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Mahmoud Al-Qudsi

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My name is my watermelon. Tech tweets on hold while we fight for 🇵🇸. Don’t forget Syria and Sudan.

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Joined March 2009
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Mahmoud Al-Qudsi
4 months
What it looks like when you don’t have a country.
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The NYPD literally just paid $18M for forcing Muslim women out of their hijab and they’re already doing it again? Free Palestine!
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Today on the 3rd day of Eid the NYPD brutalized and arrested me and ripped of my hijab; with no warning. For protesting the genocide in Gaza. They refused to allow me to put my hijab back on. Please don’t post photos of me without my hijab on even if you try to block my hair.
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@ytirawi Doctors of Gaza giving their formal response to Israeli medical professionals signing a letter urging Israel to bomb Palestinian hospitals in Gaza, translated to English:
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@jvplive The formal response of doctors from Gaza in a press conference, with English subtitles:
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@MOSSADil Israel fights babies.
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@IrishLeftist @JoshuaPHilll I’m an Arab Muslim in America and I’m routinely asked “where are you coming from” and “where are you going” when I get pulled over. How do you not respond without antagonizing the cop into giving you a ticket for absolutely nothing (which I’ve received before, due to what looked
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@KTVB Say her name.
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The woman you are referring to is my aunt, Dr. Talat Jehan Khan. She is a Muslim woman, a mother of two, a well-respected member of her community, and an admired pediatrician. Say her name. #DrTalatKhan
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@jaybeware @imraansiddiqi School was waiting to hear if the victims had condemned Hamas or not before the prez took a stance on whether the shooting was A Bad Thing™
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@jwillia2 @Jairo_I_Funez School was waiting to hear if the victims had condemned Hamas or not before the prez took a stance on whether the shooting was A Bad Thing™
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@wifeoftoast Hey friend. I work with computer security (amongst other things). If it’s important to you, we safely look through it.
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@georgegalloway George, can you share this video of a Palestinian mother, father, and brother searching for a little boy in Gaza and their reaction when they find out what happened to him?
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@JoshuaPHilll Actually (and this is very important), the “cute robot dogs” company is Boston Dynamics and they have a very strict “no weaponization” policy. The IDF tried to use their robots and they said no, so the IDF paid a competitor to completely rip off their designs but weapons them.
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@Soul_Tsunami @IrishLeftist @JoshuaPHilll Not about what’s legally required. About what’s both legally acceptable and in your best interests, short- and long-term.
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@kron4news Look at how long it took them to say what these protesters were actually protesting about. They always try to bury pro-Palestinian/anti-genocide news events.
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@JoshuaPHilll Wow, you know you're doing something wrong when you've lost Wolf.
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@imraansiddiqi Anderson Cooper correcting himself because he forgot the party line for a second, with English subtitles:
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@majedbamya @_ZachFoster Here's the video of a colleague of Mohammad Abu Hattab breaking down with English subtitles:
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@hammam_therapy Tip: you can assume Yoseph Haddad is lying any time he opens his mouth to say anything.
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@pressfreedom The headline, in tiny writing, "from September 1, 2013 to August 31, 2023" - how convenient! @CommunityNotes
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@SenFettermanPA Shame on you.
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@m7mdkurd With subtitles:
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@CensoredMen "the church was not the target of the strike and sustained minimal damage" but here's damning testimony of two survivors that say otherwise (with English subtitles):
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@zeithistoriker It’s just a way to avoid saying “Palestine”
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@aaronjmate You should add this to his profile on the Palestine wikipedia. This stuff is highly relevant to understanding why US policy has been so biased and skewed in the Middle East!
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@AlanRMacLeod Alan, this is even better:
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9 months
Surely if you find yourself talking about hundreds of “underage terrorists” then it’s long past the point where everyone should be questioning your definition of the word!
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@UN_News_Centre The biggest surprise isn't the US veto (that's automatic); it's that France was able to put aside the Macron administration's ridiculously Zionist agenda for a moment.
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@ruby_rafaelina Did you take her with you?
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@SMArikat Thank you for standing up against this evil coming out of the pulpits of DC. Where can we listen to the rest of your exchange?
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@theramrum The video clip with English subtitles added:
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@AdeleScalia They’re civilians. Israel has stated, on the record, that these are merely “military aged men [and boys].”
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@TadhgHickey It's ok. Refaat would wear "controversial writer" as a badge of courage. 💪
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@ytirawi Younis, another video with English subtitles if you want to post: interview with a man and woman testifying about the air strike that brought down two floors of St Porphyrius.
