سامي جِريِس @samijiries Twitter profile

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سامي جِريِس

4 years

I'm gonna start a running thread of the funny sarcastic sayings I've heard from my Palestinian family growing up. First up: ʾajā ykaḥḥilhā ʿamāhā أجا يْكَحِّلْها عَماها 'He put on her mascara and poked her eye out' Said of someone who tries to help but makes things worse.

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سامي جِريِس

@samijiries

1 year

some criticism of qatar is hypocritical or orientalist yes, but that doesn’t change the fact that qatar is a dystopian petrostate built on slave labor where migrant workers, women, nonmuslims, and queer people are less than human.

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سامي جِريِس

@samijiries

3 months

Did my best to translate this and the following tweet.

مُـحـمَّد

@mo_ed22

3 months

هَذا المفروض اسمه{خبز}.. بنشتري قمح وَ هو الله يعزكُم أقرب لـ تبن الحيوانات مِن القمح وَ بنخلطه مع طحين الذرة فَـ بطلع شيء مَا له علاقة بـ الخبز بـ طلع زي الخشب لَا بيتآكل مِن البشر ولا مِن الحيوانات الله يعزكُم، بتآكل رغيف لـ تسد جوعك مِن هان بيصير معك غثيان وَ قيء مِن هان.. ++

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سامي جِريِس

@samijiries

5 months

Note that she apologizes to Black people and queer people, but not to Palestinians, who she said would happily use human beings' decapitated heads as footballs. Ask yourselves why this white woman didn't feel a need to address the racism she spewed about Palestinians?

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@PopCrave

5 months

Julianna Margulies apologizes for her comments accusing Black and queer people of being antisemitic for their support of Palestine: “I am horrified by the fact that statements I made on a recent podcast offended the Black and LGBTQIA+ communities, communities I truly love and…

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سامي جِريِس

@samijiries

6 months

"When I left Gaza, my heart hurt for you the most, my darling. I used to think I would return to you one day and buy you so many toys and everything you wanted. But now I'm waiting for the war to be over so I can return to Gaza to visit your grave. I'm lucky at least that you...

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لما طلعت من غزة قلبي وجعني عليك أكتر اشي يا حبيبي، كنت بفكر أرجع على غزة بيوم وأشتريلك ألعاب كتير وكل اللي بدك ياه، بس الحين قاعد بستنى الحرب تخلص علشان أرجع على غزة أزور قبرك. على الأقل أنا محظوظ انه إلك قبر لحالك وما حطوك في المقبرة الجماعية. يا حبيبي يارب تكون مبسوط عند ربنا.

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سامي جِريِس

@samijiries

20 days

Anti-Palestinian racism is so normalized in the West. You pieces of shit wouldn’t even talk about dogs like this.

noemienerd (she/they)

@noemiemakesmaps

22 days

quick reminder

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سامي جِريِس

@samijiries

5 months

"You shouldn't bomb Palestinians because the ones that survive will join Hamas" isn't the universalist statement of humanitarian solidarity you think it is.

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سامي جِريِس

@samijiries

4 months

It’s a real mind fuck as a Christian Palestinian with family sheltering in a Gaza church, where US-funded missiles killed 18 people, to read lectures about the desecration of churches. And all in defense of the guy who supplied the missiles in the first place. A mind fuck.

Symone D. Sanders Townsend

@SymoneDSanders

4 months

Mother Emanuel AME is hallowed ground in the AME church community and in Charleston especially. The shock of people in the crowd at protesters yelling out while President Biden was speaking from the pulpit cannot be overstated. I too couldn't believe it.

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سامي جِريِس

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6 months

...have a grave to yourself, and you weren't put in a mass grave. My darling, I hope you're happy with the Lord."

