Margaret A. Johnson

CEO and Managing Director @Transfirex. Volunteer @SOSSPeace, @JewsMuslimsAct. Writing a memoir: My American Pilgrimage.

[Margaret A. Johnson @coexistmarge]

@TommiPedruzzi Claude

[Margaret A. Johnson @coexistmarge]

@ShaykhSulaiman This is a stupid question. It’s not the religions; it’s the governments and the oligarchs.

[Margaret A. Johnson @coexistmarge]

Finally. The @nytimes who wouldn’t even post a comment if it mentioned the g-word, gives significant space to this op-ed which not only says that Israel is committing genocide, but also considers how this alters the Jewish identity tied to the Holocaust.

[Omer Bartov عومر بَرتوف עמר ברטוב @bartov_omer]

My NYT op-ed this morning
I’m a Genocide Scholar. I Know It When I See It. https://t.co/gmQtbhrj48 via @NYTOpinion

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

While #Madleen must be released immediately, every Mediterranean port should send boats with aid, solidarity, and humanity to Gaza. They shall sail together—united, they will be unstoppable.

#BreakingTheSiege is a legal duty for states, and a moral imperative for all of us.

[Margaret A. Johnson @coexistmarge]

@marcorubio Protesting against Israel war crimes of mass slaughter of women and children, destruction of universities, hospitals, home, cutting off if food, water, electricity, etc. does not make one a Hamas supporter. What you are doing is fascism. We must protect free speech in the USA.

[Margaret A. Johnson @coexistmarge]

@SenTimKaine Thank you Senator Kaine for standing with humanity. The endless suffering of civilians, who are mostly women and children, must end now.

[Margaret A. Johnson @coexistmarge]

My Jewish colleague says that what is happening in Gaza can't be a genocide because that would mean the Israelis--at least some of them--are "pure evil." If this isn't pure evil, then what is?
#StopGenocideInGazaNow

[Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand]

You have to watch this immensely revealing and horrifying testimony by Jewish-American humanitarian surgeon Mark Perlmutter who spent 2 weeks in Gaza: https://t.co/9Ku1axTPyw

"All of the disaster zones I've seen combined - combined - 40 mission trips, 30 years, ground zero, earthquakes, all of that combined doesn't equal the level of carnage that I saw against civilians in just my first week in Gaza.
(Host: and when you say civilians, is it mostly children?)
Almost exclusively children, I've never seen that before."

[Margaret A. Johnson @coexistmarge]

@caitoz "Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself." -Rumi

[Margaret A. Johnson @coexistmarge]

How is this not malpractice? So much misogyny.

Why can't we lead with kindness and generosity?

This country is in desperate need of moral leadership.

[Ryan Hamilton @TheRyanHamilton]

