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4 months

Projected on Yankee Stadium.

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6 months

At the NYC kids march for ceasefire now!

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Shutting down the Manhattan Bridge calling for a permanent ceasefire!

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5 months

Happening now: American Jews are shutting down 8 bridges in 8 cities across the country for the 8th night of Hanukkah with one clear unified message: permanent ceasefire now.

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FYI Israel said they’re invading Rafah no matter what. That’s why encampments are spreading. That’s why we must escalate. That’s why all eyes on Rafah.

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6 months

Today we begin a hunger strike in front of the White House demanding a permanent ceasefire.

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4 months

Happening now: the daughter and grandchild of holocaust survivors disrupts @NYCMayor Adam’s 2024 state of the city address in the Bronx: “My father is a survivor of the holocaust. Ceasefire now!!”

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HAPPENING NOW: Blocking the roads leading to the state of the union to make it clear: Joe Biden, your legacy is genocide.

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24 days

Google fired 28 workers for organizing against its contract with Israel. Columbia is sending in full riot gear cops to harass & arrests students demanding an end to genocide. 3 students suspended. Admins across the US are silencing commencement speakers, USC is the latest

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At @AIPAC offices projecting the names of NY electeds + the amount of $$ they take from AIPAC, a right-wing lobby group that is openly, proudly supporting Israel’s genocide in Gaza. @RepJeffries : $500K from AIPAC @SenSchumer : $101,570 @SenGillibrand : $142,945

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3 years

👏🏽 states 👏🏽 don’t 👏🏽 have 👏🏽 a right 👏🏽 to 👏🏽 exist 👏🏽 ✨ People do ✨

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From the river to the sea From the river to the sea From the river to the sea

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6 months

They banned Columbia SJP and JVP thinking it would silence them. Instead, 40 other campus orgs carried on the message. Photo: Lauren M

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6 months

Without a lasting ceasefire, Israel will continue the unfolding genocide in Gaza. In fact, Netanyahu has vowed to escalate the bombings after the four day ceasefire ends. We welcome this news of a halt, but we push even harder than before for a full and permanent ceasefire.

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Happening now: 200 activists block the doors to the Democratic National Club in DC as dem candidates prepare for a private meeting.

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6 months

Calling for a ceasefire from the Statue of Liberty!

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1 month

Our homemade eclipse viewing box: Gaza in eclipses over New York City.

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3 years

“From the River to the Sea” is a call for full decolonization. If your home was stolen, you’d want all of it back, not just a sliver of one room.

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6 months

This is a reflection of what our gov thinks of Palestinians. 11,000 candles representing the Palestinian lives murdered by Israel with US funding. The cops just stepped on them.

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My partner went to vote (ie to leave it blank) and the poll worker saw it blank and said, “we’ve seen that a lot today.” No vote for genocide.

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5 months

Has there been a single day without Palestine protests in the US in the last two months? Nope. And we’re still not stopping.

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3 years

Is the ceasefire coming with an end to the siege? No? Then you better keep planning your next protest.

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3 years

NYC out here saying: FREE PALESTINE! #Savesheikhjarrah

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5 months

Happening now: Over 90 leaders of Palestinian, Jewish, and racial justice movement orgs across the country came together in the capitol against Biden’s $109 billion deal to arm Israel’s genocide in Gaza.

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7 months

CUT, Brazil’s largest trade union federation representing over 7.4 million workers, just passed a resolution committing unwavering support with Palestinians.

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7 months

New York City for #ceasefire !

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5 months

New York City Council members pushing for a ceasefire resolution ✊🏽

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3 years

At the Allenby bridge/border with Palestine. Jordanians, many if not all are Palestinians, demanding to cross into Palestine, to return. Reports that soldiers opened fire.

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2 months

We’re out here in DC making it clear that the state of the union is genocide and war.

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5 months

UAW didn’t just endorse permanent ceasefire but they’re also looking into divestment and tracing the union’s ties to Israel.

Brandon Mancilla

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Our International Executive Board will also be forming a Divestment and Just Transition working group to study the history of Israel and Palestine, our union’s economic ties to the conflict, and explore how we can have a just transition for US workers from war to peace

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3 years

If you’re in the US and asking how to support #SaveSheikhJarrah , the answer is: Boycott, divest from & sanction Israel. Start with the $3.8 billion the US sends Israel annually from our tax $$. That check is material & political cover for Israel to do what it wants with impunity.

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7 months

They killed Wael’s family. He had obeyed the evacuation order and moved his whole family south of Wadi Gaza, while he working from the Al Jazeera office in the north. Israel targeted the the building his family and many others were sheltering in. Nowhere is safe.

