UUJME

UUs for Justice in the Middle East is a UUA Related Social Justice organization educating and mobilizing UUs for justice in Palestine-Israel.

[UUJME @UUJME]

Info session on June 3 at 6:30pm ET/3:30pm PT!
https://t.co/Q15rMP0Hoa
UUJME is recruiting folks to join us in DC at Interfaith Action for Palestine July 5-7th.
RSVP to get the Zoom link.
IAP is countering Christians United for Israel (CUFI) annual gathering.

[Mahmoud Khalil | محمود خليل @mahmoudkhalel]

Some good news. The appeals court has granted our stay request, preventing my detention or deportation while I seek Supreme Court review. This fight is far from over. More to come this summer!

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[Itay Epshtain @EpshtainItay]

Despite two years of @EUCouncil sanctions, an overseas asset freeze, and a travel ban, @ElishaYered publishes today a map of settlement outposts erected by him and his “Hilltop Youth” co-consirpartors across the occupied State of Palestine.

If anyone believes, even for a moment, that such a project could be sustained without the active support, protection and facilitation of the State of Israel, its central government, settlement regional and local councils, and one of the most heavily deployed military apparatuses on earth, then I have a bridge to sell you.

Settler violence is persistently framed as the acts of “extremists” operating at the margins. The reality is less convenient: sustained territorial acquisition and the forced displacement of Palestinians under the protection of State power.

[Suppressed News. @SuppressedNws1]

WOW

A website is DOCUMENTING Israel’s crimes with GEOLOCATION, dates, categories of crimes, and footage of the incidents themselves.

One click and you can see EXACTLY what Israel did.

An enormous digital archive built for ACCOUNTABILITY.

Link: https://t.co/TWKgXJ41NC

Direct Link: https://t.co/qWkrhx1FT7

[Daniel Estrin @DanielEstrin]

NEW: The US is threatening to revoke the visas of the Palestinian delegation to the UN unless the Palestinian ambassador withdraws his run for vice president of the General Assembly, according to a US State Department cable Tuesday obtained by NPR.

https://t.co/lgyzFszhEn

[Shaiel Ben-Ephraim @academic_la]

A fascinating article today in Haaretz on how the Lebanon war has gone wrong. Through interviews with soldiers who served there, we get a clear picture of why it is going so badly and so many soldiers are dying with little gain:

1) The looting and moral collapse issue. Nightly supply convoys doubled as extraction routes for stolen goods. Soldiers competed over villas and shops while commanders, up to the brigade commander, looked away. Some justified it as religious duty, others shrugged that everything would be destroyed anyway. One soldier said, "The IDF has become like an army of Vikings, they let soldiers loot so they'll stay happy and keep fighting."

2) Mental health is being neglected. After freezing in a firefight and falling apart, one of the soldiers asked repeatedly for psychological help and was stalled. The session he finally got amounted to breathing exercises and a push to return to the field for "functional continuity." Real care came only after a journalist intervened. He said, "I felt I needed to harm myself for anyone to start paying attention."

3) Destruction of buildings seems to be the main mission. One soldier entered empty villages with no fighters and no battles, just demolition. Civilian contractors paid per house flattened schools, clinics, and homes while soldiers guarded the bulldozers. Daily quotas were tallied as "achievement assessments." "This is the IDF of the last two years, the Israel Home Demolition Forces," the soldier in question said.

4) Inability to stop drone attacks. Unlike conventional combat, drones leave soldiers feeling like stationary targets dependent on luck. The army's answer, "sky spotters" staring upward for hours, felt absurd. Soldiers in Tomer's platoon wrote wills and rehearsed their own funerals. One soldier explained, "On the news they say 'ceasefire', do you know how many drones they send at us? This shit isn't over."

The overall picture is not dissimilar to the Vietnam War. Lack of purpose, soldiers developing paranoia as they get killed one by one. Lack of discipline. This war was a horrific mistake. Massive war crimes are being committed, soldiers are coming home in body bags and there can be no winner.

