When we say these are not harmless opinions or individuals or careers to support, we aren’t exaggerating. Gal Gadot is a former IDF soldier using her access in Hollywood to push propaganda for an ongoing genocide.
When we say another Nakba, I really wish we were exaggerating…..they are walking into homes, using kitchens…it’s like flashbacks to 1948 and stories of homes occupied with food still warm.
The little girl Elham was the only survivor of her family, they were killed by Israeli bombardment in
#Gaza
, and she is embracing the doctor who treated her.
#Gaza
This is Sayel, a fresh graduate lawyer from
#Gaza
. He dreamt of being a prominent lawyer to represent
#Palestine
in international forums.
#Israel
killed Sayel because it "has the right to defend itself".
These are Wael Dahdouh's children. Israel assasinated them in a targeted strike on his home today while he was live on air, serving as Al Jazeera's chief Gaza correspondent. These are who Israel calls "children of darkness." They were a light asking the world to let them live.
#BREAKING
| Al Jazeera reporter says
#Israeli
warplanes have been dropping white phosphorus bombs and flares on residential areas in
#Gaza
for nearly half an hour.
Israa Jaabis in the arms of her son again after 8 years in prison, with third degree burns on half her body, denied pain meds and medical treatment. A powerful interview discussing the treatment of injured prisoners.
Those of us who have spent decades tracking Israeli aggression on Gaza know that announcement of a pause or ceasefire of any kind means a terrifying day ahead. Israel will destroy as much as possible and kill as many Palestinians as possible until the minute the truce begins.
Let’s be clear. This is NOT a humanitarian corridor, which international orgs and Palestinians advocate for during every war and never receive! This is a TRANSFER plan to supplement the ethnic cleansing already in process.
Amazing: President Biden is working on a plan with other countries that would allow civilians to safely leave Gaza and cross the border into Egypt. This is great news. President Biden is making sure that innocent people don’t die due to the actions of Hamas. That’s leadership.
I met Rachel Corrie’s parents about a decade ago. I told her mom that my Aunt’s home was one of the many demolished in Rafah in 2003, the neighborhood Rachel was trying to protect. She gave me a look of love and hug that I’m not sure I’ll ever be able to describe. 🧵
“Whenever I am asked to speak about Rachel I do so… on the theory that perhaps her story is a way to render comprehensible to some people, far from Palestine, broader truths about the violence of occupation& the politics that make that violence possible”
Imagine the level of heartache for a child to really feel this in their core and mean it. It should shake every fiber of humanity in you to hear her voice.
For those unfamiliar with education systems across the region, the 12th grade exit exam (tawjihi) is a difficult grueling process for young people. It also ranks students across the country. Shaina was the top student in Palestine this year. She was killed today, future erased.
This is Shaima Saidam, killed today with family members in Gaza by Israel.
Months ago, Shaima scored 99.6 in the 12th grade exam, the 1st in 🇵🇸
Here, she said that she worked really hard for her achievement.
Behind the 2,670 martyrs are people, with stolen lives & futures!
Ahmed Abu Artema, a founder of the nonviolent Great March of Return, has been targeted by an Israeli airstrike. He is seriously injured and his young son has been killed.
Stop asking Palestinians for alternatives to Hamas. You keep killing them.
Admin at UCLA canceled classes today. Faculty calling for strike in support of students tomorrow! The way our students were left completely unprotected is shameful!!!
My family received word today that Israel killed these beautiful young men, Tariq and Muhammad - my cousin's sons. There are no telecommunications with Gaza today. We found out because another cousin recognized the mourners while watching the news.
The “lower intensity” phase for Israel is moving from carpet bombing to setting mines for the mass demolition of entire neighborhoods and towns. But yes please tell me more about how they’re trying to target Hamas….
An Israeli soldier shares a video on his Facebook account featuring explosive devices weighing 4 tons that are intended for use in the destruction of the city of Khan Younis, Gaza.
The fourth refugee camp in as many days to be bombed by Israel, leaving a crater where homes once stood.
Tues-Wed-Thurs-Fri of this week: Jabalya, Nuseirat, Bureij, Magahazi.
