Samer Alatout
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Buttel-Sewell Prof, U Wisc, Madison. Sci. Studs, settler colon., #Israel_#Palestine, #WaterPolitics. All views my own. I block inapprop. lang, & stupid hasbara.
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How can we think of alternative futures? It's long, but please read, think, and participate. What to do in a world that is flipping the Enlightenment scripts about "rights" "equity" "freedom" & "life"? What to do when the world is clearly going back on the promise of "Never.
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Forgive me everybody: I tweet so much because I’m haunted by the slow, deliberate mutilation of my people, our beautiful children, and our very existence. All in front of the whole world to see with the full support of my own government. I am flailing and don’t know what else to.
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@POTUS You’re nothing but a criminal who enabled and even led a genocide. You actually are still doing it. You will go down on history with the likes of Hitler and Netanyahu.
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What the heck do people think the word “intifada” means? Are they insane? This crazy and purposeful misleading has to stop. Weaponizing yet another term that has nothing to do with genocide. Can they damn ask us, Arabic speaking people, to explain it to them?.
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طلاب جامعة ويسكونسن في مدينة ماديسون بيسطروا أجمل المواقف المدافعة عن فلسطين في التخييم في الحرم الجامعي للمطالبة بعدم الاستثمار أو التعامل مع اسرائيل. اصتدموا مع قوة البوليس يوم الأربعاء ولكن أعادوا بناء المخيم في خلال ساعة من هدم الخيم. الإدارة الآن تتحاور حول مطالبهم و ان
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I literally wish I were in Gaza. No exaggeration. Eat with them, travel with them, and die with them. The most honorable life/death I can think of. I don't think those on the other side understand!!!!.
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@campbell_brown Well, if you give it some time, I promise you, you might be able to move into my family’s house, beautiful, built in 1804 in old city of Nablus. Just wait a few months until the genocide is all done. Then you don’t have to be in the middle of violence even. You can do it with an.
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We Palestinians went through so many traumas, but it's probably fair to say that this one compares only to our original one, 1948 Nakba. In collective trauma one doesn't have to live through the events themselves to be indelibly marked by their effects. I know that I carried.
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UW Madison students encampment starts: dispose, divest, we will not stop, we will not rest.
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He’s letting you into his soul. What’s occupies it? Do you think this kid will ever be ready to forgive or forget?
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@ItsAyaHijazi شكرا على دعمك، آية. الصحيح ان طلابنا هائلين و أعادوا بناء المخيم خلال ساعة واحدة من هدمه. مفاوضاتهم مع الجامعة مستمرة و ان شاء الله يحققو معظم مطالبهم سريعا.
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I was hesitant to retweet this story the whole day bc (1) I thought it’s so evil that (2) I needed to make sure that I at thought it most probably happened. I believe that now. It’s most vile, evil, satanic, and violent. I saw many testimonials on the ground, and from the.
Journalist Anas AlSharif reporting from Kamal Adwan hospital: ."Dozens of displaced and wounded people were buried alive. The occupation's bulldozers trampled the tents of the displaced people in the hospital yard and brutally crushed them. I saw cats eating the bodies of.
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Israeli settlers and Israeli army have been conducting pogroms, assassinations, house demolitions, arrests, and just today demolition of a hospital in the West Bank for the last two months. More than 250 were killed since 10/7. If, when, Palestinians in West Bank respond any day.
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@amyalkon I don't know if you're trying to gaslight on purpose or just genuinely didn't understand what he said? he was so respectful while you were screaming. He kept saying Ma'am. For example, he said "Ma'am, you have every right to support whoever you want." He also said, "It's not.
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@SecBlinken I can’t believe he says these things without irony. How does one get that way? Seriously?.
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@FranceskAlbs You are an amazingly courageous person. Such an integrity. Thank you for being, for witnessing, and for the crazy perseverance that’s not common with people in your position. ❤️❤️.
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@SMArikat Thank you Said. This guy is definitely not one of those objecting to the administration’s handling of the war. Every time he opens his mouth to talk about Palestinians he seems filled w hate and detestation and repugnance. & he’s so robotic on top of that.
