Rania Khalek
@RaniaKhalek
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Journalist and host of Dispatches on @BTnewsroom.
Joined May 2009
“People in your neighborhood are not going to like you if you continue to kill their families and steal their land”. Quick history lesson on Hezbollah and Hamas
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You invaded a country and expect no response?? How dumb do you think people are?.
🚨Millions of Israelis are currently in shelters as Hezbollah fires rockets at our civilians from Lebanon🚨
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And there are people whining about their hurt feelings on college campuses bc they can’t support genocide without opposition.
Speaking of the Israeli genocide in Gaza, PTSD now affects all children in Gaza. Israeli terrorism got to stop.
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I was just at the beach in Lebanon less than two weeks ago where everyone was in bathing suits as skimpy as in Miami, you freak. Also who cares?? . Arabs are only worthy of life if their women wear bikinis? Are bikinis the only way to humanize us, you pervert? . You should be.
Lebanon was living in peace and tranquillity in 1976 and then came Hezbollah.
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Everything they accuse Palestinians of doing is just projection.
#Watch | Israeli occupation forces used freed prisoner Alaa Abu Hashhash, blindfolded, as a human shield during confrontations with #Palestinian Resistance fighters in al-Fawwar camp in occupied al-Khalil. #Palestine .#WestBank
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Dropping bombs on sleeping families at 4am in a densely populated city is demonic.
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I will never ever condemn armed resistance against colonizers, which is morally legitimate and necessary and legal.
“I don’t condemn Palestinian armed resistance groups just like I wouldn’t condemn slaves shooting at their plantation masters” . BT’s @RaniaKhalek claps back on @PiersUncensored when Piers tries to distract from the genocide in Gaza by asking her to condemn Oct 7.
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They killed her too. The Israelis killed yet another journalist in Gaza.
Sand sculptures on the Gaza's beach, sending greetings and peace to Beirut.
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Delusional white man who grew up in New York thinks he’s indigenous to Lebanon.
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I don’t like to share the horrors, but I think everyone needs to see this.
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Sorry but you need to see what the U.S. and Israel are doing to the children of Gaza. And no, I won’t vote for anyone supporting this. How can you?.
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You insult our intelligence. You killed 500 of us in a single day you sociopathic mass murderer. No one believes you care about the people of Lebanon.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu:. "I have a message for the people of Lebanon:. Israel's war is not with you. It's with Hezbollah. For too long, Hezbollah has been using you as human shields. It placed rockets in your living rooms and missiles in your garage.
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It is not “self-defense” to bomb 5 countries at the same time. A 5 year old can tell you that.
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Never thought we'd be watching a holocaust live and there would be nobody to intervene. And we're supposed to condemn the people resisting their annihilation?.
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I grew up watching this guy justify atrocities against my native country. So this was very satisfying.
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Does she want to lose? Genuinely I don’t get it, it’s like she is trying to lose.
“The first, most tragic story is October 7th … women were horribly raped.”. – Presidential candidate Kamala Harris continues her campaign in Detroit, Michigan, home to the largest Arab American population in the U.S.
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Billionaire promoting a fascist coup in real time, what a world we live in.
The people of Venezuela want change!.
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They destroyed an entire apartment building in Beirut. This is terrorism.
BREAKING | The targeted building south of Beirut was completely destroyed. Hebrew media reported that a senior Hezbollah commander, Ibrahim Aqil, was the target.
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“Hamas-run agency”. You are complicit in an ongoing holocaust. Not sure how the editor who crafted this language sleeps at night.
At least 55 killed in new Israeli Gaza strikes, says Hamas-run agency
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8 years after Hillary Clinton lost to Trump, Kamala Harris managed to (probably) do it again by recycling Clinton's failed strategy of courting Republicans and out-hawking Trump amidst a Democratic-sponsored genocide she refused to budge on. The stupidity is almost unbelievable.
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The director of Al Shifa hospital in Gaza says everyone in the intensive care unit has died. Israeli forces are denying them access to the pharmacy. “The world has abandoned us.”. Per Al Jazeera.
