Nicki
@nickikattoura
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Stomping on food after arresting students protesting the forced starvation of Palestinians in Gaza.
They're pouring out all the coffee and stomping on all the food.
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The most horrifying thing I’ve read.
During the massacre at al-Shifa Hospital, the Israeli army shot patients in their beds and doctors who refused to abandon the sick, separated people into groups with differently-colored bracelets, and executed hundreds of civil government employees.
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Palestinians are being bombed off the face of the earth—literally vaporized into thin air. Meanwhile liberals come together in Chicago to cheer on the administration funding and facilitating this genocide. I’m going insane I’m going insane I’m going insane I’m going insane I’m g-
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The
@brooklynmuseum
gives a land acknowledgement before calling in the pigs to arrest people protesting a genocide.
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Faculty you only have one option: strike. No grades. No classes. No commencement. Cancel the fucking semester.
According to Columbia by-laws, police are not supposed to be allowed on campus without the consent of the faculty. President Shafik does *not* have our approval for this raid; she has not even asked our approval. This promises to be a horrifying dereliction of faculty governance
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Palestinians were just so brutally massacred that they can’t identify any bodies. They are counting the number of martyrs by weighing their flesh. But tell me about needing your bodily autonomy protected and a candidate who is “pro-housing” and “pro-kid”
I would love to be a single issue voter but I can’t - as much as I would love an unabashedly pro-Palestine candidate, i need a candidate who will protect my body autonomy, knows housing is a human right, pro-union, anti-war, anti-racist, pro-lgbtq, pro-education, pro-kids…
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You’re not an organization that is “above politics.” Refusing to call what is happening in Gaza a “genocide” is a political choice. Saying “Israel-Palestine” is a political choice. Describing it as a “war IN Gaza” rather than a “war ON Gaza” is a political choice. Wtf is this?
🧵"Can an organization that sees itself as above politics, that sees itself straightforwardly as a support system for an open society, be allowed to exist anymore?" asks
@galbeckerman
in
@TheAtlantic
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Please bring this back
#NYC
"You refuse to call it a genocide" - handful of protesters chase after Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez at a Brooklyn movie theater, "You gonna cut it and take it out of context, I already said that it was" - AOC responded to protesters claims on refusing word "Genocide" , "This is
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Yesterday Columbia president testified in Congress about some imagined danger against Jewish students who feel targeted by the phrase “from the river to the sea”. Today the president is sanctioning hundreds of cops in riot gear to violently arrest said students opposing genocide.
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These students, like Palestinians, are unstoppable. This encampment, like Palestine, immovable.
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I haven’t seen a single person in Gaza ask that we vote for Kamala Harris or give any impression that voting for her would save them.
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I will never be the same
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All eyes on Rafah. There’s nowhere to go.
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Throughout the massacres—excavating mass graves, digging through rubble looking for life, moving from one tent to the other, mourning their families and loved ones—Palestinians are starving. They have not eaten.
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“[Jordan’s] friend, the Lebanese poet Etel Adnan, once wrote to her with wry approval: ‘they never forgive you for thinking that Arabs are human beings.’”
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I sat down with
@4noura
on day 38. 127 days later, on Day 165, it is painful how relevant this conversation remains.
Thank you
@HammerandHope
not just for a stunning issue on Palestine but also signing onto PACBI!
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Palestinians are so dehumanized that you can’t even recognize the contradiction of needing a “pro-housing” candidate who also supports and funds the bombing of schools that Palestinians seek refuge in. Israel has literally destroyed Gaza’s homes.
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Boycott Pen America.
The coalition Writers Against the War on Gaza is calling for a boycott of PEN America, accusing the organization of acting counter to its core mission and general mismanagement.
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From Shafik’s email after the raid on Hind Hall.
SCOOP: An NYPD officer fired their gun inside Hamilton Hall during the Columbia raid on Tuesday, Manhattan DA confirms.