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I know many Zionists lie purposefully, but to tell you the truth, I was absolutely unaware of the great number of them who have been utterly brainwashed in Zionist camps, who actually believe the fantastical Zionist narrative. What do I do with those people? It’s so difficult to.
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@AjAqrabawi But I stop reading after I get to: “and I support Palestinians right to life, liberty and happiness.” That’s a classic Zionist trope: we support their right to life, liberty and happiness, but no mention of LIFE AS A POLITICAL COMMUNITY. This is what Zionists did with the.
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@RepKManning Who the hell are you to decide what is and is not misinformation? How do you know? You are so trusting of Israeli and US intelligence on the hospital? What about the many experts in the UK, the US, and the people on the ground, all dispute your account? Why should Tlaib or any.
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Students at the @UWMadison encampment “Popular University for Gaza” in the “liberated Zone” are an amazing group of students: all races, religions, countries of origins and ethnicities. Remarkable. They are continuing negotiations with university administration and hopefully
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@RitchieTorres It’s amazing how low you go, even in a tragedy like this one? You cannot just shut up and act like a decent humanbeing even for a minute? I mean AIPAC does not buy every minute of your time, do they? Sheesh. 🙄 chill man.
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Thank you everyone for your support. Sorry I haven’t had the time to engage because of being involved with events on campus, but here is an interview w me that gets at some of the points I’ve been reflecting on. I am going to work on a fuller statement on the events this week and.
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@benshapiro You’re really funny, as in “funny funny��. I can’t believe some people still listen to @benshapiro and the emptiness in his head that comes out so shrill.
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More than 230 faculty, staff, and graduate students/workers at the University of Wisconsin, Madison issued a statement rejecting the conflation of anti-Zionism and anti-Israeli-policies with antisemitism. Here is the statement: .
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@SecBlinken @FaisalbinFarhan You’ve been saying the same damn slogans for months. Do you really think we believe you?.
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@danielsgoldman That’s always bad. Really. I feel awful for them. But while I’m able to empathize w everyone, regardless of who they are, you don’t seem to have that capacity. Because, did you know that Israeli occupation forces hold more than a thousand kidnapped Palestinian children in its.
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ّI had cancer for the last two years, & was cleared in July or so. Few ppl know. But, I seriously wish, I wish, I died of cancer B4 the deaths of children of #Gaza_genocide. I sincerely do. I told my 16 and 12 yo kids. I had enough #Israels_genocidal_tendencies. I want to leave.
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@4noura @4noura should run for the VP position on @DrJillStein’s ticket. It’s not only amazing for Palestinian voices, but also for progressives everywhere—she has consistently been an honest, strong voice for those oppressed, nationally and internationally. As a matter of fact, she.
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@SecBlinken @POTUS Spare me your tears. When you said an agreement was reached after meeting with the Israeli government for 7:30 hours yesterday: Did that agreement include the bombing of the hospital and the ethnic cleansing of Palestine?.
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@danielsgoldman What is the difference between you and Netanyahu? He tells Palestinians in Gaza to leave or he will bomb them to oblivion (ethnic cleansing?) and you try to force @RepRashida to say something she doesn't believe in OR ELSE WE WILL CENSURE YOU. What a disappointment you are.
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@JakeWSimons Oh my. Your damn arrogance is so unbearable. Whoa. Seriously. Get off your supremacist trip guys.
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Whoa. The Israeli Occupation Army just issued an order to cancel all vacations of all service members for all divisions at all fronts for everyone. Members are not to go home.
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@moawady Condolences. But why does your tweet sound like it went through a whole committee of Israeli and US reviewers to remove the words Palestinians, killed (bc not loss), his courage was in the face of Israeli indiscriminate bombing (not adversity), genocidal war (not conflict). I.
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@SuppressedNws Even after the supposed win by killing Siwar, they still lie and try to pin something anything on UNRWA. Thanks for amazing investigative journalism by @tamerqdh.
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Educational note (4?): Reclaiming intifada as an essential part of the Palestinian narrative of liberation? Hint--It has nothing to do with genocide or ethnic cleansing, deal with it. So, this is a call to reclaim our right to our words and to use them as they historically and.
