Mahmoud Farouk

[The White House @WhiteHouse]

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[Censored Humans @CensoredXHumans]

Jackie Chan was talking about this video.

“In Palestine, we never grow up, we might get shot at any moment”

[Jake Wallis Simons @JakeWSimons]

Quite hilarious ass-covering

[Mahmoud Farouk @MahmoudFarouk06]

What a peaceful man 👇

[Mona Seif @Monasosh]

FYI
I don't know many Egyptian activists from our generation who spoke consistently out loud against violence committed by all entities and groups - friends and foe- across the past 20 years like Alaa did

He spoke out against police violence and torture (even when he was inside their prisons facing threats from the officer who supervised Alaa's torture)

He spoke out against violence targeting Egyptian Christians in Maspero 2011, and faced prison, challenged a military trial to make sure the real victims are exonerated.

At the peak of revolution in 2011, when confrontations between revolutionaries and the state were happening on the ground, Alaa was the only one -not an exageration- to speak out against "revolutionaries" using weapons against civilians, and he used his body to physically prevent them in May 2011 Abbaseya sit in. He was then attacked and called a traitor by fellow revolutionaries, because the majority of people back then thought even if you don't agree don't speak out about it!

He spoke out loud against secterian violence fueled by muslim brotherhood in Egypt- and alot of them hate him till now for it

He spoke out against the massacres committed by Egyptian military against thousands of Egyptian families in 2013 (the majority were Muslim Brotherhood)

He defended LGBTQ right so early on in Egypt (early 2000) at a time when it was not a common position/stance amongst the "progressive" movement there

He defended the Baha'is religious minorities in Egypt, pre revolution, at a time when only a handful of people spoke out about minorities rights and equalities

He taught me early on (as a child) to distinguish between judism and zionism, and not to be swept by people's tendency around us -in Egypt- to attack jews when their issue is Israeli crimes. And he led by example, he is one of the few people I know who has solid friendships with muslims, copts, jews, atheist, very religious people, and others who loath religion
And has real understanding and connection with every one of them and knowledge of their beliefs/cultures regardless of how vastly different.

Alaa never ever withheld a testimony of human rights violations he knew of or was witness to -as a prisoner - even if it compromised his own safety.

And yes he has expressed a lot of anger towards
1- War machines that have been obliterating people and children left and right all around us since we grew up enough to follow news around us!

2- State institutions responsible for massive systemic humanrights violations and crimes (the Egyptian police comes on top of that list and I am not sure why is that surprising when he was unjustly imprisoned for more than a decade, he was tortured, his family was beaten up, and we have a long line of friends and comrades who are currently imprisoned, were tortured and/or were killed by this police state!)

There is something incredibly heartbreaking and infuriating to be witnessing this vile campaign against him -and our family- with people portraying him as something completely opposite to who he really is, and while he paid a steep price for his convictions.

And there is something so sad about how friends and supporters feel they have to declare their religion while supporting him -particularly if jewish- publicly hoping to instil some truth and clarity in the face of this madness.

Never ending nightmare ..

[Mona Seif @Monasosh]

FYI
I don't know many Egyptian activists from our generation who spoke consistently out loud against violence committed by all entities and groups - friends and foe- across the past 20 years like Alaa did

He spoke out against police violence and torture (even when he was inside their prisons facing threats from the officer who supervised Alaa's torture)

He spoke out against violence targeting Egyptian Christians in Maspero 2011, and faced prison, challenged a military trial to make sure the real victims are exonerated.

At the peak of revolution in 2011, when confrontations between revolutionaries and the state were happening on the ground, Alaa was the only one -not an exageration- to speak out against "revolutionaries" using weapons against civilians, and he used his body to physically prevent them in May 2011 Abbaseya sit in. He was then attacked and called a traitor by fellow revolutionaries, because the majority of people back then thought even if you don't agree don't speak out about it!

He spoke out loud against secterian violence fueled by muslim brotherhood in Egypt- and alot of them hate him till now for it

He spoke out against the massacres committed by Egyptian military against thousands of Egyptian families in 2013 (the majority were Muslim Brotherhood)

He defended LGBTQ right so early on in Egypt (early 2000) at a time when it was not a common position/stance amongst the "progressive" movement there

He defended the Baha'is religious minorities in Egypt, pre revolution, at a time when only a handful of people spoke out about minorities rights and equalities

He taught me early on (as a child) to distinguish between judism and zionism, and not to be swept by people's tendency around us -in Egypt- to attack jews when their issue is Israeli crimes. And he led by example, he is one of the few people I know who has solid friendships with muslims, copts, jews, atheist, very religious people, and others who loath religion
And has real understanding and connection with every one of them and knowledge of their beliefs/cultures regardless of how vastly different.