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This reminds me of how white supremacists historically painted black and brown men as rapists to justify lynching them. Palestinian women are coming out of Israeli prisons saying they were threatened with sexual assault and worse. Meanwhile some of the most horrific claims made.
Rep. Pramila Jayapal on CNN on condemning Hamas's sexual violence: "I think we have to be balanced about bringing in the outrages against Palestinians.". Dana Bash replies, "You don't see Israeli soldiers raping Palestinian women."
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Watching armed indigenous people take their land back from their colonizers is something else.
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nuclear armed Israel at war with premature babies but want you to believe Israel is the victim.
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Arrest Netanyahu, free Palestine, hands off Lebanon.
NOW: BT's @RaniaKhalek speaks out about the US role in the genocide in Gaza and the bombing of Lebanon ahead of Netanyahu's visit to the UN. WATCH:
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I understand now just how racist some people are. If you see the images of babies chopped in pieces and bloodied from Israel’s bombs in Gaza and your immediate response is to make excuses for Israel rather than demand an immediate ceasefire, you are racist. You clearly do not.
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Women in Gaza had to undergo c-sections without anesthesia and then Israel killed their premature babies. Women in Gaza don’t have access to pads or food bc Israel cut it all off. ONLY PRO-GENOCIDE RACISTS BELIEVE YOUR DERANGED PROPAGANDA.
Happy New Year from the Israeli all-women tank unit. As women in the region and other places around the world are being oppressed, Israel stands out as a beacon of women empowerment. On October 7th they jumped into action with breathtaking bravery and valor, they protected
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Settlers are so crazy, they label you a terrorist if you try to stop them from stealing your land and killing your family.
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They’re carrying out a FINAL SOLUTION in Gaza. Out in the open. In real time. This is worse than Nazi Germany because the world is watching it unfold live, and Western leaders are justifying, funding and arming the slaughter. Regional leaders couldn’t care less. And the.
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“Delivers hope to Gaza” omg. The world hates you.
While the U.S. delivers hope to Gaza via airdrop, Houthis cause an environmental disaster in the Red Sea. #USAwithYemen 🇺🇸🇾🇪
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You’re a lying sociopath.
Hezbollah, unprovoked, started launching thousands of rockets at Israeli civilians after October 7. No other country would accept this. Every casualty in Lebanon is a direct fault of Hezbollah terrorists--not of Israel.
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All the members of Congress cheering Netanyahu right now will one day be remembered the way we remember those who cheered Hitler. Historians will not be kind.
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This man deserves the worst in life . Nicest thing I can say.
🇺🇸🇮🇱🇱🇧 US State Spokesman Matt Miller says Israeli military pressure on Lebanon "enables diplomacy". @tombateman: "Last week over 1000 people died, over a million people were displaced, and you were calling for restraint". US STATE SPOX: "We support the killing of Nasarallah, we
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My friends from south Lebanon have relatives trying to go north to escape Israel’s carpet bombing but they are stuck in traffic and surrounded by air strikes. This is criminal. Biden and Harris are supporting this insanity. Enough.
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Wow, it turns out I played a role in pushing Ta-Nehisi Coates to look more deeply into Palestine. I was the woman who yelled on the mic about Palestine and got shouted down at his event with Jeffrey Goldberg, it was at the Sixth & I synagogue in DC I think in 2014. That was
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Do not forget his words before Israel murdered him.
The Democratic Party and Biden are responsible for the Gaza genocide perpetrated by Israel.
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Everyone’s favorite folksy midwestern VP candidate is just as much a genocidal monster as the rest of our sociopathic leaders.
🇺🇸🇮🇷🇮🇱 Tim Walz says “Iran and their proxies” are the ones causing “disruptions throughout the region” and calls for “consequences” against Iran in the form of a preemptive strike
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Israel is not the victim. Israel just murdered over 100 Lebanese people in a few hours, like it was nothing, all while continuing its genocide in Gaza. It’s always about Israel’s security and Israel’s right to defend itself. What about us? . How many of us need to be murdered.