My heart is broken💔: As friends & family know, my wife was pregnant with our 2nd child, & about to begin her 2nd trimester. A few days ago she had severe pains, & bleeding, and had to go to the emergency room. There, it was discovered that our baby no longer had a heartbeat. Devastated doesn't come close to what that feels like.
Unfortunately for people like us, because of the current laws in the state of Texas, that was only the beginning of this nightmare. Jess (my wife) had an "incomplete miscarriage", and what needed to happen, what was best for HER, and her health, was to terminate the pregnancy, and get the baby out.
The doctor gave her a medication that would move this process along, and sent her home. Where, apparently we would be handling it ourselves. We were told it might take a couple of attempts before it worked.
I'll let you decide how you feel about that.
After a long, painful night of the equivalent of early labor, the baby was still with her. So, we went back to the Emergency Center to get the 2nd dose. A new doctor was on call. He was an older man. You could hear him in the hallway as he said, "I'm not giving her a pill so she can go home and have an ab*rtion!". Being well aware that our baby no longer had a heartbeat. Then, he came into the room to say, and I quote: "Considering the current stance. I'm not going to prescribe you this pill". Then, just sent us on our way.
The "CURRENT STANCE"?! Did he really just say that?!
No one should ever have to hear their wife say: "Get this dead baby out of me!".
Can you even imagine how that must feel?
The pain, and the bleeding continued. So, we decided to go to another hospital, about an hour away. There was a female doctor on call there, and we thought we might have better luck.
I should probably mention, the procedure to get the baby out is called a D & C. It's scary, & traumatizing, but sometimes necessary in situations like ours. Especially in emergency circumstances.
So we get to the next hospital. They take Jess in, ask her a bunch of questions, do a new scan... confirm that the baby is still there, with no heartbeat, and then disappear... for hours. Only to come back in and keep asking the same questions over and over. It's becoming clear that they're primary concern is NOT my wife's health. Instead, they seem to be worried about the legalities involved.
So, they decide it is not "enough of an emergency" to perform the D & C.
They do, however, prescribe another, stronger, final dose of the medication for us to try again... at home.
So, we go home to try again. Another long day/night of early labor pains. Only to discover my wife UNCONSCIOUS in the bathroom. Having to pick my wife's cold, limp body off of that bathroom floor, not sure if I was about to lose her, is something I will NEVER forget.
She had to be rushed to the hospital.
By this point she had lost so much blood, and bodily fluid, her body gave out.
They were able to stabilize her, give her the fluids she needed, and we came back home yesterday afternoon. We were also able to confirm that our baby was no longer with her.
Now, not only do we have to live with the loss of our baby... we have to live with the nightmare of what we just experienced because of political and religious beliefs. MY WIFE'S HEALTH SHOULD HAVE COME FIRST. PERIOD!
God knows what mental and emotional damage this has done.
If you consider yourself a staunch "pro-lifer" ... 1) You've never been through what we just went through, and 2) You should take a long, hard look in the mirror and reevaluate your reasons for supporting such a cold, barbaric, ignorant point of view.
It's not that black & white, and it's never going to be.
If you think your "Pray To End Ab*rtion" sign in your yard is "Christian", I suggest you revisit the teachings of Jesus and try again. If you support these laws that make ab*rtion illegal, and result in people being put through what we just were, you should be ashamed of yourself. I've never been so angry, or heartbroken... and the devastation I'm feeling must pale in comparison to what my poor wife is feeling.

[Margaret A. Johnson @coexistmarge]

Despite spending $62M+ of his own money, Trone loses to @AngelaAlsobrook. Wonder if he will continue to donate to AIPAC.

Much congratulations to Alsobrooks! Huge victory and huge margin. 🎉🎉🎉

[Tracee Wilkins @TraceeWilkins]

Angela Alsobrooks thanks David Trone for his concession call and his vow of support and uniting the Maryland Democratic party…

[Margaret A. Johnson @coexistmarge]

American-funded Israel seige leaves 20 American doctors trapped in Gaza. IDF kills another UN worker. Meanwhile Biden approves a $1 Billion shippment of weaponry to Israel.

I don't understand our world anymore.

[Ryan Grim @ryangrim]

Upward of 20 American doctors are trapped at the European Hospital in Gaza, facing extreme dehydration, at least one is on an IV drip. This is a developing situation…

Story with @Hind_Gaza https://t.co/3D2JRAUncD

[Tariq Habash @tariqhabash_]

WOW. Another resignation from the Biden Admin just hit, this time from a uniformed officer, U.S. Army Major Harrison Mann. Read is letter here:

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

CNN Compares Campus Protesters To Nazis In Stunning Propaganda Segment

In one of the most appalling propaganda segments I have ever seen in my life, CNN’s Dana Bash launched into a fire-and-brimstone sermon on Wednesday comparing anti-genocide university protesters to the brownshirts of Nazi Germany — doing so in defense of a fascistic police crackdown against those very same protesters.

After playing a clip of Zionist activist Eli Tsives theatrically claiming campus protesters at UCLA were blocking him from his classroom, Bash solemnly said, “Again, what you just saw is 2024 in Los Angeles. Hearkening back to the 1930s in Europe, and I do not say that lightly. The fear among Jews in this country is palpable right now.”

According to journalist Jeremy Lindenfeld — who happens to be Jewish — Tsives wasn’t even being denied access to his classroom, but was only being denied access to the protesters’ encampment which he’d conveniently decided he wanted to walk through in order to get there. Dana Bash makes no mention of this, framing this instead as a terrifying attack on Jews which could soon see them being loaded onto trains headed for extermination camps.

Bash played a clip of New York City Mayor Eric Adams saying “There is a movement to radicalize young people, and I’m not going to wait until it’s done,” as though preventing the spread of radical political opinions is something a mayor is elected to do in the United States.

