Diala Shamas @dialash Twitter profile | Pikagi

Pikagi

Diala Shamas

@dialash

10,701

Followers

1,380

Following

48

Media

1,707

Statuses

Human rights attorney @TheCCR . Views are mine, happy to share them.

New York, NY

Joined January 2010

Don't wanna be here? Send us removal request.

Pinned Tweet

@dialash

Diala Shamas

10 months

US complicity w/ Israeli genocide first and foremost devastating consequences for Palestinians in Gaza. But the rampant dehumanization of Palestinian life has consequences in the U.S. too. My 2 minutes @ the UN Human Rights Committee. #WadeaAlFayoume

@theCCR

The CCR

10 months

“The public dehumanization of Palestinians at the highest level of U.S. government has led to skyrocketing repression of activism and all expressions of support for Palestine.” — @dialash

152

1K

3K

43

760

1K

Last Seen Profiles

@natevoll3

@Zeretth_

@SupportBoom

@FOCALISTIC

@eELL_0

@bokeplokalmalam

@ttrrkkuu

@riman_shacho

@miyottan_mm

@JJMcCleskey

@Solucionesclima

@NishthaGambhir3

@bswagz88

@markdnash

@ilovesandbanks

@yerrxxsg

@Alking44307067

@bokeplokalmalam

@Kiki00775

@julyfifth_

@larryellison

@xiaotiantian617

@kmdelarte

@drjlducasse

@cizi31

@ElephantCivics

@kimanbang

@takapanguti

@Joyce2094116

@DeygoDraws

@GS_Takes

@1800foxacademy

@spitfire420007

@pugslydiamond

@aaronlarnavarro

@UtahFarmBureau

@dialash

Diala Shamas

4 years

THREAD: I’ve represented people the government views as “terrorists.” Here’s an incomplete set of reasons why calling yesterday “terrorism” is not a good idea:

226

5K

17K

@dialash

Diala Shamas

10 months

I received alarming messages from dear friends in Susiya and Masafer Yatta. Armed settlers came in the middle of the night with soldiers, assaulting residents, lining the men up outside, and issued an ultimatum: you have 24 hours to leave. /1

147

8K

14K

@dialash

Diala Shamas

10 months

As the world watches #Gaza , settlers & the military are doing in 24 hours what they’ve spent years preparing for: mass forced displacement in the West Bank. At alarming speed. Yesterday, the entire village of Khirbet Zanuta packed & moved after similar threats. #SaveMasaferYatta

33

3K

6K

@dialash

Diala Shamas

10 months

Last night, the settlers threatened the Kh. Zanuta residents: "If you don't leave, we'll do to you what we're doing to Gaza." The community decided they had to leave to save their families, knowing that they have absolutely nobody to protect them.

24

2K

4K

@dialash

Diala Shamas

4 years

For example, we know the FBI knew about white supremacist infiltration of police departments for a v long time and has barely lifted a finger h/t @alicesperi

Tweet card media

FBI Document Sheds Light on White Supremacist Infiltration of Law Enforcement

A 2006 intelligence assessment reveals that the FBI had concerns about the infiltration of police departments for years but failed to warn the public.

theintercept.com

10

569

3K

@dialash

Diala Shamas

4 years

If the purpose is discursive, ask: what work does the Terrorism word do? What did the “War on Terror” designator do? It just stokes fear and clouds our ability to talk about root causes, understand different forms of violence & protest, and different relationships w the state.

6

364

3K

@dialash

Diala Shamas

4 years

The govt regularly prosecutes activities it labels terrorism without ever actually charging a crime of terrorism. On the flip side, it charges not actually dangerous, but marginalized, ppl with terrorism-related crimes all the time. Here's a @HRW on this:

Tweet card media

Illusion of Justice

The 214-page report examines 27 federal terrorism cases from initiation of the investigations to sentencing and post-conviction conditions of confinement. It documents the significant human cost of...

10

418

3K

@dialash

Diala Shamas

4 years

This then opens the door to “terrorism experts,” permits the deployment of anti-terrorism funding, agencies (FBI, DHS, etc) that have repressive power and who do not share our goals. They will use their authorities, as they always have, to go after Black, Brown dissent & protest.

3

280

2K

@dialash

Diala Shamas

4 years

This is where the Terrorism label leads. I know we’re angry, and many are actually feeling terrorized. That’s legitimate. But it's a trap. Let’s build on mvmt calls to question the role of law enforcement, including here, when they appear to be the problem, not the solution.

14

327

2K

@dialash

Diala Shamas

4 years

But instead, the developed an absurd framework justifying their surveillance and investigation of BLM activists, concocting weird labels like “Black Identity Extremism” and then “racially motivated violent extremism”

Tweet card media

The FBI Spends a Lot of Time Spying on Black Americans

The FBI released a new trove of documents relating to its surveillance of black activists. They’re mostly redacted.

theintercept.com

6

327

2K

@dialash

Diala Shamas

3 years

Actually not true. - a Palestinian from East Jerusalem.

@oritperlov

orit perlov

3 years

@HindHassanNews @hahellyer 1. Most of the Palestinians who lives in east Jerusalem speaks Hebrew perfectly. 2. In any Supreme Court in any place in the world they speak the state official language. And you have translators. In Israel, this is no exception.

62

1

11

12

278

2K

@dialash

Diala Shamas

3 years

“Years of quiet” for who, @NYTimes ? Not Palestinians. Such irresponsible reporting, even as the article aims to provide context. #SaveSheikhJarrah

Tweet card media

After Years of Quiet, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict Exploded. Why Now? (Published 2021)

A little-noticed police action in Jerusalem last month was one of several incidents that led to the current crisis.

www.nytimes.com

34

566

2K

@dialash

Diala Shamas

4 years

If the goal is to trigger accountability: the DOJ has *plenty* of tools to investigate, prosecute, or otherwise hold accountable those who conspired to break the laundry list of laws that were broken yesterday. I’ll let those more prosecutorially-minded list them out.

