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Tony Karon

@TonyKaron

8 months

How is Israel allowed to play in UEFA and FIFA competition even while slaughtering Palestinian footballers -- while Russia was banned weeks into its invsion of Ukraine? Remember, fans and players have the power to shape the game. Will they stand up to FIFA/UEFA hypocrisy?

Ramy Abdu| رامي عبده

@RamAbdu

8 months

Israel kills Captain Hani Al-Masri, a star in Palestinian football history and coach of the Palestinian Olympic football team. #GazaGenocide

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2 years

S. African police in '87 attacking the coffin of Ashley Kriel to seize the ANC flag that draped it; Israeli police attacked the coffin of #ShireenAbuAkleh today, trying to seize Palestinian flags. Apartheid regimes waging war on their victims, even after death

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9 months

FIFA suspended Russia within weeks of its invasion of Ukraine - how on earth are Israel and its clubs still allowed to okay in FIFA/UEFA competitions?

Good Shepherd Collective

@Shepherds4Good

9 months

Video of Israeli forces invading and destroying a stadium in Gaza, turning it into a detention camp. There are reportedly hundreds of Palestinians being held under horrific conditions in this stadium alone, stripped naked and abused. This includes men, women, children and elders.

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Biden isn’t Jewish but he’s a Zionist. I’m Jewish and an anti-Zionist. He wants my vote, yet warns that I can’t be safe in his America; that as a Jew, my safety requires a genocidal settler ethnostate in Palestine. A US President who capitulates to anti-Semitism?

Mohammad Alsaafin

@malsaafin

6 months

Such an insane thing to say, and he says it all the time. He really seems to believe Palestinians have to be killed in their thousands so Jews can be safe in the country where he is president.

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11 months

Today’s Hamas operation from Gaza surprised Israel, but it should be no surprise that Palestinians refuse to accept the fate to which Israel seeks to consign them. The fighters of Gaza and West Bank see a choice between living on their knees or dying on their feet 🧵1/7

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Israel's ban of Al Jazeera is 2nd time I've been part of a media organization banned by an apartheid regime. (1st was SA ‘88) I'm so proud of that! It's a sign of panic by those regimes at the their crimes being exposed, a whiff of the rot at the heart of their systems...

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6 years

Germans in the 1930s were groomed to accept the extermination of Jews by exactly the sort of lies and hate propaganda routinely peddled on FOX News against Muslims today

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6 years

Fox host Jeanine Pirro says that Ilhan Omar's hijab may mean that she's against the Constitution.

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FIFA meets Friday to vote on suspending Israel. Daniel Levy and I write on how the threat of disruptive mass action at grassroots could force FIFA bureaucracy to abandon its hypocritical refusal to treat Israel as it treated Russia

It’s Time to Sideline Israel from International Sports

A boycott of Israeli soccer could accomplish what other BDS efforts have failed to do: dent the country’s own sense of legitimacy.

foreignpolicy.com

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5 years

Jimmy Carter on Sanders: 'Can y'all see why I voted for him?'

Jimmy Carter on Sanders: ‘Can y’all see why I voted for him?’

Former President Jimmy Carter on Monday revealed he supported Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) in the Democratic presidential primaries.During an event Monday at a Carter Center discussion about politic…

thehill.com

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5 years

But not when the non-violent protesters are in Gaza?

Nancy Pelosi

@SpeakerPelosi

5 years

Every day, I’m inspired by the heroism of the countless protestors in Hong Kong working to advance the cause of democracy and human rights. Their bravery is reminding the world of the power of nonviolent action.

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We are humbled and honored to have @wizardbisan 's work grace our platform - her @PeabodyAwards win is a salute to her, and all Palestinian journalists who risk their lives to chronicle Israel's genocide from where the missiles land

Bisan Owda and AJ+ win Peabody Award for Gaza war coverage

Palestinian journalist dedicates award to protesters around the world who are supporting Gaza.

www.aljazeera.com

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5 years

Maybe we should get our catastrophes in perspective, and cancel anyone who supported the illegal invasion of Iraq?