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سامي جِريِس

@samijiries

5 months

Tried my best to translate this tweet:

MoTaz

@azaizamotaz9

5 months

غزة علمتني اكون واقعي مع نفسي اكثر من اي شيء اخر لمن يريد التعايش مع المخيلات الواسعة والاكاذيب فليتعايش، بس لازم يذوق يلي بنذوقه وبعدها نشوف شو راح يحكي بده يذوق طعم الموت وهوة شايفه قريب، رائحة الموت والجثث المتفحمة والهياكل العظيمة والناس المفعوصة تحت الركام والاشلاء بده يفقد…

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سامي جِريِس

@samijiries

3 years

Two things stand out to me here: 1) the settler has an American accent and 2) the Palestinian woman addresses him by his first name which means they know each other. The power relationship at play in this clip is at once bone-chilling and infuriating.

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@tiredpali

3 years

The ongoing apartheid in Jerusalem. “Even if i get out of the house, it won’t be returned to u”

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سامي جِريِس

@samijiries

3 years

I'm still processing that more than 60 Palestinian children over the past two weeks spent their last few moments on this planet in absolute terror before being exterminated by Israeli weapons.

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سامي جِريِس

@samijiries

1 year

like which is more dehumanizing: some white person calling filthy rich qataris backwards or the fact that those qataris’ houses were built and are staffed by an oppressed underclass of noncitizen workers?

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سامي جِريِس

@samijiries

1 month

Seeing the images out of Shifa Hospital, I tried to find the tweets from Serious Middle East Analysts who denied that Israel bombed Al-Ahli Hospital in Oct. Shashank Joshi is talking about Havana Syndrome. Monica Marks is talking about Turkey. Yair Wallach deleted his account.

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سامي جِريِس

@samijiries

2 years

“relatively civilized, relatively european”

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سامي جِريِس

@samijiries

4 months

He isn’t a hero because refusing to participate in mass slaughter of a besieged people isn’t and never will be heroic. Still that doesn’t mean his refusal isn’t good. These people are indoctrinated from day one. Breaking through that isn’t heroism but it’s not nothing either.

Nimrod Flaschenberg

@Nimrod_Flash

4 months

Tal Mitnick, an 18-year-old from Tel-Aviv, just refused to enlist in the Israeli army to protest the war in Gaza and the occupation. He was sentenced to 30 days in prison. He's a hero and also the sweetest kid. @TalMitnick @Mesarvot_

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سامي جِريِس

@samijiries

6 months

American evangelicals love to pretend they’re persecuted for their faith. This is what actually persecution is, and most of them support it.

Mitri Raheb

@RahebM

6 months

An Israeli air strike blasted the area just outside the Latin Church in Gaza while the Christian community was praying: “Holy Mary, pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our death.”

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سامي جِريِس

@samijiries

1 year

my grandmother passed away last night. born in jaffa, palestine, and raised in jerusalem, she survived the nakba, the june ‘67 war, and black september. she went on to have 8 children (3 of whom died in childhood) and 8 grandchildren.

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سامي جِريِس

@samijiries

5 months

Wow! I'm so happy that the trauma endured by two Palestinian babies worked out in the end!

Owen Jones

@OwenJones84

5 months

This remarkable Israeli former soldier tells me how he arrested two 7 year old Palestinian boys for touching a fence. Then he saw them crying, terrified, holding each other as he took them away, that they were terrified of him. "And then I realised, I'm kidnapping these kids."

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سامي جِريِس

@samijiries

3 years

Zina. Homosexuality. Masturbation. Pornography. Long ago the four nations lived together in harmony.

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سامي جِريِس

@samijiries

4 months

Fellow Arabic speakers: can you spot something interesting in the list of signatories to this document?

Haggai Matar

@Ha_Matar

5 months

An excellent statement, from the left and for the left, about what some in the left have gotten wrong about Israel-Palestine, why it's wrong, and how we can get better in how we discuss the horrid reality on the ground

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سامي جِريِس

@samijiries

3 years

The 2008-2009 War on Gaza killed 1400 Palestinians over a period of 22 days, two thirds of whom were civilians. In that same period, 13 Israelis died, 10 of whom were soldiers.

disorientalist

@princessmlokhia

3 years

quote tweet this with the one fact about Palestine that made it clear to you that Israeli colonialism is a black-and-white issue. for me, it might be that 50% of the population of the West Bank and Gaza are refugees from the territories now considered Israel.