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Trump was awful, but these RICH liberals tweeting things like, "finally i can breathe again," what are you talking about? How were you impacted by his policies that benefited the rich? People who were actually affected will still be struggling bc our problems are SYSTEMIC.
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The invasion & occupation of Iraq was the biggest crime of this century. It killed a million people, was preceded by a 13-year long siege that killed half a million Iraqi babies & was led and/or supported by many of the same countries who are horrified by the invasion of Ukraine.
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The world is letting this fascist villain murder openly every single day and gloat about it. I feel sick.
BREAKING: Netanyahu says Israel is establishing a new military corridor across Gaza—“the second Philadelphi”—declaring that it is “now dividing the Strip.”. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu named it the Morag Corridor, after the former Israeli settlement between Rafah and Khan
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The way those in the crowd cheer and encourage Harris when she responds to anti-genocide protesters with “I’m speaking” is as offensive as her dismissive attitude. What is wrong with people?.
Protester: What about the genocide? . Kamala Harris: I’m speaking.
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My Lebanese friends snooping at Israeli social media find it amusing that israelis are in disbelief that a Hezbollah martyr is a handsome man who looks white with blue eyes
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Remember when Israel insisted it has every right to bomb a hospital and kill premature babies bc underneath it was a Hamas headquarters? . How come that claim disappeared? . No one even mentions Shifa anymore. What happened?.
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Yemen, the poorest country in the Middle East, is the only country in the world intervening against genocide. What’s everyone else’s excuse for sitting on their hands?.
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If you’re wondering how it’s possible Israelis can film themselves committing the most unbelievably depraved and heinous acts against Palestinians, the answer is simple. Western countries have allowed a genocidal society to go as far as it pleases without any consequences.
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Really proving my point here, thanks.
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They want to lose. I refuse to believe they’re this dumb.
Bill Clinton in Michigan: ."I understand why young Palestinian and Arab Americans in Michigan think too many people have died — I get that, but…". "Hamas makes sure that they're shielded by civilians, they'll force you to kill civilians, if you want to defend yourself."
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NYT says, “The death of Mr. Sinwar would raise hopes of an end to the conflict.”. They don’t get it. Israel’s genocidal project isn’t about this or that leader. It’s about stealing land and dominating the natives. This “conflict” (as NYT calls it) will NEVER end as long as.
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Really excited Biden is hiring an all star team of girl bosses to prevent universal healthcare and communicate to the press why his corporate pro war policies that make people miserable are super great. I might not be able to afford medicine but I feel empowered as a woman.
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Today is very hard. The last two weeks have been difficult. The last 12 months have been excruciating. The loss is huge. But the Israelis and Americans are wrong to take a victory lap. They are creating a region and a world full of people who hate them and will never stop.
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I just learned my friend’s father was killed in Israel’s destruction of 6 residential buildings in south Beirut to assassinate Hassan Nasrallah . And then I remembered how Kamala Harris called this mass murder of hundreds of people, including my lovely friend’s sweet father, “a.
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I’m still blown away that there are people who genuinely believe that the side debating whether it’s ok to rape Palestinian hostages are the good guys.
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People always wonder how the Holocaust happened. Why did people look away? How could they let that sort of industrialized genocidal slaughter take place? How could so many remain silent, even supportive? . Now we know how it happened. Gaza is showing us the answer to all of.
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The way Israelis are celebrating killing Palestinian children reminds me of what I read about lynching picnics in the Jim Crow American south. Israeli society is one massive lynch mob playing the victim. It’s especially frightening bc the Biden administration is.
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Imagine being this devoid of humanity, you sing while your government incinerates thousands across the region.
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“I’m not at all surprised by anything Emily said because she herself is a settler, so of course she feels entitled to pontificate about a region that I actually am indigenous to”. Just one of many gems 😊
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Israel used 2000-pound bunker buster bombs to flatten 6 buildings in south Beirut today. These are US-supplied bombs. And Biden and Harris just approved $8 billion more in military aid to continue these atrocities. This is hell.
