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Scott Long

@scottlong1980

2 months

FREE BOOKS, *NEW* LOCATION: For space reasons, I've had to move my free library on Palestine/Israel--2000 books in digital form (mostly pdf & epub). You can download individual books or the whole library (about 13GB). Please save & SHARE the new link!

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Scott Long

@scottlong1980

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This gay man is 36. He insists for most of his life, "gay rights" had nothing to do with trans people or gender. It's all a recent perversion of the movement. I'm a gay man, 23 years older than he. From the moment I came out in 1982, I understood trans rights as connected to me.

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@ComradeDoom1

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I wrote an article for Tablet on the co-optation of gay culture and the making of a major medical scandal. Many thanks to editors Jacob Siegel and David Sugarman for working with me on this.

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Scott Long

@scottlong1980

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In the 70s, historian Max Hastings interviewed Benjamin Netanyahu extensively, after the the Netanyahu family recruited him to write an official biography of Bibi's brother Yoni. Here Hastings, in his memoirs, recalls Bibi's racism and enthusiasm for total ethnic cleansing:

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When I came out--five years before this bizarre dude was born--I saw my sexuality faced social repression not just because of Bible verses but because it menaced what manhood was supposed to mean. I realized I wouldn't be free till others' bodies were also free from those norms.

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He's rewriting the history of gay rights, erasing what they meant to an older generation he's never tried to understand. But he's also written himself as gay in a way that's incomprehensible to me--in its solitude, its echoing emptiness, its refusal of coalition or connection.

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Scott Long

@scottlong1980

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How did I experience rights, and myself, and the gay movement so differently from this arrogant guy--who now claims the experiences and relations I value only came along later, when in fact I know they were a coalescent part of the political world in which my desires emerged?

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@scottlong1980

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I accepted my gayness--after a long struggle--because it connected me to other lives, other battles, other aspirations for liberation; it wrapped me in an invisible web of hope and dissidence, it linked me to bodies I didn't know,

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Scott Long

@scottlong1980

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Andrew Sullivan says the "gay rights legacy"needs to be protected from "trans extremists." No, it fucking doesn't. And don't tell me what the "gay rights legacy" is, because I know it. I was part of it. So were the "trans extremists."

Andrew Sullivan

@sullydish

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This may be one of the grossest abuses of the gay rights legacy by trans extremists.

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it invited me into their utopias which were strange to me as new continents, it permitted me to visit their inchoate dreams, it told me that the identical is false and there is no solidarity without difference, that we could understand each other even without the same desires.

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@scottlong1980

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I know there are gay men for whom gayness just means meeting other men who call themselves gay, and not having to think about it. But their worlds are arid and empty to me compared to the world of new understandings, new connnections, that opened when I came out 40 years ago.

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@scottlong1980

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Kids don't need to be protected from trans people, "trans extremists," or trans ideas, any more than I needed protection from the dread gays who supposedly menaced my innocent Appalachian childhood. I trust kids. They'll make the connections. They'll figure themselves out.

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@scottlong1980

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But I'll keep insisting on gayness as I experienced it 40 years ago--a radical encounter with what's beyond the skin, a revelation of an unknown kind of open self, an understanding that your oppression is not your private possession but is shared, and only overcome when shared.

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@scottlong1980

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Only connect. Dispossess yourself even of the oppression you treasure as your particular possession, and walk naked into the solidarity of the dispossessed. Without a utopia in mind, a commons of the persecuted where all losses can be salved, there is no point to being gay.

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@scottlong1980

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Sullivan and @ComradeDoom1 are welcome to their version of gayness--one that's sealed, self-sufficient, unconnected to anybody else's aspirations or agitations, fucking away in the Fortress of Solitude. It's theirs. Honestly, nobody will take it away from them.

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Scott Long

@scottlong1980

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Horrifying testimonies of summary executions by the IDF are growing & so far I have not seen Western media cover a single one. Given their click-hungry willingness to republish sensational war propaganda from one side, this omission seems a commercial oversight, if nothing else.

Laila Al-Arian

@LailaAlarian

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He survived by playing dead the way Americans survive mass shootings. Israel is killing Palestinians in bombings, shelling and drone strikes but also in mass shootings

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Scott Long

@scottlong1980

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Israel's Intelligence Minister, Gila Gamliel, calls for ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian population. She writes in the Jerusalem Post that her ministry has developed a concrete initiative to permanently resettle Gazans in "host countries" worldwide.