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سامي جِريِس

@samijiries

12 days

An Israeli academic who can’t bring himself to say that Palestinians in Gaza are undergoing a genocide quotes a Palestinian who commemorated the Armenian genocide in her poetry

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سامي جِريِس

@samijiries

3 months

The dehumanization of Palestinians is on every level. Every culture that believes in Jesus Christ sees itself in Jesus. But if Christian Palestinians do the same thing, it's a sign of hatred.

Dr. Marcel Yarmolinsky

@MisfitTorah

4 months

idk it kinda seems like calling Jesus a Palestinian is just blaming Jews for killing Jesus with extra steps

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سامي جِريِس

@samijiries

4 months

This is so far down the hierarchy of important things to worry about, but the ✨discourse✨ about whether Jesus was Palestinian or not boils my blood and I just need to get this off my chest.

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سامي جِريِس

@samijiries

1 year

i’m thinking about how my father a christian palestinian lost his business in jordan in large part because competitors spread rumors that he was serving meat “laced” with pork to his muslim customers

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سامي جِريِس

@samijiries

2 years

sliman mansour’s christmas pieces are so beautiful

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سامي جِريِس

@samijiries

7 months

This is very obviously untrue. Palestinian men, women, and children get murdered by the hundreds every year by armed forces and there's never an outcry as loud or a consequences as severe as the much rarer occasions when Israeli men, women, and children are murdered.

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@rachshabi

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Civilians are civilians are civilians, doesn’t matter where

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سامي جِريِس

@samijiries

4 years

No you see Lebanese isn’t Arabic. It’s actually Phoenician. Or Aramaic. Or Syriac. Whatever who cares. Just compare Lebanese and Arabic and you can tell . In Arabic “I want” is “ouridou” but in Lebanese it’s “baddé”. In Lebanese “what” is “shou” but in Ara

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سامي جِريِس

@samijiries

7 months

Palestinians, please pay attention to this horror. Armenians are being ethnically cleansed in real time and will be prevented from returning. We know this story well.

Lika Zakaryan

@LikaZakaryan

7 months

Last wedding in Artsakh. Creating the family at home to leave it in some minutes.

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سامي جِريِس

@samijiries

2 years

there’s a cliche in israeli cinema called “shooting and crying,” where the main character spends the entire film agonizing over the regrettable but necessary decision to suppress palestinians. it’s hard as a palestinian to read this as anything other than shooting and crying.

Gustavo

@unionGustavo

2 years

I voted to decharter the BDS working group, and to charge DSA’s International Committee with DSA’s BDS & Palestine solidarity work. No one has felt gleeful or triumphant in this moment. This is an excruciating situation for everyone involved. There were no good choices.

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سامي جِريِس

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2 years

solidarity with armenia and armenians, who've had to endure the immeasurable pain of unending genocide, displacement, and war

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سامي جِريِس

@samijiries

7 months

I don’t understand what hope we have to look forward to as Palestinians. They’re already talking about us as “human animals,” with the full support of the most powerful countries in the world. What is there to be hopeful for?

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سامي جِريِس

@samijiries

22 days

The Palestinian whisperer has logged on.

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سامي جِريِس

@samijiries

2 years

not only is this racist against arabs, but also against ukrainians! there’s a clear racial hierarchy and although ukrainians aren’t at the bottom, they’re not at the top either.

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سامي جِريِس

@samijiries

3 years

In Israeli film, there's a genre of trite melodrama that's called shooting and crying (יורים ובוכים yorim ve-bochim), where the soldier character engages in war crimes and then cries about it afterwards.

