MirjamK

Project Manager/Consultant Peacebuilding🕊
Environment&Sustainability🌍🌳

[MirjamK @MajrimK]

@ShahdAbusalama A rare German type indeed🤣 But we do exist and we do make it known #FreePalestine ✊🏼🇵🇸❤️
It was good to see you my favourite freedom fighter @ShahdAbusalama ❤️❤️

[Dr. Abusalama @ShahdAbusalama]

This is my friend Miri who came in a white coat she stained by falafel sauce upon arrival! She visited for a weekend "to give me a hug," reminding me who my true friends I made outside #Gaza are. She is a rare German type who believes apartheid & genocide are wrong full-stop.🤍🇵🇸

[MirjamK @MajrimK]

#London this Saturday. Come out in support of #Sudan

[The GEM Collective @gem_collective]

This Saturday - 9 November - 1pm

US Embassy to Parliament Square

Come out to support Sudan

#KeepEyesOnSudan

[MirjamK @MajrimK]

"The demolition of #Gaza is indeed being perpetrated in defense of #westernvalues, and is itself a perfect embodiment of western values. Not the western values they teach you about in school, but the hidden ones they don’t want you to look at."

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

When Israeli president Isaac Herzog described the assault on Gaza as a war “to save Western civilization, to save the values of Western civilization,” he wasn’t really lying. He was telling the truth — just maybe not quite in the way that he meant it.

The demolition of Gaza is indeed being perpetrated in defense of western values, and is itself a perfect embodiment of western values. Not the western values they teach you about in school, but the hidden ones they don’t want you to look at. Not the attractive packaging with the advertising slogans on the label, but the product that’s actually inside the box.

For centuries western civilization has depended heavily on war, genocide, theft, colonialism and imperialism, which it has justified using narratives premised on religion, racism and ethnic supremacy — all of which we are seeing play out in the incineration of Gaza today.

What we are seeing in Gaza is a much better representation of what western civilization is really about than all the gibberish about freedom and democracy we learned about in school. A much better representation of western civilization than all the art and literature we’ve been proudly congratulating ourselves on over the centuries. A much better representation of western civilization than the love and compassion we like to pretend our Judeo-Christian values revolve around.

It’s been so surreal watching western rightists babbling about how savage and barbaric Muslim culture is amid the 2023 zombie resurrection of Bush-era Islamophobia, even while western civilization amasses a mountain of ten thousand child corpses.

That mountain of child corpses is a much better representation of western culture than anything Mozart, da Vinci or Shakespeare ever produced.

This is western civilization. This is what it looks like.

Western civilization, where Julian Assange awaits his final appeal in February against US extradition for journalism which exposed US war crimes.

Where we are fed a nonstop deluge of mass media propaganda to manufacture our consent for wars and aggression which have killed millions and displaced tens of millions in the 21st century alone.

Where we are kept distracted by vapid entertainment and artificial culture wars so we don’t think too hard about what this civilization is and who it is killing and maiming and starving and exploiting.

Where news cycles are dominated more by celebrity gossip and Donald Trump’s latest mouth farts than by the mass atrocities that are being actively facilitated by western governments.

Where liberals congratulate themselves for having progressive views on race and gender while the officials they elect help rip apart children’s bodies with military explosives.

Where Zionist Jews center themselves and their emotions because opposition to an active genocide makes them feel like they are being persecuted, and where Israel supporters who are not Jewish still kind of feel like they are being persecuted also.

Where a giant globe-spanning empire powered by militarism, imperialism, capitalism and authoritarianism devours human flesh with an insatiable appetite while we congratulate ourselves on how much better we are than nations like Iran or China.

These are western values. This is western civilization.

Ask somebody to tell you what their values are and they’ll give you a bunch of pleasant-sounding words about family and love and caring or whatever. Watch their actions to see what their actual values are and you’ll often get a very different story.

That’s us. That’s western civilization. We say we value freedom, justice, truth, peace and free expression, but our actions paint a very different picture. The real western values, the actual product inside the box underneath the attractive label, are the ones you see acted out in Gaza today.

[MirjamK @MajrimK]

In memory of Refaat Al-Araeer who was killed in #Gaza by #Israel who are threatened by his words of truth and intellect. But his legacy can't be killed and will continue to inspire & empower generations to come in their fight towards a #freepalastine (painted by @ShahdAbusalama).

[Dr. Abusalama @ShahdAbusalama]

The more terror, loss and destruction Gaza endures, the more words become meaningless. My new painting is for the precious memory of Refaat Al-Araeer, a Palestinian professor whose love & legacy will continue to guide us. Israel's murder of @itranslate123 won't be forgiven.