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@yashar I don't get what you're saying? Burning the American flag is ok, but not any other flag? I thought this is one of the oldest protest moves in the history of flags?.
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@BayanPalestine I don't know what to say. Try to stay alive, and again, we all hold you all in our hearts.
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@madhoun95 @WCKitchen Rest in peace Damian. Palestinians will not forget either. Beautiful soul.
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@POTUS I an so sick of you and your administration. You are a genocidal President. You really are. Nothing you do from now on will save your administration. Nothing.
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@dannydanon What the f**k gives you, a UN rep of genocidal israel, the right to engage in an incendiary remark about a US representative of MI? Is this even within appropriate protocols? I doubt it. @StateDept ?.
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@AjAqrabawi Also, I should say I loved your response. I cannot take these gaslighters anymore.
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@SecBlinken What a liar, hypocrite, insanely pathological, and obviously 🙄 a genocidaire interested only in US empire as you imagine it. It’s amazing to me how you can say words like “standing up for freedom and human rights” with a straight face while facilitating the largest and most.
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@mehdirhasan I can’t wait to see what you do next. And, @MSNBC, only @AymanM, @AliVelshi, and @thereidout keep me around now, you should tread lightly.
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Hey @POTUS you’re toast in Wisconsin’s Primary as well. So, it’s up to you now: quit and promote an anti-genocide democrat to run, or change your position 180 degrees immediately and with substantial results. We are not kidding on this one. In Wisconsin, .In 2020 Biden won by.
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If you are a badger, student, staff, or faculty, still at @UWMadison or a graduate, please consider signing this letter in support of the students right to protest free of intimidation.
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Resolution for Ceasefire at the UN Security Council 12/8/2023:. 13 in favor.1 abstention (UK).1 NO (VETO by the US). Can we claim that all deaths in Gaza, at least from this moment on, is enabled, supported, and made possible by the political cover the US is providing to Israel?.
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@DavidM_Friedman @Columbia You are a disgrace to public service. you are the perfect example of how arrogant zionists weaponizing antisemitism against everyone who stands strong against systems of apartheid, ethnic cleansing, and genocide. You are a disgrace bc this leads to what we witness now: the fight.
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I’m back. Got in trouble with X for 12 hours because I lost composure after watching the #bread_massacre committed by Israel against Palestinians in northern #Gaza. X was worried I might offend people. Be offended. You know yourselves. I am so, so angry and sad at the same time.
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@ProfDBernstein I'm not going to discuss first and second intifadas without historical contextualization. I don't have to. My point is that intifada, even as a concept is so far from the claim of genocidal intent or reference. I just put a quick definitional tweet, just to get it there for some.
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@JoaquinCastrotx Ah, you woke up from your stupor! Better late than never. But also, please add to this: End occupation, end apartheid rule, end settlement, torture, and settler violence, and bring all those who committed genocide to court.
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I would never commit or call for violence. Not even against a bee that I am allergic to. But as a social scientist and a committed scholar, I would be shirking my responsibility if I don’t tell the truth: #Israel and the #US, and the #west more generally, are spawning miserable.
How can we think of alternative futures? It's long, but please read, think, and participate. What to do in a world that is flipping the Enlightenment scripts about "rights" "equity" "freedom" & "life"? What to do when the world is clearly going back on the promise of "Never.
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Student encampment ends @UWMadison with an agreement between administration and students. The tents were folded at the end, each given the name of one of the 12 universities that were demolished by the Israeli war machine. #free_gaza
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@Mondoweiss @m7mdkurd @thenation @haymarketbooks @X @elonmusk @X @m7mdkurd @Mondoweiss what are you doing? Free speech much?.
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@AlnaouqA Ahmed, I couldn’t bring myself to “like” this post because I thought I actually hate it: hate that it happened, that it happened to your sister, that it’s happening now to all our sisters and brothers. It makes me so mad. I am so sorry for what you and your family went and still.
