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[انوس @anoosify]

I’m sick of hearing Mamdani can’t arrest Netanyahu or the man who killed Hind Rajab. The Adams administration hunted me down and arrested me for words. Just words. So spare me the “he can’t” bullshit. Power finds a way when it wants to.

[انوس @anoosify]

Y’all are big on talk and short on action. You and Brad could’ve done a lot for Palestine right here at home. Brad could’ve divested nyc pensions from israel. You could’ve arrested Netanyahu and Hind Rajabs killer; dropped Jessica Tisch; stopped the stolen land sales, and more.

[Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @NYCMayor]

Today, Brad Lander, rabbis, and other New Yorkers accompanied Palestinian farmers during the olive harvest. For that, they were detained by the Israeli government. 

Harvesting olives is not illegal. The occupation is.

I am thankful that Brad has been released. But other New Yorkers remain detained, and they must be released immediately.

The same Israeli government detaining them has committed a horrific genocide against Palestinians, killing more than 74,000 people over the last few years alone. 

The detention of these New Yorkers must end. The occupation must end. The genocide must end.

[انوس @anoosify]

What’d I say would happen? A politician goes to the West Bank, gets arrested knowing he’ll be safely released, then turns the moment into thousands of likes. But Palestinians defending their own land? They get imprisoned for years, abused in unimaginable ways, killed and forgotten. Brad had power back home. He could’ve divested NYC pensions from the bombs killing Palestinians. He chose not to. Stop confusing political theater with solidarity. Stop letting politicians turn Palestinian suffering into a photo op. For god sakes, I’m sick of these devils.

[Brad Lander @bradlander]

I’ve been detained by the IDF, along with a group of rabbis & volunteers. We were simply harvesting olives in a grove near Nehalim in the West Bank.

The occupation is a crime under international law. Harvesting olives isn’t a crime under any law I know.

[انوس @anoosify]

Btw— Jeremy is one of the few journalists who’s been to the West Bank that I absolutely respect. He gets it 👇🏼

[انوس @anoosify]

@CranesOfMemory Yeah she just lmk that she doesn’t run that X account. Only Instagram

[انوس @anoosify]

Zena Tahhan (zenatahhan on ig) is Palestinian. She documents settler attacks across the West Bank, in English, knowing it could get her killed. She ONLY has 14.5K followers. Get this though, an American shows up, documents the same attacks, and suddenly has 100K. See why I’m mad?

[انوس @anoosify]

@Tom_Vee No she’s not. Sorry, I thought that was her account but she just lmk it’s not

[انوس @anoosify]

Zena just let me know that she’s not on X actually, and the account I tagged is an imposter. Sorry 😞

She’s only on Instagram

[Calla @CallaWalsh]

Why do you invest NYC pension funds in Elbit Systems?

[انوس @anoosify]

@demonic_tock Exactly

[انوس @anoosify]

Mamdani can redeem himself by arresting Hind Rajab’s killer… saying this even though I know it’ll never happen

[Quds News Network @QudsNen]

Last night, Israeli settler militias set fire to a monument at the entrance to the village of Burqa, east of Ramallah in the occupied West Bank, and torched an uninhabited house for the second time.

[انوس @anoosify]

@loffredojeremy Exactly 💯

[انوس @anoosify]

No. I’m angry that they come to Palestine, build credibility off documenting our oppression, and then the second they disagree with Palestinian politics, they spit in our faces and pull the “we know better, we’ve been there” card.

And let’s stop pretending Western journalists were even needed to make Gaza visible. Palestinians documented Gaza. Palestinians documented the West Bank. Palestinians documented their own suffering, and resistance. Our reality doesn’t become legitimate only when a Westerner picks up a camera and validates it. Respectfully, Gaza is proof of that.

[انوس @anoosify]

I’m so fucking tired of the celebrity worship of white journalists who go to Palestine to “document the occupation.” They build platforms off our oppression, then attack Palestinians the second our politics don’t suit them. Meanwhile, Palestinian journalists document this reality every fucking day, often until they’re killed doing it, and rarely receive the same recognition. Stop making celebrities out of people who parachute into our suffering. Recognize the Palestinians who live it.

[انوس @anoosify]

To be fair, some journalists go to Palestine and do it right. They center Palestinian voices, amplify their narratives, lend them their platforms and understand that even when they disagree, the story is still ours to tell. Those people, I continue to respect.

[انوس @anoosify]

Last thing for tonight: look how easily those who commit genocide can cross borders while Palestinians are caged on our own land. The demon who killed Hind Rajab is strolling through NYC freely as a tourist. Brad Lander who invested NYC pension money towards the bombs killing Palestinians can easily stroll through our land. Palestinians get checkpoints, displacement, and death. Those complicit in genocide get passports, platforms, and a fucking tour.

[انوس @anoosify]

Liberal Zionists like Brad Lander want you to believe that going to the West Bank to “witness the occupation” is some courageous act of truth-telling. It’s really not, it’s so fucking dehumanizing. Palestinians have been screaming, documenting, filming, and burying our dead for decades. Why does it take a white Jewish politician repeating what Palestinians have told you for generations before our reality suddenly becomes credible? We don’t need outsiders to validate our suffering. We have decades of testimony and footage. The only thing these trips are shedding light on is how desperately some people are trying to save face while Palestinians continue paying the price. Fuck off my land Brad, and take every single Zionist with you.

[انوس @anoosify]

Palestinian from the West Bank here. You want to know what we want? Our land free of occupation and settlements. Want to help? Get the fuck off our land, dismantle the settlements, and take your genocidal war criminals with you to hell.

[Brad Lander @bradlander]

I'm in the West Bank this week as part of the “Protect the Harvest” coalition along with @israelispeaceny, @ucpinpalestine & Protect the Harvest, which is bringing people together from around the world to help Palestinian farmers harvest olives in the face of state-sanctioned settler terrorism.

Our goals for the trip are to help protect the olive harvest — and to shed a light on the reality of the occupation. To ensure that international solidarity goes beyond the harvest, to become a sustained commitment to protecting Palestinian communities from settler violence, forced displacement, and the ongoing threats to their right to remain on their land.

And, speedily and in our day, to secure human rights, safety, equality & freedom for both Palestinians and Israelis.

Thankfully, our corner of today's harvest was peaceful and successful. But violence unfortunately is never far away.

We’ll keep you posted on our efforts this week, especially the stories we hear from Palestinians on the ground. Protect the Harvest.