Hammam Farah

Palestinian Christian | From Gaza with Love | Therapist | Executive Director Elham Fund | When I’m not fighting injustice, I help others fight their demons.

[Hammam Farah @HumHum83]

Hi George. I’m a Palestinian Christian from Gaza. The majority of Christians who left did so due to Israel’s illegal blockade. My family’s orchards were bulldozed by the IOF. My grandfather was expelled from Bir Saba’ in 48. My great aunt was sniped by a terrorist soldier in Nov.

[George Deek @GeorgeDeek]

Hi Mirna from Portland, like you I’m Christian. Like you I come from a Palestinian family. But if you really cared about the plight of Christians in the Middle East you’d be supporting Israel and condemning Hamas.

In Israel, the Christian population grew from less than 40,000 in 1950 to over 180,000 today – that’s a 450% increase. It is the only place in the Middle East where the number of Christians is rising.

In the Palestinian territories by contrast, the Christian population has declined from 15 percent in 1950 to less than 2 percent today.

Christians are running away from Gaza – I know because I personally helped many of them. Less than 2,000 Christians remain there.

Remember Rami Ayyad? He was a member of the Baptist Church, managed Gaza's only Christian bookstore and was involved in many charitable activities. He was found shot in the head, his body thrown on a Gaza street in 2007.

Remember how in May 2008 a bomb detonated outside a Christian school in Gaza City? This was not the first bombing of the Zahwa Rosary School, maybe you studied there yourself.

Remember how in January 2008, a convoy of over 400 Christians left Gaza for Bethlehem, and did not plan on returning?

Remember how Hamas bans any celebration of Christmas and New Year’s Eve in Gaza?

Maybe you don’t, but here is one thing you must remember:

A Middle East that has no room for Jews, is a middle East that has no room for Christians, or any other minority.
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@abierkhatib

[Muhammad Shehada @muhammadshehad2]

American journalists once made up a fictitious "Palestinian PLO leader" in Lebanon out of thin air, called him "Abu Rashid", & turned him into "the most quoted PLO commander in the entire middle east", b/c they couldn't/didn't want to interview real PLO leaders

Philip Caputo revealed this 3 decades later

Imagine how many "Abu Rashids" are widely quoted in mainstream media today!

[Dimitri Lascaris @dimitrilascaris]

It’s bad enough that this motion was defeated. The fact that it was defeated by a wide margin highlights the degeneracy of Canada’s political elite. They have no moral authority to criticize the human rights abuses of anyone.

@yuenpauwoo is an honourable exception.

[Rabbi David Mivasair @RabbiMivasair]

You have to do better with that brand new $1 billion CAD propaganda budget.
Arabs rejected the "two-state solution" in 1947 because it gave 55% of the land to the Jews who at that time owned only 7%.
Arab armies "invaded" only after months of Jewish terror depopulating dozens of Palestinian villages and neighbourhoods.
Doesn't everyone know that by now?
Read "The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine" by Israeli historian Ilan Pappe.

[Muhammad Shehada @muhammadshehad2]

🚨This short film exposes the true story of Israel's creation, entirely through the words of its own founders

For decades, Israel’s lies have been carefully designed to demonize its victims. To ensure that no matter the crimes it commits, the children it slaughters, the world remains incapable of empathy for Palestinians, or at best, treats it with the same apathy that has allowed this to go on for as long as it has

On the 78th anniversary of its creation, it's time the world knew that Israel's past is not different from the brutal present the world is finally seeing

[Hammam Farah @HumHum83]

My great aunt, Elham Farah, a Palestinian Christian and Gaza’s first modern-day music teacher, was shot by Israeli soldiers and run over by a tank. Here I recount what happened, based on accounts from those who witnessed her final moments. May the perpetrators face justice.

[Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East @CJPME]

Canada must follow Italy’s lead in ending defence ties with genocidal Israel. Terminate the Canada-Israel Strategic Partnership and suspend all bilateral cooperation on defence and security matters.

[susan abulhawa | سوزان ابو الهوى @susanabulhawa]

in response to the "ceasefire" agreement, Israel dropped over 100 bombs across densely populated areas of Beirut, murdering hundreds of families in their homes. this demonic entity knows only mass murder, stealing, domination, destruction, and crying victim at the same time.
they bombed a funeral—literally people trying to bury a loved one were slaughtered from the air.
I hate these demons so much. the whole world does, and that's the only morsel of comfort, because that righteous hate will blow up in their faces someday when they least expect it.

[Rania Khalek @RaniaKhalek]

I have not seen a single mainstream media outlet give this the attention it deserves.

Israel blew up an entire Lebanese town, an ancient place. It should be headline news. There’s footage of it happening.

Imagine this was your town, and you saw every building blown up by a terrorist army to prevent you from ever returning. You would at the very least expect wall to wall coverage. Instead it passes without a word.

It’s not the only town Israel has blown up. And sadly it probably won’t be the last.

[Hammam Farah @HumHum83]

As a communist Orthodox Christian from Gaza, I very much look forward to this.

[Sopo Japaridze @sopjap]

I wrote about the endlessly fascinating connection between Orthodox Christianity and Palestinian national self-determination, including its later influence on Palestinian communism, but I don’t know where to publish it because it’s so specific and historical.

[Abier @abierkhatib]

Trump’s “victory timeline” claims.

