Munir Akberali

views my own, retweets not an endorsement etc

[Ryan Rozbiani @RyanRozbiani]

THE WORLD MUST HEAR THIS!

Over 20% of Gaza's Population Has Been Wiped Out

Tucker Carlson Interviewed British Surgeon, Dr. Nick Maynard, who worked inside Gaza's LAST remaining hospital and he breaks it ALL DOWN.

76,000 killed by direct trauma alone. The Lancet estimates that figure is undercounted by 50%. Add excess deaths from untreated cancer, destroyed dialysis machines, starvation, and infectious disease, and some estimates put the total ABOVE HALF A MILLION.

Pray for the people.

[Earth Hippy 🌎🕊️💚 @hippyygoat]

This video is one of the most brutal episodes in all of modern history….
ISRAEL AND ITS WESTERN ALLIES DID THIS.

No amount of PR will erase this genocide.
WE SAW IT IN 4K ON OUR PHONES!!!

[Dr.Hamza Alsharif 🇵🇸 @Hamzasharif5750]

For those who don't know.

Gaza now has the highest rate of children with amputated limbs in all of modern history.

Something you stand before with great sadness and shock,

not a passing news story.

[Martina Navratilova @Martina]

If you don’t have a problem with this, you are the problem

[sarah @sahouraxo]

BREAKING:

Israel is wiping out entire civilian homes in the village of Taybeh in South Lebanon — a village that stood for over 7,000 years.

Not a battlefield.
Not a military base.

Homes.

An ancient village erased in real time.

[Bernie Sanders @BernieSanders]

While the world focuses on the destruction in Iran, we must not ignore what Israel is doing in Lebanon.

1,461 have been killed.
4,430 have been injured.
1.2 million have been displaced.

Israel now occupies 14% of Lebanon.

Enough is enough. No more US military aid to Israel.

[John Simpson @JohnSimpsonNews]

While the bombing of Iran continues, the UN says there reports of more than 700,000 people, including 200,000 children, displaced across Lebanon by the Israeli army. They’re seeking refuge in public buildings, schools or overcrowded shelters, but many have to sleep in the open.

[Munir Akberali @MunirAkberali]

https://t.co/EK5v3yY2jw

[Jason Hickel @jasonhickel]

Israel just committed *the largest child massacre in its history*, according to Haaretz. Two hundred Palestinian children murdered in a single day, with direct support from the US and UK, and zero outrage from Western media. What stage of barbarism is this...

[Nick Tyrone @NicholasTyrone]

A pretty damning first five years of Brexit, quantified here rather neatly.

[Bradley Wall 🏳️‍🌈 🇪🇺🇬🇧🌍 @BWallArthur]

That's it. That's the tweet.
Sold by selfserving conmen for the good of our enemies to weaken us and our allies.

[Zarah Sultana MP @zarahsultana]

Since the fall of Assad, Israel has expanded further into Syrian territory beyond its illegal occupation of the Golan Heights.

Netanyahu’s Greater Israel is unfolding: seizing land in Syria, Lebanon, Gaza, the West Bank & East Jerusalem, unchecked by the international community.

[Led By Donkeys @ByDonkeys]

"And once you come to this conclusion you cannot remain silent."

Location: Parliament Square, London (sound on)

[Led By Donkeys @ByDonkeys]

“My name is Amos Goldberg. I am an Israeli Professor of Holocaust Studies. For nearly 30 years I have researched and taught the Holocaust, genocide and state violence.

And I want to tell whoever is willing to listen that what’s happening now in Gaza is a genocide.

A year ago when October 7th happened, like all Israelis I was in shock. It was a war crime and a crime against humanity. 1200 people - more than 800 of them civilians - were killed in one day. Children and the elderly were among those taken hostage. Communities were destroyed. It was outrageous, traumatizing, personal. Like most Israelis, I know people who were killed, who lost loved ones or whose loved ones were taken hostage.

But immediately afterwards came Israel’s response and within weeks thousands of civilians were killed in Gaza. It took me some time to digest what was unfolding before my eyes. It was agonizing to confront that reality. I was reluctant to call it a genocide.

But if you read Raphael Lemkin – the Jewish-Polish legal scholar who coined the term ‘genocide’ and was the major driving force behind the 1948 United Nations Genocide Convention – what is happening in Gaza now is exactly what he had in mind when he spoke about genocide.

It does not need to look like the Holocaust to be a genocide. Each genocide looks different and not all involve killing of millions or the entire group. The United Nations Genocide Convention explicitly asserts that genocide is the act of deliberately destroying a group in whole or in part. Those are the words.

But there does need to be a clear intent.

