global health researcher hoping to dismantle the field, MS 1 ๐ฉบ, fierce mental health & health equity advocate, rooted in justice, ๐ฑmom to Luna ๐ฎ๐ถ my views
Iโm not Palestinian. Iโm Iraqi. But I lived through a time where the West justified the invasion of my homeland and killed 1,000,000 of my people & committed horrors we donโt know the extent of. And so I advocate for Palestine because I canโt stand by as history is repeated.
Ramadan is 2 months away. I want a permanent ceasefire NOW so that our loved ones in Gaza can observe the month of love & forgiveness in peace just like Iโll be able to. We canโt observe Ramadan in peace if they canโt. This genocide has to STOP NOW. CEASEFIRE NOW.
I want people to know how horrid this is. In Islam, our ritual is to care for a loved oneโs dead body. We meticulously wash & wrap it, we collectively pray for them by name, & theyโre in our remembrance always. So many Gazans are dying that they are even stripped of their names.
The West LOVES to talk about how Muslim women are so oppressed but little do they know that none of their silent, cowardly,& pathetic physician leaders can measure up to this incredible female Palestinian physician who is risking her life for her patients. SHE is who I want to be
All this pressure on my mental health will make me pay a lot in the future
I feel my chest wants to go out by all of the blockade and shortage in every essential supply
My stomach feels like cut into parts and my brain is about to explode ๐คฏ
A quadcopter is above the front of my house door right now.
We are terrified and donโt know what to do
It was loaded when we first saw it but we couldnโt film it due to darkness and fear of being targeted
Today an Arab undergraduate student at
@Stanford
was attacked in a hit & run hate crime where the perpetrator yelled out โf*** you & your people.โ Admin have yet to send out an alert for this hate crime. I do not feel safe on this campus as an Arab Muslim woman. I am scared.
This will haunt me for the rest of my life. I will never be the same after this. There is no โnormalโ living after this. There is only sorrow & anger at how the world has allowed this to happen. This will haunt me forever to come.
Something in me has died over the past 36 days. Most of the world doesnโt interest me anymore. I canโt interact with folks who havenโt spoken up against the genocide in Gaza properly. Itโs very hard to live, breathe, eat, and sleep. Grief is my perpetual state.
I canโt believe I can finally say this: I AM GOING TO MEDICAL SCHOOL ๐ญ๐ญ๐ญ Iโm going to be a doctor!!!
Years of self doubt & imposter syndrome with literal blood, sweat, & tears to get to this point. I could have not done it w/o the support of the incredible people in my life
I cry myself to sleep. I cry in public. I cry while showering. I cry while I eat. I cry while I study. I cry when talking to people. I cry when I pray. I cry while I breathe. I canโt stop crying. Please end this. Please just end this.
When I started wearing the hijab in 7th grade, there was this kid who ran around me on 9/11 screaming โsheโs got a bomb! Sheโs got a bomb!โ While other kids laughed. Like any typical teen response I cried, didnโt want to come to school even after he was apprehended,โฆ1/x
Someone for the love of God & whatever good is left, please explain to me why my career prospects as a physician can be ruined JUST for me advocating for a ceasefire & for innocent ppl in Gaza to stop being killed & to live dignified lives. Am I unknowingly being horrible?
I still canโt fathom that I live in a world where me saying publicly for children to stop being murdered can have professional repercussions. Itโs just beyond any human reasoning. Why the hell would I go into medicine if I canโt say that? Whatโs the point of doctors?
Read the damn tweet over and over again. 126 mass graves. Thatโs right. ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY SIX.
If you debate with me that this isnโt genocide, Iโll block you.
166 medical schools in the United States, including more than 90% accredited MD programs, represented in a call for permanent ceasfire in Gaza and end to Israeli occupation.
Read the statement here:
Med students sign here:
Iโm starting to feel deranged. I literally donโt fundamentally understand how me saying, โplease stop killing children, please stop killing innocent civilians, please stop destroying their lives, please stop starving themโ is considered antisemitic. I canโt. My brain is broken.
I can never look at any of my colleagues in medicine the same ever again. I genuinely struggle to speak to them. They see headlines & photos like this and they remain silent. On the other hand, I feel like my soul dies 100s of times a day with each pic, vid, headline, story.