Mairav Zonszein מרב זונשיין

@MairavZ

3 years

Israelis stage installation of toys- one for the life of every child lost in the last two weeks in Gaza and Israel - in central Tel Aviv. Photo @OrenZiv1985

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سامي جِريِس

@samijiries

3 years

this is actually horrifying

Minneapolis schools are spying on queer students & outing them to teachers and parents

The software has outed one student and also incorrectly notified a transgender teen's parents after they wrote about their past suicidal thoughts...

www.lgbtqnation.com

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سامي جِريِس

@samijiries

2 months

Europeans get really mad if you point out how racist they are lol

سامي جِريِس

@samijiries

2 months

Is there any form of pity more dehumanizing than dropping aid on a starved people from the sky? Like you can’t even bring yourself to be in proximity to them so you drop literal pallets on them and hope they don’t land on someone? This is what you call help?

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سامي جِريِس

@samijiries

2 months

Not a single Palestinian is quoted in this essay. Our intellectuals have also contemplated the Holocaust and its moral implications for Palestinians and the world. How do you talk about Gaza without engaging with any of them?

Pankaj Mishra · The Shoah after Gaza

Memories of Jewish suffering at the hands of Nazis are the foundation on which most descriptions of extreme ideology and...

www.lrb.co.uk

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سامي جِريِس

@samijiries

7 months

My entire timeline is just death. There's death everywhere and sole survivors mourning over the bodies of the rest of their families.

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سامي جِريِس

@samijiries

4 months

Rather, the notion that Jesus was Palestinian is a recognition of the fact that he’s from the same land that Palestinians are from, that the people among whom he was born and lived are ancestors of the modern-day Palestinians.

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سامي جِريِس

@samijiries

1 month

Every single one of these "experts" is a coward in the most cowardly way. Dozens upon dozens of journalists and academics in Gaza have been murdered in cold bold, but these embarrassing clowns continue to have their shitty little careers.

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سامي جِريِس

@samijiries

1 year

@Elias_Jahshan also isn’t this the beach that was built over a mass grave of palestinians? like these people literally frolic over the site of a war crime

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سامي جِريِس

@samijiries

2 months

Is there any form of pity more dehumanizing than dropping aid on a starved people from the sky? Like you can’t even bring yourself to be in proximity to them so you drop literal pallets on them and hope they don’t land on someone? This is what you call help?

GermanForeignOffice

@GermanyDiplo

2 months

Germany is helping - also from air. @Team_Luftwaffe dropped relief supplies over the north of #Gaza today in teamwork with @GermanyDiplo @francediplo & Jordan. Four pallets with one ton of food each, including rice & flour. 1/2

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سامي جِريِس

@samijiries

3 years

أنواع العربي بتطيّر العقل 🥰

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سامي جِريِس

@samijiries

2 years

The Greek word μάρτυρ 'martyr' originally meant 'witness,' but in early Christian history, bearing witness to one's faith often led to death, hence the modern meaning of martyr. This meaning was adopted into Arabic where شهيد šahīd 'martyr' derives from شهد šahida 'to witness.'

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سامي جِريِس

@samijiries

4 months

@mindyisser Why do you guys keep lecturing Palestinians how to feel about this? Why can’t you make space for our anger and our grief?

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سامي جِريِس

@samijiries

7 months

There are Palestinian journalists in Gaza. Why aren't they trustworthy?

Mehdi Hasan

@mehdirhasan

7 months

I also won't be surprised if it turns out a Palestinian group's rocket misfired, as it's happened before & they've denied it. Just as last night, I wasn't surprised to hear Israel being blamed, as they have killed civilians before & denied it. We need foreign journalists in Gaza.

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سامي جِريِس

@samijiries

5 months

Everyday I say to myself this is an image that I'll never be able to forget only for it to be replaced by something even more horrific the next day.

