Tariq Ra’ouf
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Tomorrow my dad testifies against the PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES for being complicit in a genocide that killed several of my family members.
I am so proud.
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Christmas cheer while the birthplace of Christ is getting bombed by a bunch of racists feels absolutely disgusting this year.
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👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
We are going to inconvenience every single person who doesn’t give a fuck until they give a fuck. That’s how this goes.
BREAKING: on northbound I-5 has slowed to a crawl as activists announced a blockade in protest of Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza
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I'm jealous of people who are able to ignore the news. I am falling apart with every headline.
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IT 👏🏽 WAS 👏🏽 NEVER 👏🏽ABOUT 👏🏽THE 👏🏽HOSTAGES👏🏽
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Abdul Rahman Maher Herzallah, my second cousin, was killed earlier this week by Israeli forces when trying to get water for his family. He was only 20, and my cousin Tala said they were too scared to get his body because they didn’t want to be shot.
For getting water. 💔 1/5
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May 2024 be the biggest year for the Palestinian liberation movement since 1948. Inshallah.
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Hey, Irish folks? We fucking love you.
Signed,
Palestinians
🇵🇸🫶🏽🇮🇪
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The universe is throwing me for a loop. I just found this inside one of my favorite childhood picture books.
This was taken the day my mother’s house in Ramallah was destroyed by the IDF in 1967.
Of all the times of my life to discover this photo… I am just in awe.
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Baba just casually dropping the fact he’s on a panel with Angela Davis?!?! OKAY DAD, GO OFF!!
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A reminder for those who need it: Gaza isn’t a modern city/prison recently created to house Palestinian refugees.
It is an ANCIENT, historical place that dates back thousands of years. It is intrinsic to human history, dating to the Bronze Age.
And it’s more than a war zone.
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This morning I found out another of my cousins was shot and killed by the IOF. This marks the 8th family member I have lost in Gaza.
Mazen Maher Herzallah, was shot and killed by the IOF when he and his brother and father went to check on their house. His brother and father…
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Generations of Palestinian beauty.
My grandma lived through the Nakba, and forced to leave her village, Lifta. My mother lived through the 67 war, and left Ramallah.
Today, they watch from the heavens as we go through another tragedy. But I carry their resilience with me.
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This is the sixth member of my family to die from the bombardments in Gaza. Six family members. In one month. We lost Abdul Rahman’s brother, Majd, last month.
For every day we don’t call for a ceasefire, the chances of that number increasing only rises. 2/5
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Recently, I was discriminated against at my workplace by an Isra*li couple. They had a problem with my 🇵🇸 pin, & demanded my manager force me to remove it in front of them.
After a call with legal and HR, I was told that wearing that pin was an act of “political solicitation.”
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You know why Israel targets writers? Because our words have more power than their bombs.
I am heartbroken to share the news that We Are Not Numbers’ writer Mohammed Hamo has been killed by Israel.
This is the fourth writer we lose since the 7th of Oct.
Other writers have also gone missing.
Many of our writers also lost many family members.
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I need the world to do the level of Kate Middleton investigation shit to Israel, ffs.
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But this didn’t start last month. Abdul Rahman and Majd’s brother, Mohammad, was killed by Israel’s attack on Gaza in 2009.
Which means my uncle has lost three sons in this ongoing attack on Palestinian civilians. This has always been about killing as many of us as possible. 3/5
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For fucks sake, they even steal tweets. 🤮
What a bunch of unoriginal airheads.
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We need a ceasefire, we need an end to this ongoing violence, and we need an end to Israeli occupation. /end
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I am so thrilled to share the news that my family is one of 7 who have filed a class-action lawsuit against the US government for their role in perpetuating a genocide.
We will not let this racist behavior go unchallenged any longer.
BREAKING: Palestinians are suing
@POTUS
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@SecBlinken
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@SecDef
to stop U.S. support for Israel’s unfolding genocide, asking a U.S. Court to enforce the most basic & important legal—and moral—obligation in the world – preventing genocide.
Read more:
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I haven’t heard from Tala since yesterday at 2am. I have no idea if she’s safe, or if she has also been killed.
This experience has been so draining — being filled with joy when I get a reply and then immediately feeling like dread when messages don’t get delivered. 4/5
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My baba sent me this just because “it’s Friday!” 🥹
He’s so cute.
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He really said “free the people of Palestine,” live on SNL. 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
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Noah Schnapp does not deserve to escape the criticism when THIS is what he described as sexy.
Noah Schnapp addresses his support for Israel:
“I just hope to one day see those two groups be able to live harmoniously together in that region. And I hope for 2024 online to see people be a little more understanding and compassionate and recognise that we’re all human.”
