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☎️GAZA EMERGENCY: CALL CONGRESS NOW!☎️
Time is running out for Palestinians in Gaza. Israel is suffocating the Gaza Strip. Congress is planning to send more weapons & funding to Israel for GENOCIDE. Hold your reps accountable
#StopArmingIsrael
CALL NOW:
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"We are not leaving Jerusalem because they [Israeli forces] are forces of occupation. They are removing us from our homes, from Jerusalem, from Palestine...We still have the land, we will stay in it." - Yara
هدم الاحتلال منزلها في سلوان اليوم، الطفلة يارا الرجبي: " مفكرين ان هدوا دارنا رح نخاف؟!"
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Today, Ofer Military Court extended Hafez Omar’s detention until Tuesday, April 16. He continues to be detained without charge. We uplift Hafez’s case in the context of the ongoing hunger strike, today in its 4th day.
#DignityStrike2
#معركة_الكرامة
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TODAY: Palestinian children in Shu'afat refugee camp lead chants demanding that the Israeli regime end its siege on their homes & in their neighboring town, Anata.
Shu'afat camp is under its 5th day of Israeli military siege.
هتافات الأطفال خلال وقفة احتجاجية لسياسات الاحتلال بحق الأهالي في مخيم شعفاط بالقدس ورفضاً لاستمرار الحصار
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This is a historic moment -
@AmericanAnthro
is now the largest academic association to endorse BDS
#AnthroBoycott
#AAA2015
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Israeli forces continue to use violence against Palestinians with impunity. They shot and killed four Palestinians (at least two were teenage boys) and wounded 80 others in the occupied West Bank over the course of just one day.
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At the Israeli consulate LA stands in solidarity with the Palestinian people.
#fb
http://t.co/anhwQBNGlo
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Hopeful that
@SenSanders
will voice support for the United Nations resolution just passed against settlements and for ending the occupation.
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All I want for the holidays is for
#REMAX
to stop selling homes on stolen land!
#Palestine
#Israel
#BoycottRemax
http://t.co/1L5H9jrxeN
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BREAKING: Khalil Awawdeh has ended his hunger strike after 182 days.
He will be free on Sunday, October 2nd.
🧵
BREAKING: After 182 days of hunger strike, Khalil Awawdeh will finally be free on Sunday, October 2nd.
He will be reunited with his wife Dalal & his 4 daughters after being in Israeli prison since December 2021 without charge or trial.
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Keep rising up until liberation and return! Read & share this thread.
ACTION TOOLKIT:
🧵HOW TO RISE UP WITH PALESTINE
Keep rising up, until Palestine is free. One year after the Unity Intifada and Israel's brutal assault on Gaza killing 260 Palestinian people, we honor the long history of Palestinian resistance.
#FreePalestine
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I've started a project to aggregate and amplify solidarity projects seeking your funding: . Please subscribe!
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Congratulations to the
@DemSocialists
on passing a BDS resolution in support of Palestinian freedom, equality, and justice!
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There is a new campaign calling for the freedom of artist
@HafezOmar
and all Palestinians imprisoned by Israel. Read their statement here: …
#FreePalestinianPrisoners
#FreeHafezOmar
#الحرية_للاسرى #الحرية_لحافظ_عمر
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BREAKING: Palestinian journalist Lama Ghosheh is free & is back in her loved ones arms.
Currently 16 Palestinian journalists are being held in Israeli prisons.
HEART-TOUCHING:
Palestinian journalist Lama Ghosheh embraced her children yesterday after 10 days of detention behind Israeli bars for being a journalist and posting her work online.
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Yesterday,
@Airbnb
reversed its policy banning listings in illegal Israeli Settlements in the occupied West Bank. They have proven that they accept profiting off stolen land.
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2021 is the year of worldwide recognition of Israeli apartheid. Make noise now!
President
@abdulla_shahid
& UN Gen Sec
@antonioguterres
: We are calling on
#UNGA76
to demand the
#UNInvestigateApartheid
& impose a
#MilitaryEmbargo
.
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BREAKING: Barcelona mayor has cut off all ties with apartheid Israel.
Barcelona is the first city council to cut ties with apartheid Tel Aviv in solidarity with the Palestinian people—an incredible victory for the movement for Palestinian rights.