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So hypothetically, if someone protested one of your indoor events, you’d be ok with that?
American University has banned all indoor protest in a move PEN America's Kristen Shahverdian says will limit dialogue and clamp down on free expression:
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The only humanitarian aid that US-built "Gaza aid pier" brought in were scores of Zionist soldiers hiding in a humanitarian aid truck.
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What kind of “bodily autonomy” can Kamala protect when Palestinians are amputated without anesthetic? When journalists are beheaded? When mothers are dying in childbirth?
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Being “pro-kid” doesn’t account for the thousands and thousands of Palestinian children that have been slaughtered and maimed by Israel. Remember this press conference children held asking the world to stop bombing them?
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Do you want to tell us why they withdrew their books from consideration,
@PENamerica
? Is it perhaps because of your horrific stance on the genocide (a word you still haven’t used) in Gaza?
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Masha Gessen will only be remembered for peddling horrific lies to sustain the genocide of the Palestinian people.
During one of the bloodiest weeks in Gaza since 10/7, Gessen, the New Yorker's premier voice on Palestine, has accused the anti-Zionist left of rape denialism. The subtext of their racist new essay, riddled with Zionist hearsay and pseudo-expertise, is: “Believe Israelis.”
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You cannot be an organization focused on “open discourse” and “the right to disagree” when 40,000 Palestinians have literally been exterminated.
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While the
@nytimes
refuses to cover the siege of Al Shifa and the several war crimes committed in the last 7 days alone,
@wawog_now
put together this really harrowing timeline of events pieced together by journalists on the ground.
U.S. reporting on Al-Shifa always begins with IOF claims: “Israel” is simply waging a “large-scale military operation” against “top Hamas operatives” hiding out in the hospital. But as our timeline shows, the brutal siege was, in reality, another flour massacre.
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From my new essay in
@Fikra_Magazine
Today, on Palestinian Prisoners Day, the words of Nicki Kattoura resonate as we stand up to the daily human rights violations in occupation prisons. “...we are not interested in reforming a brutal occupation, we are committed to abolishing it.”
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And then finally “anti-war” … when after ten months of the most horrifying images, there has been no ceasefire or arms embargo.
I need everyone to really reflect on the racist logic that you operate on when you separate the genocide in Gaza from issues that concern you.
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She will always be remembered as the president that called the NYPD on her students not once, but twice. Who commended the cops for doing a “professional job” despite them shooting in Hind’s Hall. I hope it was worth it: brown faces in high places won’t save us. Good riddance.
Minouche Shafik has officially stepped down as president of Columbia University.
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Name ONE convincing argument that killing 40,000 Palestinians (14,000 children) bombing every hospital, university, and place of worship, blocking life saving aid, and starving 2 million Palestinians is NOT genocide.
Bro this is exactly why writers pulled out of your festival.
"Plenty of arguments exist on the side of those who do not see what Israel is doing as genocide—and they are compelling even for people like myself who believe that Israel has acted recklessly and in a way that constitutes collective punishment." (3/x)
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You want an “anti-racist” president who gives weapons to a settler colonial state that has killed over FORTY THOUSAND people. That claimed that the war was against “human animals.” What does anti racist mean to you?
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“If a leader is absent, another one rises”—Ismail Haniyeh
Yahya Sinwar has been appointed the head of Hamas' Political Bureau.
Israel's worst nightmare now unfolding.
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That's also around half of each caucus present.
By my count, roughly 100 of the 212 House Democrats and 27 of 51 Senate Democrats (and Dem-caucusing independents) are in the chamber for Netanyahu's speech.
That's around half of each caucus absent.
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Not to mention that, even if absent, these are the same people that vote time and time again to give Israel more military aid. They facilitate the genocide of Palestinians. Symbolic action means literally nothing to me. Sanction Israel and place an arms embargo immediately.
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“Crime is down and police funding is up.” - Sheriff Chris Swanson speaking at American Fourth Reich Convention
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Thirty-four years ago today, the Philly Police Department dropped a bomb on the MOVE HQ killing 11.
