Labid Ahmad Butt

Deutscher Ahmadi Student mit pakistanischen Wurzeln

[Thomas Fazi @battleforeurope]

Crazy that this is getting barely any coverage. This year’s European Press Prize was just awarded to an investigative report by the Dutch newspaper De Volkskrant. It is entitled “What the Wounds Tell” and in it the journalists Maud Effting and Willem Feenstra document the cases of 114 children in Gaza under the age of 15 who were struck by a single bullet to the head or chest. Almost all of them died or were left severely disabled. They chose to document only the cases of boys and girls under the age of 15 (though often much younger: aged 3, 4 or 7) because these are children who can be immediately identified as such. “A single bullet in these parts of the body is a clear indication that these children were deliberately targeted“, the two journalists write.

This is the article: https://t.co/YkZrpqBWBQ

[Jakob Reimann @Jakob_Reimann]

Die "moralischste Armee der Welt" hat schwer damit zu kämpfen, den nicht enden wollenden Strom an Social-Media-Beiträgen zu stoppen, in denen 🇮🇱Soldaten mit ihren Kriegsverbrechen, Zerstörungsorgien, Fetischen, Entmenschlichungen, Gewaltfantasien und anderen Barbareien prahlen.

[Press Ahmadiyya @pressahmadiyya]

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[Abier @abierkhatib]

I really don’t get why the death penalty is even needed when they casually killing Palestinians w no consequences.

[Save Gaza @Alee93ale]

This is Israel, world

Palestinian child sniped by Israel 🇮🇱 while simply walking with her mother, who was also sniped while holding a child.

Repost this. Please I beg you

[Seth Bannon @sethbannon]

This is a photo of Mustafa Ali Bani Odeh, an 8 year old Palestinian child, after he witnessed Israeli soldiers kill his mother, his father, and two of his brothers, aged 7 and 5.

This took place in the occupied West Bank, land Israel has no right to patrol.

The NYT account of the shooting is worth sharing:

"Ali Bani Odeh’s wife and four young boys hadn’t seen him in a month and a half when he came home to Tammun, in the West Bank, from his construction job in Israel late on Friday to spend the last few days of Ramadan with his family.

On Saturday night, the boys persuaded him to take them out for a drive. Eid al-Fitr, the end of Ramadan, was coming, so there were new clothes to buy. The day’s fast had been broken, so there were sweets to be had, too.

They picked up fried doughnut holes in Tubas, saving them for later, but the clothing shop they went to in Nablus was closed. It was already past midnight, so they headed back to Tammun: Khaled, 11, the oldest, in the back with Mustafa, 8, and Muhammad, 5. Othman, 6, blind and incapable of walking or feeding himself, was in his mother’s lap in front.

As they rounded a corner slowly, a few minutes from home, young Khaled and Mustafa recounted on Sunday, their mother, Waad, 35, asked her husband to pull over and take Othman from her so she could get something from her bag on the floor. Suddenly, the boys said, they saw laser pointers shining on their family from every direction, heard their mother scream, heard their father say “God is great” — and then heard a deafening fusillade of gunfire."

Why did the soldiers kill this family? They say they "sensed danger".

Imagine the strength it will take for Mustafa to resist turning to violence against the country that killed his parents and his brothers. By killing so many innocent men, women, and children, Israel is ensuring the cycle of violence continues and making everyone, everywhere less safe.

The grief of Mustafa is unimaginable. But his story is not unique. Tends of thousands of children killed. Many more have had their parents, brothers, sisters, family, friends killed by Israeli snipers or Israeli bombs.

We cannot let this continue.

[Justin Bonomo 🇵🇸 @JustinBonomo]

The IDF shot up a family of 6 in a car. 2 parents and 4 kids aged 5-11.

Then they removed the 11 year old who survived and beat him.

*After* they beat him, they asked him who they had just killed. The boy said his family, and they kept yelling at him, calling him “liar, liar”.

This was not in Gaza where the genocide is happening. This was in the West Bank where illegal Israeli settlers live under Israeli civil law and Palestinians live under Israeli military law - officially and explicitly. And yet Israel nonsensically claims there’s no apartheid.

There’s always been violence against Palestinians in the West Bank but it has massively ramped up since the Iran war started. Dozens of murders, over a hundred cases of settler violence, and 180 Palestinians kicked out of their homes by illegal Israeli settlers.

There is a pattern many have noticed. When there’s a distraction - anything ranging from the Super Bowl to a full fledged war - Israel ramps up the war crimes. One can only conclude this is calculated and intentional.

I call them illegal Israeli settlers because for half a century, the UN and International Court of Justice have ruled these settlements are illegal.

Beginning in 1979, the UN Security Council resolved the settlements were illegal and in 1980 that they must be dismantled. The 1980 vote was 15-0. Even the US affirmed the resolution.

