Clara Roig

Periodista y comunicadora. Especializada en DDHH y globalización. Ahora en @fianinternational. Antes en @ruidophoto y @lavanguardia.

[Clara Roig @clararoigm]

Hoy lanzamos la preventa del que será mi primer libro como periodista, donde hablaré sobre el rol de las mujeres en la migración africana 😊 No puedo sentirme más afortunada compartiendo tapa dura con @xavieraldekoa @agusmoralespuga y los fotógrafos de @RUIDOPhoto

[RUIDO Photo @RUIDOPhoto]

3 años. 11 países. Las historias de cientos de personas recorriendo las rutas migratorias entre África y Europa. Y ahora #TheBackway se convierte en un libro.

¡Acaba de empezar la preventa! Reserva tu libro aquí ➡️https://t.co/PLY0NNOKeg

¿De qué va todo esto? Abrimos hilo👇

[Luc Auffret @LucAuffret]

Il est minuit et plusieurs milliers de manifestants sont toujours rassemblés à Paris.

#ElectionsLegislatives2024 #legislatives2024

[EL PAÍS @el_pais]

Dos hermanas se han suicidado en un piso de Barcelona horas antes de ser desahuciadas. Antes de quitarse la vida, las dos hermanas, de 64 y 54 años, han dejado una nota junto al oficio del juzgado, que ordenaba el desahucio este lunes https://t.co/8LQTqOGzFg

[Javier Espinosa @javierespinosa2]

Habla el palestino herido que fue “exhibido”, atado a un jeep israelí. “Se veía a los soldados muy orgullosos de lo que hacían”.

[FIAN International @FIANista]

Israel must stop using starvation as a weapon of genocide & let humanitarian aid enter #Gaza.

Children are starving.

Israeli orchestrated #GazaFamine imminent.

📃Read FIAN/UAWC briefing: https://t.co/jY5wMTnXCd

@via_campesina @AJEnglish @usmissiongeneva @GermanyUNGeneva

[FIAN International @FIANista]

Using starvation as genocidal weapon: Israel’s #HumanRights violations mapped out in new FIAN-UAWC briefing. #GazaFamine

🇵🇸We call for Palestinian food sovereignty & self-determination.📃Read here: https://t.co/jY5wMTnXCd

@via_campesina @usmissiongeneva

[Jonathan Cook @Jonathan_K_Cook]

UNRWA is separate from the UN’s main refugee agency, the UNHCR, and deals only with Palestinian refugees.

Although Israel does not want you to know it, the reason for there being two UN refugee agencies is because Israel and its western backers insisted on the division back in 1948.

Why? Because Israel was afraid of the Palestinians falling under the responsibility of the UNHCR’s forerunner, the International Refugee Organisation. The IRO was established in the immediate wake of the Second World War in large part to cope with the millions of European Jews fleeing Nazi atrocities.

Israel did not want the two cases treated as comparable, because it was pushing hard for Jewish refugees to be settled on lands from which it had just expelled Palestinians. Part of the IRO’s mission was to seek the repatriation of European Jews. Israel was worried that very principle might be used both to deny it the Jews it wanted to colonise Palestinian land and to force it to allow the Palestinian refugees to return to their former homes.

So in a real sense, UNRWA is Israel’s creature: it was set up to keep the Palestinians a case apart, an anomaly...

Israel’s efforts to get rid of UNRWA are not new. They date back many years. For a number of reasons, the UN refugee agency is a thorn in Israel’s side – and all the more so in Gaza.

Not least, it has provided a lifeline to Palestinians there, keeping them fed and cared for, and providing jobs to many thousands of local people in a place where unemployment rates are among the highest in the world.

It has invested in infrastructure like hospitals and schools that make life in Gaza more bearable, when Israel’s goal has long been to make the enclave uninhabitable.

UNRWA’s well-run schools, staffed by local Palestinians, teach the children their own history, about where their grandparents once lived, and of Israel’s campaign of dispossession and ethnic cleansing against them. That runs directly counter to the infamous Zionist slogan about the Palestinians’ identity-less future: “The old will die and the young forget.”

But UNRWA’s role is bigger than that. Uniquely, it is the sole agency unifying Palestinians wherever they live, even when they are separated by national borders and Israel’s fragmentation of the territory it controls.

UNRWA brings Palestinians together even when their own political leaders have been manipulated into endless factionalism by Israel’s divide and rule policies: Hamas is nominally in charge in Gaza, while Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah pretends to run the West Bank.

In addition, UNRWA keeps alive the moral case for a Palestinian right of return – a principle recognised in international law but long ago abandoned by western states.

Even before October 7, UNRWA had become an obstable that needed removing if Israel was ever to ethnically cleanse Gaza. That is why Israel has repeatedly lobbied to stop the biggest donors, especially the US, funding UNRWA.

Back in 2018, for example, the refugee agency was plunged into an existential crisis when President Donald Trump acquiesced to Israeli pressure and cut all its funding. Even after the decision was reversed, the agency has been limping along financially.