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A man is holding a little girl after he extracted her from under the rubble of her destroyed house by the Israeli war planes. This photo have been taken by me from my street today.

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سامي جِريِس

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4 months

So if it’s ok for these cultures to imagine Jesus as one of them, why isn’t it OK for Palestinians to do the same? If I were huddled in a church in Gaza right now, what’s more Christian than imagining Jesus as a fellow Palestinian suffering this horror alongside me?

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سامي جِريِس

@samijiries

3 years

The silence of the Middle Eastern scholars that I follow is so loud in this moment. I promise, I'll never forget your cowardice.

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سامي جِريِس

@samijiries

3 years

Just to be clear, Classical Arabic/MSA/fuṣḥā/whatever is not better than the Arabic that we speak in our daily lives. It plays a role in our cultures and that's fine. But this notion that it's elevated and refined in comparison to our "vulgar" spoken idioms needs to die.

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@samijiries

3 years

Imagine having to beg someone not to steal your own home and they placidly respond that it’s not their problem.

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سامي جِريِس

@samijiries

6 days

Steve Tamari is a Palestinian professor. Are US college campuses safe for Palestinians?

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Shocking footage shows several officers at Washington University St. Louis beating a professor, slamming him, and dragging his limp body. SIUE history professor Steve Tamari is reportedly hospitalized with broken ribs and a broken hand. One doctor told him he's lucky to be alive.

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سامي جِريِس

@samijiries

5 months

I don't know if this was asked rhetorically, but I'll answer it anyway. The answer is that Christians do speak up, but in order to see that, you have to listen to Christian Palestinians.

Amanda Gelender🔮

@agelender

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I generally like to stay in my own lane, but where is the mass movement of Christians resisting Zionism & Israel’s genocide? Jewish people play a specific role in upholding Israel’s settler-colony, but the majority of Zionists globally are Christian…

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@samijiries

7 months

His name was Wadea Al-Fayoume and he was killed because of the anti-Muslim and anti-Palestinian hate that entities like the ADL spread. That the ADL can’t even mention the word “Palestinian” goes to show how racist they are.

ADL

@ADL

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We're disgusted and horrified that a 6-year-old boy was murdered and his mother was severely injured in #Plainfield , IL, allegedly because they are Muslim. We express our condolences to the Muslim community and categorically reject all anti-Muslim hate.

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سامي جِريِس

@samijiries

8 months

I recently learned that it's illegal for any Armenian to enter Azerbaijan. Not even just citizens of Armenia, all Armenians regardless of their citizenship status. Does any other country have an explicit ban against members of a particular ethnicity?

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سامي جِريِس

@samijiries

5 months

In 2018, Wajahat Ali wrote an article for the Atlantic—edited by a former Israeli prison guard!—in which he used dehumanizing language about Palestinians, including saying a man whose two children were murdered by Israel was abusing his religion. Talk about failing up!

Wajahat Ali

@WajahatAli

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@KarenAttiah So like all the folks who cheerlead the War on Terror and failed up in life?

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سامي جِريِس

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4 months

Firstly, virtually nobody who says Jesus was Palestinian thinks that he went around singing Ana Dammi Falastini or whatever. But that's not the point of that claim in the first place!

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@samijiries

2 years

you guys complained so much about passive voice in headlines the bbc got rid of verbs now it's just "violence at a funeral"

BBC News (World)

@BBCWorld

2 years

Violence at Al Jazeera reporter Shireen Abu Aqla's funeral in Jerusalem

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@samijiries

7 months

Members of my extended family are taking shelter in St. Porphyrius. Now they have nowhere to go. What was the point of bombing a church?

Mitri Raheb

@RahebM

7 months

Breaking news: Israel bombed a house bordering on the Greek Orthodox church in Gaza, which brought down the assembly hall where around 50 Christians were having refug. At least a child was murdered and several people injured, all Christians. Many are still under the rubble.