Paul Krugman

@paulkrugman

5 years

Cornel West supported Jill Stein in 2016. No Democratic candidate should be featuring him at events

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11 months

Gaza is a giant refugee camp –70% of its population are families forced from their homes by the creation of Israel in 1948. It has been under a brutal siege for almost two decades, facing constant bombardment, thousands of casualties and permanent humanitarian crisis🧵2/7

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Israel has never been held accountable for its repeated war crimes in Gaza. Nor has it faced any consequences for its illegal occupation and land theft in the West Bank and East Jerusalem, and for the violent regime of apartheid it imposes on Palestinians 🧵3/7

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6 years

The Palestinians of Gaza have lost a good friend in Anthony Bourdain, whose integrity and basic human decency made his Parts Unknown episode on Gaza easily the best thing CNN has ever done on Palestine

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5 years

This is what it looks like when you’re being bombed by the self-proclaimed “most vegan army in the world”

Rafael Shimunov ✡️ 🍉

@rafaelshimunov

5 years

Gaza is almost half children 0-14 years old

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1 year

Really worth asking why @nytimes is so reliably unreliable when it comes to reporting on events beyond these shores, particularly events and processes in which the US security establishment has a stake?

Ryan Grim

@ryangrim

1 year

I can say with 100% confidence that this claim from the New York Times is completely untrue. Khan was not our source. Neither was any other civilian. Our source was in the Pakistan military. If the Times has evidence to the contrary, publish it. Otherwise retract this.

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5 years

The Trump Administration has no Congressional authorization to launch hostilities against Iran, yet that's exactly what the US has done by assassinating one of that country's most senior military decision-makers

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10 months

Why does the Global South side with Palestine? As Huntington (!) said, “The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do”

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11 months

Mustafa Barghouti (apparently some idiot at CNN thought he spoke for the PA 🤣) rips to shreds F. Zakaria’s best efforts to sell the DC establishment’s self-serving lies about Palestine. Truth to power, Mustafa! Shkoyach! (as we say in Yiddish)

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11 months

Why do Gazans fight? Here's how Israel's general M. Dayan explained it in '56: "For 8 years they have been sitting in the refugee camps in Gaza, and before their eyes we have been transforming the lands and the villages, where they and their fathers dwelt, into our estate"

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11 months

Today’s events also remind us that Saudi-Israel “normalization” is a side show, as is Israeli protest against Netanyahu’s judicial reform – they confirm that Israel can’t expect stability and security while it continues to violently dispossess and subjugate Palestinians🧵7/7

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Palestinians seeking their freedom have been given no reason to expect any help from the West, Arab partners of Israel, and even the Palestinian Authority. They know no one is coming to save them. Hence the choice of some to take hold of their own fate 🧵 6/7

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11 months

The Palestinian Authority functions as an administrative and security arm of an occupation that Israel has no intention of ending. It offers Palestinians no protection against Israeli violence; its purpose is to secure the status quo (i.e. the occupation) 🧵 4/7

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Unconditional support from Western and Arab governments has emboldened Israel to escalate its violent campaigns to drive Palestinians from their homes in East Jerusalem and the West Bank, making permanent a regime of Jewish supremacy across Palestine 🧵 5/7

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5 years

How stupid does she think we are? How many rich people do you see on on mass transit? In public schools? To withhold public goods that benefit the majority because a handful of rich folks could take advantage is absurd. Anyway, their taxes would finance most of it

The Hill

@thehill

5 years

Sen. Amy Klobuchar: "I have a bold plan to make college more affordable, that's true, but I think the way we do it is by not putting a bunch of money into rich kids going to college."

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8 years

I'm sure if you're a breast cancer sufferer in Gaza, you'd feel better being bombed by a pink plane...

Israeli Air Force

@IAFsite

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We are #Pink @breastcancernow #BreastCancerAwareness

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8 years

Making stuff up in a state of panic. Anyone who understands how US immigration works knows it's simply impossible to "rush into" USA

Donald J. Trump

@realDonaldTrump

8 years

If the ban were announced with a one week notice, the "bad" would rush into our country during that week. A lot of bad "dudes" out there!

