And here it is, my piece on the federal hate crime trial of a former NJ police chief, my dad's story and how I tried to have this police department investigated in 2005 after his death: When Even The FBI Can’t Hold Police Accountable, How Can Anyone Else?
President Biden: "We reject the ICC's application for arrest warrants against Israeli leaders. Whatever these warrants may imply, there is no equivalence between Israel and Hamas...Contrary to allegations against Israel...what's happening is not genocide."
A Palestinian boy has spoken about living on his own in Gaza after his mother had to leave with his injured sister.
UNICEF says there are thousands of unaccompanied children in the besieged enclave after 5 months of Israel’s war ⤵️
Against US’ national security interest and global standing…President Biden proceeds with $1 billion in weaponry for Israel…as Netanyahu continues on his lawless path of colonization, mass slaughter/starvation of 2+ mil Palestinians in Gaza, and creeping annexation of West Bank.
A 6-year-old Palestinian American boy stabbed to death
3 Palestinian students shot, one is now paralyzed
And silence from so many elected officials and media figures/outlets about rising anti-Palestinian/anti-Arab & anti-Muslim hate.
Obama going in here: 'trafficking in bombast and insult, and phony controversies and manufactured outrage, politics that pretends to be brave and tough ..'
#McCainMemorial
.
@IlhanMN
: It's important not to normalize the behavior of this president & his administration; He is the king of distraction, a constant pile of garbage comes out of his mouth ...
The areas south of the dotted line are now packed with displaced Gazans, many or most of whom will likely not have homes to return to in the north at the end of this conflict. Leafleting by Israel suggests a new military operation is now potentially planned for the south.
I know there's A LOT going on both nationally & internationally, but this should be getting much more attention ...
Oh, and btw, this is the same police dept. I tried to have investigated years ago after my dad's death.
UPDATE🔴: Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, Gaza, was shelled in the early hours of this morning, despite Israeli Forces having told medical staff and patients they could remain in the facility. This comes after thousands of displaced people were ordered to evacuate it on Feb 13.
Mohammad is only 13. But he's now responsible for the lives of his seven siblings, after Israeli airstrikes killed his mother.
There is no escape from what UNICEF calls "a war on children." Starved, bombed, orphaned, & fighting to survive in Gaza.
Watch:
Doctors Without Borders convoys attacked in
#Gaza
all elements point to the responsibility of the Israeli army.
We call for an independent investigation to establish the facts and the responsibilities.
If Trump snags the Republican presidential nomination, the Biden administration intends to share U.S. intelligence with him, regardless of the fact that he is currently under investigation for his careless handling of classified documents, POLITICO reports
I honestly don't know how they are doing their jobs under such unimaginable dire circumstances
The silence from journos in the West is just deafening ...
We can’t take it anymore, we’re exhausted… We’re gonna get killed, it’s just a matter of when. There’s no protection, no impunity. These PPEs don’t protect us. Nothing protects journalists. We lose lives, one by one… Mohammed Abu Hatab was here, half an hour ago.
@ReignOfApril
@NABJ
@kenlemonnabj
I really hope journos attending start shouting tough questions and holding him accountable since I have little faith that a panel with a Faux News anchor will.
As an American, I vote for candidates I believe will serve my country best - and hold those leaders accountable. Muslims don't want Trump & we don't want the status quo which cosigns mass murder. I can't fathom why you think you have some kind of authority to tell us how to feel.
As an American, I vote for candidates I believe will serve my country best. As someone who fought for my Muslim community as a US Atty & against Trump's Muslim ban as a private citizen I can't fathom why any citizen would risk returning Trump to power & destroying our country.
Just look at this video ... a HOSPITAL
Old enough to remember all the 'outrage' over whether Israel would ever hit a hospital a few months back, and now here we are - and silence from those very same voices of course.
.
@WHO
and partners managed to reach Al-Shifa — once the backbone of the health system in
#Gaza
, which is now an empty shell with human graves after the latest siege. The team witnessed at least five dead bodies during the mission.
Most of the buildings in the hospital complex
.
@CNN
did an entire report about rising hate crimes and didn't cover Islamophobia, and only mentioned the murder of 6-year-old Wadea at the very end and by saying that he was 'apparently' killed because he was Palestinian even though the murderer was clearly charged w/hate crimes
@joncaramanica
Sadly, not surprising. The ‘hip-hop task force’ has been around for a min … back when I covered music it was more covert, now just out in the open …
Children traveling in a migrant caravan toward the U.S. stopped at the Mexican town of Juchitan on Wednesday, where they got a rare opportunity for some play time.
Kobe in '01:
"I realize life is too short, and too precious, to let myself get upset over trivial things..People go to work and don't come back. One minute they're living and the next minute they're not. And, it doesn't matter who you are, there is nothing you can do about it."