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No way you can be safe in an area hit with more the 10 simultaneous air attacks. Isn’t this the very definition of a massacre? @POTUS @SecBlinken @VP @WhiteHouse.
I saw more than 10 air attacks happening at the same time!. Khan-Younis.3 Dec 2023
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As of now, more than fifty air strikes in Rafah by planes and choppers.
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Great 🧵 about systematic indoctrination Israeli kids go through, w end result of dehumanising Palestinians to the degree that killing robbing them of all human dignities become a duty to the nation, the more pain 1 inflicts, the more s/he shows commitment. Well done,.
Israel says that #Palestinians brainwash their children. But what does Israel teach its own children?. A thread 🧵. 1/20. #Palestine #Gaza #WestBank
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@a_lehbi @DrLoupis @JoshWalkos Yes, this is a correct explanation, but why do you have to say "weird belief"? I wish you have said the same thing without being judgmental. There are many rituals in Christianity, Judaism & Sunni (& other religions) that outsiders might think weird.
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😥😡 “At this moment, genocide is taking place in Khan Younes, it is being erased from the map. Extremely violent and unprecedented bombardment. Multiple series of fire coming in a number of places. Violently booming whole neighbourhoods. Earth is shaking, harder than in an.
خانيونس الان تباد وتمسح عن الخريطة، قصف عنيف جدا، وبشكل غير مسبوق، أحزمة نارية متتالية في اكثر من مكان، مربعات سكنية يتم قصفها بشدة، الارض تهتز بشكل اصعب من الزلزال! .#غزة_تُباد.
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Now the #IOF is calling in loudspeakers on thousands of refugees in the Shifaa hospital to leave. They are warning they will be bombing the hospital. Noise? No, nothing. The genocide continues with the full acknowledgement and approval of the #US, #Europe, many #Arab_states,.
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Aaron Bushnell, may your honorable position against #genocide, your gesture to the Palestinians as one of the most perfect of allies, and your spirit of peace (choosing to offer yourself instead of committing violence), be all remembered and celebrated in the annals of.
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The #Palestinian_students on @UWMadison campus call me 3ammo “عمو” and I wouldn’t have it any other way. ❤️.
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@yashar Another attempt at dehumanization. Actually, why don't you register your suspicion and then wait for confirmation or denial from Danielle herself in a media interview that will probably happen soon: .1. did you write it?.2. where you forced to write it or were you really driven.
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Celebration, community, cultivating kinship, struggling together, all for peace, justice, and human dignity. The students will lead us to an alternative future. ❤️
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@MariaMonicaR @jackmjenkins And, they anchor us, they make us feel recognized and celebrated. They are literally our warm hug and our witnesses in a cold world.
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@davidfrum To tell you the truth, I've never thought you're the sharpest of advisors, but your tweets in recent days are seriously embarrassing, scrappy, almost like a five year old snapping at another five year old in a pre-school's playground. The funny thing is that the tweets are also.
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@ammarmufasa Why should we believe you? And what does disrupts mean? Asked uncomfortable questions? What exactly?.
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هاي للغزاوية اولاد الاصول اللي عم ينقذونا من مستنقع الاستعمار بشكل يمكن هم نفسهم ما يقدروا يقدرو. ايش ممكن اعمل علشان اوفي بوعدي اني اوقف معكم للنهايه. انا بروفيسور في جامعة اميركية، اشتركت في مظاهرات الطلاب في الجامعة اللي بدرس فيها في امريكا، حتى اني انضربت و انجرحت في صدام مع.
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@Dailytakes Look, I understand you try to have fun, but I’m not amused. Another one of these smart aleck kind of intervention will get you blocked.
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@agelender This reminds me of a meeting I participated in in the early-1990s (a dialogue group in NYC for Palestinians, US Jewish people, and Israelis). I was new in the US and I just described a day of my life under occupation: in detail, no fabrications, and really things everyone.
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💔 Aaron Bushnell succumbed to his wounds. Rest in power.
Absolutely heartshattering. May the memory of 25 year old Aaron Bushnell be a blessing. May his sacrifice be a call to action for those with the ability to do something and a haunting reminder for those who refuse to change course.
