Co-wrote this
@washingtonpost
Opinion w/ Cat (
@USCPR_
) on biased & inaccurate coverage of the Israeli Occupation of
#Palestine
& the Jerusalem incursions. Read & share! The media must stop giving reign to Israeli aggression & begin telling the full story.
The Arab and Middle Eastern Journalists Association just issued a statement regarding the racist coverage of Ukraine that saw dehumanizing, superior, and insulting comparisons to the Middle East.
@AMEJA
See here + 🧵
Israeli forces KIDNAPPED my friend, the award-winning brilliant poet from Gaza, Mosab Abu Toha (
@MosabAbuToha
). His brother says Mosab and his young family were evacuating to the south as they have been asked by
@StateDept
to head to the Rafah Crossing to evacuate because Mosab's
Facebook and Instagram continue to target Palestinians, censoring anything and everything they try to post. Including, a very non-threatening image I took of two women holding signs during a car caravan in VA.
Despite all the pop up warnings,
#FreePalestine
I just watched the POV of the protesters in Michigan. The looks, aggressive yelling, and boos that other Democrats gave these principled young women is sickening. The protesters chanted “we won’t vote for genocide.”
The Democrats want us dead. Kamala is a disgrace. We’re only
I am devastated. Over the past few weeks, Mohammed and I became friends. We connected through
@WeAreNotNumbers
to help with the stories he was about to write about wars he's survived in 2012, 2014, and 2021. We stayed in touch despite losing contact for days at a time. He showed
With heavy hearts, we share the devastating news of the killing of WANN writer, Mohammed Hammo. Mahmoud, along with his entire family, fell victim to the harrowing consequences of an Israeli airstrike on their home. May Mahmoud Hammo and his family rest in peace, and may their
As statements & coverage comes out, I repeat: there is no ‘Israel-Palestine’, ‘Israeli-Palestinian relations,’ ‘Israel and the Palestinians,’ ‘two sides,’ ‘Israeli-Palestinian conflict.’
There is the Israeli Occupation of Palestine. Call it by its name.
When I moved to America, I met an Algerian Uber driver who drove me to CVS on the night I landed. When I told him I was Palestinian, he gave me this misbaha with the colors of Palestine’s flag and waited for me to drive me back without charge. I still have it 🇵🇸 🇩🇿
Part of the crowd has started to become violent at First Street and Constitution Avenue, NW. The crowd failed to obey our order to move back from our police line. We are deploying pepper spray towards anyone trying to break the law and cross that line.
Facebook silenced more than 60,000 users this morning. Let that sink in. More than SIXTY thousand Palestinians & Arabs who were part of the Save Sheikh Jarrah group administered by
@m7mdkurd
,
@kurd_muna
& others lost the space in which they get info and updates.
This magazine cover is racist. There are thousands of Arabs who wear the head cover (hatta w a’gal), there are many ways to allude to an image of MBS without having a clear illustration of an Arab resembling a bomb. Truly shameful depiction,
@TheEconomist
.
Former staffers and volunteers of
@BernieSanders
’s campaign are now holding a sit-in in his office demanding a ceasefire. They’re holding the list of names of Palestinians killed by Israel. They’re reading poems and telling stories about the martyrs. Police are in the hallway.
Happening now: vigil for Aaron Bushnell, U.S. Air Force member, who self-immolated outside the Israeli Embassy in DC yesterday to protest U.S. complicity the genocide Israel is committing in
#Gaza
.
🚨 WASHINGTON, DC PROTEST: There we’re TEN police cars for only SEVEN protestors standing by tents chanting
#FreePalestine
. Police currently searching protestors, hands tied. Reports of secret service pulling up. SEE THREAD FOR PICTURES
POLICE ARRESTED PROTESTORS IN DC IN FRONT OF ISRAELI EMBASSY 🚨 🚨 🚨
Protestors set up tents demanding halt to settlement expansion, end to military funding to Israel, &fair media coverage.
#FreePalestine
Outrageous! Only a few months ago Hanaa spoke about life under the Israeli Occupation in Nazareth in an interview piece I commissioned from
@KinaniHaneen
for
@PalStudies
. I’m told Manhal Hayek, also quoted in the piece has been detained as well for protesting. Free them both!
DO NOT DONATE TO ANY CAMPAIGNS CLAIMING TO HELP SHEIKH JARRAH!