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Scott Long

@scottlong1980

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Source: Max Hastings, Going to the Wars (London: Macmillan, 2000), p. 251

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Scott Long

@scottlong1980

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FREE BOOKS: I've uploaded my library on Palestine/Israel to the cloud, in digital form (mostly pdf & epub): a little over 1700 books. You can download any that interest you individually, or the whole library (about 13GB). And feel free to share this. Link:

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@CunninghamMPLS He wouldn't listen. He wouldn't even recognize them as sharing a common language. That's the sad part, for him: all the things he'll never hear.

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Scott Long

@scottlong1980

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Here's a Harvard professor, a former president's lawyer, an adviser to Israel's government, going on TV to say: ignore the fact that I'm credibly accused of serially raping underage girls, because Hamas. This might amaze you, but not if you're familiar with Alan Dershowitz.

The Intellectualist

@highbrow_nobrow

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Alan Dershowitz: I want to have a list of all the radical feminists who are pushing hard to get the names from the Epstein list revealed. I want to know, how many of them have ever actually condemned hamas for the rapes. @Acyn

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@HDMW18 You really don't know anything about Revisionist Zionism, do you?

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@scottlong1980

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@BioFreezMaps That's not actually Eastern Europe. It's Norilsk, which is in Siberia--that's Asia--near the Arctic Circle. Budapest, Prague, Riga, Talinn, Cracow, Dubrovnik are all in Eastern Europe, and are gorgeous.

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@scottlong1980

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When I was coming out (back in what feels like the Axial Age), it was axiomatic even in more conservative parts of the LGBT movement that parental authority was a wellspring of oppressive abuse. It wasn't neutral or apolitical. Curtailing it was where politics began.

Owen Jones

@OwenJones84

1 year

This devastating thread speaks to two truths: - The media are whipping up an anti-trans moral panic based on lies and distortions - Parents do not always know what is best for their children - and in some cases, the absolute opposite.

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@scottlong1980

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@SkBounty No, he didn't have an IDF role at at the time--was in Boston studying. Ehud Barak was the commander in charge, I think. But Bibi has campaigned on Yoni's memory ever since and Hastings got no end of trouble from the family because his draft biography was insufficiently worshipful

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@scottlong1980

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@the_transit_guy seriously, the construction industry is a backbone of the regime's support (and the military owns most of it). Forget schools, medicine, doctors, food. While the Chinese money was flowing in, Sisi spent it on concrete.

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Scott Long

@scottlong1980

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Follow Palestinians, not a bunch of Nazis, to get your information. That's just self-education 101.

Elad Nehorai

@EladNehorai

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Audience growth of white nationalists on X who have pivoted to pro-Palestinian content: Jackson Hinkle: 500k to 2 million CensoredMen: 200k to 700k Lucas Gage: 100k to 200k Keith Woods: 70k to 150k Jake Shields: 400k to 550k Ryan Dawson: 75k to 150k Lord Bebo: 155k to 275k

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Scott Long

@scottlong1980

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Clearly these leaks are coming because significant parts of the US security/intelligence establishment are convinced Israel is dragging the US into catastrophe; Biden isn't listening to them, and they see no other way to stop it.

John Hudson

@John_Hudson

4 months

Scoop: A secret assessment from the Defense Intelligence Agency casts doubts about Israel’s prospects for success if it mounts a significant escalation against Hezbollah, saying IDF resources will be spread too thin given the war in Gaza, per sources. 🧵

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Scott Long

@scottlong1980

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I gave most of my adult life to human rights work. LGBT rights are at the heart of my being. But the US is arming genocidal killing now. When a queer State Dept employee smilingly speaks these platitudes at the hour her superiors enable mass death...No. It is wrong. Unbearable.🧵

Katie Hultquist

@kghultquist

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"Today was a rejection of the hate that tries to divide us. We reject the idea that human rights is a zero sum game. We reject the belief that we cannot hope for change. We are not done. -Jessica Stern, US Special Envoy for LGBTIQ+ Rights @OutrightIntl #OutSummit2023

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@scottlong1980

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One of the most common slurs against the suffragettes was that they weren't authentic women, just mannish freaks in dresses. The original feminists didn't brave insult and persecution so their descendants could toss around this slur today. #TransWomenAreWomen

David Andress

@ProfDaveAndress

1 year

Watching terfs trying to spam this hashtag with pics we're evidently supposed to regard as "obviously just a man in a dress", & thinking of all the cis women I have known - family, friends, neighbours, colleagues - who are now being told "You look like a man".

