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[Ghassan Abu Sitta, Chair of Conflict Medicine AUB @GhassanAbuSitt1]

We are the indigenous population of that land, called Palestine.
We are being wiped out by European settlers.
Like they wiped out many indigenous populations before us.
Their genocidal tools are slaughter, diseases, and famine.
How little have they evolved.

[Ghassan Abu Sitta, Chair of Conflict Medicine AUB @GhassanAbuSitt1]

Last night Israel killed 80 children in 51 minutes

[Ali Abunimah @AliAbunimah]

I’m free! I wrote this on the plane and I’m posting it just after landing at Istanbul. On Monday evening I was brought to Zurich airport in handcuffs, in a small metal cage inside a windowless prison van and led all the way to the plane by police. This is after three days and two nights in a Swiss prison cut off from communication with the outside world, in a cell 24 hours a day with one cell mate, not even permitted to contact my family. On Saturday in a police interview in the presence of my lawyer they accused me of “offending against Swiss law” without ever telling me what crime I had committed in Switzerland or listing any charges. As far as I know I have not been charged with any crime whatsoever and I was held in “administrative detention.” On Sunday morning, they took me from my cell for questioning by Swiss defense ministry intelligence agents without the presence of my lawyer, and they again refused to allow me to contact her or my family. I refused to talk to them without my lawyer and told them take me back to my cell. During my imprisonment I refused every meal and every cup of coffee or tea they offered me except the last meal, after I knew I would be going home. I accepted only water, which is the right of every human being. All of this was after I was abducted off the street around 1:30pm on Saturday while on my way to the Palestine teach-in by undercover agents, handcuffed, forced into an unmarked car and sped straight to the prison. My “crime”? Being a journalist who speaks up for Palestine and against Israel’s genocide and settler-colonial savagery and those who aid and abet it. I came to Switzerland at the invitation of Swiss citizens to talk about justice for Palestine, to talk about accountability for a genocide in which Switzerland too is complicit. But while I was hauled off to prison like a dangerous criminal before I even had a chance to say a word, the Israeli president Isaac Herzog, who declared at the start of the genocide that there are no civilians in Gaza, no innocents, received a red carpet welcome in Davos, a carpet soaked in the blood of the more than 47,000 known victims of the genocide and the thousands more still under the rubble, or who died of deliberately inflicted starvation and denial of medical care. And on this very day Netanyahu freely travels to Poland to make a mockery of the Auschwitz commemoration despite an outstanding ICC arrest warrant. That is the perverse, unjust world we live in. This ordeal lasted three days but that taste of prison was more than enough to leave me in even greater awe of the Palestinian heroes who endure months and years in the prisons of the genocidal oppressor. More than ever I know that the debt we owe them is one we can never repay and all of them must be free and they must remain our focus. The police gave me my phone back only at the gate of the plane so I’m only seeing now the extent of the overwhelming support and solidarity from all over the world. I’m deeply grateful to each and every person who stood up for me. I’m especially grateful to my lawyer Dina Raewel and her team, to our friends in Zurich who I learned afterwards demonstrated outside the prison, to my family and my colleagues at EI and so many others. I honestly had no idea what was happening outside that concrete room! Thank you from the bottom of my heart. I want to tell the whole story of what happened, perhaps in an @intifada livestream in the next day or two, because I think it’s important for people to know the depths to which their Western so-called “democracies” have sunk in the abject service of genocidal Zionism. Right now I’m glad to be on my way home. I’m looking forward to hugging my mom and dad, taking a shower and sleeping in my own bed. Journalism is not a crime! Speaking out for Palestine is not a crime! Standing against racist genocidal Zionism is not a crime! Say it with me:

From the River to the Sea Palestine Will Be Free! ❤️🇵🇸✌️

[Ghassan Abu Sitta, Chair of Conflict Medicine AUB @GhassanAbuSitt1]

Israel has now instituted the destruction of hospitals as a critical part of the conduct of war. The rest of humanity will pay the price.

[Ghassan Abu Sitta, Chair of Conflict Medicine AUB @GhassanAbuSitt1]

In the field of intensional mutilation Israel has always been a world-beater. 2018 - 20 it shot 8000 Palestinians in the lower limb with debilitating effect; it is responsible for the largest cohort of amputations in children in history in Gaza and this week over 3500 blinded and their hands mutilated in Lebanon. I think its when innovative spirit and bloodlust meet.

[Jehad Abusalim @JehadAbusalim]

Heartless monsters. No honor, no humanity, no decency, no mercy. All in the name of centuries-long victimhood. Is that it? Is that what Zionism ultimately wanted? A resolution to a centuries-long question by establishing a fenced-off killing machine that constantly murders, humiliates people, and deprives them of their life, dignity, and any hope for normal life?? What a huge accomplishment this is—you guys should be really proud of this fucking accomplishment. Congrats on building and maintaining a state that can only “survive” by committing massacres and turning the lives of millions into absolute hell on earth.

