This is the anniversary of the Sudan conflict, likely the world's most cruel and destabilizing war--it's displaced 9 million and devastated a hopeful country. As @khalidmedani4 tells me, Canada could have a key role ending this unnecessary war, if it tried
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there's a holocaust going on in gaza inflicted by the same people who've been playing the holocaust card for 75 years to ethnically cleanse palestinians. it's not working anymore. netanyahu is the jewish hitler. there. i said it. #FreePalestine#starlinkforgaza#blackoutgenocide
“Things aren’t the same in my eyes. I don’t want to speak their language anymore, watch their movies, listen to their songs, or follow their celebrities. I don’t crave their fast food anymore. I don’t care about their causes. I don’t want any ties with them in any way…”
So you mean to tell me Hollywood celebrities don’t care about anyone but themselves and only think about the best PR moves to further their careers even if it means it’s at the cost of the lives of middle eastern non yt folk? SOMEONE HOLD ME I’M SHOOKETH #FreePalestine
A group of Hollywood stars and executives have signed an open letter to President Joe Biden, thanking him for his ‘leadership’ and calling for the release of all Hamas hostages.
They are being bombed as we speak with Israel proclaiming they will not ceasefire or let aid in EVEN IF Hamas releases more hostages…so. They’re bombing the South of Gaza where they told people to evacuate to. They have leveled out residential areas with US bombs. They poured cement into the water supply…What does this measly tweet do for us, Joe? How do you intend for actions to match your proposed words? It is US money & weapons that are being used to do this. This is the most hypocritical, lazy response. YOU HAVE THE AUTHORITY TO CALL A CEASEFIRE AS COMMANDER AND CHEIF. Stop lying to these people telling them you believe in their self-determination while you arm and pledge your unwavering support to their oppressor who has been committing war crimes indiscriminately for 75 years. Who have committed innumerable war crimes and already massacred THOUSANDS and injured tens of thousands over the course of your 17 day silence. Shame on you. #CEASEFIRENOW #LETINAID #STOPBOMBINGHOSPITALS #STOPBOMBINGSCHOOLS #STOPSUPPORTINGGENOCIDE
i don’t think you can fully understand how devastating this video is without translation. israel wiped out a significant chunk of gaza’s christian community in one fell swoop.
James Cameron: "In Star Wars the good guys are the rebels, they're using asymmetric warfare against a highly organized empire, I think we call those guys terrorists today."
George Lucas: "When I did it they were Vietcong. That was the whole point."
“I am Bayan, I’ve lived in beautiful Gaza for 27 yrs. Today may be my last day. My family and I will not leave our home... We’re proud of our Palestinianness til our last breath. I do not forgive the world East & West for what will happen to us. I hope our pictures haunt you..”
🇵🇸 #Gaza: This statement by Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola’s daughter, Maria Guardiola has put a lot of politicians, celebrities, journalists and others with a platform to shame:
‘My God.
So is this really what we're going to do now? Just sit back and watch a genocide happen on the telly? Then decades from now, when it's in the history books, all look round at each other and ask, 'how did that happen?'
For the first time, I truly understand how mass atrocities have been able to occur throughout history - again, and again, and again. We never learn.
What does the death count need to be before someone finally speaks against this madness and urges restraint, not more arms? 10,000? 100,000?
A million? More? When have enough Palestinians died?
I get that lots of us are scared to speak up. I get we're afraid to say the "wrong thing. But I won't sit by in silence and live with the fact that I never spoke up when an atrocity on this scale was committed because of fear. We can express our complete condemnation for what the Israeli govt are doing and also assert our unwavering belief in the equal value of Palestinian lives, without inciting hatred against Jewish communities - another persecuted people. Indeed, many Jewish and Israeli people, in the midst of their deep grief and knowing the pain of persecution too well, have had the bravery and strength to be the very first to do so.
This is quite simple. We are watching an occupied, oppressed people face annihilation by a nuclear state with the full backing of the western world. This is not - and has never been - an 'equal fight'. Right now, it is a massacre on a scale I don't think I've ever seen in my life.
6,000 bombs dropped in 6 days already. On a strip of land just 25 miles long and 7.5 miles wide at its widest point. Whole neighbourhoods flattened. Families wiped out. Hospitals collapsing under the weight of the casualties. On a population of 2 million - half of them children. 70% of them refugees. And now, the forced movement of 1 million people. A choice of forced migration or death is ethnic cleansing. The fact that it is impossible for that many to leave in that time means that this is now a genocide.
We have gone way, way beyond wishy washy 'praying for peace', 'all life is precious' IG statements, posted to show you've done your bit of performative activism. Show you mean it. If you have any kind of platform right now, please use it. Speak. Because it's becoming glaringly obvious that the world is happy to walk into an unspeakable horror that we didn't even bother to try to prevent.’
#Palestine 🇵🇸