Jewish antiracist, antizionist & anti-rapist in IJAN campaigning for social justice globally. Helped lead largest pay equity victory in private industry in US.
@antisemitism Increasing numbers of Jewish people find that Israel is an abomination and a smear on the memory of our relatives killed by the Nazis. Even the CIA has a report questioning whether the state will survive.
British charities referred to UN for 'aiding crimes against Palestinians': The ICJP referred case studies of four charities, including Trinity College Cambridge and Jewish National Fund UK, to the UN https://t.co/ISilgY1qRq
I'm afraid of what is meant to follow the assassination of Khaled Nabhan. hear me out...
Israel's modus operandi is to push the boundary to see what it can get away with. For example, frustrated by international activists in Palestine, they decided to kill one or two to see what they could get away with. Rachel Corrie, Tom Hurndall, etc were thus killed in cold blood. However, there were lawsuits and various reverberations that were costly to them. In other words, there was sufficient outrage and resistance to make them rethink that strategy.
Their desire to bomb hospitals in Gaza also preceded in this way. Recall the first hospital they hit? They tested the waters by targeting the courtyard of the Al-Ahli hospital first. There was initial outrage tamped by their muddling of the narrative. This paved the way for the much bigger target: Al Shifa hospital, the largest and most advanced hospital in Gaza. They employed the same playbook in collusion with corporate media solidly in their pockets (BBC, CNN..all of them). It worked. The bombing of hospitals was normalized and no one batted an eye as Israel proceeded to bomb, gut, invade, and destroy one hospital after another, killing, kidnapping, torturing, and raping healthcare workers and patients alike.
This is how they made their way into Rafah, the supposed "red line," and turned every so-called "safe zone" into an actual death camp.
This is how they've been assassinating journalists.
This is what happened with the assassination of the World Central Kitchen workers. Remember the first time? the second time they did it did not elicit any meaningful headlines or coverage at all.
There are a few personalities that have emerged from Gaza who've become much beloved and iconic symbols of love, light, endurance, dignity, family, community, and faith. Khaled Nabhan was one of them, and they just killed him.
Make no mistake that this was an intentional assassination to test our reactions; to see if they can get away with killing the next internationally known Palestinian with millions of followers. We all know who they are—those amazing people whose light on this earth shines too bright for the darkness of the Israeli soul.
Prisoners in CSCs report they are: held in their cells 24 h/day, deprived of food as punishment; intentionally kept isolated from family & guards attack prisoners with impunity. Yet @rcpsych endorses these units! Pls sign & circulate open letter to protest https://t.co/zGZojgs6VT
As the Warsaw ghetto proved, resistance is never futile. In the words of the Jewish saying, If not now, When? If not us, Who? #BlackLivesMatter#PalestinianLivesMatter
Unions were built to protect workers and our communities, not to protect racist police unions who shield murder under color of authority.
As Protests grow, Big Labor Sides with Police Unions https://t.co/goLwAGmTJP
#DefundPolice#BlackLivesMatter
Defund the police in both countries!
Minn cops trained by Apartheid Israeli police, who often use knee-on-neck restraint on Palestinians: https://t.co/efUqBwcARi
#DefundPolice#palestinianLivesMatter#BlackLivesMatter
Hundreds of thousands take the streets in France in support of Black Lives Matter. They demand an end to racism, impunity, human rights abuses, and U.S. street executions of civilians. #ICantBreathe#GeorgeFloyd#BlackLivesMatter
The first African slave was brought in chains to the British North American colonies in 1619. Isn't 400 years of this racist state violence enough? No justice, no peace!
"Protests have erupted in at least 140 cities across the United States in the days after George Floyd, a black man, died in police custody" https://t.co/tQASBmdxdV
@MKalmanovitz In our thousands in our millions we are all Palestinians and we are all immigrants. This land is your land, this land is my land in every land. We have an inalienable right to live and care for each other and a right to the resources to do that. #PapersForAll