Naomi Dann
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recovering comms person. building power for housing justice with @housing4allny. @jewishcurrents stan. knitter.
Kingston, NY
Joined February 2014
The longest war in US history ended this year, and still the defense budget grew. But somehow child care, prescription drugs, family leave, and home care are "too expensive.".
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The Mayor's daughter was in jail last night protesting police brutality while he was on live TV making excuses for police violence.
Sources: Chiara de Blasio was arrested last night alongside protestors blocking a street.
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Israel is carrying out a massacre against Palestinian protesters barricaded in Gaza while US officials celebrate occupation in Jerusalem. Everyone should be outraged
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Any reporting on Israel's elections tomorrow that does not quote any Palestinians or mention the fact that 5 million Palestinians subject to Israel's military occupation do not have the right to vote is lazy, biased, bad journalism.
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She's telling us the truth: . To make a few white people in the suburbs who watch too many crime stories on TV feel a little better, she's going to subject thousands of working people of color just trying to get to their jobs on public transit to armed searches.
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Searching "ilhan" on Twitter to find out whether polls have closed yet is a bleak trip down a long dark tunnel of islamophobic hate that reminds me just how courageous @IlhanMN is and how lucky we are to have her fighting in Congress.
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According to Facebook, its not hate speech if you include denigrating poor people in your racist statement:
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We are praying with our feet, sitting in at @amazon in midtown reading Eicha and words from detained immigrant families and calling on Amazon to stop enabling ICE's cruelty w/ @JFREJNYC @MaketheRoadNY @bradlander & hundreds more #JewsAgainstICE
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Meanwhile in Israel, a fascist Jewish group is campaigning with the support of the prime minister, while leftist Palestinian parties are banned from elections. These are the "shared values" of the "democracy" that Ilhan Omar's attackers are defending. #IStandWithIlhan.
JUST IN: After far-left candidate, Israeli Arab slate also barred from running in election
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My hand is still numb from yesterday's ziptie, a minor discomfort to remind me of an arrest that was both voluntary and planned. Thinking abt all the trauma the people detained involuntarily, at our borders & in our jails, carry with them physically & emotionally. đź“·: @giligetz
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A few years ago all members of Congress were afraid to talk about the occupation. @JamaalBowmanNY was one of the few who spoke up, after seeing the violence of occupation himself on a trip to the West Bank. AIPAC spent $15 million to defeat him because he spoke the truth. 1/.
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American Jews protesting occupation getting ripped apart from their sit in by Israeli security #50yearstoomany #disruptJday
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A Palestinian man tried to run for mayor in municipal elections in Jerusalem, only to have his residency permit revoked and travel documents denied. 40% of Jerusalem's residents are Palestinians. How are people still calling Israel a democracy?
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Trump just signed a #MuslimBan on #HolocaustMemorialDay day. Everyone should be outraged.
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It didn't start w the rockets. It didn't start w the bombs. It didn't even start w the evictions. It started when people (my people, distantly) seeking safety took over other people's homes & embraced the dehumanization necessary to continue. To stop it we have to tackle that.
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Candidates aren't the movement. Support candidates who work for and with movements. And then hold them accountable when they don't.
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Jewish anti-occupation activists trying to block right wing extremists from entering the Muslim quarter #disruptJday #50yearstoomany
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The Mayor is blaming the $200 million increase in the NYPD budget on IT needs. This is an agency that brought in a robot dog to harass NYCHA tenants.
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This is a terrible caption @nytimes. The protest "turned bloody" because Israeli snipers started shooting at Palestinians trapped behind a security barrier inside blockaded Gaza who were marching for their freedom
Breaking News: What was billed as a peaceful protest along Gaza's border with Israel turned bloody. The Israeli military killed at least 8 Palestinians, Gaza officials say.
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Bret Stephens: "Its worth considering how Israel—with tight borders, real threats & a no-nonsense attitude toward security needs—does it.". They do it by shooting protestors, constant surveillance & sending the army to arrest kids in the middle of night.
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If you are outraged by the #MuslimBan and not by #Israel's profiling & deportation of Palestinians you're missing the point #NoBanNoWall.
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everything that is bad about Israeli policy AND US imperialism is being praised by #HillaryClinton right now at #AIPAC2016.
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The US abstains, allowing the international community to say what needs to be said: Israeli settlements are illegal and anti-peace.
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The NYPD's escalation against nonviolent student protesters -- at the direction of @NYCMayor -- will radicalize students and people around the country against state violence. This is what nonviolent action does: draw a moral contrast. Bless these students and keep them safe.