Alaa never ever withheld a testimony of human rights violations he knew of or was witness to -as a prisoner - even if it compromised his own safety.

And yes he has expressed a lot of anger towards
1- War machines that have been obliterating people and children left and right all around us since we grew up enough to follow news around us!

2- State institutions responsible for massive systemic humanrights violations and crimes (the Egyptian police comes on top of that list and I am not sure why is that surprising when he was unjustly imprisoned for more than a decade, he was tortured, his family was beaten up, and we have a long line of friends and comrades who are currently imprisoned, were tortured and/or were killed by this police state!)

There is something incredibly heartbreaking and infuriating to be witnessing this vile campaign against him -and our family- with people portraying him as something completely opposite to who he really is, and while he paid a steep price for his convictions.

And there is something so sad about how friends and supporters feel they have to declare their religion while supporting him -particularly if jewish- publicly hoping to instil some truth and clarity in the face of this madness.

Never ending nightmare ..

[Mahmoud Farouk @MahmoudFarouk06]

It blew up because he is an advocate for violence and killing. And people like you are complicit in covering up for him. Read this and defend it if you can. Shame on you

[Mai El-Sadany @maitelsadany]

A new @arabifactshub investigation looks into the social media campaign against Alaa Abdel Fattah and raises questions on how it started, who's involved, and why it blew up.

Only in Arabic, but Google Translate does a decent job for non-Arabic speakers https://t.co/UzWqGngyqw

[Dave Smith @ComicDaveSmith]

Gotta love that market place of ideas!

[Ministry of Foreign Affairs 🇸🇴 @MOFASomalia]

خالص الشكر والتقدير لمصر على دعمكم لسيادة الصومال ووحدته.
@MfaEgypt

[Sohrab Ahmari 🇺🇸 @SohrabAhmari]

For the love of God, stop calling him a "pro-democracy activist" or "dissident."

Again, I struggle to assign any blame to the Egyptian state for detaining him. This kind of imminent, directed violent threat is also not protected free speech in Western countries.

[Keir Starmer @Keir_Starmer]

As @YvetteCooperMP sets out in her letter, the historic tweets by Alaa Abd El-Fattah are absolutely abhorrent.

With the rise of antisemitism, and recent horrific attacks, I know this has added to the distress of many in the Jewish community in the UK.

We are taking steps to review the information failures in this case.

[Yvette Cooper @YvetteCooperMP]

I have written to the Chair of the Foreign Affairs Committee about the long-standing and deeply regrettable information failures exposed in recent days around the handling of consular cases, and how we intend to address them.

[Sohrab Ahmari 🇺🇸 @SohrabAhmari]

Alaa Abd El-Fattah is still actively deleting his naughty tweets. He *just* deleted this one after I highlighted it.

This guy's a national-security threat.

[Sohrab Ahmari 🇺🇸 @SohrabAhmari]

We really need to stop lecturing places like Egypt. Do you know how freaking difficult it is to govern a place like Egypt? If you're keeping it together and keeping things from going boom-boom, that should be enough for the West.

[Mahmoud Farouk @MahmoudFarouk06]

Why has @alaa never apologized to Egyptians for years of advocating violence & the deaths it caused? His family stayed silent too. But one day in the UK? Instant apology to the Brits.
Egyptians & their killed families never mattered? Shame on you.

[Mai El-Sadany @maitelsadany]

Since @Alaa arrived in the UK to reunite with his family, he has come under a coordinated campaign that has dug up old tweets in an attempt to impugn his reputation and harm him.

In response, he adds context and bravely holds himself to account in a way we see few willing to do.

[. @Exmligy]

شوف ياخي دلوقتي يبوس الجزم ويعذر وكنت عيل و غلط وهنا كان عامل فيها شبح 😂

[Prof Norman Fenton @profnfenton]

Our new highly welcomed ‘British citizen’ just deleted this post ….

[ما يحدث في الغيط @Joe08617233]

طيب انت كشخص متعاطف مع علاء مش مستغرب انه قام بحملة تنضيف لاكاونته من الكلام اللي يدينه في انجلترا لما مجرد اتشم هناك رغم انه في مصر كان ضارب الكل جزمة وسايب كلامه وحبسه بالمناسبة مكانش بسبب كلامه المكتوب

[Spencer Hakimian @SpencerHakimian]

Cost of Living in Germany vs USA:

[عبدالرحمن مجدي @ARahmanMagdy]

لا موضوع الشناوي ده مش طبيعي!

[Shadow of Ezra @ShadowofEzra]

Dave Chappelle says that if he ever says “I stand with Israel,” it’s a code for “they got him,” and people should stop listening to anything he says after that.

He says his greatest fear is being co-opted, as he doesn’t want the same thing to happen to him that happened to Charlie Kirk.