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@nataliafadeev Do you want me to show you pictures of little boys and girls ten thousand times more beautiful than the prettiest "Miss IDF" that have been killed senselessly or are still stuck, dying, under the rubble?
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@ainiladra The looks of pure disgust on their faces when she started speaking said it all. And nothing has changed since.
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@lastvibes Transcript, translated to English: All the hostages, all the dead from Israel and Europe, have received their names. Their family members and friends have been heard here on TV, in the newspaper. Their lives, dreams and ideals are known to us forever. And I think that's fair.
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@JoshuaPHilll We're not escalating, we're responding to the growing intentional deafness the world is showing in ways they can't just brush under a rug.
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@Howbouthumility @jvplive Take your pathetic attempts to derail the conversation somewhere else, loser.
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@letsgomathias @sarayasin Everyone fill out a formal complaint here to demand that Reuters holds itself accountable for its cowardice in refusing to directly name and hold Israel and the Zionist regime responsible for the murder of Issam Abdallah @LbIssam :
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@m7mdkurd Here's your interview with English subtitles added:
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@Double2MC @Soul_Tsunami @IrishLeftist @JoshuaPHilll I like that you don’t say “not going to answer” but just “not going to talk about my day,” which probably comes off much less antagonistic. 👍
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@MariamBarghouti I also highly recommend watching The Present to understand the daily life of Palestinians under the Zionist occupation. It’s available on Netflix:
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@HananyaNaftali @CommunityNotes obviously ai generated images. Obvious deformities and hallucinations in each of the pictures.
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@nataliafadeev ...and? Oh, wait, were we supposed to suddenly flip sides and feel bad for the aggressor when we find out that some of those launching the bombs that have slaughtered TEN THOUSAND and many more are pretty girls with full makeup? Lol!
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@johncusack Yes, Mossad proudly tweeted it earlier.
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@AnnepHope @IrishLeftist @JoshuaPHilll You are absolutely right. I had a friend, one day his name was Osama and the next day it wasn't.
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@MiamiPDScanner @IrishLeftist @JoshuaPHilll I told them I was on my way back home from the masjid. Still got that ticket, somehow…
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@RnaudBertrand The hot-mic conversation translated to English, where host Pascal Praud criticizes a member of the show for defending Palestinians on-air.
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@m7mdkurd The press conference, with English subtitles:
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@agelender Not the first time they do that!
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Zionists saying there can't be a Palestinian genocide because the population has increased isn't anything new — Zionists used the same argument in 1951 to deny Jim Crow laws constituted a Black genocide, too!
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@AlanRMacLeod English translation of doctors from the Al-Ahli Baptist Hospital in Gaza hold a press conference among the bodies of those slaughtered by Israel in an airstrike:
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@SanaSaeed @andersoncooper Anderson Cooper correcting himself because he forgot the party line for a second, with English subtitles:
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Zionists saying there can't be a Palestinian genocide because the population has increased isn't anything new — Zionists used the same argument in 1951 to deny Jim Crow laws constituted a Black genocide, too!
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@Lowkey0nline @elonmusk You're shadow banned.
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@ryangrim Tammy Duckworth is a despicable person that has refused to listen to her constituents asking that she show a shred of concern for the plight of the people in Gaza. She and her staffers have insulted those of us that talked to her.
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@wifeoftoast @codepink We voted out @SenatorKirk because he was virulently and vehemently anti-Palestinian and was extremely disrespectful to his constituents expressing concern about Palestine. We put @TammyDuckworth in his stead. Should she be next to go?
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@vildechayeh Thanks for sharing this story.
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@PeterAlexander I just want to point out that no one is questioning the claims that Hamas is stockpiling diesel *to fuel their rockets* when diesel is not really used as rocket/armament fuel in the first place…
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@Amus______ Add the short film The Present to your list. It's a short, poignant, and family-friendly eye opener to the realities of everyday life under the Israeli occupation.
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@MrJTCole @JoshuaPHilll Marianne Williamson already dropped out and everyone knows there is no viable alternative to Biden in the running.
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@aaronkreuter As a Palestinian in the middle of all this horror and bloodshed, I am keenly thankful to be associated with the victims rather than the perpetrators. As horrible as it is to see my people die, I think it is infinitely more honorable and a superior position than to be the ones
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@vivafalastin @jvpliveNY They owe it to the murdered and their memories to at least publicly disavow their killers.
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@socialistdogmom They train that instinct out of them.
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@JoshuaPHilll Boston Dynamics is currently suing this knockoff but I think the DoD is also interested in in the weaponized tech so it’ll be interesting to see what will happen.