After Israel's occupation of Gaza in 1967, one of its initial actions was the destruction of the Gaza (Shuja’iyya) train station. This station connected Gaza to the broader Levant region, and after the 1948 Nakba, it still served as a link between Gaza and Egypt.
For the record, this is what happened in 1967. Palestinians who got out of Gaza and went to Egypt lined up for hours to say their names on the radio so family in Gaza could know they’d made it to Cairo.
He stood behind the spokesperson of the Ministry of Health in Gaza. Maybe he has children out of Gaza; this is how he tells them he is alive. I wish there were a press conference in every city where our parents, family members and friends could come and show us they are OK.
#Gaza
I tell
@BeckyCNN
that 1 of the reasons it has been so difficult to communicate our freedom struggles 2 an international community is bc our oppressors are Western civilization’s canonical victims but their victimhood is not a blank check to oppress us.
#GazaUnderAttack
#Jerusalem
Israel has informed the UN and Palestinians in Gaza that all residents in the north of the Strip, which number over 1 million people, need to move south. This is unimaginably horrific and terrifying. Every major road in Gaza has been destroyed, ...
even if it was possible, to move that many people quickly, there is no infrastructure to take them there. This push toward Sinai is the stuff of genocidal nightmares.
Israel has informed the UN and Palestinians in Gaza that all residents in the north of the Strip, which number over 1 million people, need to move south. This is unimaginably horrific and terrifying. Every major road in Gaza has been destroyed, ...
As the “pause” ends, reports from Gaza of bombs falling all across the Strip. Thinking of the hundreds of thousands of children who had just barely begun to recapture the memory of quiet skies.
If Israel allowed aid and humanitarian workers in to the Gaza Strip, there would be a thousand Rachel Corrie’s lined up ready to put their bodies in front of Rafah. Israel knows this. They are cowards and their only play is to massacre a starving civilian population.
Not one U.S. Sunday morning news show covered this story (or one weeks ago of Arab Stanford student hit by car). However, multiple covered vague references (without any incidents to report) of Jewish students on college campuses who "feel unsafe" from pro-Palestinian protests.
My cousin
@HishamAwartani
, a Palestinian student at
@BrownUniversity
has been shot walking with his friends for simply wearing a keffiyeh and speaking Arabic.
Dangerous and dehumanizing rhetoric regurgitated by US politicians and right wing pundits has consequences.
When you feel outnumbered, like the world population doesn’t know or feel, remember that more people on this earth have been colonized than those who have been a colonizer. The media is the latter’s voice. But our solidarities cross every border.
This is a branch of an entire clan/hamoula. This is someone’s grandparents and and great aunts and uncles and cousins. This is a past and future erased. These people are not news headlines.
The families who lost their homes in that series of 2003 Israeli demolitions in Rafah remained bouncing between temporary housing until 2013. Most were rehoused in what is now known as الحي السعودي
With every war, every Israeli assault, we hold our breaths for them and they humble us with their faith. My aunt always reminding me - “we are lucky, we are alive. And even if the house falls again, it will be ok as long as we are not under the rubble.”
I don’t think people understand how close Rafah is to Egyptian telecom signal. This is a conscious choice by
@VodafoneEgypt
and others to not make available. Hell, charge roaming if that’s what’ll do it for you. Families abroad will happily foot the bill
Scholarship is about more than a CV. We Palestinians are not just objects of study. Research without political commitment is not enough.
#Palestine
& Praxis: Scholars for Palestinian Freedom
Academics - add your name here:
#Gaza
#SaveSheikhJarrah
Honored to have my work featured in this wonderful piece by
@4noura
, which gives a peek into much of the incredible research and active imagining and practices of Palestinians working toward liberation.
#BREAKING
United States vetoes Security Council draft resolution that would have demanded an immediate humanitarian ceasefire in Gaza, and immediate and unconditional release of all hostages
VOTE
In Favour: 13
Against: 1 (US)
Abstain: 1 (UK)
I need a word for being simultaneously incredibly proud and heartbroken. These students, knowing that arrests were coming & camp would be cleared sat this afternoon w/ UCLA EVC Darnell Hunt and told him “We are not leaving. We will not let you taskforce us out of divestment.” 🔥
Palestinian-American physician Dr. Fady Joudah, who has lost family members in Gaza, tells
@JamesAALongman
he's "holding up, not easily" with the ongoing conflict.
