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@sarahleah1

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Executive Director of DAWN @dawnmenaorg Formerly ED of MENA Division at Human Rights Watch

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Sarah Leah Whitson
7 months
The new name of the street in front of the Saudi consulate in #LosAngeles
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Said it before and saying it now: how Western governments treat pro-Palestine activists is the canary in the coal mine for how they will treat all activists in the future.
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Globe Eye News
7 months
🚨𝗝𝗨𝗦𝗧 𝗜𝗡: Heavy Clashes between Palestinian Supporters and France Police France uses teargas, water cannon on banned pro-Palestinian rally in Paris France orders ban on all pro-Palestinian protests #IsraelPalestineConflict l #Paris l #Hamas
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BREAKING: Multimillion dollar payments from ⁦⁦ @LIVGolfInv ⁩ , Reportedly 93% owned by MBS-Controlled Fund, to Trump Golf Resorts Raise Serious Questions about Conflict of Interest, Threats to National Security
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Thousands (yes thousands) of Palestinians have described how Israel fires at unarmed people who pose no threat but only when it happens to Israelis do people believe it. We wrote a report some years ago *specifically* on the topic of Israel shooting at Gazans waiving white flags.
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One Israeli hostage was waving a makeshift white flag and another called for help in Hebrew when they were shot dead by Israeli soldiers in Gaza - who mistook them fighters - according to the Israeli military official who briefed journalists. They were also reportedly shirtless.
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Ya know this is about the land more than anything, right? Christian Armenians who have held the Armenian Quarter of Jerusalem, present in Jerusalem since the 4th century, are facing constant Israeli harassment, attacks, and efforts to confiscate their land.
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Quds News Network
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#BREAKING | Israeli police and settlers are in the Armanian quarter now trying to confiscate Palestinian land claiming that they have permission by an Israeli court.
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Too little, too late, @IDF , for the hearing at the International Court of Justice this week! We have all the receipts, and now so does the court.
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Our war is against Hamas, not against the people of Gaza IDF Spokesperson explains the steps that we’re taking to help international organizations distribute humanitarian aid to civilians in Gaza.
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. @bbc presenter: why did the Houthis got involved when you are not located near Gaza? Al-Houthi: “So Biden and Netanyahu live in the same apartment? And the French president lives on the same floor? And the UK prime minister lives in the same building? Or are they thousands of…
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Germany bans pro-Palestine protests. UK bans display of Palestine flag. NY law firm fires student promised job for pro-Palestine comments. And now @Columbia University bans reporters from covering protests. This isn’t even a US war.
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Columbia university barring journalists from covering today's pro-Palestinian protest on campus claiming it is in order to maintain "a safe community and workplace". @columbia @columbiajourn
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Sarah Leah Whitson
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Israeli ambassador crying about violations of international law is really something.
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Ambassador Gilad Erdan גלעד ארדן
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. @antonioguterres Iran has violated the UN charter and has shown that it is a threat to global peace and security. Where is your voice?? Where is your condemnation?? Wake up!!!
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“Muslim leaders announce plans to actively campaign against Biden in all 50 states, guaranteeing Biden's loss in the upcoming 2024 election.”
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Let’s be perfectly clear: punishing the entire UNRWA organization for potential wrongdoing of a dozen employees is effectively collective punishment against Palestinians — and directly contravenes @CIJ_ICJ order to increase aid to them.
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Philippe Lazzarini
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UNRWA lifesaving assistance is about to end following countries decisions to cut their funding to the Agency. Our humanitarian operation, on which 2 million people depend as a lifeline in Gaza, is collapsing. I am shocked such decisions are taken based on alleged behavior of a…
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We’re shocked, shocked we tell you, that Israel is openly talking about resettling Palestinians outside of Gaza. Sure, they’ve said it in their plans, destroyed all the housing, shoved all Gazans to the border, but still we are shocked!
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Collapsing the distinction between civilians and combatants to target all of them equally is a war crime of the highest magnitude. It shows a deliberate intent to target civilians. And it will make civilians everywhere in the world less safe.