4

123

2K

@dialash

Diala Shamas

1 year

A Congressman + @NYCMayor are participating in a pile-on against a student for her opinion on Palestine, and on policing, articulated during a graduation speech. This is an outrageous - and dangerous effort to intimidate & silence

@RitchieTorres

Ritchie Torres

1 year

Imagine being so crazed by hatred for Israel as a Jewish State that you make it the subject of your commencement speech at a law school graduation. Anti-Israel derangement syndrome at work.

3K

973

5K

132

453

2K

@dialash

Diala Shamas

4 years

(h/t @tarekzismail for work on that report). While there, note how when they set their minds to it, FBI/DOJ have manufactured “terrorists,” deploying informants, entrapment, and the like. Not just in Muslim communities, also Black liberation & other mvmts portrayed as "Terrorist"

3

150

2K

@dialash

Diala Shamas

5 years

In true @dror_etkes fashion, a precise play-by-play of the convoluted stages of Israeli authorities’ (internationally unlawful) dispossession of @RashidaTlaib ’s grandmother’s village lands. The backdrop to what her Sity teaches her and what @IlhanMN was prevented from witnessing.

@dror_etkes

Dror Etkes

5 years

Thread: Beit Ur al-Fauqa Let’s speak briefly about the village of Beit Ur al-Fauqa, where the family of rep @RashidaTlaib comes from. Take a good look at the attached map, it's important in order to understand what we will talk about in the coming minutes.

Tweet media one

17

318

533

130

701

2K

@dialash

Diala Shamas

4 years

or of course, of Muslims under (debunked and completely flawed “Radicalization” theories). The brilliant @assuss has helped shine light on one example of the mind-boggling scope of these programs

Tweet card media

A suburban filmmaker sued to find out why the FBI was watching her Muslim community: ‘It’s weird to...

Since 2016, documentary filmmaker Assia Boundaoui has been waiting for answers from the FBI to one question: Which parts of her Arab American community in Bridgeview were surveilled after 9/11? Aft…

www.chicagotribune.com

1

193

2K

@dialash

Diala Shamas

4 years

So many other really smart ppl have made this argt v thoughtfully. Applying an abolitionist lens, @atiya_husain reminds us that "the racial history and significance of the concept is constitutive of [the concept of] terrorism." (this is a must read)

7

230

1K

@dialash

Diala Shamas

4 years

Also @dcli thouroughly breaking down how "counterterrorism" is inextricably linked to US imperialism and how the industry of terrorism 'experts' - those who will be called to opine on & implement the current push - is, well, racist (listen for more nuance)

Tweet card media

Universal Enemy: Scholar Darryl Li on the Relationship Between Transnational Jihadists and U.S....

In this bonus episode, Li discusses his recent book, “The Universal Enemy: Jihad, Empire, and the Challenge of Solidarity.”

theintercept.com

28

185

1K

@dialash

Diala Shamas

4 years

Under the “terrorism” designator, these agencies mobilize insane resources to infiltrate mosques & target religious communities. Here's our client, giving a glimpse of what happened when the FBI tried to coerce him to spy on his community h/t @CUNY_CLEAR

Tweet card media

Muhammad Tanvir: American Muslims seek to hold FBI agents accountable...

Listen to Muhammd Tanvir share his story of being targeted by the FBI. His case, Tanzin v. Tanvir, is before the Supreme Court.For years, FBI agents harassed...

www.youtube.com

6

157

1K

@dialash

Diala Shamas

3 years

The dossier includes allegations that dabke (Palestinian folkloric dance) classes were evidence of support for terrorism. That’s probably all you need to know.

@theintercept

The Intercept

3 years

When presented with the dossier, which was produced by Israel’s Shin Bet, European governments declined to cut funding to the groups.

6

87

243

22

315

915

@dialash

Diala Shamas

3 years

Translation of these orders: after years of unsuccessful efforts to persuade, or bully European and US donors and allies to defund and discredit Palestinian human rights defenders, the Israeli govt gives up and just criminalized them under Israeli law.

@AlaaDaraghme

Alaa Daraghme

3 years

Israel DM, Benny Gantz, Classifies 6 Palestinian Institutions as "Terrorist Institutions": Addameer, AlHaq, the Defense for Children -Palestine branch, Union of Agricultural Work Committees, Bisan Center for Research and Development and Union of Palestinian Women Committees

Tweet media one

Tweet media two

Tweet media three

Tweet media four

31

142

241

13

538

844

@dialash

Diala Shamas

4 years

Wise leadership from @RepRashida , @RepRoKhanna , @IlhanMN @AOC @JamaalBowmanNY @AyannaPressley & others. Noting that failures to do anything about white nationalists is a result of political unwillingness and/or hesitancy, and not the result of insufficient surveillance powers. 🙏🏽

@RepRashida

Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib

4 years

I’m leading the call for national security powers to not be expanded in light of the attack on our nation’s Capitol that occurred two weeks ago, as such measures often lead to the erosion of Americans’ civil liberties.

