Marisa Manuel

Writer✍️ dog foster 🐶 vegan 🥦 tech-destroyer 👩‍💻 optimist ☀️ ace ♥️ disabled👂any pronouns, and uhhhh idk how long a bio should be 🤔

[Embassy of Israel to the USA @IsraelinUSA]

Yaron and Sarah were our friends and colleagues. They were in the prime of their lives.

This evening, a terrorist shot and killed them as they exited an event at the Capital Jewish Museum in DC.

The entire embassy staff is heartbroken and devastated by their murder. No words can express the depth of our grief and horror at this devastating loss.

Our hearts are with their families, and the embassy will be by their side during this terrible time.

[Emily Damari Amit @EmilyDamari1]

Dear Members of the @PulitzerPrizes board,

My name is Emily Damari. I was held hostage in Gaza for over 500 days.

On the morning of October 7, I was at home in my small studio apartment in Kibbutz Kfar Aza when Hamas terrorists burst in, shot me and dragged me across the border into Gaza. I was one of 251 men, women, children, and elderly people kidnapped that day from their beds, their homes, and a music festival.

For almost 500 days I lived in terror. I was starved, abused, and treated like I was less than human. I watched friends suffer. I watched hope dim. And even now, after returning home, I carry that darkness with me - because my best friends, Gali and Ziv Berman are still being held in the Hamas terror tunnels.

So imagine my shock and pain when I saw that you awarded a Pulitzer Prize to Mosab Abu Toha.

This is a man who, in January, questioned the very fact of my captivity. He posted about me on Facebook and asked, “How on earth is this girl called a hostage?” He has denied the murder of the Bibas family. He has questioned whether Agam Berger was truly a hostage. These are not word games - they are outright denials of documented atrocities.

You claim to honor journalism that upholds truth, democracy, and human dignity. And yet you have chosen to elevate a voice that denies truth, erases victims, and desecrates the memory of the murdered.

Do you not see what this means? Mosab Abu Toha is not a courageous writer. He is the modern-day equivalent of a Holocaust denier. And by honoring him, you have joined him in the shadows of denial.

This is not a question of politics. This is a question of humanity. And today, you have failed it.

[Hen Mazzig @HenMazzig]

The arsonist who burned Governor Josh Shapiro's home did so because of his support for Palestine.

In a 911 call he made turning himself in, Cory Balmer stated that he "will not take part in [Shapiro's] plans for what he wants to do to the Palestinian people."

Support for Palestine does not look like burning Jews alive in their homes.

[Marisa Manuel @TheSqueep]

@F9z9HpzzV4IR48N Could you explain what you mean? I haven't heard that take before.

[Marisa Manuel @TheSqueep]

I don't understand why this piece was taken down. I've heard people speak out against the "good booms" line, but that sentence wasn't condoning what's happening. I've heard others mention poor timing, but isn't a piece about our shared humanity exactly what we need right now?

[Nicole Lampert @nicolelampert]

This beautiful piece by a British/ Israeli peace advocate about navigating her friendships with Palestinians in a post Oct 7 world was published in the magazine Guernica - but it was withdrawn when 15 people with no skin in the game (as it were) said they’d resign from the magazine for daring to feature it.
Voices like those of the writer are more important than ever but there are some who would like to shut down Israelis and Palestinians - easier to shout over them with slogans.

https://t.co/rarQUavFiI

[Marisa Manuel @TheSqueep]

@KimbraWhit22076 Can I ask why? I'm serious when I said we need to be listening to other perspectives, so I'd appreciate hearing yours. What I've seen so far just doesn't make sense to me, unless I see it through a really concerning lens.

[Marisa Manuel @TheSqueep]

The fact that so many editors stepped down in opposition to this piece is mind-boggling. We need to listen to other voices and perspectives. Dehumanizing Israelis does nothing to help Palestinians, it only worsens pain all around.

[Marisa Manuel @TheSqueep]

I worry people are allowing anger and fear to cloud their critical thinking and compassion. I worry Israelis (/Jews) have been made out to be "the enemy" in a way that is so clearly racist (and I choose that word deliberately), I don't understand how others don't see it.

[Marisa Manuel @TheSqueep]

I'm hoping to resume this project eventually, but right now, I'm taking a break from the community. Thanks to everyone who was part of this project - I'm not tagging anyone because I don't want you facing backlash, but I hope you all know how much you mean to me. (3/3)

[Marisa Manuel @TheSqueep]

I founded @chat_ace with the goal of increasing #asexual and #aromantic visibility and building community, but the community no longer feels safe. Recently, I've experienced horrible antisemitism and I know others have faced other forms of inexcusable hatred. (1/3)

[Ace Chat @chat_ace]

Ace Chat is going on an indefinite hiatus.

As a final note before we leave, we want to shed light on an ongoing issue in the a-spec community and encourage compassion, support, and listening. Thanks to all who supported us on this journey!

https://t.co/APKUXtOGAI

[Marisa Manuel @TheSqueep]

Please speak up for peace and against injustice, but not at the expense of your humanity, or to the dehumanization of others. Please make space in your activism and advocacy for nuance and difficult conversations while centering life and sustainable peace. (2/3)

[Marisa Manuel @TheSqueep]

On that note, I'm fine discussing/debating specifics. But not if you're against the core of my message - that we should be striving to work together in compassion, be open to acknowledging complications, and understand - we're not each other's enemies.

[Marisa Manuel @TheSqueep]

I've been off Twitter/X/whatever this is for a while now but wanted to share a perspective RE: #Israel and #Palestine that I feel is getting lost. I've debated posting this and opening myself to hostility, but that hostility is all the more reason I'm compelled to write this:

[Marisa Manuel @TheSqueep]

Of course, I could keep going, and I'm sure someone will comment something not here as an argument for why their side is right, I'm wrong. But truthfully, I'm coming from the side that is pro-civilian, which also must mean pro-Palestinian freedom and pro-Israeli safety.