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Girl, you’re 90 days too late!!!! Your hands are STAINED in blood and it ain’t washing off with a tweet. 🤦🏽♂️
When it comes to military aid to Israel, the U.S. cannot write a blank check for a right-wing government that's demonstrated an appalling disregard for Palestinian lives. The U.S. should use all the tools at its disposal to condition aid & move the parties toward a lasting peace.
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Behind me is the Dead Sea, and just beyond that is my homeland of Palestine.
My heart goes out to you, Falastine. Soon, I will be taking a photo on the other side. ❤️🩹
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After months of stewing about this, I’ve decided to go very public about it because it’s incredibly racist, and and absolutely incorrect.
Wearing a flag is not an act of political solicitation. Being proud of your heritage is not political. And I won’t be quiet about it.
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My cousin is explaining to me how she doesn’t know whether or not they will evacuate to Egypt if they are forced to, or die in their homeland because they know they’ll never see it again if they’re expelled.
It’s heartbreaking. 💔
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It needs to be made abundantly clear that when you’re saying you want to “evacuate people” from Gaza you are expelling them from their land and they will not ever be able to return. This is not an evacuation, it’s a second Nakba.
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Internet, we need you to do your thing.
This man threatened a Palestinian Youth Movement (
@palyouthmvmt
) general member with sexual assault, telling her “I’m gunna rape all you Arabs.”
This is unacceptable behavior that demand consequences. Please share and help us find him!
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What’s worse about this, is that the company sells Pride flag watch bands, Black Unity watch bands, and sold an entire array of bands last year based off flags for the special Olympics.
Why? Because they know flags based on identity are about REPRESENTATION, not politics.
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Please don’t buy your kaffiyehs from ⚪️ folk on their TikTok shops!!!
I don’t care if they’re just spreading awareness, it doesn’t sit right with me at all that these people get commissions from selling you Palestinian cultural garments.
There are better places to them!!!
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If Israel’s government collapses, you know what else does? The tech industry.
Apple, Amazon, Google, & Microsoft have all invested BILLIONS into their R&D centers and tech developments in Israel. They can’t afford to have the gov collapse.
So they side with Israel. For profit.
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At a time when 🇵🇸ians are getting so brutally attacked and being told we don’t exist, we need all the help we can get to be able to proudly display who we are. We simply want to exist on this earth in peace.
Please share my story, because this happens to us every day.
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In response to this, I’ve made a TikTok video explaining the whole situation.
Please, I would love your support in sharing it and letting Apple know that wearing a national flag is NOT an act of political solicitation.
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Do not let Motaz’s work be in vain.
Speak up for Palestine. Share his videos. Stand up for human rights.
So,
I had to evacuate for a lot of reasons you all know some of it but not all of it.
Thank you all
Pray for Gaza.
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On October 9, Tim Cook sent an email to all Apple employees expressing heartbreak over the lives lost in Israel. Today, over 170 days into the genocide against Palestinians, he and the company have remained silent.
So excited to see the launch of
#Apples4Ceasefire
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Over the past month:
I’ve lost 6 family members.
My mother went into the ICU.
She left, but is now in hospice care.
Conservative family told me to hide my queerness.
My family sued the President.
I found out I work for Zionists.
My therapist blocked me.
Stress levels: 📈📈📈
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The world needs to see more Palestinian joy. Reply or quote tweet with a happy Palestinian moment!
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What’s happening in Palestine is a warning to the rest of the world.
The most powerful countries in the world are backing a fascist regime, what makes you think your homes are any safer the day they decide to go after you?
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I don’t think half of you understand what it’s like to see places you’ve been bombed to ashes.
You don’t get what it’s like to lose entire branches of your family tree.
You can’t fathom what it’s like to see people who look like you massacred in videos every day.
It’s torture.
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One of the biggest problems with Israel’s siege on Palestine is their attempt to abolish anything that proves how old it is and how long people have lived there.
Indigenous people would never bomb relics and artworks that their ancestors built.
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This might have been a second Nakba when it started, but it is transforming into the worldwide Palestinian Revolution.
The world is not the same. We are not the same. Politics are changing. People are changing. And we are closer to a free Palestine than ever before. Inshallah.
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Wearing my kaffiyeh on my international flight home. I will never back down from being proud of my heritage. ✊🏽🇵🇸
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Last night, a 9th member of my family died in Gaza during the attacks on Rafah.
Fayez Mohammad Herzallah, 36 years old,
leaves behind a wife and 3 kids. Allah yerhamo. 😞
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And with that, my mother is buried. I feel like I have whiplash from how quick things move in our culture.
