Yesterday, the IDF seized 4 students from their homes in the West Bank, including 20-year-old American, Sama Safi.
The Israeli govt didn’t tell her family or the U.S. Embassy where or why she was being taken & is holding her without charges.
America must secure her release NOW.
It’s 1 a.m. in Lebanon right now.
People are asleep.
And Israel just ordered the evacuation of entire residential buildings packed with civilians in Tyre.
Families waking up in the dark, grabbing children, fleeing before Israel drops bombs on their homes and flatten them.
BREAKING! US court ha suspended the US sanctions against me!
As the judge says: "Protecting the Freedom of speech is always just the public interest".
Thanks to my daughter and my husband for stepping up to defend me, and everyone who has helped so far.
Together we are One.
Remember María Corina Machado? the Venezuelan politician who dedicated her so-called “Nobel Peace Prize” to Donald Trump?
Today, CODEPINK activists interrupted her speech and gave her a more fitting award instead: the Monroe Doctrine Award. For outstanding dedication to U.S. intervention, sanctions, regime change, and empire in Latin America.
A politician who supported sanctions that devastated Venezuelan families, backed invasion threats, and supports Israel’s genocide in Gaza does not represent peace.
She represents war, colonization, and U.S. hegemony. Congratulations, Maria.
****Statement from Mosab Abu Toha in response to LeMoyne College's President's email to students today*****
This is deeply shameful. I cannot believe what I am reading.
How dare you tell a person who survived a genocide that they cannot speak about it?
On April 15, I had the honor of visiting and speaking at Le Moyne College. I spoke about my lived experience in Gaza, shared the family trees of those killed by Israel, and read my poems. I also played the actual recordings of Israeli airstrikes and artillery shelling that I documented myself while on the ground in Gaza.
This morning, the President of the college sent out an email condemning my use of the word GENOCIDE when describing these crimes. She claimed that using that word is "antisemitic." She stated that she recognized the "real hurt" that the word caused to Jewish students.
Seriously? Are the crimes of the Israeli state representative of all Jewish people? I personally refuse to believe that is the case.
It is utterly ridiculous to begin a letter by stating that your institution welcomes the "free exchange of ideas," only to immediately condemn a speaker, not for sharing abstract ideas, but for sharing his own life. I still carry the physical wounds of a 2009 airstrike on my neck, my forehead, and my cheek. My wife and I have lost over one hundred relatives, most of them children. Some of them have still not been buried.
Who are these students you are talking about? Not a single person who identified themselves as Jewish approached me after my talk to offer condolences or acknowledge the actual crimes committed against me and my family. I never once used the word "Jewish" during the entire event; I refuse to conflate the faith of Judaism with the actions of the state of Israel.
Yet, you suggest my language caused "hurt." Whoever went to your office to complain about my words should have been the first to approach the stage to show humanity and support for a survivor.
It may surprise you to know that I used the word GENOCIDE to describe Israel’s actions in Gaza long before most human rights organizations, including prominent Israeli organizations, and leading Holocaust and Genocide scholars arrived at the same conclusion. I hope this fact does not "hurt" anyone even more.
If anyone told you they felt "hurt" because I used the word GENOCIDE, then I ask you: how should I feel? How should my wife feel after losing her father? How should my three children feel after losing their grandfather?
At a time when a GENOCIDE should be condemned, it is the survivors and those who speak out against it who are being targeted instead.
SHAME!!!!!
This is a picture of my grandfather with his parents and siblings, taken in Jerusalem in 1934. My Christian family lived in Jerusalem continuously since the time of Jesus, and our family tree that we have today can trace our roots back to around 1400 in Palestine, though it goes much further than we can track.
Until 1948, when Zionist terrorists ethnically cleansed them from their city, stole their home, personal belongings, clothes, documents, books, money, and properties… and turned them into refugees overnight.
Today, NONE of my family lives in Jerusalem. ZERO. Not a single one. And that is because of Israel, not Muslims.
En México, una muchacha de 21 años va a una entrevista de trabajo. Para sentirse segura, le envía su ubicación en tiempo real a un familiar. Pasan las horas y no hay señales suyas. No responde. No aparece.
Sus padres acuden el mismo día a la fiscalía a denunciar la desaparición, pero les dicen que deben esperar 72 horas.
Ellos deciden no quedarse con los brazos cruzados, así que van hasta el edificio, consiguen por sus propios medios grabaciones de cámaras externas donde se ve la ruta seguida por la chica desde que salió de su casa y preguntan a los vigilantes del edificio al que entró si la habían visto. Ellos dicen que la joven nunca ingresó, sin embargo, los videos y fotos contradecían esa versión.
La familia, lejos de quedarse con esa respuesta y confiando 100 % en la ubicación enviada de manera digital por la muchacha, se planta frente al edificio y tranca la vía con camiones y gandolas.
Las horas siguen pasando; ya habían transcurrido más de 48 desde que denunciaron la desaparición de la jovencita de nombre Edith Guadalupe.
Entonces llega la administradora del condominio, quien les dice a los familiares que revisó las grabaciones de la entrada del lugar y que la muchacha nunca entró. Ellos no le creen y continúan protestando frente al lugar.
Ejercieron tanta presión que el tercer día, cuando estaban por cumplirse las 72 horas, llega una comisión de la fiscalía y examina el lugar. En el estacionamiento encuentran el cuerpo de Edith Guadalupe en una bolsa negra de basura.
Una vecina, que prefirió mantenerse en el anonimato, dijo a la tía de la muchacha que con frecuencia asisten a ese sitio mujeres preguntando por una agencia de empleo ubicada en ese edificio, pero que ahí no funciona ninguna.
Esta supuesta agencia promete a las chicas ubicarlas como domésticas o personal de servicio.
Seguro el caso de esta muchacha pasará como uno más, pero no dejo de preguntarme: ¿cuántas habrán desaparecido y muerto en el mismo sitio? ¿Estaría con vida Edith Guadalupe si la fiscalía hubiese investigado inmediatamente la ubicación que horas después de su desaparición proporcionaron los familiares? ¿Por qué las autoridades deben esperar 72 horas para actuar, aun y cuando hay pruebas de dónde había entrado la muchacha?
Lamentablemente, en México no parece haber final para el feminicidio y las desapariciones no solo de mujeres sino de niños y hombres, son el pan nuestro de todos sus días.
Que falta le hace al mundo cambiar las leyes y especialmente, a quienes las aplican.
MY SON, GEOLOGIST DANIEL ROBINSON, WENT MISSING IN THE SONORAN DESERT OF ARIZONA. I AM STILL SEARCHING FOR HIM. IF YOU HAVE ANY INFORMATION TO HELP BRING HIM HOME, CONTACT 803.200.7994 OR TIPLINE: 844.602.0660. YOU CAN REMAIN ANONYMOUS. I WON'T STOP! THANKS FOR YOUR SUPPORT!
Woe to those who manipulate religion and the very name of God for their own military, economic, and political gain, dragging that which is sacred into darkness and filth. #ApostolicJourney#Cameroon https://t.co/bKteFZ3iWE
Chuck Schumer was one of 7 Senate Democrats to vote to send bulldozers to Israel. 40 Democratic Senators voted no.
Mr. Schumer, you are out of touch with our base and the nation.
Step aside.