CNN's @miguelmarquez: "I've covered lots of this sort of stuff around the world, and i've never seen this many police moving into one area."
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It is very rare for a member of Congress to be criticized, pause, listen to Palestinians, and take a risk to be responsive to their pain and harm. Thank you @aoc for modeling that leadership. Working towards peace requires confronting and repairing injustice.
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@JGreenblattADL @BernieSanders @AIPAC @ADL AIPAC has provided a platform for Islamophobic and antisemitic speakers. Your own organization @ADL has highlighted the bigotry of people like Frank Gaffney, who received money from AIPAC to fight the Iran deal:
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All this abuse and exploitation for a 11 minute amusement park ride into space.
Bezos says he thanks every "Amazon employee and every Amazon customer because you guys paid for all of this".
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Among NYC Democrats, *housing* -- not crime -- is the most urgent issue facing NYC today. Homelessness and affordable housing: 40% .Crime: 30%. Per today's @QuinnipiacPoll poll:
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Scary news in #London. Good time to remember @onthemedia's advice for consuming #breaking news about violent attacks
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Bernie supporters: We got our hopes up when we were the frontrunners that the force of this movement could expand exponentially. But we always knew this was going to be a tight race. Momentum is important, but so is organizing. Keep doing it.
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If you're worried that allowing more people to vote will dilute the votes of existing voters then you probably don't care much about democracy.
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Some pics of the Jewish leftists who brought their full selves to the march today, despite disagreements with many of the speakers. We know our safety lies in solidarity. The better world we are fighting for includes all of you. #NoHateNoFear #JewishandProud
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.@HillaryClinton please STOP enlisting young people as soldiers on the 'frontlines' to silence the mvmt for Palestinian rights #AIPAC2016.
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Found some Jews to sing Lol Ha'olam Kulo with on the Brooklyn Bridge. "The whole world is a narrow bridge, and the most important part is not to be afraid." . #NoHateNoFear
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New year, new job!. Excited to be joining @housing4allNY as chief of staff this week -- building power statewide for universal rent control and social housing!.
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Armored police vehicles rolled up to protect the investment of a real estate company that specializes in exploiting foreclosures. All because @moms4housing stood up for what their families needed: a safe home.
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Dear news outlets reporting on Trump's decision to move the embassy to Jerusalem: *Please interview local Palestinians about the ongoing displacement in Jerusalem* not just Israeli officials or PA politicians. Start with @GrassrootsJlem #HandsOffJerusalem.
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The Mayor complained earlier this week about people leaving the city. Message is pretty clear: Rich people, don't leave. Poor people, don't come.
Mayor Eric Adams reiterates in El Paso that he doesn't want any more migrants from the Mexican border coming to New York City. "New York cannot take more. We can't. There is no more room in New York.".
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Anyone need some good news???.
BREAKING: Florida just became the 8th state to pass a $15 minimum wage with a SUPERMAJORITY of Floridians voting YES to Amendment 2. Hats off to the efforts of the workers & volunteers in the #FLfor15 coalition. We're just getting started! #FightFor15
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This is a shonde. If you want to fund or write for a leftist Jewish mag that wont do shit like this, support @JewishCurrents.
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@JGreenblattADL The Jewish state that you celebrate just gunned down over 40 Palestinian protesters. It is not a state that respects minorities. Your hollow prayers for peace are a shonde to our tradition of ethical action.
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The fact that all these candidates are falling over themselves to talk about systemic racism (with more and less coherence) is a testament to the work of movements #BlackLivesMatter #DemDebate3.
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Still trying to wrap my head around the fact that an NYT columnist can liken criticism of himself to the Holocaust but when @aoc called actual LOCKING UP CHILDREN IN CAMPS to concentration camps -- *that* was beyond the pale.
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Kicking a Muslim women civil rights lawyer/leader off your board in response to right wing pressure is not the kind of bridge-building solidarity and leadership we need in this moment of rising islamophobia, racism and antisemitism. #IMarchWithZahra.
Since this is going to be in your newsfeeds in the morning - here’s a thread about me being voted off the board of @WomensMarch tonight 1/.
