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going mad seeing #ceasefirenow everywhere and especially again since yesterday. ceasefire was too little too late in October. it is April now. we need sanctions, arms embargoes, settlements dismantled, right to return, UNRWA refunded, and billions more to a sovereign Palestine.
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embarrassing and unforgivably late.
BREAKING:. Canada, Australia and New Zealand call for immediate ceasefire in Gaza.
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and in the end it was Palestinians who restored internet access to Gaza, and it was Palestinians who broke into a UN warehouse to distribute survival supplies, and when Palestine is free at last, while world leaders supported their slaughter, it will be Palestinians who freed it.
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julia fox is important representation for the girls who are enamored by literature but don't read books.
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so let me get this straight, the battle is between a nuclear armed military ethno-supremacist superpower and the NICU ward infants on life support, and if you try to question the fairness of this ultimatum, you get deported or banned for anti-Semitism.
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yes, it is racist and upsetting to see how much more white death matters in Gaza, and yes, we must leverage this moment for as much public outrage and political pressure as we can. both can be true.
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the Harvard Law Review article about how academics want to wait until the end of the genocide to speak about it in the past tense has been delayed until the end of the genocide to allow for academics to be able to speak about it only in the past tense.
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“there is not a single university left in Gaza” is good but “before targeted Israeli bombings destroyed them all, Gaza had twelve universities due to its historical role as a bastion of trade and knowledge for Palestinians and their neighbors” is better.
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at the Palestinian demonstration in Berlin, our friend is currently detained by police for a sign that reads “From the --, to the —“ with the nouns blanked out, just unimaginable police repression every day here from a country that blocked the EU resolution calling for ceasefire.
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a real sign of digital illiteracy that lifelong internet users do not recognize Kamala’s auntified memeification in the last 2 years as an intelligent PR strategy to soften her image as a mass incarcerating public prosecutor.
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i actually find it extremely nefarious that there is a mass divestment from Twitter/X when this is the only platform that has reliably provided the very images, videos, and first hand accounts from Palestine that contradict every mainstream media outlet.
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something so striking about the banality of this evil, of a Palestinian farmer in the West Bank who isn’t even surprised to have an IDF gun pointing at him, yes the occupation kills with air strikes but it also strangles everyday life with administrative violence and checkpoints.
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if you're tired of seeing posts about the Israeli apartheid, you're missing the point. it is only because of social media saturation that even the tiniest shift in discourse is made possible (you can now utter the word Palestine on cable).
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friends and family, this is a brilliant example of how you can tactfully respond to the condemning-Hamas-industrial-complex.
*slamming hand on table* .They said what they said! Free🇵🇸. (Ryna Workman is interviewed by ABC News Live and asked whether they’d change their mind in hindsight.)
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sick of well meaning supporters telling me they wish they could be more public with Palestine solidarity but they fear consequences, it’s your own soul you have to contend with at the end of the day my loves, your choices reflect your priorities.
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a small group of people in Berlin recorded war sounds from Gaza on a loop with a condemnation of German complicity and calls to ‘stop the genocide’ and played it in the main public library to disrupt the peace.
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truly awestruck by the footage of Sinwar’s last moments, amputated and keffiyeh-clad in the ruins of a once beautiful home, yet still capable of hurling a stick at the cowardly drone with the last of his energy.
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a point that i fear is disappearing from the media narrative is that Hamas originally took those festival hostages in order to leverage for the release of all the Palestinians held indefinitely in Israeli prisons without trail, a proposal that Israel has repeatedly rejected since.
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if it feels like there has been less news coming out of Gaza today, consider that Israel has totally cut internet access today, no electricity, no food, no aid, international journalists and UN workers slain in cold blood, a blackout of information is the point.
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the number of non-Muslims i’ve spoken to who are fasting this month in solidarity with Palestinians in Gaza is really astonishing.
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Gofundme are preventing us from accessing the 21k for queer and trans Afghans that we raised, they want us to donate to a charity instead, does anyone have a contact there? pls RT.
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i am begging people to stop treating american veterans as experts on the taliban /afghan history.
Afghanistan is a dusty beige nightmare of a place full of proud, brave people who did not fucking want us there. We called them Hajjis and worse and they were better than we were, braver and stronger and smarter.
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you may have followed me as an opinionated Afghan but fyi i am also a raging faggot and i’m writing a novel about queer/trans Afghans in exile
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a month ago my mental health was the worst it’s ever been as i spiralled about my complicity in genocide, and then i started organising for Palestine and my despair gave way to conviction, so if you feel helpless right now consider joining an organisation and rising to the moment.