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5 years

The crisis is rooted in the US withdrawal from the Iran nuclear deal, which trashed the framework that was successfully managing and containing US-Iran conflict, and had created vital direct diplomatic channels between the longstanding rival powers

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5 years

When you tell citizens their country is being “invaded” you’re calling them to take up arms to repel the “enemy”. This narrative inspires white-nationalist terror, as in El Paso

Aaron Rupar

@atrupar

5 years

CNN put together a montage of Trump repeatedly pushing the "invasion" conspiracy theory about migrants -- the same one that inspired the El Paso shooter -- during public statements he's made dating back to last November.

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5 years

"Can you imagine someone claiming to be an expert on France? Its history, culture, politics, etc. And then imagine this person cannot even speak French or has never visited France. This is what is accepted as Iran expertise in DC"

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7 months

Hometown vibes! Howzit from Cape Town, capital of global Palestine solidarity

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11 months

Biden imagines he's leading 'the free world' or something. Today's 145 UN votes for a Gaza truce showed how isolated the US is. Joining his no-vote: Austria, Croatia, Czechia, Fiji, Guatemala, Hungary, Israel, Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Papua New Guinea, Paraguay, Tonga

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11 months

The racist contempt for Palestinian life that forms the core of US policy on Israel offers no path to liberty, dignity and justice for Palestinians, who are systematically brutalized every day. And then the US calls their resistance “unprovoked”. Settler-colonial solidarity

derecka

@dereckapurnell

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Palestinians can’t march, can’t pray, can’t call for boycotts, can’t leave, can’t stay, can’t publish reports, what’s should people do? land acknowledgments?

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5 years

Whether or not war had been its intent, the choices made by the Trump Administration -- when other choices were available and rejected -- have sent the US and Iran barreling into what promises to be a catastrophic war

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4 years

Crucial from @AOC : "If after 94 % of Detroit went Biden, after Black organizers tripled turnout in Georgia, after so many organized Philadelphia, the signal from the Party is the Kasichs won us this election? I can’t even describe how dangerous that is."

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5 years

The Trump Administration – egged on by its Saudi, Emirati and Israeli allies and their hawkish partners in DC – adopted a strategy of economic strangulation against Iran that sober analysts warned had no credible end game, and raised the risk of provoking a war

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6 years

Seems @Nike has chosen to be the official footwear of @realDonaldTrump ’s internationally isolated Iran policy... Stupid move for an international brand. Or is it trying to secure a deal to produce MAGA gear?

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5 years

Some key points of context that we can't allow the media whose failures enabled the last catastrophic US war of choice in the Middle East to ignore as Trump plunges the region into chaos when other choices were available:

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Tony Karon

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11 months

If you believe whatever the Israelis tell you, you're not a journalist, just a hasbara volunteer. As @Dena says, the IDF literally has a playbook that recommends lying as the first response to news that makes them look bad -- explained here

Israel's Troubling Response to Shireen Abu Akleh’s Killing

The Israeli state PR machine went straight to work to choose its deflection strategy

time.com

Dena Takruri

@Dena

11 months

To all the journalists who are primed to believe everything Israeli officials say: Just know that they've been proven to deliberately lie and mislead you to shape the coverage. You fell for for it when they said Shireen Abu Akleh was killed by Palestinians. Don't fall for more.

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5 years

Thank you, @RanaAyyub for your courage, insights and moral clarity as you chronicle the story of the young people who represent India's best hope of defeating the toxic sectarianism of the ruling party

Rana Ayyub

@RanaAyyub

5 years

For a country that is being labeled a Malevolent Republic, accused of losing its soul to small minded, petty and vindictive ideas, the students of India are proving to be its conscience keepers. I write here on the nationwide protests

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4 years

This commentary is Brecht-Weill-esque burlesque

Randy Rainbow

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4 years

🎶Kellyanne and Kayleigh, girls, come quick! The boss is in a hole...🎶 #PoorDeplorableTroll 🦑🦑🦑

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6 years

The brouhaha over Trevor Noah and the connection between French and African identities prompts me to repurpose an old line from Salman Rushdie: The French establishment doesn't don't know France's own history, because so much of it happened overseas...

AJ+

@ajplus

6 years

“Africa won the World Cup!” Trevor Noah is defending the comments he made on the Daily Show.