Today the IOF dropped a bomb on a three-floor residential building killing 30
Breaking:
The number of people who got killed in the air strike on the three-floor residential building in Nuseirat Camp is now 30.
More people are still under the rubble.
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The NYT will write in active voice and use synonyms for children: “children and teenagers” when they allege it was a Hezbollah strike. Meanwhile Palestinian babies, children, adolescents, youth, and teenagers are nowhere to be read.
On-the-ground reports contradict the Israeli claim that Hezbollah bombed the Golan Heights on Saturday—some locals reported an Iron Dome misfire—yet today the
@nytimes
presents Israel’s narrative as fact to justify the IOF bombing a densely populated neighborhood.
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you'll literally do anything but actually organize yourselves to end the genocide in Gaza. utterly and shamelessly pathetic and unserious.
Ahead of the 2024
#PENWorldVoices
Festival, nine former PEN America presidents came together to stress the importance of the organization’s role in maintaining open dialogue within the writing community, especially at a time of divisive conflict:
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They quote my oped, cowritten with Geo Maher, as an example of “misunderstanding Fanon.” Maybe you should read our piece before you read Adam Shatz.
Nuanced & thoughtful review by
@edokonrad
of new book by a nuanced & thoughtful thinker, the only person I really trust to explain Fanon - Adam Shatz.
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Glory to our martyrs.
In 2011 Walid Daqqa wrote a letter to his future child, Milad, whose name means “birth.” He sent the letter to his wife, Sama, who was forbidden from seeing him alone. “I write to an idea or a dream that unwittingly terrifies the jailor before it even comes to fruition,” he said.
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🚨🚨🚨
‼️ BREAKING: On Thursday, a New York Times employee assaulted protesters in the lobby of the
@nytimes
building, screaming “why don’t you just go and f***ing die” and “if you think it’s so easy, go to Palestine.” His name is Michael Kane.
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@bossycatlady
You are fucking sick.
From the massacre that just took place in Khan Younis.
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PEN America rejects the boycott of PEN America
Ah
@PENamerica
-- rather than respond to our critique the board just calls it an illegitimate attack. No matter how we engage, what we say, all PA responds with are blanket statements and big scary words with no evidence behind them.
#BoycottPENAmerica
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There’s no fucking way.
@hannahdreier
@nytimes
@stillsarita
@NewYorker
@sarahanneconway
@city_bureau
@invinst
@Reuters
@washingtonpost
Congratulations to
@nytimes
.
#Pulitzer
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Drop
@PENamerica
!
BREAKING:
@PENAmerica
’s staff union has gone public about the organization’s attempts to suppress the “political activity” of its workers—a striking blow to (what is left of) the org’s reputation for protecting free speech. Read our statement on the state of the org below:
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Honored to have done this interview with
@Bashar__Murad
a few months ago.
We sat down with the Jerusalem-based interdisciplinary artist to discuss his music and the responsibility of global artists to speak out against the decimation of Gaza.
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Why you should boycott PEN America:
This morning,
@wawog_now
announced a complete boycott of
@PENamerica
over its ongoing normalization of genocide, its relationship with the U.S. State Department, its mismanagement of funds, and its abuse of staff. Do not work with
@PENamerica
until these conditions are met.
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Maybe I’m just really sad and reading into something that isn’t there, but it feels symbolic that it rains during the vigil for a man who set himself on fire for Palestine. As
@BerlantBro
said to me, “is this the world trying to suppress the fire or put out the burn wounds?”
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I sat down with
@4noura
on day 38. 127 days later, on Day 165, it is painful how relevant this conversation remains.
Thank you
@HammerandHope
not just for a stunning issue on Palestine but also signing onto PACBI!
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When Israel drops leaflets over Rafah telling them to "evacuate" what they're actually saying is "we're going to kill you because we know that there is nowhere to go."