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@vivafalastin You're definitely not the only one. It's so hard to see people you thought were open-minded, decent, compassionate human beings turn out to have rocks in place of hearts. Lots of people I'm not going to ever feel close to again.
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@stephenWalt I don’t think “security considerations” is anything more than a farce. The real security consideration is that the US has raised anti-US sentiment and provided rationale for future attacks against the USA and its nationals, worldwide, for decades to come.
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@MikeElk @NPR But did he mean Palestine, Texas; East Palestine, Ohio; or something else?
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@wifeoftoast @codepink We voted out @SenatorKirk because he was virulently and vehemently anti-Palestinian and was extremely disrespectful to his constituents expressing concern about Palestine. We put @TammyDuckworth in his stead. Should she be next to go?
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@AbbyMartin Correct, but that’s specifically with regard to the ICC (not the ICJ) and it was done to protect (chiefly) Henry Kissinger and GWB’s cabinet. US status under both ICJ and ICC covered and contrasted in detail here:
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@adamelmahrek @LailaAlarian For God's sake, even BBC said "we don't have much information, but this has to be Israel, Hamas doesn't have any armaments capable of this kind of destruction."
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@One_Dawah Translated to English
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@__mike91 @cjwerleman BBC thinks so too:
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@muhammadshehad2 Oh my God, I thought you were saying the soldiers were dragging the dead body behind them... But they're dragging him from a long rope tied to their combat vehicle. This is so inhumane and disgusting!
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@SheriefFYI @thematrixf_ Depends on gauge and current draw. But as depicted, yes.
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@democracynow Textbook "manufacturing consent." Noam Chomsky described this play-for-play decades ago.
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@RamAbdu I've translated the video interview of a Palestinian woman bravely speaking about how Israeli soldiers threatened her with rape as a torture/interrogation technique during her imprisonment. [Follow @mqudsi for more translated videos out of Gaza and Palestine.]
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@itslaylas @imraansiddiqi Silencing him would be a favor to the decent people of the world.
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@swilkinsonbc Why wasn't he at a beach resort in Miami with his cousin?
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@deejahimawari @Lamis_Deek MLK Jr has your back.
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Surely if you find yourself talking about hundreds of “underage terrorists” then it’s long past the point where everyone should be questioning your definition of the word!
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@ytirawi For context, six of these were behind the (first) Jabiliya bombing (unless different info has since come to light).
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@AssalRad @SMArikat Miller is straight-up condoning the massacre of innocents as a negotiation tactic. I can’t believe my eyes and ears!
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Said ( @SMArikat ) is a beast that won’t be cowed by Miller and his ilk. I can’t believe Miller - with a straight face, live on tv - basically condoned/tacitly encouraged the slaughter of innocent civilians AS A NEGOTIATION TACTIC to pressure Palestinians to capitulate. We won’t.
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@AlanRMacLeod With English translation:
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@ShaiDavidai @Columbia Finally! What took them so long!?
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@Lowkey0nline "Running out of bombs to flatten hospitals with. Need emergency American $$$ to remedy. Plz help."
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@Jonathan_K_Cook Many are Israeli bots specifically targeting Gaza posters. The current consensus is that it’s an effort to get the algorithm to mark the thread as NSFW and reduce its visibility.
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@SaulStaniforth @h_lovatt They can only obfuscate and lie for so long. The truth will always come out in the end.
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@reglash Here's the video with automatically generated English translations. Sorry if it's not perfect.
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@propandco @yb2bee Wait, he could *hear* _dead_ women being raped?
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@azaizamotaz9 [Translated to English] A man holding his dead baby boy, killed by the difficulties endured during Israel's forced displacement of Palestinians to the South of Gaza.
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@exysyzygyst @IrishLeftist @JoshuaPHilll That's all I was thinking. This isn't new and every Black person I've spoken to has always brought up this same question. The system is rigged; you either comply and be damned or refuse and be damned even more.
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@Lowkey0nline Translated into English:
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@TadhgHickey Congratulations from a Palestinian American long invested in the peace and prosperity of a united Ireland.
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@Miles_Brundage It’s the only thing The New Yorker does that I don’t have a problem with.
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@muhammadshehad2 And when do you think BBC will retract their bold, clickbait headline based on unverified disinformation, citing "Israeli military sources" as the source of the claim?
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@Sarah_Hassan94 Haemolacria. Can be caused by bacterial eye infections (conjunctivitis), abrasion, or trauma. Poor baby!
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@Meir_Marciano Machine translated to English
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