Dede Bell

Writer | Independent Global Educator | Morphic Wayfinder | Radical Humanist | Anti-war | Founder, Empathy First Education || 🤍

[Dede Bell @DedeBellNBCT]

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[Dede Bell @DedeBellNBCT]

@GazaGreatMinds By the grace of God they remained unhurt. 🙏 Keeping GGM in Gaza lifted up 24/7.

[Gaza Great Minds @GazaGreatMinds]

While GGM teachers and staff were gathered for a meeting today, this bullet passed through the tents.
By the mercy of Allah, everyone is safe. Alhamdulillah. 🤍
A reminder that, in Gaza, even a simple meeting between educators can take place under the shadow of danger. Yet they still show up. They still teach and they still believe every child deserves an education.
Please keep our team, our students, and all the people of Gaza in your prayers. 🇵🇸
#WeWillReadAgain

[Muhammad Mazen @mhmd_s09]

One of the most brutal scenes in human history has been leaked.

A video clearly shows an unarmed, injured person being bombed by Israeli aircraft along with his fellow unarmed civilians in cold blood.

A video that the world must never forget.

[Gaza Notifications @gazanotice]

🚨BREAKING: 3 Palestinians killed, and multiple others injured in an Israeli strike on a warehouse near Al-Yemen Al-Saeed Hospital in Jabalia refugee camp, northern Gaza Strip.

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

🚨Lebanon’s Health Ministry said Israeli attacks have killed 45 people and wounded 149 over the past 48 hours.

According to local reporting, Israeli warplanes struck 24 different southern Lebanese towns and villages on Friday, while drones targeted six localities and intensive artillery fire hit 19 others.

More on recent attacks below ⬇️

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

Darfur genocide survivor Niemat Ahmadi told lawmakers on Capitol Hill that after fleeing the atrocities in Darfur 25 years ago, she “never thought I would be sitting in front of you speaking about another genocide.” Ahmadi, alongside Darfur Women Action Group, called for urgent international action as U.S. ally UAE continues to sponsor genocide in Sudan.

Rep McGovern in the post below discusses the NBA’s relationship with the UAE and complicity in the genocide.

(🎥 Video via @RefugeesIntl)

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

The World’s First Trillionaire Is Not Your Friend, And Other Notes

It’s so pathetic watching Elon Musk’s groveling bootlickers fall all over themselves on social media to defend their favorite oligarch from criticism as he becomes the world’s first trillionaire.

They’re like “Don’t be mean to the trillionaire, just become a trillionaire yourself! All you need is luck, connections, wealthy parents, the ruthlessness to step on anyone who gets in your way, and a willingness to cooperate with murderous imperial institutions like the Pentagon and the CIA!”

Elon Musk is a military-industrial complex plutocrat who is balls deep in the US intelligence cartel and recently facilitated the US-Israeli regime change operation in Iran. You have infinitely more in common with the average person in Iran, Cuba, Lebanon or Palestine than you have with the world’s first trillionaire.

It’s so gross how many fawning admirers this freak still has. The trillionaire is not your friend.

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People who say “Zionism is just the belief that Jews should have a homeland” are hilarious. Zionism isn’t some abstraction; we can all see its material manifestations with our own eyes. We can all see that Zionism means genocide, apartheid, and nonstop wars and abuse.

This isn’t some kind of theoretical debate where we all get to have our own opinions about what Zionism is and what it entails. It’s 2026, not 1890. The facts are in and the case is closed, kids. This is what Zionism is. This is the only Zionism in existence. What you see is what you get. And what you see is quantifiably one of the most evil things happening on our planet.

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Some guy told me, “Why are you fine with the existence of approximately 50 Islamic nation-states, but the single Jewish one is apparently too many?”

I showed him an illustration of a nail stuck in somebody’s foot and said, “Why are you fine with an entire foot made of flesh, but a single metal spike is too much? The only possible explanation is that you have a seething hatred of metal. It can’t possibly be that you object to a foreign object being violently forced into a region where it does damage.”

He got upset and wound up telling me he hopes I get murdered by Mossad.

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Hasbara is so gross because it’s just Zionists throwing walls of language at you to convince you you’re not seeing what you’re seeing.

You see raw video footage of the most horrifying thing imaginable in Gaza, and then you see them in the replies going “This is actually fine and normal because words words words words words words words.”

You see a news report about Israel doing something astonishingly evil in Lebanon, and there they are underneath it going “There’s actually a lot more to the story because words words words words words words words.”

You see some far right Israeli minister spouting nakedly genocidal rhetoric, and they’re swarming all over it saying “Well this isn’t actually what it looks like because words words words words words words words.”

You see every major human rights group on earth saying Israel is guilty of genocide and apartheid, and they’re running around frantically telling you it’s a giant conspiracy to frame Israel and the truth is that words words words words words words words.