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S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y
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Israeli President says there are no innocent citizens in the Gaza Strip
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This is a major development. It’s basically an effort to break Israel’s siege on food and water, so directly confronting a core Israeli military strategy - and effectively rebuffing the US. Kudos to France and Jordan.
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Nader Hashemi
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France and Jordan teamed up to airdrop seven tonnes of aid to civilians and aid workers in Gaza, the French presidency has said. @sarahleah1 @mehdirhasan @annie_sparrow
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What's important here is not just that Biden is claiming Hamas bombed the Ahli hospital but that he wants the world to know that the US is on Israel's side. The timing and tone of this message will cost the US far more than it will help Biden in elections:…
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Warning civilians to flee -- particularly when they have absolutely no where to go -- does not absolve a party from complying with the ban on deliberately or indiscriminately targeting civilians. Israel has often used on these types of pretend warnings to justify massive…
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Genuinely the worst possible “advocate” for human rights in Iran
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Sarah Raviani
8 months
Israel's Ambassador to the United Nations, Gilad Erdan, held up a photo of #MahsaAmini during Ebrahim Raisi's speech at the #UNGA . More of this, please! 🇮🇱👏🏼
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I will never forget it.
@MuhammadSmiry
Muhammad Smiry 🇵🇸
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Not many will recognize this picture.
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It took @secblinken about 3 seconds to suspend @Unrwa aid based on mere allegations that 12 employees linked to Hamas attack, but despite concrete evidence that @IDF has indiscriminately & deliberately massacred tens of thousands of Palestinians - plausibly a genocide @CIJ_ICJ
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Subterfuge: Forcing resignation of university president for failing to condemn non-existent “calls for genocide” of Jews - all while an actual US-supported genocide of Palestinians underway - is ALL about silencing criticism of Israel, and we ALL know it.
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This @David_Cameron testimony, along with sidekick @PhilipRBarton , will stand as a relic of our time, taught in universities and schools, on how Western officials hemmed and hawed, bobbed and weaved, "couldn't recall every piece of paper put in front of them", forgot the laws of…
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Antonello Guerrera
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👀 Tense debate when Foreign Secretary Lord David Cameron and Sir Philip Barton faced questions on Gaza, water supply and the possible breach of international law by Israel during Cameron's evidence session in front of the Foreign Affairs Committee in Parliament today.
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Folks, unless you've got some hard facts (not more allegations) to support gruesome allegations of decapitated babies and mass rape --which Israeli army says it can't confirm confirm - please take a pause from asserting it has happened. Recall the allegations of mass rape in…
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BREAKING Good news for a change: confirming that #JamalKhashoggi son Salah and his family are finally out of Riyadh and on their way to US, travel ban lifted. Too bad Salah had to endure that cruel and bizarre greeting with MBS first.
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Did she *actually* say “civilians aren’t dying” @BBCWorld ?
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"Karim, you've had your say..." A BBC presenter cuts off a Palestinian describing the situation in Gaza.
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More US thuggery against a judicial body, as White House expands sanctions against the International Criminal Court. We LOVE the court when it goes after Africans, but HATE the court when it goes after Americans and Israelis. Shameful. via @WSJ
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"Kissinger personally “approved each of the 3,875 Cambodia bombing raids” between 1969 & 1970, according to a Pentagon report. The bombing campaign ultimately killed between 150,000 & a half-million Cambodian civilians, various estimates suggest."
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“An Israeli pilot revealed that the destruction of residential towers in #Gaza Strip was "a way to vent the army's frustration" in an interview w Israeli Channel (12) with pilots who participated in blowing up 9 residential towers in Gaza, inc one that housed media offices.
