Mai El-Sadany
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There is nothing better on the internet today than Sofiane Boufal celebrating today's win with his mother. 🇲🇦❤️
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Absolutely heartshattering.
May the memory of 25 year old Aaron Bushnell be a blessing. May his sacrifice be a call to action for those with the ability to do something and a haunting reminder for those who refuse to change course.
I’ve just received word that Aaron Bushnell succumbed to his injuries.
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Gutted. Thaer al-Rahal was one of 750 migrants who boarded a trawler & ended up in one of the Mediterranean's deadliest shipwrecks. He needed to get to Europe to earn money to save his 4 yr old Khalid, who has leukemia & needs a bone marrow transplant. Thaer did not survive. 💔
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This is Damian Soból, a Polish national who was working with
@WCKitchen
to prepare & deliver food to Palestinians starving in Gaza.
Today he was killed after Israeli strikes targeted a car that he & other fellow aid workers were riding in.
Remember his name. Remember his face.
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If you're feeling a sense of deja vu when reading your timeline right now, you're not crazy.
The IDF is once again besieging and attacking the al-Shifa hospital complex.
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Whether you are a lawyer or not, I recommend skimming through the 84 pg
@CIJ_ICJ
application brought by South Africa against Israel for genocide. It strings together key trends we've been witnessing for 84 days. It has a strong section on genocidal intent among Israeli officials.
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A Palestinian Christian family has been erased from the civil registry.
When advocates say that Palestinian Christians in Gaza are at risk of elimination due to Israel's aggression, they are not exaggerating.
Shukri Al Souri has passed away at the Holy Family Church in Gaza, where conditions are worsening.
He was grieving the loss of his brothers & up to 10 other family members in the Israeli bombing of St. Porphyrius.
The Souri family has been erased from the civil registry ✝️🇵🇸
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Today marks 4 yrs since the world lost Anthony Bourdain. Thinking of the way he thoughtfully & humbly storytold.
"I urge you to travel–as far and as widely as possible. Sleep on floors if you have to. Find out how other people live & eat & cook. Learn from them–wherever you go."
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International law isn't something you pick and choose from. It prohibits hostage-taking, indiscriminate killing, the targeting of civilians, and collective punishment. It forbids the crime of apartheid. It has deemed this prolonged occupation and the blockade of Gaza illegal.
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DMV Friends: 2,500 Afghans are expected to arrive and be resettled in the next few weeks. Lutheran Social Services (National Capital Area) has put out a call for those willing to assist in resettlement with their time, donations, and efforts.
More here:
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Today, September 22, marks four years since Egyptian activist Sarah Hegazi raised the rainbow flag while attending a
@mashrou3leila
concert—an act for which she was detained, assaulted, fired from her job, made to live in exile, and ultimately brought to suicide. RIP dear Sarah.
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Yesterday marked 6 years since the late feminist queer activist Sarah Hegazi raised the rainbow flag at a Mashrou' Leila concert in a moment of joy so threatening to Egyptian authorities that they arrested, tortured, prosecuted her, sent her to exile.
Sarah in my heart today. 🌈
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I've begun to think of resilience less as a celebration of a person surviving the unthinkable, but rather, a damning indictment of this world that requires it.
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I fear we are in the midst of one of those historical, collective moments of moral bankruptcy that we will never be able to walk back.
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This is defamatory, disturbing, dehumanizing content and it's egregious
@washingtonpost
publishes it in the middle of a "plausible genocide."
@UNRWA
is providing life-saving assistance at a time when Israel is depriving civilians of it despite a binding
@CIJ_ICJ
order not to.
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This is Zomi Frankcom (
@nozofro
), an Australian national who was working with
@WCKitchen
to deliver food to Palestinians experiencing starvation in Gaza.
Today, Israeli strikes targeted a car she & other aid workers were in, killing her.
Remember her name. Remember her smile.
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For years, Twitter and other social media have claimed protections as "platforms" rather than "publishers"--a designation which carries a whole host of other liabilities. Does Musk not know this?
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Today, April 3, Palestinian-American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh would have turned 52 years old.
Instead, she was taken from her family, loved ones, and the world; and those who killed her and attacked her funeral have not yet been held to account.
#JusticeForShireen
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This is 25 year old Aaron Bushnell, the active duty member of the US Air Force who set himself on fire today outside of the Israeli embassy seconds after saying: "I will no longer be complicit in genocide."