Mar 3: "We won the war."
Mar 7: "We defeated Iran."
Mar 9: "We must attack Iran."
Mar 9: "The war is ending almost completely, and very beautifully."
Mar 11: “You never like to say too ⁠early you won. We won. In ​the first hour it was over.” Mar 12: "We did win, but we haven't won completely yet."
Mar 13: "We won the war."
Mar 14: "Please help us."
Mar 15: "If you don't help us, I will certainly remember it."
Mar 16: "Actually, we don't need any help at all."
Mar 16: "I was just testing to see who's listening to me."
Mar 16: "If NATO doesn't help, they will suffer something very bad."
Mar 17: "We neither need nor want NATO's help."
Mar 17: "I don't need Congressional approval to withdraw from NATO."
Mar 18: "Our allies must cooperate in reopening the Strait of Hormuz."
Mar 19: "US allies need to get a grip - step up and help open the Strait of Hormuz."
Mar 20: "NATO are cowards."
Mar 21: "The Strait of Hormuz must be protected by the countries that use it. We don't use it, we don't need to open it."
Mar 22: "This is the last time. I will give Iran 48 hours. Open the strait"
Mar 22: "Iran is Dead"

Mar 23: "We had very good and productive talks with Iran."
Mar 24: "We’re making progress."
Mar 25: “They gave us a present and the present arrived today. And it was a very big present worth a tremendous amount of money. I’m not going to tell you what that present is, but it was a very significant prize.��� Mar 26: "Make a deal, or we’ll just keep blowing them away."
Mar 27: "We don’t have to be there for NATO."
Mar 28: No major quote
Mar 29: Claimed talks were progressing
Mar 30: "Open the Strait of Hormuz immediately, or face devastating consequences."
Mar 31: Claimed a deal was "very close" and that Iran would "do the right thing"
Apr 1: "We’ll see what happens very soon."
Apr 2: Repeated that a deal was likely, while warning of continued strikes if not
Apr 3: "Something big is going to happen."
Apr 4: Said Iran must comply "immediately" or face further consequences.

Apr 5: "Open the fuckin' Strait, you crazy bastards, or you'll be living in Hell - JUST WATCH! Praise be to Allah."
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[Hammam Farah @HumHum83]

Gaza is the closest reflection of Easter in the world today. Destroyed, buried, and still it rises, again and again, through the ages. A people who resist and sacrifice so a new world can be born again. If resurrection means anything, it’s this.

Christ is risen.

[Christopher Hale @ChristopherHale]

It’s remarkable that Christians can publicly celebrate Easter in Tehran, but not in Jerusalem.

[Hammam Farah @HumHum83]

While our Christian community in Gaza prays for hope this Easter, “Christian” Zionism turns their devastation into despair, cheering it on as prophecy. Christians must pledge to confront, defeat and dismantle this vile heresy that disgraces us all.

[Hammam Farah @HumHum83]

While our Christian community in Gaza prays for hope this Easter, “Christian” Zionism turns their devastation into despair, cheering it on as prophecy. Christians must pledge to confront, defeat and dismantle this vile heresy that disgraces us all.

[Quds News Network @QudsNen]

Christians in Gaza celebrate the Easter Vigil at the Church of the Holy Family, gathering for “Holy Light Saturday” amid darkness and ongoing Israeli genocide.

[Pals @palsofnations]

1923, Jaffa, Palestine 🇵🇸

A Palestinian Christian girl celebrating Easter ✝️

Photographed by Dutch photographer Frank Scholten author of the two volume publication La Palestine illustrée, 1929.

[Daniel Lambert @dlLambo]

"Israel wants to live in peace with its neighbours" is the biggest lie of all time.

This is the West Bank.

No Hamas, no war, yet attacked like this daily by "settlers" backed by the IDF.

A savagely violent Jewish supremacy armed by the EU/UK/US

[Munther Isaac منذر اسحق @MuntherIsaac]

This Easter confronts us with a painful truth: many Christians have turned away from the way of the cross. Instead of following the crucified Christ, they align with the empire that crucified him—seeking power and influence.

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

I don't believe you can be a good Zionist anymore than I believe someone can be a decent Nazi. The ideology itself describes a major character flaw.

I cannot take seriously the idea that some ethnicities or religious groups are inherently prone to nefarious behavior; it goes against everything I've learned about the human condition over the course of my strange adventures on this planet. I absolutely do believe there are political ideologies whose adherents are universally dogshit people, though.

If you've been watching the incineration of the Gaza Strip and thinking it's good, or thinking it's complicated, or thinking it's an unfortunate development that can be blamed on a few bad apples in the Israeli government but doesn't reflect Israel's nature as a whole, then you're a piece of shit. You're a horrible human being. It really is that simple.

If you can look at Israel starting all these wars, bombing the fuck out of Iran and Lebanon and Palestine, passing laws to execute Palestinians exclusively while sparing Jews from the same sentencing for the same crimes, and still fail to recognize that the Israel experiment must be aborted, then you have not developed a functioning conscience. You have wasted your time on this earth. You have not managed to mature into a morally healthy human in all these years you've been alive.

There are Zionists who are vegetarian, who are nice to their pets, who give money to charity — but there are no Zionists who are actually good people. John Wayne Gacy did charity clown shows for hospitalized children, but he was still a serial killer and a very bad man. His abusiveness eclipsed any other kindness he may have performed, and became his defining characteristic as an individual.

Being a supporter of the Israel project is exactly the same. It doesn't matter what else you do with your life if you stand on the side of a man-made murder machine which is fueled by the blood of the innocent. You're just plain awful.

[Rabbi David Mivasair @RabbiMivasair]

Canada is NOT turning on Israel.
Reality:
Carney says words.
Israel doesn't care.
The end.