Antonio Tahhan

DC-based Syrian-Venezuelan American. Food writer. Fulbright Alum. Teta at heart 👵🏼

[Antonio Tahhan @antoniotahhan]

Kibbeh, a thread 🧵

Kibbeh refers to a broad category of Levantine dishes that consist of a bulgur wheat shell stuffed with a variety of fillings. There are baked, fried, raw kibbeh, stuffed with meat or without—the varieties are endless! How many kibbeh can we identify?

[Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @AOC]

Is that why you spent nearly $20 million - the most in primary history - to unseat one of the handful of reps who don’t vote the way you tell them to?

Is that why you announced a $100M spend overall?

If AIPAC positions were so popular, they’d be free. Instead, they’re bought.

[شنشون @humanprovince]

In his recent podcast, @ezraklein calls the right of return "a lie that has been told to people." He continues, "I think the idea that international law tells you it will work that way is a lie international law is telling you." https://t.co/OgspjcwnrT

[Alex Shams @alexshams_]

Israeli snipers are murdering Gaza’s Christians as they shelter in churches

[Zachary Foster @_ZachFoster]

Meet Saleem Elrayes, Gaza's #1 antique dealer.

For 30yrs+, Saleem has collected private papers, rare books, manuscripts & historical documents from the people of Gaza relating to the history of Palestine.

Shortly before Oct 7, I was fortunate enough to visit his shop in Gaza City. I purchased 100s of documents dating from the 1910s-1960s.

Since Oct. 7th, the Israeli military bombed Saleem's home. Saleem believes his shop, which housed the literary heritage of the Palestinian people of Gaza, has been destroyed during Israel's genocidal rampage.

I'm sharing 200+ documents I received from Saleem for the first time now.

You can download them for free in the "Gaza Collection" here, in the folder titled "ملف غير محدد"

https://t.co/egU5SjZNts

In total, the Gaza Collection now includes 600+ documents, all of them purchased from Saleem. Here's a video with Saleem, taken on October 2nd, 2023, from Saleem's home (which is now rubble), where he is explaining one of the documents in the collection:

[Alex Shams @alexshams_]

Pay attention to what Israel destroys in Gaza - historic mosques, ancient churches, community centers, bookstores, government buildings, archives - and how it kidnaps Palestinian writers, journalists, and poets

This is a war on Palestinian history and existence

[Sumaya Awad @sumayaawad]

They banned Columbia SJP and JVP thinking it would silence them. Instead, 40 other campus orgs carried on the message.

Photo: Lauren M

[Omar D. Foda @EgyptsBeer]

They want you so twisted up about the River to the Sea and decolonization that you don't notice they just blew up a school with 200 people in it

[Noura Erakat @4noura]

Israel has no military plan, it has an ethnic cleansing plan for northern Gaza. It has destroyed 45% of civilian infrastructure & forcibly removed 2/3 of the pop to the South. Its war against hospitals, its strikes of UN schools are part of this calculus. Disarm Israel now. #Gaza

[Ashok Kumar @comrade_kumar_]

BBC: Israel has tampered with evidence, manipulated video, lied to the public and provided no evidence that al-Shifa Hospital was a command centre for Hamas

[madeline lane-mckinley @la_louve_rouge_]

Anne Boyer resigns from NYT 🔥

[Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @AOC]

Our country subjects people in need of food assistance to a litany of conditions to qualify, yet refuses to place a *single* condition on billions of public funds to prevent enabling an atrocity.

It is appalling. Thousands of children, dead. This is the result of “no red lines.”

[Patrick Gaspard @patrickgaspard]

I’m struck by the absolute certitude and hearing yet again there’s an expertise that some have about making war and that those protesting lack. I remember protesting my Govt voting to give war authorization in Iraq. We were told that we just didn’t understand. With this certitude

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

10,000-plus Palestinians killed, including 4,000-plus kids, and the U.S. House of Representatives is busy censuring… the only Palestinian-American member. Can’t make this stuff up.

[Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib @RepRashida]

I am the only Palestinian American serving in Congress, and my perspective is needed here now more than ever. I will not be silenced and I will not let anyone distort my words.

I’m from Detroit, where I learned to speak truth to power, even if my voice shakes.

[Amnesty International @amnesty]

A new Amnesty investigation has found that the Israeli army indiscriminately, and therefore unlawfully, used white phosphorous in an attack on Dhayra in south Lebanon on 16 October.

The attack must be investigated as a war crime.

[Zachary Foster @_ZachFoster]

6 🧵s to make sense of Israel/Palestine:

1) A history Palestinian non-violent resistance
2) A history of Hamas
3) A history of Israel's ethnic cleansing Palestinians
4) A history of Israel's wars on Gaza
5) A history of Gaza
6) A history of Israel’s use of disproportionate force

[Rafael Shimunov @rafaelshimunov]

Jews calling for #ceasefirenow have taken over NYC’s grand central station in the name of Palestinians of Gaza we say not in our name.

[Alex Shams @alexshams_]

Anyone calling for a "two-state solution" is totally checked out of reality.

Israel has spent five decades building settlements across the West Bank that make a Palestinian state an impossibility

That was literally the point - and the US sent Israel billions of $ to do it