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so serious question, why haven’t the staff at the New York Times revolted? i’m increasingly uninterested in hearing anything from you that isn’t coup related.
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Germans love to be like “As someone with family who were Nazis, I support the regime that created an open-air concentration camp in Gaza and continues to use deadly phosphorus gas on its innocent civilians”.
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i want to caution us all against playing into this idea that the Jews criticising Israel are somehow more credible than Muslims are in making the same criticisms, which i fear cedes ground to the baseless suggestion that our criticism is rooted in anti-Semitism.
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cancel everything and attend any protest for Palestine you can find, it’s not healthy to process this grief and brazen dishonesty in solitude, go be on the streets with people who know the truth, who defend the truth, who will not be silenced for telling the truth.
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settler anxiety is so fragile that even the naming of 'Palestine' by a registered charity worker raising money for starving children drives them to full tantrum.
🇵🇸🇮🇱 Man attacks Unicef fundraisers raising money for Gaza while saying:. “I’ll fu**ing kill you, say Palestine one more time!”
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i grew up hearing ‘you can’t extend your knee in Herat without kicking a poet’ and now the city is in the hands of the Taliban, sworn enemy of music, dance, art, queers and women.
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i just want to send some love out to other Afghans right now, most of us are pro-Palestine and so we exist in this strange bind of not wanting to distract from Gaza while also mourning the 4000+ victims of the earthquake in Herat over the weekend.
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until i die i will never forget how in the weeks after Oct7 in Berlin, while Arabs were getting profiled and searched and brutalized and arrested on the street for holding keffiyehs, the ONLY white Germans in meeting and marches organizing against this repression were trans women.
you actually don’t need to go all the way back to Stonewall to see the role of trans people on the frontlines of social change try looking around at a Palestine solidarity march.
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US child labor laws getting gutted, kids in Gaza leading protests against genocide in the press vests of slain journalists, a non-binary kid murdered this week in Oklahoma, we should all be enraged witnessing the desecration of childhood as something sacred and worth protecting.
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if prayers count for anything may ours please keep MoTaz safe 🙏🏽🤲🏽.
A very low Israeli Quadcopter is above my house door .Right Now.
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again and again i am shocked and humbled by the grace of Palestinians who earnestly wish for a free Palestine that is safe and inclusive for all religions, contrasted with the consistently genocidal tone of so many Israelis who proudly support extermination.
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i was scheduled to be a paid reader for applications to this year’s PEN Emerging Voices fellowship, as i have done in the past, but after @PENamerica decided to platform the racist Zionist Mayim Bialik i’ve now withdrawn from my role and am encouraging others to follow suit.
Last night, Palestinian writer @randajarrar, along with other members of @wawog_now, disrupted a @PENamerica event with Zionist Mayim Bialik. Jarrar used a speaker to play the names of writers martyred since October 7th––this is how PEN responded
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UPDATE: our friend has been released and charged with the felony offence of “ethnic hatred”.
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tonight i am thinking of all the parents in Rafah trying to explain to their children why this is happening to them, why they were lied to about fleeing there, how can a child make sense of why bombs are dropping on them? by what logic could a child understand any of this cruelty.
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bewildering to watch Zone of Interest in a German movie theater with audience members awed by the scale and coordination of one genocide and little to no concern for the other one currently underway — these people learned nothing.
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it is so harrowing to be living in a Muslim neighborhood in Berlin right now: the sudden unwarranted uptick in riot police everywhere, the profiling and arrest of Muslims on the street, friends having their IG stories surveilled and accused of antisemitism in German newspapers.
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Refaat Alareer was martyred today by the Israeli death machine, in the interest of championing his work and scholarship i implore you to purchase this anthology he edited and spend some time with the brilliance and imagination of Gazan writers:.
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“pogroms” and it’s one dude getting thrown in a canal for chanting “Death to Arabs”.
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the genre of bi girl who proudly describes how gay she is within earshot of her monogamous long term bf.
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the way Biden’s got a gay Haitian woman as Press Secretary, and Australia’s Foreign Minister’s a Malaysian lesbian, should sicken every proponent of representation politics. these fuckers will employ people that look like you to abet your own slaughter.
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you're worried about losing professional opportunities for standing with Palestine? half of Gaza, inhabited by more than a million people, may likely be flattened in the next day by a nuclear armed military backed by the world's strongest superpower, is silence even an option rn?.
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the framing of “the best Afghans are getting evacuated” doesn’t sit right with me. each life is worthy of safety, regardless of utility or education.
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obviously all cops are bastards but i must say the German ones sneering at Arab protestors from behind the protection of riot gear are bastards in a historically reverberant and uniquely perverse way.