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Scott Long

@scottlong1980

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In some ways it's worse. Hamas shared all biopolitical records--of birth, death, education, civil status, residence--with Israel. They had to. It was one of the conditions of occupation: Israel knew exactly who resided in the Gaza strip and where.

B.M.

@ireallyhateyou

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"Israel erased the civil registry in Gaza, destroyed it completely, destroyed the libraries and stole tens of thousands of ancient records, the Gazans now have no proof of their assets, the degrees they earned at the university or even the birth certificates of their children"

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I felt I had to say this, for the little it's worth.

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@scottlong1980

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The United States is a mess. There are people here i love, places I recall with pleasure, ephemeral moments that give me pride. But anyone who ever dared extol American ideals, freedoms, rights--America as "beacon to the world"--should eat their words for the rest of their life.

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If this guy didn't see a trans community for most of his 40 years, it's because transphobia kept him from looking. Of course there were trans communities in the US in the 80s. There were trans communities in HUNGARY when I moved there in 1990, for God's sake. Who are these fools?

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@desikitteh as with most cases, i guess it was a process, probably lasting from 1981 to 1984 or later. (I didn't come out to my father and get disowned till 1986.) But I peg 1982 as the year the most important stuff, including sex, happened. Happy 5th decade, btw!

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@scottlong1980

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One of the most disturbing parts of what passes for LGBT "social acceptance" has been the acceptance of parental power as a social good. It comes from queers becoming parents and wanting some of that power themselves; and also from the scrapping of discomfiting critical thought.

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Scott Long

@scottlong1980

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I ask again: if the IDF faked this recording--and based on the language, the accents, and now the audio itself, there's a pretty clear consensus that it did--doesn't that raise major doubt about whatever other exculpating "evidence" Israel fed the Biden admin & sympathetic media?

earshot.ngo

@earshot_ngo

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On the morning of October 18th, Israel Defence Forces released this video . performed an audio analysis and found that this recording was manipulated and cannot be used as a credible source of evidence. 1/4

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Scott Long

@scottlong1980

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The role of fixers in journalism is to do all the work, be ignored in life, and be forgotten in death while the lazy white guy you toiled for, a tourist in a flak jacket, is lauded as a "hero." Human rights work is the same, let me tell you. Only the white savior is remembered.

Julian Sayarer

@JulianSayarer

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Heard from a journalist with a major European network that one of the Palestinian 'fixers' they used (apt word), a journalist in Gaza, was killed. The network was to run a tribute to their colleague, but first checked his social media history for anything 'problematic'.

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Scott Long

@scottlong1980

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Power's book was wholly geared toward getting a high-level job in US government--revealed by how she ignored or minimized genocides like E Timor or Guatemala that occurred not despite but by, through, & for the US. Her collapse into open moral corruption surprises me not one bit.

Bruno Maçães

@MacaesBruno

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When I read Samantha Power’s book 20 years ago, a book denouncing the cowardice of those passively witnessing genocide, I didn’t quite expect she would end her career in public life defending a genocide. It’s not a tragic arc though, doesn’t rise to that

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Scott Long

@scottlong1980

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This dates from the late 19th century. The Hohenzollerns built it to legitimate their imperial ambitions by wrapping themselves in a fake, purely imaginary, pseudomedieval veneer. That aspiration makes them forerunners of the lethal, racist archaism of Nazism. Any more questions?

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@historyinmemes

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What inspired human beings to build things like this?

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Scott Long

@scottlong1980

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During the years I worked in Egypt, most LGBT+ activists were in constant anxiety that Tatchell would show up, unannounced and uninvited, stage one of his photo stunts, and leave local queers to face the consequences. Mercifully, he was dissuaded. But I pity his victims in Qatar.