Praying for his recovery and holding his loved ones in my heart tonight.
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Today marks 2 yrs since feminist & queer activist Sarah Hegazi left us & left this world.
For raising a rainbow flag, Sarah was arrested & assaulted by Egyptian authorities, fired from her job, made to live in exile apart from her loved ones.
Remembering her beautiful soul 🌈
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A damning but powerful piece by
@_Brendan01_
:
"I cannot imagine a world where firefighters would look at a burning building and refuse to rescue the people inside purely because of their migration status – but that is the world we are living in."
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A landlord, reportedly angry at what he read in the news, knocked on the door of his Muslim Palestinian tenants. When Hanaan Shahin answered, he tried to choke her, attack her with a knife, and yelled: "you Muslims must die!" When she went to call 911, he killed her 6 yr old son.
a landlord in Chicago just murdered a Palestinian-American child. he was yelling "you Muslims must die."
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I keep remembering that tomorrow
@JoeBiden
will repeal the Muslim Ban, and then I smile real big to myself and think what it must feel to be the partner, parent, child, or loved one for whom it will become possible once again to reunite and be with those dear to their hearts.
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When we look back at this moment in history, let the role of the press be remembered. And let it be known that
@WSJ
's Editorial Board justified and excused war crimes, crimes against humanity, and, very possibly, genocide.
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Incredibly shameful from the
@WhiteHouse
. The 84 pg application submitted by South Africa to
@CIJ_ICJ
is well-sourced, cites to facts verified by the top outlets and journalists, and highlights trends, not one-off incidents.
"Completely without any basis in fact" is so far off.
White House National Security Council spokesman John Kirby calls South Africa’s 84-page suit accusing Israel of genocide “meritless, counterproductive, and completely without any basis in fact whatsoever.”
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This is Malak Sulaiman. She was arrested when she was 16 years old in 2016 in Jerusalem and today, she returns to her mother.
لحظة الإفراج عن الأسيرة المقدسية ملك سليمان ووصولها لمنزلها في القدس
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"I have no notion if Palestinians are telling the truth about how many people are killed." -
@POTUS
For 18 days, we have seen authenticated videos + heard devastating testimonies of Gaza's destruction. For Biden to 2nd-guess in this way is an unforgivable erasure of human life.
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I cannot stop watching: Arab grandmas try Trader Joe's zaatar.
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If
@POTUS
is "disappointed in [himself]" for discounting Palestinian lives which he did in public and on more than one occasion, then he owes the American people who he serves and the Palestinian people who he dehumanized a public apology, not one behind closed doors to 5 people.
Joe Biden reported in Washington Post allegedly commenting on his own questioning of the Gaza death toll: “I am disappointed with myself “.
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⚖️I'm not sure where the lawyers at
@StateDept
have gone, but this statement is not an accurate reading of the
@CIJ_ICJ
case or what provisional measures are.
The ICJ made no determination that would protect Israel's "right to take action." In fact, quite the opposite. (1)
New: State Dept responds to
#ICJ
's ruling:
It is "consistent with our view that Israel has the right to take action to ensure the terrorist attacks of Oct. 7 cannot be repeated, in accordance with international law," a spokesperson says.
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Remembering the beautiful soul, the late Sarah Hegazi, who left this world one year ago today.
Sarah had been detained, assaulted, fired from her job, made to live in exile--all because Egyptian authorities targeted her for raising a rainbow flag at a
@mashrou3leila
concert. 🌈
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Jordan has become 1 of the world's 1st countries to start COVID-19 vaccinations for refugees, setting an example that should be replicated globally.
Of 78 countries developing national COVID-19 vaccination strategies, 39 have committed to include refugees
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Today marks 3 years since feminist & queer activist Sarah Hegazi left us & left this world.
For raising a rainbow flag, she was arrested & assaulted by Egyptian authorities, fired from her job, and made to live in exile apart from her loved ones.
Remembering her gentle soul 🌈
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Today, I was reminded of the words of the late Anthony Bourdain which unfortunately ring so very true today.
“The world has visited many terrible things on the Palestinian people, none more shameful than robbing them of their basic humanity.”
📷 Tammy Green
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And at least 90 Afghan men, women, and children.
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This is Saif Essam Abu Taha, the young Palestinian translator and driver who was killed today by Israeli strikes which targeted the car carrying aid workers affiliated with
@WCKitchen
.
Remember his name. Remember his photo.
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🌈 For raising a rainbow flag, Sarah Hegazi was arrested, tortured, fired from her job, and made to leave her loved ones for a life in exile.
In the time since she left this world, more and more advocates from MENA have similarly found themselves in exile.
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In the midst of all this heartbreak in Beirut, seeing a number of posts by beautiful souls willing to open their homes to those who have been affected by the explosion today.
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For Israel to cut electricity to Gaza is an act of collective punishment and a violation of international law.
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If you ask me to produce a 📷 that encapsulates the failure of the intl community, I would not be able to produce a more poignant one.
Bashar al-Assad & his family walk through Aleppo's streets casually referring to destruction as if they were not the cause of this destruction.
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"Some of the people on the trawler were escaping war. Many were family breadwinners, putting their own lives on the line to help others back home. Some were children."
@leloveluck
, Elinda Labropoulou,
@HebaFarooq
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@siobhan_ogrady
,
@rick_n
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@washingtonpost
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🇲🇦 Friends looking to support those impacted by the Morocco earthquake can donate to
@FoodbankMaroc
.
It's been recommended by friends in-country, has a history of mobilizing in emergencies including earthquakes and floods, and is already to work now:
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You cannot begin to understand where we are today without understanding what has become normalized over the years: a systemic denial of justice, an ongoing erasure of identity and existence, and a hypocrisy in what is condemned and what is greenlit.
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.
@LIRSorg
is looking for volunteers in the Seattle/Tacoma, DMV, Houston, and Fort Worth areas to support resettled Afghan newcomers with airport pick-ups, apartment set-ups, or meals.
More details here:
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South Africa's
@CIJ_ICJ
application against Israel also highlights unique positionalities and impacts some may have missed, whether the elimination of cultural leaders and local caretakers of Gaza's heritage or the targeting of Christians seeking safety in church compounds.
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The war will end.
The leaders will shake hands.
The old woman will keep waiting for her martyred son.
That girl will wait for her beloved husband.
And those children will wait for their hero father.
I don’t know who sold our homeland
But I saw who paid the price.
-Mahmoud Darwish
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In Arabic we have a phrase: يقتل القتيل ويمشي في جنازته. (He kills the man and walks in his funeral).
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Today, October 1st, would have been Sarah Hegazi's 34th birthday.
Thinking of those from whom she was taken and those whose lives she impacted during her short time on this earth and the years since.
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DeJoy who is THE POSTMASTER GENERAL says he doesn't know about the email that Kevin Couch sent asking all maintenance managers around the country not to reconnect or reinstall any mail sorting machines.
I am a regular citizen and I know about this email.
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If you're in the California East Bay, at least 60 new Afghan refugees will be resettled by the end of the month.
@JFCSEastBay
is coordinating volunteer and donation efforts here:
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If you read mainstream news and official statements on Gaza, you'd think that hospitals just spontaneously combust, that journalists just drop dead, that the electricity just turns off and the water just runs out, and that violence just happens.
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Today, May 1, marks one year since Egyptian photographer, filmmaker, and director Shady Habash died in pretrial detention in Egyptian custody, where he had been kept illegally and beyond the two-year maximum.
He should be alive, free, and making beautiful art today. RIP Shady.
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If you've watched the video of the crash in Egypt, you've seen a man running around to put out fires caught on individuals' bodies
His name is Walid (وليد مُرضي)
In the midst of a harrowing scene, he was running towards danger to save others
📷
@alyelbassel
@HossamHamouda4
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Prior to Gaza, Damian Soból worked with
@WCKitchen
in a number of sites, from serving civilians during the war in Ukraine to feeding displaced citizens following the earthquakes in Turkey and Morocco.
His Instagram stories give you a sense of who he was:
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On the Global Day of Solidarity with Egypt's Political Prisoners, I'm wearing white, the same color that thousands of those detained in Egypt wear behind bars.
I join those at
#COP27
and around the world to say
#FreeAlaa
,
#FreeBaqer
,
#FreeOxygen
,
#FreeThemAll
.
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In remarks, Pope Francis (
@Pontifex
) condemns the killing of two Christian women, Nahida Khalil Anton and Samar Kamal Anton, by an IDF sniper, referring to what is happening as "terrorism." They had been seeking shelter in the Holy Family Parish in Gaza
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Today, January 24, marks 7 years since Shaimaa al-Sabbagh went out into the streets to peacefully commemorate the anniversary of Egypt's January 25 revolution. She was shot to death by police in close range, leaving behind a young son.