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the nice part about wearing a keffiyeh is that it acts as a natural repellent for people you would rather not interact with.
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i’m losing my belief in language; witnessing self defence get bastardised to justify extermination and colonial expansion, words like ‘genocide’ and ‘apartheid’ drained of resonance, even the death toll, thousands of Palestinians, thousands of children, now normalised for so many.
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put simply i’m feeling so estranged from anyone whose whole heart isn’t in Gaza right now.
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it is pathetic that the Australian government is not freely opening its borders to Afghan refugees. the Brereton Report found its own soldiers were slaughtering Afghans in cold blood for sport less than a year ago.
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we must understand that these allegations of sexual violence are gaining traction as part of a well-funded red herring designed to discredit the Palestinian resistance and reverse the tide of social attitudes that are souring on Israel and the occupation at last.
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something i cannot understand: why become a writer at all if you don’t stand for anything? it’s not prestige, there’s none of that anymore. fees are unliveable. there’s no upward mobility and it’s famously isolating, so why bother? go work in advertising.
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Palestinians ask so little of us in the imperial core, what is a few lost gigs, a good job even, to a people facing extermination? with all our luxuries, with all our knowledge of the atrocity unfolding in Gaza, if we can’t do principled solidarity, how do we live with ourselves?.
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anyone with any access to power, with any public visibility or capacity to steal a few seconds on a mic, needs to be all in for Palestine right now, this is the kind of shaming our political leadership deserves.
not trying to congratulate myself for saying what seems like an obvious bare minimum thing to say but i don't think 1 other person said anything related on an otherwise rly beautiful night anyway if for some reason u weren't clear how i feel heres me politely accepting an award
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i’m not exaggerating when i say the future of our world hinges on the fate of Palestine, if we allow Israel to succeed in wiping it off the map, there’s no coming back for our species.
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each semester in my Writing the War on Terror class i ask my students to name one Afghan women writer they’ve read. silence. one they know of but haven’t read yet, same deal. ok, i respond, name any Afghan woman. you can imagine the crickets.
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from what i’ve seen, it wasn’t a high tech operation, you don’t need much material, some voice altering software, hidden remote speakers, and accomplices to record the reaction, you are more powerful than you know, and we have a duty to Gaza, make ignorance or denial impossible!!.
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i just wish everyone would divest from the language of terrorism because the Zionist entity’s pager explosions in Lebanon today reflect the same ethnic cleansing and colonial expansion that’s been ongoing for 76 years.
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some friends and i are fundraising for queer and trans Afghans who are trying to escape the Taliban’s efforts to return Afghanistan to the dark ages. please share this post and/or donate:.
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every Afghan i know is working on overdrive right now: helping with paperwork, on hold to embassies, in contact with people and families trying to escape, mourning their homeland, triggered by having lived through the Taliban’s atrocities once already.
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it utterly devastates me that all of our collective agitation these last few months —blocking bridges, storming embassies, stalling weapons ships at ports—and we still have yet to pressure journalists to add a simple attribution naming who is responsible for Palestinian slaughter.
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a third of the population of classical Athens was enslaved and i think it’s important that the conservative yearning for ‘western civilisation’ is understood as a nostalgia for slavery.
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the bar is so low in Australian immigration policy that we’re celebrating the decision to provide medical care to sick prisoners.
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crazy how “flipping houses” is seen as a hobby and not class warfare.
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i feel like we’re coming full circle on the end of the founding promise of the digital age. knowledge is not easier to access. people are not more connected. the internet was a failed project.
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you actually don’t need to go all the way back to Stonewall to see the role of trans people on the frontlines of social change try looking around at a Palestine solidarity march.
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just read an article about “anti-Arab racism since 9/11” and i need to be clear: Afghans are not Arab. any word on the consequences of 9/11 must center the 20year occupation of Afghanistan. micro aggressions suck but a whole country was DEVASTATED.
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i want to implore us to expand our idea of Palestine beyond its current siege and starvation, this anthology of Palestinian writers uses fiction to imagine new futures for their country and their people, purchase this book, sit with it, my review is here:
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Padam Hussein is a beautiful drag name i might have to claim it.
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my advice to other queer muslims is to avoid seeking affirmation from clerics and scholars who debate your existence with scripture. make your own religious institution with the kindred and find the masjid you need wherever you lay your mat.
Over 150 prominent Muslim scholars across North America have jointly written a statement of monumental importance entitled: “Navigating Differences: Clarifying Sexual and Gender Identity in Islam." . Read full statement at:.