Peter Tatchell

@PeterTatchell

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I have been seized by #Qatar police after staging the first LGBT+ protest in the homophobic Gulf state. @FIFAcom awarded the #WorldCup to Qatar where LGBTs can be jailed & executed. #FreePeter #QatarAntiGay Info:

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@TERFisNotaSlur Tablet has charted a very weird course. I can only conclude they've decided that since right-wing evangelicals are now the core of US support for Israel, they need to imitate every crazy Christianist cultural obsession around, and jettison Jewishness in order to save it

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@scottlong1980

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We're going to remember these things, if we survive, as a series of trial runs for the March on Rome. We could have stopped it, could have sounded the alarm, but half of us were too exhausted, & the other half were focused on chasing trans men out of the abortion rights movement.

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@DLamontJenkins

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These are the Proud Boys currently in Downtown Philly.

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@scottlong1980

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One problem w/ this bald assertion--empty of history or context--is that those making it rarely say the same about the Israeli state claiming borders "from the river to the sea," & cleansing peoples in the way. Genocidal when spoken by students; fine when said by a nuclear power.

Matthew Chapman

@fawfulfan

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A lot of *adults* I've met think "from the river to the sea" is just a "catchy liberation slogan," and refuse to believe me when I point out it's in fact a call for genocide of Jews.

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@scottlong1980

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LGBT liberation is about resisting power, not grabbing some for yourself. I regard with horror and contempt former friends of mine whose service to the cause of freedom has ended in abject subservience to oppressive institutions--one of them, parenthetically, being the US state.

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@scottlong1980

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Fortunately, she was persuaded differently. But what interests me about that statement isn't "as a parent." It's "I want the power." For many queers, parental power comes as a compensation for all the power that discrimination deprived them of throughout their earlier lives.

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@scottlong1980

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Contemporary LGBT activism needs to rethink and reorient its warped relationship to power on all levels. And rejecting this mindless adulation of parenthood and parental authority as a way of validating the self is a good place to begin.

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@scottlong1980

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"I couldn’t believe my eyes. Nearly every student in the packed room was wearing a kaffiyeh..." I'm a Harvard alumnus--one who joined very similar protests against South African apartheid in the 1980s. If this scene and the scarves bother you, there's something wrong with you.

Trisha Posner

@trishaposner

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Claudine Gay promised to prevent ‘disruptions of the Harvard classroom experience.’ How’s that working out? When @SenDanSullivan visited his alma mater last weekend and walked into the Widener Library, "I couldn’t believe my eyes. Nearly every student in the packed room was…

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@scottlong1980

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A passionate tribute to the late Sinead O'Connor was exactly what Hamas has been wanting all along, and Annie Lennox played right into their hands

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@noatishby

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Tonight the Grammys were hijacked in favor of Hamas agenda, as singer Annie Lennox called for a ceasefire, denying Israel's right to defend itself, and also not calling for the release of the hostages. So basically giving Hamas exactly what they wanted. You know, I think that…

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@scottlong1980

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@LouiseLvers well, descended on his father's side from Jews from modern Poland/Belarus

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@scottlong1980

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These images should pursue Samantha Power like a vengeful ghost for the rest of her guilty, bloodstained life.

Ihab Hassan

@IhabHassane

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Dropping aid on the beach in North Gaza resulted in the drowning and death of 18 Gazans, 12 due to drowning and 6 due to overcrowding. Some still deny the famine in Gaza, while people sacrifice their lives to get some food.

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@scottlong1980

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When gays like Bari Weiss (prospective parent) or Andrew Sullivan (not a parent, but it won't stop him talking) praise parents' power to control or detrans transgender children, they are laying claim to abusive power that could easily have been used against them.

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@scottlong1980

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@special978 Oh THAT explains it

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@scottlong1980

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It's so moving how she takes time off from enabling one genocide to say such sad words about another.

Samantha Power

@PowerUSAID

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Today, we mourn those killed during the Armenian Genocide and commit to telling their stories so they are never lost to history. I am inspired by the resiliency of the Armenian people and all they have built, but we can never forget. Honored to have paid my respects last year:

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I'm used to bad propaganda. But this ghoul in a securocrat's Halloween costume oozing fake concern, and congratulating himself over 50 trucks of aid sent to 2 million people while they're being bombed out of existence, is the pure banality of evil. He's a horror movie.

The White House

@WhiteHouse

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The Biden-Harris Administration is working every day to increase the flow of humanitarian assistance to meet the needs of civilians in Gaza. Here’s an update from National Security Council Coordinator for Strategic Communications John Kirby.

