Karl Eid

PhD Candidate at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Civil Engineer; Risk & Resilience Researcher; Earthquakes; Interested in Hospitals

[Pape Léon XIV @Pontifex_fr]

Tout être humain est digne du simple fait d’avoir été voulu, créé et aimé par Dieu. Il n’existe aucune situation qui puisse détourner de nous le regard du Seigneur. C’est une vérité réconfortante qui nous accompagne à chaque instant et qui nous rappelle que son amour miséricordieux dépasse toujours le bien ou le mal que nous avons pu faire. #VoyageApostolique
https://t.co/iBwB3EMc6Q

[Ghassan Abu Sitta, Chair of Conflict Medicine AUB @GhassanAbuSitt1]

Always try to connect the dots to see the wider picture of colonial policy:

*MSF signaling that it accepts Israel's narrative which justified its destruction of the health system in the genocide, preceded by an internal decision not to discuss accountability or the genocide in its comms
*Oxfam's CEO in her interview recanting on the use of genocide and referring to the conditions in Gaza as "crisis"
*The British Museum's decision to remove the word "Palestine" from displays of looted artifacts
*The high level attacks by European foreign ministers to malign @FranceskAlbs

All of Western colonialism's institutions are being mobilized to erase the memory of the Palestinian victims of western genocide

[Ghassan Abu Sitta, Chair of Conflict Medicine AUB @GhassanAbuSitt1]

What Carny was admitting to is that when the Empire goes hungry it eats its own children.

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

This Doctor should have been safe by now, under protected status, and reveered by international leaders as an icon of Ethics. Instead he is still a hostage of Israel, which has abducted him without ever charging him.

[Munther Isaac منذر اسحق @MuntherIsaac]

While Netanyahu claims that Israel is “the best place for Christians” — the Christian schools in Jerusalem are all striking because Netenyahu’s occupying military is not providing permits to the teachers in these school

[Assal Rad @AssalRad]

Iranian people are expressing real and long-standing grievances over economic hardship, corruption, political repression, and lack of accountability for government officials.

These demands are legitimate and deserve to be heard on their own terms. And they have been met again with force by Iranian authorities.

They are also unfolding in a context of intense external pressure of sanctions, regional destabilization, and war that have heightened insecurity across the region.

Supporting protests in Iran means holding two truths at once: standing with people inside the country and their demands for dignity and rights, while remaining clear-eyed about outside forces that seek to exploit economic pain and political frustration to advance agendas of destabilization—not liberation.

True solidarity rejects both repression at home and intervention from abroad. It centers Iranian agency and refuses to allow internal dissent to be hijacked by external forces.

[Munther Isaac منذر اسحق @MuntherIsaac]

Let's share these words from Palestinian pastor Jack Sara @jacksara2 addressed to the 1000 evangelicals who to our land last week and try to get them actually read these and answer these questions:

Last week,  around  one thousand pastors—mostly from the United States—entered Israel on a highly publicized tour. They came declaring solidarity, proclaiming blessing, and taking photos at holy sites. Yet in all their proclamations, one thing was painfully absent: any acknowledgment of the living, suffering Body of Christ in this land.
You walked where Jesus walked—but refused to walk beside His followers who are struggling to survive here. You prayed at stones—but ignored the living stones who bear witness to Christ today. You blessed a state—but looked away from the people being displaced, bombed, or silenced.
Here are ten I ask you  questions:
1. Aren’t you ashamed to visit the birthplace of Christianity without meeting the Christians who still bear Christ’s name here?

“If one member suffers, all suffer together.” (1 Corinthians 12:26)

2. Aren’t you ashamed to speak of “blessing Israel” while overlooking the biblical command to do justice? Or speak blessings over Palestine ?

