Ashraf Shakah

[Trita Parsi @tparsi]

MUST WATCH!

American doctor in Gaza tells @amanpour of the "sheer terror" she experienced when Israel broke the ceasefire and began bombing Gaza again. But the doctor also calls out the media companies who are "manufacturing consent" for this genocide.

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

Since I became a UNSR, hardly a day passed without Israel's killing at least one Palestinian child. A decades-long tradition that escalated into genocidal acts after Oct'23 (since then, Israel has killed nearly 40 Palestinian children a day).

The silence of the corporate media and political leaders is everyday more deafening. And racist.

[Assal Rad @AssalRad]

“Israel says”

[Max Blumenthal @MaxBlumenthal]

2 Jewish Israelis planted bombs reading “Revenge From Tulkarm” on empty buses, triggering a major army escalation in the occupied West Bank. The incident is now under a gag.

This renews my questions about the strange 7/27/24 Majdal Shams bombing used as justification to bombard Lebanon, and highlights the Israeli state’s cynicism, mendacity, and political corrosion.

[Mouin Rabbani @MouinRabbani]

Israel has since the 1960s had a policy of refusing to repatriate the corpses of Palestinians and Arabs it has killed.
Israel has at least one cemetery dedicated to such corpses, and has repatriated those it holds only when it has been forced to do so in the context of captive exchanges.
During the 1987-1993 uprising in the occupied territories, furthermore, Israel would routinely refuse to release the bodies of Palestinians it had killed and snatched (including those of numerous minors) in order to pressure parents to hold only very limited funerals, often in the middle of the night.
The Hasbara Philharmonic Orchestra is fully aware of these Israeli practices and for many decades never hesitated to proudly and loudly defend them.
The manner in which these Israel flunkies have, collectively and on cue, suddenly discovered the horrors of corpses being retained for political motives, is simply beneath contempt.

[Saul Staniforth @SaulStaniforth]

Genocide apologists are trying to get the BBC to remove the documentary 'Gaza: How to Survive a Warzone' from iPlayer.

Here are some clips from the film (all the footage was filmed by two Palestinian cameramen in Gaza)

[Samira Mohyeddin سمیرا @SMohyeddin]

Palestinians are nameless and faceless and bagged and dumped out of trucks via Israel.

Israel has killed more than 18,000 Palestinian children with thousands more missing under the rubble of their homes. Thousands more amputated & more than 10,000 orphaned.

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

Israeli PM @netanyahu, wanted by the ICC for war crimes and crimes against humanity, persists in unlawful actions, now in full swing in the occupied West Bank. These actions are leading Israel to a troubling point in history.
It's crucial for int'l law to be enforced, holding Israel accountable, starting with its leaders.

[Ashraf Shakah @AshrafShakah]

“At this historical juncture, I am unable to align myself with any institution operating under the current cultural policy framework of the #German government” https://t.co/Pdp4PA6n8l

[Ali Abunimah @AliAbunimah]

I’m free! I wrote this on the plane and I’m posting it just after landing at Istanbul. On Monday evening I was brought to Zurich airport in handcuffs, in a small metal cage inside a windowless prison van and led all the way to the plane by police. This is after three days and two nights in a Swiss prison cut off from communication with the outside world, in a cell 24 hours a day with one cell mate, not even permitted to contact my family. On Saturday in a police interview in the presence of my lawyer they accused me of “offending against Swiss law” without ever telling me what crime I had committed in Switzerland or listing any charges. As far as I know I have not been charged with any crime whatsoever and I was held in “administrative detention.” On Sunday morning, they took me from my cell for questioning by Swiss defense ministry intelligence agents without the presence of my lawyer, and they again refused to allow me to contact her or my family. I refused to talk to them without my lawyer and told them take me back to my cell. During my imprisonment I refused every meal and every cup of coffee or tea they offered me except the last meal, after I knew I would be going home. I accepted only water, which is the right of every human being. All of this was after I was abducted off the street around 1:30pm on Saturday while on my way to the Palestine teach-in by undercover agents, handcuffed, forced into an unmarked car and sped straight to the prison. My “crime”? Being a journalist who speaks up for Palestine and against Israel’s genocide and settler-colonial savagery and those who aid and abet it. I came to Switzerland at the invitation of Swiss citizens to talk about justice for Palestine, to talk about accountability for a genocide in which Switzerland too is complicit. But while I was hauled off to prison like a dangerous criminal before I even had a chance to say a word, the Israeli president Isaac Herzog, who declared at the start of the genocide that there are no civilians in Gaza, no innocents, received a red carpet welcome in Davos, a carpet soaked in the blood of the more than 47,000 known victims of the genocide and the thousands more still under the rubble, or who died of deliberately inflicted starvation and denial of medical care. And on this very day Netanyahu freely travels to Poland to make a mockery of the Auschwitz commemoration despite an outstanding ICC arrest warrant. That is the perverse, unjust world we live in. This ordeal lasted three days but that taste of prison was more than enough to leave me in even greater awe of the Palestinian heroes who endure months and years in the prisons of the genocidal oppressor. More than ever I know that the debt we owe them is one we can never repay and all of them must be free and they must remain our focus. The police gave me my phone back only at the gate of the plane so I’m only seeing now the extent of the overwhelming support and solidarity from all over the world. I’m deeply grateful to each and every person who stood up for me. I’m especially grateful to my lawyer Dina Raewel and her team, to our friends in Zurich who I learned afterwards demonstrated outside the prison, to my family and my colleagues at EI and so many others. I honestly had no idea what was happening outside that concrete room! Thank you from the bottom of my heart. I want to tell the whole story of what happened, perhaps in an @intifada livestream in the next day or two, because I think it’s important for people to know the depths to which their Western so-called “democracies” have sunk in the abject service of genocidal Zionism. Right now I’m glad to be on my way home. I’m looking forward to hugging my mom and dad, taking a shower and sleeping in my own bed. Journalism is not a crime! Speaking out for Palestine is not a crime! Standing against racist genocidal Zionism is not a crime! Say it with me:

From the River to the Sea Palestine Will Be Free! ❤️🇵🇸✌️

[Lowkey @Lowkey0nline]

This picture has emerged of Mario Fehr, Justice Director behind the arrest of Ali AbuNimah in Zurich, speaking at a solidarity with Israel event.

[Max Blumenthal @MaxBlumenthal]

Electronic Intifada's @AliAbunimah was arrested by Swiss cops before a speaking event in Zurich today, and is now detained

Western pseudo-democracies will cast aside all their liberal values to protect an apartheid state called "Israel" from its critics https://t.co/loF194HCAS

[Decensored News @decensorednews]

MUST SEE: Journalist @MaxBlumenthal confronts Antony Blinken about Israel's genocide

“300 reporters in Gaza were on the receiving end of your bombs…”

“Why did you keep the bombs flowing when we had a deal in May?…”

“Why did you allow the holocaust of our time to happen??…”

[Max Blumenthal @MaxBlumenthal]

My final words for Tony Blinken, Secretary of Genocide, and his smirking press secretary, Matt Miller

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

Journalist @MaxBlumenthal confronts Secretary of State Blinken during his farewell address to the State Department press corps:
“Why did you allow the Holocaust of our time to happen? How does it feel to have your legacy be genocide?”

Blumenthal also called out spokesperson Matt Miller:
“You too, Matt. You smirked through the whole thing. Every day. You smirked through a genocide.”

[Samira Mohyeddin سمیرا @SMohyeddin]

What stood out for me was not the actions of journalist @samhusseini but those in the room who fell in line, as he was forcibly removed.

“I’m a journalist not a potted plant.”
- Sam Husseini, January 16, 2024

[Sam Husseini 4 Congress MD-04 - The Real Deal @samhusseini]

I was seriously manhandled but I'm back home... thanks for all support folks.

My intention was to ask tough questions at every opportunity during the news conference which State personnel obviously cut short:

* Was the point of the May 31 announcement to block implementation of the May 24 ICJ order?

* Why do you refuse to recognize the Geneva conventions as applying to Gaza?

* Everyone from Amnesty International to the ICC accuses Israel of extermination and genocide. Why are you not in the Hague?

* Why was your step father Pisar connected to both Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstein?

* Miller here pretends not to know about the Hannibal directive - do you know about the Hannibal directive?

* Why do you not even acknowledge Israel’s nuclear weapons?

I have written about each of these subjects and will continue to do so via https://t.co/GnMYgVTIP2

[Mustafa Barghouti @Mustafa_Barghouti @MustafaBarghou1]

The Israeli army threatened the Director of Kamal Adwan hospital Dr. Husam Abu Safeyeh because he revealed to the world the bombardment and the Israeli crimes against the hospital, the patients and the medical personnel.
After destroying and burning the hospital the Israeli army arrested Dr. Abu Safeyeh.His family is worried that he might be tortured to death as happened to the medical doctors Iyad Rantisi and Adnan Al bursh.

[Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn]

Israel has destroyed the last remaining hospital in northern Gaza.

We have witnessed the total decimation of Palestinian healthcare, met with silence from political leaders who refuse to acknowledge the horrors they have enabled.

This is the dehumanising reality of genocide.

[George Galloway @georgegalloway]

I have a large extended family in #Amsterdam. The #MacabbiTelAviv fans - thousands of them - came for a rampage. Tearing down #Palestine flags, singing #Genocide songs, chanting death to #Arabs during the minute silence for #Valencia and randomly harassing local #Muslims. These are verifiable facts. Zombie media are lying - even about THIS- even though ample video evidence is available.