[Jack Nassar | جاك نصار @jacknassar33]

This is a picture of my grandfather with his parents and siblings, taken in Jerusalem in 1934. My Christian family lived in Jerusalem continuously since the time of Jesus, and our family tree that we have today can trace our roots back to around 1400 in Palestine, though it goes much further than we can track.

Until 1948, when Zionist terrorists ethnically cleansed them from their city, stole their home, personal belongings, clothes, documents, books, money, and properties… and turned them into refugees overnight.

Today, NONE of my family lives in Jerusalem. ZERO. Not a single one. And that is because of Israel, not Muslims.

[Munther Isaac منذر اسحق @MuntherIsaac]

Destruction of a statue of Jesus in Lebanon is disturbing, but Israel’s genocide is what really demands our outrage.

https://t.co/xVSeeRL4Wx https://t.co/xVSeeRL4Wx

[ADC National @adc]

April 15 is Tax Day. Today, and every day, must be a reminder that while people across this country are paying into a system that continues to neglect their needs, our tax dollars are still funding bombs, bulldozers, and military equipment to Israel.

[UUJME @UUJME]

We at UUJME & our partners want:
✅ Housing, Healthcare, Climate and Economic justice

We do not want:
🚫 War on Iran
🚫 Weapons to Israel
🚫 ICE in our communities

Join our demands for a just future at https://t.co/8XKEejUtv9

#UUTwitter

[Dr. Ghada Sasa, PhD 🇵🇸 @drghadasasa]

I just read the new Haaretz article about how Israeli planted pines are suddenly dying en masse and it is absolutely worth dissecting. Here are a summary & my observations as a Palestinian scholar who writes on green colonialism. 1/

[Miranda Cleland @MirandaCleland]

I hardly have any words left at this point. I am so proud of everything we did and am so, so sad.

[Ariana Jasmine @arianajasmine__]

As a last resort, Iranians are gathering around power plants as human shields… trying to prevent Donald Trump from striking them

[IMEU Policy Project @imeupolicy]

NEW POLL: 76% of voters in Texas' March Democratic primary say Israel is committing genocide in Gaza and 80% support ending weapons funding to Israel.

James Talarico was boosted by a 4:1 margin over Rep. Crockett by his comments criticizing Israel.

More findings 🔽

[Narjes Rahmati 🟩☫🟥 نرجس رحمتی @Narjes_Rahmati]

The US-Israel have just bombed and destroyed a synagogue in Tehran.

Iran is home to West Asia's second largest Jewish community.

[Mouin Rabbani @MouinRabbani]

With Easter upon us, Israel flunkies are once again reminding us that the Christian population of Bethlehem went from 80% under Israel rule to 10% under Palestinian Authority rule.
It admittedly makes for beautiful propaganda, but is as hopelessly out of tune as every other concerto played by the Hasbara Symphony Orchestra.
I discuss the reality, and separate fact from fiction regarding the Christians of Bethlehem in the Substack post below which from December 2025.
For those unfamiliar with the Substack platform, this article is free to read and neither an account nor a subscription are required to access it.
https://t.co/5E4pgpDYop

[UUJME @UUJME]

Proud to be one of the endorsing organizations! #NotMyTaxDollars action campaign - Tax dollars for needs here, not bombs for israel, not war on Iran! Start an actions group in your congregation. https://t.co/SjOKqplseD #UUTwitter

[Mouin Rabbani @MouinRabbani]

Timothy Snyder has successfully gone 2,419 days without mentioning Israel.

[Hend Amry @LibyaLiberty]

Jewish troops will be looking for Muslims hidden in the attics of Christians. Let that sink in.

[AIPAC Tracker @TrackAIPAC]

🚨 BREAKING: DOJ Announces FARA Enforcement Action Against AIPAC

In an unexpected move this evening, the Department of Justice announced the launch of a formal investigation into the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) for alleged violations of the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA).

AIPAC has declined to comment, but sources inside the organization describe the mood as "panicked."