My event for @AWANFESTIVAL 🧿SAHRANA 🧿 is postponed until safe to do so later this year. Please follow and continue to support the artists on the line up in the thread below 👇
Gaza has been a test for humanity, and our political leaders have failed.
Their moral authority lies under the rubble, along with the thousands of lives that could have been saved by a ceasefire.
We still believe in a more peaceful world, and we are not going anywhere.
The images from Rafah are unbearable.
What is there left to say? Do our political leaders not see what we see? Is there really no limit to what Palestinians must endure?
Enough! Stop equivocating. Stop stalling. Stop hiding — and call for an immediate ceasefire, now.
Just imagine we had the recording of a 6 year old Israeli girl, desperately ringing the emergency services after Hamas militants slaughtered her relatives in a car, including 3 other kids.
Imagine we also had a prior recording of her 15 year old cousin, desperately pleading for help, before you hear her being violently murdered by Hamas gunfire.
Imagine then an Israeli ambulance sent to rescue this little girl was then blown up by Hamas militants, killing both paramedics.
What would be the response?
You know what the response would be.
It would be offered up as evidence of the supreme evil and barbarism of Hamas.
We would be told it showed they’re worse than the Nazis.
It would also be offered up as justification for the need to wipe Hamas off the face of the earth.
Every politician in the West would issue statements dripping with grief and righteous fury.
None of that has happened here.
Instead, the West continue to arm and back Israel’s mass slaughter, with occasional handwringing which its politicians know has zero impact on the behaviour of Israel.
Even as Israel commits some of the worst atrocities of the 21st century - live streamed for the world to see - these Western powers refuse to describe a single act of Israel as a war crime.
Two things.
Firstly, none of this is to downgrade the value of Israeli civilian life. The value attacked to Israel innocent civilians’ lives is correct.
It is just transparently not applied to Palestinian life.
Indeed, secondly, it is nauseating that I even have to indulge in these
“imagine if!” scenarios.
It becomes necessary because Palestinian life has been stripped of nearly all value.
In South Africa’s submission to the ICJ, this horror was described as the world’s first live streamed genocide.
I think even more than that, it’s the live streaming of the suicide of the West.
Much of the world already regarded the West’s claims of moral superiority with contempt.
Well, contempt doesn’t even begin to describe those sentiments now.
I don’t think it’s remotely appreciated how much fury at Western power - which has shrunk with every major conflict involving Muslim nations in the 21st century - is being whipped up.
Finally, this nauseating episode has answered a question I’ve always been haunted by when studying the atrocities of the past.
How did so many people who regarded themselves as humane, moderate, “normal” become so willingly complicit in self evident evil, either by not speaking out or actively cheering it on?
Well, think of the badly decomposing remains of Hind and her family, and the incinerated remains of the paramedics sent to save her, and there’s your answer.
There’s your answer!
Israël has bombed Beirut. Nothing can justify this infringement of sovereignty - Israel is a rogue state which is threatening regional stability as well as engaging in a genocidal campaign against Palestinians. Enough is enough. Israel is no ally to us in the West. Sanctions now
In this thread I will take you back to live the moment and experience what is happening in Sudan.
You will be a Sudanese Civilian that woke up the morning of Monday 15th of March 2023. You will see everything like you are there and you would feel it happened.
This thread is to make you feel how people in Sudan are suffering, so please make sure it doesn’t stop with you.
#KeepEyesOnSudan
#LiberateSudan
If you saw it, its your responsibility to spread it.
Due to the RSF destroying Rufaa hospital and barricading the borders of my village, my aunt wasn’t able to get the medical treatment she needed.
Inna lillahi wa inna ilayhi rajioon.
May Allah grant her the highest ranks in Janna
#KeepEyeOnSudan
This is my cousin. He advocated for Palestine relentlessly, despite constant death threats. He was shot and killed on Wednesday, and the German police refuse to investigate his murder as a hate crime. My family NEEDS people to speak up.
Staff & students at @UniversityLeeds have shared shocking photos/videos sent to them by their chaplain who has travelled to join Israel’s reserve army-he says Israel is doing the “most moral” thing rn! Will he return to a pastoral role!? I won’t draw the comparison but… imagine!
Enough!
It is just horror after horror after horror.
Remember these precious and beautiful lives. They are human beings with names and faces. And they are being indiscriminately slaughtered.
What unconscionable inhumanity. We need a ceasefire, now.
How many more accounts will never post again after this? How many more??? This website has become a gravesite of Palestinians who used their final words begging for the world to care.
There’s a communication blackout on Gaza amidst the start of a ground invasion. Palestinians have been abandoned to the brutal occupation bent on wiping them out.
For all who have defended Israel’s conduct over the years & since Oct 7:
Fuck u. You’re complicit in genocide.
An entire culture, history and people are disappearing under the rubble – buried by the moral cowardice of our political leaders.
Artists whose work we will never know.
Teachers whose lessons we will never learn.
Children whose laughter we will never hear.
We must keep raising our voice for an immediate ceasefire. For the universal application of international law. For our shared humanity.
For the only path to a just & lasting peace: an end to the occupation of Palestine.
🧵 Opening on the 28th! 🧵
'Kheit' by British-Lebanese textile artist @nourhage_ will showcase commissioned artwork based on Hage’s reinterpretation of visual symbolisms from the Arab Hall in @LeightonHouse_
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