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It was American university students who finally forced the US government to end its support for apartheid South Africa (shamefully, the US was the last major government to join in sanctions on South Africa). I hope it will again be American students to force the US government…
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San Francisco Chronicle
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Students from UC Berkeley participate in a nationwide walkout calling for a cease fire and an end to Israeli occupation in Palestine on Wednesday. 🎥: @BronteWittpenn
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Hi Noam and Inbal - great that you want to help! can you please ask your bosses at the @IDF to open the #Gaza border so that cancer patients there can get urgently needed medical treatment? They and so many other Palestinians urgently need medical care but are blocked by #Israel
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Israel Defense Forces
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Noam and Inbal donated their hair to make wigs for cancer patients. What a beautiful act of kindness ❤
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Sarah Leah Whitson
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(1) You'll see a lot of these hoary claims of "human shields" in Gaza to justify Israel's deliberate and indiscriminate bombardment of civilians. They used the same line in the 2006 Lebanon war and multiple wars in Gaza. Don't fall for it.
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Mehdi Hasan
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Me: "You leveled a [Gaza] apartment building... you think that's in line with humanitarian law?" Israeli spokesperson: "Hamas is using the Palestinians as human shields..." Me: "Is your position that apartment buildings are fair game?" Watch the clip:
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Sarah Leah Whitson
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There’s this perverse need to label Hamas and its atrocities as “the worst”. But what’s the criteria? Numbers of children slaughtered? Babies left to die? Journalists targeted? Soldiers mocking victims and burning food before a starving population? Certainly as a quantitative…
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Fania Oz-Salzberger 🇮🇱🟣⚖️ פניה עוז-זלצברגר
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#Hamas released a new video, a collection of their previous footage of hostages alive, then dead, and of the weeping and screaming Yarden Bibas when told his family was murdered. And I need to get this off my chest: neither Netanyahu, nor his ministers and cronies - whom I detest…
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This is Ali. He was 9 years old when Blackwater contractors whom Trump pardoned today murdered him. No justice for Ali, but let's keep asking, "why do they hate us?"
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Ben Jacobs
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Trump also pardoned all four Blackwater contractors convicted of killing Iraqi civilians in the Nisour Square Massacre
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Sarah Leah Whitson
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Cowardly, baseless attack on free speech by @ChancellorCUNY - no Chancellor, criticizing Israel for its human rights abuses is not "hate speech", and it's despicable for you to lambast a student for doing that.
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Sarah Leah Whitson
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American. Political. Prisoner.
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Steven Donziger
2 years
BREAKING: After being forced from home 5 days ago and locked in a halfway house, I was just returned to my family. Photo at my building after a very Orwellian experience. Emotional but still not free. Tks to @Amnesty , @RepMcGovern , and the thousands who demanded my return.❤️
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Sarah Leah Whitson
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NAMES: "These 40 IDF commanders who have been responsible for planning, ordering, & executing Israel's indiscriminate bombardment, wanton destruction, & mass killing of civilians in Gaza should be prime suspects in any ICC investigation”
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Pentagon has now confirmed that Iran has commenced an attack on Israel responding to Israel's attack on Iran's embassy compound in Damascus; the Biden admin should exercise utmost restraint and avoid entangling us in this conflict -- which of course has been Israel's goal all…
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Sarah Leah Whitson
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Palestinians can’t flee to Egypt because the Sisi dictatorship collaborates with Israel to seal them inside the giant prison of Gaza.
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James Landis #Fella 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 🇨🇿
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@sarahleah1 You do know that one wall of the so-called 'open air prison' you call Gaza borders Egypt? Palestinians can easily flee into Egypt. Egypt will take them in. Right? Why lie that they have nowhere to go?
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Sarah Leah Whitson
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@SecBlinken But what will you do to disrupt the financing channels providing support to Israeli terrorism in Gaza? oh oops, that's us.
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The majority of Gaza is made up of children. There is nowhere for them to flee.
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Great to hear that Hadasa Karavanibozak, the woman who threw hot coffee at baby and man wearing a Palestinian scarf in @fortgreenepark #brooklyn has been arrested. Our city does not need such deranged hatred
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Shocking revelations that Israeli attack helicopters killed at least some of the rave concert revelers. Over one month later, we are still learning basic facts about who died during the October 7 Hamas attack, and who killed them.
