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Shailja #StopTheGenocide Patel

6 years

Read women. Cite women. Credit women. Teach women. Publish women. Present women. Acknowledge women. Award women. Amplify women. Hire women. Support women. Promote women. Hear women. Believe women. Follow women. Pay women. Pay women. Pay women. #IWD2018

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Shailja #StopTheGenocide Patel

@shailjapatel

6 years

"We all have the same 24 hours." Use public transport? Your 24 hours are not the same as those of private jet owners. Do your own cooking, cleaning, child~raising? Your 24 hours are not the same as those of someone with a full~time domestic staff. Stop this nonsense.

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Shailja #StopTheGenocide Patel

@shailjapatel

1 year

Never forget that #PopeBenedictXVI excommunicated a 9-year old child for having a life-saving abortion after her stepfather raped her and impregnated her with twins. Excommunicated her mother too. Guess who he didn't excommunicate? The rapist stepfather.

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Shailja #StopTheGenocide Patel

@shailjapatel

4 years

George W Bush bombed the Iraqi city of Fallujah with depleted uranium in 2004. Fifteen years later, Fallujah has the highest rate of birth defects in the world. Higher than Hiroshima and Nagasaki after the US dropped atom bombs on them.

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Shailja #StopTheGenocide Patel

@shailjapatel

6 months

Israel has wiped out over 900 bloodlines in Gaza since October 7th. As in, killed every single living member of the family, in every generation. As in, no survivors of that family name. As in - genocide.

Maha Hussaini

@MahaGaza

6 months

Wateen Monir Abujummeiza, the last member of Monir’s Abujummeiza’s family, succumbed to ehe wounds today in #Gaza amid the ongoing Israeli attack.

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Shailja #StopTheGenocide Patel

@shailjapatel

5 years

"Whyyyy don't women report domestic violence to the police?"

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5 years

A Florida woman spent 6 days in jail on theft charges after giving her husband's gun to police. She was trying to protect herself from domestic violence. Her husband spent 1 day in jail. He was accused of ramming his wife's car after a divorce hearing & running her off the road.

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@shailjapatel

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It's almost as if they all have home countries to return to.

Daniella Modos - Cutter -SEN

@DmodosCutter

18 days

“Israeli” Settlers Scramble to Leave After Yesterdays Powerful Iranian Attack - Ben Gurion Airport is in chaos

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Shailja #StopTheGenocide Patel

@shailjapatel

6 months

Never unsee this photo, world. Never forget that in the moment when Israel was slaughtering 136 children a day in Gaza, not one single white U.S. Congressperson not ONE could bring themselves to call for a ceasefire.

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Shailja #StopTheGenocide Patel

@shailjapatel

2 months

I have shocking news for you about what bombs do.

Decline Manager

@SalemLola

2 months

I find it physically painful to see someone tear apart a painting for a political reason. There is something evil in it.

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Shailja #StopTheGenocide Patel

@shailjapatel

6 months

Israel has destroyed over 800,000 olive trees in Palestine since 1967. This ecocide has been likened to the slaughter of the buffalo by white settlers on the American continent. The colonizer's goal is always to break indigenous people by severing their connection to the land.

Al Jazeera World

@AlJazeeraWorld

6 months

“I hugged the olive tree… I’d raised the tree like my child.” On November 27, 2005, a Palestinian woman was photographed hugging an olive tree after it was attacked by Israeli settlers. Get to know the story behind this iconic image.

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Shailja #StopTheGenocide Patel

@shailjapatel

5 months

First taken by the IOF at 4 and 5 years old. Let that sink in.

Quds News Network

@QudsNen

5 months

#BREAKING | The first moments after the siblings Qassam and Naser Al Awar were released by #Israel within the deal with the resistance. Qassam and Naser have been both summoned for interrogations several times. The 1st interrogation for them was when they were 4 and 5 years old.

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Shailja #StopTheGenocide Patel

@shailjapatel

6 months

Reminder: 60,000 of these violent, illegal settlers are Americans. They enjoy all the rights of U.S. citizenship; all the privileges of U.S. passports. They CHOSE to leave the U.S., to go and steal land from Palestinians, who have nothing else, and nowhere to go. Criminals.