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Be proud. I am proud. So so proud of my people. 80 years of colonialism and they have refused to submit. They are still fighting for their land. They want us to feel ashamed. They call us baby killers and rapists. These are lies. We know they are the baby killers, they are.
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An Israel supporter joking about blowing me up with a booby trapped explosive device.
Surprisingly Rania was not caught up in this operation today.
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I have received mostly an outpouring of love for standing up for Palestine on Piers Morgan. However the hate mail from the other side is so shockingly violent and racist, it’s worth sharing to shed more light on the genocidal atmosphere the Zionist project empowers. Here’s a
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We’re reaching a 1000/day murder rate in Gaza. The performative appeals by Western officials urging Israel to avoid harming civilians are a joke. Stop arming this terrorist state, it’s the only way to stop the genocide in Palestine.
BREAKING: More than 700 Palestinians have been killed in the Gaza Strip during the last 24 hours, according to the Director General of the Gov't Media Office in Gaza
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The whole world is watching the U.S. and you know what they see? . They see police who look like stormtroopers surrounding and arresting students protesting genocide. People in other countries, especially the global south, are aware how horrible and hypocritical the U.S. is,.
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Western media (with help from the UN) have reached the stage of the genocide where they accuse the desperate brown people being bombed and starved of “looting” Omg
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They hate us. The Democratic Party hates us. Their leadership supports our mass slaughter to steal our resources and when we protest they do this. They hate us. There is no changing this party.
🇺🇸🇵🇸JUST IN:. Kamala Harris snaps on Pro-Palestine protesters saying: “If you want Donald Trump to win then say that. Otherwise, I’m speaking.” . Then she had them escorted out of her Detroit rally.
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Listen to all those American accents.
The IDF really put this up on their Instagram. Unbelievable.
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Joe Biden and Kamala Harris are the butchers of my people.
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There is now a debate online about the offensiveness of Arabs who are put off by the Star of David. Those claiming that this attitude is based in bigotry are gaslighting all of us. A settler country has prominently displayed the Star of David on its flag, its fighter jets, its.
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Jamaal Bowman tells me he offered to go to Michigan for the Kamala Harris campaign to rally support for Democrats since he’s popular there. The Harris campaign ignored him and instead sent Ritchie Torres, Liz Cheney and then Bill Clinton to scold Arab Americans. Pretty
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The New York Times is reporting this filmed Zionist assault at UCLA as “violent clashes,” adding, “It was not immediately clear who was responsible for the violence.”. This is a lie. You are liars. I know you see the same footage we do. This is not journalism, it’s propaganda.
A group of Israel supporters have attacked anti-war protesters at UCLA university in Los Angeles in the US. The group was filmed carrying out assaults and using fireworks and pepper spray on demonstrators at the Gaza war protest encampment.
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Israel's goal is not the eradication of Hamas, their leadership knows that's not really possible. The objective is to depopulate northern Gaza and push everyone into Egypt. We know this because that's what their leaked intelligence plans say and that's exactly what they are.
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Now that Israeli media has written in English about Israel killing its own ppl on Oct 7, will mainstream western media finally tell the truth or will it continue to invoke lies to justify Israel’s genocide in Gaza?.
Haaretz confirms Israel used the Hannibal directive on Oct 7, inc. orders to attack any vehicle that drove towards Gaza, indiscriminately bomb the area with mortar shells & artillery & make it a “kill zone” & dispatch drones to attack the Re’im outpost close to the Nova festival
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Someday historians will look back at the extensive tunnel system underneath the death camp as a sophisticated, clever and effective military strategy in the face of annihilation by a European settler state. The people of Gaza were marked for elimination by the Zionist project a.
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Debra Messing is indigenous to Russia and Poland according to Wikipedia. Not the Middle East. Certainly not the Levant. This is delusional.