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Netanyahu leaking frantically to the press to make his own government's ceasefire talks collapse. And some reporters aren't playing along.

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@stillSHErises @Pale_0ntologist Ayn Rand and Frederick Douglass in the imperial capital ...

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When I was a kid, plenty of parents demanded teachers tattle if their 11-yo---or 17-yo--showed signs of "deviant" desires. Plenty of teachers ratted on gay kids & ruined their lives. Greenwald has his nose too deep in Tuckerland to remember: homophobia & transphobia are the same.

Glenn Greenwald

@ggreenwald

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I have to think this is one of those issues where one's views are strongly shaped by whether one does or does not have children. Of course there are abusive parents and the like. Courts exist for that. But making major choices for kids without parents' knowledge is enraging.

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So let's recap events so far. 1) Qatari activists asked @PeterTatchell not to come to the country and stage a protest stunt. 2) Tatchell told them he wouldn't. 3) Tatchell lied. He did it anyway. 4) Tatchell's now promoting himself as the #1 brave leader of LGBT+ rights in Qatar.

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When we were finalizing the Yogyakarta Principles, the leader of one international LGBT group questioned whether the Principles should condemn intersex surgeries performed on children. "As a parent," she said, "I would always want the power to make that decision for my child."

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@scottlong1980

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Sara Yasin @sarayasin is a conscientious, fair, scrupulous and deeply ethical journalist. The @latimes is lucky to have her. Smearing her as "pro-Hamas" is nothing but pure, vile racism--horribly expectable in this panic-stricken moment, hideously unacceptable at any moment ever.

Laila Al-Arian

@LailaAlarian

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So @TheWrap repackaged a harassment campaign by the aggressive pro Israel “watch dog” group CAMERA into an article to go after and smear the LAT managing editor because she happens to be Palestinian. This is where we are now.

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@pimlius @SilvermanJacob oh, sure, might take a little bit of bombing, starvation, thirst, disease to motivate the volunteers. think of it as an incentive program.

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Correction from a human rights activist: Internet prison is not actually the worst kind

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@TillytheCollie @michaeljswalker Here’s the smell of the blood still. All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand. Oh, oh, oh!

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Weiss and Sullivan must have feared power once, in their bones. Which is why they identify so completely now with the power to oppress.

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@scottlong1980

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Bari Weiss is no journalist. From her attempt to silence Joseph Massad--which made her name--through her rebirth as "free speech" martyr, she's been a ruthless PR machine out to shiv anyone opposing her pet causes. Nobody should be shocked she has the ethics of an egoistic viper.

Noah Berlatsky

@nberlat

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It sounds like emily yoffe and bari weiss deliberately set out to help a transphobic parent bully her child and deny that child medical care. this is not how ethical journalists operate. they also appear to have concealed the child's dissent from their narrative.

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kinda weird that one dude gets to decide if like a billion of us can communicate or not

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this has to be a joke

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@YammerPsaka @KatyMontgomerie My sense is that "gay" was acceptable as an umbrella term in the 70s and even going into the 80s. It's often the case as well, outside the North, that gender and sexuality are seen as on a continuum--so what we would call "trans" is one possibility in "gayness," or vice versa.

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In 2002, with the Iraq debacle impending, Michael Walzer lectured us about the "decent Left" and its obligation to support bombing. Now he's lecturing us about the "obligations of the oppressed," which are, apparently, to die submissively under bombing. Please. Please. Just stop.

The Atlantic

@TheAtlantic

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After the Hamas attack on Israel, leftist protesters took the position that oppressed people can do no wrong. But rights come with obligations, Michael Walzer writes. "What are the obligations of the oppressed and of those who act in their name?"

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@Citizen_Kryptik soooo true.

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Unpopular opinion: intersectionality began as a descriptive account of how identity-based oppressions can interrelate. It's been retooled as a prescriptive guide to choosing alliances & movement strategies. And it is not theoretically or politically equipped to bear that burden.

Priyamvada Gopal ©

@PriyamvadaGopal

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This thread. Sharpton was never to be trusted but Crenshaw is a deep deep disappointment. Just as many 'postcolonial' scholars have kept utterly silent about the most significant colonial war of our time.