“They’re calling for a ceasefire,” says Bash. “Well, there was a ceasefire on October 6, the day before Hamas terrorists brutally murdered more than a thousand people inside Israel and took hundreds more as hostages.”

This is a brazen propagandistic lie. Israeli forces had been routinely murdering Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank in the weeks and months preceding the October 7 attack. On October 6 2023, The New Arab published an article titled “2023 is ‘deadliest year’ for Palestinian children say human rights groups,” citing the Defence of Children International — Palestine along with other sources.

“This hour, I’ll speak to an American Israeli family whose son is still held captive by Hamas since that horrifying day, that brought us to this moment,” said Bash, adding, “You don’t hear the pro-Palestinian protesters talking about that. We will.”

Ah yes, such brave, up-punching journalistic integrity for you to talk about the Israeli hostages, Dana. Not like we haven’t been hearing about them every single day from the imperial media for the last seven months while orders of magnitude more Palestinians are butchered by US-supplied war machinery.

“At UCLA, pro-Israel and pro-Palestinian groups were attacking each other, hurling all kinds of objects, a wood pallet, fireworks, parking cones, even a scooter,” Bash says.

Another lie. The footage going around makes it abundantly clear the violence is being consistently instigated by Zionist counter-protesters, with videos of pro-Israel thugs launching fireworks and hurling bottles of chemicals into the encampment, ganging up on a protester on the ground and beating him with sticks, and tearing down parts of the encampment while screaming “Second Nakba!”

Later on in the same segment of Bash’s own show, CNN’s Stephanie Elam contradicts Bash’s both-sides lie by commenting on some of this footage, saying, “And you can see that in the video, it looked like people from this side were breaking down the encampment from the pro-Palestinian side last night, throwing objects in there. As well as it looks like some sort of maybe pepper spray or something coming from the other side over here.”

It should here be noted that Dana Bash gets her surname from her first husband Jeremy Bash, who went on to serve as the chief of staff for both the CIA and the Pentagon. The woman is pure swamp.

It should also be noted that CNN’s own staff recently leaked to The Guardian that they have been pressured to report on the Gaza onslaught with an extreme pro-Israel bias, attributing the pressure to the network’s new CEO Mark Thompson.

I for one think it’s great that the imperial media are becoming so transparently obvious about their propagandistic nature, and I hope they keep exposing mainstream westerners to the fact that the primary purpose of these outlets is to promote the information interests of the US and its allies.

Propaganda only works if you don’t know it’s happening to you, so hopefully they keep going mask-off like this for everyone to see.

[Margaret A. Johnson @coexistmarge]

@CraigCons Such a horrible take. Student protest are not about being pro-Hamas, G*d forbid. They are about being against genocide, against U.S. financing killing of children & civilians, against starvation. They are pro humanitarian aid, pro ceasefire, pro #letGazaLive #StopGazaGenocide

[Margaret A. Johnson @coexistmarge]

I just wrote a @worldbeyondwar letter: Solidarity with University Students for Peace. Write one here: https://t.co/TT32pND8SG
#camp

[Margaret A. Johnson @coexistmarge]

@KhalilJeries I am so sorry. What a terrible loss and heartache. May God grant you ease.

[Margaret A. Johnson @coexistmarge]

@CaoilinnHughes @nytimes Congratulations. Looking forward to reading it.

[Margaret A. Johnson @coexistmarge]

For those of you in the @nytimes comment section comparing the peaceful student demonstrators @Columbia with the January 6th traitors, you either are willfully ignorant or have a very short memory.

Columbia shamefully using surveillance drones against students.
#GenocideinGaza

[Morgan J. Freeman @mjfree]

I'm going to post this video every day until the election

[Margaret A. Johnson @coexistmarge]

In solidarity w @Columbia Banard students. Keep standing for truth, speaking against #PalestineGenocide & calling for divestment.
Shame on Pres. Shafik for kowtowing to politicians and donors.

Having long-held beliefs challenged is part of a univer educ. It's not a safety issue.

[Margaret A. Johnson @coexistmarge]

This is how the NYT is describing the attack on protestors on the campus of Columbia U by former IDF soldiers with military grade skunk spray, a vicious attack that resulted in hospitalizations and severe emotional trauma.
https://t.co/Og7GA9LEbH
#cu4palestine #NYTimesbias