[MirjamK @MajrimK]

My dear friend's @ShahdAbusalama family home got destroyed in #Gaza
"It's devastating to see our precious home destroyed. But "if the building remains standing , say #Alhamdulillah," my cousin comforted me."
#CeasefireNOW

[Dr. Abusalama @ShahdAbusalama]

This is the first call with my cousin Wasim after 3 weeks of heart-wrenching disconnection amid nonstop terrorising news from my birthplace Jabalia Refugee Camp. Our conversation is juxtaposed on the videos he shared with us from my family home. #Gaza https://t.co/oMgAjQJs1t

[MirjamK @MajrimK]

@Sarah_Hassan94 German in Kenya🇩🇪🇰🇪
Keep it up🇵🇸✊🏼❤️

[MirjamK @MajrimK]

@GadSaad Even if one does not have a specific answer to your question, this does not take away from knowing that the current response is 100% wrong.

In addition, let's also not forget that the killing of 1400 Israelis on October 7th was also a response and did not happen in a vacuum.

[MirjamK @MajrimK]

@POTUS Trying to keep arab-american voters after bombing Gaza to pieces. Hypocrisy levels skyrocketing. Walk the walk!

[Yousef Munayyer @YousefMunayyer]

Every child killed in Gaza today would be alive if we had a cease-fire yesterday. These are the stakes. This is our failing. You can retweet this everyday until a cease-fire happens because it remains true. How high does the pile of bodies have to get?

[Zachary Foster @_ZachFoster]

The 2-State Solution.” A 🧵

[MirjamK @MajrimK]

@tazgezwitscher Ja, Protest muss erlaubt sein. Und es muss auch verstanden werden dass Poteste sich gegen die Israelische Regierung und nicht gegen Juden richten. Das ist kein Antisemitismus! "Nie wieder" muss auch für die Leben von Palästinenser gelten. Und dafür sollten wir alle protestieren!!

[MirjamK @MajrimK]

@VP Yes and then, after you helped to kill most palestinians, the US can give them expert knowledge on how to give 🇵🇸 natives little reservoirs where their culture slowly dies&they have no prospects. #FreePalestine

[MirjamK @MajrimK]

@POTUS So you'll loose!

[MirjamK @MajrimK]

@LadyAfruika @POTUS Exactlyyyyyy🗣👏🏼

[MirjamK @MajrimK]

@POTUS Actions speak louder than dumb-ass tweets. Free Palestine✊🏼🇵🇸

[MirjamK @MajrimK]

@POTUS You are providing the weapons that kill civilians in Gaza. Stop trying to act like you sympathise. Just because you may feed them while you shoot&bomb them doesn't make it okay that you kill them. So idiotic

[MirjamK @MajrimK]

@POTUS Seems like a little bit of a detour....I think the easier way to support palestinians would be to stop providing the money and weapons that kill and displace palestinians in the first place?!

[William Carter @WillCarter_NRC]

This'll be unpopular, but it's been six damn months now and I'm seething...

Six months of war, chaos, displacement, disease and looming famine, and the world scrolls past Sudan's suffering, the UN Security Council has barely met, and world leaders remain silent.

Six months ago, you were dying for democracy in the streets of your capital, on a promise of peace and political transition and international support. The least the world would do then to resolve that constitutional crisis was to give you a trilateral UN-AU-IGAD mechanism that helped produce this wholly unprecedented, unholy, regionalised civil war, a war in which even the capital has been bombed and sacked and raped. The most the world will do now that all hell has broken loose it seems is fund just a third of the humanitarian appeal for 25 million people in dire need—so which 17 million people in humanitarian need won't get any lifesaving assistance whatsoever? And whose fault is this? And why is no one doing anything about it? After six shameful months, this is what the international community so far has done for you. I mean, to you.

So, stand tall, civilians of Sudan, as it's plain that you're basically on your own now, neglected. Stand tall, and expect neither much help nor leadership from the outside world, for they have abandoned you. Stand tall, and don't wait to lead your own path, a path not premised on platitudes and paper-thin commitments and perpetrators' podiums. Stand tall, and keep heroically helping one another, and aid organisations and networks still striving to help too will eventually follow. Stand tall, for no one in this statist, racist international system appears to be truly acting in your best interests. At least not with any serious effort. I wish things were different, and they can be, the international community can decide to care enough to help, but this is what it is right now. To tell you anything else would be dangerously dishonest.

Six damn months now.

So in the next six months, I'd like to see Sudanese civilians be given space to take the lead, to begin to set the agenda for the international humanitarian response - not the broken multilateral system, not the broke UN-led response, and not the warring parties. To do this, you need to stand tall, and stand together.

[MirjamK @MajrimK]

@POTUS Sooooooo....what are you hinting at?!!!!!!!!
Should Israel stop cartying out a genocide? Should the US stop sending money and weapons enabling them to do so?!!!!
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