The hardest part is that she died less than 48 hours ago and her living space immediately transformed into a space to host/mourn. I’m still processing she’s gone.
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My dear friend and colleague, Mohammed, was buried alive under the rubble of his home along with his family, including his 2 year old son.
They all made it out, but his story is harrowing. How can you possibly read this and side with their attackers?
Ceasefire. Now.
‘He’s breathing’: My two hours under Gaza’s rubble after an Israeli strike
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FYI, Disney character performers are also MASSIVELY underpaid by the company.
AND they’re not unionized so they can’t fight for better working conditions and often need to go on medical leaves because of how much stress those costumes put on their bodies.
Pure extortion.
Disney is having fictional characters walk the red carpet of the world premiere for ‘HAUNTED MANSION’ due to the studio’s inability to give actors fair pay & working conditions.
(Source:
@Variety
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I’m devastated to report that a 7th member of my family, Abdullah Mahmoud Herzallah, was killed by the IOF in Gaza.
The most devastating part about these losses is that all of these family members are people I’ve never gotten a chance to meet, and now I never will. 💔
المرحوم
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This is quite literally the most minimal possible reference he could have made, sandwiched into some joke about an underwear campaign and people are going feral for it????
Hollywood culture is so whack. Not even a kaffiyeh? Two words?? That’s it??? And you get praise?? 🫠
“We’re all thinking two things: ceasefire now and Jeremy (Allen White), please, don’t do another Calvin Klein ad.” -
@ramy
at
#GoldenGlobes
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Make no mistake, when Zionism falls (and it will) these companies are going to be RUNNING to get out of the hot water they’ve put themselves in.
Each and every one of them are complicit in participating in a racist, white supremacist society and soon they will all pay the price.
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Still thinking about the customer who said, “oh, so you hate us” as soon as I told her I was Palestinian.
Mind you, we never even broached the subject of her religion or heritage. She just assumed that all Palestinian people hated Jewish people.
This rhetoric must end.
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I am horrified, shocked, and heartbroken to hear the news about Aaron Bushnell tonight.
When we live in a country that refuses to listen to its people, where THIS is the level that some feel they have to resort to in order to be heard… I wonder if we can ever really fix it. 💔
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Arabs are not a monolith. We are a diverse, multicultural, multi-religious people that cannot be pigeonholed into one identity.
We are Muslim, Christian, Jewish, Agnostic, Atheist, Buddhist, and more.
We are Palestinian, Egyptian, Lebanese, and yes, even American and British.
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The West wants you to think Arabs are backwards imbeciles so it can get away with colonizing and meddling in our affairs. But here are just a few things we invented that you rely on heavily:
Universities (Morocco)
Hospitals (Egypt)
Anesthesia/Surgery (Arab Spain)
Soap (Babylon)
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I'm not sure many people grasp how big a deal it is that
@realmoamer
is getting his own scripted comedy about a fictionalized version of his life as a Palestinian refugee, ON NETFLIX.
This is a major moment for Palestinian representation, and it needs to be talked about. 🧵
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Ms. Marvel is an epic, game-changing series for Muslim representation in the MCU. By the time the second episode ended I was already begging for more.
Iman Vellani is a standout as Kamala and I cannot wait to see her in the rest of the series. AND THE MUSIC IS SO GOOD. 😭
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I haven’t heard from my family in Rafah for 24 hours, and in the last voice note from my cousin I could hear the drones and bombs happening in the background.
Please pray for them.
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For everyone who feels helpless, like they’re just a cog in a machine of oppression and capitalism, I remind you of one thing:
When a cog in a machine stops, the machine breaks. It may feel like we have no power, like we are insignificant. But our choices DO make an impact.
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Extremely proud of this piece, where I call out celebrities’ silence during Hollywood’s biggest nights last month.
Half the battle of being Palestinian is being heard, and we need those who get platforms like that to speak up and use them.
Hollywood celebrities are hiding their pro-Palestine stance in fear of being blacklisted. But now is the time to realise our power, to speak up and act.
@tariq_raouf
explains why 📰
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Being Palestinian in America right now is having every moment of happiness you can possibly achieve be ripped from you the moment you get online and see what continues to happen in Gaza. 😔
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Palestine is Jewish.
Palestine is Christian.
Palestine is Muslim.
Palestine is for everyone.
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If you can wait in a 3 hour line for a new Disney ride that lasts <15 minutes you can wait at the polls to make a choice that lasts 4 years. 💅
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My favorite compliment I’ve ever gotten was from this big, beautiful, southern Black woman I was helping once. She complimented my eyes, and asked my heritage.