Mohamed Moawad

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7 months

Aljazeera' s brave veteran journalist Wael Dahdouh's wife, son and daughter were killed in an Israeli airstrike which targeted a shelter house they had fled to. Wael received the news while on air covering the nonstop Israeli strikes on Gaza!

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7 months

The head of American Postal Workers union, Mark Diamondstein, is urging the AFL-CIO to support a #ceasefire . In case you needed another reason to love USPS workers.

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7 months

Taking over grand central with a clear demand of our gov: CEASEFIRE NOW.

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3 years

Illan Pappe refers to this as “shoot and cry” in reference to how Israeli soldiers would allegedly show remorse after shooting Palestinians but then do it again...and again...and again.

Ohad Nakash Kaynar

@KaynarOhad

3 years

This is @Haaretz first page in Israel today. We Israelis, mourn the loss of every child killed in this fight. Theirs and ours. Show me another society grieving for the children of its so called enemy. Demonizing us with apartheid, and colonial slurs is unjust and inane.

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3 years

Zionists are losing the argument. Now we just need to make them lose the funding they rely on for their ethnic cleansing campaigns. Thread with ways for you to support 👇🏼

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3 years

FYI yesterday AOC introduced an amendment to block weapons sales to Israel.

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7 months

Happening now: Sit-in at @RepRoKhanna ’s office demanding he support the #ceasefire resolution.

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5 months

Happening now: Unions representing over 350,000 workers including @UAW @APWUnational , and UE mobilized alongside dozens of movement orgs across the city with one clear message: Workers demand a permanent ceasefire. Our money should not be funding Israel’s GENOCIDE in Gaza

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5 months

The Senate is preparing to vote on a bill that would give an additional $14 billion to Israel. Let me rephrase: The US gov is voting to give billions to a country numerous experts are warned is carrying out a genocide. A GENOCIDE.

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5 months

Hearing people say there’s a “silver lining” to the genocide in Gaza is really fucked up. Let’s not talk about the movement growing as a silver lining. Palestinians in Gaza are being bombed, stripped, tortured, and executed. There is no silver lining to that.

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16 days

Read that again. Nothing else matters right now.

Jehad Abusalim جهاد أبو سليم

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Israel is going to invade Rafah, and by the end of that invasion, I expect the death toll to reach 100,000.

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2 years

Tinder Swindler Israeli guy who conned multiple women out of millions of dollars was sentenced by Israel to 15 months in jail. Meanwhile a Palestinian child throws a rock and can be sentenced to up to 20 years in an Israeli prison.

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3 years

The fact that Zionists are so afraid of decolonization should tell you all you need to know about what Zionism stands for.

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5 months

This morning, UAW International endorsed a permanent ceasefire at the hunger strike for ceasefire labor press conference in front of the White House.

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17 days

Just learned that last night, NYC bus drivers stood in solidarity with Palestine by refusing to drive buses holding protesters from @jvpliveNY ’s sedar in the streets demanding an end to genocide and US funding for Israel.

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3 years

Be anti-zionist and be proud of it.

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6 months

From the river to the sea, we stand for freedom and ceasefire. Thank you @RashidaTlaib for speaking out proudly and with principle.

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3 years

#IstandWithIlhan because I support holding war criminals accountable. It's really simple.

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3 years

This book is currently free. Download, read —> organize.

Haymarket Books

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3 years

FREE ebook: Palestine: A Socialist Introduction

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Police body slammed, violently beat, and then dragged Palestinian professor Steve Tamari for simply participating in the encampment at Wash U St. Louis. He was told he’s lucky to be alive. Steve’s words: “the students are our collective best hope for a free Palestine.”

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3 months

Thousands of us filled the streets of New York disrupting Joe Biden’s visit. Our message is one: you can’t go on with business as usual while you are funding and upholding a genocide!

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3 years

Just learned that Colombian activists are also being censored by IG for documenting state repression against the national strike. Solidarity from us Palestinians being censored for documenting and disseminating info about Israel's ethnic cleansing in Jerusalem. #SaveSheikhJarrah

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6 months

People don’t want to believe @JamaalBowmanNY because of how outrageous the reality of Israel’s occupation is. Yes, it’s true, if you’re not Jewish, you can’t access certain roads, towns, schools. Yes it’s true, and it’s vile and racist, not to mention a violation of intrnl law.