The Jewish people are indigenous to the land of Israel. We are from here, and everyone feels it as soon as they get here. #DebraMessing and I have been in Israel meeting with some of the most extraordinary people in the world. People whose lives have been destroyed following the
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The richest countries in the world tried to exterminate Gaza. They spent billions arming Israel to starve and annihilate a besieged people. THEY FAILED. Palestinians refused to submit, they fought and survived a live-streamed genocide. I’m in awe of their bravery and.
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These female soldiers belong to a military that is starving pregnant Palestinian women of food and water, forcing Palestinian women to have c-sections without anesthesia while killing their premature babies. It’s the equivalent of publishing a glowing profile of Germany’s female
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In some parts of Lebanon landlords and homeowners are getting phone calls from the Israelis that their houses will be bombed if they continue to shelter those displaced by Israel’s carpet bombing. As a result some in these neighborhoods are kicking them out. There are also.
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The polls look terrible for today. I don’t know what happened. I don’t understand how biden is in such a good position. He doesn’t have the enthusiasm, his record is terrible and he can’t form a coherent sentence. I just don’t get it.
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This is a lie. The New York Times is lying to cast doubt on the election of a socialist leader they do not like. Over 800 international election observers across Venezuela saw a transparent and efficient process, NOT “irregularities” as the NYT says. Even voters in opposition
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The world is really going to allow Gaza’s hospitals to run out of fuel? Israel is promising not to let any in. So babies in incubators are gonna die and we’re just supposed to watch our leaders applaud it and call it self defense?.
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The reopening of the front in Syria immediately after the Lebanon front was paused is not a coincidence. This isn’t about dictators and democracy, it never was. It’s about US empire trying to strangle a crucial supply route for resistance to it. Anyone denying that is.
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Trump is bombing Yemen to punish them for intervening against Israel’s genocide. He’s punishing students for protesting against Israel’s genocide. He’s destroying our constitutional right to free speech to protect Israel from criticism for its genocide. What won’t Trump do.
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Democrats hate us. I don’t know how else to interpret this.
Stuart Seldowitz was Deputy Director in the US State Department's Office of Israel and Palestinian Affairs from 1999 to 2003. He seems nice.
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Israel’s genocide in Gaza has forced children to create Instagram accounts in an effort to try to create interesting content to gain followers and donations to survive. They cook, dance, sing, show us their daily lives and try to be engaging with smiles and pleasant words while.
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AOC standing by the mass murderers of my people, this behavior is unforgivable.
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No tolerance for reporters who refer to entire areas in Lebanon as “Hezbollah strongholds.” . Literally you are reinforcing Israeli propaganda that seeks to turn entire residential civilian streets into legitimate military targets. Stop.
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The Democratic Party is just the Republican Party 10 years ago.
Former George W. Bush administration and campaign officials launch a new super PAC to support Joe Biden
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The Israeli government is in peak propaganda mode right now trying to frame violence between genocidal Israeli soccer hooligans and the locals they provoked as some sort of pogrom. They are determined to strip away any meaning of antisemitism or its history for psychotic.
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At times like this we need this reminder. Israel has never been more isolated, it’s unprecedented. Israel is going the way of apartheid South Africa & Rhodesia, two countries by the way that Israel was the last to support, even trying to get a nuclear weapon for South Africa.
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I’ve been canceled and deplatformed for supporting Palestine and opposing US wars so many times I lost count. I HATE cancel culture. I also hate that the people complaining the loudest have been involved in the canceling and act like they’re the biggest victims when they’re not.
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“Plantation owners should be able to attend a music festival next to a concentration camp in peace bc their lives are thousands of times more valuable than the people they are killing.”. That’s how I’m hearing it.
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Girl power with @AbbyMartin & @FranceskAlbs .✊🏽✊🏽✊🏽. Francesca just published a new groundbreaking report about Israel’s ongoing genocide in Palestine, which everyone should go read:.
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So you’re happy he’s dead but upset Trump did it? Solid progressive we’ve got here.
Soleimani was a murderer, responsible for the deaths of thousands, including hundreds of Americans. But this reckless move escalates the situation with Iran and increases the likelihood of more deaths and new Middle East conflict. Our priority must be to avoid another costly war.
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