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5 years

This analysis similar to what Jazeera's Asad Beg in Tehran is saying: The Iranians are offering Trump an off-ramp from wider war by mounting a limited retaliation for Soleimani and warning US that it escalates only if US mounts new strikes

Negar Mortazavi نگار مرتضوی

@NegarMortazavi

5 years

Iran was going to retaliate sooner or later, one way or the other. There was no way they would let this go. But Iran is now trying to make it clear that this is a retaliation for one action, not an escalation into a full-on war. There is no appetite for war in #Iran .

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5 years

So, when Tucker Carlson is a coherent voice of restraint against US starting a war with Iran while Nancy Pelosi hems and haws, we are reminded that the Democratic Party establishment is mired in dangerous Cold War foreign policy instincts -- time for a fundamental rethink

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4 years

Lovely piece on the leading role Somali Americans have been playing in social justice organizing in Minnesota, from union activism challenging the Amazon behemoth, to Black Lives Matter organizing. @IlhanMN didn't come out of nowhere!

Independence Day

The labor and political organizing of Somali immigrants in the US Midwest should inspire more Americans to join the broader movement for worker rights and racial equality.

africasacountry.com

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11 months

"The dread Israelis are feeling right now, myself included, is a sliver of what Palestinians have been feeling on a daily basis under the decades-long military regime in the West Bank, and under the siege and repeated assaults on Gaza"

Gaza’s shock attack has terrified Israelis. It should also unveil the context

The dread Israelis are feeling, myself included, has been the daily experience of millions of Palestinians for far too long.

www.972mag.com

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4 years

Awkward... Biden inauguration soundtrack features MF Doom, who died in London after being deported by the Obama Administration despite having lived in the US since age 6. A reminder that it's not only Trump legacy that needs fixing

Biden Inauguration Soundtrack Includes MF DOOM, an Immigrant Rapper Deported Under Obama

Despite presenting himself as an "in touch" progressive, Biden was the second in command in an administration that deported more immigrants than all the twentieth-century presidents combined.,...

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2 years

Reminder: Apartheid is the Israeli consensus; all the rest is commentary

Israel heading to polls as coalition moves to dissolve parliament

Yair Lapid is set to take over as prime minister in the coming days with fresh elections expected.

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2 years

The US position is literally that the occupier and the occupied should work together to stabilize the occupation. That’s like telling Black America in the 1950s to work with the KKK cops to stabilize Jim Crow

Matthew Miller

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2 years

We are extremely concerned by violence in Israel and the West Bank, including today’s loss of civilian life in Nablus. These events underscore the urgent need for both sides to work together to improve the security situation in the West Bank.

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“If you say what’s politically possible is what we see in polls, I would not be in Congress today. @AOC would not be in Congress today” - @IlhanMN #deconlive

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6 years

Apartheid South Africa was also, genuinely, a democracy — for white people — even as it denied the rights of citizenship to millions it ruled over

Khaled Elgindy

@elgindy_

6 years

Yes, Israel is a democracy (however flawed) within its borders. But whether a system that rules over 5 million people who have no citizenship rights or any say in the govt that rules over them still qualifies as democratic is a legitimate question for a US lawmaker to pose.

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2 years

What kind of moral economy allows Germany to imagine it can compensate for its own savagery in the Holocaust by supporting Israel's crimes against Palestinians?

AJ+

@ajplus

2 years

Police in Berlin banned a vigil honoring Palestinian American journalist #ShireenAbuAkleh , who was killed by Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank. Critics say the ban – one of several ahead of Nakba Day – is Germany's way of supporting the "oppression of Palestinians."

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Once again, ⁦ @IlhanMN ⁩ shows her party’s feckless leadership what courage and principle looks like / ‘I won't be silent': Ilhan Omar answers Trump 9/11 attack

'I won't be silent': Ilhan Omar answers Trump 9/11 attack

Congresswoman says rightwing vitriol cannot threaten her ‘unwavering love for America’ as president pushes video

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5 years

War, what is it good for, you ask? Well, for one thing, shareholder value...