The families have NOT endorsed any fundraising campaigns, and sick folk are taking advantage of the situation to steal money. Please REPORT @ jwise_17 on Instagram and TELL
@gofundme
that his campaign is FRAUD!
@KEGates
@uncommittedmvmt
I’m sorry that the grief and rage of seeing the bodies of our dead friends, family, and people wasn’t expressed “diplomatically” via a meeting and instead ruined your day for a whole minute. Boohoo. We need action not words.
NOW: The Salhiya home is being demolished by the Israeli Occupation. It’s dawn. Mahmoud’s daughter says on IG that Israeli forces beat the women and men during the arrest, including elderly. Her 9 year old sister was forced to see this, terrorized at night.
#EndApartheidIsrael
Footage from today's chaotic City Council session in Philadelphia shows sheriff duties being aggressive towards members of the press who tried to document an elder Pro-Palestine demonstrator who was injured while being escorted out of chambers.
After interviewing me for 20 minutes,
@JamesRosenTV
and the Sinclair Broadcasting Group used 4 seconds of me condemning Israel and the Biden Administration amid a puff piece that defends Israeli war crimes. Shame on them. They whitewash an Apartheid regime.
#FreePalestine
VIDEO:
@POTUS
says "there has not been a significant over-reaction" from the
#Israeli
military in the
#GazaStrip
. A Palestinian activist tells me the president "supports apartheid." WARNING: This video contains some graphic images.
Protestors at the Israeli Embassy in Washington DC are playing “Ya Zareef al-Toul”. Tents set up. Police cars and vans can be seen close. Protestors say they won’t leave: Halt settlement expansion, cut military funding, & fair media coverage.
@palyouthmvmt
🚨 WASHINGTON, DC PROTEST: There we’re TEN police cars for only SEVEN protestors standing by tents chanting
#FreePalestine
. Police currently searching protestors, hands tied. Reports of secret service pulling up. SEE THREAD FOR PICTURES
DC community protests Western medics complicity in the genocide in
#Gaza
, showing up at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner at the Hilton.
Press vests are laid on the curb with the names of all Palestinian journalists Israel has killed in the last six months.
In Palestine, diplomats take selfies. Share notes on colonial nostalgia. On our land, they shop,picnic, witness. As if they’re powerless. They’re not, there’s documented examples of diplomats intervening to shield-in Zimbabwe, in Venezuela. Do not be tourists to ethnic cleansing.
The same Apartheid state that gave Palestinians expired COVID vaccines after blocking entry to any vaccine at the peak of outbreak, that uses checkpoints to restrict movement, access to medical care, that has besieged Gaza for more than a decade withholding electricity & fuel.
Lebanon - please accept medicine, fuel, oxygen and supplies from the people of Israel. The new generation of Israelis and Lebanese crave for peace and prosperity. Enough time has passed and nothing gained by fighting.
@LBpresidency
- have the courage to pick up the phone.
About 700 houses in Silwan are threatened with demolition, thousands of Palestinians about to be forcibly expelled.
TOMORROW is a court date scheduled for some of these families. If you’re in Jerusalem, go to the district court at 10 AM, rally, defend, we will not leave.
An estimated 300,000 people marched in Washington, DC on Nov. 4 for Palestine and against Israel’s genocide in Gaza. They demanded a
#CeasefireNow
and an end to U.S. military funding to Israel.
The march in photos (by me) 🧵
Debris from the Salhiya family home in Sheikh Jarrah after it was demolished by Israeli forces who arrested members of the family & youth in the neighborhood after they assaulted the family at 3:30am after they demolished the family's plant business yesterday.
#EndApartheidIsrael
And to think we rejoiced when NYT hired an Arab reporter to cover Palestine. The lede is a lie. It is inaccurate. It is not fact. Neither did Al Jazeera nor the Palestinian Health Ministry say there were clashes or “gunmen”. They LITERALLY SAID Israeli forces killed her. Fix. It.
📣📣📣Update from
@dianabuttu
, Israeli forces released our dear friend
@MosabAbuToha
. They beat him, and he's currently seeking medical treatment.
There are hundreds more Palestinians illegally held by Israel, kidnapped, and disappeared while fleeing the bombing from the north
Israel killed
#Gaza
artist Heba Zagout and her children!!!!! I spoke to her recently & she sent me images of her kids, israel terrorized them! she said she can’t sleep from the fear. I am devastated.
