Charlotte Bensaada

Parent, Librarian, DC Citizen #DCStatehoodNow, Time to ask your MOC to support HR 51 & S 51 #PostcardstoVoters

[Charlotte Bensaada @charosb]

You know how we thought we could relax in November-well how about never.For better or worse we won’t be storming the beaches save democracy but will have to fight the swill of misinformation and a party that no longer believes in democracy.#Postcardstovoters & contribute & canvas

[Assal Rad @AssalRad]

A professor in the U.S. was suspended for mentioning Palestinians, just days after Hasan Piker was barred from the UK for condemning a genocide.

Your rights are being stripped away in service of Israel’s impunity.

[Al Jazeera English @AJEnglish]

BREAKING: Five Palestinians have been killed and 49 wounded in Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip over the past 48 hours, the Palestinian health ministry says.

🔴 LIVE updates: https://t.co/hJUkVDUayL

[Ricardo Karam ريكاردو كرم @RicardoRKaram]

Thursday morning, an Israeli airstrike struck the home of Mona Khalil in Mansouri, South of Lebanon. The home itself was modest. But what it sheltered was extraordinary.
For decades, while many spoke about protecting nature, Mona lived that commitment every single day. From her small house overlooking the sea, she became the guardian of a coastline, the protector of countless sea turtles, and a voice for creatures that could not speak for themselves.
She chose to stay. She stayed through uncertainty, through fear, through danger. She stayed because the beach she watched over was not just a stretch of sand. It was a sanctuary. A place of life. A place worth defending.
Mona was seriously injured and her assistant suffered burns. Both are thankfully in stable condition. Yet the tragedy goes far beyond their wounds.
With war reaching a woman whose life’s mission has been to protect life, something deeper is injured, a part of our humanity is wounded. Violence does not distinguish between a fighter and a conservationist, between a military position and a nest of endangered turtles, between those who destroy and those who dedicate their lives to preserving.
Mona Khalil spent years protecting one of Lebanon’s most fragile treasures. Today, it is Mona who needs protection. And perhaps the greatest tribute we can pay her is to ensure that her courage, her mission, and her love for this land survive long after the smoke has cleared ❤️🇱🇧

#lebanon #humanity #truth #worldenvironmentday2026

[Charlotte Bensaada @charosb]

@WCKitchen I am seeing reports you are shutting down operations in Gaza? Is it funds, opposition by Israel?

[Charlotte Bensaada @charosb]

@PalPress24 Are they out of funds or being blocked by Israeli government?

[Zachary Foster @_ZachFoster]

If 9 Israelis had been burnt alive yesterday, they’d have called it a barbaric & savage antisemitic massacre.

When Israel burns alive 9 Palestinians to death, they call it a ceasefire.

[sarah @sahouraxo]

Israel executed baby Sam today with a bullet to the face in the occupied West Bank.

They killed his mother too.

Sam was only 7 months old.

They murdered a mother. And her infant.

[Mairav Zonszein מרב זונשיין @MairavZ]

Now, more than ever at any time in Israeli history, it couldn’t be more clear that there is no military solution to Israel’s conflicts

[Dr. Abdul El-Sayed @AbdulElSayed]

They've taken to calling me "dangerous."

Go ask children in Detroit who needed glasses if I'm dangerous.

Go ask people whose medical debt was cancelled if I'm dangerous.

Go ask the people who are breathing on the wrong end of a smokestack if I'm dangerous.

I'm not dangerous to them.

Now go ask a politician backed by corporations. For damn sure I'm dangerous to them.

Why? Because I'm coming for the system where people take money from corporations to funnel into elections so that all the politicians who get elected end up serving the corporations and not the people.

[James J. Zogby @jjz1600]

Btw, it’s no ceasefire. It’s a bad deal that let’s Israel continue to occupy Lebanon & fire, at will, at whatever targets they want. The point is that Israeli politics have moved so far to the hardline right - the big difference in the parties is over who’s more violent to Arabs

[Ola Abu moamer @palpress27]

Israel strike the home of Ali and his wife and children ,
Just to remind the world that they was never ceasefire here in gaza 🇵🇸🥹

[Ramy Abdu| رامي عبده @RamAbdu]

On 31 October 2023, Dr. Hammam Alloh, a kidney specialist at Al-Shifa Hospital, was asked why he didn’t leave Gaza. Through tears, he replied: “If I leave, who will treat my patients?”