I am LOSING MY DAMN MIND
LAST NIGHT STUDENTS AT UCLA WERE BEING BRUTALLY ATTACKED BY A FASCIST MOB AND UCLA DID NOTHING
NOW THEYRE SETTING RIOT POLICE & SNIPERS ON PEACEFUL PROTESTORS
ALL SO THAT BABIES CAN CONTINUE TO BE MURDERED IN GAZW
SHAME SHAME SHAME
This hateful man works at UCLA treating Arab, Palestinian, and Muslim patients and other folks of color. This is TERRIFYING. He should NOT be taking care of patients! Take action!
๐จ Dr. Gabriel Vorobiof is a cardiologist at
@UCLAHealth
He advocates for killing all Palestinians. To raise awareness:
๐ง Chancellor, CEO, CHRO:
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Every headline makes you sicker than the last. Every headline makes you angrier than the last. You think the violence can't get worse than it already is, but it does. Babies left to die, the sick & wounded being crushed by bulldozers, intentional starvation. It never ends.
People keep telling me that my medical career may be affected. How do I tell them that I canโt envision doing anything in my medical career that doesnโt include me advocating for human rights? What kind of medical career excludes calling against genocide? What have we come to?
A friend of mine whose family is from Gaza has lost 90 - yes NINETY- family members since the beginning of this genocide. Thatโs how big my entire med school class is. What do you even say to this? Iโm sorry? Like how do you even respond to such atrocities?
Iโve never felt more useless in my life. I donโt care if my tweets have resonated with people. They donโt do anything to save the lives being cruelly taken away in Gaza. I hate how powerless I feel, how complicit I feel. Iโve never felt this much frustration w/ myself in my life.
"The baby is an enemy, the pregnant woman is an enemy. Exterminate everyone. Turn Gaza into a slaughterhouse."
Real words said by an Israeli politician. Genocide, genocide, genocide.
I vow to become a physician like Dr. Hammam Alloh - a deeply principled physician whose commitment is to the moral clause of serving your patients till your last breath. A true fulfillment of what it means to be a healer of people.
Not the cowardice we have witnessed.
Oh and one more thing - what Islamophobia did to my parents in this country can never be truly explained. It robbed them of opportunities, their sense of belonging, their home, and put them down constantly.
Growing up in post-9/11 America, my spirit has often been crushed by constant Islamophobia.
Now we are in an era where there is community that will love and protect me as I perform my most sacred rituals as we fight against genocide. This is the world I want to be a part of.
During Jummah (Friday prayer) this afternoon, Columbia University students formed a human shield with blankets to provide privacy to those students participating in prayer after a video showing students praying on the lawn began circulating on social media
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@DocLT2
@kaveri59872487
No innocent civilian should be murdered. All innocent civilians should be protected. I condemn the murder of any civilian, Palestinian and Israeli. I have never said otherwise. My advocacy for innocent Palestinian lives is NOT mutually exclusive for innocent Israeli lives.
This close to just screaming in public. I canโt bear this anymore. Murder after murder after murder. This is more than the human mind can bear. What is worth living for in this life? Iโm so sorry weโve failed you Refaat & all of Gaza.
โฆworse, killed like Razan, Yusor, and Deah from the Chapel Hill Shooting. In all the spaces I go in Iโm expected to prove that Iโm modern, that Iโm not oppressed, and that Iโm one of the โgoodโ ones. Even people who think they donโt perpetuate these notions do in fact. 3/x
I do not want to learn how to be a doctor from folks who do not care about Palestinian lives. I do not want to learn how to be a doctor from folks who stay silent during a genocide. I do not want to learn how to be a doctor from folks who donโt recognize the humanity in others.
I truly despise the Western conception of Christmas. They are so obsessed with consumerism that they will completely ignore the birthplace of the man they are celebrating being decimated. The lack of shame, the lack of conscience.