الله يرحمهم ويجعل مثواهم الجنة.
When it’s Israel running ads for property in illlegal settlments, trips to occupied land, y’all pretend you’re not giving platform to evil, Apartheid, criminal behavior. You’re more concerned with literally flagging Arabic posts for terrorism for the mere mention of “Palestine”.
1/ We are now prohibiting Russian state media from running ads or monetizing on our platform anywhere in the world. We also continue to apply labels to additional Russian state media. These changes have already begun rolling out and will continue into the weekend.
ISRAEL HAS JUST KILLED CHILDREN. FOOTAGE OF DEAD BODIES, SEVERED LIMBS, HAVE COME OUT.
There are NO equal sides, only OCCUPIER & OCCUPIED. Israel has repeatedly committed WAR crimes. DOCUMENTED before and documented RIGHT NOW, all blood and gore. What are we waiting for?
Is this where all city resources are going for?
@MayorBowser
, TEN police cars for seven people peacefully chanting??? Shame on you. THIS IS IN DC. It was a sit-in to demand halt to settlement expansions, end U.S. military aid to Israel, and fair media coverage.
#freepalestine
Protestors at the Israeli Embassy in Washington DC are playing “Ya Zareef al-Toul”. Tents set up. Police cars and vans can be seen close. Protestors say they won’t leave: Halt settlement expansion, cut military funding, & fair media coverage.
@palyouthmvmt
Collaboratively written, we are taking a stand for accurate reporting on Palestine.
“We have failed our audiences with a narrative that obscures the most fundamental aspects of the story: Israel’s military occupation and system of apartheid.”
I'm looking to commission a writer for 6 months (PAID) to work on
@PalStudies
monthly 'Press on Palestine'. The roundup highlights bias in mainstream American reporting on Palestine. See 🧵
Must be skilled in media analysis & have critical knowledge of Palestinian affairs.
Protestors set up tents. Reports of police pulling up. Protestors are calling for an immediate halt to settlement expansion that’s displacing Palestinians, an end to U.S. military funding to Israel paid by American taxdollars, &media coverage that does not obscure the Occupation
Yesterday the Israeli Prime Minister's office said that it had confirmed Hamas beheaded babies & children while we were live on the air. The Israeli government now says today it CANNOT confirm babies were beheaded. I needed to be more careful with my words and I am sorry.
This is
@Christina_assi
, a friend from school & a journalist
@AFP
!! An Israeli air strike hit a car carrying journalists in South Lebanon. Also injured are Carmen Joukhadar and Elie Brakhia (
@AlJazeera
), & Dylan Collins (
@AFP
).
@Reuters
Journalist
@LbIssam
was killed!!!!
#writers
: I’m looking to commission (paid, $100) articles for
@PalStudies
on the experience of Palestinians in Latin America — oral histories, analysis, news, arts... Pitch me blog
@palestine
-studies.org, DMs open!
Arab Women’s Strike against domestic violence & murder of our girls & women. *July 6*. Diaspora Arab women must join, we mustn’t stay silent awaiting our turn, or the turn of our sisters. I translated the Women's Strike statement in thread. #اضراب_نسائي_عام #اضراب_عابر_للحدود
For months we’ve been organizing, campaigning, amplifying for Palestine w/out resources or institutional backing, putting our bodies at the forefront, protecting our communities mobilizing for our people back home.. but we are (1) young (2) women: a threatening combination. ⬇️
Right after I read Maha's powerful statement, I received an email from
@IWMF
requesting sponsorship for the awards reception -- the letter read, "As we know, the threats directed toward women in the profession are especially intense. These fearless journalists need our support
I wouldn't have won The International Women's Media Foundation (
@IWMF
)'s Courage in Journalism Award 2024 this June if I hadn’t been on the ground reporting events and exposing Israeli flagrant violations under perilous conditions, all while being systematically attacked by
SHARE WIDELY, Muna El Kurd reports LIVE on her IG: Settlers are crowding the neighborhood and they are ARMED. I repeat. They are ARMED. They have WEAPONS. Soldiers and settlers are terrorizing residents right NOW. 40 minutes ago, they dragged
@m7mdkurd
OUT of the neighborhood
📢Looking for volunteer Arabic to English translators to help translate testimonies from Gaza for
@PalStudies
as part of our ‘Letters from Gaza’ series. I issued a similar call in October and am grateful for all those who helped and stayed on — we hit capacity and have an influx
UPDATE: Mosab has been released. Thanks to everyone who kept the pressure on 🙏🏽 But please don't stop, there are hundreds more kidnapped by Israeli forces while fleeing the bombing in Gaza, and thousands illegally detained in the West Bank, including children.