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Sarah Leah Whitson
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Today’s mourners. Weeping. Crying. Suffering. Pray for them.
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@RepRashida We are with you 💯 percent @RepRashida
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Sarah Leah Whitson
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Asking Israel to "respect international law" and "protect civilians" is also a form of manipulation, propaganda, and fake news, deflecting from the fact that Israel has never done either and is certainly not doing so now. What political leaders should be saying is "stop bombing…
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Sarah Leah Whitson
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Good moment to refresh our recollection about lies that officials at highest levels tell in the fog of war - recalling Defense Secretary Colin Powell at the UN in 2003 lying about evidence of weapons of mass destruction Iraq...
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Sarah Leah Whitson
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“Oops”: @IDF admits Israeli sniper with telescopic lens “mistakenly” killed Shireen Abu Akleh shooting her in the tiny area beneath her helmet and above her bulletproof vest marked “PRESS” standing in a scrum of journalists.
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Sarah Leah Whitson
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Have there ever been more targeted killings of journalists in any war in human history? I can tell you I’ve never seen it before in all the Middle East wars I’ve covered since 1991…
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Rami Jarrah
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BREAKING: Al Jazeera journalist Wael Dahdouh, who's wife and children were killed in Oct, was just shot by Israeli forces and has been hospitalised. Another wounded journalist is in critical condition.
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Sarah Leah Whitson
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This is unbelievable. The @POTUS administration would rather discard the Geneva Conventions than criticize Israel.
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Bruno Maçães
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The US no longer recognises the Geneva Conventions. Only the rules-based order
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Sarah Leah Whitson
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Gross: Not only did the Biden administration veto UNSC's ceasefire resolution today, it also bypassed Congress to sell Israel 13,981 120mm High Explosive shells, ensuring Israel has the weapons to continue to massacre Palestinians, with maximum, indiscriminate, lethal effect.…
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While in short run this may result in a worse candidate winning-Trump-in long run there’s simply *no* *other* *way* to shift US policy on Israel than to show democrats that they will be punished for unconditional Israel support. A gamble of course, but politics is always a gamble
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Sarah Leah Whitson
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There you have it:
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Glenn Diesen
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Netanyahu: Investigating Israel's war crimes is "pure anti-semitism"
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Sarah Leah Whitson
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“The revelation that a fund controlled by Crown Prince MBS actually owns almost all of LIV Golf means that MBS has been paying Donald Trump unknown millions for the past two years, via their mutual corporate covers”
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Sarah Leah Whitson
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Shameful attack against South Africa, a fellow member state of the Genocide Convention, to punish them for seeking legal accountability.
@mailandguardian
Mail & Guardian
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BREAKING: US congress introduces bill to review relations with South Africa following ‘politically motivated’ ICJ case
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Sarah Leah Whitson
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BREAKING: IRAQI armed forces announce termination of US mission in the country, citing last straw - overnight drone assassination attack on a vehicle in the middle of traffic in a civilian neighborhood. Will US leave?
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What this means is that the National Security Minister Ben-Gvir has *ordered* Israeli police to stand down while paramilitary Israeli settler forces (armed with guns he has given them) rampage through the West Bank trying to push Palestinians out.
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Yehuda Shaul
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BREAKING Leaked IDF-Shin Bet memo: Israeli police are not enforcing the law on settlers in the West Bank under the instruction of National Security Minister Ben-Gvir.
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Netflix’s claim to support artistic freedom means nothing if it bows to demands of government officials who believe in no freedom for their citizens – not artistic, not political, not comedic.
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Sarah Leah Whitson
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BREAKING - #Egypt news says only democratically elected Pres #Morsy has died in prison after stroke. This is terrible but ENTIRELY predictable, given govt failure to allow him adequate medical care, much less family visits. @hrw was just finalizing a report on his health.
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Sarah Leah Whitson
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Pay attention folks. Israeli drone strikes in Nablus, a leading town/city in the West Bank. Hundreds killed these past few weeks in West Bank. No Hamas forces there….