Two weeks later, Israel killed him. He was 36, leaving behind a wife and two young children.

[sarah @sahouraxo]

This is Sarafand in South Lebanon today.

Israel is wiping out entire civilian neighborhoods in a town that has stood for over 3,000 years.

This is what the complicit international community calls a “ceasefire.”

[Christiane Amanpour @amanpour]

“Entire families have been wiped out.” Lebanese President Joseph Aoun recounts the devastating toll of Israel’s war in his country against Hezbollah. “This is a 3-month-old baby,” he says, holding up a heartbreaking picture. “Is this an imminent threat?”

@LBpresidency

[Ellen #VoteBlue Bender 💙 🏳️‍🌈 @ElvinBen]

I admire @nschwalbe for her long career in global public health and her integrity. One reason I have admired Jerry Nadler has been his willingness to take votes and positions that haven’t been popular, like his opposition to the IHRA definition.

[Charlotte Bensaada @charosb]

@DavidAFrench I had multiple friends get pulled into the first gulf war because they were in the intelligence reserve unit. I saw all the issues Platner has exhibited afterwards. Maybe your friends did not feel they could tell you.

[Cory Archibald @CMArchibald]

In the last 24 hours I have repeatedly started, then deleted, a post responding to the nasty anti-Muslim, racist attacks against @HamawyForNJ. I keep trying to find the words for the forceful, eloquent defense Dr. Hamawy deserves, but I can't. I'm too angry.

So let me be crystal fucking clear to the scum at that dishrag of a "newspaper", @nypost, the shameless editors of the @nytimes, the vapid hucksters of @FoxNews, and gutless cowards like @RepMikeLawler and @RepMoskowitz:

Adam Hamawy is a hero and a patriot with more courage and integrity than any of you could dream of.

Unlike Jared Moskowitz or Mike Lawler, he actually served this country in uniform, deploying to wars *we* started so he could stitch up our wounded troops. There are people who are alive today ONLY because Adam Hamawy was their doctor when it counted. One of them is your colleague, Senator Tammy Duckworth.

In Gaza, he pieced together children blown up by AMERICAN bombs you ghouls shipped over there. Bombs dropped by our supposed allies. They offered to evacuate him on account of his American passport. But he refused to leave his patients or his crew until the criminal apartheid state allowed a new rotation of doctors in.

That's a level of courage and moral conviction that neither Lawler or Moskowitz nor any other lawmaker participating in this nasty campaign could hope to achieve.

For you to question his patriotism or his Americanness in service to a foreign dictator is pathetic.

You trot out our troops like stage props when you want a photo op, but you wouldn't know real service if it was handed to you on a platter at an AIPAC dinner.

Your despicable smear against this war hero doctor spits in the face of everyone who has ever served. Including my father.

But the jig is up on your crybully routine. There's no amount of Islamophobic hysteria you can spin up that will make millions of Americans forget the hundreds of thousands of Palestinians you gleefully pushed into death, disease, and displacement with OUR money and weapons.

Whatever you're selling, only AIPAC is buying. Adam Hamawy is going to Congress, and you can go to hell.

[Tommy Vietor @TVietor08]

This is fascinating and worth your time. Jared Kushner is using his quasi government position to grease massive deals with Saudi money and backing from a shady Epstein-connected network.

[Leyla Hamed @leylahamed]

Not a single peep from the likes of the BBC or CNN, the same outlets that were reporting on the Iranian women’s football team three times a day.

Western media doesn’t care about women’s freedom in Iran, Palestine or Lebanon unless it can be weaponised to serve their narrative.

[Ahmed Shihab-Eldin @aseisfree]

"I took my rocket launcher and ordered the soldiers to bombard a building where a Palestinian family lived, I ordered them to burn them all alive. When we bombed them, I looked at my friend and told him it was very fun to hear them scream while they burned alive."

Yarden Megira, Zionist soldier, war criminal, and professional psychopath, confesses that he burned a Palestinian family alive and then stayed to listen as they screamed in pain while they burned.