#CeasefireNOW
I'm looking to commission a
#writer
for 6 months (PAID) to work on
@PalStudies
monthly 'Press on Palestine'. The roundup highlights bias in mainstream American reporting on Palestine. See 🧵
Must be skilled in media analysis & have critical knowledge of Palestinian affairs.
For those who don’t know yet, Israeli soldiers shot Jana al-Kiswani a 15/16 yr-old Palestinian CHILD of
#SheikhJarrah
in her home. Rubber bullet fractured her spinal cord &bruised her lungs. Her father was also shot trying to protect her.
Her screams were cut by a bullet:
The ruling of the illegitimate Israeli Court about
#SheikhJarrah
homes is on Tuesday. It was postponed last month during the height of protests, media. As
@kurd_muna
said after her release, the arrest of her &
@m7mdkurd
, still detained, is a “muzzling” policy, to keep them quiet.
Absolute despair. My words can no longer comfort the only friends I have left in Gaza. One is now stuck in what remains of his home, surrounded by Zionists, when he went back to take essentials for his evacuated family. Another wants to give me his will…
Ahmed was our social media manager for the
@PalestineWrites
festival. He was just here… we were sitting next to each other devices propped up on a kitchen counter making posts. Now, he is at the mercy of a monstrous regime, huddled with his family.
HUNGER STRIKE DAY 17. More than 75 rep. from your party have spoken, when will you act,
@POTUS
?
Yesterday,
@RepRashida
&
@CoriBush
joined sisters Iman & Muna Saleh from
@LiberateYemen
(on hunger strike since 03/29) during a vigil for the lives lost in Yemen under the blockade.
Pitch me! I have room in my July/August budget to commission 6 pieces. Are you a
#writer
,
#journalist
, or
#researcher
focused on Palestine?
@PalStudies
will publish stories, analyses, reviews, or coverage of any genre, from anywhere. More info:
I’ve been tasked with translating testimonies and reflections by Palestinians and Syrians who witnessed the Beirut Port Explosion. I can barely go through a paragraph without needing a breather. Heavy day ahead…
GET US TO 100,000 SIGNATURES
#SaveSheikhJarrah
We are delivering this petition to
@SecBlinken
and
@HadyAmr
this TUESDAY while also holding a rally at the State Department in DC.
Over a thousand marched in DC today against the military coup in
#Sudan
. Snapped some pictures as protestors arrived at the White House. #مليونية_30_أكتوبر
We’re commemorating
#NakbaDay
and honoring Shireen Abu Akleh’s memory and that of all Palestinian martyrs *tomorrow* in
#Washington
, DC at 1:30pm. A memorial will be erected for Shireen at the protest - bring flowers, cards… wear black or red.
Be many. Until liberation 🇵🇸
Community members commemorate one year since Israeli Occupation Forces killed journalist
#ShireenAbuAkleh
by holding a vigil in front of the White House in Washington, D.C. on May 11, 2023.
#writers
: I’m looking to commission (paid, $100) feature articles for
@PalStudies
on Palestinian literature, music, or art (all forms). Reviews, interviews, exposés... anything & everything about the joy of Palestinian cultural production. Pitch me or ask for my e-mail, DMs open!
Amazing news!
@m7mdkurd
’s piece “A Night with Palestine’s Defenders of the Mountain” for
@thenation
has made the One World Media Awards Longlist for Print! (
@onewm
). Well deserved!! So proud of you 🙏🏼💜🥳
Read the article:
What do we tell our friends in Gaza who use what remains of their batteries to tell us that they are afraid? That they are dead. To get them out. That they can’t sleep. They send pictures of their children huddling in hallways watching bombs hail from the sky.
There’s a social media storm in Arabic to
#SaveSheikhJarrah
. The ‘United Palestinians’ group is hosting Muna El-Kurd on ClubHouse in conjunction with updates about court delays and the families rejection of its unjust offer. Join & tweet #انقذوا_حي_الشيخ_الجراح
#writers
: I’m looking to commission (paid) feature articles for
@PalStudies
on Palestinian prisoners! Stories about art in prison, hunger strikes, solidarity across bars, Israeli practices etc. DM for my email & additional pitch tips to the link in thread. Reach out by April 10!
