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Founder & Creative Director of @uncivilmedia . Activism, storytelling and filmmaking. Former ED of @rabetbypipd .

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DC rose up for Palestine. What an amazing photo.
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The Tale of Two Streams. Sometimes you just have to love the internet 😂
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Israeli police arrest a 10 year old Palestinian boy in Jerualem and his sister is crying pleading for his release.
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Israel’s devastation of Gaza. Harrowing. (Photo by Wissam Nasser)
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Someone watched what happened yesterday and came to the conclusion that the real problem was anti-semitism.
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Just a reminder.
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90,000 Palestinians pledge in unison to defend Al Aqsa and Jerusalem - a message of defiance that is reverberating around the world. Israel is suffocating Jerusalem, but Jerusalem finds a way to rise.
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Powerful.
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“I chose journalism to be close to people. It might not be easy to change the reality but at least I could bring their voice to the world. I am Shireen Abu Akleh”. That sign off will forever be iconic. Rest in power and peace Shireen.
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As you can see, Apartheid doesn’t do ceasefires. It is either dismantled or not.
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This photo captures such powerful part of what it means to be Palestinian. Incredible.
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First we discover that international law still exists. 2/ Refugees are welcome depending where they come from. 3/ Resistance to occupation is not only legitimate but a right. 4/ Sanctions seem to be an appropriate response to violations and not anti-Semitic as we were told. 😱🤯
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Jewish Ukrainians are coming to Israel and will receive citizenship almost immediately. There are 7 million Palestinians in exile that can’t even visit their homeland let alone live there. This is what settler colonialism manifesting as apartheid looks like.
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My cousin’s best friend Mohammed Shger was just killed by Israeli soldiers in Jericho - shot in the chest. He was 20 years old and a beautiful soul who loved to sing. Rest in peace and power Mohammed.
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My dad just called with fear in his voice. He told me not to take certain roads down to Jericho from Ramallah because of the presence of Israeli settlers and the Israeli army. He ended with I don’t want to lose a son. It broke my heart to hear him say that.
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This is everything. Mohammed and Muna free and reunited with Nabil whose been waiting outside The Israeli police station all day and into the evening. What a family. Via Tarek Baker on IG
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You embodied the best of Palestine, Shireen. Palestine came out for you ♥️.
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Resistance vs Terrorism.
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This illustration ran in the @nytimes with @dianabuttu powerful article dismantling the myth of coexistence. This is significant.
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Israel vaccinating a million people is 1/3 of the story. Another 1/3 is it’s withholding the vaccine from 5 million Palestinians it occupies, which by int’l law its responsible for. Final 1/3 is vaccinations are given to Jewish-majority illegal settlements on that occupied land.
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Palestinian children cry in horror as Israeli apartheid forces beat, choke and arrest their father in front of them. No child or parent should ever endure this, yet in Palestine this is a daily occurrence. Apartheid Israel is the anti-thesis of humanity.
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“uncivilized”
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If Jesus was born in Bethlehem today, he would have a Green ID. Being from Nazareth, Joesph and Mary would have Blue IDs. Jesus would need an Israeli military permit to visit his family or go to Jerusalem. This is Israel's Jim Crow and tiered segregation. Merry Christmas.
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Those were the first day’s of the Second Intifada. TV channels aired the footage over and over again, and reported on other deaths ever hour. Israeli tanks patrolled our streets and helicopters were bombing our cities. Gunfire became our lullabies and lockdowns were our reality.
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Jerusalem this evening. Palestinians all over Palestine are coming out to stand with their city. Those who push the narrative of Palestinian defeatism because of this dark chapter in our history fundamentally misunderstand who we are as a people.
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Good morning from one uncivilised to my fellow unciviliseds all over the world.
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Yo, I’m really seeing people out here calling Desmond Tutu a racist because he criticised Israel. The fucking audacity.
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This is so spot on.
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Palestinian refugees in Lebanon are at the border rising up. Every Palestinian community all over is mobilising.
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If Jesus was born in Bethlehem today, he would have a Green ID. Being from Nazareth, Joesph and Mary would have Blue IDs. Jesus would need an Israeli military permit to visit his family or go to Jerusalem. This is Israel's Jim Crow and tiered segregation. Merry Christmas.
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“Terrorism” vs. Terrorism.
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As Israelis post pictures of a flight from Tel Aviv to Abu Dhabi, a reminder that Israel won’t allow us to have an airport and destroyed the one we had in Gaza. Palestinians have to go to Jordan to fly anywhere in the world. Even in 2020, we’re denied the basic right to movement.
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1/ For those who don’t understand the context, Israel has deliberately & forcibly engineered our geographic, social and political fragmentation as Palestinians since 1948 through segregation, displacement and expulsion - that is why we say the Nakba never ended.