Farrukh

@implausibleblog

6 months

Powerful report by @mattfrei on Palestinians being evicted by extremist Israeli settlers #C4News

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@shailjapatel

5 months

BREAKING: South Africa’s parliament votes (248 vs 91) to close the Israeli embassy in South Africa, send the Israeli ambassador home, and suspend diplomatic relations with Israel.

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Shailja #StopTheGenocide Patel

@shailjapatel

4 years

Nope. Public proposals are performative harassment and emotional coercion. Women have the right to say no, anywhere, any time, under any circumstances. Raise your sons to treat women as full human beings, not as trophies they feel entitled to.

Bongiwe Indlovukazi

@BIndlovukazi

4 years

Accept the ring and return it later ,don't embarrass someone's son in public matter settled!!!

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Shailja #StopTheGenocide Patel

@shailjapatel

6 months

"killed as they tried to retrieve their brother's body from the rubble" Are there any words left, in any language in the world, to describe Israel's demonic cruelty?

Palestine Deep Dive

@PDeepdive

6 months

BREAKING | Israeli forces have killed two brothers of Dr. Maisara Al Rayyes, Moayad and Mohammed Al Rayyes, in an airstrike today as they tried to retrieve their brother's body from the rubble, according to local reports. Khalied Abu Soltan, a cameraman working for ITV News was

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Shailja #StopTheGenocide Patel

@shailjapatel

6 months

In which CNN announces it is now officially an IDF propaganda outlet.

Arif Rafiq

@ArifCRafiq

6 months

CNN's @FareedZakaria on journalists who have embedded with the IDF in Gaza: "As a condition to enter Gaza under IDF air support, outlets have to submit all materials and footage to the Israeli military for review prior to publication. CNN has agreed to these terms...."

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Shailja #StopTheGenocide Patel

@shailjapatel

6 months

Stop calling it a war. Gaza is not a state. Gaza is colonised territory, under siege by a nuclear power. Hamas is not an army. Hamas is a resistance movement. Colonised people have the right to armed resistance under international law. Call it what it is: Israel waging genocide.

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Shailja #StopTheGenocide Patel

@shailjapatel

4 months

In 2011, Obama assassinated U.S. citizen Anwar al-Awlaki in Yemen by drone strike. Two weeks later, Obama killed his 16-year-old son, Abdulrahman, also a U.S. citizen, with another drone strike. In 2017, Trump killed his 8-year old daughter, also a U.S. citizen.

Egg Foo Jung 🏴🗯🖋🎼⚾️☕️🦖

@supermarkio

4 months

you think the US would assassinate one of their own citizens?

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Shailja #StopTheGenocide Patel

@shailjapatel

4 months

When you have no culture of your own except looting, torturing, desecrating, and killing.

Hillel Fuld

@HilzFuld

4 months

This Yemenite dance has become the official dance of the IDF. 🇮🇱❤️ I’ve never met these guys but I love them with all my heart and soul.

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Shailja #StopTheGenocide Patel

@shailjapatel

6 months

And there it is. Genocide for profit.

Annemarie Jacir

@AnnemarieJacir

6 months

Israel announced on Sunday that 12 licenses have been awarded to six companies, including British multinational oil and gas firm BP plc and Italian energy giant Eni, to explore and discover additional offshore natural gas fields.

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Shailja #StopTheGenocide Patel

@shailjapatel

5 years

Funny coincidence: these eight countries are where the US and Europe send their trash.

Bloomberg

@business

5 years

These eight countries are responsible for 63.6% of ocean trash: China Indonesia Philippines Vietnam Sri Lanka Thailand Egypt Malaysia Here's how we can help them via @bopinion

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Shailja #StopTheGenocide Patel

@shailjapatel

6 months

With no water. No sanitation. No menstrual supplies. No privacy. If you call yourself a feminist, you have to stand with the women and girls of Gaza. Or don't ever call yourself a feminist again.

Hind Khoudary

@Hind_Gaza

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3 of my friends and I got our menstrual period two times in 42 days. We are stressed frustrated and anxious.

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Shailja #StopTheGenocide Patel

@shailjapatel

5 months

Israel has kidnapped over 12,000 Palestinian children in the last twenty years. That's two children a day. Every day. For two decades.