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@pourfairelevide @chebhocine The essay defends Brand against the charge of saying sexist things, after he had in fact said sexist things. And the defense--more or less, that he's a working- class guy w a strong grandma--is pretty weak. I never found the essay in any way Fisher's best or most persuasive work.

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@Jebadoo2 because you weren't paying attention when they were being asked for 30 years ago.

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@scottlong1980

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Every single US foreign policy worker who has not resigned is complicit--helped inflict the moments of nameless terror that were the last emotions of a six-year-old child. Examine the used-up scraps of old asbestos insulation that you call your consciences, and decide what to do.

Ragıp Soylu

@ragipsoylu

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Biden, Sunak, Scholz, Macron, Trudeau, Von der Leyen, Michel, and others, you are complicit in this

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@scottlong1980

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As you watch the back-and-forth badminton of accusation between "It's Israel's fault" and "It's the Palestinians' fault," please remember this wise man and his shining example: You can always blame the trans

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@scottlong1980

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It's convenient for this guy, & his bosses at the Atlantic, to claim concern over genocide is just a woke "Current Narrative." But it's a matter of international human rights law and of human lives: two areas in which the Atlantic consistently demonstrates its lack of expertise.

Tom Nichols

@RadioFreeTom

6 months

"Many civilian casualties" does not mean "genocide." I know this will undermine a lot of Current Narratives, but the word - like so many - is being abused.

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@scottlong1980

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This heroic guy, Tembeka Ngcukaitobi @Ngcukaitobi1 , also wrote two books--on land reform in SA, and on the history of Black lawyers under white rule. I downloaded: they look fascinating. On the Marikana massacre, where he battled for survivors, check out

The Spirit of Marikana

On 16th August 2012, thirty-four black mineworkers were gunned down by the police under the auspices of South Africa's African National Congress (ANC) in wh...

www.plutobooks.com

hossam bahgat حسام بهجت

@hossambahgat

4 months

وقتها تمبيكا نجوياتوبي كان مدير وحدة التقاضي بأكبر منظمة مستقلة لحقوق الإنسان في جنوب أفريقيا @LRCSouthAfrica لمدة 3 سنوات وفي 2023 اعتذر تمبيكا عن قبول الترشح لمنصب النائب العام ليواصل العمل القانوني والحقوقي المستقل حاليًا قبل اختياره للترافع باسم بلده في قضيتها ضد إسرائيل

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@scottlong1980

6 months

A center-right TV host who was formerly on the editorial staff at Haaretz and at Maariv (generally considered a leftish paper). Now, talking genocide.

Middle East Eye

@MiddleEastEye

6 months

Shay Golden, on Israel’s Channel 14, threatens Palestinians, stating that they can't imagine how many will be killed and slaughtered. He adds that these killings will not be witnessed in all Arab history

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@scottlong1980

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@dcli @victorerikray Conor Friedersdorf once informed me that as a gay man I owed my human rights to Andrew Sullivan, and I should be fucking grateful. I told him to stop worshipping false gods, all my freedoms came from the selfless struggles of Roy Cohn.

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@scottlong1980

5 months

Fascinating piece that basically exposes "philanthrocapitalism" for what it is. When you let donors become "investors," the thugs naturally assume they are dictators over their investment. Ackman bullies Harvard like a company where he owns 40% of stock.

How Bill Ackman’s Plan to Oust Harvard’s President Failed

He tried to bring Wall Street tactics to the academic world.

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@scottlong1980

6 months

Peter Tatchell is not a journalist, & he's not in Tel Aviv (the Guardian article he attaches describes the footage being shown there). So on what basis and for what reason was he shown this film, which has not been played to human rights organizations or independent researchers?

Peter Tatchell

@PeterTatchell

6 months

Last night I saw bodycam footage by #Hamas terrorists who massacred civilians on 7 Oct I saw them shoot children in cold blood, behead victims & burn people alive in their homes & cars They spewed antisemitism & rejoiced at killing “Jews” Hamas = ISIS

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@scottlong1980

5 months

I spoke to a Sikh taxi driver in Oct. 2001 who told me he'd been spat on three times daily. Around that time, a guy threatened me with a knife on the 1 train because I was reading Albert Hourani's "History of the Arab Peoples." I'm sure Podhoretz was having a lovely time, though.