🚨 BREAKING 🚨
The Mayor of Barcelona has suspended all institutional ties with Israel, including its twinning agreement with Tel Aviv, until Palestinian human rights are respected.
We call on institutions worldwide to follow suit and end ties with apartheid Israel!
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BREAKING: Israeli forces murdered 21-year-old Aref Abdel Nasser Lahlouh at a checkpoint in Qalqilya, in the occupied West Bank today.
Aref is at least the 19th Palestinian person to be killed by Israeli forces in 2023.
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DNC praises Joe Biden for opposing apartheid in South Africa while staunchly supporting the very same policies in the West Bank & Gaza.
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Palestine Today is back! Follow us to get urgent news about the Palestinian struggle for freedom, including US-based activism.
#FreePalestine
This account is curated by
@USCPR_
, which you can also follow for analysis, advocacy, and actions.
New look and more coming soon!
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The next time someone says they can't support bds because it is against two states just laugh.
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5 Great Palestine Projects You Can Support Today
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Join the
#UNinvestigateApartheid
Twitterstorm now and support global civil society's call to
#UNGA76
.
As with apartheid South Africa, a UN investigation of Israeli apartheid is a necessary step towards freedom for Palestinians.
TAKE ACTION ⬇️
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Bravest man in Politics: Bernie Sanders harshly criticizes Israeli Occupation: Absurd Settlements, 44% Unemployment
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Celebrity tweets are important because they normalize solidarity and open up space for critical thinking about Palestine among their fans.
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BREAKING: Israeli forces demolished a Palestinian home & destroyed 100+ saplings in Masafer Yatta today.
Israeli violence against Palestinian people is continuing to escalate with the inauguration of the new Israeli government.
#DefendMasaferYatta
Israeli occupation forces demolish a
#Palestinian
house in the village of Sha'b al-Butm in Masafer Yatta area, south of
#Hebron
.
Credit: Wafa News Agency
#SaveMasaferYatta
#FreePalestine
#IsraeliCrimes
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A moment of appreciation 4 the amazing people who are behind
@anthroboycott
and have rallied so many in support of
#Anthroboycott
@
#AAA2015
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Disturbing comments by Israeli Prime Minister after UN endorses international law and denounces occupation of Palestinian territories:
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"We should not only push for a recognition of Israeli apartheid, we must demand the recognition that any Jewish Israeli state, whatever its boundaries within historic Palestine, is necessarily a settler-colonial state," writes
@NadaElia48
.
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Protesters rallied at Grand Central Terminal in New York yesterday to demand the return of Palestinian martyrs' bodies held hostage by the Israeli regime.
Join their voices & tweet with
#ReturnOurChildren
today. Sample materials:
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Dem party leaders claim to oppose racism but pal around with islamophobes and Palestine haters all the time:
What's on your menu? Just ran into James O'Keefe in Florida at a conference hosted by David Horowitz. We live in interesting times.
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The Palestinian people want to live freely and safely, be treated equally in their country, and give their children a brighter future. US complicity in Israeli violations of Palestinian rights stands in the way of the better world we know is possible.
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BREAKING: 22 year-old Sharif Hassan Rabah was shot & killed by an Israeli soldier who was stationed at the entrance to Fawwar refugee camp south of Hebron today.
Sharif is the 43rd Palestinian person killed by Israeli forces this year.
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"Is tech developed in an illegally occupied territory, and on people denied democratic freedoms, ethical to use?"
@JVPlive
's Granate Kim writes about Microsoft's funding of AnyVision, a facial recognition technology secretly tested on Palestinians.
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🚨 After six Palestinian prisoners escaped on Monday, Israeli forces are lashing out, arresting their family members and cruelly punishing Palestinians held in these settler prisons. Turn your attention to the imprisoned Palestinians resisting this collective punishment now.
Israel has begun arresting family members of the six escaped Palestinian prisoners. This arrest campaign is a form of collective punishment, meant to intimidate and repress Palestinians as a whole.
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"[Rep.] Omar was an easy target: a Somali refugee hijab-wearing young woman of color. Don’t tell me this wasn’t about race…"
@AliceRothchild
on how Palestine solidarity work is most effectively done within an anti-racist, anti-white supremacist framework.
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Don't be complicit in genocide. Pass it on.