You see more and more mainstream news institutions reporting on the mountains of evidence of widespread rape and torture in Israeli prisons, and they saturate the airwaves claiming it’s an antisemitic blood libel because words words words words words words words.

The idea is to just pound your intellect with a firehose of verbiage until your inner sensemaker has been shredded and you’re too confused to form a coherent picture of what’s actually going on. It’s a disgusting, abusive, and profoundly unethical thing to do to people.

But the good news is it’s not working anymore. Language is immensely powerful, but its power has its limits. Israel’s behavior has become so transparently unacceptable that no amount of word magic can manipulate people into seeing anything other than what’s happening in front of their face.

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Reading by Tim Foley.

[Dede Bell @DedeBellNBCT]

@IslamWahba0 @GazaGreatMinds It takes community — and we are a family across many waters. 🫂❤️ @IslamWahba0 & @GazaGreatMinds

[Gaza Great Minds @GazaGreatMinds]

Meet Islam. 🤍🎨
She is a graphic designer who offered her skills to Gaza Great Minds and seized every chance to grow. Talented, detail oriented, and someone who likes everything in its right place. She helps with content ideas, lends a hand wherever needed, and has proven herself to be incredibly reliable.
Behind many of the visuals you see, there is Islam. Quietly creating, carefully shaping, always offering more than asked.
Thank you, Islam @IslamWahba0 .
Your eye and your heart make us better.
#WeWillReadAgain

[Mosab Abu Toha @MosabAbuToha]

This is Beit Lahia in northern Gaza. Just now, Israel blew up homes and demolished what remained of other buildings across the city, reducing more of it to rubble.

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

WHY are we letting Israeli soldiers destroy every inch of Palestine? Is it ''a war''? Would you accept others do this to you and your home?

Let's stop this genocide together.
Diplomats
Politicians
Judges
Police officers
Journalists
Citizens
Anyone can and must take action.

[SmikSmak #FreePalestine @SmakSmik]

@caitoz Time to really cure the disease and not just worry about the symptoms.
#SmashCapitalism

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

Under The Western Empire You Get Punished For Having A Conscience

Article with supporting links.

https://t.co/DuhEsPtaSZ

[Ms-Nat @NatalieMoran20]

@JudyHinchcliffe Here’s a link to the short film these clips are from Judy, please watch and share and follow @m7mdkurd this is his home, he was 11 when these thugs came and took over half the house https://t.co/r5i8M2D8I8

[Mohammed El-Kurd @m7mdkurd]

Among the properties on offer are homes in Gush Etzion, an Israeli settlement bloc in the occupied West Bank that the British government considers illegal under international law. Following public scrutiny, organisers altered their website to obscure this fact.

The event also features companies involved in settlement construction in occupied Jerusalem. According to reporting by Middle East Eye, participating firms include the Meshulam Levinstein Group, which has developed residential and commercial projects in Israeli settlements in both the West Bank and Jerusalem, including in Homat Shmuel. Another participant, Africa Israel Residences, has likewise been involved in multiple settlement projects across occupied Palestine.

The event has already prompted calls for government intervention from MPs, public figures, and more than 100 organisations that endorsed a Palestinian Youth Movement statement demanding that it be banned.

The organisers’ secrecy reflects the strength of the Palestine movement in Britain today. They know that openly advertising the sale of settlement properties would provoke widespread public opposition. They know the British public overwhelmingly rejects the dispossession of Palestinians and the expansion of settlements, yet they continue to prioritise profit from land theft, occupation, and genocide.

The bottom line is simple: this event should be banned. If it proceeds, people across London should join the mobilisation against it and stand in solidarity with Palestinians resisting dispossession and settlement expansion.

[Mohammed El-Kurd @m7mdkurd]

🚨 On June 14, the “Great Israeli Real Estate Event” is set to take place in London, where properties built on stolen Palestinian land will be marketed to Jewish buyers. As shown in the attached screenshot, prospective buyers are required to list a synagogue affiliation.

[Bana @Bintshalabeya]

This is exactly what zionist settler colonialism is.
It's a continuous process of land theft through incentivizing new settlers to colonise Palestine, displace and ethnically cleanse indigenous Palestinians
Anyone calling this a 'conflict' is obscuring this glaring fact

[Saul Staniforth @SaulStaniforth]

Sentenced as terrorists despite never being charged with, or convicted of, a terrorism offence.

[Ms-Nat @NatalieMoran20]

Great 🧵about the ethnic cleansing of #SheikhJarrah you’ll see in the comments where some of these settlers are now, the positions of power they occupy and the crimes they’ve committed since they showed us exactly who they were in 2009.
These people don’t want peace.