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@ajplus

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This Palestinian teen describes how she was abused under Israeli custody.

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Shailja #StopTheGenocide Patel

@shailjapatel

5 months

When you're doing genocide on two continents, and you have to pull genocidaires from your secondary genocide to replace the ones you're losing in your primary genocide

Quds News Network

@QudsNen

5 months

Military Africa reports that due to the war on #Gaza , #Israel has withdrawn dozens of Israeli instructors employed by private military contractors in DR #Congo to train parties involved in the ongoing conflict in the country.

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Shailja #StopTheGenocide Patel

@shailjapatel

6 years

Guess what, men? Vasectomy is safe and reversible. Get one today, so you'll never be responsible for an unwanted pregnancy. When you're 100% ready and resourced to be a loving, committed father, with a woman who's 100% ready and eager to have a child with you, reverse it.

IG : Theophilys_bosszonke

@TheoNkhata

6 years

@neilwefk Do Girls Consider How We Men Feel When They Abort?

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@shailjapatel

4 months

Germany marks the 120th anniversary of its first genocide by signing on to its third genocide.

Jacobin

@jacobin

4 months

On this day in 1904, the Herero people began a revolt against the colonizers of German South West Africa. In response, the Germans ordered the killing of every Herero person within the occupied territory, marking the first genocide of the 20th century.

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Shailja #StopTheGenocide Patel

@shailjapatel

6 months

Israel just murdered Gaza journalist Yakub Bursh inside his own home. He is the 50th Palestinian journalist targeted and murdered by Israel since October 7th. In many cases, Israel has also killed the journalist's family and destroyed their home. Genocide wants no documentation.

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Shailja #StopTheGenocide Patel

@shailjapatel

6 months

Paris out for Palestine today, in defiance of Macron's ban.

Arnaud César Vilette

@ArnaudCesarV

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Sans doute plus de 10.000 personnes se sont rendues à Paris pour la manifestation pour un cessez-le-feu à Gaza à l'appel de Urgence Palestine #GazaGenocide #IsraelPalestineConflict

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Shailja #StopTheGenocide Patel

@shailjapatel

6 years

Rape culture is when the bishop officiating the funeral of a global superstar sexually assaults a young woman while verbally insulting her on live TV before tens of millions of viewers and media attack the young woman for "lack of respect" #ArethaFranklinHomegoing

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Shailja #StopTheGenocide Patel

@shailjapatel

5 months

What were Thai people doing on an illegal Israeli settlement on stolen Palestinian land? Providing cheap, backbreaking agricultural labor. Israel's dirty secret: all its industries run on the exploited labor of Palestinians or workers imported from poor countries.

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@AryJeay

5 months

⚡️Hamas published scenes showing the handover of the first batch of both israeli & Thai prisoners to the Red Cross

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Shailja #StopTheGenocide Patel

@shailjapatel

4 years

Sharbat Gula was 8 years old. Steve McCurry invaded her all-girls school, fixated on her green eyes, got her teacher to force Sharbat into letting him pose her and photograph her. He never asked Sharbat's name, her permission, or her parents' permission.

You'll Never See the Iconic Photo of the 'Afghan Girl' the Same Way Again

A photographer's plan to pay tribute to the 1985 National Geographic cover has revealed the disturbing truth about what is reflected in Sharbat Gula's eyes.

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Shailja #StopTheGenocide Patel

@shailjapatel

3 months

Your scheduled reminder that the IOF is a partner in Atlanta's Cop City.

Azadeh Shahshahani

@ashahshahani

4 months

One year ago, police murdered Atlanta Cop City protester Manuel “Tortuguita” Terán during a militarized raid on the Defend the Atlanta Forest encampment. Police shot Tortuguita 57 Times. May their memory serve as a call to us all to intensify our organizing to Stop Cop City.

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Shailja #StopTheGenocide Patel

@shailjapatel

5 months

Israel kidnapped Nufuz Ahmad at 14, from inside her school in Jerusalem, in 2021. They agreed to exchange her for Israeli hostages today. Israeli guards attacked her, just before her release, and hurt her so badly, that she is now hospitalised.