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Meanwhile UC Berkeley cancels a class on Palestine and these so called free speech defenders are nowhere to be seen
"How The Atlantic Magazine and Mainstream Media Manufactured a BDS Scandal at Syracuse University"
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After months of hard labor cultivating their farmlands, and just days before they could harvest their crops, Palestinian farmers in Gaza woke up to the news that Israeli authorities had flooded their lands and destroyed their crops.
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When someone says we shouldn't divest from occupation bc it might hurt campus climate:
#UCSCdivest
http://t.co/fNg94dwz0M
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"Jewish anti-occupation activists arrested blocking ADL offices during Passover protest"
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Criticism alone hasn't ended the occupation. We must change Israel's incentives through social & economic pressure.
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After Trump’s Jerusalem Move, Media Worry About ‘Violence’–Not Violation of International Law
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The same white supremacy that leads to and normalizes attacks on Black, Muslim, and Jewish worshippers in Charleston, New Zealand, and Pittsburgh is behind the attacks on Rep. Ilhan Omar and all those who speak truth to power.
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6 thoughts on the Palestine solidarity movement and the democratic primary:
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As we mourn the loss of each of the
#51lives
lost in NZ last week, we remember that
Abdul Fattah al-Daqqah
Ali al-Madani
Atta Elayyan
Amjad Hamid
Osama Abu Kweik
Kamel Darwish
were Palestinians who had their identities erased both in life and in death.
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❎ Two state solution
❎ Apartheid
☑️ One democratic state
US State Department resists two-state commitment amid Palestinian pressure
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The UN has finally released its report on companies that profit from Israeli apartheid. Check out this thread for details on the report and how you can take action. ⬇️
The UN has finally released its report on companies that profit from illegal, Jewish-only settlements in the occupied West Bank. There are 112 companies listed, including Airbnb, , Motorola Solutions, Expedia, and more.
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On this 21st anniversary of the start of the Al-Aqsa Intifada, honor the long history of Palestinian resistance. Learn more here⬇️
Today marks the 21st anniversary of the start of the Second Intifada, the Palestinian uprising against Israel's illegal occupation & apartheid.
Here is what happened 21 years ago:
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Israeli authorities regularly target Palestinian farmers: destroying their crops, restricting access to land, and imposing blockades on exports. These are among the many tactics used to push Palestinians off their land.
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Respect to Bernie Sanders for speaking for Palestinian freedom in debates & platform. Like Jesse Jackson, he has done the cause a service.
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TAKE ACTION AND CALL CONGRESS
This is genocide. Raise the alarm.
URGENT: Stop what you are doing and call Congress now. Tell them to immediately deescalate to prevent the further loss of life, not fuel violence by sending more weapons to Israel.
Call them again in an hour. We must prevent mass atrocities and end this.
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Israeli forces are escalating their violence in Masafer Yatta.
Here is what you need to know, sourced from Masafer Yatta-based activist, Sami Huraini of
@YouthOfSumud
#DefendMasaferYatta
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Thanks
@amnesty
for standing up for Palestinian rights and calling for an end to aid to Israel used to violate them
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The Israeli government is threatening to deport Palestinian BDS activist and human rights defender Omar Barghouti. Their attempts to silence dissent are precisely the reason to continue this dissent.
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The soaring rhetoric of Democratic politicians is undermined by their willingness, over & over, to betray Palestinians & delay their freedom
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Please support the next National SJP Conference
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All eyes on Gaza. Get ready to protest in the streets in solidarity with the Palestinian people.
#FreePalestine
#StopArmingIsrael
🚨ALL EYES ON GAZA NOW🚨
The Israeli regime is bombing Gaza now, killing about 200 Palestinian people today alone and now leveling a high-rise tower.
#GazaUnderAttack
#StopArmingIsrael
TAKE ACTION:
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Free speech triumphs over pro-Israel bullies in US universities
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There were over 1,700 anthropologists here and the majority voted for boycott of Israeli academic institutions
#Anthroboycott
#BDS
#AAA2015
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By my count,
@NUDivest
is the 25th American university to pass a divestment vote:
http://t.co/5U8KUydDBz.
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Press Release: Students for Justice in Palestine Hails Divestment Victory, Thanks all Supporters
@SJPatUCLA
http://t.co/EuAjymPeNI
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NEWS: 17 year-old Shadi Khoury's hearing will take place on November 23rd.