And indeed, there are clear indications of intent to destroy Gaza: Israel’s leaders - including the prime minister and the minister of defence - and many high-ranking military officers, media personalities, rabbis, as well as ordinary soldiers were very open about what they wanted to achieve. There were countless documented incitements to turn the whole of Gaza into rubble and claims that there are no innocent people living there.

A radical atmosphere of dehumanization of the Palestinians prevails in Israeli society to an extent that I can’t remember in my 58 years of living here.

Now that vision has been enacted. Tens of thousands of innocent children, women and men have been killed. Over a hundred thousand were wounded. There is a near total destruction of infrastructure, intentional starvation and blocking of humanitarian aid. There are mass graves and reliable testimony of summary executions. Children that were shot by snipers. All the universities and almost all hospitals are gone. Almost all the population is displaced. There have been numerous bombings of civilians in so-called ‘safe zones’. Gaza does not exist anymore. It is completely destroyed. Thus, the outcome fits perfectly with the stated intentions of Israel’s leadership.

Lemkin - that scholar who coined the term ‘genocide’ - described two phases of a genocide. The first is the destruction of the annihilated group and the second is what he called ‘imposition of the national pattern’ of the perpetrator. We are now witnessing the second phase as Israel prepares ethnically cleansed areas for Israeli settlements.

And therefore, I have come to the conclusion that this is exactly what a genocide looks like. We don’t teach about genocides in order to realize it retrospectively. We teach about it in order to prevent it and to stop it.

But like in every other case of genocide in history right now we have mass denial. Both here in Israel and around the world.

But reality cannot be denied.

So yes, it is a genocide.

And once you come to this conclusion you cannot remain silent.”

- Statement to Led By Donkeys, December 2024
- Photo: Parliament Square, London, 8.40am, 4th December 2024

[Seth Abramson @SethAbramson]

(🧵) THREAD: Donald Trump is clearly fading mentally and physically. His running mate was handpicked by a Kremlin-agent white supremacist (Tucker Carlson) and two creepy far-right billionaire techno-authoritarians (Peter Thiel and Elon Musk).

This is not the election you think.

[Alan MacLeod @AlanRMacLeod]

In years to come, students in university departments around the world will be studying the propaganda embedded in this headline.

As someone who regularly lectures in sociology, journalism and media studies, I could teach an entire lesson on the title alone.

For example:

1. Treating the 4 Israeli soldiers as more important than the 23 Palestinian children (by leading the story with their deaths and just chucking in the others at the end) implies their lives are of higher value.

2. Infantilizing active duty soldiers as "teenagers" while not emphasizing the age of the schoolkids, despite many of them being demonstrably younger.

3. The classic use of the passive voice: Israelis are "killed" while Palestinians merely "die".

4. Putting scare quotes around "23 die" subtly undermines the credibility of that claim. Maybe no one died, and the Palestinians are just lying?

5. Using the word "attack" for Hezbollah actions, but choosing a more neutral, clinical word like "strike" for Israeli aggression.

6. Allowing Israeli sources to dictate the framing of the story ("Israel names teenage soldiers") etc.

7. Actually naming the Israeli soldiers, but not doing the same for the far greater number of Palestinians, again sends the message to the reader that Palestinian lives don't matter nearly as much, if at all.

It's truly incredible how much propaganda has been packed into 16 words. We are swimming in an ocean of propaganda. That's why it is crucial to deconstruct it and critically assess everything you read, see and hear.

[Jason Hickel @jasonhickel]

In Northern Gaza, Israel has besieged Jabalia refugee camp, cut off access to food and water, and is now systematically exterminating people. This is one of the most horrifying episodes of an already horrifying genocide, met with disgusting silence from the West.

[Bruno Maçães @MacaesBruno]

This is a top manager at an investment fund. We have to realise it is not just Israel but also the US that is in the grip of a genocidal mania. No consequences, complete impunity because it is society-wide

[Jo @JoJoFromJerz]

Well, the guy is a nearly 80 year old diapered, spray painted and girdled idiotic loser who is massively overweight, doesn’t get any exercise, doesn’t sleep, doesn’t have any friends or meaningful human interactions of any kind and instead spends the bulk of his time insulting, attacking and demeaning others to compensate for his own deeply rooted inadequacies, his blood type is Diet Coke, hamberder grease and Adderall, he’s undoubtedly up to his beady little drugged out eyeballs in Russian hooker pee pee kompromat, and when he’s not posting ALL CAPS piles of insane bullshit on a social media platform that’s going down faster than his Be Besting mail-order bride probably thought she had to on their very first “date”, he’s spending his time obsessing over how the actual fuck he’s going to manage to keep his criminal conman traitorous rapist ass out of spending the rest of his miserable fucking life in prison.