Palestinian teen Nufuz Hammad's release uncertain despite swap deal - War on Gaza - War on Gaza

Nufuz Hammad, 16, the youngest Palestinian inmate in Israeli prison, may not be released as Israelis have returned her to prison following an initial decision to release her as part of the captive...

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Shailja #StopTheGenocide Patel

@shailjapatel

2 months

Overseas care workers like your mother? Who came to the UK from Sierra Leone in 1960 to train as a nurse?

James Cleverly🇬🇧

@JamesCleverly

2 months

Today in Parliament we have laid an order to ban overseas care workers from bringing dependants. This is just one part of our plan to deliver the biggest-ever cut in migration 👇

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Shailja #StopTheGenocide Patel

@shailjapatel

4 years

For all those tweeting nostalgia and praise for George W Bush, here's his legacy. George W Bush bombed the Iraqi city of Fallujah with depleted uranium. 16 years later, birth defects in Fallujah outstrip those in Hiroshima and Nagasaki after the atom bomb.

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Shailja #StopTheGenocide Patel

@shailjapatel

1 year

George W Bush bombed the Iraqi city of Fallujah with white phosphorus and depleted uranium in 2004. Eighteen years later, Fallujah has the highest rate of birth defects in the world. Higher than Hiroshima and Nagasaki after the U.S. dropped atom bombs on them.

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@shailjapatel

6 months

This you?

Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield

@USAmbUN

6 months

We must not become numb to the pain and the suffering of people like Wael al-Dahdouh – a Palestinian journalist whose wife, son, daughter, and grandson were killed in Gaza this week. The lives of innocent Palestinians must be protected. The lives of UN personnel and

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Shailja #StopTheGenocide Patel

@shailjapatel

3 years

I'm baffled at how many of my generation have forgotten what AIDS taught us about pandemics: that there are no safe people, only safe behaviors.

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Shailja #StopTheGenocide Patel

@shailjapatel

4 months

These settlers come from the U.S., Canada, UK, and Europe. They hold Western passports. They enjoy all the security, prosperity, rights and privileges of full citizenship in their Western countries. But they have insatiable greed for the land and homes of Palestinians.

Gaza Notifications

@gazanotice

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The land of a Palestinian family in Jerusalem's Beit Safafa town is being plundered to open a new settlement for the occupying Jews.

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Shailja #StopTheGenocide Patel

@shailjapatel

4 months

"Someday, the sun will shine on Palestine again and it will be the pluralistic, multi-religious, multi-cultural place it was before Israel. This is the peace we are fighting for. We are fighting for the peace of justice and dignity that affords life and hope." -Susan Abulhawa

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bethlehem on christmas day, 1898

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Shailja #StopTheGenocide Patel

@shailjapatel

5 years

Priti Patel's parents weren't immigrants. They were refugees, expelled from Uganda by Idi Amin, with over 50,000 other Ugandan Asians. If the UK government had barred their entry, Priti Patel's parents might have been among the 300,000 Ugandans who perished under Amin's reign.

Channel 4 News

@Channel4News

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"This daughter of immigrants needs no lectures from the north London, metropolitan, liberal elite." Home Secretary Priti Patel says she will "end the free movement of people once and for all".

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Shailja #StopTheGenocide Patel

@shailjapatel

6 years

"We all have the same 24 hours" is capitalism's toxic tool for: ~ shaming the 99% for not being the 1%; ~ erasing the support labour that makes celebrity lives possible, and the people who perform that labour; ~ shutting down questions about privilege, capital, and safety nets.

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Shailja #StopTheGenocide Patel

@shailjapatel

3 months

These settlers come from the U.S., Canada, UK, Europe, Australia, and New Zealand. Countries that millions die trying to reach. These settlers enjoy all the rights, security, and privileges of full Western citizenship. But they move halfway across the world to rob Palestinians.

Hamdah Salhut

@hamdahsalhut

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WEST BANK: Dozens of Israeli settlers attacked Palestinian sheep herders near Ramallah, and tried to steal the sheep. The settlers are from an illegal settlement outpost recently established on the village lands. Several Palestinians were injured.

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@shailjapatel

5 months

Your scheduled reminder that at least 250,000 of these settlers are U.S. citizens.

