WATCH — @Byoussef: “This is what Israel does every day.”
🇺🇸 media isn’t even talking about the fact that 🇮🇱 killed the guy that organized a World Cup watch party in Gaza (and 2 kids) 3 minutes after the Egypt-Argentina match started.
The reason why Palestine isn’t being seen anymore is because that theres barely any journalists left. 12 million people were forced to flee their homes in Sudan. 20% of Lebanon is still under Israeli occupation. Congo is still going through an Ebola outbreak. Don’t stop talking.
Call to action: let's stand all together and Stop the occupation of Gaza city! This cannot happen again! This is our last hope.
We are living the hardest days ever, we need help, real help!
I feel this so hard. Gaza doesn't need our sadness, it needs out anger. It needs our rage. That's the only appropriate response to a live-streamed genocide supported by your own government.
Sadness and heartbreak are for natural disasters. Cancer diagnoses. Terrible accidents. This is not something that has passively happened to the people of Gaza, it's something that's been done to them by other people, and the people who are doing it have names and faces. It's not a tragedy, it's a crime. A crime that is still currently being perpetrated and urgently needs to be stopped, by any means necessary.
The correct response is rage. Rage toward the people who are responsible for this mass atrocity. The officials of the Israeli government and all their western allies. Their apologists and propagandists in the mainstream press. The war profiteers who are benefiting from an active genocide. Individual members of the IDF. The hasbarists who swarm social media and pollute our information ecosystem with manipulation and lies.
Celebrities and influencers who urge us to weep for Gaza are pushing us into passivity and defeatism by urging us to treat this like an unavoidable tragedy that has already happened instead of an unforgivable atrocity that is still underway. This is power-serving propaganda, and it deserves nothing but scorn.
People often use anger in unwholesome ways in our society, but that doesn't mean there's not a healthy place for it. Every human emotion has healthy applications and unhealthy applications, and anger is no different. When someone is crossing a line which does harm to someone else, anger is an entirely appropriate and correct response in that moment, and when it's applied consciously and with care it can yield very positive results. Sometimes people need to be pushed back to the other side of the line they are crossing with red hot heat.
Emotions are tools; they only become unhealthy when those tools are pointed at things other than their intended purpose. Anger at someone who made an innocent mistake. Delight in the suffering of others. Sadness and passivity in the face of monstrous injustice. These are emotions applied incorrectly.
Do not weep for Gaza. Rage for Gaza. Protest for Gaza. Take direct action for Gaza. Ruin people's day for Gaza. Ruin people's careers for Gaza. Don't let the facilitators of this nightmare have a moment's peace. Don't let them go on with their lives like what they did was no big deal. This isn't sad, it's enraging. And it deserves a response of unmitigated forceful aggression.
This child is journalist Anas Al-Sharif during Israel’s 2008–2009 bombing of Gaza.
At the time, he was just a boy watching reporters in action, dreaming of one day becoming one himself.
He grew up without comfort or privilege, only in the harsh reality faced by every Palestinian child living under the Israeli occupation.
🚨 BREAKING: Palestinian journalist Mohammed Al-Khaldi was killed in the Israeli massacre that targeted a press tent in front of Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, which also killed five other journalists.
Israel just assassinated the entire Al Jazeera crew in Gaza: fearless journalists and cameramen reporting the truth amid genocide.
This is a war crime and a crime against humanity.
Where are the Western journalists? Will they condemn this, or choose silence and complicity?
Tonight Israel murdered the bravest journalistic hero in Gaza, Anas Al-Sharif. For nearly two straight years, he documented the genocide of his people with courage & principle. Israel put him on a hit list because of his voice. Shame on this world & all who were silent.