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After 11 months of genocide you still want recognition from the party supplying the bombs. Any speech you give on the DNC stage will give cover to the Democratic Party. It makes no sense to me.
No is not an acceptable answer. Please reconsider. We’re being extremely reasonable.
I’m waiting for the call from the Vice President’s team. I can’t go anywhere until the Vice President agrees to having a Palestinian American speak from the stage.
I’m waiting for the call.
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unrelated, but does shai davidai wear the same outfit all the time...?
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Ten months into this genocide and we’re still centering imagined feelings over material violence.
Read my full statement on the protests in Washington, D.C. yesterday.
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“All eyes on Rafah” feels so meaningless when people are beheaded burned alive.
We need action and escalation and resistance and mass movements and fight and bravery and rage and rage and rage for Rafah
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It always astounds me how quickly electoral politics placates people; how it defangs them of their most radical demands. Have you just entirely forgotten the images that have come out of Gaza over the last ten months? Do they not matter to you anymore?
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“Understanding the ways genocide extends far beyond and before the current apocalypse, makes clear that a ceasefire is not enough. We must demand freedom and an end to the occupation if we hope to bring the slow violence…to a screeching halt.”
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It is clear that
@PENamerica
leadership must resign. I hope they’re have the day they deserve.
Why isn’t PEN America paying its incarcerated literary prize winners?
@alex_tretbar
&
@deutschbitte
ask in a new op-ed. Recent winners of PEN America’s Prison Writing Awards are missing a total of $925 in payments—a small fortune in prison.
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A father lost his wife and 4-day-old twins in an airstrike. Meanwhile liberals are calling Palestinians (or "watermelon people") anti-Black for not wanting to vote for the vice president funding and facilitating their murder. If genocide is not your red line, what is?
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On National Palestinian Prisoners Day, I’m honored to share my essay outlining the Palestinian struggle as a fundamentally abolitionist one.
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Honored to have contributed to this unbelievable issue.
We are living through a revival of internationalism and another extended moment of mass protest. Even as we tire in the face of exhausting odds, a hulking imperial ship that refuses to acknowledge our power as it trembles, we must persist.
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Republicans: "go back to where you came from!"
Democrats: "so go fly to Palestine and fight there if that is a bigger priority to you!"
@nickikattoura
We’re focused on defeating Project 2025. We live here, in America, and right now our top priority is beating Donald Trump. So go fly to Palestine and fight there if that is a bigger priority to you. Meanwhile, we will continue supporting Kamala.
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Mic drop.
A brief response to Zadie Smith's recent essay, "Shibboleth."
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Name ONE convincing argument that killing 40,000 Palestinians (14,000 children) bombing every hospital, university, and place of worship, blocking life saving aid, and starving 2 million Palestinians is NOT genocide.
Bro this is exactly why writers pulled out of your festival.
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Columbia should never invoke the name of Edward Said ever again. He would be in that encampment himself.
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I thought they were chanting “not another bomb” but they were in fact chanting “lock him up” 🫥
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Queer Palestinians are simultaneously invisibilized and hypervisible: Zionists can't comprehend that we exist in Gaza and are being killed by Israeli airstrikes while also framing the "war against Hamas" as a war against homophobia positioning Israel as a refuge for queer Palis
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I’m genuinely losing my mind
Nowhere else on Earth could a kid with a stutter from modest beginnings one day sit behind the Resolute Desk as your president.
But here I am.
That is what’s so special about America.
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Hundreds of arrests, people maced, brutalized, assaulted, hijabs ripped off, NYPD swarming the city, streets entirely blockaded all in the name of restoring safety.
Is anyone safer?
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literally shut the fuck up
I am horrified and disgusted with the antisemitism being spewed at and around the Columbia University campus. Hate has no place in our city, and I have instructed the NYPD to investigate any violation of law they receive a report about and will arrest anyone found to be breaking
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Cops destroying the tents of Columbia students' encampment and stomping on their food after arresting them en masse.