When I told her Palestinian, she said, “Oh, no wonder you’re so handsome. You got the eyes of Jesus.” 😮💨
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The United States and Israel are going to absolutely destroy the West’s grip on the world, and we are about to enter a massive geopolitical shift because of their idiocy.
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Absolutely unreal. My mother was definitely shining on us last night.
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Update: His brother, Mohannad, is in the ICU. I pray he makes it through this.
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I put on ONLY MURDERS IN THE BUILDING and my husband commented on the still of Steve Martin, Martin Short & Selena Gomez.
Then he talked shit about Selena starting on Disney, and I said "you know a lot of great people started out at Disney!"
He goes "not that great."
DIVORCED.
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I feel like Americans are so mindless and addicted to their comforts that the US Gov could literally transition into a dictatorship and they wouldn’t fight it at all and just be like “what can we do??” ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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Someone at work just told me Rihanna’s Super Bowl ad looks like she’s the Cindy Lou Who in an alternate universe who killed the Grinch and wore him as a coat and I can’t unsee it.
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Give grace to the Palestinians in your life.
Doing work/living life as if we aren’t seeing our family members die off one by one is unimaginable. We can’t pretend everything is normal like you all can.
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In reality, Palestine and the entirety of the Middle East are much older than the governments and institutions of the West.
And by erasing that history, they succeed in making people believe it is a “land without a people, for a people without a land.”
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*PLEASE* help me find a new job. I have 10 years of experience in entertainment journalism. I’m great at interviewing people, writing features and op-eds. I know I have the skills to be a reporter, or staff writer.
I’m also a screenwriter, if you need any support staff.
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Like many Palestinians, my family in Gaza has started a GoFundMe to raise money to leave to get medical care.
My cousin’s niece, Fai’a, has a cleft lip. It’s recommended she get surgery to fix it between 3 and 6 months, and she’s 5 months old.
Please share and spread this with…
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#YoungRoyals
' second season brings back our favorite hot queer couple, but plays a little too much cat & mouse to appreciate their love enough, imo.
There's a lack of queer happiness, and a *lot* of angst. Which is fine! They're teens, royals, etc. But man, I wanted more 🏳️🌈🥰.
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In colonizing Palestine, they’ve successfully made you think that the only things that matter in that land are what was made post 1948.
You don’t look at Israel and think of Bronze Age trade routes and villages, which makes it easier for them to bomb the shit out of them.
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Every one of these celebrities is either:
A) Racist/Zionist
B) Uneducated about what Israel is doing and going with what they *think* is the right thing.
When there’s a genocide happening, the country that is doing it does not get to participate in fun singing contests. Period.
Scooter Braun, Emmy Rossum and Helen Mirren Among 400 Stars Supporting Israel's Inclusion in Eurovision
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Breaking fast with my baba for the first time in decades. 🥹🥹🥹
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@_ZachFoster
This is incredible. Zach, thank you so much for documenting this history. Thank you for saving pieces of our culture. Thank you for educating and informing. Thank you for everything.
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To all the family I’ve lost, and never met. This is for you. 💔
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When your retail job tells you that you can’t wear your Palestinian flag pin after an Israeli couple complained about it, because it can be seen as “political solicitation,” you show up to work in a kaffiyeh.
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Again, not a single word on Palestine by anyone at one of the biggest nights in Hollywood. I’m so ashamed of every single person who claims to support our cause but contributes to the murderous silence.
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Please for the love of god do not tag the IDF/Israel in quote tweets about my cousin, I do not need my family to be targeted specifically by these people. Yes they realize what they’re doing. No, tweeting at them won’t help. It is not a smart thing to do.
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I am so mad that people equate Palestinian chants for freedom as a “call for death.” If you think freedom equates to death, that says more about you than it says about us.
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That’s literally what I’m trying to do! You wanna help??
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🚨WEARING A KAFFIYEH IS NOT POLITICAL!
If someone at work tells you this, go to HR. If HR backs them up, find a lawyer.
Kaffiyehs are a ✨cultural✨ piece of clothing. Telling someone they can’t wear a kaffiyeh because of the assault on Gaza is like telling a Scottish person…
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YES HABIBI!!! I love this woman so much.
Nicola Coughlan says she was told that certain agencies & studios won’t want to work with her for her support of a permanent ceasefire to the genocide happening in Palestine.
“If you know that you’re coming from a place of ‘I don’t want any innocent people to suffer,’ then I’m…
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Disney utilizing their most underpaid and undervalued employees to step in for the people on strike for more money is the most villainous shit ever.
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