Legally Socialist

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[Khalil Sayegh @KhalilJeries]

According to every empirical study, Israeli occupation and colonization of the West Bank are the leading cause of the Christian migration out of Palestine. This is an example of how this works:

[William Dalrymple @DalrympleWill]

The Israelis are eliminating one of the last Christian Palestinians strongholds in the West Bank and the place I chose to stay when I was researching the Palestinian Christians in From the Holy Mountain. It is a place with an incredibly ancient history, a cradle of Christianity, and its people have some of the closest DNA matches to the people of the time of Christ. Why is no one reporting this?

[Stop Arab Hate @StopArabHate]

🚨 As @Columbia’s president resigns, we reflect on 10 incidents that occurred during her tenure

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[Legally Socialist @LegalSocialist]

@ori_goldberg "We are the only real people in the world." - I've said it before and will many times again I am sure, but so much of Israeli reality resonates with me as an American, our shared settler colonial experiences can't help but show themselves.

[Tarik Endale | ታሪክ እንዳለ @Tarik_Endale]

"Palestinian Americans like me are discovering something this year: the Democratic Party will bomb your homeland, kill your family, use your own money to do it, and still expect your vote."

Fellow Columbia grad student @itslaylas in @thenation today
https://t.co/pMDSmHh9nO

[Nathan FOIA Tankus @NathanTankus]

This is a little under 16.95 dollars an hour of compensation for being in prison for a little more than 48 years in prison. Money can't ever compensate for the damage and its an insultingly low number.

[Janina Dill @JaninaDill]

The (purposive) intent requirement for the warcrime of human shielding - "utilizing civilians to render mil forces immune from mil ops" - is often hard to infer from conduct. And sometimes it is not hard at all:

[Christiane Amanpour @amanpour]

"This is our conception of security: the way we keep us secure is to abuse, to kill." Investigations by CNN, the UN, and Israeli media exposed alleged abuse of Palestinians in Israeli detention centers, which the IDF and the prison service have denied. Now a new report from @btselem gathers testimony from former detainees, alleging serious abuses and deaths of Palestinians across multiple prisons and detention centers. I spoke with B'Tselem's executive director, Yuli Novak, about what she says is "a pattern" that makes her "ashamed, as an Israeli."

[Laila Al-Arian @LailaAlarian]

The thing about how every accusation is a confession? One of the popular talking point is that Hamas loots the aid. Looks like it’s the Israeli military recording themselves doing it

[Maryam Aldossari @maryam_dh]

I wrote this piece about why the sexual assaults of Palestinian women have not provoked outrage from some high-profile feminists ⁦⁦⁦@The_NewArab⁩ https://t.co/12dbw8z6HQ

[CPJ MENA @CPJMENA]

CPJ calls on Israel to stop making unproven claims that journalists slain by its forces are terrorists or engaging in militant activity, and demands international, swift, and independent investigations into these killings.
@pressfreedom
https://t.co/pYzyx2QrPb

[Adil Haque @AdHaque110]

"the IDF-produced document ... contained contradictory information showing that Al Ghoul, born in 1997, received a Hamas military ranking in 2007—when he would have been 10 years old."

[Friendly Neighborhood Comrade @SpiritofLenin]

James Baldwin: "We have yet to understand that if I am starving, you are in danger. If people think that my danger makes them safe, we are in trouble."

[Akbar Shahid Ahmed @AkbarSAhmed]

Malnutrition in Gaza increased *300%* in July.

Meanwhile,< half of aid missions planned this month were facilitated & Israeli restrictions hindered the flow of everything from vaccines & antibiotics to nutrition for newborns+pregnant women

Worth reading:
https://t.co/DT5oyb6Xxk

[Writers Against the War on Gaza @wawog_now]

“Years.” They’re planning to keep doing genocide for “years.”

[Ryan Grim @ryangrim]

So Israel could have a ceasefire deal with Hamas and avert an attack from Iran and all they have to do is accept the terms that Israel itself already laid out and approved — and everybody is pretty sure they won’t do that.

[American Association of University Professors @AAUP]

Ahead of the fall semester, the AAUP condemns the wave of administrative policies intended to crack down on peaceful campus protests.
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https://t.co/X39KTZEi6E

[Emek Shaveh @EmekShaveh]

1/This is the village of Battir. A farming village near Bethlehem that preserves an agricultural way of life from the Roman era. The terraces fed by a network of ancient channels carrying water from the bountiful springs are kept alive by local families <<

[Jack Mirkinson @jackmirkinson]

"Palestinian Americans like me are discovering something this year: the Democratic Party will bomb your homeland, kill your family, use your own money to do it, and still expect your vote."

A must-read from @itslaylas today in @thenation. https://t.co/4d3Pkezzko