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Israeli apartheid soldier is arresting a 10 y/o Palestinian girl. Her slightly older sister says you can’t take her. Soldier say “I can’t!?” goes to cuff her, the older sister says take me instead. So he cuffs them both. Older sister says I don’t care if they arrest me.
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As a generation we carry with us a deep trauma living through one of the most violent and crushingly oppressive periods of Israel’s military occupation. This generation saw the ugliest of human nature and to what lengths a regime would go to crush and destroy another people.
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If you didn’t know, Palestinians stay up late night talking about what it is like to be free.
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There’s never been a moment in history where more people have supported Palestinian liberation. And it’s only growing by the day.
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This is the best thing on the internet.
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Today, 800 Palestinians in Silwan are facing imminent forcible displacement from their homes. Make no mistake, this is mass ethnic cleansing of one people to make room for another. Who’s behind this? Israeli settlers, the Israeli government & Israeli courts. This is Apartheid.
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We tried going to Jerusalem for school but the main road out of Jericho had two zigzaged dirt mounds fitted with machine gun pits and the largest guns I’d ever seen. Negotiating that checkpoint became our daily routine. Would they or won’t they let us go to school today we asked?
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My grandfather is 82 and from Jericho in the West Bank. He hasn’t been to Gaza since 1973 because Israel doesn’t allow it. Today, he briefly visited the market in downtown Gaza and saw a part of Palestine that he has been denied from for a long time.
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My father gave my brother and I advice on how to cross that checkpoint which I still follow to this day. Back then I thought to myself “if they killed Mohamed as a child, they surely can kill me.” Now I think “if they killed Eyad as someone w/ autism, they surely can kill me.”
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For many of us from that generation, the Second Intifada infused in us the understanding that there is no peace without justice. We want peace and crave a normal life but not without freedom, equality, rights and being considered human. We won’t stop until we build that world.
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We have no choice but to fight and build that world. One where Palestinians are not subhumans, where our lives and bodies are not owned by a system that can decide to end them whenever it wants. Every Palestinian has a story of trauma, we cannot have that connect our generations.
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This is not to dissimilar to what’s happening now in Gaza. A generation imprisoned for 14 years, never allowed to leave and growing up on the sounds of warplanes destroying and killing what is around them. It seems trauma connects every Palestinian generation.
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Pray you never have to console your child because your family home is being demolished by an entity that doesn’t regard you as human. There is a Palestinian parent that has to do that almost every day. Since 2009, 12,131 Palestinians have been displaced by Israel.
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Imagine this is your home? Imagine this is your family? Imagine this is your life? You would not accept it for a second, no human would. Then why should we?
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🇺🇸: Ceasefire? 🇮🇱: No, eff off. *Kills entire families.* 🇺🇸: Okay, here’s $735 million in weapons. 🇮🇱: About time. 🇺🇸: Ceasefire? 🇮🇱: No eff off. *conducts Massacres” 🇺🇸: Okay ☺️ we’ll send you next instalment of $3.8 billion in military funding soon. Have fun!
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I never asked for this. As an 11 yearold I craved normalcy, not military occupation, death and destruction. I want to live in a world where Mohamed would still be alive in Gaza about to start his own family. A world where his kids would never know a siege or the sound of a drone.
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“To make her see this dead arab boy as a human being”. The latest marvel character who is an Israeli mossad agent. You can’t make this shit up.
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Israeli soldiers take the balloons of Palestinian children in Sheikh Jarrah. Balloon girl painted on the Apartheid Wall in Bethlehem. The symbolism couldn’t be greater. Inspiration by Yousef Srouji.
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I need a permit issued by the Israeli military to visit Jerusalem. The city I was born in. But now an Emirati can go visa-free because two warmongering, human rights abusing regimes made a deal together for weapons. Does this sound just to you?
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Hey, just a reminder that Israel passed a law banning Palestinian couples/ families from different geographic areas to live together so it can maintain a Jewish demographic majority. Then it’s politicians boasted about it. Let this sink in while you apply your double standards.
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Absolutely brilliant. What a nod to Sally Rooney. Protest Stencil strikes again.
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Wonder what Israeli apartheid looks like? Here it is in a commute to Jerusalem.
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Want to know how Palestinians commute to Jerusalem compared to Israeli settlers living illegally in the West Bank? Watch our video that will guide you through this nightmare that is one of the many forms of oppression, segregation & inequality that Palestinians experience daily.
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Imagine what they do when we are not "armed with cameras".
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This so precious and beautiful. Maher being fed by his daughter. He tells her thank you for feeding me after 104 days of hunger. Maher went on hunger strike after being imprisoned by Israel without charge or trial. He will be released later this month.
