Instead of calling for the arrest of violent settlers & IDF soldier who detained Americans, former Congresswoman Manning criticizes me for taking a Palestinian led trip to the West Bank. I want to respectfully address this criticism head on because we desperately need more American politicians to take trips like the ones I did.
I had been to Israel three times before my trip to Palestine. I had met with PM Bennett and PM Netanyahu. I have met with the families of Oct 7 terrorist attacks, including Jon and Rachel Polin who lost their beloved son Hersh.
Can an American politician not take one Palestinian led trip to the occupied territories to learn the facts on the ground? Must every trip be curated through the Israel government or pro Israel advocacy groups? Will any trip that is through the lens of Palestinian eyes be dismissed as a stunt?
What is most surprising to me is Congresswoman Manning dismisses my experience of being seen first as Brown and second as an American in the West Bank. I have never felt personally such an acute sting of race in America. When traveling in Palestine with a small group of others who were White, I was singled out and asked my faith. I was subject to longer interrogations at checkpoints. I was laughed at and mocked by violent settlers. And I saw firsthand the IDF taking the side of violent settlers much like the police forces sided with segregationists in the Jim Crow South. I am not nearly as eloquent as Ta-Nehisi Coates. But any person of color will feel how he or I did if they visit the occupied territories for even 24 hours.
What is happening in Palestine is a betrayal of Judaism or the ideals of Israel. I wish Congresswoman Manning and others who love Israel would open their eyes and help work to redeem the soul of the nation they love by ending the oppression.
Vcs já pararam pra pensar que o atleta negro americano Jesse Owens entrou mais fácil na Alemanha Nazista para disputar as Olimpíadas de 1936 do que o atacante iraquiano Aymen Hussein para disputar a Copa de 2026 nos EUA?
A young technician came to install a dishwasher today.
He asked me where I was from. I said: Palestine where Jesus was born.
Then he asked quietly: “What do you think about what’s happening?”
I told him it was horrific.
What happened next stunned me.
He became visibly emotional… angry even. He said:
“We know the truth now. Before, people only knew what the media told them. Now we see everything ourselves. They are killing babies. They are killing children. Entire neighborhoods are being erased. They say it’s to get one man, one ‘terrorist’ — but they level whole cities.”
This wasn’t an activist.
Not a professor.
Not a politician.
Just a young American worker installing a dishwasher.
For decades, many Americans only heard one narrative.
Now millions are watching raw videos, doctors, journalists, parents, and children documenting reality in real time.
Something is changing in America.
I don’t know if anyone will care about what I am saying, but the outside world must know exactly what is happening here… not later, but now.
What we are experiencing in Gaza has gone beyond the limits of human endurance. The camps have turned into a terrifying hotspot for the spread of diseases. With the beginning of summer and thousands of families crowded into extremely tight spaces next to garbage dumps, illness is spreading rapidly, as if it has become part of daily life. There is also an incomprehensible media silence regarding the scale of this growing health catastrophe, despite repeated warnings from medical teams and field workers.
Skin diseases, infections, and contagious illnesses are spreading widely, especially among children, in an environment that lacks the most basic conditions of hygiene or treatment. Rats are everywhere between the tents, insects are spreading heavily and causing continuous injuries, and there are no means of control such as poisons or pesticides. My nieces are part of this reality… their bodies are covered in painful bites that worsen every day without effective treatment.
The situation is collapsing with no real solutions. Medicines are scarce, disinfectants are almost nonexistent, and unsafe water is contributing directly to the spread of disease, while the healthcare system is beyond its capacity.
As of now, cases are estimated at around 160,000 people and still increasing, most of them children. This is not an exaggeration… it is a complete health collapse inside the camps.
Je le dis comme universitaire et comme ancien recteur.
L'intimidation, sur pression du gouvernement, des étudiants qui se mobilisent depuis deux ans et demi, par solidarité avec les Palestiniens, est scandaleuse et lourde de conflits à venir.
Elle est scandaleuse, parce qu'il s'agit d'une ingérence du pouvoir dans le fonctionnement normal des universités, autonomes depuis 2007.
Elle est scandaleuse parce que l'université doit être un lieu où toutes les opinions s'expriment.
Elle est scandaleuse parce qu'elle participe d'une négation institutionnelle du génocide des Palestiniens qui est malheureusement le fait de presque tous les pays occidentaux) .
(Mes travaux de recherche portent sur l'histoire de la Shoah et je fais mienne la formule du grand historien israélien des violences nazies, Omer Bartov, qui a déclaré à propos des violences commises contre les Palestiniens à Gaza : quand je vois un génocide, je sais le reconnaître)
L'intimidation pratiquée contre les étudiants qui ont à cœur le sort des Palestiniens est lourde de conflits pour l'avenir: elle consiste à semer la haine dans un pays où la première préoccupation du gouvernement devrait être de ne pas importer les inexpiables conflits du Proche-Orient dans un pays qui compte, en effectifs, la première communauté juive et la première communauté musulmane du continent européen.
Et puis, pour finir, c'est le professeur qui parle: l'université est un lieu dédié à la recherche de la vérité. Comment peut-on inciter les étudiants à cette recherche tout en les punissant et les matraquant quand ils proclament la vérité sur notre temps?
