Ayesha Asmal-Manjra

[susan abulhawa | سوزان ابو الهوى @susanabulhawa]

has there ever been a commander who rallies his soldiers with visions of smashing babies against rocks? have there ever been 'soldiers' who laugh and smile at the prospect? has there ever been a society that holds such explicit baby killing with pride?

this is the 'jewish state'

[Abier @abierkhatib]

Even if Israel once had a legitimate right to exist, as Zionists often argue, that justification expired long ago. This evil state must be brought down.

More rape accusation from an Australian activist

[Sony Thăng @nxt888]

Let's talk about the word "complex."

The "complex situation in Gaza."

The "complex history of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict."

The "deeply complex geopolitical dynamics."

The situation is not complex.

The situation is: a military force with overwhelming technological superiority is killing a large number of civilians in a territory from which those civilians cannot escape.

They have been doing this for decades at varying intensities.

The people in the territory had their land taken, their movement controlled, their economy strangled, their political choices vetoed by external powers.

That is not complex.

That is a description of power applied to people who have no comparable power to apply back.

The reason they call it "complex" is not because it is.

The reason is that clarity produces a demand.

Clarity produces: then something must be done.

Complexity produces: well, it's very difficult to know what to do.

"Complex" is the word that stands between comprehension and responsibility.

It is a load-bearing word in the architecture of inaction.

[Nicholas Dawes @NicDawes]

@RyanCoetzee Starlink comes with massive risks to sovereignty and data security, putting critical infrastructure in the hands of an erratic, wildly ideological individual who has demonstrated his willingness to wield his control of the system for political ends. SA can make other choices

[Zachary Foster @_ZachFoster]

Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya is being tortured & starved to death. He's one of thousands of Palestinian hostages held in Israeli rape dungeons. But world leaders & mainstream media pretend as if the hostage crisis is over, since all of the hostages left are Palestinians.

[Rabbi David Mivasair @RabbiMivasair]

Don’t like people wearing watermelon pins at your shitty medical conference?

Don’t care.

“From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free” makes you feel scared?

Don’t care.

Seeing Palestinian flags on university campuses upsets you?

Don’t care.

A student calling Israel an apartheid state hurts your little feelings?

Don’t care.

A doctor speaking publicly about Palestinian children being massacred feels “divisive” to you?

Fuck you.

People refusing to condemn Palestinian resistance makes you uneasy?

Don’t care.

Hearing the word “genocide” feels inflammatory to you?

Don’t care.

A keffiyeh in a workplace gives you a panic attack?

Don’t care.

“Globalise the intifada” sounds genocidal to you?

Don’t care.

People interrupting politicians feels disrespectful to you?

Don’t care.

You no longer being able to monopolise victimhood makes you angry?

Truly could not care less.

What I care about are the Palestinian children being burned alive.

The doctors being tortured.

The families erased under rubble.

The starvation.

The concentration camps.

The destruction of Gaza’s hospitals and universities and refugee camps and entire civilian infrastructure.

But for the nearly last 1,000 days and decades prior, Western institutions have demanded everyone stop and carefully tend to Jewish emotional discomfort instead.

Not Palestinian lives.

Not Palestinian suffering.

Not Palestinian speech.

Zionist discomfort.

Zionist fragility.

Zionist political sensitivity—elevated, enforced, and institutionalised across universities, hospitals, media outlets, professional associations, politicians, donors, and advocacy groups.

All working in sync to transform Zionist discomfort into institutional emergency.

While Palestinian suffering is rendered invisible.

While Palestinian speech is disciplined.

While Palestinian humanity is treated as negotiable.

That is the function of the Jewish Feelings Industrial Complex.

Not safety.

Not care.

Not protection.

Institutionalised Zionist emotional management at scale.

Fuck every single institution that constantly weaponizes “Jewish safety,” “Jewish discomfort,” and “Jewish feelings” to justify censorship, repression, career destruction, anti-Palestinian racism, and silence in the face of mass atrocity.

If a watermelon pin destabilises you more than the annihilation of Gaza, the problem is not the watermelon pin.

The problem is you.

-- from "The Anti-Zionist" https://t.co/38l41J9sY8

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

Thiago Á. & Saif A. have been kidnapped, mistreated, arbitrarily detained, to punish them and crush the growing solidarity movement against Israel's genocide in Palestine. Do not let it happen!
Demand their freedom and freedom for all Palestinian hostages!
#FreeThiago #FreeSaif

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

ALARM!
How on earth is possible that Israel is allowed to assault and seize vessels in international waters just off Greece/Europe? Besides what you can think of Apartheid Israel and its genocidal leaders, this should send shock waves across Europe.

Apartheid without borders.

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

The former head of the Mossad is comparing the actions of Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank to Nazis in the Holocaust.

If someone said that in the West they'd be accused of antisemitism under the IHRA definition.

[Physicians for Human Rights Israel (PHRI) @PHRIsrael]

UPDATE
The Israeli court approved the extension of Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya’s detention, without charges.

The request for his immediate release was denied, despite the unlawful nature of his detention while carrying out his medical duties.

He is held in Negev Prison in harsh conditions, without access to medication or medical care, as his health continues to deteriorate.

We demand the immediate release of Dr. Abu Safiya along with 13 other detained doctors, as well as all medical personnel currently held in Israel. We call on the international community to intervene and put an end to this abuse.

[sarah @sahouraxo]

Israel killed Rouqayya and her little girl today in Tayr Debba, South Lebanon.

Rouqayya was pregnant.

They murdered a mother, her little daughter, and her unborn child.

This is what Israel calls a “ceasefire.

[susan abulhawa | سوزان ابو الهوى @susanabulhawa]

You hunted and murdered her in cold blood like you did the 260 journalists before her. You are the greatest terrorists in the world; the most degenerate people to walk the earth; the greediest, most depraved; the chosen filth, devoid of conscience and human decency. Your presence darkens the world. You are the extinguishers of the light and destroyers of all that is good. You are liars. Mass murderers. Sadists. Thieves. Parasites. No one believes you.

[Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis]

Did you know that Dr Hussam Abu Afiya, the heroic doctor who stayed until the last moment in his bombed out hospital saving lives, and who the Israeli army abducted illegally, is STILL kept in chains? Now, Israel seeks to extend his illegal detention. Speak out!

[Dr. Jill Stein🌻 @DrJillStein]

Calling them 'settlers' gives them dignity they don't deserve.
How about renaming them for what they are: Murderers, land thiefs, occupiers, war criminals, thugs, fascists.
Whatever they're called, they belong in the Hague standing trial for their atrocities.

[Redi Tlhabi @RediTlhabi]

Look at those 3 armed "victims" at the back. And the "terrorist" is armed with a book, looking at the scared armed men in a "threatening" way!

[Dr Tlaleng Mofokeng @drtlaleng]

We will never recover from the trauma Israel has made us document and bear witness to. It is wounding on a scale that I cannot find the words to describe. For the sake of the people who are in this hell every second of all their life, scared and terrified and hungry and dehydrated and trying to survive illnes and disability, we must do everything we can to end the genocide.

[Sony Thăng @nxt888]

Patrice Lumumba gave his independence speech on June 30, 1960.

He said, in front of the Belgian king:

"We are no longer your monkeys."

He was killed on January 17, 1961.

Less than seven months later.

The CIA was involved. Belgian intelligence was involved. The operation was approved at the highest levels of the Eisenhower administration.

He was replaced by Mobutu, who called himself Mobutu Sese Seko, who renamed the country Zaire, who looted it systematically for thirty-two years with the full support of Western governments who needed a stable pro-Western regime in Central Africa.

Stable meaning: the minerals kept moving. The people stayed poor. The elections didn't happen. The sovereignty was cosmetic.

Now imagine Lumumba had lived.

Imagine the Congo got what Vietnam got:

A liberation government that survived long enough to actually govern.

The counter-history is not fantasy.

It is what was deliberately prevented.

And the prevention has a paper trail.

The documents are declassified.

The names are known.

People see the Congo today and diagnoses African failure.

They are looking at a crime scene and calling it a character flaw.

[Redi Tlhabi @RediTlhabi]

"There are no innocents...the children are future terrorists...." You will hear these words even in "decent" spaces in Johannesburg. And London..it explains a lot of what we have seen in the last 2.5 years. The actions in this video begin with NOT seeing Palestinian children as children; as human beings.

[New Direction AFRICA @Its_ereko]

🇧🇷🇨🇺🚨 BREAKING: Lula just said what the world has been thinking. "Stop this damned blockade on Cuba and let the Cuban people live their lives." Cuba has problems. But they are Cuba's problems. Not Lula's. Not Trump's. Not the empire's.

The US has punished Cuba for decades. Sanctions. Blockades. Regime change attempts. None of it worked. Cubans are still standing. Still surviving. Still waiting for the world to let them breathe.

Lula is not begging. He's demanding. The blockade is not policy. It's cruelty. And the world is tired of watching.

Spread the truth. Free Cuba. Not from its leaders. From the blockade. Let the Cuban people live.

[Nnamdi Obi @nnamdiobiii]

Every time the West calls an African country "unstable" they mean the resources stopped flowing.

I made a glossary of 100 diplomatic words they use and what they actually mean.

https://t.co/hivzYl1N0Z

Bookmark this before your next history book. 🧵