B'Tselem בצלם بتسيلم

@btselem

5 months

Yesterday morning, the residents of Um Safa discovered that settlers had smashed the windows of six cars in the village, punctured their tires and stolen two license plates, as well as stealing the keys to two other cars.

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Shailja #StopTheGenocide Patel

@shailjapatel

5 months

On the left, Gazans, today, under Israeli guns. On the right, Kenyans, 1950s, under British guns. Do you see? For some of us, these images, these postures, are in our genetic memories. We know what they are. Colonialism. Imperialism. Genocide.

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Shailja #StopTheGenocide Patel

@shailjapatel

5 months

ISRAEL HAS MURDERED MORE JOURNALISTS THAN ALL THESE COUNTRIES COMBINED.

Committee to Protect Journalists

@pressfreedom

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These are the countries where journalists are murdered in retaliation for their work and their killers go free: Syria Somalia Haiti South Sudan Afghanistan Iraq Mexico Philippines Myanmar Brazil Pakistan India Read CPJ’s 2023 #ImpunityIndex ➡️

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Shailja #StopTheGenocide Patel

@shailjapatel

4 years

Stop calling women females. Just. Stop. 'Female' is a biological specimen. 'Woman' is a person.

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Shailja #StopTheGenocide Patel

@shailjapatel

6 months

Susan Abulhawa, world's bestselling Palestinian author, had her account here banned after a Zionist hate campaign. Please read and RT this thread by her. "Zionists are pushing a new line of propaganda aimed at breaking Black solidarity with Palestinians."

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@shailjapatel

2 years

"Everyone's going to get it," is eugenics. Are we all clear on this?

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@shailjapatel

5 years

The US, under George W Bush, bombed the Iraqi city of Fallujah with white phosphorus and depleted uranium. 14 years later, birth defects in Fallujah outstrip those of post-atom-bomb Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

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@shailjapatel

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Ahed Tamimi is 22. She's been resisting Israel's illegal military occupation of her village, Nabi Saleh, since her childhood. When she was 16, Israel jailed and tortured her for eight months. Now they've come for her again. She and her father are hostages.

Israel arrests Palestinian activist Ahed Tamimi in occupied West Bank raids

The 22-year-old Palestinian icon is arrested on another night of Israeli raids in the occupied West Bank.

www.aljazeera.com

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@shailjapatel

4 months

Israel slaughtered another 146 children in Gaza today. Their blood is on your hands forever.

Vice President Kamala Harris

@VP

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Wishing everyone a happy holiday season.

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Shailja #StopTheGenocide Patel

@shailjapatel

6 years

Money buys time. Your own time ~ you pay to do stuff faster. Other people's time ~ you pay them to do stuff for you. How many hours does your favourite celebrity *really* have? 24 + hours saved by expediting with money + total daily working hours of their entire team

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Shailja #StopTheGenocide Patel

@shailjapatel

6 months

Your reminder that Gazans protested peacefully for two years in #GreatMarchOfReturn . They just walked - just WALKED - to the fence that cages them. Israel killed 214 of them, including 46 children. Left over 36,000 maimed for life. Including almost 9,000 children.

Tameem | تميم

@TameeOliveFern

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Even if Palestinians decided to protest the occupation by standing in lines on the road side & throwing roses at the occupation soldiers, they’d be called antisemitic terrorists who deserve to die. Don’t give genocidal Zionists an inch. Rise up and fight back

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@shailjapatel

5 years

Today in genocide.

Laleh Khalili 🇵🇸

@LalehKhalili

5 years

Israel has halted the entry of vaccines to Palestine:

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@shailjapatel

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Israel fired live ammunition on the ICU AND MATERNITY unit. They targeted patients on life support, women giving birth, and newborns. Can anything scream GENOCIDE louder than this?

Saul Staniforth

@SaulStaniforth

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"Most of the medical team evacuated after [Israel] fired live ammunition on the ICU and maternity unit" @Hind_Gaza reporting from Al-Aqsa hospital, where most of the staff have eben forced to evacuate after Israeli threats and bombs.

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1 year

“We don’t live on our reservation. We survive on our reservation. People snowed in for days are burning clothes in their wood stoves because they're out of wood. We’re in serious need of some help.”