Rest in peace and power, beautiful soul.
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Looking through photos of Sarah Hegazi & reminded that she was an advocate for social justice in all of its forms. She spoke out against the targeting of protesters in Lebanon, medical negligence in Egypt's jails, atrocities in Syria, and so much more.
May she rest in power.
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"Bread, freedom, and social justice."
Chants from a march in solidarity with Palestinians heading to Tahrir Square in Cairo, Egypt.
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So many people are making the same excellent points on Palestine.
Repeat after me: I will not amplify or provide a platform to someone who says the right stuff on Palestine but erases and denies the atrocities experienced by Syrians, Uyghurs, or anyone else.
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This AM, I was on a bus & a passenger was yelling obscenities. At some point, he directed his attn to me & began screaming about Islamic terrorism & making really ugly comments. Grateful to the passenger I didn't know who came, sat by me, and made sure I was ok when I walked off.
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Six years ago (January 24, 2015) Shaimaa al-Sabbagh went out into the street to peacefully commemorate the anniversary of Egypt's January 25 revolution. She was shot to death by police in close range.
Rest in peace and power, beautiful soul.
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🇪🇸 Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez: "The time has come for the international community to once and for all recognize the State of Palestine. It is something that many EU countries believe we have to do jointly, but if this is not the case, Spain will adopt its own decision."
Pedro Sánchez: "Ha llegado el momento para la comunidad internacional de reconocer de una vez el Estado de Palestina. Es algo que numerosos países de la UE creemos que tenemos que hacer de forma conjunta, pero si este no es el caso, España adoptará su propia decisión"
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"Our freedom struggle is not for a state but for belonging to the land, to remain on it, to keep our homes, to resist erasure," write
@4noura
and
@MariamBarghouti
for
@PostOpinions
#SaveSheikhJarrah
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The unchecked impunity that allowed Israel to target one hospital after the next has now allowed Israel to come back and target the same hospital for a second time.
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+5k pregnant women will give birth in Gaza this month w/o adequate care: Where are the women's rights orgs? Christian community is at risk of extinction: Where are the religious rights orgs? People w/ disabilities are facing disproportionate harm: Where are the disability orgs?
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As of November 12, there were 600-650 patients, 200-500 health workers, and 1,500 displaced persons at Al-Shifa Hospital.
BREAKING: The Israeli military have now officially informed the ministry of health that it will raid Al Shifa Hospital within minutes. There is a state of panic and chaos inside according to the ministry’s spokesperson.
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In DC, mourners gather outside of the Israeli embassy in the very location where 25 year old Aaron Bushnell set himself on fire yesterday in protest against Israel's war on Gaza.
Vigil attendees leave him and loved ones messages of love, solidarity, pain, heartbreak on canvas.
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Yesterday, October 1st would have been Sarah Hegazi's 32nd birthday.
Thinking of her, her loved ones, and those whose lives she touched--today, and always.
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BIG NEWS!! 83 UN member states vote in favor of UNGA resolution to establish an Independent Institution on Missing Persons in the Syrian Arab Republic to uncover the fate of Syria's missing & disappeared.
A HUGE success impossible w/o Syrian family & victim-led organizations.
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Eight years ago today, on February 22, 2012, the Assad regime assassinated American journalist Marie Colvin & French photographer Rémi Ochlik in a targeted attack in Homs, Syria.
They were, at the time, working to share the stories of Syrian civilians living under siege in Homs.
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As we commemorate
#Pride
, heartshattering to learn the beautiful soul Sarah Hegazi has left us.
Sarah had been detained, assaulted, fired from her job, made to live in exile--all because Egyptian authorities accused her of raising the rainbow flag at a
@mashrou3leila
concert.
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Rest in peace, beautiful 10 year old Maggie Momen who succumbed to her wounds yday & became 27th victim of Sunday's church bombing.
#Egypt
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Today, August 21, would have been the birthday of Egyptian photographer, filmmaker & director Shady Habash who died in pretrial detention, where he had been kept illegally and beyond the two-year maximum.
He should been celebrating with his loved ones--free and certainly alive.
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Serious question: Is there no one in the Admin talking to POTUS about the optics of embracing & laughing with authoritarian leaders?