Eitan Fischberger

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6 months

An outrageous lie from @RepBowman : "Myself, as a sitting member of Congress, could not walk through certain checkpoints in the West Bank because I wasn't Jewish!" There isn't a single checkpoint like this. He hates the Jews so much. He really does.

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6 months

Israel bombed a school this morning. Don’t stop speaking out, especially now when they expect the momentum to die down and for people to go back to life as usual.

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6 months

Happening now: activists with @wearedissenters are shutting down Boeing factories in St. Louis, Missouri. Boeing builds JDAM bombs Israel is using in Gaza.

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3 years

BDS is 16 years old this week and has been growing and evolving despite vicious attempts to criminalize it. But also remember that the Palestinian call for boycotts has been around for decades, in fact predates Israel.

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3 years

Zionists are cancelling their NYT subscription because the paper showed the faces of the 67 Palestinian children killed by Israeli bombs. Yes, Zionism is racism.

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5 months

She was detained with her little brother. He’s 6.

Aseel Mousa

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5 months

“They asked us strange things about Hamas and the location of Israeli prisoners,” said the 10-year-old from #Gaza , recounting her interrogation by Israeli soldiers last month. “I told them I had no information." My latest for @MiddleEastEye

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2 months

Hour three of 24 hour rally against genocide in front of New York City hall demanding a permanent ceasefire resolution. Join us— we’ll be here with over 100 New York orgs through the night, rain or shine.

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4 months

It’s Monday morning, but no business as usual while our gov funds a genocide. 400 New Yorkers blocked the Holland Tunnel & the Manhattan and Brooklyn Bridges calling for a ceasefire.

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4 months

Tariq Habash, a senior official in the US dept of education, just resigned. His words: “I cannot stay silent as this administration turns a blind eye to the atrocities…in what leading human rights experts have called a genocidal campaign by the Israeli government.”

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3 years

If you say you support Palestine but you support or apologize for Assad in same breath, then no, you don’t really support Palestine. Palestinian freedom is tied with the liberation of all of us— from Palestine and Syria to Yemen and Western Sahara.

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3 years

Yesterday Pomona College student gov unanimously passed a resolution divesting all ASPC funds from companies complicit in Israel's occupation + banning future investments in Israeli apartheid. All won through the tireless efforts of student activists ✨Congrats to Claremont SJP✨

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1 year

Stand with Palestine activists who courageously speak up for Justice.

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What a beautiful, principled speech.

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2 years

Israel approved a new plan to spend up to $30 million(!!) on propaganda in the US and Europe.

The new hasbara campaign Israel doesn’t want you to know about

Losing the war for public opinion abroad, Israel is relaunching a heavily-funded plan to disguise its own propaganda behind the façade of 'foreign agents.'

www.972mag.com

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3 years

Standing here by the Dead Sea where Jerusalem is only 24 miles away and Hebron 34. The discrepancy between the physical distance and the actual experiential distance is so wide, it’s enraging.

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7 months

In a taxi going to pick up folks arrested at the capital while demanding a #ceasefire in Gaza. Our taxi driver is with us, racing to get to the detention center to meet activists as they emerge And there’s another action tomorrow. And the day after that. And the day after that.

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3 months

The American Federation of Teachers (AFT) joined the call for ceasefire! AFT represents 1.72 million educators, higher education professionals, healthcare workers. Show some love for your teachers.

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Columbia admin tried to shut down the student encampment, instead it inspired nearly a dozen campuses across the country to set up their own encampments demanding justice for Palestine.

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3 years

6 Palestinians prisoners escaped an Israeli prison by digging a tunnel out. Indeed a beautiful sunrise. 🌞

Jalal #CeasefireNow

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Beautiful Sunrise ☀️ 🇵🇸

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3 years

Rashida Tlaib ( @RashidaTlaib ) standing firmly by what is just and what is right, unapologetically. We love you, Rashida. To those who remain silent, your silence is noted.

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Our youngest learning so much from these inspiring, powerful students @ColumbiaSJP

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5 months

Read this again. Let it sink. There is no optimism to the moment we’re in. There is no “I’m doing x & that’s enough.” There is more to do. Preaching to the choir is easy. It’s time to confront the friends, family, colleagues who are silent or worse. Don’t be an educated observer.

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3 years

PALESTINE: A SOCIALIST INTRODUCTION has been criticized recently, even labeled a “CIA op” and “counter-revolutionary” text. The smears against the book and its Palestinian contributors make neither empirical nor constructive criticisms. Here’s my brief response: [1/6]

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3 years

Israeli forces just arrested @Majdkayyal , his brother Ward, and mother Soheir in occupied Haifa.

