Farah Salka

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

Opposition to the slaughter in Gaza is becoming mainstream, which is obviously great, but when political impulses go mainstream it means there's going to be a massive and concerted effort to funnel public sentiment in a direction that doesn't damage the interests of the empire.

They're going to try to blame this all on Netanyahu.

They're going to insist that Israel itself is fine and all that went wrong was a fluke incident in which an aberrational right wing faction briefly got into power.

They're going to try to wash the western empire's hands of the mass atrocities it directly facilitated in Gaza.

They're going to try to frame Biden as a basically decent politician who found himself trapped in an impossible situation.

They're going to keep pretending a two-state solution is right around the corner and doing everything they can to stall out meaningful change on Palestinian rights, while blaming any obstacles to peace on the Palestinian resistance.

They're going to pollute the information ecosystem with a deluge of messaging which is all designed to counter the notion that Gaza means the entire status quo needs to be overhauled — with regard to Israel-Palestine, with regard to US foreign policy, with regard to the US government itself, and with regard to the western power structure in general.

They're going to say everything they need to say to ensure that everyone understands that the basic status quo in Israel, the United States and the western world is working perfectly fine, and this was all just an innocent little oopsie poopsie caused by a few bad apples.

They'll justify, they'll excuse, they'll exonerate, and then they'll distract, moving public attention on to the next big thing and allowing the amnesia of the daily news churn to wash Gaza from our attention — all while pretending to be on our side.

This messaging will need to be fought tooth and claw. We cannot allow them to neuter this political moment with spin and propaganda. We need to make sure their criminality remains front and center of public awareness, and we need to push for the real revolutionary changes that Gaza plainly proves are needed.

Let mainstream sentiment turn against the current Israeli regime and bring an end to the butchery in Gaza, but don't let the imperial narrative managers co-opt anything. Don't let them hijack the zeitgeist that's been building. View all words and actions of the western political-media class with aggressive skepticism, and push back forcefully every time they try to push public sentiment in a direction that advantages the empire.

[Farrah Berrou @farrahberrou]

Please don't refer to dahiyeh as a "Hezballah stronghold."

Even if it's a place where Hezb operates, it's also a massive residential neighborhood full of people. Same applies to parts of the Jnoub too.

[Craig Mokhiber @CraigMokhiber]

The smears, slander, lies, obfuscation & threats of the Israel lobby and its army of trolls are reaching a fever pitch. Don’t let them distract you or intimidate you. Block them and speak out even stronger against Israel’s #genocide & #apartheid. They only win if they silence us.

[Ghassan Abu Sitta, Chair of Conflict Medicine AUB @GhassanAbuSitt1]

Unknown Child No. 6: 10 or 11 years old. Brought out from the rubble of his family home in Shiek Radwan neighbourhood. Half has face missing and fist sized defect in his left axilla. Total operative time 3 hours.
That is someones baby boy.

[Ghassan Abu Sitta, Chair of Conflict Medicine AUB @GhassanAbuSitt1]

and underneath the mud and gravel and cacked blood you find the braids and the pink hair-band. A beautiful 6 year old girl with horrific facial injuries. Mother dead.

[Farah Salka @Salkation]

Four insights for radical organizing from the mysterious world of mushrooms https://t.co/pMIu163slW via @truthout

[Dharini 🌺 @dharinipart]

Today at #COP27 Alaa Abd El Fattah's sister Sana was speaking at a press briefing addressing the unjust incarceration of her brother and demanding his immediate release
She was confronted directly by an Egyptian government rep who had to be escorted out by UN security #FreeAlaa

[Nihal | نهال @nihalist___]

love how the Egyptian government thought COP27 would be beneficial for the country’s image and it has now turned into the biggest PR nightmare as everyone else has been exposed to the nightmarish security state that Egyptians are supposed to live under

[Matt Duss @mattduss]

One of the best questions journalists can be asking about Gaza right now is why we’ve been ok with a fifteen year long blockade that violates the most basic principles of civilian protection.

[Rola Yasmine @rolayasmine]

Awlkon nancy ajram min zawja? 🔪🔪🔪

[Shireen AbuAqla شيرين ابو عاقلة @ShireenNasri]

الاسير زكريا الزبيدي تعرض للتنكيل ويعاني من كسر في الفك وكسرين بالاضلاع،
على مدار الأيام الأربعة التي تحرروا فيها لم يطلبوا المساعدة من أحد لئلا يتسببوا بأذى لأحد، ولم يتناولوا الماء طوال الفترة، وكانوا يأكلون ما يجدون من ثمار في البساتين كالصبر والتين.

[Farah Salka @Salkation]

@timourazhari UkHi y

[Farah Salka @Salkation]

“If we didn’t have each other” https://t.co/DtaormaLkD

[Timour Azhari @timourazhari]

EXCLUSIVE: #Lebanon banks have swallowed at least $250 million in UN humanitarian aid for Syrian & Palestinian refugees and poor Lebanese since 2019 via bad exchange rates negotiated with UN agencies, a @TRF_Stories investigation finds

https://t.co/CbNL7yRCQ3
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[Anti-Racism Movement | حركة مناهضة العنصرية @ARM_Leb]

تصوَّر عاملات المنازل المهاجرات في لبنان غالبًا كضحايا ويُواجهن بالشيطنة عند مطالبتهن بحقوقهن.
في اليوم العالمي للعاملات المنزليات، تروي لنا عدة نساء مهاجرات كيف يتخيلن لبنان وحياتهن بعد إسقاط نظام الكفالة بعيدًا عن هذا الخطاب الثنائي.
#يسقط_نظام_الكفالة

https://t.co/j87oB5QLN7

[vivafalastin 🇵🇸 @vivafalastin]

israel has now bombed

-several residential buildings
-a refugee camp
-a doctors without borders clinic
-the roads leading to hospitals
-a media building
-the rosary sisters school
-the central marketplace

around 200 palestinians have been killed, and 1200 more injured

[Terisa Siagatonu @terisasiagatonu]

There’s nothing you can tell me, as a colonized person whose island was cut in half & colonized by Germany & the U.S. (with one half still being a U.S. territory today) that would make me think that what’s happening to Palestinians is “too complicated to understand”.

[Rawan‏𓂆☭ روان @RiverToSea48]

I can’t even begin to wrap my head around these air strikes in their intensity and cruelty, how many of you can understand what it feels like to experience 50-100 air strikes at once surrounded by your screaming children?

[Farah Salka @Salkation]

💔