"[I'm] asking to see Palestinians as equal human beings."
“I will raise the call to prayer myself on behalf of my Muslim brothers.”
Palestinian Priest, Antonious Hanania, said that if Gaza's mosques are bombed and there is no one to call to prayer, he will "raise the call to prayer on behalf of [his] Muslim brothers”
🎥Hasan Al Hashim
Colonial theft and archives are obsessed with controlling a record of indigenous people all while simultaneously dismissing indigenous lives in the present and future.
Getting reports from fam in Gaza that it is sheer chaos. Conflicting reporting from international news and actual NGOs on the ground as it relates to veracity of evacuation orders. A terrifying mess.
Biden speaking now reminding every Palestinian that their lives don’t matter and having the nerve to quote international law after decades of vetoing every UN attempt to enforce those same laws on Israel.
Netanyahu’s resumption of bombing in Gaza is beyond the pale. Two million people are now in south Gaza. Many have fled earlier fighting in the north. The pause must be extended to get more humanitarian aid in and more hostages out.
Massive fire in industrial area as Israel has bombed and burned down almost every major factory in
#Gaza
. Again we say - they not only displace and kill, but they create conditions that make it impossible to build livelihoods.
People have the absurd nerve to ask me as a Palestinian scholar “do you support
#decolonization
and
#LandBack
in the U.S.?” AS IF I’d say no. Of course I do. As
@The_Red_Nation
just reminded us, we are all parts of the same spear through the heart of settler colonialism.
THIS is terrorism. LAPD waiting off site and will likely disperse attackers with no consequence while encampment students potentially facing serious harm when LAPD brigade marches onto campus.
Let the job threats and the cancellations land at your doorstop in exchange for looking yourself in the mirror and knowing you didn’t support genocide with your silence. I see those of you not posting bc you don’t want DMs or comments. I will remember, we will all remember.
"As for me, what she has done is worth ten PhDs." -remarked the father of a student expelled from Columbia University for participating in pro-Palestine protests condemning the Israeli genocide in Gaza.
In addition the huge loss of life (death toll surpassing 100 and rising quickly), a significant portion of Israel's attacks have targeted infrastructure. Family in Gaza says they are strategically tearing apart roads all over.
Breaking | Al-Jazeera: According to an Israeli official, Israel has informed mediators that it will not agree to the return of residents to the northern Gaza Strip.
The kind and severity of exhaustion that I and so many other Palestinians are walking around with all day everyday is beyond words. But we know it doesn't even begin to compare with our families in Gaza. And to watch the world around us go on and live their lives is just ...
I know there's a lot of hateful talk and threats out there from Zionists. Do your best to focus on the love of those around you, in solidarity spaces, in your families, among Palestinian friends. Hate gets loud, but love is quiet and it catches us in every moment if we let it.
Sun setting on day 2 of this beautiful space, pride abounds. So much love for these students and the world they are determined to create.
@SJPatUCLA
@NationalSJP
Excited and honored to officially share that I will be returning to UCLA next month, this time as an Assistant Professor for the
@UCLA_AsianAm
! I will also be part of a Mellon-funded initiative to develop an incredible new program on Data and Social Justice at
@UCLA_DH
. 🧵
Take an even closer look at this image. The one full shelf: cooking oil.
Unneeded. Because there’s nothing to cook and no running gas stoves to cook on.
Please stop launching fundraising campaigns. We don’t need money.
Money in
#Gaza
is useless while there is nothing to buy from the markets.
We need your governments to pressure Israel to immediately stop its war crimes & crimes against humanity.
I have never seen so many teach-ins held so many places. The hustle Palestinian scholars have shown this last 12 days has been 🔥. It may not seem like much to some, but to teach others through the amount of pain and exhaustion folks are experiencing is a lot.
#worthwhile
#proud
I'll be speaking at Northwestern on Friday, telling the Palestinian story through the lens of sumoud and reminding us all in this incredibly painful moment that we are a story made up of more than our losses.
The restoration of communications in Gaza was critical.