Tweet media one

Tweet media two

Tweet media three

Tweet media four

2K

4K

24K

24

139

650

@dialash

Diala Shamas

4 years

Today, the Supreme Court sided with our Muslim clients, finding that they can pursue their demands for damages from FBI agents who harassed them and tried to coerce them to become informants, in violation of their religious freedom @theccr @CUNY_CLEAR

9

186

604

@dialash

Diala Shamas

5 years

BREAKING: Today, Palestinians sought to intervene in a lawsuit that a group of settlers filed against Airbnb. The settlers claimed discrimination, and our clients set the record straight. They charge the settlers w/ war crimes, crimes against humanity...

Tweet card media

Palestinians Intervene to Sue Settlers in Airbnb Lawsuit

Rights Group: Settler Rentals Are Discriminatory, Settlements Are War Crimes March 18, 2019, Wilmington, Delaware – Today, Palestinian landowners and West Bank residents filed to intervene in a lawsui

10

261

527

@dialash

Diala Shamas

3 years

The border crossed us.

@ShakerJarrar

Shaker Jarrar

3 years

زحف، حبي، ركض...عائدون

Tweet media one

14

480

2K

0

89

559

@dialash

Diala Shamas

3 years

This absurd exchange. This is the law’s violence. This is “notice.” This is what the Israeli Supreme Court Justices who taught my Yale Law School classmates “proportionality” and the law of war as we sat in that wood-paneled room with leather chairs, brought about.

@MiddleEastEye

Middle East Eye

3 years

WATCH: The owner of al-Jalaa tower pleads with an Israeli officer on live TV to let journalists collect their gear before he bombs it. Moments later, Israeli air strikes demolish the #Gaza building that housed several international media offices, including #AlJazeera and MEE

564

15K

17K

10

333

529

@dialash

Diala Shamas

3 years

Hey @paypal , this is a civil liberties & humanitarian nightmare. For context: Israeli-aligned orgs have long waged a campaign to get payment platforms to defund Palestinian, human rts orgs. The ADL has a record of conflating criticism of Israel w/ “extremism” & “hate.”

@ADL

ADL

3 years

We’re excited to announce a new partnership with @PayPal to fight extremism and hate. We’ve launched a research effort to understand how extremists leverage financial platforms to fund criminal activity. To read more:

Tweet media one

2K

175

512

22

188

483

@dialash

Diala Shamas

3 years

From this evening in #SheikhJarrah . Lest the veneer of legality of the eviction proceedings fool anyone, here is a visual of the violence the state is inflicting. Whether thru the courts, or through brute force. The two always go hand in hand. #SaveSheikhJarrah

@HindHassanNews

Hind Hassan

@HindHassanNews

3 years

This was Sheikh Jarrah neighbourhood in East Jerusalem this evening. Palestinians here are fighting in court to not be forcibly evicted from their homes and replaced by Israeli nationalists settlers. #SheikhJarrah

52

2K

2K

13

265

455

@dialash

Diala Shamas

3 years

What do the #IRS and #SaveSilwan have to do with each other? A host of tax-exempt U.S. charities are directly involved in funding the illegal Israeli settlement enterprise. The IRS should be regulating them. They're not. My latest on @LPEblog -

Tweet card media

Tax Breaks for Colonization?

Much attention has been rightly paid to the billions of dollars that the U.S. government hands over to Israel every year, regardless of Israel’s war crimes, or even the warnings of military and…

12

266

438

@dialash

Diala Shamas

7 months

This is why accusations of support for terrorism has been the tool of choice by Israel/ its supporters in the long-standing efforts to defund and isolate Palestinians’ civil society orgs, political orgs, or humanitarian aid. Upon closer review, they crumble, but damage is done.

@lindseyhilsum

Lindsey Hilsum

7 months

We got hold of Israel’s dossier against UNRWA - why did the donors including the UK withdraw funding on such flimsy unproven allegations before an investigation?

1K

8K

14K

4

195

428

@dialash

Diala Shamas

4 years

Predictably, Biden falls for it. I'll say it again: history shows that legislation going after "domestic terrorism" will primarily be used to target Black organizers, Muslim communities, immigrant communities. It's the oldest play in the book.

Tweet media one

17

116

422

@dialash

Diala Shamas

3 years

🚩🚩🚩👇🏽 A nearly universal feature of states’ use of “classified” or “secret” to shield public scrutiny of alleged evidence is that it was either unlawfully obtained, embarrassingly slim, wildly absurd, nonexistent, or otherwise doesn’t withstand basic scrutiny.

@tombateman

Tom Bateman

3 years

Asked if it will provide its evidence behind the terrorism listing of 6 Palestinian NGOs Israel’s Defence ministry says all the documents are classified

80

323

843

8

159

412

@dialash

Diala Shamas

5 years

ICE lied to him & his lawyers, shackled him, forced him on private plane to Israel. A judge ordered him returned. For context: this prominent Palestinian prof and activist is removable because he refused to snitch on his community. He committed no other offense, served 11+ years

@AliAbunimah

Ali Abunimah

5 years

A shocking and dramatic 72 hours: The exclusive story of how the US tried to secretly deport a Palestinian professor to Israel, how he was held on the tarmac at Tel Aviv airport, and eventually returned to the US.

1

100

94

12

204

349

@dialash

Diala Shamas

4 years

@ShirinSinnar That article hits the nail on the head. I worry that a Biden admin will be tempted by proposals to increase (they’d call it “equalize”) enforcement, thus giving even more power to discriminatory agencies, rather than roll them back.

5

26

374

@dialash

Diala Shamas

5 years

/2 understanding this machinery of dispossession = essential to understand the magnitude of the settlement project. It involves a fully activated Israeli judiciary, engineer corp and military, but also commuters from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem who drive on her grandma’s village lands

6

119

305

@dialash

Diala Shamas

7 years

This was my commute to school in #Jerusalem , and remains a daily reality there. #JerusalemEmbassy doesn't change the fact of occupation.