You can read more from my latest article In waging war on the UN refugee agency, the West is openly siding with Israeli genocide here:
https://t.co/31iUb2ZLUd

[AntonioMaestre @AntonioMaestre]

Acabo de hacer una donación a la @UNRWAes

Israel está realizando una campaña para ahogar la ayuda humanitaria a los refugiados palestinos. Los países cómplices del genocidio como EEUU, Alemania, Francia o Cánada acaban de retirar la ayuda a la agencia usando una acusación contra algunos trabajadores.

Si puedes ayudar este es el enlace.

https://t.co/qMvuaXH2G9

[Clara Roig @clararoigm]

I just donated to @UNRWA not only because it is indispensable to maintain humanitarian assistance in Gaza, but bcs it is also a way to counter Israel's genocidical tactics & Western compliance, even with ICJ's ruling. Disgrace. #DonatetoUNRWA

[Prof Julia Steinberger @JKSteinberger]

I cannot exist in a world where the US, UK & CH responded to the ICJ ruling on Israel's genocide of Palestinians by cutting funding ... for Palestinian humanitarian assistance. Within 48 hours, over a weekend, no less.
We need to organise politically and build counterpower.

[Prof Julia Steinberger @JKSteinberger]

I cannot exist in a world where the US, UK & CH responded to the ICJ ruling on Israel's genocide of Palestinians by cutting funding ... for Palestinian humanitarian assistance. Within 48 hours, over a weekend, no less.
We need to organise politically and build counterpower.

[Clara Roig @clararoigm]

Destruir la @UNRWA es otra de las estrategias diplomáticas de Israel y los gobiernos occidentales se la comen con patatas. Qué casualidad que las alegaciones aparezcan justo después de la orden de la ICJ y que vengan únicamente de Israel. ¿Que hay de la presunción de inocencia?

[Middle East Eye @MiddleEastEye]

"It will be impossible to win the war if we do not destroy Unrwa, and this destruction must begin immediately"

Earlier this month on 4 January, Noga Arbell, a former Israeli official, called for the destruction of Unrwa during a discussion in the Israeli parliament.

[FIAN International @FIANista]

Learn all about new EU data laws & empowering farmers.

🔜Speakers include EU Commission, CNECT

🔜Register & join 25/1, 10-11 CET: https://t.co/dNLQ9EbktG

📃@foeeurope @FIANista @CoventryCAWR @AgroecologyNow report: https://t.co/VyaHC1Dm0v #AI #FoodSovereignty #Agroecology

[Jeffrey Kaye @jeff_kaye]

I know what antisemitism is. I had pennies thrown at me as a kid. A Catholic kid beat me up in middle school because I was Jewish. In the late 1980s, I was chased by antisemites in a pickup truck in SF's North Beach. My father was assaulted by KKK types in No. Cal. in 1981. BUT when I hear fellow Jews complain that criticism of Israel makes them feel unsafe, I feel sick. Israel is deeply inhumanely murdering Palestinians, driving them in terror from their homes & communities in an attempt to empty Gaza (and later the West Bank) for Zionist settlement. I've never been ashamed to be a Jew until now. I hate how I was propagandized for decades. American Zionism in particular carries the whiff of cultism to it, a strange messianic concatenation of racism and personal entitlement.

To my fellow Jews I say, "From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free!"

[Javier Espinosa @javierespinosa2]

Israel intenta impedir que se documenten los crímenes de guerra que está cometiendo en Gaza y por eso está asesinando uno a uno a los periodistas palestinos que los difunden. Nermina Haboush es la última. Asesinada junto a su hijo y su madre.

[Clara Roig @clararoigm]

We are building a global campaign against US militarism and demanding the closure of all overseas bases. Join us here! #CeasefireNOW https://t.co/Tmc4gru3se

[Monica G. Prieto @monicagprieto]

Sobrevive al ataque israelí que mató a toda su familia solo para morir por el impacto directo de un tanque israelí contra el hospital donde se recuperaba. Tenía 12 años. Israel está haciendo cotidianos los crímenes de guerra que suelen ser excepcionales. Y sin que nadie se inmute

[Pol Pareja @polpareja]

Missatges pujats de to, seguiments per la facultat... Una alumna va denunciar l'actual vicerrector de la UB Jordi Matas i una comissió de 3 homes va arxivar el cas tot i les proves aportades. Aquí els detalls després d'accedir a l'expedient, missatges inèdits i +20 entrevistes.

[Xesco Reverter @xescoreverter]

Resulta que l'hospital Al-#Shifa al final només era això, un hospital? Després d'assaltar-lo, l'exèrcit israelià només hi troba 10 fusells i 9 granades. Almenys fins ara, ni rastre del quarter general de Hamas...
Aquí l'article que hem fet pel https://t.co/cfeNnHJLvT👇

[Clara Roig @clararoigm]

Me fascina lo poco que Israel ha aprendido de su propia historia…

[AntonioMaestre @AntonioMaestre]

Israel tiene el problema de los que se manejan con impunidad y creen que siempre ganarán. Es que dejan todo por escrito. Esto no aprendieron que es un error de sus victimarios del siglo XX.

Su limpieza étnica y los crímenes de guerra también están por escrito.

[Prof Zenkus @anthonyzenkus]

Oh look, there's half a trillion dollars worth of oil and natural gas off the cost of Gaza and the West Bank and Israel wants it all to themselves. No wonder this is all happening and the US is in lockstep. Jfc.
https://t.co/b3RAovosC7