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سامي جِريِس

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3 years

Minced oaths are euphemisms where taboo or blasphemous words and phrases are altered or replaced so that they become more socially acceptable, e.g. “shoot!” instead of “shit!” Here is a thread about some Arabic minced oaths.

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سامي جِريِس

@samijiries

4 months

But even if one doesn’t accept that fact, perhaps because they’re ignorant of where Palestinians come from and think that we all originate in Saudi Arabia, the concept that Jesus was Palestinian is firmly grounded in Christian cultural practice.

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@samijiries

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Why is it that all these Israeli leftists only learn that Palestinians are human beings after they've abused them? Why can't any of them ever do something to stop this abuse in the moment?

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@samijiries

4 months

It’s actually very common for Jesus to be depicted by different cultures as one of their own. Here are a handful of examples depicting him as white, Chinese, Ethiopian, and Native American. After all, if the Word was made flesh, why shouldn’t his flesh look like ours?

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سامي جِريِس

@samijiries

5 months

I can’t remember who but someone pointed out that the West is only interested in Palestinians as victims, rarely if ever as subject matter experts. And you can see that so clearly scrolling through the feeds of white academics like Yair Wallach, Monica Marks, H. A. Hellyer, etc.

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سامي جِريِس

@samijiries

2 years

in the middle east, when a family has a newborn, they serve this spiced rice pudding called مغلي mughli. lebanese christians have a tradition of making mughli for christmas, to celebrate baby jesus 😄

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سامي جِريِس

@samijiries

2 months

This video and the accompanying justification is so disturbing for so many reasons. But the quality and the angle makes me nauseous. This is literally how they see Palestinians: abstract dots viewed through a crosshair to be shot like it's a video game.

i24NEWS English

@i24NEWS_EN

2 months

🔴 IDF released aerial footage showing how a Palestinian crowd in northern #Gaza attacked the trucks bringing humanitarian aid and as a result, dozens died from overcrowding, and trampling

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@samijiries

5 months

My connection to Gaza is through extended family who are from them there, some of whom I've met and others who I haven't. It's totally surreal for anyone to be talking about members of my community in terms of "extinction." We truly have become human animals in this world.

IMEU

@theIMEU

5 months

THREAD: Gaza's Christian community is under threat of extinction due to Israel's ongoing targeting of civilians.

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@samijiries

3 years

In my Akkadian class, we recently came across the word muškēnu, which is obviously cognate to Arabic مِسكين miskīn. So naturally, I decided to look into its origins and exactly how this term entered Arabic. 🧵:

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سامي جِريِس

@samijiries

3 years

The people who make a living studying the Middle East but are silent as its people undergo crisis after crisis, we’re just a fucking zoo to you folks, huh?

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@samijiries

6 months

When I called Tammy Duckworth’s office, I told the staffer that I had extended family sheltering in St. Porphyrius before it was bombed. All she would say is look at Duckworth’s social media for her statements. When I got frustrated, she said she’d hang up on me.

Christina Holland 🐀

@americanwombat

6 months

There's some pretty dark stuff in here

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سامي جِريِس

@samijiries

7 months

Palestinians are being massacred and these stupid bitches with massive platforms are having academic debates about grief

Eric Levitz

@EricLevitz

7 months

Just saw that @joshualeifer wrote a more detailed (and better) reply than this thread

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سامي جِريِس

@samijiries

2 years

palestinians have had their livelihoods ruined for far far less than this

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سامي جِريِس

@samijiries

10 days

I’m trying to be respectful, but I’m so tired of how people would rather make all of this a debate about whether zionism is antisemitic instead of dealing with the anti-Palestinian racism that’s the actual foundation of its expression both in the US and Israel.

in the pocket of Big Tenant

@AllezLesBoulez

10 days

american zionism is probably the predominant antisemitic movement in american life

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سامي جِريِس

@samijiries

2 years

Being Palestinian on college campuses means you’re exposed to immense pressures to hide your humanity. And if you don’t, you’re subject to massive harassment campaigns.