If only for the fact that these photos entirely undo the impact of any firmer language by
@StateDept
on democracy and justice.
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دعم نساء فلسطين والسودان مش جريمة.
Solidarity with the women of Palestine and Sudan is not a crime.
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Today, young Egyptian photographer, filmmaker, and director Shady Habash passed away in prison apart from his loved ones.
Shady had been arrested on March 1, 2018, just days after the release of the song Balaha--which he did post-production for.
Heartshattering.
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Imagine taking an abandoned baby in and raising him as your own for ~4 yrs only to have him be taken away by the state & placed into an orphanage.
Today, an Egyptian crt decided baby Shenouda is better off in state custody than with the loving family that raised him. Shameful.
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Six yrs ago today, on February 10, 2015, three young Muslims--23 yr old Deah Barakat, 21 yr old Yusor Abu-Salha, and 19 yr old Razan Abu-Salha--were shot to death in their home, in a hate crime that came to be known as the Chapel Hill Shooting. Thinking of their loved ones today.
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The image of the UN Security Council members giving lofty speeches with words like "restraint" and "deescalation" while Putin declares war is a juxtaposition that will be hard to forget.
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March 15, 2011.
Ten years since Syrians peacefully took to the streets to demand better only to be met by the brutality of a genocidal regime, proxy wars, and an international community that failed to live up to the promise of "never again."
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@UNRWA
workers of 33k globally (13k in Gaza) face serious allegations. UNRWA has taken IMMEDIATE action to terminate them + open transparent investigation. For
@washingtonpost
to publish this after UNRWA's prompt response raises serious questions about this outlet's ethics.
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A 16 yr old Muslim girl was taking the subway in NYC. A man sat next to her, said: "You’re a terrorist, you don’t belong here," and pulled on her hijab.
What you say online matters, how journos cover the story matters, how policymakers act matters.
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War criminal Bashar al-Assad who used many of the tactics Israel is using on Gaza on his own people--white phosphorous bombs; targeting of hospitals, churches, schools, mosques; forced displacement and ethnic cleansing--is heading to Saudi Arabia for the Arab Summit on Gaza.
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As Saudi Arabia appoints its 1st female ambassador, remember that it does so while continuing to detain & torture female activists whose only crime was to fight for a country that respected their equality. Women like Loujain Alhathloul, Eman Alnafjan, Aziza Alyousef, Samar Badawi
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Solidarity from Idlib.
Syrian artists Aziz Asmar and Anis Hamdoun have painted a memorial to George Floyd on the remainder of a destroyed wall in Binnish, Idlib (Syria's northwest).
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This is 34 yr old Baraa Odeh who works for
@giz_gmbh
and whose husband is a German national.
While returning home to Ramallah from a work trip, Israeli border guards detained her. She's been sentenced to 3 months in administrative detention without charge & beaten in custody.
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Good morning to everyone except Tom Friedman, who opens his piece on the one week anniversary of the
#BeirutBlast
saying that the explosion reminded him of a dinner party, and then goes onto to litter the article with tropes and fails to mention victims and/or the human impact.
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This is 14 yr old Sayyad Milne, a 10th grader at Cashmere High School. He loved playing football.
Sayyad was gunned down while at Friday prayers this week.
His father says "I remember him as my baby who i nearly lost when he was born."
#NewZealandTerroristAttack
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Palestinian civilians in Gaza have nowhere to go. Gaza has been under blockade by land, air, and sea for 17 years.
Netanyahu is threatening illegal collective punishment.
BREAKING: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called on Palestinian civilians in Gaza to “leave now” because the Israeli military is going to “turn all Hamas hiding places into rubble”
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«لم اندم ابداً على الثورة و على مشاركتي فيها، وهى اجمل واطهر وانبل حدث فى حياتى، وليس ذنبنا اننا قمنا بها وسط انتهازيين وجهال ومعدومى الوعي»
- محمد يسري سلامة
#jan25
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March 15.
Twelve years since Syrians took to the streets to demand freedom, only to be faced with a brutal regime willing to kill hundreds of thousands to remain in power and an intl community unwilling to take action in the face of mass atrocity and humanitarian crisis.
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@LaunchGood
Thank you for that. I am not in touch myself, but I have written to those who may be and I promise that if there is a verified way to do so and it's wanted by the family, I will get back in touch.
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