โฆand thought that this is what my life would be. In some ways my life is still like that. I am still viewed as potentially part of the โbad groupโ and for liberals and conservatives alike my humanity still has to be proven so I donโt get ousted orโฆ 2:x
Death it millions of my people in Iraq in the unjust Iraq war that preyed on Americaโs fear of Muslims and Arabs to justify the ravaging of a nation. I donโt think Iโll ever heal from the Islamophobia that has made me paranoid, defensive, & robbed me of joy many times. 5/5
Islamophobia has been extremely virulent and present my entire waking life in the U.S. itโs a suffocating reminder that at any moment I could be attacked on the street. Or I may not be accepted for a job. But the most heart wrenching reminder for me is the 4/x
Do NOT stop talking about Palestine. Do NOT stop talking abt the genocide happening in Gaza. This is NOT a trend; this is literally life & death for Gazans. Our advocacy, our voices are vital for demanding a ceasefire. Keep posting, keep protesting no matter how tired you are.
I am a medical student and I demand a CEASEFIRE NOW.
We have to put an end to the atrocities happening in Gaza. On this World Childrenโs Day, we MUST do everything we can to protect the children in Gaza. ALL human life is sacred.
#HCW4Palestine
How are we supposed to keep living while we see all this horror? 6 months of pure terror & evil. Itโs become a norm to see the bodies of dead children on my feed. People are starving to death, & itโs become a norm for us to hear the word famine. My heart aches endlessly.
@DocLT2
@kaveri59872487
Iโm not sure why my post to call for the stop of the genocide against Gaza has you thinking that I somehow donโt condemn the killing of innocent Israeli civilians. I am exhausted of having to defend my advocacy for human rights.
@Stanford
are you going to protect your Muslim and Arab students on campus? Will you hold the perpetrator accountable for harming a student on your campus? All students deserve support and protection. I do not feel that at this moment.
Why arenโt universities taking the assaults on & doxxing of their brown & black students seriously? Folks have literally been run over & shot. This is disgusting. Do our lives not matter? Then why do you even admit us into your institutions to begin with if you donโt protect us?
I donโt care much about career advancement anymore, if it requires for me to stay silent in the face of a genocide. all I care about is being a good physician in whatever speciality I go into so I can serve those who are shunned by the world. accolades wonโt do much for my morals
@Stanford
An email was sent saying that Stanford is investigating this as a โpotential hate crime.โ There is nothing โpotentialโ about this. The perpetrator targeted an Arab Muslim student wearing a โDamascusโ shirt & yelled โf*** you & your people.โ This is a TARGETED hate crime.
I never thought I would be watching the genocide of Gazans be televised to the point where HCWs & patients are being shot at through hospital windows at Al-Shifa Hospital & still not see an ounce of sympathy from the Western world & major medical institutions. I am shattered.
Shooting at starving people who are trying to attain any morsel of food for themselves and their loved ones isnโt like any evil weโve ever known. Itโs immoral, itโs disgusting, itโs inhumane & anyone who is still silent is complicit in this. Yes, you are.
Hi folks, I am in need of your help. A doctor friend from Gaza is in dire need to help him & his family evacuate from Gaza after working the last 112 days continuously during this genocide. Please help if you're able to and please spread this fundraiser:
How are you not haunted by the fact that children are starving to death in North Gaza? I am literally losing my mind. How are people not screaming for a ceasefire at the top of their lungs? Where the hell has your soul perished for you to be okay with children starving?
I am completely distraught.
@nabuelezam
and I worked with Doaa on a project for Arab American health. Doaa was murdered yesterday alongside one of her daughters. My heart & mind are broken. This is genocide & oppression. What did Doaa & her beautiful family do to deserve this?
Absolutely disheartening to see that people are threatened by the keffiyeh. The keffiyeh actually has a beautiful history to it - itโs not just a symbol of Palestinian solidarity. I invite you to read this great infographic about it:
Well, we finally received it.
The first employment discrimination complaint involving a Keffiyeh.
An employee at a large hospital chain is facing disciplinary measure for wearing his Keffiyeh to the office.
Leadership compared the Keffiyeh to the confederate flag, and made
Do you understand how morally depraved it is to execute children? To run over patients that are live with tanks? To decimate a hospital?
There is no soul, no humanity in these genocidal freaks whose bloodlust knows no bounds. They are not human. They are evil incarnate.
I am scared for the people of Gaza. I am genuinely terrified for them. The helplessness I feel as I watch real time the destruction of their lives is overwhelming. I canโt wrap my head around how cruel this world is to let this happen. How do we live ourselves?