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@samijiries

6 months

It shouldn't be lost on anyone that the University of Chicago profits from its investments in weapons manufacturing companies, and the first person to face any consequences is a Palestinian student trying to end that.

Maroon News

@NewsMaroon

6 months

This video, taken at 6:40 p.m., shows a Palestinian student who participated in the sit-in in the process of being released by University of Chicago Police Department officers after being arrested and processed.

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سامي جِريِس

@samijiries

4 years

My maternal grandmother (far right) in a photo with her family in the final Palm Sunday they would spend in Jerusalem, 1947.

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سامي جِريِس

@samijiries

2 months

I have some relatives trapped in Gaza, who narrowly escaped the attack on the Orthodox church back in October. They now have the opportunity to get to safety in Canada, but they need financial assistance. Please donate (if you're able) or share the gfm 🙏

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My name is Rania Saliba. I am a Canadian Resident and my family, and I… Rania Saliba needs your support for Please help my sister and her family evacuate Gaza

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سامي جِريِس

@samijiries

2 years

the reporter who uttered this racist garbage is @charliecbs . he ought to be ashamed.

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@samijiries

5 months

I think it’s important to read this to understand how up their own ass Israeli leftists are. Palestinians suffer from ethnic cleansing in real time and these useless clowns are busy writing nested thread after nested thread about how *they* refuse to be kicked out.

Omer Arvili

@OmerArvili

5 months

התחלתי לכתוב על זה כמה פעמים ומחקתי כי הרגשתי שזה לא הזמן אבל זו נהייתה מפלצת שחשוב שננהל עליה שיח פנים שמאלני. עמדתי, ומי שפועלת איתי מכירה אותה טוב היא שאני לא אורחת פה. כל האקטיביזם שלי נובע מזה שזה הבית שלי, אני לא אורחת פה ובגלל שזה הבית שלי אני חייבת לפעול לשפר אותו.

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سامي جِريِس

@samijiries

6 months

I don’t think I’ll ever forgive the linguists of Arabic who’ve stayed silent over the past few weeks. It’s so clear to me that you would have no problem with an Arabic language without any Arabs to speak it. Who needs Arabs when you have their writings, right?

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@samijiries

2 years

Watching Palestinians in the Australian settler-colony decisively schooling a major arts festival for taking apartheid money is so inspiring and beautiful!

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@samijiries

23 days

“…thousands of years of Middle-East strife” The fact that a professor feel comfortable vomiting utterly uninformed statements like this is a bad sign for the intellectual health of the American legal education system.

Eric Segall

@espinsegall

26 days

I’ve said nothing publicly about Israel/Hamas but given the sad events at my good friend Erwin Chemerinsky’s house, I’m here to suggest that maybe we should all keep our collective eyes on the ball. Americans today are not to blame for thousands of years of Middle-East strife.

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@samijiries

2 months

A feature of this war of extermination: Israel commits a particularly heinous crime (bombs a hospital, guns down people in a food line), lies and obfuscates (we didn't do it, it was the Khamas) with the help of news media, and then it does it again and again as everyone moves on.

Al Jazeera English

@AJEnglish

2 months

The Israeli military has targeted Palestinians waiting for flour trucks near the Kuwaiti roundabout in Gaza City. The health ministry says dozens of people have been killed and injured, reports Al Jazeera's Tareq Abu Azzoum. 🔴 LIVE updates:

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@samijiries

7 months

Gay Palestinians exist, including in Gaza. The way these people justify violence against them in the name of anti-homophobia is so cruel.

cameron!!

@hellohimate

7 months

all these gays defending hamas as if hamas wouldn’t behead them just for existing

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@samijiries

1 year

you can’t win because the food issue is a proxy. the real problem is that the chef isn’t muslim and that’s enough for him to be slandered for days on end.

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@samijiries

3 months

Rashida Tlaib was censured by Republicans and Democrats for saying that “From the river to the sea” is a call for freedom. What will the response from Congress be to this white man saying “we” should kill all Palestinians?

Waleed Shahid 🪬

@_waleedshahid

3 months

"I think we should kill them all." -Congressman Andy Ogles (R-TN) on Palestinians in Gaza

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سامي جِريِس

@samijiries

3 years

This week two Palestinian children, Mohammad Hamayel, 15, and Ahmed Shamsa, 16, were shot dead by Israeli troops in response to protests against settlements. This "joke" tweet is no joke at all, but a reflection of how Israeli officials like Ofir view Palestinian children.

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@samijiries

6 months

Over 4000 children dead and this monster is crowing about 22 receiving cancer treatment. What about the ones who will develop cancer from all the carcinogens spread through the air by the debris your American weapons created?

President Biden

@POTUS

6 months

As of today, we’ve helped 22 children undergoing cancer treatment in Gaza travel to continue treatment, and we’ll continue facilitating care for more children outside of Gaza. This wouldn't have been possible without coordination between the U.S., regional partners, and @StJude .

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@samijiries

5 months

Everybody condemning this resolution that equates anti-zionism with antisemitism is calling it antisemitic. But the prime targets are *Palestinians*. Given the rhetorical/professional/physical racism against Palestinians, how do any of you gloss over its effect on us?

Jewish Voice for Peace Bay Area

@JVPBayArea

5 months

So what, we’re all self-hating Jews? Thousands of Jewish people across the country who have shut down bridges, transit stations, the Statue of Liberty? This is a deeply, deeply antisemitic resolution.

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@samijiries

5 months

Wajahat Ali used his Muslim identity to legitimize liberal zionists, who oppose Palestinian rights within a 2-state solution, and many of us have bitterly opposed his cynical framing. Here he is "mourning" Refaat Alareer ( @itranslate123 ), but this is what Refaat thought of him.

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سامي جِريِس

@samijiries

3 years

Was talking to two friends about this yesterday, but I can't imagine the outpouring of support for Palestinians that we've been seeing without the advances that were made by the BLM movement since last summer.

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@samijiries

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The Israeli president is pontificating about academic freedom meanwhile a Palestinian academic Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian was arrested and subjected to torture for speaking about Israeli war crimes.

יצחק הרצוג Isaac Herzog

@Isaac_Herzog

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The atrocious antisemitic actions at Columbia University are deeply disturbing. To quote civil rights activist Professor Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel - who marched side by side with Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. - we need a “Leap of action”. Indeed, firm and strong action must be…

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@samijiries

1 month

Here we have Aaron David Miller casually admitting that he and the rest of the Democratic establishment are all anti-Palestinian racists

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سامي جِريِس

@samijiries

5 months

This is why we should be clear: anti-Palestinian racism is not the same as Islamophobia even if significant overlaps exist. Because for one thing it gives these non-Palestinian careerists an opening to parlay their Islam into a lucrative media career off our people's suffering.

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سامي جِريِس

@samijiries

6 months

The funny thing about Amy Schumer and her racist post here is that the so-called “Arab funding” is coming from states like the UAE, which are allies of Israel. This woman is as stupid as she is hateful.

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سامي جِريِس

@samijiries

3 years

I’m so happy there’s now a native Syriac keyboard on iphones 😍

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سامي جِريِس

@samijiries

4 months

When Masha Gessen offered an actual critique of Israeli politics, they were banned by German leftists. What does it say about Rula Daood and the other Arabs in Omdim Beyachad that they are welcomed with open arms and applauded by the people who banned Gessen?

Rosa Luxemburg Foundation

@rosaluxglobal

5 months

“We want you to choose the side of the people who are suffering right now in #Israel and #Palestine because of this war.” “Standing Together” ( @omdimbeyachad ), a grassroots movement founded by Jewish and Palestinian activists in Israel, has been campaigning for peace and social…

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