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Nope. We dont need your feminism that doesnt have space for Palestinian women, working women, or indigenous women
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That a prank can bring an police SWAT unit armed with military weapons to someone's home is a crucial example of why gun control must also include demilitarizing the police
David Hogg, a survivor of the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, was the subject of a so-called swatting episode that drew police officers in tactical gear to his home yesterday. More at @nytimes:
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One of the best parts of this incredible action was the mutual solidarity from @NYTWA taxi drivers, who helped protect marchers from traffic and got all of the @MaketheRoadNY @NailTechsUnited @VendorPower @nychange fasters home safely. #MakeBillionairesPay #FundExcludedWorkers
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This is bullshit. Israel today controls everything "from the river to the sea" and Palestinians have varying degrees of rights from second class citizens to military occupation to strangulation by siege. Why are calls for equality and freedom so threatening to you? #IStandWithMLH.
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Count every vote. No matter what happens, every door knocked mattered. This was a political earthquake.
BREAKING: Tiffany Cabán is now 20 votes behind Melinda Katz in the Queens DA election, after the counting of absentee ballots. Katz has claimed victory, but there are allegations of fraud by the Democratic party machine. The outcome remains uncertain.
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See that tower behind the riot cops? That's the 23rd Regiment Armory on Atlantic Ave. Now a homeless shelter, this and many other National Guard armories in neighborhoods around NYC were built to send a message to NYers that the military was watching, in response to labor unrest.
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Israel rejected a ceasefire this weekend and is ordering hundreds of thousands of families who have already lost their homes to Israeli bombardment to flee again from Rafah to G-d knows where. But you're worried that campus protests have gone "too far.".
BREAKING: Israel's army tells Palestinians to temporarily evacuate from parts of Rafah in southern Gaza, signaling that a ground invasion is imminent
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Facebook's hate speech policies are blind to class and negate racism if you include other modifiers like "reporter"
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These guys have been saying plain as day that they think multiracial democracy is the enemy, and are doing their damnest to oppose it.
Woke-ism, multiculturalism, all the -isms — they're not who America is. They distort our glorious founding and what this country is all about. Our enemies stoke these divisions because they know they make us weaker.
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The reason the DSA questionnaire asked about travel to Israel is because there has been a very clear call from Palestinians to boycott Israel until they have freedom. Given that we saw today reentrenchment of endless occupation and abandonment of Palestinians, it's an impt Q.
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Four @DemSocialists candidates just won primaries for state house seats in PA. Next up: NY State Senate! Sign up to canvass for @SalazarSenate18 here:
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If this is Israel's 9/11, have we learned anything from the Iraq and Afghanistan wars? . Clearly not. We cannot allow grief and suffering to be turned into more grief and suffering. Let humanitarian aid in. Negotiate hostage returns. Deescalate. Save lives.
SCOOP– Hours after Israel ordered an exodus in Gaza, State Department officials circulated internal warnings against 3 phrases:."de-escalation/ceasefire"."end to violence/bloodshed"."restoring calm".It's the latest sign the US won't urge Israeli restraint.
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I don't know who needs to hear this but all of Trump's Israel policy is based on facilitating Christian end times prophecies to hold on to his evangelical supporters. Nothing about it is good for the Jews. And it sure as hell is bad for Palestinians.
“And we moved the capital of Israel to Jerusalem. That’s for the Evangelicals. You know, it’s amazing with that: the Evangelicals are more excited by that than Jewish people.”
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Millions of Jews around the world will say "Next Year in Jerusalem" tomorrow during our festival of freedom. Today's powers-that-be in Jerusalem desecrate the holiday of liberation as they violently deny it to Palestinian neighbors.
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Thousands of Jews are taking our seder into the streets outside @SenSchumer's house because our Judaism teaches solidarity and liberation. Stop arming Israel. #CeasefireNOW
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Canvassing for @SalazarSenate18 and the neighbors asked “is that the girl from the paper this morning? I liked her.” Yes it is! ✊
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Headlines like this obscure both the responsibility and the harm, perpetuating the idea that this violence is inevitable, cyclical and abstract. It's not. 1/
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Thanks to the organizing of these beautiful people, Newburgh, NY voted UNANIMOUSLY to adopt rent stabilization!
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Israel’s brutal response to Palestinian protest became too unbearable 4 Portman to ignore. May this be a trend #BDS
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Critical piece of the insightful review by Judith Butler of How to Fight Antisemitism in @JewishCurrents: . Weiss "rails against identity politics" even as a particularist Jewish identity (to her is inseparable from Zionism) is the center of her politics.
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i literally could be listening to Bibi #Netanyahu right now at #AIPAC2016 wouldnt sound any different than #HillaryClinton.
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Some personal news, as they say .📝📊🧮🪙🎙️🤓.
I'm thrilled to announce the Comptroller's Office leadership team. This team brings a wide range of experience in and outside public service, a deep commitment to making government work better, and a strong investment building a more just and equal city.
