aseel

Restless Palestinian. Enjoys tea, walks and endless conversations about what it means to be human

[aseel @TheRealAseelZ]

First Thing: UN says 14,000 babies could die in Gaza in next 48 hours under Israeli aid blockade https://t.co/SecwSUpba8

[Owen Jones @owenjonesjourno]

I watched my dad die from advanced prostate cancer.

But then my dad didn’t arm a genocide and facilitate the total destruction of a health care system, condemning other cancer patients to death.

Joe Biden is a monster. He should be treated by medics while he’s in prison.

[Mohammed El-Kurd @m7mdkurd]

She's so blinded by her racism she can't even see how ridiculous she looks. How do you chastise a man whose 31 relatives were killed by the Israeli military about some complicit soldier?

[aseel @TheRealAseelZ]

Sounds of a Genocide
https://t.co/UmAEQ2vnuR

[Noura Erakat @4noura]

I have not seen all armies, but in my 45 years, I have never seen a more cowardly army than Israel’s that massacres an encaged, starving people, by air, sniper fire, w their hands zip tied, and in their incubators. Israel’s disgraceful defeat is of its own making.

#Gaza #Nakba

[Julia Bacha @juliabacha]

“My arrest was a direct consequence of exercising my right to free speech as I advocated for a free Palestine and an end to the genocide in Gaza, which resumed in full force Monday night." A political prisoner if there ever was one. ”https://t.co/3c2YnMp54C

[Mohammed El-Kurd @m7mdkurd]

you are just racist

[Ali Abunimah @AliAbunimah]

I’m free! I wrote this on the plane and I’m posting it just after landing at Istanbul. On Monday evening I was brought to Zurich airport in handcuffs, in a small metal cage inside a windowless prison van and led all the way to the plane by police. This is after three days and two nights in a Swiss prison cut off from communication with the outside world, in a cell 24 hours a day with one cell mate, not even permitted to contact my family. On Saturday in a police interview in the presence of my lawyer they accused me of “offending against Swiss law” without ever telling me what crime I had committed in Switzerland or listing any charges. As far as I know I have not been charged with any crime whatsoever and I was held in “administrative detention.” On Sunday morning, they took me from my cell for questioning by Swiss defense ministry intelligence agents without the presence of my lawyer, and they again refused to allow me to contact her or my family. I refused to talk to them without my lawyer and told them take me back to my cell. During my imprisonment I refused every meal and every cup of coffee or tea they offered me except the last meal, after I knew I would be going home. I accepted only water, which is the right of every human being. All of this was after I was abducted off the street around 1:30pm on Saturday while on my way to the Palestine teach-in by undercover agents, handcuffed, forced into an unmarked car and sped straight to the prison. My “crime”? Being a journalist who speaks up for Palestine and against Israel’s genocide and settler-colonial savagery and those who aid and abet it. I came to Switzerland at the invitation of Swiss citizens to talk about justice for Palestine, to talk about accountability for a genocide in which Switzerland too is complicit. But while I was hauled off to prison like a dangerous criminal before I even had a chance to say a word, the Israeli president Isaac Herzog, who declared at the start of the genocide that there are no civilians in Gaza, no innocents, received a red carpet welcome in Davos, a carpet soaked in the blood of the more than 47,000 known victims of the genocide and the thousands more still under the rubble, or who died of deliberately inflicted starvation and denial of medical care. And on this very day Netanyahu freely travels to Poland to make a mockery of the Auschwitz commemoration despite an outstanding ICC arrest warrant. That is the perverse, unjust world we live in. This ordeal lasted three days but that taste of prison was more than enough to leave me in even greater awe of the Palestinian heroes who endure months and years in the prisons of the genocidal oppressor. More than ever I know that the debt we owe them is one we can never repay and all of them must be free and they must remain our focus. The police gave me my phone back only at the gate of the plane so I’m only seeing now the extent of the overwhelming support and solidarity from all over the world. I’m deeply grateful to each and every person who stood up for me. I’m especially grateful to my lawyer Dina Raewel and her team, to our friends in Zurich who I learned afterwards demonstrated outside the prison, to my family and my colleagues at EI and so many others. I honestly had no idea what was happening outside that concrete room! Thank you from the bottom of my heart. I want to tell the whole story of what happened, perhaps in an @intifada livestream in the next day or two, because I think it’s important for people to know the depths to which their Western so-called “democracies” have sunk in the abject service of genocidal Zionism. Right now I’m glad to be on my way home. I’m looking forward to hugging my mom and dad, taking a shower and sleeping in my own bed. Journalism is not a crime! Speaking out for Palestine is not a crime! Standing against racist genocidal Zionism is not a crime! Say it with me:

From the River to the Sea Palestine Will Be Free! ❤️🇵🇸✌️

[aseel @TheRealAseelZ]

@clarissaward How about you apologize and quit journalism?! You’d make a better and more honest career for yourself in Hollywood. #CNN

[aseel @TheRealAseelZ]

@clarissaward Clearly staged . Stop spreading fake news. Syria doesn’t need your yellow journalism.

[Warfare Analysis @warfareanalysis]

CNN was caught fabricating the story of a prisoner found in Assad’s secret prison.

Fact-checking outlet @VeSyriaE conducted a background check on the so-called “prisoner,” and here’s what they found.

Thread, 1,2,3

[aseel @TheRealAseelZ]

I call @ptbo_transit to ask about the detour and they have no idea about it or even able to tell me what stop I should take instead #Peterborough #DoBetter

[PeterboroughTransit @ptbo_transit]

Detour Notice Route #4

The following service is temporarily unavailable:
Hunter St. East from Rogers Street to Burnham Street
This service will be unavailable from:
November 21, 2022 to November 25, 2022

[aseel @TheRealAseelZ]

How do you announce a bus is cancelled 10 minutes after it should have passed by?!?? @ptbo_transit

[PeterboroughTransit @ptbo_transit]

Due to operational issues the following Tips will be cancelled:
1702 #4 Departing PTBO Museum
1730 #4 Departing Parkhill @ Chandler
1802 #4a Departing PTBO Museum

[aseel @TheRealAseelZ]

@ptbo_transit #4 going West from Rogers at Maria never showed up at 10:28 and it was not mentioned as one of the canceled trips. #GetYourActTogether

[aseel @TheRealAseelZ]

@ptbo_transit The #4 going east did it show up at 3:00 pm

[PeterboroughTransit @ptbo_transit]

The following trips will not operate today:
1600 #7A from Fleming to Trent
1730 #7A from Fleming to Trent

[Mohammed El-Kurd @m7mdkurd]

Whose gunfire? Whose? Say it!

[aseel @TheRealAseelZ]

Rest in power Shireen… another day… another Palestinian targeted by #ApartheidIsrael …

[Mohammed El-Kurd @m7mdkurd]

Sherin Abu Aqla. Fifty-one. What a loss. Killed not despite being a journalist but because she is a journalist. Her killers will roam free, and privileged faculties at faraway American universities will reprimand their students who speak out against the regime that killed her…

[Salem Barahmeh @Barahmeh]

Tragically, there will be no justice for Shireen, as there will be no justice for the thousands of Palestinians killed by Israel. This system is set up so that the murder is also judge and jury. This can only end when settler colonialism, apartheid & Jewish supremacy end.

[Mohammed El-Kurd @m7mdkurd]

Palestinians, is it anti-semitic to breathe? 🙄