Thousands trapped on Pine Ridge burn clothes for warmth in wake of storm

“We don’t have the proper equipment here to handle what’s been going on. We have drifts as high as some houses that stretch 60, 70 yards at a time.”

www.argusleader.com

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@shailjapatel

6 years

Women do work in India. Far harder and far longer than men. Their work is just unpaid, undocumented, and excluded from GDP calculations. If women *stopped* working in India, the country would collapse.

The Economist

@TheEconomist

6 years

If as many women as men worked in India, the world's biggest democracy would be 27% richer

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5 months

60,000 Americans live in illegal settlements in the West Bank, built on land stolen from Palestinians. Another 100,000 live in occupied East Jerusalem, in homes stolen from Palestinians.

How American citizens are leading rise of ‘settler violence’ on Palestinian lands

The Biden administration instituted a travel ban on extremist Jewish settlers who attack Palestinians but there is a glaring loophole for US citizens

www.theguardian.com

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The Christmas Rebellion of 60,000 enslaved Africans in Jamaica on Christmas Day 1831, was the largest uprising in the history of the British West Indies. It led to the abolition of slavery in 1833 and full emancipation in 1838.

Jamaica’s Christmas Rebellion

On Christmas Day 1831, 60,000 enslaved Africans in Jamaica rose up against their masters – the largest uprising ever in the British West Indies, and a milestone on the road to abolition a few years...

tribunemag.co.uk

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@shailjapatel

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Indian Muslims are enduring their own ethnic cleansing at the hands of the fascist Modi regime. For them to come out publicly for Palestine, making themselves targets for even worse state violence, is heroic.

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@shailjapatel

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They were at Treetops Hotel in Kenya's Aberdare National Park. Nine months later, hundreds of freedom fighters would hide from British troops in the forest below. In the next eight years, 1.5 million Kenyans would be incarcerated, starved, tortured, in concentration camps.

Reuters

@Reuters

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She was just 25 when she became Queen Elizabeth II on Feb. 6, 1952, on the death of her father, while she was on tour in Kenya with Prince Philip. She was crowned monarch on June 2, 1953

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@shailjapatel

6 years

I sleep for the generations of women before me who were never allowed to rest. We have a 5,000-year accumulated sleep deficit to make up.

Felo 🌸

@felo_xx

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I am a person who wants to do a lot of things trapped in a body of a person who wants to sleep a lot 😩

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Shailja #StopTheGenocide Patel

@shailjapatel

5 years

Thanks to George W Bush, birth defects in Fallujah, the Iraqi city he bombed with depleted uranium and white phosphorus, outstrip those in post-atom-bomb Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Remember this the next time you see media portray George W Bush as a lovable elder statesman.

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Shailja #StopTheGenocide Patel

@shailjapatel

6 months

Carpet bombing a captive population is genocide.

Yousef D. Hammash

@YousefHammash

6 months

BeitHanoun north of #Gaza

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@shailjapatel

6 years

Anyone who needs 3 hours of prayer a day should be in rehab, not in a relationship.

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@shailjapatel

5 months

Don't unsee this. Two out of three white Americans support Israel's genocide of Gazans. Two out of three Americans of color oppose it. College education doesn't change the support of white Americans for the genocide of Palestinians.

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@shailjapatel

7 months

Your scheduled reminder that Gaza is the world's largest prison, where Israel holds over 2 million Palestinians captive, and regularly tests weapons on them.

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Shailja #StopTheGenocide Patel

@shailjapatel

2 months

Israel has no culture but genocide.

B.M.

@ireallyhateyou

2 months

Popular Israeli stand-up comedian (502K followers on Instagram) mocks the Gazans who lost their lives in the faulty parachute airdrop. The crowd goes wild.

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@shailjapatel

5 years

What the US bombing of Iraq inflicted on generations to come: a higher birth defect rate than Hiroshima and Nagasaki after the atom bomb.

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@shailjapatel

2 years

Solidarity with the people of Ukraine against Russia's bombs. Rejection of the agendas and messaging of the countries currently bombing Yemen, Syria, Gaza and Somalia, and starving Cuba, Iran, Venezuela and Afghanistan. Both are possible at the same time.