In 2004, the International Court of Justice formally upheld that these settlements were illegal.

At the end of 2022, the UNGA asked the highest court in the world for another opinion.

And in 2024 the ICJ formally gave it. They plainly stated:

1) Israel’s continued occupation of the OPT is illegal (not only Gaza and the West Bank, but also East Jerusalem)

2) All ~750,000 Israeli settlers must leave the OPT

3) Israel must pay reparations

4) All countries must acknowledge the occupation is illegal and must not aid Israel in any way in maintaining its illegal occupation

Obviously Israel is blatantly spurning the highest court in the world.

The framing is important. This isn’t just a few bad apples doing a few bad things.

This is 50 years of blatantly illegal and wildly oppressive occupation, enacted by 750,000 Israelis, by direct and official policy from all of Israel, and it is largely ignored, tolerated, and in some cases financially supported by The West.

The call to Free Palestine thus isn’t some abstract, obscure, or whimsical ask. The International Court of Justice has very clearly ruled that Israel must GTFO of Palestine. We simply want Israel to follow basic international law and leave Palestine alone. And we want the world to do something about it if Israel won’t.

Free Palestine 🇵🇸

[Nurder Koch @NurderK]

Ehrlich, ich denke mir das nicht aus: @PreislerKa: „Und was mich nicht mehr loslässt, ist der Gedanke, die Menschen im Iran haben darum gebettelt, beschossen zu werden, um vom Mullah-Regime befreit zu werden. Und die Menschen in Israel haben den Beschuss durch Mullahs, durch Hisbollah und durch Hamas ertragen, weil sie wussten, der Iran braucht diese Befreiung, und das hat mir eine andere Bescheidenheit vorgelebt.“

[Qasim Rashid, Esq. @QasimRashid]

Media wants us to feel sorry for Israeli soldiers who committed genocide and killed 20 people a day.

Not for the Palestinians who suffered genocide
Not for the Iranian families who lost 170 children
Not for the tens of thousands of orphans in Gaza

They want us to weap for the poor helpless Israeli soldiers who have to live with the trauma of knowing they "just followed orders" to mass murder innocent children like Hind Rajab.

Nah—I hope they enjoy their self made hell in this life & the next

[Samira Mohyeddin سمیرا @SMohyeddin]

This headline should be studied in every journalism school 👇

[Jonathan Cook @Jonathan_K_Cook]

It’s Iranian propaganda that a primary school was hit in Iran, killing 160+ people, most of them children aged between 7 and 12.

Ok, those kids did die. But it wasn’t from a US missile. It was an Iranian missile that hit the school.

Ok, the evidence shows it was a US Tomahawk. But it could have been one sold to the UK or the Netherlands.

Ok, neither of those countries was involved at the start of the war. But it must have been an unfortunate accident.

Ok, the US targeted the school twice. But c’mon, who locates a primary school near a military base?

Ok, the Israelis and Americans do that too. But …

Hey, why should I even care about brown kids getting killed.

[Manaf Hassan @manaf12hassan]

Zuerst wurde ich angegriffen, diffamiert und beleidigt, nur weil ich geschrieben habe, dass die USA und Israel eine Mädchenschule im Iran bombardiert und dabei 168 Menschen getötet haben – Kinder, Mädchen. Es hieß sofort: „Fake News“. Das sei gar nicht passiert – oder zumindest nicht so.

Dann hieß es, der Iran sei selbst schuld. Es handle sich um eine fehlgeleitete iranische Rakete, die versehentlich die eigene Schule getroffen habe.

Und jetzt berichten plötzlich fast alle Medien – einschließlich US-amerikanischer – dass es ein US-amerikanischer (eventuell gemeinsam mit Israel durchgeführter) Angriff war.

Das eigentliche Problem ist aber ein anderes: Viele Menschen glauben nur noch, was in ihr Weltbild, ihre Ideologie, ihr Umfeld und ihre Filterblase passt. Sie wollen gar nicht prüfen, recherchieren, Quellen aus verschiedenen Ländern lesen, Zusammenhänge analysieren oder auch nur kurz innehalten. Es geht ihnen nicht um die Wahrheit, nicht um die getöteten Kinder, nicht um Gerechtigkeit, Freiheit oder Menschenwürde.

Sie wollen nur an ihre eigene Welt glauben. Es geht nur darum, den eigenen Senf abzugeben, die eigene Seite zu stärken und sich moralisch überlegen zu fühlen.

Wer holt diese ermordeten Mädchen zurück? Niemand.

Schämt euch.

