A right-wing Israeli mob came to my family’s home yesterday to search for me, threatening close family members who fled to another town in the middle of the night. I am still getting death threats and had to cancel my flight home. This happened after Israeli media and German politicians absurdly labeled my Berlinale award speech - where I called for equality between Israelis and Palestinians, a ceasefire and an end to apartheid - as ‘antisemitic’. The appalling misuse of this word by Germans, not only to silence Palestinian critics of Israel, but also to silence Israelis like me who support a ceasefire that will end the killing in Gaza and allow the release of the Israeli hostages - empties the word antisemitism of meaning and thus endangers Jews all over the world. As my grandmother was born in a concentration camp in Libya and most of my grandfather’s family was murdered by Germans in the holocaust, I find it particularly outraging that German politicians in 2024 have the audacity to weaponize this term against me in a way that endangered my family. But above all else, this behavior puts Palestinian co-director Basel Adra’s life in danger, who lives under a military occupation surrounded by violent settlements in Masafer Yatta. He is in far greater danger than I am. I’m happy our award winning film, No Other Land, is sparking an important international debate on this issue - and I hope that millions of people watch it when it comes out this year. Sparking a conversation is why we made it. You can have harsh criticism of what me and Basel said on stage without demonizing us. If this is what you’re doing with your guilt for the holocaust - I don’t want your guilt.
Over 100,000 people in📍#Gaza are either dead, injured, or missing and presumed dead.
An estimated 17,000 children are unaccompanied or separated from their parents - 1% of the 1.7M displaced population.
#Gaza is being strangled and the world seems to have lost its humanity.
The #EU is Israel's largest trading partner, accounting for 30% of its trade in goods. The EU-ISR economic agreement stipulates 'respect for human rights' (art 2).
The #ICJ's recognition of the risk of Genocide obliges the EU to suspend the agreement.
https://t.co/zlr6eiCclb
Dear President @vonderleyen, the best way to commemorate the victims of a past genocide would be to use all your powers to avoid another genocide, as the one in the making in Gaza.
Else your important commemoration today risks sounding hollow.
Grateful to have joined Rabbis for Ceasefire tonight.
Ceasefire means release the hostages.
Ceasefire means stop the bombardment.
Ceasefire means defend the innocent.
Ceasefire means transcend cycles of violence.
Ceasefire is not just an option. It is our only way out of this.
BREAKING: UN General Assembly ADOPTS resolution on “protection of civilians and upholding legal and humanitarian obligations” on the ongoing Gaza crisis
FOR: 120
AGAINST: 14
ABSTAIN: 45
LIVE COVERAGE
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@joana_petrus@HJ_deJesus#love is Universal, when you love, you don't choose.
#marriage is a fundamental human right, you have the right to marry the person that you love.
Even many Christians marry same sex partners. You can find many examples #samesexmarriage
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📢 #Entérate | 🏳️🌈 🇧🇴El Tribunal Constitucional Plurinacional de Bolivia reconoció el 👬#MatrimonioIgualitario 👭 y recomendó a la Asamblea Legislativa adecuar la ley en favor de los derechos del colectivo 🌈#LGBTTTI 🏳️🌈 🇧🇴. https://t.co/HrzKIojMti