John Podhoretz

@jpodhoretz

5 months

20 years ago New York City was awash in an epidemic of niceness and kindness. No joke. Post 9/11 and post 2003 blackout, there was a spirit of communality. Now it's a pit.

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@scottlong1980

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It's important not to expect Alaa--or his family, or any survivor of prison, torture, psychological abuse--to be strong constantly, to be heroic for us. Don't imagine superhuman strength. Our fragility is at the core of our need for each other. It makes shared action possible.

Mona Seif

@Monasosh

1 year

Once again we are reminded: Alaa is a human being, sometimes he finds the strength to fight them and lead us in our battle to #FreeAlaa , other times he falls apart The fact that he endured 9 years of this should not be taken for granted, he is vulnerable as any prisoner would be

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@scottlong1980

2 years

@bernybelvedere You left out the unforgettable moment Jimbo picked a fight with ... the Auschwitz Memorial. Unfortunately I don't have a screenshot, but I'm sure it's already a plaque in some Garden of the Unrighteous Among the Nations.

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@scottlong1980

4 months

Akbar has gotten excellent, ominous scoops on US plans for Gaza. This plan is insane. It "envisions Biden traveling to the region in the coming months on 'a victory tour' to claim credit for an Israel-Saudi deal as an answer to Gaza’s pain." Make it stop.

A Top Biden Official Is Pushing An Alarming Plan For Gaza After The War

Brett McGurk is pursuing a proposal to rebuild the Palestinian territory that focuses on a deal between Israel and Saudi Arabia, U.S. officials told HuffPost. Many say that plan would sow seeds of...

www.huffpost.com

Akbar Shahid Ahmed

@AkbarSAhmed

4 months

Leading HuffPost—Biden's top Middle East advisor Brett McGurk is pitching fellow US officials on a plan to tie Gaza's future to a controversial US-Israel-Saudi Arabia deal. Many see the idea as not just infeasible as dangerous, sowing the seeds for regional war involving the US.

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@scottlong1980

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It's personal to me because I went to Gaza 35 years ago, during the first intifada, & saw a soldier beating a kid with the butt of his gun. It's personal because I know Gazans. It's personal because if you try truly to witness suffering--Israelis, Palestinians wounded, dead-- (1)

ArabLit & ArabLit Quarterly

@arablit

7 months

It is personal to us because our contributors are there. Friends & colleagues; their kids are there. & their kids' friends, their frenemies, their neighbors, the people who sell them bread & repair their phones' cracked screens. Who fix their teeth, who teach them. It's personal.

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@scottlong1980

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(This put the lie, btw, to the idea that the Gazan Health Ministry could somehow have faked death statistics. Israel, as the master keeper of statistical information for Gaza, could have refuted any false claims authoritatively--which, of course, they never did.)

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@scottlong1980

1 year

Forced deportation of children is a serious crime in international law, potentially an element of the crime of genocide. But by all means let's do a thread explaining how it's no big deal, because multipolarity, à la Alexander Dugin. And this is supposed to be the Left?

Vijay Prashad

@vijayprashad

1 year

[thread] So, the @IntlCrimCourt has decided to frame a warrant against Russian President Vladimir Putin for the crime of removing children from an active war zone.

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@scottlong1980

5 months

Oh, fuck you, you exhausting idiot. THE 🔻 IS IN THE PALESTINIAN FLAG. Pink isn't red; gays can't copyright a geometrical shape. As for "Palestinians as a people can’t stand gay ppl"--you're a racist & you've clearly never spoken to a Palestinian. But why would they speak to you?

John Aravosis 🇺🇸🇬🇷🏳️‍🌈

@aravosis

5 months

It’s unbelievably inappropriate that Palestinians would culturally misappropriate the pink triangle from gay people who are slaughtered in the Holocaust. (The Holocaust!) Palestinians as a people can’t stand gay people, which makes it even worse that they would steal our symbol.

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@scottlong1980

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i don't "go" anywhere from here, idiot. What happened to Jordan Neely was murder, no matter what his opinions. If you expect me to say, "Oh, he's a homophobe? Kill him!"--then you're not just stupid, you imagine everyone's morality is at the crass piranha level of your own.

Amiri King

@AmiriKing

1 year

Here is Jordan Neely openly attacking the gay community, drag queens, and using homophobic slurs before physically assaulting a man. Where do liberals go from here?

