Salma

PRO Black Indigenous Palestinian Global South Power - FOR Liberation Land Back - 🍉Decolonize Everything 👊🏽

[Ethan Levins ✝️ @EthanLevins2]

Israel has destroyed 37,836 homes, killed 2,000+ people, and murdered 250+ children in Lebanon.

It’s only been 40 days.

[Ethan Levins ✝️ @EthanLevins2]

So you’re telling me a $3,200,000,000,000 company cannot place verified and known town names in southern Lebanon?

They purposely are erasing Lebanon’s history. They can add these towns in 5 minutes.

[Adam Johnson @adamjohnsonCHI]

NYT newsroom rn looking for fresh antisemitism angles

[Eva X. @PresidentXiCHN]

The world can move on without the United States.

100 years ago, the British Empire dominated global commerce, commanding more than 20% of the world’s wealth. Many believed its sun would never set.

200 years ago, France bestrode Europe’s stage, its armies feared, its culture envied. Napoleon declared himself immortal.

400 years ago, the Spanish crown reigned from Manila to Mexico, its treasure fleets groaning with silver and silk. The kings thought their glory would last eternal.

Each empire proclaimed itself indispensable. Each was ultimately eclipsed.

Power wanes, influence migrates, and legitimacy dies the moment it’s assumed rather than earned. Should America forfeit the world’s respect, it will discover what every fallen empire learned too late:

The world moves on. Always.

[Abier @abierkhatib]

Can someone explain to me the difference between 'chosen people' and' master race'?

I’m waiting..

[Helyeh Doutaghi | حليا دوطاقي @Helyeh_Doutaghi]

Suspended for Pro-Palestine Speech: My Statement on Yale Law School’s Embrace of AI-Generated Smears 1/3

[fatima bhutto 🇵🇸🇱🇧🇮🇷 @fbhutto]

If you’re revoking degrees, you better be returning tuition money. This is obscene.

[Ali Abunimah @AliAbunimah]

The government is raiding @columbia dorms

[Salma @BeitUmmarYeah]

@AliAbunimah We are so proud of you, your words, courage and steadfastness. الحم�� الله على سلامتك. Long live Palestine

[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! ❤️🇵🇸✌️

[Middle East Observer @ME_Observer_]

⚡️⭕️ Al-Mayadeen correspondent: The occupation forces arrest 60 #Palestinians from the town of Azzun, near Qalqilya, in the northern West Bank

[Salma @BeitUmmarYeah]

@ShaykhSulaiman This is the exhibit room of an institute in Venice. Not Ireland.

[Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand]

What's happening Syria is probably the most incoherent geopolitical event I've come across, and the more you look into it, the more confusing it gets.

I mean, just look at this list:

- First of all, the speed of Assad's collapse still makes very little sense: after successfully holding out against multiple enemies for 13 years with Russian and Iranian backing in a brutal civil war, his regime suddenly crumbled in just 11 days with almost no bloodshed.
- The "liberators" of Syria being celebrated by the West are Islamist groups on their own official terrorist lists. The country's new leader, Al-Julani, still has a $10 million bounty on his head as a "Specially Designated Global Terrorist" for founding the Syrian branch of Al Qaeda.
- Biden called this "a historic opportunity for the long-suffering people of Syria to build a better future" while his administration continues to occupy a third of Syria, control its oil fields, maintain crippling sanctions, and bomb its territory... thereby obviously very much compromising this better future.
- Assad's Prime Minister immediately agreed to work with the rebels and they accepted him - despite being mortal enemies in a brutal 13-year civil war.
- Al-Julani, after years of orchestrating suicide bombings and sectarian massacres against civilians, is now suddenly positioning himself as "diversity friendly".
- Russia, despite being in an alliance with Syria dating back to the Soviet era, billions invested in protecting Assad, and their only Mediterranean naval base in Tartus, essentially shrugged it all and let their ally fall.
- Syria's new leaders remain bizarrely silent about Israel invading their territory and the U.S. bombing and occupying their country. They've said nothing about their strategic assets - including the entire navy and air force - being destroyed in U.S. and Israeli air raids.
- The U.S. maintains its occupation of a third of Syria (including most oil fields), claiming it's necessary to "ensure the enduring defeat of ISIS" - despite Trump declaring in 2019 (and the U.S. repeatedly confirming since) that "we have defeated ISIS in Syria". Western media largely ignore this ongoing occupation while celebrating Syria's "liberation".
- Hamas, while in the middle of a war with Israel, took time to congratulate the Syrian rebels - even though Assad was their (and Iran's) longtime ally and Syria's fall significantly weakens their own strategic position.
- The U.S. celebrates the liberation of Syrian prisoners while operating its own concentration camps in the country (https://t.co/VoSHG8bi3B) holding tens of thousands indefinitely without trial - half of them children - but that apparently doesn't count as oppression.
- Türkiye is fighting against the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) with apparent U.S. approval, while the SDF was fighting Assad (which the U.S. wanted) - meaning U.S.-backed forces are effectively fighting other U.S.-backed forces.
- Iran, normally eager to defend its regional interests, suddenly abandoned billions in investments and a crucial strategic ally in their "Axis of Resistance", evacuating their personnel and citizens within hours.