Read this piece about how the Trump admin is slowing down the process by which LEGAL immigrants in the U.S. become U.S. citizens; "there were nearly 730,000 pending naturalization applications at the end of last year, a more than 87 percent increase since 2015"
The backlog of pending applications for immigrants legally in the country trying to become U.S. citizens has “skyrocketed” under President Trump, according to a new report from an immigrant rights organization.
So thankful & grateful to have known James Mtume. A brilliant mind, endless talents & one of the most caring people I’ve ever known. He was a mentor, and one of my replacement dads after my own died.
Pic from earlier this year. May he
#RestInPeace
and
#RestInPower
💔✊🏾😔 ❤️
Asked about Trump in NC today suggesting people should test the absentee system by trying to vote twice, Bill Barr tells
@wolfblitzer
that “he’s trying to make the point” about problems in the system. Asked if it’s legal, “I don’t know what the law is in that particular state”
So many rightly condemned Russian strikes on a children’s hospital in Kyiv, but fail to utter a word when Israel strikes hospitals, schools, etc in Gaza
Israeli forces opened fire on a crowd of thousands of Palestinians as they waited for humanitarian aid trucks to arrive in Gaza City.
95% of all people facing starvation globally are now in Gaza.
“largest union of academic workers, which represents more than 48,000 graduate student workers throughout the University of California system, will hold a strike authorization vote as early as next week in response to how universities have cracked down on students’ Gaza protests”
When a 2,000-pound bomb detonates, it creates a blastwave that can harm people up to 3,000 feet away. Our Visual Investigation suggests Israel routinely dropped this bomb in the area south of Wadi Gaza - the place it had repeatedly told civilians in Gaza to move to for safety.
“What I saw in Khan Younis were the most horrific scenes in my entire life.”
Dr. Yasser Khan, a Canadian ophthalmologist and eye surgeon, describes what he witnessed while volunteering at the European Hospital in Gaza and warns it could get even worse if Israel invades Rafah.
Incoming Irish Taoiseach (prime minister) Simon Harris addresses Benjamin Netanyahu directly with some remarkably strong words:
"Prime Minister Netanyahu, the Irish people could not be clearer. We are repulsed by your actions.”
It's fascinating watching people on cable news discussing a disproportionate response when they didn't utter one word about Israel's disproportionate response for months and in many cases encouraged it
The audacity .... just wow
This is
@BMorgenstern45
, deputy press sec, on the more than 500 kids forcibly separated whose parents still cannot be found:
‘many of them have declined to accept their children back.’
What.a.surprise
U.S. vetoes for a third time
But we'll get a million pieces about how Biden is 'upset' with Netanyahu. There aren't enough eye roll emojis.
After obliterating Gaza, killing thousands - including over 1k kids - killing journalists & aid workers, uprooting hundreds of thousands, dropping thousands of bombs & creating a humanitarian disaster, Israel wonders why people thought it was them & aren't just taking their word
Also, this is the man who took out full page ads in 4 major papers to 'bring back the death penalty' in NY against 5 black & latino kids who had not received 'due process' so spare me
#CentralParkFive
cc
@santanaraymond
Peoples lives are being shattered and destroyed by a mere allegation. Some are true and some are false. Some are old and some are new. There is no recovery for someone falsely accused - life and career are gone. Is there no such thing any longer as Due Process?
The ongoing war in
#Gaza
is a war against children.
Over the last 6 months,
@UNICEF
reports nearly 14,000 children have been killed & more than 12,000 injured in 📍
#Gaza
One child is killed or injured every 10 minutes.
Children always pay the highest price.
#ceasefire
now
“Our house is gone. I’ll live in a tent. I just want to go home. If I die, so be it”.
The words of a child in Gaza as he and his family tried to return home to the north.
@JomanaCNN
reports. Producer:
@ssirgany
88,000 students were supposed to graduate in Gaza this year. Instead, they have found themselves trapped in hell, with their futures up in the air. Here are some of their stories.
#News
: Edan On, seen attacking a pro-Palestine encampment at UCLA, was arrested today by UCLA PD & booked on a felony--suspicion of assault w/a deadly weapon, per UCLA PD & jail records, held on $30,000 bail. This follows our
@CNN
investigation naming him:
"We demand the creation of an independent commission to investigate the killings of our WCK colleagues. The IDF cannot credibly investigate its own failure in Gaza."
Read World Central Kitchen's statement about the preliminary findings of IDF's investigation into their own strikes that killed seven members of our team on April 1, 2024:
This street in Al-Nusairat refugee camp was containing many restaurants, it’s all got destroyed and even if it’s still working there is no materials for them to cook and sell food.
"The doctor, who was head of internal medicine at the Palestinian territory's main hospital, was killed along with 12 members of his extended family."
My God
Estimates that there are at least 500 Palestinians executed by IDF at Al Nasser Hospital and buried in 1 mass grave. These do not include the other 2 mass graves that they have yet to start digging. And yes these included women and children.