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@scottlong1980

1 year

For decades, I interviewed torture survivors. But my first thought as I listened was never about how dehumanizing it had been *for the torturers*. This tweet innocently sums up how US liberals have seen Israel's violent occupation for decades: such a terrible thing--for Israel.

Lawrence Wright

@lawrence_wright

1 year

I never had a source assaulted in front of me until today when an Israeli soldier who stopped my interview did this with a Palestinian peace activist Issa Amro in Hebron. I can't stop thinking how dehumanizing the occupation is on the young soldiers charged with enforcing it.

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@scottlong1980

5 months

It's not a war on Hamas. It's not a war on Gaza. It is a war on Palestine.

Saul Staniforth

@SaulStaniforth

5 months

"The reality is that since the start of the war in Gaza there have been 303 Palestinians killed in the occupied West Bank. 4,630 people have been arrested, many of them are still being held, many of them without any sort of charge at all"

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@scottlong1980

7 months

As a consumer, I see nothing in Gaza I want to buy. Kill them all.

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@scottlong1980

3 months

Q: What the f*ck is the point of queer if you don’t oppose genocide? A: Tenure.

Olimpia Burchiellaro

@ph_dyke

3 months

Can’t stand queer scholars who literally only post about LGBTQ issues. What the f*ck is the point of queer if you don’t oppose genocide?

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@scottlong1980

4 months

The guy killed an 85-year-old woman and her son in a car crash caused by his negligent driving. A Japanese court gave him a 3-year sentence. The pressure campaign claiming this is somehow unfair--which Jake Tapper glibly endorses--has been pure US imperialism.

Jake Tapper

@jaketapper

4 months

GREAT AND BREAKING NEWS! This morning the US parole commission ordered the full parole and immediate release with no supervision of Navy Lt Ridge Alknois Here’s a picture of the Alkonis family, reunited!!!

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@scottlong1980

4 months

he cannot bear the idea that in parts of Berlin you can get decent food

James Jackson

@derJamesJackson

4 months

The founder of German software giant SAP refuses to go to Berlin anymore because “entire city areas have been taken over by Arabs”

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@scottlong1980

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Cohen is a diehard extremist, founder of the Project for the New American Century, key architect of the catastrophic US invasion of Iraq, "legal advisor" to Condoleeza Rice's illegalities, notorious for accusing any opponent of anti-semitism. Specialist in folly, author of lies.

Eliot A Cohen

@EliotACohen

7 months

I don’t normally respond to the folly of colleagues & not in this forum. This is an exception. I wish to address the second sentence of that paragraph @Vali_Nasr celebrates: “The European, ethno-nationalist settler colonial project in Palestine has entered its final phase.” 1/6

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@scottlong1980

7 months

nothing quite as horrible as the people who helped create the horror explaining why, in their expert view, the horror has to go on and on and on

Yashar Ali 🐘

@yashar

7 months

In a conversation with @NorahODonnell , Secretary Hillary Clinton on those calling for a ceasefire: “People who are calling for a ceasefire now do not understand Hamas, that is not possible. It would be such a gift to Hamas because they would spend whatever time there was a…

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@scottlong1980

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It still puzzles me that professionals who have worked in human rights for four+ decades don't practice intersectionality even one tenth as well or morally as this 21 year-old climate activist--though they bloviate about the word all the time. Maybe "professional" explains it.

Greta Thunberg

@GretaThunberg

3 months

Week 285. Today we are unable to have a climate strike. I’m one of 5 activists in a trial in London for peacefully protesting against an oil conference in October. The demonstration aimed to highlight the terrible consequence of the everyday business of fossil corporations. 🧵

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@scottlong1980

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Why I am not Charlie http://t.co/SIZ6yg5PwN #CharlieHebdo #JeSuisCharlie #France

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@scottlong1980

4 months

Shai Davidai @ShaiDavidai is absolutely a liar and a dangerous thug who will eagerly target and threaten individual students for their political opinions, and try to harass them out of academia. He has no place on a decent university campus.

Heba Gowayed هبة جويد

@hebagowayed

4 months

Bro, is this you? Targeting a grad student so “all your friends on hiring committees” can see? Claiming he justified the “massacre of babies” for calling Gaza an open air prison? And who do you think those student organizations are comprised of? Who do you think the represent?

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