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Hamdah Salhut
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NABLUS: Multiple casualties reported after an explosion in the Balata Refugee Camp. Locals say it was an Israeli drone strike.
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The US government has charged 6 governments with genocide, including most recently Myanmar for atrocities against Rohingya and China for Xinjiang. Certainly the case for Israeli genocide in Gaza is stronger and clearer.
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Prem Thakker
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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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Sarah Leah Whitson
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As an #American I feel GREAT about these women representing us in #Congress . Their election makes me proud to be an American. Our strength is and always has been our diversity, equality and freedom. Go @IlhanMN and go @RashidaTlaib
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🇮🇱 David Ha'ivri 🤠 دافيد هعفري
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Dear #American people, How do you feel about these #women representing you in #Congress ? Their faces and statements are all over the media. Is that good for #America ?
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Sarah Leah Whitson
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The Armenian Christian community of Jerusalem is under vicious attack in a brazen effort to overtake the lands of the Armenian Quarter there. Stand by while Israel conjures up some link to Hamas to justify this…
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Armenian Patriarchate Of Jerusalem
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Sarah Leah Whitson
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BREAKING: #Argentina prosecutor proceeds with case against MBS, asks judge to request information from #Yemen & #Saudi governments re alleged crimes, and asks Argentine MFA re MBS’s diplomatic status.
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Sarah Leah Whitson
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"The national security implications of payments from a grotesquely abusive foreign dictator to a president of the United States who provided extraordinary favors to him are as dangerous as they are shocking."
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Sarah Leah Whitson
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@SecBlinken Then why are we helping Israel bomb these mothers, fathers, sons, and daughters @SecBlinken ? Your aid offers are meaningless
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Sarah Leah Whitson
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Did you really think they’d stop with @UNRWA and @WCKitchen ?
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Ben Phillips
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Unicef asking that its aid trucks not be hit with live ammunition again.
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Sarah Leah Whitson
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"Given that Trump is also planning to run again for president, his business ties to Mohamed bin Salman are a national security emergency."
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Sarah Leah Whitson
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Just to be clear, Israel is *deliberately* targeting civilians as a matter of policy & practice. It does this by ignoring laws requiring targeting only of combatants, announcing instead it is targeting a legally undefined category of “terrorists” or “terrorist supporters”.
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Said Arikat
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My exchange with State Department Spokesman as he says “Israel does not intentionally kill Palestinians.”
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Sarah Leah Whitson
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If you're an American and haven't condemned the ongoing Israeli atrocities and war crimes in Gaza, paid for and made possible by the US government, I *don't* *want* *to* *hear* *even* *a* *murmur* about Russian atrocities, Chinese atrocities, or anywhere else you pretend to care…
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Sarah Leah Whitson
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If you’re a journalist or analyst or political leader or academic avoiding talking about what’s happening in Gaza now because you fear the repercussions, quit now. You’re worthless and will leave no record except an asterisk for your cowardice.
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Sarah Leah Whitson
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@MarioNawfal Mario none of this is “evidence” that demonstrated the hospital was being used for military purposes and constituted a threat to Israel justifying attack on hospital. Still awaiting for a shred of evidence that the hospital was a “command and control center”. (Oh and also they’ve…
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Sarah Leah Whitson
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Israel is literally starving the people of Gaza. But let’s talk about the Houthis instead.
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Samantha Power
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The Red Sea is a vital shipping lane for @USAID food assistance around the world. Right now, the attacks by the Houthis on maritime vessels are causing critical disruptions to 20 shipments carrying 5,468 MT of food – extending delivery of lifesaving aid by more than 20 days.
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While the Biden admin has been posturing its visit as a "bear hug" to temper worst of Israeli excesses, Blinken's all day pow-wow w Israeli war cabinet followed by Biden's today will eviscerate any remaining doubt that the US is actively taking part in Israel's assault on Gaza.