Just always praying for Motazโs protection. And Hindโs. And all the brave souls who are doing everything they can to show us the atrocities happening.
I refuse to forget about Gaza & its people that are STILL experiencing a genocide. We do not get to indulge in the luxury of the holidays & all the gluttony and consumerism of them, while Gazans are being killed, starved, & displaced. We MUST continue bearing witness & advocating
As a hijabi, let me tell you one thing about this hilarious portrayal: NOBODY wearing the hijab has their hair down w/ no hair bands, pins, etc. if youโre gonna fetishize Muslim womanโs hijab coming off at least make it accurate ๐
Letโs not even start on the โform a wallโ ๐๐
Want to know how opportunistic & selfish people are when it comes to Palestine? ๐งต
This is a ~hypothetical~ situation
A colleague of mine has not spoke one peep about whatโs happening in Gaza - neither privately nor publicly. Yet they have the audacity to publish a paper 1/x
Sinking to a depth of depression I havenโt been to in ages. I feel like for the past 2 months I am sinking further into despair with no way out. What makes worse is being in an environment where people either ignore whatโs happening or deny/make excuses for it.
The world must burn for this.
And 18 month old baby girl was shot in the head.
Do you know how vile this is? This isnโt human. This is evil beyond human comprehension. I know I keep saying this but my brain canโt fathom the next atrocity to come. 18 MONTHS OLD.
An 18-month-old child killed with a single gunshot to the head. The desperate hope for a ceasefire turned to tragedy for one mother in Gaza this evening.
@Stanford
Another email was sent further pointing out identifying details of the perpetrator & calling it a hate crime (no more potential). The university must find the perpetrator at all costs & hold them accountable. The lives of students are at stake. And we need protective support.
I survived my 1st quarter of med school & Iโm proud of myself for doing so while being severely affected by the genocide happening in Gaza. It has been a hellish 2 months & itโs violent that the system expects us to detach & โfocus.โ But I persevere for justice & a better future
I am deeply terrified of how many innocent civilians are going to be killed in the Al-Shifa hospital raid. Feeling incredibly helpless as we witness this atrocity against patients and innocent civilians including babies, children, women, and men. Hospitals must be protected.
We went from debating if a hospital was bombed to seeing it on live television. Iโm tired. The disgusting silence from the U.S. medical community is unbearable. Where the hell have your moral values gone? A hospital is being bombed on live TV & theyโre STILL silent.
Just nothing more hypocritical than white liberal feminism. They espouse reproductive health justice & yet women in Gaza have no access to menstrual products, canโt receive life saving treatment for their pregnancies, & more. Only reproductive health justice for some I guess ๐คท๐ปโโ๏ธ
This is absolutely terrifying. Do you understand how racist and virulent this is? This man canโt be trusted with Muslim and Arab patients. He will not hesitate to hurt them.
โ๏ธ โR*pe in the Arab world is like drinking waterโ
Dr. Alan Malki is a thoracic surgeon at
@Stanford
. To raise awareness:
๐ง Chief HR and Medical Officers
drorig
@stanfordhealthcare
.org
nsehgal
@stanfordhealthcare
.org
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No matter how much you want to twist it & sugarcoat & PR it & polish it & avoid it - what is happening in Gaza is genocide. If you need scholarly articles to tell you this, thatโs sad. The massacre & starvation & displacement of 2 million+ people is GENOCIDE.
Where are all my global health champions? Where are all my global health leaders & academics? Don't you have something to say about this atrocity? Or is it not worth to use your fancy titles & position to advocate for a people who are suffering? Shame on you. Shame.
The Gaza health ministry has just released a list showing the scale of infectious diseases that are spreading through the overcrowded shelters. It shows more than 95,000 people suffering from diarrhoea and more than 133,000 people with upper respiratory tract infections
In Islam we have a concept where when one part of the body hurts, the entire body hurts. This past month so many of us have been hurting as we see the atrocities happening in Gaza hurt innocent civilians. As they hurt, we hurt & we demand that the sanctity of life be honored.
I fundamentally donโt know how to interact with people who have been unmoved by this. I donโt know how to have conversations with them. Because if we canโt see eye to eye on the fact that life is sacred, how can we even converse?
As an academic, I really wonder what to do with the knowledge that so many people in the West are completely unmoved by this flood of evidence of the most horrific human suffering imaginable.