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4 years

@Dena Raise your hand if Her Majesty’s Government drew some arbitrary lines it called borders on a map of your country, setting up decades of conflict - some of which rage on today..:

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5 years

The torrent of abuse I've seen in my own feed in response to my reposting of this important piece underscores the scale of toxic Islamophobia faced by @RanaAyyub and others in Modi's India

Rana Ayyub

@RanaAyyub

5 years

A deeply personal piece for the Washington Post on the indignity and fear of being a Muslim in the last five years of modi regime. Re-election of Narendra Modi would be seen as a mandate to amplify the hate against the community

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Does Israel hope to evade international justice by committing so many blatant war crimes every single day that the scale of Israeli criminality overwhelms the capacity of any tribunal system? Israeli war crimes are not an anomaly, the Israeli state is based on war crimes

Mohammad Alsaafin

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The Gaza City municipality says an Israeli airstrike killed five of it's workers as they were attempting to repair a water well this morning.

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The idea that you can leave it to the Israeli electorate to end the apartheid under which the Palestinians suffer is as fanciful as leaving it up to South Africa's white minority to end that country's apartheid system. They only did when the world left them no choice

Tony Karon

@TonyKaron

5 years

Wishful thinking notwithstanding, it's clear Netanyahu will be reelected PM for the 5th time. THERE IS NO OTHER ISRAEL THAN THE ONE THAT KEEPS ELECTING BIBI, EXCEPT IN THE FANTASIES OF SOME LIBERALS IN DENIAL. Netanyahu IS Israel. It's Trump country. Get over it

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@MairavZ Maybe US liberals are about to learn that the problem isn’t Netanyahu; the problem is the apartheid consensus of the Zionist parties that are Israeli mainstream. Apartheid was the ruling consensus in old S Africa, it took pressure from the colonized, BDS to get change

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3 years

Today in “Israel has a right to defend itself”… (h/t @malsaafin )

Refaat in Gaza 🇵🇸

@itranslate123

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Breaking: Israeli occupation militias brutalise Palestinians in occupied Jerusalem.

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6 years

Important victory for BDS as Lana Del Rey joins the growing list of performers canceling Israel gigs

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5 years

Moshe Dayan in ‘56 reminded Israelis that Gazans are refugees driven out by Israel. “Before their eyes we have been transforming the lands and the villages, where they and their fathers dwelt, into our estate.” They march on the fence because they want to go home

IfNotNow🔥✡️

@IfNotNowOrg

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Racist dehumanization of Palestinians as obsessive, faceless killers, and celebration of brutal Israeli violence towards unarmed Palestinian civilians, is sadly par for the course for far too many members of the American Jewish communal establishment.

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South Africa’s apartheid regime had the same law. Modi has dragged India down into the moral sewer

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4 years

@AdamSerwer Yes, the hollowness of both the Obama recovery and the Trump boom are being brutally revealed. A return to 2016 normalcy is is no answer to what’s happening here; without a radically different economic policy framework penury looms for millions of Americans

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3 years

Anti-apartheid football is growing stronger by the minute!

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4 years

Just a reminder that in a proper democracy, Biden's 4 million vote lead would mean that it's not even close...

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5 years

Read this! What’s most interesting and hopeful about this moment in India, says @RanaAyyub , is the breadth of active opposition Modi’s bigotry has provoked

Rana Ayyub

@RanaAyyub

5 years

After a long time, I get to write an op-ed on hope and optimism from India. The nationwide protests could be a tipping point against authoritarianism in a country that has long been passive in the face of everyday majoritarianism under Modi. @PostOpinions

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A few thoughts from me and Daniel on why Israel is losing its war despite the horrific toll its rolling massacre in Gaza is inflicting. Because anti-colonial insurgent wars are won and lost politically...

Israel Is Losing This War

Despite the violence it has unleashed on Palestinians, Israel is failing to achieve its political goals.

www.thenation.com

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3 years

This should be a moment of reckoning for media organizations, just like last summer’s Black Lives uprising forced them to reckon with structural racism. Israel’s apartheid system is plain to see, and evading that reality effectively enables it

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We have to be able to say that Israel's treatment of Palestinians is apartheid. Period.