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3 years

I’m running to be a member of @DemSocialists National Political Committee (NPC). There are a bunch of reasons for why I’m running, but the main one is simple: make Palestine & BDS central to DSA organizing. 🚨 Let your delegates know!

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Ghassan Kanafani was born today in 1936 in Akka, Palestine. In 1972 he was assassinated in Beirut. His words live on, “The Palestinian cause is not a cause for Palestinians only, but a cause for every revolutionary... as a cause of the exploited and oppressed masses in our era.”

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3 years

If your Eid blessing doesn’t come with a call for BDS, I don’t want it.

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7 months

In their own words:

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3 years

Israel: we’re not going to vaccinate Palestinians living under our imposed military occupation. #medicalApartheid SNL: Israel is not vaccinating Palestinians. Zionists: omg #SNL how could you?!

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3 years

Zionists in Congress keep playing the same old record with false claims of anti-semitism. The reality is much simpler: they have zero qualms with supporting apartheid and ethnic cleansing. Why? Because they profit off of it.

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10 months

The US still gives $3.8 billion to Israel annually. New York State still subsidizes settler violence. How are you organizing to end this mass, state-sanctioned home theft? I’ll give you one way: Not on Our Dime . com

Mohammed El-Kurd

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Settlers hand over @NorasEviction ’s furniture from her Old City home that they stole earlier this month, under the protection of the Israeli occupation forces. Zionism is indefensible, it is disgusting.

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2 years

This is HUGE. #DroptheADL

Jewish Voice for Peace

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2 years

BREAKING: In leaked internal memo, @adl admits its police exchange programs between the US and Israel might militarize police and contribute to police violence. @adl “paused” the programs after pressure by Black, Palestinian, and Jewish orgs. Our collective power in action. 🧵

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This is terrifying. Gov of New York openly saying she would commit genocide in some circumstances.

Jacob N. Kornbluh

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3 months

NY Gov Hochul last night on local opposition to Israel’s war in Gaza: “If Canada someday ever attacked Buffalo, I'm sorry my friends, there would be no Canada the next day. “That’s a natural reaction. You have a right to defend yourself and to make sure it never happens again.”

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You can’t divorce Zionism from the genocide unfolding in Gaza.

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3 years

CNN: Do you support the protests, the violent protests that have erupted in solidarity with you and other families in your position right now? @m7mdkurd : Do you support the violent dispossession of me and my family?

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😬😬😬 anyway #SaveSheikhJarrah

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My heart is shattered

Husam Zomlot

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6 months

Listen to Palestinian journalist Ayat Al Khadour final words before she was killed by Israeli bombardment earlier today. She knew the world is failing her urgent plea for #CeasfireNOW

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Israel is bombing Gaza. Three Palestinian children have been killed already. In Jerusalem, the struggle to #SaveSheikhJarrah is ongoing. These are all connected. This our struggle to #SavePalestine from Israel’s ethnic cleansing campaigns; its bulldozers, bombs, guns, tanks...

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3 years

Worlds most prominent human rights org charges Israel with the crime of apartheid, building on what Palestinians have been saying for years. Will the US gov keep using tax $$ to fund an apartheid state? Every politician's stance on this will be noted now & in history books.

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Israel gets $3.8 billion in military funding from the US each year. Last month, a $745 million weapons sale was approved (w/o congressional oversight) right as Gaza was being carpet bombed. Now Israel says it needs $1 billion more in “emergency funds..” How is this not a joke?

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1 year

Major news! #NotonOurDime

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3 years

Israel is ethnically cleansing Silwan and has discussed plans to turn parts of this Palestinian neighborhood of 1500 people into...a theme park. #SaveSilwan

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3 years

Exciting news! Charlie Pillsbury & 4 members of the Pillsbury fam (yes the baking brand) joined the BDS call to boycott Pillsbury, now owned by General Mills, until it closes operations in illegal settlements built on Palestinian land in the West Bank. Snapshots from their oped:

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3 years

Zionists are mad about ice cream but not about apartheid and settler colonialism.

Ambassador Gilad Erdan גלעד ארדן

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3 years

In coordination w/ @yairlapid , I sent a letter to 35 Governors of US states that have legislation against the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement targeting Israel. 1/2

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4 months

Today at noon et Palestinians are testifying in a US court against Genocide Joe and Blinken for their complicity in genocide. This is the first hearing of @theCCR ’s lawsuit against the US gov. Watch the livestream 👇🏽

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50% of buildings in northern Gaza have been destroyed by Israel’s bombings. Fifty percent.

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