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our goals for a Free Palestine cannot be limited to a drip feed of aid trucks into Gaza and wistful pleas to stop bombing residential towers, a ceasefire is not nearly enough, the bare minimum is right to return for every Palestinian in diaspora and a repatriation of their lands.
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my favourite immigrant dad thing is that he uses son and sun interchangeably and will text me like ‘my sun the remote is not working’.
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ceasefire??? like are you serious, they’re planning a 6 month long military assault on Rafah, if you think they’re voluntarily going to end the genocide foh.
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rumour around Berlin is that this ‘queer’ anarchist cafe called k-fetisch supports Antideutsche AKA Zionism and overnight this sign went up in the apartment above it
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so that entire NYT expose on the rampant sexual violence of Oct 7, written by a Pulitzer prize winning journalist, boiled down to a single woman who cannot be verified as having been raped?.
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Israel was created because Europe has an anti-Semitism problem that predates the Holocaust. They wanted Jews elsewhere. Colonial powers weighed up Australia, East Africa, and Texas before ultimately deciding to force it into Palestine.
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do not forfeit your anger. take the time away you need but return to the fight without nihilism. do not internalize defeat. you don’t need to believe in the UN or the decency of the IDF to be outraged that they are already violating the ceasefire. we owe the resistance our anger.
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many of the mass Guernica resignations aren’t from the non-fiction team responsible for the essay, the same team who, in 2022, strung along an essay of mine critiquing the guilt-ridden American soldier memoir genre for 11 months until eventually canning it without any explanation.
I am resigning from my position as co-publisher at Guernica Magazine. Free Palestine.
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i’m struggling to be gracious and forgiving of those who are new to the injustice of Palestinians, i know we need as much solidarity as we can get, from as many quarters as we can get it, but i jus hit this wall trying to cohere how any thinking person could be clueless until now.
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bomb blasts across Kabul. 60+ dead inc children. many with visas and consulate letters. to those applauding evacuation efforts, are you so desensitised to Afghan suffering?.
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this firing and deplatforming of those critical of Israel mostly affects Black ppl, immigrants, Muslims, Arabs, queers, etc, who will soon be replaced by docile white people that support Israel unconditionally, which we can understand as a post-2020 re-Aryanization of public life.
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sorry but if the hill you die on is “i should be allowed to remain neutral on Apartheid” you might want to reevaluate.
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not a coincidence that Wellness emerged and thrives in the country famous for not giving its people free healthcare.
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there was more press chastizing Iran for a possible retaliation than there was for Israel fully air striking an embassy building.
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would not be surprised if the same entity that killed all the journalists is also responsible for this exodus from the platform regular Gazans use to share their slaughter.
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😳🚨BOOK NEWS🚨😳. unfathomably excited to announce that my debut novel, NO GOD BUT US, sold to @ezra_kupor and the team at @harperbooks . i wrote this book for and about queer migrants and i cannot wait for you to meet the ensemble of harlots, djinn, transsexuals and infidels
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i wish people would stop believing they were entirely benevolent. you’re the villain in someone’s story, sometimes your own story.
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lmaooo why was this me at afghan house parties as a kid throwing down on my own dance floor while my cousins chilled.
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after forty years in exile, the last few weeks have broken my parents. my Dad describes a depression he’s never felt before. no sleep or appetite. i won’t live to see Afghans know peace again, my Mom says, maybe you will.
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and is this social power you speak of in the room right now with us.
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don’t know why anyone expected the US to actually evacuate Afghans it worked with? the occupation was never about women or human rights. we were a strategic military base. resources. the profits of contractors.
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from NYC’s Grand Central station to Australia’s Defence minister’s office, it’s heartening to see so many anti-Zionist Jews rallying against the Palestinian genocide, Jews and Muslims alike refuse to be stoked into false rivalry, globally we unite against occupation and apartheid
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the thing about the kafir insult is that i suck dick and have perverted gay sex openly. no shade to other muslims but i don’t play the respectability game. you want to hurt me? try a slur i don���t already wear proudly. God may hate fags, but Allah loves us.
qieer kafirs*.
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none of us will ever be the same after this, our leaders can never be forgiven, the empires are collapsing and with their dying breaths they want to take every last Palestinian to the grave with them.
A new image posted by an Israeli channel on Telegram shows the Israeli forces leading civilians to an empty area, preparing to execute them, live massacres in front of the world. SHARE 🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨.#GazaGenocide #Gaza #Gaza_Geniocide
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harvesting organs, mowing down pregnant women outside of hospitals, spray painting the Star of David on Palestinian homes after night raids in Hebron, just when you think the grotesquely evil lengths of the Israeli occupation couldn't possibly get more depraved, they find a way.
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