IOF bombing and bulldozing refugee sites in Gaza and starving Palestinians to death.
There's a reason the chant goes:
NYPD, KKK, IOF they re all the
same.
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The images out of Gaza today are the worst I’ve ever seen. How are they getting worse?
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“Read something fucking history”
He’s *incensed* that the school isn’t rolling out the red carpet for him to forcibly escalate against students. Also, no NYPD escort which he made a big show over in his initial push for a manufactured outrage cycle.
Insane.
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In fact
@CAMONGHNE
@mayabinyam
@hystericalblkns
and
@drovarela
have made it ABUNDANTLY clear why they are withdrawing. The least you could do is relay the message to others.
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“My focus on the comma is not indicative of my obsession with grammar but perhaps a culmination. I’ve been spending days consuming Palestinian suffering that I can only bear to think about the comma rather than the words that it encases.”
@nickikattoura
on the impossible syntax of genocide: “The comma neatly separates a list of things that are completely entangled, and in the process obscures the degree of violence happening to each individual.”
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BREAKING: The Lancet has just published this article "conservatively" estimating that the death toll in the Gaza genocide could be 186,000 people or more. That's 8% of the population, obliterated. These are apocalyptic figures.
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Hmmm what were the protestors playing over their speakers?
@randajarrar
was playing the names of Palestinian writers killed by Israel. The same Israel that Bialik has been violently and loudly supporting.
A statement about the January 31 event hosted by PEN America in Los Angeles.
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We were never meant to see a beheaded baby. Our minds weren’t designed to process the image, let alone the reality, of a beheaded baby. This is zionism. It cannot continue to exist.
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This was hard to write. “Are we indeed all Palestinians?”
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Just remember that suspending, evicting, and sanctioning NYPD to mass arrest students is Columbia administration’s response to students demanding an end to genocide. A genocide that has already killed 34,000 Palestinians. The anti-Palestinian racism is sickening.
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When Zionists respond to the demand for a ceasefire with “return the hostages” do they know that a ceasefire would in fact return the hostages?
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Any comment,
@PENamerica
?
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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I welcome anyone that has corrected themselves and has since called for a ceasefire. But I also can't shake the feeling that any celebrity, politician, or person that is only vocal now had a number of dead Palestinians that they were okay with.
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“These sentences are not incantations for resurrection; they are a reality that is unfathomable to people with conscience, and they prove, with ease, the futility of the writing endeavor to either capture apocalypse or mourn its victims.”
On
@lithub
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Some might beg to differ.
We’re not going anywhere
We’re not going anywhere
We’re not going anywhere
We’re not going anywhere
We’re not going anywhere
We’re not going anywhere
We’re not going anywhere
We’ll say it as many times as it takes to sink in.
Am Yisrael Chai 💙
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hahahahahahahahahahahahhahahahahahahahahahahahahahhahahahahahahahha
Israel's UN Ambassador takes out a mini-shredder at the General Assembly podium to shred pages of a pocket-size UN Charter.
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The blood on his shirt, his face, on his glasses. Another martyr. 13 years old. 13 years old. 13. 13. 13. 13. 13....Death to Zionism and all that aids and abets it.
The young girl, Sarah Bashir (13 years old), was killed when an Israeli tank shell targeted her family's home in eastern Deir al-Balah, in the central Gaza Strip.
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that's a flag :)
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So is the genocide in Gaza
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@penamerica
is incapable of using the word “genocide.”
As we mark 6 months since Hamas’ terrorist attack on Israel and the ensuing Israeli military assault on Gaza, we are devastated by a war that has stolen too many lives, silenced voices and left civilians shattered, displaced, threatened and mourning unfathomable losses. (1/4)
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Some of you are 0 issue voters and make purely vibes-based assessments
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“Everyone has the right to safety, dignity, and justice”—Kamala Harris accepting presidential nomination
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