Rebecca Collard
@rebeccacollard
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Journalist contributing to @CBC @ForeignPolicy @Time @PRIWorld among others. former fellow at @MasseyCollege.
Berlin
Joined July 2010
There is still a certain shock to seeing German police drag a Jewish person, in kippah, through a park in Berlin while children watch on. My belief in German ‘memory culture’ was short lived, but this is wild. #germany #Erinnerungskultur
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“From Tehran to Beirut, one revolution that won’t die” . Lebanese chanting in support of Iran protests tonight. #LebanonProtests #IranProtests #iran #لبنان_ينتقض
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Raging fire in Beirut’s port right now, causing a wave panic across Beirut one month after the #BeirutBlast ravaged the city. #lebanon
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Thousands of volunteers from all over Lebanon have come to Beirut to help with the clean up. #lebanon
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Sitting on my Beirut balcony listening to celebratory gunfire for the elections. Hear a ping, find this bullet on my couch. #LebaneseElections2018
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Doom-theme music as Hezbollah started its press conference on covid-19 today. #coronavirus #lebanon #covid19
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Here is a video of the Hezbollah / Amal supporters surrounding me and taking my phone, after I told them in was a journalist. #LebanonProtests #LebaneseRevolution
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Lebanon has a new hero when people have given up on their leaders. A pup named Flash from Chile that detected the human scent under the rubble a month after the #Beirutblast spurring this rescue effort. #نبض_بيروت #lebanon (video from yesterday)
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As Iraqi Yazidi activist Nadia Murad receives the #NobelPeacePrize for her important work, let's not forget Omar Abdel Jabar, the man who gave up everything to save her. #NobelPrize2018
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“Hezbollah are terrorists!” chant the anti-government protesters at the supporters on the other side of the police line. #LebaneseProtests . #جسر_الرينغ
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'Death for America' chant some of the Kurdish protestors outside consulate in Erbil. #KirkukCrises #Iraq #kurds
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Lebanon is one of the world's top producers of cannabis. Today the parliament passed a bill to legalize it for medical and industrial production--not recreational.
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According to the @Jerusalem_Post: Israel’s best advocate is a non-Jew who calls Holocaust survivors ‘Jew-haters’, says he’s keeping ‘receipts’ on Jews in Berlin and talks about wanting an IDF gangbang.
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“This is the last day we will clean the streets and the rubble in Beirut. Tomorrow we clean Beirut of corrupt politicians.” Someone handed me this yesterday, it calls for massive protests today. #beirut_explosion
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This guy on my street in Beirut is so angry about the power cut he wants to light the generator guy’s shop on fire—using a bottle of precious gasoline! which ends up spilled on the street as a fight break out. #Lebanon
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It’s it now illegal to watch this video in Germany? Could I get in trouble for interviewing @yanisvaroufakis by Zoom from my home in Berlin? (Serious question!).
It turns out that, since German police decreed that Ghassan Abu Sittah would have broken the law if he dared post a video of the speech they did not let him deliver at our Congress, the same applies to me. Glad to have broken their pathetic law by posting my speech - see below.
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Socail distancing is a privilege. One most of the world’s 70 million displaced people don’t have. My piece for @ForeignPolicy . #covid19 #coronavirus #refugees.
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It’s a scary combination of trauma appropriation, what @Deborah_Feldman calls ‘Judenfetisch’, and a moment here in Germany where non-Jews have been emboldened to police Jewish thought, in way that feels a little to 1930s.
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Anger from the crowd at news that the army is ordering the search operation stopped for the night. Rescuers believe someone may be alive under the rubble here a month after the #BeirutBlast #Lebanon
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With the internet blocked it's hard to know what's actually happening in Iran. #Iranprotests.
The Iranian government has shut down access to the internet right across the country. Reporter @RebeccaCollard explains why the regime might be using this tactic to shut down protesters and the press.
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While regular Lebanese couldn't withdraw $100, Lebanese elites were transferring more money than ever--billions of $$--to Swiss bank accounts.
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The injured were non-stop earlier near Beirut’s port. At least 3000 injured, more than 60 dead and those numbers are sure to rise. #lebanon
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Looking more like a hostage release than a diplomatic visit. Reuters video of Lebanon PM Saad Hariri arriving in Paris. #freesaadhariri #ksa
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Protesters near the blast site in Beirut. Almost everyone I talked to today said they will be back protesting the government as soon as the rubble is cleaned up. #lebanon
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The day after #NadiaMurad won the #NobelPrize, I spoke again with Omar Jabar, who saved her from Mosul. He said he had no news from Nadia. He lives alone, in limbo in Germany having escaped ISIS himself. #NobelPeacePrize #NobelPrize2018 #ISIS #germany .
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Search is continuing under floodlights where crews believe someone could still be trapped alive under the rubble almost a month after the #BeirutBlast. #Lebanon
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It’s raining in Beirut. Hasn’t the city suffered enough? Thinking of all the people without doors and windows and homes tonight. #Beirut_Explosion
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He also attacked my ‘dignity’ and ‘ethics’ when I called him out, in a way typical of misogynist attacks.
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Thousands of Russians lined-up outside the Russian embassy in Berlin and chant in unison against the war. Most are answering the call ‘noon against Putin’ #NoonAgainstPutin
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Protesting in the pandemic. Police handing out masks to protesters in Beirut. #Lebanon #LebanonProtests #covid19 #coronavirus
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“Here is Lebanon, not Iran,” chat the protesters toward the Hezbollah supporters. #LebaneseProtests . #جسر_الرينغ
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For the first time since clashes with Hezbollah and Amal supporters last week, protesters have close the Ring Bridge. #LebaneseProtests . #جسر_الرينغ
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The international community seems increasingly unwilling to give the Lebanese government any direct aid after Tuesday's blast. I talked with @NatashaFatah about what that might mean. #beirutprotests #BeirutExplosions.