Tweet media one

14

206

295

@dialash

Diala Shamas

3 years

Read ⁦ @MariamBarghouti ⁩ and ⁦ @4noura ⁩ - on necessary context and reflections on what is unfolding in #sheikhJarrah . So important to see Palestinian voices finally uplifted in the ⁦ @washingtonpost ⁩.

Tweet card media

Opinion | Sheikh Jarrah highlights the violent brazenness of Israel’s colonialist project

When will the world open its eyes to this injustice and respond appropriately?

www.washingtonpost.com

6

136

285

@dialash

Diala Shamas

2 years

Watching the dehumanizing “clashes” and “crossfire” narrative that #Shereen_Abu_Aqleh was so skilled at resisting play out like clockwork - this time about her own murder - is something else….

5

80

261

@dialash

Diala Shamas

3 years

After tweeting this, @m7mdkurd and his sister @kurd_muna have been called in for questioning by Israeli police. They are still in detention, reportedly along with two other activists from the neighborhood of Silwan. #SaveSheikhJarrah #SaveSilwan

@m7mdkurd

Mohammed El-Kurd

3 years

Today the IOF invaded our homes in Sheikh Jarrah, assaulted protestors, journalists, & arrested a few. Beat on one man’s skull until he fell to the ground then a soldier put his knee on the man’s neck. The settlers threw stones & gas at my home. The IOF did nothing to stop them.

104

7K

10K

3

250

244

@dialash

Diala Shamas

3 years

Really concerning news. This is what happens when the US message to the Israeli government consistently affirms that USG will turn a blind eye to Israeli human rights abuses. Reminder: @DCIPalestine represents *children* in Israeli *military courts*

@DCIPalestine

Defense for Children

3 years

BREAKING: Israeli forces raided our main office in Al-Bireh today around 5 a.m., confiscating computers, laptops, and files concerning our Palestinian child detainee clients in the Israeli military courts. We were not informed of the reason for the raid.

Tweet media one

187

8K

14K

3

125

222

@dialash

Diala Shamas

3 years

Lorelei is right. Current U.S. “material support to terrorism” laws are another way in which our government tips the scales significantly against expressions of Palestinian solidarity and has had major chilling effect on them. “Terrorism” is not a neutral term. 1/

@MissLoreleiLee

Lorelei Lee

@MissLoreleiLee

3 years

I am guessing this is Venmo's response to U.S. "material support" statutes, which define "material support to a designated foreign terrorist organization" very broadly, including, for example, pure speech as "material support," and suppressing even anti-violence activist work

1

40

130

2

97

217

@dialash

Diala Shamas

3 years

⁩I wrote about how Israeli designation of Palestinian human rights defenders as "terrorists” is intended to trigger a US counterterrorism regime already prone to abuse. Biden admin & ⁦ @StateDept ⁩ must stop that from happening ⁦ @just_security

Tweet card media

The Downstream Effects of Israel’s “Terrorist” Designation on Human Rights Defenders in the US

The Israeli designation seems aimed at triggering US counterterrorism sanctions - and chill human rights activism. Options for the US response.

www.justsecurity.org

11

86

211

@dialash

Diala Shamas

4 years

. @AndrewYang jumps on bandwagon of using Capitol attacks & rise of white supremacist, neo-nazi violence to promote wholly non-responsive agendas, here inexplicably taking aim at BDS. Boycott is among oldest & noblest forms of protests. Think Montgomery and Apartheid South Africa.

@baparkr

Brad Parker

4 years

"A Yang administration will push back against the BDS movement...Not only is BDS rooted in antisemitic thought and history, hearkening back to fascist boycotts of Jewish businesses, it’s also a direct shot at New York City’s economy," writes @AndrewYang

102

29

128

3

49

198

@dialash

Diala Shamas

3 years

Just seeing this from 3 days ago and I have two questions - both totally serious: does the @WSJ not fact check their opinion pieces? And are these two really allowed to teach law students?

Tweet media one

18

55

194

@dialash

Diala Shamas

3 years

BREAKING: Fed judge dismisses the JNF's meritless lawsuit against our client @USCPR_ . The suit targeted our client's human rights advocacy, and is part of a larger pattern of smearing Palestinian human rights advocacy as "terrorist" or "violent." [thread]

Tweet card media

U.S. Federal Judge Dismisses Lawsuit Filed by Jewish National Fund Against Palestinian Rights...

Lawsuit “Not Persuasive,” Judge RulesMarch 30, 2021, Washington, D.C.

8

96

182

@dialash

Diala Shamas

4 years

This is going to be drowned out with everything else that is happening in the world but such an important outcome. Congratulations to @DCIPalestine for successfully standing up to false accusations leveled at them by “UK Lawyers for Israel”.

@DCIPalestine

Defense for Children

4 years

We issued libel proceedings against UK Lawyers for Israel in UK courts in June 2019. Yesterday, as part of legal settlement, UKLFI recanted allegations that @DCIPalestine provides material support to any designated terror group. Read our statement »

Tweet media one

16

210

304

2

73

169

@dialash

Diala Shamas

10 months

I heard the same from Umm-Al Kheir, and yesterday, from Susiya. That Palestinians are sending these SOS messages and voice notes and we resort to tweeting the news out b/c war crimes happening in the West Bank are barely on the radar in light of #Gaza is a terrifying situation

@BenEhrenreich

Ben Ehrenreich

10 months

I just heard from a trusted friend in Umm al-Kheir in the South Hebron Hills that the village was raided early this morning by Israeli soldiers, who terrorized people for hours, lining them up facing a wall, beating them, humiliating them, threatening them at gun point. 1/

66

3K

5K

3

89

177

@dialash

Diala Shamas

3 years

We joined 190 orgs in supporting the 28 families living in the Palestinian neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah in their urgent letter to the #ICC Prosecutor urging investigation into forced evictions led by Israeli settler orgs #SaveSheikhJarrah #Jerusalem

Tweet card media

Letter: 190 Organizations Urge ICC Prosecutor to Investigate Forced Evictions of Palestinian...

On April 22, 2021, the Center for Constitutional Rights joined 190 organizations in supporting the call of Palestinian families facing imminent forced eviction from their homes in Sheikh Jarrah in Eas

1

69

134

@dialash

Diala Shamas

3 years

. @dianabuttu on the long history of violence against Palestinian citizens of Israel now on full display, reflecting on what to tell her 7y/o son: "What future can he look toward, when the leaders of the government incite hatred against him?” TY @nytopinion

1

50

160

@dialash

Diala Shamas

3 years

Ridiculous this suit had to be brought, but celebrating the outcome.

@ThePCJF

Partnership for Civil Justice Fund

3 years

BREAKING: Huge Victory in our BDS Free Speech case in Georgia on behalf of @AbbyMartin . Federal Court rules Georgia's anti-BDS law unconstitutional, violates Abby's First Amendment & Due Process rights by demanding she renounce support for BDS. Co-counsel are @CAIRNational & PCJF

Tweet media one

91

1K

4K

3

35

140

@dialash

Diala Shamas

3 years

The issue: Israel and affiliated orgs have long made spurious allegations against these same Pal orgs directly to USG in concerted efforts to get the US to take measures against them. USG is well aware that there is no actionable basis. Stronger language is needed, @StateDeptSpox

@BarakRavid

Barak Ravid

3 years

BREAKING: State Department Spokesman Ned Price says the U.S. will ask Israel for clarifications about the basis for the designation of six Palestinian NGO's as terrorist organizations. "Israel didn't give us prior warning about this designation", Price said

64

176

720

6

42

136

@dialash

Diala Shamas

4 years

Bloomberg saying that “the courts ruled [the surveillance program] was exactly within the law” is a straight up Trumpian lie. Ask those of us who sued him (Incl. ⁦ @HinaShamsi ⁩ ⁦ @CUNY_CLEAR ⁩ ⁦ @azmy_b ⁩ ⁦ @theCCR ⁩ ⁦ @DandiaAsad ..⁩)

WATCH: 'Of course we were supposed to do that,' Bloomberg says of surveillance of American Muslim...

Bloomberg, who took office months after the attacks, has since said the program was part of an effort to keep the United States safe. In an interview with PBS NewsHour anchor and managing editor Judy...

2

62

132

@dialash

Diala Shamas

3 years

Important investigative reporting on the U.S private money - under the guise of charity - that’s driving the illegal Israeli settlement enterprise. These are Americans. How can they be so unregulated, w no oversight, total carte blanche? #SaveSheikhJarrah

@alexbkane

Alex Kane

3 years

THREAD on my latest The current crisis escalated as Israeli settlers pushed to displace families in #SheikhJarrah . Israeli settler orgs don't do this by themselves--they're helped by US nonprofits that get an effective US subsidy to bolster settlers

42

590

900

3

86

137

@dialash

Diala Shamas

4 years

“powers accumulated by the state in the service of broad-based wars on “terrorism” inevitably get turned on communities of color, even if they ostensibly aimed at White violence at first.” See OK City Bombing & AEDPA. ⁦ @tarekzismail ⁩ & I elaborate

Tweet card media

Perspective | Calling the Capitol riot ‘terrorism’ will only hurt communities of color

Using the right words doesn’t flip some magical switch that forces agencies to go after those actually plotting harm.

www.washingtonpost.com

1

55

130

@dialash

Diala Shamas

5 years

THREAD: Today, we filed this lawsuit on behalf of Yemeni-American families stranded by the #MuslimBan . Here is some background [bear with me, it’s long]. @TheCCR #NoMuslimBanEver

Tweet card media

Yemeni-American Families Challenge Unlawful Application of Muslim Ban

Rescinding Approved Visas Is Part of Broader Anti-Muslim, Anti-Immigrant Agenda, Attorneys SaySeptember 5, 2019, San Francisco – The Center for Constitutional Rights sued the Trump administration for

4

65

129

@dialash

Diala Shamas

5 years

"It's a direct through line from the NYPD Spying Program, informants in mosques, to banning all Muslims from entering the United States." Big TY to @jeremyscahill and @Intercepted for giving this vintage @MikeBloomberg policy in-depth treatment.

4

54

123

@dialash

Diala Shamas

10 months

Here in Geneva, at the US review by the UN Human Rights Committee, with @USCPR_ ’s @A7madAbuznaid , we’re raising the US complicity in Israeli genocide with anyone who will listen. #ceasefireNOW

@theCCR

The CCR

10 months

Speaking on genocide in Palestine to the UN Human Rights Committee: “The US must cease its support of a regime that is committing genocide of the Palestinian people. If we don’t act now, then the words “Never again”, will be just that, words.” — @A7madAbuznaid

8

281

451

3

80

119

@dialash

Diala Shamas

4 years

2/ Biden is pursuing the “domestic terrorism” legislation that the sources in this article are basically begging for. Civil rights orgs have raised alarm bells about such proposals, noting that Muslim & Black communities are going to bear the brunt of it. This is irresponsible.