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Andrew Cuomo is a vindictive, harassing, egotistical, monster. Glad we can all agree on that now. And glad he no longer has power over NYS.
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Bernie might be losing his voice but he is making a powerful case for democratic socialism on a national debate stage. #DemDebate.
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Hey #Clinton progressives–do you defend her vows to “strengthen” U.S. support 4 Netanyahu? @ggreenwald wants 2 know
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#MayDay caravan w/ @MaketheRoadNY: we demand a #Recovery4All! . 1) $3.5B Excluded Workers’ Fund to support those left out of the federal stimulus. 2) #CancelRent .3) #FreeThemAll: release incarcerated and detained community members at risk due to COVID-19.
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"What happened" was that the police department you have failed to put in check for years came out in riot gear to attack protesters heartbroken and outraged by centuries of racist violence.
We have a long night ahead of us in Brooklyn. Our sole focus is deescalating this situation and getting people home safe. There will be a full review of what happened tonight. We don’t ever want to see another night like this.
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Scare quotes on "occupation" just 1 of many ways NYT reporting dehumanizes Palestinians & downplays Israeli violence
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"It was a scream for life and an appeal to the international community." . I spoke w/ @jehadibnsaleem about the #GreatReturnMarch ahead of the one year anniversary tomorrow of a mass popular mobilization for freedom and dignity in Gaza for @JewishCurrents:
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#JewsAgainstICE are mobilizing in New Jersey this afternoon because the abuse of immigrants' rights isnt just happening at the border. There are three detention facilities in New Jersey, with terrible records of "harsh and inhumane" conditions #CloseTheCamps
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Today was my last day at the @NYCLU. I've learned so much from the brilliant, thoughtful, and passionate people here, and couldn't have asked for a better team. Excited to be joining @bradlander's team and diving into communicating about city politics and policy soon!.
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The Hudson Valley stands with @sarahana!!. Resounding win against >$150,000 in real estate spending 🙌
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NOW: American Jews are sitting shiva at the Metropolitan Republican Club in NYC, saying #WeAreHere to #EndWhiteNationalism. Watch:
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Never again means not now, not for anyone. I don't have the emotional or political bandwidth to debate that. The only conversation I'm interested in having is what more we can do to fight against locking up, tearing apart and bombing families. Shabbat Shalom.
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Cheers for @RashidaTlaib, soon to be first Palestinian-American in Congress for saying we should use the US's exorbitant military aid to Israel as leverage to end inequality & bring about justice. She's going to need our support to keep saying this.
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The takeaway today is that AIPAC is a destructive force in our politics that undermines our democracy in order to defend the indefensible. Thank you @JamaalBowmanNY.
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NYC lost 400,000 residents from 2020 to 2022, points out @bradlander in @thenation. “These families fleeing violence, discrimination, and destitution today will be the next generation to build New York City—and we need them.”.
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The @nytimes story on @ewarren's #MedicareForAll plan asks for doctors to respond to the question "how would you feel about being paid less?" . It doesn't ask the 50% of Americans who cannot afford a $500 emergency how they would feel about getting care w/o stress about debt.
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The hospitals in Gaza that need to treat over 1000 wounded people have severe shortages of supplies and electricity due to 10 years of an Israel-enforced blockade
BREAKING: Gaza's health officials say total of 52 Palestinians killed, more than 1,200 wounded by Israeli fire in Gaza.
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@IfNotNowOrg @BernieSanders @BetoORourke @ewarren @JulianCastro @KamalaHarris @PeteButtigieg Hey friends, Palestinians & allies have been protesting AIPAC for years. The Jewish community schism, incl. the mobilizing of @IfNotNowOrg, is part of the political shift that has enabled #skipAIPAC but lets not erase the progressives of all backgrounds that are part of it too.
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" It debunks the myth that there is a peace process, that Israel is a peace-seeking country & that a two-state solution is a goal. Israeli & American politicians have clung to that myth for far too long. to avoid being implicated for upholding a system of violence & inequality"
I agree with Israeli government officials, Jerusalem’s mayor, AIPAC and other blindly Zionist leaders in Israel and the U.S. that this is a positive and long overdue development.
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Pro-life =/= 200,000 dead from a virus you refused to take seriously.
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The Israeli government is voting to annex Palestinian territory, after occupying it for 50+ years, but its Palestinians whose funding the US will cut. What "peace process?"
Nikki Haley: U.S. to withhold funding for UN agency for Palestinian refugees until they join peace process
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