Aid workers, civilians, and journalists need to be able to communicate to each other and the rest of the world. Our Administration cared about this, worked on it, and are glad to see it restored.
The out of touch depravity that has to exist within someone or a state to consider this an aid to civilians is beyond words…this is the facilitation of ethnic cleansing.
The US announced that Israel has agreed to suspend fighting for 4 hours on a daily basis to allow Palestinian civilians to flee from northern Gaza.
🔴 LIVE updates:
For over a decade now, I have watched so many Palestinians roll their eyes at the mention of dissolving and dissembling the PA. Over the last couple of years, those same Palestinians have joined the voices saying “enough.” 1/
[...] is a gorgeous new poetry collection by my brother
@FadyJoudah
(available for pre-order now).
Fady often astounds me w/ his words, but what I really love most about him and his work is his deep belief in the brilliance & beauty of Palestinians.
Heartbreak but also full of pride. A phenomenal run and a hard fought match. Thank you,
#Morocco
for giving us a beautiful dream and a wonderful tournament.
Honored to have co-authored this piece with
@randawahbe
, Tareq Radi, and
@dinnaomar
. Now out in Journal of
@PalStudies
Palestine as Praxis: Scholarship for Freedom
ALL WEEK faculty have been telling administration that it is the students IN THE CAMP whose safety they should be prioritizing. Instead UCLA has laid their students bare to a brutal assault!
Getting texts from terrified
@UCLA
students in the pro-Palestinian encampment, which is under attack by pro-Israel counterprotesters. "This is urgent. Please. It's getting bad. No police."
If a Palestine solidarity camp did something this insane, UCPD would round them all up in a second. Admin wants to shut down camp for “safety.” Student safety means PROTECTING YOUR STUDENTS IN THE CAMP, not letting a non campus affiliated mob run wild attacking students!
Every university in Gaza has been bombed, 1000s of students & 100s of professors & teachers killed. Education, like healthcare, is an infrastructure of life that Israel is dismantling w genocidal warfare. Come on Tuesday & honor their lives as we call for an end to scholasticide.
I cannot stop imagining my family and the millions of families in the Gaza Strip right now, sitting in the dark, cut off from the world, hearing the bombs and calls from minarets not for prayers but an SOS to the world…..
From Gaza now: Mosques are the only means of communication through speakers. 'We have no communication with the outside world. They are using their military might to harm us. We have no power but the power of God, no one but God. Please, pray for us.'
It is official. People are on the move south in Gaza. God help them. See the message they received below. Indications are Israel plans to move the northern fence down in process as well.
"I can't believe I have to say this, but Palestinian people are not disposable. We are human beings just like anyone else."
@RashidaTlaib
delivers a powerful speech on the House floor in defense of ceasefire and release of hostages before the censure vote.
Proud to share this new piece now up on
@antipodeonline
. Gaza as a site and method can rip apart and reorient so many questions and assumptions in Geography, settler colonial studies, etc. Most important: the history and voices we center.
Palestinians r in unity & uprising.Yet when I say, "we are prevailing," the host is aghast & recounts how we're being decimated& abandoned by states.When I explain,"were still here after over 100 yrs of erasure at hands of a nuclear power & empire" he scoffs that thats a low bar
The UCLA administration is more concerned w graffiti than fact that it ordered a multi-agency police force onto campus which brutalized students, shot 5 in the head w rubber bullets, & arrested ~ 200 for speaking up against a genocide. This is not how you take care of campus.
What we are watching happen at
#UCLA
tonight is nothing short of an invasion of what has been a peaceful and beautiful community for the last week, one standing up for
#Gaza
and against the occupation and genocide of
#Palestine
and Palestinians.
I have watched this footage too many times in the last day. I know it’s real and yet the heartbreak is so severe that disbelief overwhelms me.
This is what the IDF has been doing in the north: clearing rubble, bulldozing Gaza like a construction site. This is ethnic cleansing.
Today, look around the world and see who is lifting their voices and for what. The overwhelming majority and with full heart in every major city are calling for a
#CEASEFIRENOW
in Gaza and for a
#FREEPALESTINE
. Push your governments to reflect your voices!