Beirutis are handing out pamphlets saying they are done cleaning the streets, it's time to clean up the government. There are more protests planned for today and the frustration of the people is growing #BeirutBlast #Beirut . @rebeccacollard is on the ground
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Joe Biden one month ago: "There is going be no circumstance where you are going to see people be lifted off the roof of an embassy of the United States from Afghanistan." .Photos from @AP .#FallOfKabul
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Protests are on-going in Beirut despite gov backing down from WhatsApp tax. Tires still burning and smoke rising above the iconic Hariri mosque. #lebanon
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Omer Jabar video chats with the son he’s never met. His wife was pregnant when he fled Iraq after helping @NobelPrize winner @NadiaMuradBasee Murad escape Isis. #mosul #nobelprize2018 #nobelprizewinner #yazidi #germany story here:
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Just received warning my flight is cancelled after Iraq promised to close Kurds' airports. #KurdistanReferendum
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Amy now separating Hezbollah / Amal supporters and protesters on the ring after clashes. #LebanonProtests . #جسر_الرينغ
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Artists against war protest in Tel Aviv is sadly bigger than any I saw in the West Bank this week #Gaza
http://t.co/G3o1Px6Sdd.
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Amal / Hezbollah supporters rip down and burn a banner saying ‘Lebanese rise up.’ #لبنان_يتنفض #LebanonProtests
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International rights groups are starting to call-out Germany’s increasing restrictions on free expression.
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Lebanon's protests have failed to bring down the country's sectarian system, but they have managed to create and reclaim public space, and that could be key. Listen here: .My piece for @pritheworld w/ @lucienbourjeily .#LebanonProtests لبنان__ينتفض# .
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Just 1 km from #ISIS Canadian Forigen Minister on front line with Kurdish peshmerga forces #iraq
http://t.co/8t8bOGHasT.
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The JPost has since changed the title, but keeps their endorsement.
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The terrifying scene as journalists try to escape before an Israel air strike flattens the media building in Gaza. #palestine #israel.
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I’m back! Six weeks after being hacked, @Twitter has finally given my account back, through my verified status has been removed. Hi everyone!
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I spoke with @NatashaFatah about the glimmer of hope under the rubble in Beirut. #beirut_rescue #BeirutBlast.
It has been 1 month since a deadly explosion killed 200 people, injured thousands, left tens of thousands homeless, and levelled Beirut. But there is always hope. Rescue workers are still digging through debris after hearing a possible heartbeat below. @rebeccacollard reports
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Literally translation: Shia, Sunni, the vagina of sister of sectarianism. Anti-sectarian chants on Beirut’s Ring Bridge now. #LebanonProtests
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@Echtzeitreise @Jerusalem_Post @Echtzeitreise not hurt, disgusted. I posted about him after months of watching him using the Holocaust/my family’s trauma as a backdrop to talk about being a power gay who wants to be gangraped by Israeli soldiers. But yes, the most important thing is that he’s a comedian.
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The value of the Lebanese Lira is changing every 20 mins or so. How can an ecomony function like this?
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She told me she lived through Lebanon’s civil war and she’s never seen anything like this. #Beirut_Explosion
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I have my phone and am safe ! Sorry if that was not clear.
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Was a challenge tonight to find audio for my radio package that did not include the word ’dick' or a reference to the private parts of the mother of Lebanon’s FM Gibran Bassil. Lots of potty mouths here. #Lebanon #lebanonprotests #beirut
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“I have to tell the father, ‘Your child was raped,’” said Ms. Omari. “That was the most difficult thing. How can I tell him that?” My piece on the street children of Tripoli and a woman trying to save them. Photos by @DiegoIbarra_S #Lebanon #Syria.
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This woman confronting the army saying ‘no one is allowed to leave.’ A month of anger at the lack of help from the Lebanese state is boiling over now as people were hoping for a miracle. #Beirutblast #Lebanon
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Woman shaming young male protestors, after they retreated from clashes with Amal and Hezbollah supporters, yesterday. The men tell her the Amal/Hez were kicking women. ‘Okay, I’m going,’ she says and walks toward the site of the clashes alone. #لبنان_يتنفض #LebanonProtests
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Lebanese civil defense have returned to the site where rescuers believe a survivor of the Aug 4 blast may still be alive under the rubble after the army ordered the operation halted. Crowd cheers. #beirutblast #lebanon
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Mock cover of TIME after my piece yesterday describing the popular chant again FM #GibranBassil . #LebanonProtests #لبنان_ينتقض
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Who does the U.S. want less to have its advanced military equipment at this point? Iran or the Taliban?.
Extraordinary scenes of #Afghanistan’s military fleeing to #Iran with advanced equipment, likely supplied by US. Iran’s defense industries will want to get their hands on that equipment
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Search effort temporarily halted amid fears the building could collapse where crews believe someone may be alive under the rubble a month after the #BeirutBlast. Hearing that a team of engineers are on the way. #Lebanon
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Jewish organization @JSNahost is protesting the German bank that froze its account, demanding the names and addresses of its members. A move the leftist organization has compared to Nazi-era policies.
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Police prevented protester holding Palestinian flags from joining the protest. #germany #Palestine #Israel
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From inside this #Hungary camp they sent me this photo of water pouring on the beds of refugees #refugeecrisis
http://t.co/KrugSIW4hT.
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Already so many ambulances in downtown Beirut as security forces use tear gas and on protesters. #Beirut_Explosion
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