I have to remind myself on a daily basis that the silence in the face of this genocide from much of the medical community - including my own peers who are in training - is NOT normal & that I'm not crazy for being one of the few who is losing their minds over these atrocities.
Abolish the field of global health. Abolish the field where these leaders & โhumanitariansโ have largely been silent in the face of genocide & some even justify it. Abolish the field where the global north academically benefits off of the pain of others. ABOLISH GLOBAL HEALTH.
BREAKING | Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor has documented the execution of 13 children between the ages of 4-16 at Al-Shifa Hospital by the Israeli occupation
CNN has released leaked images of the Israeli torture camp Sde Teiman in the Negev desert, where Israel perpetrates grave crimes against Palestinian prisoners abducted from Gaza.
How am I supposed to focus and train as a med student when the world is burning down? How am I supposed to study for my intense exams when people in Gaza are being slaughtered and students are being jailed and abused for protesting this? I am truly lost, tired, and defeated.
Iโd rather have someone just outright say they donโt care for and/or hate Arabs, Muslims, Palestinians, etc. than someone who smiles in my face, talks about diversity & equity, but behind closed doors stems our advocacy & infringes on our ability to speak out against genocide.
Please for the love of God and whatever good there is left in the world do NOT amplify the disgusting grifter that is Shaun King. He routinely profits off of the pain of people in distress & now itโs Gaza. Elevate the voices of Palestinians!Hereโs a good thread on his past:
Thanks to our team at Harvard, led by
@SaraAlZubi1
&
@Amina__Z
, we created these infographics w/ a focus on sharing accurate COVID-19 info with MENA & SE Asia communities around the world. Iโll be attaching diff languages soon. Hereโs Arabic! Spread widely please!
#COVID
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about how thereโs a humanitarian crisis happening in Gaza that needs to be addressed alongside other opportunistic & selfish people. These people are already building their careers off of the misery & oppression of others. These are the future leaders of medicine 2/x
Do you understand how dystopian this is? Gazans telling us everyday that this may be their last tweet? How are we living with ourselves? How are YOU not disgusted with yourself?
Please continue calling for a ceasefire. We canโt fall into the norm of hearing abt the genocide in Gaza. There is NOTHING normal about this. People arenโt numbers; they deserve to live. Gaza is not supposed to be a place of death & destruction. It is supposed to be full of life.
These are the ppl who want to โfixโ Gazaโs healthcare system. Who will later swoop in when all the misery is done & โfix itโ & publish abt their success. Meanwhile they canโt find it in themselves to call for a stop against the genocide. To say Iโm infuriated is an understatement
I canโt emphasize enough how deeply disappointed I am in Bernie Sanders. I campaigned for that man & so many young folks I know did as well. We truly believed he was a sane voice for our generation of justice & equity. And for 55 days, heโs been nothing short of disappointing.
The ongoing humanitarian crisis in Palestine resonates w/many of us in healthcare. Yet, many advocates in our field face repression for speaking out against the crisis & its political roots. Let's discuss with Dr.
@yipengGe
about his experience. RSVP at
Coming back to say this - I will not sit here and reply to comments on how I need to address the bad components of Islam. Or how I need to stand up for other oppressed religious minorities. Go do your own inner reflection as to why you feel compelled to deny my pain. Bye.
I had my mom open my MCAT score report. Cried tears of joy at a great score.
Itโs been YEARS in the making w/so much self doubt & anxiety. I NEVER thought I would get to this place. One of my most difficult journeys. Iโm so proud of this Muslim Iraqi gal. Hereโs to my ancestors!
I took an oath at the beginning of medical school that I will preserve and advocate for all human life. And now I am told to be quiet when a genocide is happening & the very human life Iโm supposed to care for is suddenly not worth the oath I took. So which one is it?
Constantly checking Twitter and Instagram to see if our voices in Gaza like Motaz and Hind are still alive. I canโt believe weโve come to this point. Well, people with family in Gaza have been going through it for the past 2 months. Praying for their safety & protection.
My circle of friends has gotten considerably smaller. You are no friend of mine if you canโt find it in yourself, in your damn privilege, to speak out against genocide. You are no friend of mine if you donโt have an ounce of morality guiding your life.