1

42

114

@dialash

Diala Shamas

4 years

@GoldnerPDX Tx for engaging. I share the view that they meet the definition, and I’m def terrified by their violence. But a belief that if we say it often enough we switch enforcement priorities is a-historical. It’ll justify more CT laws, funding that’ll be used as they’ve always been used.

6

8

117

@dialash

Diala Shamas

3 years

Who will tell them that “real estate dispute” is even worse than their prior “maintaining the demographic balance” as a euphemism for ethnic cleansing? #SaveSheikhJarrah

@IsraelMFA

Israel Foreign Ministry

3 years

Regrettably, the PA and Palestinian terror groups are presenting a real-estate dispute between private parties, as a nationalistic cause, in order to incite violence in Jerusalem (1/2)

753

98

203

3

47

108

@dialash

Diala Shamas

5 years

Being Palestinian on Twitter really sucks today.

@realDonaldTrump

Donald J. Trump

@realDonaldTrump

5 years

هذا ما قد تبدو عليه دولة فلسطين المستقبلية بعاصمة في أجزاء من القدس الشرقية.

Tweet media one

16K

6K

29K

3

9

101

@dialash

Diala Shamas

10 months

Here you have it, @POTUS . Along with ID numbers from the Israeli population registry.

@AseelAlBajeh

Aseel AlBajeh أسيل البجة

10 months

The Ministry of Health just published the names of 7028 Palestinians, including 2913 children killed in #Gaza . Scrolling over this is so painful. The first 88 names are from the same family! The next 72 from one family! And the undescribable pain goes on. No words.

728

26K

29K

0

75

100

@dialash

Diala Shamas

7 months

@MouinRabbani Thanks for having me on today, @MouinRabbani . Here is our press release about the frankly unprecedented decision

@theCCR

The CCR

7 months

In the historic lawsuit brought by Palestinians against Biden, a U.S. federal court finds that Israel’s assault & siege on Gaza plausibly constitutes genocide and “implores” Biden admin to examine its unwavering support of Israel, determining it lacks power to resolve the case.

Tweet media one

248

5K

9K

3

38

96

@dialash

Diala Shamas

6 years

A heartbreaking tour of Hebron’s ghost town known as H2 w/ Yehuda Shaul @BtSIsrael . He explains how homes have been systematically emptied of their Palestinian residents. He would know, he was stationed in Hebron and enforced these policies. #JusticeDelegation

Tweet media one

Tweet media two

Tweet media three

Tweet media four

22

103

95

@dialash

Diala Shamas

4 years

We’re headed to the Supreme Court next week! Our client, Naveed, explains why better than any brief could. Now, more than ever, we need accountability mechanisms for FBI agents who abuse their authorities -

@theCCR

The CCR

4 years

“I don’t want to be remembered as a spy, or an informant, or a snitch.” Listen to our client Naveed Shinwari share why he stood up to the FBI and refused to spy on other Muslims. His case, Tanzin v. Tanvir, will be heard by the Supreme Court on October 6. @CUNY_CLEAR @Debevoise

1

18

49

3

31

100

@dialash

Diala Shamas

4 years

FBI Agents placed our clients on the No-Fly List in retaliation for their refusal to become informants against their community. Listen to Mr. Tanvir describe what happened to him. He persevered. He insisted on accountability. Today, he won.

Tweet card media

Muhammad Tanvir: American Muslims seek to hold FBI agents accountable...

Listen to Muhammd Tanvir share his story of being targeted by the FBI. His case, Tanzin v. Tanvir, is before the Supreme Court.For years, FBI agents harassed...

www.youtube.com

1

39

90

@dialash

Diala Shamas

10 months

Our offering in this dire moment. #GazaUnderSiege

@theCCR

The CCR

10 months

NEW: There is a credible case, based on powerful evidence, that Israel is attempting to commit, if not actively committing, genocide against the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip. We've released released an emergency briefing of Israel's unfolding crimes, below. 🧵

Tweet media one

222

3K

5K

4

35

89

@dialash

Diala Shamas

4 years

A great thread & article on how the DoJ is prosecuting the attacks on the Capitol, with great nuance. One thing is clear, the DoJ has all it needs - more than it needs - to aggressively prosecute. Yet its treatment of white supremacists stands in stark contrast with BLM protests

4

55

87

@dialash

Diala Shamas

4 years

Any organizer would tell you this kind of mass mobilization doesn’t happen spontaneously. It takes planning. And for those of us who work w Black & Brown communities and organizers, also hard to imagine that plans at this scale didn’t get on law enforcement radar. Either way....

2

25

90

@dialash

Diala Shamas

5 years

So @iamsambee eating lamb in Djibouti with Yemeni American families stranded there due to the #MuslimBan = why you need to tune in tonight. And also, support the #RepealtheBan efforts, and the #NoBanAct

@realsambee

Samantha Bee

5 years

Please take off your shoes and join us tonight at 10:30 as we go to Djibouti to see how the Muslim Ban is still affecting families. #NoBanAct #RepealTheBan #SamanthaBee

Tweet media one

Tweet media two

17

67

310

1

32

88

@dialash

Diala Shamas

5 years

That awkward moment when a humanitarian org working w refugees is asked to consider accepting money from @Airbnb that it got as a result of the displacement of others, but that the company can’t keep because it is the fruit of the displacement of others

Tweet card media

Airbnb Reverses Policy Banning Listings in Israeli Settlements in West Bank (Published 2019)

Last year, the company said it would remove about 200 listings in Israeli settlements in the West Bank. Now, it’s changing course.

www.nytimes.com

2

45

83

@dialash

Diala Shamas

2 years

Palestinian human rights orgs raided by Israeli army this AM. Doors welded shut. This follows discredited Israeli designation of orgs as “terrorist” last year. States roundly rejected designations after review of Israeli dossier. Israeli govt proceeds: the intent is to sow fear.

