Didem Atahan

PhD, Clinical Psychologist, nomad, love learning languages, moving around yet stable, complicated but loyal. Truth matters, love is peace...

[TIMENOUT @TIMENOUT]

Hunter College professor Allyson Friedman placed on leave for racist hot-mic comments.
Sick Democrats call Republicans racist. That's how they get you to vote Democrat. They're not Democrats. Their Communist.
https://t.co/btdcigqrCk

[Katyayani Shukla @aibytekat]

He literally explained why practicing art grows your soul—not your status.

[The New Yorker @NewYorker]

In recent weeks, a popular phrase has been revived in Los Angeles: “Solo el pueblo salva al pueblo,” or, “only the people can save the people.” @embot reports on the volunteers and activists documenting ICE raids. https://t.co/yAb1Z8B8zv

[Agnes Callamard @AgnesCallamard]

So in a new twist, the IDF now acknowledges detaining Dr. Hussam Abu Safiyyah, director of Kamal Adwan Hospital, insisting he is investigated for links with Hamas. Please join @amnesty in calling for Dr. Hussam to be granted access to a lawyer and his family, and for his release.

A few facts on Dr. Hussam

Kamal Adwan hospital was raided previously in December 2023, with several medical staff arbitrarily detained and disappeared. Back then, Dr. Hussam was interrogated briefly. At the time, not a single Israeli source accused Dr. Hussam of anything.

After the initial raid on Kamal Adwan, which put the hospital out of service, Dr. Hussam and other staff managed, with the support of international organizations, to get the hospital to function again. It played an indispensable role in treating children suffering from malnutrition and dehydration-related issues. The hospital also received those wounded from a series of Israeli attacks on starving people as they waited for flour trucks, known as flour massacres.

Between the months of February 2024-September 2024, Dr. Abu Safiya was the go-to source for human rights and humanitarian organizations investigating the situation of the healthcare sector in north Gaza and the impact of the mixture of disease and hunger on children in particular, providing accurate, non-sensationalist and credible information, coordinating with international health organisations , providing media briefings, all whilst obviously working as a dedicated pediatrician.

The only time even the Israeli army brought up the Hamas link was following his disappearance last Friday.
They told journalists this morning 03/01 that "Hussam Abu Sufaya was apprehended for suspected involvement in terrorist activities, and for holding a rank in the Hamas terror organization, while hundreds of Hamas and Islamic Jihad terrorists were hiding inside the Kamal Adwan Hospital under his management. He is currently being investigated by Israeli security forces."

Dr. Abu Safiya’s unlawful detention is emblematic of the broader attacks on the healthcare sector in Gaza and Israel’s attempts to annihilate it. It is part and parcel of Israel's genocidal intent and genocidal acts - meant to inflict conditions of life CALCULATED TO BRING ABOUT DESTRUCTION OF PALESTINIANS.

Dr. Abu Safiya has been acting as a leading voice for the healthcare sector in the north of Gaza since October 2024 and refusing to abandon the hospital and his patients. He has stood against Israel's genocidal act and his arrest along with that of 100s of Palestinian medical staff further provides evidence of genocidal intent.

None of the medical staff abducted by Israeli forces since November 2023 from Gaza during raids on hospitals and clinics has been charged or put before a trial; those released after enduring unimaginable torture were never charged and did not stand trial. Those still detained remain held without charges or trial under inhumane conditions and at risk of torture.

[Down To Earth @down2earthindia]

Forest & land fire management learnings from Indonesia & Peru that included community empowerment will pave way for new guidelines of tropical forest fire management, the International Tropic Timber Organization has said.

🖊️ @himanshujourno

https://t.co/jPRnWqoJAp

[Peter Daou @peterdaou]

RESPECT TO JILL STEIN ✊🏽

@DrJillStein could have had a comfortable career as a Harvard-trained doctor. Instead she's devoted her life to facing down the powerful, corrupt forces of the system, at immense personal risk. History will be kind to her. I'm honored to know her.

[Didem Atahan @didemnyc]

Celebrating the Day of German Unity in South Bombay with an amazing crowd with @achimfabig

https://t.co/0jZDAWxPUY

May all the walls of isolation and division fall, allowing us to embrace one another with open hearts and minds. May we find safety in connection, where vulnerability becomes strength, and compassion thrives. In this unity, may we transform from “I and other” to “I and Thou,” creating a world rooted in peace, mutual respect, and deep understanding. @achimfabig

#germany #germanunityday #deutscheeinheit #bombay #bombaydiaries "GermanCGBombay

[TRT World @trtworld]

An Israeli man harassed a TRT reporter and cameraman broadcasting live in Tel Aviv on October 2, pressuring him to cut off the broadcast

[Kenneth Roth @KenRoth]

Meanwhile, while we were preoccupied by Israeli attacks in Lebanon.... https://t.co/8nUiJCK8km

[Richard Medhurst @richimedhurst]

"My olives, my olives"

Israelis uprooting olive trees with chainsaws and bulldozers.

Only a colonizer with no attachment to the land could be so cruel.

[Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis]

Here is a question to Israel's supporters: If the rage over the 7 Oct slaughter of 1.2k Israelis justifies the slaughter of >40k Palestinians, what do you expect the rage over the slaughter of 40k Palestinians to justify in the heart of a people humiliated constantly since 1948?

[Ralph Nader @RalphNader]

The mass mutilation war crimes of Netanyahu in Lebanon last week has been met with racist silence by the Biden Administration and Congress. Secretary of Defense Austin’s first response to thousands of victims of boobytrapped pagers and two-way radios was to dittohead “unwavering support for the Israeli regime” No denunciation.

[Craig Mokhiber @CraigMokhiber]

If a mass terrorist attack like that perpetrated by Israel in Lebanon occurred in any western country, western leaders would be marching arm-in-arm through the streets of Paris, western media would provide non-stop, tearful coverage, the UK flag would be at half-staff for weeks, and the US Air Force would be bombing the perpetrators (and several other countries). But this is Israel, the country above all law. And the victims are only Arabs, the people designated as unworthy of human rights by the west. The hypocrisy. The racism. The #shame.

[Kamala Harris @KamalaHarris]

After a violation of their bodies, survivors of rape and incest are being told they cannot make decisions about what happens to them next—all because of Trump Abortion Bans.

This is immoral. Women and girls like Hadley deserve better.

[Elizabeth Warren @SenWarren]

We're in a world where doctors have to tell women in the middle of a miscarriage they can't get the medical care they need because they're not near enough to death, and that they need to hemorrhage in the parking lot for a few more hours.

Donald Trump's Supreme Court did this.

[Didem Atahan @didemnyc]

#ebruakel tepkinizi takdir ettim, womenforwomen!

[Didem Atahan @didemnyc]

Türk erkeğinin, 2024 Miss Turkiye'nin eğitimli, donanımlı ve kendine güvenli olmasi karsisinda kafasinin karışıp sinirlerinin bozulduğu an. Yani nasi olur? bir doctorun bu yarışmada işi ne? İllaki de bizim zevkimize göre şişirilmiş, ortamda yerini bilecek bir bimbo istiyoruz. #idilbilgen #ebruakel

2024'ün kraliçesi İdil Bilgen seçildi https://t.co/ayPuLBKloe via @YouTube