Truly one of the strangest chapters in modern geopolitical history. Every possible explanation contains its own contradictions, and most players are acting against their own stated principles and interests.

At this stage it looks like the simplest explanation might go something like this: the U.S. welcomes the fall of a longtime opponent; neighboring powers like Israel and Türkiye see an opportunity for territorial gain; rebel leaders seem willing to accept loss of sovereignty and territory in exchange for domestic control over a diminished Syria; Russia and Iran chose to cut their losses given other regional priorities; and smaller players like Hamas are scrambling to adapt. Still, the unprecedented speed and coordination of these events suggests we're missing some crucial pieces of this very strange puzzle.

[usaama @yoUsaama]

Pogroms in Amsterdam! 😱

[The Onion @TheOnion]

Nation’s Indigenous People Confirm They Don’t Need Special Holiday, Just Large Swaths Of Land Returned Immediately https://t.co/R2047g8vCy

[Yousef Ibrahim يوسف إبراهيم @Yousefiaa]

Yes my friends. Yes the armed wing of a Palestinian political party retaliated. Yes bad things happened, yes the first victim of war is the truth, yes Israeli hasbara psyop went into overdrive, yes a lot of people will die, yes Israel has been at war with the region for 76 years, yes the response to the attack was crazy, yes Blinken and Bibi killed the diplomatic process of war, yes the war will expand, and yes my prediction is, yes #ApartheidIrael must fall. In my core I know this will be the best outcome for every man, woman, and child on this planet. Yes for every Jew, Christian, Muslim and agnostic on this planet. 🥠 Yes.

[Yousef Ibrahim يوسف إبراهيم @Yousefiaa]

.@thecrimson hi 👋🏼. Check this out.

.@Israel is a disgusting #Apartheid and anyone that supports it is a racist scumbag. That’s it. That’s the tweet.

"it's apartheid" (@ICAHD, 2010)
"it's apartheid" (@UNESCWA, 2017)
“It’s apartheid” (@UN 2007, 2014, 2022)
"it's apartheid" (@YeshDin, 2020)
"it's apartheid" (@AdalahCenter, 2020)
"it's apartheid" (@btselem, 2021)
“it's apartheid" (@hrw, 2021)
"it's apartheid" (@fidh_en, 2021)
"it's apartheid" (@alhaq_org, 2022)
"it's apartheid" (@amnesty, 2022)
"it's apartheid" (@Addameer, 2022)
"it's apartheid" (@AlMezanCenter, 2022)
"it's apartheid" (@cacalqudsuni, 2022)
"it's apartheid" (@AdvocacyJlac, 2022)
"it's apartheid" (@miftahpal, 2022)
"it's apartheid" (@ICJ_org, 2022)
“It’s apartheid” (@IPS_DC 2022)
"it's apartheid" (@DAWNmenaorg, 2022)
"it's apartheid" (Yitzhak Rabin, 1976 https://t.co/XQvZHTODYh…)
"it's apartheid" (Ehud Barak, 2023 https://t.co/fsHgIFJnS9…)
"it's apartheid" (Amiram Levin, 2023 https://t.co/jPAXkCMLgA…)
"it's apartheid" (Tamir Pardo, 2023 https://t.co/0bXTAtBjbd…)
“It’s apartheid” (@SouthAfrica 2024)
“It’s apartheid” (@CIJ_ICJ 7, 2024)
“It’s apartheid” (@Palestine 1948-2024)
“It’s apartheid” (me @yousefiaa 1978-2024)
…..
To be continued…

Please give Mr. Garber a copy and get an official, on the record reaction. Thanks!

[Assal Rad @AssalRad]

The word you’re looking for is “invasion.”

Israel is invading Lebanon, a sovereign country.

[Jad Chaaban جاد شعبان @JadChaaban]

There are many grassroots initiatives in Lebanon now to help. Below are a few, please consider donating or spread the word: