧵. (My uncle and I under our ancestral olive trees in the West Bank)
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We have reached a point when burning hospitals, arresting doctors and nurses, placing patience’s at risk is no longer news. What is the implication of this for our own humanity?.
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This: “a common pattern in progressive Israeli spaces is that Palestinians can provide labor, translation, lived experience and trauma to feed the analysis of Israeli Jews, but cannot be equal partners who get to do the analysis side by side and set the agenda together”.
Why I resigned as chairman of Amnesty Israel
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@abierkhatib So many layers of dehumanisation on every single Palestinian. There are no words to describe the collective trauma in Gaza and beyond. We are actually lacking the language for this.
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Never forget that Palestinians are no more than lab rats for the Israeli tech industry, whether surveillance or weapons. They are so dehumanised that they are used by the Israeli tech industry to optimise their killing machines! A short 🧵.
Israel's remote-controlled quadcopters have been filmed dropping bombs and firing on Gaza's Palestinians, while doctors say they have treated patients with injuries from the drones. This is what we know about them ⤵️
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Tullkarem is in the West Bank, not in Gaza. Yet no main news outlets (in the west) are reporting this. Israel bombing and killing Palestinians - wherever they are - is now completely normalised. The dehumanisation is complete.
Massacre in Toulkarem. Israel bombed a coffee shop and killed at least 14 people.
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Hearing the back of the dress is pink, oh well. I refuse to believe this effect is casual. 🇵🇸.
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"My message is stop weaponizing antisemitism" @AnneliseOrleck1 (Jewish Studies @dartmouth) 👇🏽.
Jewish Dartmouth professor @AnneliseOrleck1 (65) says yeah, I feel unsafe on campus. But not because of my students and their Palestine protests, because of police who body slammed me on the ground and arrested me for protecting kids. And calls out New Hampshire Governor
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After seeing the images from Al Shifa hospital I am questioning the meaning of humanity.
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If Palestinians will be ethnically cleansed from Gaza, don’t say you did not see this coming. It is happening now in front of your eyes. The settler colonialism you are criticising in your academic papers, in its purest form. Now. In front of you. And you are saying nothing!.
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You will not see this in western headlines today. Because the death of hundreds of Arabs is now *normalised*: Israeli air strikes kill 143 across Gaza, more than 77 in Lebanon.
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This will be in history books about the genocide of Gaza.
The photo tells you everything you need to know. Burning homes. Killing. Destroying. Taking photos while smiling.
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I have said this before. I met an Israeli person in a shop here in UK. Conversation:.Me: I am a Palestinian Christian.Her: Yes you were converted by the Crusaders.Me: No we are the original Christians.Her: This is not what they taught us at school.Me: I am not surprised!.Her: 😑.
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Saying that advertising beachfront houses to future settlers ‘was a joke’ underscores the utter dehumanisation of Palestinians. The suffering in Gaza is unspeakable: entire villages annihilated, starvation & infectious diseases spreading. #CeasfireNOW .
An Israeli real estate company ran ads for "presale" lots in Gaza. They said it was meant to be "a joke" and "a sort of satirical idea." It also caused an international scandal. Here's the story 🔽🔽🔽.
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The left cannot win with right wing policies. The left cannot win with right wing policies. The left cannot win with right wing policies. Anyone surprised by today’s result has missed this simple point.
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The asymmetry between how the Israeli hostages are humanised, treated with respect and cared for, and how the Palestinian hostages are dehumanised through ignorance and silence is astounding.
Wild hearing how Israeli hostages will be receiving trauma counselling upon release, while Palestinian prisoners will be seeing if any of their house is still standing.
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Happy Easter to all. As a Palestinian Christian the message of hope and resurrection that Easter brings has never been more important. My heart is with all those who are suffering in Gaza today. May this madness end. 🙏🏼
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Today is the day in which we commemorate the Nakba (ذكرى النكبة), the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians from their indigenous land. The Nakba is both an historical event AND it is ongoing today, in Gaza, the West Bank and East Jerusalem. Here is a good book to read:
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Hello @archivegenocide - the Times of Israel had now taken down the below essay, in which it is argued that Israel needs to expand into the west bank to populate it. Here is the link, which now leads to an error page.
Wenn der Nazivergleich nicht mal von außen gemacht werden muss
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The reality of Palestinians in the West Bank. What kind of life is this? Why is this even allowed?.
The girl in pink is my sister Tasnim. She’s 10. Today she went with our sheep when the army stormed my village in Masafer Yatta. Soldiers stopped her, and arrested two women for herding flock on their land, which they decided to make a “closed military area”. >>
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This is the Lebanon they are destroying. Stop-dehumanizing-Arabs. If only everyone understood the beauty, culture and the civilization of the Middle East.
Throwback to when Beethoven’s Ode to Joy was played in the Temple of Bacchus in Baalbek Roman Ruins, led by the Lebanese Philharmonic Orchestra at the Sound of Resilience concert in 2020 during pandemic times. Absolutely majestic🏛️.#Baalbeck #Lebanon
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@b7tha3nal7aqiqa @PSCupdates My daughter is Christian (or even atheist). He talked to her first, she just answered.
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Do not stop speaking about Palestine and Gaza. Your silence is our erasure!.
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I have seen pulverised family homes, children covered in rubble and an entire way of life destroyed for 11 months now. I have seen the world accepting this as something norma and justifiable. Both things are equally shocking and unbearable.
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If your heart does not break for the children of Gaza, it means you don’t have one.
A Palestinian boy has spoken about living on his own in Gaza after his mother had to leave with his injured sister. UNICEF says there are thousands of unaccompanied children in the besieged enclave after 5 months of Israel’s war ⤵️
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Zadie Smith both-sideism is the default position in western society today. When I speak about the Palestinian genocide and I encounter a cautious blank stare I feel I am speaking to someone who, like her, is investing a lot of energy to uphold that untenable symmetry.
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I learnt “Bella Ciao", the Italian hymn of freedom & resistance, growing up as a child in Italy. This Palestinian version is so moving to me, reflecting my Italian-Palestinian heritage. I wonder where little Reema Alhabbash is now.
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Give me another word other than genocide to describe what is happening in Jabalia tonight. Perhaps holocaust will do. Our vocabulary is running out of words for the horror we’re witnessing. The impunity of the occupier & the indifference of the world are astounding.#SavePalestine.
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What has been happening at the Al-Shifa hospital is beyond human comprehension. The news and images I am seeing are shuttering, the violence and cruelty beyond imagination. Yet, western media are not reporting. How long will it take to verify the experiences of Palestinians?.
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Mass graves at hospitals and 13000 killed children. Mass graves at hospitals and 13000 killed children. Mass graves at hospitals and 13000 killed children. Mass graves at hospitals and 13000 killed children. This is the headline, don’t be distracted.
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Please share to let the world know how beautiful and peaceful our young people are. So much hope is generated by people of all religions taking turns to celebrate according to their customs in mutual respect. This is the message of love we need now.
Columbia University students formed a human shield with blankets to provide privacy to others participating in Friday prayer after pro-zionist accounts on social media published a video showing students praying on the lawn. Credit: Katie Smith
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Every day I see a new worst thing: four young Palestinians (who could be my son) being pulverised by a remote weapon with hyper accurate precision as they walk unarmed through a flattened urban landscape, when another young person pressed that button, as if it was a video game.
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Suppressing negative information during a genocide?.
BREKAING: Elon Musk says that the X algorithm is changing to:. - Penalize "negativity".- Promote informational/entertaining content.- Increase unregretted user time
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Serious question: if you are not talking about Palestine, what are you talking about? I mean what’s a greater priority right now?.
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Today Italy celebrates the Resistance, the partisans that contributed to the liberation of Italy from Fascism in April 1945. As Italian-Palestinian I love this version of Bella Ciao (partisan song) played by Palestinians in Gaza. I celebrate them. 🇮🇹🇵🇸
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… marked by an unspeakable sadness by what is happening in Gaza. Additionally as #RobiAbusaad writes the Israeli apartheid regime prevents Palestinians Christians from the West Bank to freely access the holy sites.
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Blowing up Universities! If you are an academic and you do not condemn this: shame on you! Israeli colleagues? Where are you? Where is your wisdom? . The matter for academics in a totalitarian regime is this: not speaking up makes you complicit.
The Israeli military just blew up the University of Palestine in Gaza City with 315 mines. All the universities in Gaza have been damaged or destroyed. We need a full academic boycott.
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What’s the law about libel in Australia? Asking for a friend.
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Netanyahu internal message to Israeli is that he will resume the violence as soon as phase 1 - when hostages are released - is over. He has constantly told one thing in English and another in Hebrew.
Netanyahu says Trump "emphasized" to him that the ceasefire is "temporary," and Israel will have "full backing" to resume the war in Gaza. He says Trump has decided to "lift all the remaining restrictions" on US munitions, allowing Israel to resume the war with "tremendous force"
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Can you please explain this to me? Still no international call for ceasefire? What? Imagine this was Russia bombing Ukraine?! Sanction? International outrage? Instead: silence. #CeasfireNOW.
More than 10 children per day, on average, have lost one or both of their legs in Gaza since conflict erupted three months ago - @Save_GlobalNews . Lifetimes of pain management and medical care will be needed .
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I often work and cry at the same time in these days.
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This is how ethnic cleansing works. - Historically Christians are the one who leave first, as they have connection with outside (access to resources). - I fear this is the extinction of the Christian community in Gaza. - One of the oldest Christian communities in the World. 😢.
Since I wrote this article last week until now the number of Christians who can pay the fees on the border and leave Gaza is increasing. Sources in the church told me that they estimate after the war that, around 100 people will remain in Gaza, and it's those who can't pay.
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It is my declaration of belonging to a people under threat of extermination, here I speak about Anti-Palestinian Racism, my experience of it, and the importance to stay united as Palestinians, and to support them as their allies at the darkest of times.2/.
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The amount of people that are calling me terrorist, terrorist supporter or antisemite, because I spoke for civilians (in line with Internat. Law and Geneva conventions) is astonishing. Please have a look at the comments to see how humane Arab voices are silenced and stigmatised.
If you understand that Beirut is an international city, in a sovereign country, inhabited by people with lives like you and me, how can you stay silent when 2000lb bombs are dropped on densely populated quarters? .I cannot comprehend. Unless you participate to the dehumanisation.
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In its latest ‘fantasy’ plan of dehumanisation Israel proposes new ‘humanitarian bubbles’ in northern Gaza, showing how the Nakba works in its multiple forms, aiming to fragment & displace Palestinians, till complete dilution & erasure of them as a people.
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Taybeh is the town where my dad was born. We still own our ancestral house and olive groves. Of course I cannot return to live there. Of course the Jewish settlers with no legal claim can freely terrorise the Palestinian legitimate inhabitants. Infuriating and heartbreaking.
"Jesus Christ came here a week before he was crucified," a Palestinian in Taybeh told me. Taybeh is the largest Palestinian Christian community in the West Bank. Since October 7th, armed Jewish settlers and the Israeli army, emboldened by the war in Gaza, have been terrorizing
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Physicians for Human Rights Israel recognise their report on sexual violence (Nov 2023) contained false info+regrets it has been used to dehumanise Palestinians+justify Gaza annihilation. Let me tell u @PHRIsrael, the dehumanisation IS why the report was written so imprecisely!
Six months after being one of the most cited atrocity porn reports to fuel this genocide, @PHRIsrael now (May 6) publish a "clarification" on the debunked report, not withdrawing it, but rather crying about its exploitation to commit anything-but-genocide.
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Second time I hear this today. This is humanly unthinkable. I have no more words in my vocabulary to describe what I am witnessing.
A mother from #Jabalia says:. “They took all the children from their mothers and put them inside what resembled a pit or a hole. The tank came to circle around them repeatedly until their bones cracked under the pressure of dust and sand, amidst the screams of children and the.
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We will never be the same. Palestinians will never be the same. The collective trauma is our history, the tale of the abhorrent events will be in our books. The fear of extermination is part of who we are. This is making us even more resolute to survive as people in our land.
I don’t think we can recover from the trauma of last night. I was shaking with fear. My body joints hurt this morning. Most my family lives in Rafah, displaced with very little basics. I woke up and managed to speak with my parents who are both traumatised to the core.
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I wake up exhausted, and go to sleep exhausted, I am exhausted when I sleep (yes, is this even possible?). 'That essay' has broken me, I connected to deep with the colossal Palestinian pain. Hopefully I will recover soon, but now I need a break.
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What is happening in North Gaza right now is extermination. The images will haunt us forever. Silence is complicit.
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The reason why so many humanitarian organisations, including the UN, are demanding to stop the blockade is because North Gaza is ‘officially’ in a situation of catastrophic famine (read about technicalities below) A MAN MADE FAMINE! A crime of war. Speak up now, or be complicit.
How can this be allowed to happen in the 21st century? The cruelty of starving an entire people is just unfathomable. The IPC, which is the global authoritative institution for hunger assessment, on which governments and multilateral organizations rely, now determines that half
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The war Israel is waging on Gaza is a war on ALL Palestinians. However, some communities are suffering more than others. The Christian minority is paying the price of extinction. Why don't I hear the Christians community around the world condemning this?.
“We don't see ourselves primarily as a religious minority. Yes, we're religiously different, but ethnically, racially, nationally, we're Palestinians. That's the most salient part of our identity. Khalil Sayegh”
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What you are witnessing in front of your eyes is how a people gets erased. Erasure is a long term strategy that starts with dehumanisation, the denial of that people own history, the denial of innocence of any of its members, and their demonisation. We-will-not-be-erased.
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Palestinian journalists a rewriting how reporting is done. Wonderful to see that @wizardbisan Bisan Owda and AJ+ win Peabody Award for Gaza war coverage. She is the future of Palestine.
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Assassinating the children and grandchildren of the person you want to reach a ceasefire with doesn’t seem like a good negotiating tactic…. Unless you don’t really want to reach a ceasefire.
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Second, the denial of the inequality Palestinins experience under Israel’s regime. The apartheid is real, the occupation is violent. Diminishing Palestinian suffering of these experiences is pure racial gasslighting, a racist hate crime. Many lawyers are on this. 5/.
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