I wrote about the business of lies that is
@nytimes
for
@The_NewArab
. I detail disinformation that NYT engaged in 3 articles & that buried the truth about Shireen Abu Akleh’s murder, and breakdown who runs the paper &what their $$ connection to Israel is.
“This story is no longer available”
Many Palestinians woke up to this from
@instagram
after they had shared live images from
#SheikhJarrah
.
The story very much persists. You cannot silence thousands speaking about violent forced displacement REAL TIME. We will
#SaveSheikhJarrah
It's ABSURD that some Journalism award organizations looking for stories from the Global South list 'West Bank and Gaza' rather than Occupied 'Palestine.' Repression, surveillance, economic struggle, inequality, and displacement doesn't suddenly vanish behind the Apartheid Wall.
From today’s protest in Washington, DC
#NakbaDay
near the National Mall. Palestinians and allies marched and chanted for Jenin, Gaza, Jerusalem, Shireen Abu Akleh, prisoners and a
#FreePalestine
Press is not permitted entry into
#SheikhJarrah
by Israeli police. You should be TERRIFIED of this directive. Our only source of information remains the residents, unarmed, unprotected, barricaded and surrounded.
Don’t be silent, don’t stand by.
Navigating an ‘old’ male dominated space is incredibly demoralizing, especially in Palestine work. Youth are the leading force on the ground and in digital spaces. Women are the majority of diaspora grassroots organizers. Neither demographic enjoy respect in institutional spaces.
The impact of “Mo” on
@netflix
(
@realmoamer
) is underestimated. I was amongst strangers (turned friends) who when I told them I was Palestinian they referred to “Mo,” said they loved it & learned so much. I did not have to defend or explain my identity, it was simply recognized.
While the Israeli occupation is shooting Palestinians at the Aqsa mosque and destroying holy ground, they just increased presence in
#SheikhJarrah
. Far-right Knesset members and settlers plan to invade the neighborhood in 1.5 hours.
DON’T YOU DARE BE SILENT.
Tonight is
@POTUS
’ State of the Union. Activists in Washington, DC organized two actions — hundreds blocked Biden’s route near Capitol while hundreds gathered in front of the White House holding the People’s State of the Union. Pictures on the latter ⬇️📸🇵🇸
Students, Professors, writers at Palestine encampments at U.S. universities—I'm commissioning articles about these actions, demands, & crackdown for
@PalStudies
(paid). We already have content from Columbia so please reach out from any other campus! blog
@palestine
-studies.org
I've lost touch with two people in Gaza, and I don't know where/how to look for signs of life. The last thing one of them told me was, "I am not sure if I'll finish writing this, and even if I do, survival in this barbaric Israeli attack is uncertain."
If you're a writer on all things
#Palestine
(news, arts, culture, IR), DM me your e-mail! I'm looking to bring in a regular monthly PAID contribution for short-form pieces for
@PalStudies
.
This man is SICK! This is FRAUD!
@gofundme
. This is a POLITICAL battle, humanitarian monetary aid has NOT been requested.
ONLY TRUSTED contacts with families are PALESTINIAN and include me,
@palyouthmvmt
,
@rabetbypipd
, among a few others
The Palestinian Youth Movement organized this sit-in in conjunction with car caravans and rallies across North America this weekend. FOLLOW AND SUPPORT
@palyouthmvmt
‼️‼️
.
@proteanmag
has partnered with
@PalStudies
to republish all testimonies and letters we’ve been collecting from Palestinians under attack in
#Gaza
. Israel is committing Genocide and has imposed a media blackout.
Thank you for uplifting their voice & sharing their messages.
JOE BIDEN
@POTUS
YOU DID THIS.
A CHILD AND HIS MOTHER WERE STABBED IN CHICAGO BY THEIR LANDLORD.
Wadea Al-Fayoume was SIX YEARS OLD. He was Palestinian-American. His mother is in critical condition. Biden, YOU incited this hate crime.
See
@CAIRNational
for updates.
I have room in my blog budget for
@PalStudies
— any takers for a piece on Isra*li journalists' self-victimization & nobility of fans at the World Cup standing ground for Palestine? Especially as the Arab people are showing a starkly different stance than their normalizing govts.