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Watch media outlets call these clashes…
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Everyone switch on to Al Jazeera right now. This is one of the most horrifying things I’ve seen. IOF is attacking mourners carrying Shireen’s body from the hospital right now. They’re using stun grenades and tear gas and charging at them with horses and batons.
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Israel summons a 12 year old boy in Jerusalem for interrogation.
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A different kind of Olympics.
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Palestine corona update: hospitals are at capacity and authorities are expanding cemeteries to cope with the amount of deaths each day. Still no signs of a vaccination program. While Israelis are going back to restaurants and bars. How devastating does the tragedy need to be?
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The hands of the Palestinian olive harvest. 📸 Omar Dawabsheh
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Defund Israeli Apartheid regardless of who is prime minister.
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Palestine is everywhere and with everyone. 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸
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Resilience. We teach it.
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The barber shop in Gaza
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An estimated 150,000 people came out to stand with Palestine today in London. They were chanting “We are all Palestinian”. Chills.
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Serious question: when are we getting vaccinated in Palestine?
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Protestor in Paris raising the Palestinian flag despite police crackdown with water canons. From a few weeks ago.
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How Japanese Cartoons defined a generation in the Arab World.
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3 years
Imagine starting a family after spending most of your life in an Israeli jail. Then Israel kills your children in an airstrike. That is what happened to Yousef Al Masry yesterday when Israel attacked Gaza. An unbearable reality for any parent to live with.
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This is what colonialism looks like in 2020. Israeli officials sitting around a map, deciding which part of the West Bank to annex. And they post this picture with pride. Disgusting.
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Israel is built on the belief that one people can return after thousands of years and another can’t after 73 years. Yup, makes lots of sense.
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1/ Jericho is my hometown. This was my daily view of the Jordan Valley growing up from my grandparent’s house. The Barahmeh’s are one of the indigenous Jericho clans and their roots in the Jordan Valley go back centuries.
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Not much more I can say.
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I see you Berlin.
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Wow.
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White supremacy.
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Don’t be fooled, postponing the Sheikh Jarrah court decision from Monday to an unknown date is an attempt to subdue the current uprising in Jerusalem. A temporary delay is an extension of Israel’s decades long approach of incremental forcible displacement of Palestinians.
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Still standing in the face of ethnic cleansing.
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Free Muna Al Kurd.
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Gaza is being massacred. There is not much more to say.
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As a child, I used to watch them build this wall on my way to school in Jerusalem every morning. The first thing I will do when Palestine is liberated is take a sledge hammer to it. I can't wait for that day.
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Part of Israel Seperation Wall collapsed in Al Ram town N of Jerusalem City.
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What is happening in Palestine now is eerily deja vu from the same time last year. Israel brutally oppresses & kills, Palestinians resist, the media covers with bias & the world does absolutely nothing. It’s the same cycle for the better part of a century. It’s time to end it.
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Jericho, my hometown, is rising. 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸
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One flag represents freedom but is illegal to fly in Jerusalem: 🇵🇸 The other is accompanied by genocidal chants and is legal to fly in Jerusalem: 🇮🇱
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Palestinian summer sunsets are out of this world.
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This airplane flying over my flat in Ramallah is going to an airport I don’t have access to. It is only accessible to Israelis. The majority of Palestinians living under occupation need to go to neighbouring countries to travel the world because Israel destroyed our only airport.
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Hearing that there are 180,000 people out marching for Palestine in London. What a city.
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People fundamentally misunderstand this generation of young Palestinians: We are not here to play by the international consensus on Palestine. We are here to reshape it.
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Israel is committing a massacre in Palestine. Period. Every day we wake up to the news of men, women & children murdered by this inherently violent regime that has escalated its ethnic cleansing of Palestinians. The message? We are supreme & we take your lives whenever we want.
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Next time Israel attempts to green wash its Apartheid regime, remember that Israeli settlers and soldiers destroy Palestinian renewable energy infrastructure and contaminate/steal our water sources. Israeli Apartheid exacerbates our climate emergency.
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Palestine is rising and it’s about the people. Not the factions, leadership, parties or groups. It’s about the people. A people demanding freedom.
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Warning! Not an @TheOnion headline.
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This is an intergenerational struggle. The old will pass on and the young will continue. We won’t forget. By safaa art on Instagram.
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This is the Obaid family, forced to sleep on the rubble of their own home because Israel demolished it and made them homeless. Imagine what it might be like for these children. This is cruelty. This is Israel.
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Come back from school to find your home demolished by the Israeli army. This is what happened to a young Palestinian girl in Hebron. Another day, another tragedy. (Photo credit @Reuters )
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The almonds of Palestine.
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