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Sarah Leah Whitson
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This is exactly how Israel softens up the field to normalize its war crimes. First it denies it bombed the hospital, then we spend weeks fighting those lies, then it just starts bombing all the other hospitals too, and doesn't even try to cover it up anymore.
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Read Let This Radicalize You
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Unbelievably sinister how stirring up debate over one hospital bombing has seemingly led to the West being silent on every Israeli airstrike on a hospital since.
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“Trump made no secret of endless favors he granted MBS & Saudi during his term in office, from his first state visit to the country, to vetoing legislation banning arms sales to the country, to protecting MBS by hiding the CIA's report concluding MBS ordered Khashoggi's murder”
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Sarah Leah Whitson
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Scathing @NYTimes editorial w bottom line recommendation -- NO more weapons to #Saudi : "Saudi Arabia and its allies seem to have little compunction about slaughtering children as long as more bombs can be bought, so it’s up to the enablers to call a halt."
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Sarah Leah Whitson
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@KhalilJeries Yalateef. I'm so sorry. I'm so ashamed of my own government's contribution to this heinous murder.
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Sarah Leah Whitson
7 months
500 American citizens in Gaza who are receiving NO help from the US government, while we're providing Americans in Israel with chartered planes to get out. Just like the "visa-free entry" scheme, seems that some US citizens are more equal than others.
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Sarah Leah Whitson
5 years
Multiple bodies of international law ban the use of starvation as a weapon of war. Under the Rome Statute, it’s a war crime. #iran #sanctions
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Newsweek
5 years
Mike Pompeo says Iran must listen to U.S. "if they want their people to eat"
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Sarah Leah Whitson
1 year
Today we commemorate the #ArmenianGenocide & 1.5M victims of Turkey's unacknowledged, unremedied crimes against the Armenian people. Today we also celebrate the survivors, like my grandfather, Apraham, and grandmother Sirarpi, whose endurance and will thrive in every Armenian.
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Sarah Leah Whitson
5 months
Televised "confessions" of prisoners of war or detainees is an appalling abuse of the laws of war. Art 13 of the Geneva Conventions explicitly prohibits "acts of violence or intimidation and against insults and public curiosity." "No form of coercion may be inflicted on…
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Mouin Rabbani
5 months
In this picture Yusif al-Mansi, former Gaza government minister, speaking in an Israeli prison in front of an Israeli flag, denounces Hamas, calls on Palestinians to overthrow it. It is exceptionally persuasive and subtle messaging. Should produce results by morning.
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Sarah Leah Whitson
6 months
Remember this ⁦ @nytimes ⁩ picture of 61 kids Israeli forces killed in 2021? Waiting for them to print the pictures of the 4,327 Gaza kids Israel has killed since Oct 9 — so far. It will no doubt take up the entire paper.
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Sarah Leah Whitson
6 months
This is an insane level of bullying and censorship by CAA. Not only has this woman lost her job for posting about Palestinian slaughter, she’s humiliatingly having to say she’s “spending time in her personal education process on the conflict”
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Sarah Leah Whitson
10 months
“What’s at stake isn’t merely the future of golfing, …but the drip, drip, drip acquisition of our country’s political, social, cultural, and economic assets by a ruthless dictatorship, headed by Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, or MBS.” My latest:
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Sarah Leah Whitson
6 months
Despicable that this cowardly #Brooklyn woman has assaulted a baby and his father in our very own Fort Greene park playground. Anti-Palestinian, anti-Islamic, anti-Arab hate is what's really out of control in our city.
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Sarah Leah Whitson
19 days
A @usaid employee of 20 years apparently gunned down by Israeli police in Jaffa.