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As one of the world's estimated 14.5 m Jewish people, less than half of whom live in Israel, I must point out that the verb in this NYT headline is incorrect: It should be "proclaiming", because millions of us reject the claim that Israel is our 'national home'

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As a Jew willing to challenge Israel and demand justice for Palestinians, @SenSanders is @AIPAC ’s worst nightmare. He can’t be cowed by bogus charges of anti-Semitism, nor does he need Israel lobby campaign cash. No wonder they’re freaked out

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6 years

Sorry, @nytimes , but on what planet is Nikki Haley a “moderate”?

The New York Times

@nytimes

6 years

Breaking News: Nikki Haley, ambassador to the United Nations, has resigned, leaving the administration with one less moderate Republican voice

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@mehdirhasan And where is the accountability? Tucker is a paid to do this by @rupertmurdoch — whose business model is living proof of The Clash's warning that "if Adolf Hitler were here today, they'd send a limousine anyway" — who has grown rich by monetizing ignorance and hate

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Do not look away, America, here is your alliance with Saudi Arabia. Here are the fruits of those arms deals, and of the Obama and Trump Administration's support for a brutal war on Yemen's civilians. It is within US power to stop this...

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Long overdue. Israel’s apartheid system should have seen it banned from football even before the current genocide. The hypocrisy of @FIFAcom , @UEFAcom and @iocmedia banning Russia bit not Israel is being challenged. There can be no normal sport with an abnormal society!

Sky News

@SkyNews

5 months

At the FIFA Congress next month, the issue of whether Israel should be banned from international football is due to be on the agenda, Sky News has learnt. Sports correspondent @RobHarris tells @SkyYaldaHakim the latest from Paris. 📺 Sky 501

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Tony Karon

@TonyKaron

4 years

When you're hailing Israel's vaccine rollout achievement, don't forget that Israel is an apartheid state...

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@TonyKaron

5 years

The US military presence in Iraq (on Iran's doorstep) is the legacy of an illegal invasion that began in 2003, and which resulted in the deaths of 100s of 1000s of Iraqis.

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Tony Karon

@TonyKaron

5 months

Israel will be welcomed at the Paris Olympics despite the Olympic Charter connects sport with "the preservation of human dignity" and human rights. Russia is banned, apartheid South Africa was banned. How can the Olympic movement tolerate the perpetrators of genocide?

Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt

@FranceskAlbs

5 months

On the day Israel bombed a foreign embassy in a third country, it also killed @WCKitchen humanitarian workers. Israel is crossing every possible red line, still with full impunity. Sanctions now. Indictements now.

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Tony Karon

@TonyKaron

9 months

There can be no mistake that the ethnic cleansing of Gaza -- already well underway -- would not have been possible without the active support of President Joe Biden. History will hold him accountable for this war crime, along with the Israeli leadership who have carried it out

Arielle Angel

@ArielleLAngel

9 months

As @jonathan_shamir reported for @JewishCurrents , they are going to try to sell this mass ethnic cleansing as a "humanitarian" solution to the crisis they caused.

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Tony Karon

@TonyKaron

5 years

"One expert—who has never formally studied Iran, does not understand Persian, has never been to the country, nor has any technical expertise on nuclear technology—was called 5 times to testify before Congress as an expert witness on Iran between 2014 and 2015"

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Tony Karon

@TonyKaron

5 months

Her courage and clarity makes @FranceskAlbs such a brilliant ray of light and hope in a very dark time

Abier

@abierkhatib

5 months

I luv it when Francesca crushes the nonsense.. That Cheshire Cat grin 😍

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Tony Karon

@TonyKaron

2 years

Israel shoots dead a Palestinian-American journalist in cold blood, then puts its propaganda machine into high gear to manipulate Western coverage of the event...

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Tony Karon

@TonyKaron

6 years

If Kashoggi allegations prove true, Saudi Arabia may find that killing one named Saudi known in Washington destroys all the gains of an elaborate p.r. campaign that had persuaded US elites to ignore the killing tens of thousands of unnamed Yemenis

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Tony Karon

@TonyKaron

11 months

Germany remains determined to evade one consequence of its Nazi past - the Palestinian plight is a direct consequence of the Holocaust, which is why Germany wants no one talking about it. Erasing the Palestinian experience is a twisted form of Holocaust denial

Hebh Jamal

@hebh_jamal

11 months

My latest article for @972mag . Palestinian refugee Zaid Abdulnasser faces legal limbo as the state aims to strip him of his refugee status. Why? Because he is a staunch voice against Israeli colonial violence.