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@Dailytakes I think the other two answers arrive at what I would say. The reason why many don’t engage with the question “what about 10/7” is the fact it forces a narrative that (1) history starts with that date and (2) that what happened on 10/7 is exceptional. Neither is true: many attacks.
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I just have to say it again, I wish I died before I witnessed what is happening in Gaza غزة 💔. Fight, and fight, and fight even more. #genocide has no place in the new world, the fact that it is pepetraded by the victims of Nazis does not make it ok.
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A must watch: @OwenJones84 interviews the amazing @DrHananAshrawi on the ongoing #genocide, culture of hate, and more.
She is the one of the giants of the Palestinian cause - and @DrHananAshrawi talks to me about:. - Genocide. - Western complicity. - The erased historical truths. - Israel as a rogue state. - What hope there is. My new interview here 👇.
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I never thought someone like me, so suspicious of religious affiliations and discourses, secular to the bone, would be reduced to asking you and me to please pray for Gaza. Stories that are coming out of Khan Younes are even more heartbreaking than any of the last 107 days.
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As of now, Israeli media talks about:.1. #IOF is intent on invading Rafah.2. Egypt gave the ok for the invasion (so long as civilians are not affected—really laughable demand).3. Israel is allowing Egypt to move its forces to the border with Rafah including tanks and heavy arms.
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@Gaza_Psych @POTUS @SecBlinken @WhiteHouse? You must have heard of @Gaza_Psych by now, a dr turned a witness to massacres. Stop your aid to the Israeli killing machine.
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@RavBogard I actually think Palestinians definitely have a right to “speak” if you try to pass anti-Zionism and antisemitic. We are the victims of Zionists and NOT the victims of the Jews. Among people who don’t know the history of the contentious relations between Zionism and Judaism, this.
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@SecBlinken @gantzbe You are complicit. You can stop all of this with one strong decision, NO AID, NO WEAPONS, NO POLITICAL COVERING FOR APARTHEID AND GENOCIDAL PROJECT. What a gaslighting regime you are: for more than a month you keep saying, we are emphasizing this, we are asking for this, we made.
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@ghadifrancis calls it like it is again, in this interview with the brilliant @RaniaKhalek!.
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@rsgra @amyalkon That might be a bit true, although his whole demeanor was seriously unthreatening. Don't forget he seems to have been one of the people charged with keeping opposite sides from engaging directly so things don't get out of hand. I don't know, people might differ on this, but I see.
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First @WhiteHouse interns write a letter. Second, #congressional_staffers put on a vigil for #ceasefire. Third, @StateDept staffers filed objection to supporting genocide and called for #ceasefire. Fourth, @DHSgov staffers sent a letter in which they object to US support of.
This is unprecedented as far as I know. It is, in fact, historic. Biden staffers organized a vigil outside the #WhiteHouse calling on their boss to call for a ceasefire. Wow!.And to the staffers, thank you so much!
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Despite the importance of the @IntlCrimCourt comments, they were so short-sighted on so many levels--here are some:. 1. Right to defend: Declares Israel's right to defend itself, but silent on Palestinian rights to resistance and to defend against occupation?. 2. Return of.
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@madhoun95 @azaizamotaz9 @alijadallah66 All of you are just an amazing group. Thank you for all you’re doing and please keep safe. We all appreciate and love your spirit. ❤️.
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The Israeli team is making claims the merits of which will be subject to investigation in the coming weeks and months (most will prove false, by the way). But, like the South Africa team argued, the merits of different claims and details is not the focus of this court. It is.
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Thank you @RepMarkPocan for holding holding true to democratic values.
Protesting war is not anti-semitism, it’s a display of our free speech rights. Student protests at @UWMadison are reminiscent of the anti-war protests of the 60s that helped end the Vietnam War. We must protect all students from anti-semitism & Islamophobia. Always.
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Not many people might understand the significance of this: Tonight, considered the holiest night of Ramadan, the Imam of the Grand Mosque in Mecca is praying for the Palestinians in Gaza, their victory, and for the defeat of the Israeli genocidal army. Israeli propaganda machine
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