Soutien à Léa!
dites vous que ces armes servent aussi en Cisjordanie là où il n’y a ni Hamas, ni Hezbollah et où il y a juste 0 roquette, 0 tunnel, 0infrastructure militaire
il y a des villages, des oliviers & des familles qui vivent là depuis des générations et des colons qui arrivent chaque semaine sous escorte militaire pour prendre leurs terres
si vous comprenez ça, vous comprenez que le récit sécuritaire est une fiction et si vous regardez plus large, vous voyez le plan de déstabilisation de toute la région avec un Liban fracturé, une Syrie morcelée, l’Irak sous pression sans compter la Jordanie déstabilisée à travers le transfert forcé de population palestinienne
et ce chaos régional du moyen orient est tout simplement l’œuvre d’Israel car un moyen orient fragmenté, sans États forts & surtout sans axes de résistance, c’est la condition nécessaire au projet qui n’a jamais changé depuis des décennies:
le grand Israël
une vision messianique et territoriale écrite dans les discours de membres du gouvernement israélien depuis des années à travers le plan Yinon qui est aujourd’hui très LARGEMENT documenté
comprenez bien que le Hamas et le Hezbollah constituent le prétexte de tout ce plan d’expansion et la France fournit les outils depuis Roissy avec les impôts DES FRANÇAIS
The American ambassador to Greece under Donald Trump is Kimberly Guilfoyle, his son Donald Trump Jr.’s former girlfriend. Imagine Emmerson Mnangagwa appointing ED Junior’s ex-girlfriend as Zimbabwe’s ambassador to Greece.
America’s ambassador to France is Charles Kushner, the father-in-law of Ivanka Trump, Trump’s daughter. Imagine Mnangagwa appointing Gerald Mlotshwa’s father as Zimbabwe’s ambassador to France.
The co-negotiator for America in the Middle East is Jared Kushner, Donald Trump’s son-in-law, Ivanka’s husband. Imagine Mnangagwa appointing Pokello as Zimbabwe’s negotiator in an international crisis.
Trump appointed his son-in-law Jared Kushner to handle a broad portfolio including Middle East peace, criminal justice reform, and relations with Mexico. Imagine Mnangagwa assigning Gerald Mlotshwa to run multiple critical national portfolios without any prior public service experience.
He also appointed close political allies and loyalists with little relevant experience to key diplomatic and administrative roles, including Richard Grenell, Mick Mulvaney, Peter Navarro, and Stephen Miller. Imagine a system where loyalty to the leader outweighs competence and experience in state appointments.
In Africa, America calls it corruption and nepotism, in America they call it “political appointments” and “trusted insiders.”
Jared Kushner set up a private equity firm after leaving government and secured about US$2 billion from Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund, led by Saudi’s defacto leader, Mohammed bin Salman.
This has serious conflict-of-interest because he handles Middle East policy for America.
Donald Trump has also pursued major real estate and licensing deals in the Middle East, including projects linked to state-backed or politically connected investors in countries such as Saudi Arabia and the UAE. A sitting president should not be financially benefiting in regions where he shapes policy, even if no laws are proven to have been broken.
In Africa, this would be labelled corruption or state capture, but in the United States it is often discussed as ethics, conflicts of interest, or influence, even when the underlying dynamics, proximity to power translating into financial gain, look strikingly similar.
Donald Trump is one of the most corrupt Western leaders ever elected into power, but most of his supporters, especially those who do not live in America, are oblivious to this because they do not support his ideas, they support his personality rather than his ideas.
So regardless of whether he rapes or abuses power, they just continue supporting him. They are the equivalent of people who support mediocrity, if the mediocre person is seen as their own, they will go all out in supporting him regardless of his corrupt rule.
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Dinguerieeeee. J’étais persuadée que « quand on veut on peut » et que les gens qui affirment le contraire sont juste jaloux de la réussite des autres 😮
Not sure the magnitude of this is fully understood: Israel has wiped out 2,700 families in Gaza, leaving 6,000+ people as the sole survivors of entire bloodlines. This is the result of deliberate policy, pursued with full knowledge of its effects. This is not war. It is genocide.
Mila a pu faire sa vie tranquillement de raciste pendant des années, demander à ce qu’on attache des arabes à des poteaux sans réaction etc
C’est tt à fait normal qu’elle ait pu croire qu’elle pourrait partager un salut nazi sans être inquiétée. Vous l’aviez habitué à l’immunité
When people ask me why I singled out Israel for expulsion from the UN and not other countries that have human rights abuses, this is why. Which other country destroys UN buildings in plain sight? Kills UN personnel and fires at UN peacekeepers? How is the UN ok with this?
Un ancien soldat israélien décrit la réalité des territoires occupés.
Des incursions nocturnes dans des maisons palestiniennes, des familles réveillées, humiliées, terrorisées au hasard. Pas pour prévenir une menace, mais pour instaurer la peur et rappeler la domination.
Ce n’est pas un excès. C’est une méthode, documentée par d’anciens soldats eux-mêmes, notamment via Breaking the Silence.
Cela a un nom, le harcèlement colonial.
Et quand certains Palestiniens, après des années de violences quotidiennes, finissent par répondre, on efface tout le contexte. On les appelle des terroristes.
THREAD sur l'histoire des interventions étatsuniennes en Amérique latine: agressions, invasions, annexions de territoires, appropriations des ressources, guerres et atrocités, au cœur de rivalités interimpérialistes dont les peuples sont toujours les premières victimes #Venezuela
Get the fxck outta here !!!
US soldiers are so funny, they travel all around the world killing others kids' fathers, breaking whole families and then go back home playing the emotional daddies towards their own kids and families. Heartless motherfxxxrz !!!! 😡😡
🇵🇸 [THREAD 🧵] LISTE DES CRIMES ISRAÉLIENS À GAZA
J'ai essayé de faire une liste la plus exhaustive possible des crimes commis par Israël à Gaza depuis deux ans. Vous trouverez des sources, lorsque cela est nécessaire.
1 - Meurtre de civils par bombardement d'habitations