@DCIPalestine

Defense for Children

2 years

BREAKING: Israeli forces broke into our Ramallah office early this morning, confiscating client files, welding the door shut, and leaving a notice ordering the organization closed. #StandWithThe6

Tweet media one

Tweet media two

57

1K

2K

1

35

71

@dialash

Diala Shamas

4 years

Another example of why we don't need broader terrorism laws. This reporting by @alexbkane , @MariamBarghouti presents the anatomy of a deliberate and effective campaign to hijack & distort these laws to silence, defund vulnerable, marginalized ppl.

1

37

71

@dialash

Diala Shamas

3 years

Army called in to remove a Palestinian flag = major 1st Intifada vibes.

@m7mdkurd

Mohammed El-Kurd

3 years

Ridiculous. #SaveSheikhJarrah .

287

3K

6K

2

23

71

@dialash

Diala Shamas

4 years

Oops, here's the actual video. I'm not great at Twitter. But I will keep tweeting about this case because, well, it's been almost 10 years since Tanvir first walked into my office and we have a lot to say.

Tweet card media

Naveed Shinwari: American Muslims seek to hold FBI agents accountable...

Listen to Naveed Shinwari share why he stood up to the FBI and refused to spy on other Muslims. His case, Tanzin v. Tanvir, is before the Supreme Court.Navee...

www.youtube.com

3

15

68

@dialash

Diala Shamas

10 months

So proud of my @theCCR colleagues for carrying the #StopTheGenocide message everywhere, all the time, until it stops. #Gaza

@theCCR

The CCR

10 months

BREAKING: At the UN #BindingTreaty negotiations in Geneva, our representative was repeatedly interrupted by the Chair for calling for the U.S. to end its complicity with Israel’s genocide of Palestinians in Gaza, and support keeping International Humanitarian Law in the treaty 🧵

23

711

1K

2

36

68

@dialash

Diala Shamas

10 months

In the West Bank, Israeli settlers and military set fire to cars and stores in the Palestinian village of Deir Sharaf.

@btselem

B'Tselem בצלם بتسيلم

10 months

توثيق: مستوطنون يضرمون النار في محلات تجارية وسيارات على مدخل قرية دير شرف في محافظة نابلس، مقطع فيديو من قبل ساعة.

13

110

132

6

60

64

@dialash

Diala Shamas

3 years

On the morning of another hearing in the #SheikhJarrah eviction proceedings, read Mohammad’s ( @m7mdkurd ) reflections on Israeli courts’ role in his family’s fate

@m7mdkurd

Mohammed El-Kurd

3 years

You don’t give a colonizer a scarlet robe and a gavel and then call it justice. Yet, in Sheikh Jarrah, that is the essence of the story: the fox guarding the henhouse. THREAD.

Tweet media one

7

186

350

4

27

63

@dialash

Diala Shamas

5 years

I sat down with #SamanthaBee in Djibouti to explain the sham waiver process under the #MuslimBan . She met with Yemenis stranded there, separated from their families for over a year, waiting for a visa. @TheCCR @FullFrontalSamB #NoBanAct #RepealTheBan

3

29

69

@dialash

Diala Shamas

5 years

In case you needed another reason to love ⁦ @TalibKweli ⁩. Read this simple, yet forceful takedown of those seeking to silence him for his *refusal to disavow* the Palestinian call for Boycott as a condition for performing.

1

18

60

@dialash

Diala Shamas

3 years

This is devastating news. Infiltration and disruption of civil rights & activist orgs is an age-old tactic. The Israeli gov’t involvement in spying on and possibly seeking to entrap Americans must be taken seriously. Sending love to @CAIROhio

@CAIRNational

CAIR National

3 years

Bismillah. Important news: we have disrupted an anti-Muslim hate group's effort to spy on Muslim American organizations, including our Ohio chapter. We thank God for exposing this plot to us and we thank God for protecting the community from harm. Details in this thread.... 1/13

Tweet media one

18

133

391

0

25

61

@dialash

Diala Shamas

6 years

#JusticeDelegation gets briefed by @GrassrootsJlem on Israeli land confiscation, settlements and other discriminatory policies towards Palestinian Jerusalemites

Tweet media one

9

45

67

@dialash

Diala Shamas

6 years

Watch @leegelernt @lsarsour and I on @democracynow this morning. Placing the #MuslimBan travesty between news of @Ocasio2018 victory and last night’s win on reuniting the kids basically summarizes how we will get thru the next few years. Onwards!

@democracynow

Democracy Now!

6 years

Human rights attorney @dialash of @theCCR traveled to Djibouti to meet with stranded Yemeni families barred by Trump's travel ban: "They are left with going back to Yemen, a war-torn country, or being separated from their families… They don't know what to do as a family anymore"

Tweet media one

2

36

35

0

20

61

@dialash

Diala Shamas

5 years

This right here is why I love working @theCCR

@theCCR

The CCR

5 years

The court annulled Fordham’s decision to deny Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) club status, finding it arbitrary and capricious, as nothing in Fordham’s rules permitted it to “reject an application of a student club because it criticized the policies of only one nation.”

Tweet media one

2

21

41

2

11

64

@dialash

Diala Shamas

6 years

I’m shook. Michelle Alexander packs a lot into this OpEd, each paragraph contains so much courage and truth. #MLKDay

3

6

57

@dialash

Diala Shamas

9 months

On the same day they used their veto at the security council, to boot 👇🏼

@theCCR

The CCR

9 months

UPDATE: The U.S. gov’t responded late yesterday in the genocide case brought by Palestinian organizations and individual, with @POTUS , @SecBlinken , and @SecDef attempting to evade legal responsibility for their failure to prevent—and complicity in—the genocide in Gaza.