[Ghassan Abu Sitta, Chair of Conflict Medicine AUB @GhassanAbuSitt1]

Global capital at work. Using pogroms at home to protect the genocide in the colonies.

[Ali Abunimah @AliAbunimah]

The Zionist enemy has always murdered the leaders of the Palestinian people in the hope that this gangsterism will break them and force their surrender. But it has only ever increased Palestinian determination to outlast this bitter, evil enemy, and today, in 2024, despite decades of the enemy's crimes and its ongoing genocide, its artificial terror colony implanted in Palestine by blood and guns and barbaric foreign backing, has never looked weaker, never looked more temporary and never looked more certain to end.

[Jehad Abusalim @JehadAbusalim]

This is annihilation. There are no words left to capture the horror. Gaza is being obliterated—people are being murdered, starved, and displaced for months on end. Repeating these words feels like a hollow echo and a useless endeavor. But we have no choice but to persevere and keep pushing for an end to the genocide, for accountability, for justice, for healing, for rebuilding, and for liberation. We on the outside have no excuse. As long as Gaza’s defenders, doctors, nurses, first responders, and volunteers keep working and pushing, we have no choice but to keep working and pushing. Gaza needs your activism, your courage, your dedication, your boycott, your presence on the streets, and your donations now more than ever. This is a battle for hope, and hope is the last thing we’ve got. Let’s not let them take it away from us.

[Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis]

Nikki Hailey in Israel scribbling "FINISH THEM"on the shells that the IDF is about to fire into Rafah in defiance of the International Court of Justice. Biden provided the shells, Republicans autograph them. The US political class is united in its complicity with this genocide.

[Mohammed El-Kurd @m7mdkurd]

When a state is burning people alive in their tents after it has displaced them and demolished their homes and killed their relatives, there is a moral obligation to abolish that state, to sanction its supporters and benefactors, to burn its flag wherever—wherever—it may appear.

[asad abukhalil أسعد أبو خليل @asadabukhalil]

We, as Arabs, waited for years for the day when the entire world gets to know Israel as it has always been since 1948: a genocidal, racist, conniving, deceptive, and destructive entity of occupation.

[Alon Mizrahi @alon_mizrahi]

I don't think such evil ever existed this openly and brazenly for all of humanity to see. This must be a first in the history of mankind

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

There are videos coming out of Rafah today of beheaded babies.

Actual beheaded babies that you can see for yourselves - not the beheaded babies that the Israeli authorities invented to justify their genocidal assault, or the ones that Biden falsely claimed to have seen pix of.

[Ali Abunimah @AliAbunimah]

Zionism is demonic beyond anything we ever imagined

[Jehad Abusalim @JehadAbusalim]

Since the beginning of this genocide, Israel has systematically targeted education in Gaza. In less than six months, the academic lives of 88,000 university students came to a complete halt. Additionally, 555 students lost their scholarships abroad. During this period, FIVE out of SIX major universities in Gaza were completely or partially destroyed, and 70% of all colleges and schools also suffered destruction. Moreover, Israel has killed three university presidents and 95 academics, including deans and instructors, 68 of whom held the title "professor." You might only recognize the name of one of them, primarily because he fought to make his voice heard and his words reach you; yet, this did not protect him or his family from being murdered by Israel.

Over 95 academics and scholars were murdered, and their deaths went unmentioned by mainstream academia, including academic associations, journals, departments, or institutions. Nor was their plight acknowledged by many "radical theorists" on the left, liberal "champions" of representation, or conservatives fighting against "cancel culture," who all chose to remain silent on Palestine. The lives, work, writings, research, and scholarships of our academics were neither mourned nor mentioned. These individuals lost their lives, families, homes, jobs, institutions, and futures. Those who survived are not whining here about "safety" or "feelings." Instead, they are either in Gaza, fighting for their survival, or have become displaced.

Recently, a professor of business administration, now a street vendor in a market in Rafah, was seen selling various goods to support his family. His students recounted how he would smile and greet them, humorously remarking that he was merely applying what he teaches at business school to real life. These individuals have dignity and honor; they understand dedication and sacrifice. They are not superhuman or mythical figures; they are simply humans entitled to respect and humility, not arrogance and bullying—unlike the figures produced by the neoliberal academy, who align themselves with power and oppression, serving the interests of the ruling class under the guise of scholarship and academic freedom.

[Lowkey @Lowkey0nline]

Israel managed to kill European citizens working for an NGO, bomb the Iranian embassy, and announce the closure of Al Jazeera all on the same day.

All while committing genocide on Palestinians. This can't be normal.

[Ghassan Abu Sitta, Chair of Conflict Medicine AUB @GhassanAbuSitt1]

Imagine, just for a moment, that it was Iran or Russia who killed 7 international aid workers.

[Ghassan Abu Sitta, Chair of Conflict Medicine AUB @GhassanAbuSitt1]

As it was in Ireland, the Americas, Africa or India, engineering famine in Gaza is a critical component of colonial genocide.