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@shailjapatel

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The last freedom flotilla attempt to break Israel's siege of Gaza was in 2010. Over 700 activists from more than 70 nations. Israel attacked, killed 9 activists, and seriously injured dozens more. A 10th activist died later, after 4 years in a coma from injuries Israel inflicted.

suzanne adely /سوزان

@Suz_Adely

13 days

We are preparing to sail to Gaza with 5500 tons of humanitarian aid & hundreds of human rights observers, to demand an immediate, unconditional, & permanent ceasefire, unrestricted access to humanitarian aid, and an end to the illegal Israeli blockade. #FreedomFlotilla

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Shailja #StopTheGenocide Patel

@shailjapatel

6 years

Mama Winnie. Nomzamo Winifred Zanyiwe Madikizela-Mandela. You deserved a year back for every year you were banned. One for every year you were jailed, hounded, terrorized. One for every year you were erased from the liberation you led, by the party you built. Amandla! #Winnie

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Shailja #StopTheGenocide Patel

@shailjapatel

5 months

After an IOF soldier used a @CaterpillarInc bulldozer to crush Rachel Corrie to death in 2003, her father researched the machine. He learned that it was a Caterpillar D9R armored bulldozer, designed by @CaterpillarInc for the specific purpose of destroying Palestinian homes.

Hanine Hassan حنين

@Hanine09

5 months

There’s something satanic about @CaterpillarInc role in the demolition of Gaza’s homes & streets, its entire neighborhoods. I look at this picture & don’t recognize the street I so often took. Nothing left & I wonder how Caterpillar’s CEO Jim Umpleby makes it through the night.

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@shailjapatel

6 years

Yes, Oprah Winfrey gave an inspiring speech at the Golden Globes last night. Oprah Winfrey also beat the war drums for the US invasion of Iraq.

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@shailjapatel

6 years

Deported over 3 million people. More than all previous US presidents combined.

CNN

@CNN

7 years

Obama: “In the eyes of God, a child on the other side of the border is no less worthy of love... than my own child."

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Shailja #StopTheGenocide Patel

@shailjapatel

4 years

. @BernieSanders ' didn't just give us a PLAN - cogent and comprehensive. He addressed the social and emotional crisis of #Covid_19 , as well as the medical and economic. He left no one out. From tipped workers to elders. Over and over again, he invoked our interdependence.

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@shailjapatel

4 months

Wonder why...

Gabrielle A. Perry, MPH

@GeauxGabrielle

4 months

You know who been shutting the entire fuck up lately? Barack Obama.

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Shailja #StopTheGenocide Patel

@shailjapatel

7 years

So many are countering the dehumanization of migrants with 'exceptional migrant' stories. Please stop. Human rights are not a meritocracy.

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@shailjapatel

5 months

What stage of genocide is this? Are they trying to ensure that future archeologists will never find even a single Palestinian bone?

Euro-Med Monitor

@EuroMedHR

5 months

Israel demolishes Gaza cemeteries, confiscates dead bodies of Palestinians

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@shailjapatel

4 months

Today in genocidal feminism.

Lowkey

@Lowkey0nline

4 months

Meet May Golan, Israel's Minister for the Empowerment of Women...

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@shailjapatel

1 year

A major study finds that having COVID-19 makes you much likelier to suffer over twenty different heart conditions, including heart failure and strokes. “It doesn’t matter if you are young or old, diabetic or not, obese or not, if you smoked, or didn’t.”

Heart-disease risk soars after COVID — even with a mild case

Nature - Massive study shows a long-term, substantial rise in risk of cardiovascular disease, including heart attack and stroke, after a SARS-CoV-2 infection.

www.nature.com

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@shailjapatel

1 month

Guy who bombed eight countries, deported three million people, and prosecuted eleven national security whistleblowers feels unheard.

Jeff Mason

@jeffmason1

1 month

. @POTUS @JoeBiden @BarackObama @BillClinton on stage at Radio City Music Hall. The fundraiser has been interrupted multiple times by protesters. Obama snapped at one of them: you can’t just talk, you have to listen.