Shadi was beaten & arrested without charge by Israeli forces on October 18th in his family home. Read the statement below from Shadi's grandmother, Samia Khoury:
#StandWithShadi
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As in Vietnam and South Africa, Gazan masses are willing to pay high price for freedom — Kasrils
http://t.co/S0r1VWzhRF
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BREAKING: Amir Bustami was shot dead by an Israeli soldier during an Israeli military invasion of Nablus today.
Amir succumbed to his wounds & died on his way to the hospital. He is the 48th Palestinian person to be killed by Israeli forces this year.
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5 Great Palestine Projects You Can Support Today
Sign up here to get these updates:
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I've been part of the UC community for nearly a decade, but today, watching the UCSA pass divestment, was my proudest moment.
#UCSADivest
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rt
@theimeu
I came to London as Arab Idol winner: but as a Palestinian my sense of injustice is always close b...
http://t.co/M4xz1lEPoL
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Before his arrest, Hafez was committed and vocal on prisoners’ rights, particularly during hunger strikes. We call on supporters to amplify the hunger strike and support the prisoners as they fight for their dignity.
#DignityStrike2
#معركة_الكرامة
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Kal Penn’s primetime shoutout to Palestinian refugees is gift that keeps on giving
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'Israel is wrong by any moral standard' -- Robinson says, as US media pile up
http://t.co/tQwQWvNOBV
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Israel uses Google and Amazon's cloud services to surveil Palestinians, expand illegal Israeli settlements on Palestinian land,
& inflict violence in besieged Gaza.
Tell Google and Amazon to cut their $1 billion contract at
#NoTechForApartheid
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The Democrats Are Finally Turning Away from Israel (and its high time they did)
http://t.co/KgiWGnUpwf
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#BlockTheBombs
to protect Palestinian life in Gaza. Become a people's cosponsor of
@AOC
's amendment and call out your rep to demand they support it.
Take action ➡️
Toolkit ➡️
The
#BlockTheBombs
social media storm begins now!
@AOC
has introduced an amendment to block the $735 million sale of US-made precision-guided missiles to Israel—which Israel will use to continue systematically bombing the Gaza Strip.
Make noise now ➡️
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"Palestinians do not need Jared Kushner to civilize them. What Palestinians need is respect and the ability to shape the political systems they live in. They need human rights, political rights, and civil rights," writes Hanna AlShaikh (
@yalawiya
).
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Khalida Jarrar's third arrest last week "revealed what Israel’s real fear is: Palestinians...who are able to communicate an articulate message that exposes Israel and its crimes to the rest of the world," writes
@RamzyBaroud
.
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"More than denouncing apartheid, it is time to acknowledge that Israel, in whatever form it has taken, or can take, would never have come into existence without European imperialism and settler-colonialism," write
@NadaElia48
.
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Stanford, Davis, UCLA, Berkeley, Riverside, Irvine, San Diego, and the UC Student Association have passed divestment:
http://t.co/UsK5xt2fB2
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G4S leaving Israel shows that the boycott, divestment and sanctions campaign is winning
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Around 5500 Palestinian prisoners including around 500 administrative detainees, 200 children and 50 women, are all detained in 17 different Israeli prisons and interrogation centers.
#StopAD
#NotATarget
,
#BornaPrisoner
#PalestinianPrisonersDay
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U.S. government: Stop arming Israel:
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This morning, Israeli snipers assassinated the beloved Palestinian journalist Shireen Abu Akleh. Her killing is devastating. Read the full thread:
The loss of renowned and beloved Palestinian journalist Shireen Abu Akleh is beyond devastating. Shireen was targeted & shot dead by Israeli forces while reporting in Jenin this morning. 🧵
Rest in peace, Shireen. Your voice will be remembered in the struggle for liberation.
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August 7th at noon, tweet your photo
"
#OccupationIsUgly
because..."
Tell the world: Boycott occupation!
http://t.co/fOJDmQ1135
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"Our will of life is stronger than despair. So we continue. We want to struggle. And we struggle for life. We struggle for humanity. We struggle for justice." Ahmed Abu Artema, organizer of the
#GreatReturnMarch
speaks about the protests in the Gaza Strip.
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