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Tony Karon

@TonyKaron

5 years

@mehdirhasan Do these dolts understand that Israel would literally not exist were it not for the UN?

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Tony Karon

@TonyKaron

2 months

So, @FIFAcom has again weaseled out of its obligations, postponing this meeting until August (after Israel flies the flag of genocide at the Olympics). Its evasions underscore our point that FIFA will do the right thing only when mass protest leaves it no choice

Tony Karon

@TonyKaron

2 months

FIFA meets Friday to vote on suspending Israel. Daniel Levy and I write on how the threat of disruptive mass action at grassroots could force FIFA bureaucracy to abandon its hypocritical refusal to treat Israel as it treated Russia

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Tony Karon

@TonyKaron

9 months

The Jewish supremacist state of Israel has always been maintained at the expense of Palestinian life, limb, property, patrimony and dignity. But never has its abusive existence been expressed as openly, gleefully even, and on such a genocidal scale as now

Saul Staniforth

@SaulStaniforth

9 months

"... this building which had more than 150 women & children inside.. F16 fighter jets pounded them with missiles. Then the tanks returned to make sure everyone was dead. They buried the survivors alive. The bulldozers came & pushed rubble over them" Testimony from northern Gaza

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Tony Karon

@TonyKaron

3 months

@malsaafin NYT normalizing scholasticide, like it has normalized the rest of Israel's genocide

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Tony Karon

@TonyKaron

3 years

@joshualeifer To establish its state, Zionism’s settler-colonial context required a supremacist mindset that dehumanized Palestine’s indigenous population to justify its violent displacement and subordination - a nationalist “Jewishness” quite horrifying to many Jewish Americans

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Tony Karon

@TonyKaron

8 years

There is no "anti-Israel" resolution at the UN, there's a resolution requiring that Israel comply with international law

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Tony Karon

@TonyKaron

4 years

Biden will win the popular vote, the key mandate in a democracy. But Trump grew his own popular vote tally from 2016 (against all predictions). A Balkanized media universe means Americans lack any shared sense of the reality in which they're living

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Tony Karon

@TonyKaron

10 months

Cape Town stands with Palestine

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Tony Karon

@TonyKaron

5 years

As Editorial Lead of @ajplus English, I was personally shocked and appalled by a video on the Holocaust published last Fri by the editorially separate Arabic-language AJ+. The video, since removed, was an unconscionable violation of our values

Al Jazeera PR

@AlJazeera

5 years

Al Jazeera takes disciplinary action and suspends two of its journalists over violation of its editorial guidelines

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Tony Karon

@TonyKaron

8 years

True. But most of them wouldn't want a dangerous Palestinian radical like Jesus spreading sedition in their communities, eh?

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Tony Karon

@TonyKaron

3 years

I think the verb you’re looking for is “monetizing”...

Mehdi Hasan

@mehdirhasan

3 years

Thank you Rupert Murdoch for mainstreaming white nationalist talking points (lies)

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Tony Karon

@TonyKaron

4 years

Yes, that is a Haitian flag at today’s Brooklyn march - because Haiti reminds us, always, that all revolutions start off as impossible

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Tony Karon

@TonyKaron

11 months

Is Netanyahu threatening genocide? "We will turn Gaza into a deserted island. To the citizens of Gaza, I say. You must leave now." Everyone knows the 2m Gazans can't leave because Israel has locked them in for decades. So how will he make it a "deserted island"

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Tony Karon

@TonyKaron

6 years

Aliou Cisse on today’s win: “This is not the same taste as the France result in 2002. France colonised Senegal so when we faced them it was quite exceptional. But this victory is just as important. It was absolutely important for Africa that we won.“

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Tony Karon

@TonyKaron

5 years

So @AOC wasn't a flash in the pan; a second Democratic Socialist-endorsed candidate has just beaten the Democratic establishment's choice in Queens -- and this time, the establishment was paying attention and investing in stopping her

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