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Shailja #StopTheGenocide Patel

@shailjapatel

1 year

"(While the doctor and the girl's parents were excommunicated, the girl, being under age 18, was not subject to automatic excommunication.)" Christian fundamentalists: "excommunicating the mother and doctor who saved her life did NOT exclude this child from church" 🤡🤡🤡

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Shailja #StopTheGenocide Patel

@shailjapatel

4 years

This is what non-consensual photography looks like. This is what imperialist photography looks like. This is what extractive photography looks like.

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@shailjapatel

3 years

It's not the Texas Taliban, it's the Texas Ku Klux Klan. It's not American Sharia, it's Christian Theocracy. Stop trying to pin Christian U.S. patriarchy, misogyny, and white supremacy onto Empire's bogeymen.

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Shailja #StopTheGenocide Patel

@shailjapatel

16 days

Read this again. "Camp residents heard women screaming and babies crying late at night. When they went to investigate, they were shot at by Israeli quadcopter drones. The sounds they had heard were recordings played by Israel's drones to lure them out."

Israeli army broadcasts intimidating sounds to lure, kill, and forcibly displace civilians in the...

The sound of women screaming and babies crying was heard late at night on both Sunday and Monday. When some of the residents went out to investigate and tried to help, they were shot at by Israeli...

euromedmonitor.org

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@shailjapatel

5 months

You forgot to mention that Israel also killed three emergency workers who tried to reach him.

Foreign Press Assoc.

@FPAIsPal

5 months

Statement on the killing of Al Jazeera cameraman Samer Abu Daqqa

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Shailja #StopTheGenocide Patel

@shailjapatel

5 years

I keep seeing people I respect sharing that "Buy more books than you can ever read" BS piece in Fast Capitalism. What is it about the word "books" that casts a magic veil over naked commodity fetishism? DEMAND LIBRARIES. FUND LIBRARIES. USE LIBRARIES.

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@shailjapatel

4 months

It's not South Africa versus Israel. It's the Free World versus the Axis of Genocide.

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@shailjapatel

5 years

When you tell women and girls to learn self-defense, or carry weapons against rapists, you're not reducing rape. You're just saying "let him rape someone more vulnerable." Stop calling for dystopias. Start working to end patriarchy. Make a world BEYOND RAPE. #Uyinene

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@shailjapatel

5 months

Biden just bypassed Congress to send 14,000 more tank shells to Israel. This is what Israel does with them.

Defense for Children

@DCIPalestine

5 months

An Israeli tank shelled Ghazal's family's car as they attempted to flee to southern Gaza. 4-year-old Ghazal was gravely injured, and her leg had to be amputated without anesthesia. "My daughter says everyone has two legs except her," Ghazal's mother said.

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Shailja #StopTheGenocide Patel

@shailjapatel

4 years

Today in inconvenient history: CIA darling, Osama bin Laden.

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Shailja #StopTheGenocide Patel

@shailjapatel

5 months

Israel is killing journalists faster than we can update the tally.

Ramy Abdu| رامي عبده

@RamAbdu

5 months

Israel has murdered another Palestinian journalist. Mohamed Zaq lost his life in an Israeli strike on his home.

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Shailja #StopTheGenocide Patel

@shailjapatel

1 year

Our grandmothers had no money, no assets, no education, and nowhere to run. They couldn't open bank accounts or rent housing. They were broken on the wheel of continuous pregnancy, birthing, nursing, mothering. If they tried to leave, families and communities forced them back.

DAMNDEE💕

@damndee__

1 year

Why aren't marriages lasting like our grandparents generation🤔?

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Shailja #StopTheGenocide Patel

@shailjapatel

8 years

Good time to remember that the US is currently bombing seven countries: Iraq Syria Libya Yemen Somalia Pakistan Afghanistan

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@shailjapatel

7 months

"Scotland Yard’s War Crimes Unit has opened calls for evidence relating to war crimes in Palestine. In an incredible turn of events, this could lead to UK government officials being prosecuted for war crimes by Scotland Yard and by the International Criminal Court."

ICJP

@ICJPalestine

7 months

🚨BREAKING🚨 ICJP warns Prime Minister of intention to prosecute UK government officials for complicity in war crimes in Gaza. Full details below⬇️

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