Tweet media one

45

841

1K

3

23

57

@dialash

Diala Shamas

6 years

Damn proud of my ⁦ @theCCR ⁩ colleagues and co-counsel. In Baher’s words: “the courts were clear: Trump's attempt to obliterate decades-old U.S. and international law ensuring a right to safe haven from persecution and violence will not stand.”

Tweet card media

In blow to Trump’s immigration agenda, federal judge blocks asylum ban for migrants who enter...

U.S. District Judge Jon S. Tigar said the White House effort to ban migrants who crossed the southern border illegally from seeking asylum violates a “clear command” from Congress.

www.washingtonpost.com

2

29

58

@dialash

Diala Shamas

6 years

Hey allies and advocates. If you’re troubled by @rezaaslan @PeterBeinart and @VinceWarren ’s denial of entry or border interrogations by Israel, friendly reminder that Palestinians seeking to travel to their homeland are regularly denied. Their claims are morally, legally stronger

0

14

56

@dialash

Diala Shamas

4 years

If you've found this thread interesting, @tarekzismail and I developed some of these thoughts further in this @washingtonpost op-ed.

Tweet card media

Perspective | Calling the Capitol riot ‘terrorism’ will only hurt communities of color

Using the right words doesn’t flip some magical switch that forces agencies to go after those actually plotting harm.

www.washingtonpost.com

0

15

53

@dialash

Diala Shamas

3 years

We’ve seen reports & have received queries regarding concerns that @Venmo and other online payment platforms removing donations to Palestinian charitable causes. These are *overstated* – don’t let it chill your giving/ organizing! A short explainer:

Tweet card media

Venmo Stops Payments for Palestinian Relief Funds, Citing 'Security Concerns'

We’re officially entering the second week in a row of fighting between Israel and Palestine, which means we probably haven’t seen the last of the hundreds

2

32

56

@dialash

Diala Shamas

4 years

Being forced to spy on your faith community violates religious freedom. Unfortunately, FBI agents actively recruit & coerce Muslims to become informants all the time. Listen to our other client, Naveed, break down why he refused, at great cost to him

Tweet card media

Naveed Shinwari

Photo of plaintiff Naveed Shinwari taken by Lend FrisonNaveed Shinwari is a lawful permanent resident who has lived in the United States since 1998, when he was just 14 years old.

1

22

52

@dialash

Diala Shamas

3 years

Poignant, beautiful words from ⁦ @LailaAlarian ⁩, whose grandfather’s life captures the Palestinian experience - dispossession, exile, hope, beauty, loss. Every building, death & headline from past weeks has a similar story. TY ⁦⁦⁦ @nytopinion

2

16

53

@dialash

Diala Shamas

7 months

Must-read by @jeenashahesq about @theCCR ’s case against Biden et al charging genocide, which we’ll be arguing on Friday in federal court & the ICJ case, which may also issue a decision on Friday (!). Prof Shah reflects on the potential, and necessity, of these legal challenges.

@TWAILReview

TWAIL Review

7 months

📢 new TWAILR Reflection by @jeenashahesq ahead of this Friday's hearing in the @theCCR @alhaq_org @DCIPalestine et al case v. Biden, Blinken & Austen for complicity in Israeli genocide

2

33

55

2

41

54

@dialash

Diala Shamas

3 years

Horrifying footage from the Palestinian village of Jalud. We represented the village in an intervention in a case where settlers sued @Airbnb , claiming discrimination. Jalud intervened and sought to counter sue the settlers. In case you were wondering why:

@lioramihai

Lior Amihai

3 years

Watch: Settlers attack Palestinian in Jalud with stones and sticks; Soldiers who arrived in the area near the settlers fired stun grenades at residents who tried to help the victim: Videos: @YeshDin

41

276

334

1

26

47

@dialash

Diala Shamas

6 years

THREAD: Today we filed a complaint on behalf of three Yemeni Americans whose families had approved visas, only to have them revoked pursuant to the #MuslimBan . In addition to being cruel, we argue that it is unlawful… even violating the Ban's own terms.

Tweet card media

Alobahy v. Trump

Alobahy v. Trump was a federal lawsuit on behalf of three Yemeni-Americans against President Trump, the State Department, and the Department of Homeland Security for the unlawful revocation of...

2

28

51

@dialash

Diala Shamas

6 years

Just received this text from Ahmad Alsabahi in Djibouti, whose office works with many of the YemeniAmerican families stranded there: "Everyone is asking about the prices for tickets to go back to Yemen." #SCOTUS just sent hundreds of families back to a war zone. #NoMuslimBanEver

5

68

49

@dialash

Diala Shamas

7 months

This is such a powerful intervention by Namibia. This moment is about so much more than Palestine.

@NamPresidency

Namibian Presidency

7 months

Namibia rejects Germany’s Support of the Genocidal Intent of the Racist Israeli State against Innocent Civilians in Gaza On Namibian soil, #Germany committed the first genocide of the 20th century in 1904-1908, in which tens of thousands of innocent Namibians died in the most

Tweet media one

7K

82K

187K

1

18

49

@dialash

Diala Shamas

10 months

Palestinian rights advocates at UN call out US complicity amid accusations of genocide

Tweet card media

Palestinian rights advocates at UN call out US complicity amid accusations of genocide

Rights advocates spoke out against US government complicity in extinguishing Palestinian lives in Gaza and Palestinian voices at home at the UN on Monday. | TAG24

3

33

49