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John Hudson
19 days
New: An internal memo from Samantha Power on the killing of a USAID official in Israel (a 20 year veteran): “Colleagues - It is with immense sadness that I share the devastating news that Jacob Toukhy, a beloved member of our USAID/West Bank and Gaza Mission, was killed near…
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Sarah Leah Whitson
5 months
Here’s the @hrw report from 2009 on killings of Gazans waving white flags. Literally every single Israeli policy we have criticized for past 20 years as a violation of international humanitarian law is many magnitudes worse today. This is what impunity begets.…
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Sarah Leah Whitson
8 months
Why is @ElonMusk silent on Saudi man sentenced to DEATH for his Tweets by X’s second largest owner? Cc: ⁦ @mtaibbi ⁩ ⁦⁦ @lhfang
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Sarah Leah Whitson
10 months
We too will remember all those who stood in opposition to Israeli apartheid -- and all the cowards like @NikkiHaley who shilled to support it.
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Nikki Haley
10 months
We’re taking names. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Rashida Tlaib Jamaal Bowman Summer Lee Ilhan Omar Cori Bush Andre Carson Delia Ramirez Ayanna Pressley These 9 members of Congress believe Israel is racist. We will remember this vote.
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Sarah Leah Whitson
4 years
Imagine what #Palestinians worshipers have to endure, the decades of self-control they must exercise, if #Macron comes close to losing his temper with just a few minutes of #Israel police harassment
@NTarnopolsky
Noga Tarnopolsky נגה טרנופולסקי نوغا ترنوبولسكي💙
4 years
French President Emmanuel Macron gets testy with Israeli police in the church of Sainte Anne, Old City of Jerusalem.
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Sarah Leah Whitson
5 years
BREAKING - #Saudi Arabia promises to allow women to travel abroad without a male guardian’s permission. You know who did this? Saudi women activists, relentlessly persecuted and many still detained. KUDOS to them! #iammyownguardian via @WSJ
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Sarah Leah Whitson
6 months
This “humanitarian aid” is a cruel hoax to cover for the fact that the US is facilitating Israeli war crimes and blocking even a humanitarian pause at the UN Security Council.
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The White House
6 months
The Biden-Harris Administration is working every day to increase the flow of humanitarian assistance to meet the needs of civilians in Gaza. Here’s an update from National Security Council Coordinator for Strategic Communications John Kirby.
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Sarah Leah Whitson
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Cowards at @Columbia would rather shut down the entire university & deprive every student of a meaningful education rather than allow protests against Israeli atrocities to continue. This is how it works: bye bye free speech, bye bye international justice -- all that goes out the…
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Collin Rugg
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JUST IN: Columbia University has announced classes will be remote for the rest of the year as anti-Israel protests rock the school. There are now growing calls for tuition refunds for the $70k a year college now that it has practically turned into an online school. "It’s vital…
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Sarah Leah Whitson
10 months
Deliberate attacks on hospitals are war crimes - please take note @IntlCrimCourt Prosecutor Khan
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MSF International
10 months
🔴BREAKING Our teams are facing tear gas in Jenin: “Israeli forces fired tear gas several times inside the Khalil Suleiman hospital. This is unacceptable. The Emergency Room is unusable right now, it's completely filled with smoke, as is the rest of the hospital...
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Sarah Leah Whitson
1 year
“The absence of strong conflict of interest laws has created a dangerous & expanding threat to US national security, as former U.S. officials – even a former president – increasingly race to monetize their work for our government into lucrative contracts with foreign governments”
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Sarah Leah Whitson
1 year
The real task for Congress is to end the terrible incentives that the absence of robust conflict of interest laws have created, allowing rich tyrants to buy even American presidents.
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Sarah Leah Whitson
6 months
What “action” @BernieSanders ? You still haven’t called for a ceasefire. You haven’t called for an end to military and logistical support. You haven’t called for sanctions. Why?
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Sarah Leah Whitson
6 months
is this the Israeli version of ISIS?
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Michael Tracey
6 months
Netanyahu declaring invasion: "You must remember what Amalek has done to you, says our Holy Bible" 1 Samuel 15:3 "Now go and smite Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and spare them not; but slay both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass"
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Sarah Leah Whitson
3 years
"The Biden administration should move to apply the exact same Magnitsky Act sanctions on MBS – including a travel ban and freeze of his assets – that the US applied to his 17 accomplices for the murder of #JamalKhashoggi ."
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