[Tarek Baé @Tarek_Bae]

Liebe @tagesschau, ihr sprecht von einem „Gaza-Eklat“ und einer „Hassrede“ auf den Berlinale Filmfestspielen. Ihr nutzt diese Worte, als wären sie Fakt. Das ist keine Berichterstattung, das ist politische Meinungsmache. Ihr seid frei, diese Meinung zu haben; wenn ihr sie denn habt. So wie wir frei sind, euch dafür kritisch zur Rechenschaft zu ziehen.

Eine solche Meinungsfreiheit gesteht ihr dem Künstler auf der Berlinale aber nicht zu. Seine Meinung nennt ihr „Hass“, seine Meinungsäußerung einen „Eklat“. Nein, einen „Gaza“-Eklat“, als wärt ihr die BILD-Zeitung. Für eine Meinung ist sein Name wohl zu arabisch, sein Aussehen zu dunkel, sein Palästinensischsein zu unwert. Und nicht zuletzt: Wie kann er es wagen, uns erhabene Deutsche zu kritisieren? Hm?

Wenn es einen „Gaza-Eklat“, also einen Skandal gäbe, dann müsste es der Genozid selbst sein. Nicht aber für die Tagesschau. Für sie ist nicht der Skandal, dass es in Gaza Verbrechen gab, die angesprochen wurden. Sondern, dass die Verbrechen angesprochen werden. Ein Preisträger kritisierte in der Hauptstadt Deutschlands die deutsche Regierung für ihre Unterstützung Israels. Er warf „Partnerschaft im israelischen Genozid“ vor. Übrigens: Der Internationale Gerichtshof (IGH) hat gegen die Bundesregierung genau diese Klage zugelassen.

Die Tagesschau zitiert in ihrem Beitrag lediglich zwei Personen. Zwei deutsche Regierungsvertreter. „Inakzeptabel“, „abstoßende Szenen“, „bösartige Falschbehauptung“, das sind die einzigen Worte, die ihr der Zuschauerschaft liefert. Ihr übernehmt deckungsgleich ihre Position. Mit Verlaub, überall sonst würden wir so etwas Staatspropaganda nennen.

Nichts an der Rede des palästinensischen Regisseur Abdallah Alkhatib war „Hass“. Er hat eine deutliche Kritik geäußert. Und er hat sie begründet. Übrigens, nicht als einziger Preisträger. Insgesamt vier Preisträgerinnen und Preisträger nutzten ihre Dankesrede, um auf den Genozid in Gaza aufmerksam zu machen.

Ihr stellt euch nicht auf die Seite der Meinungsfreiheit, der Kunstfreiheit und Freiheit überhaupt; nein, ihr beugt euch der Regierung, die keine Kritik an sich hören will, bockig den Saal verlässt und danach aufhetzt. Das ist unwürdig.

[Ken O'Keefe @RealKenOKeefe]

>there is no genocide

>anyway here’s a satellite view of the genocide we committed

[MTA Germany Studios @MuslimTvDe]

Über dieses Gebet sagte Hazoor (aba) heute in seiner Freitagsansprache :
„Das ist das Gebet, das jede Person rezitieren sollte, der beansprucht den Heiligen Propheten (saw) zu lieben und der möchte, dass er die Liebe zu Allah äußern kann, zum Geliebten Allahs wird.

[Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand]

Franco-German media Arte, same documentary on the West Bank.

French title: "Occupied territory, the roads of annexation"

German title: "Why is Israel building new roads in the West Bank? New roads for the West Bank"

It's real. French video: https://t.co/Al91TjeyHz. German video: https://t.co/KDKhhpZOK0

The French frame it as occupation and annexation. If you read the longer video description they write: "Highways, tunnels, viaducts, park-and-ride facilities… the Hebrew state is investing considerable sums in this occupied territory. These roads are the engine of colonization."

The Germans however frame it as a mere infrastructure buildup. The video description just says: "Israel is investing heavily in new highways, tunnels, viaducts, and parking structures in the Palestinian West Bank. This encourages more and more Israeli citizens to settle in the new settlements, since these are now connected to major cities by modern and secure roads. These roads are also the answer to Israel's population growth."

[SilencedSirs◼️ @SilentlySirs]

🚨 MUST WATCH:
Israeli forces bulldoze a Palestinian school — while students are still inside the building.

This isn’t a scene from history — it’s happening now.
Where’s the outrage?

[Ounka @OunkaOnX]

Settlers attack a Bedouin family east of the village of Taybeh, east of Ramallah, after establishing a settlement outpost nearby

Just look the age of these kids, from top to bottom this society is pure definition of genocidal and racist society

[YourFavoriteGuy @guychristensen_]

Our friend from Gaza thanks Trump for the ceasefire “in the right way”

[susan abulhawa | سوزان ابو الهوى @susanabulhawa]

nearly 30% of the population of Amsterdam, an estimated quarter of a million people, flood the streets of the city wearing red in solidarity with Palestine.