“Do justice, love mercy, and walk humbly with your God.” (Micah 6:8)

3. Aren’t you ashamed to stand where Jesus preached the Beatitudes while remaining silent toward those who mourn?

4. Aren’t you ashamed to teach the Good Samaritan while passing by today’s wounded along the road?

5. Aren’t you ashamed to celebrate ancient stones while ignoring the living stones whose communities are being erased?

“You also, like living stones, are being built into a spiritual house.” (1 Peter 2:5)

6. Aren’t you ashamed to proclaim a gospel of reconciliation while embracing political narratives that divide? That’s is one sided?

Christ entrusted to us a ministry of reconciliation, not political alignment.

7. Aren’t you ashamed that the cries of Palestinian children—those whom Jesus welcomed—do not move you to speak?

Tens of thousands of Palestinian children have been killed or traumatized, and you stayed silent.

8. Aren’t you ashamed to preach love for your neighbor yet ignore your Palestinian neighbors?

9. Aren’t you ashamed to champion ‘religious freedom’ in America while ignoring the shrinking freedoms of Palestinian Christians?

10. Aren’t you ashamed that you came to the Holy Land and listened only to politicians—and not to the church that has carried the Gospel here for two millennia?

[Dave Jones @eevblog]

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[Manon Aubry @ManonAubryFr]

« Les colons israéliens nous jettent des pierres sur la tête depuis les bâtiments qu’ils nous ont volés. C’est pour ça que ce grillage a été installé au-dessus de nos têtes mais maintenant ils nous lancent même de l’acide ».

Nous sommes au cœur du marché d’Hébron, où les colons tentent de reprendre certains bâtiments stratégiques. Une grande partie du marché a déjà été réoccupée illégalement par les colons, l’autre partie se meurt, faute de vie commerciale, les palestiniens étant peu à peu chassés de leurs chez eux. Entre deux points de contrôle gardés par des militaires israéliens sur-armés, des palestiniens hagards dans une ville fantôme. Et de l’autre côté des colons qui jouissent de leur impunité.

Personne ne peut revenir indifférent d’Hébron, la quintessence de l’idéologie coloniale israélienne. Ici, les palestiniens vivent d’humiliation en humilitation.

[Munther Isaac منذر اسحق @MuntherIsaac]

We welcomed the ceasefire with hope — a glimpse of relief after endless suffering.
Then came news of Layan Nasser’s arrest — a young Palestinian Christian, detained for the third time.
A reminder: we are still occupied.
Israel kidnaps (“arrests”) even as hostages are freed.

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

"Why aren't the Free Palestine people cheering about the ceasefire?"

If you saw a man beating a child into a coma, would you cheer after the beating stopped? No, your first reaction would be horror at what happened and your second would be fear that he'll attack the kid again.

[liam cunningham @liamcunningham1]

The Global Sumud Flotilla is approximately 3 days from Gaza with nothing but humanitarian aid on board. They have Naval support from 3 countries now. Don’t rely on mainstream media to keep you properly informed.
Your attention and support is vital. Repost everything!

[CAGE International @CAGEintl]

Respect to @LushLtd

This is corporate social responsibility in action.

[مواطنون ومواطنات في دولة @mmfidawla]

"إن مصير القرى الحدودية سيشبه مصير القرى السبع عما قريب إذا ما بقي الإهمال السياسي والخدماتي سيدا الموقف، الكل يرى تشابه الظروف وكأن خلافاً بدأ على هوية القرى الحدودية!"

لقراءة المقال كاملا، اضغط على الرابط في التعليق الأول.

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

The absolute incapacity of Western leaders to enforce intl law when it comes to Israel is EPIC.

Ministers, Prime Ministers, Presidents of Republic:

Doing NOTHING, diverting attention, sanctioning individual ministers IS NOT enforcing the intl law that was developed after the Holocaust and WWII to prevent another Holocaust and WWII.

At this critical point,
Your states have a CLEAR obligation to:
1. Sanction Israel
2. Impose a total arms embargo (no buy, no sell, no transfer, direct or indirect)
3. Break the siege (send navies instead of dropping food on the head of starving genocide survivors)
4. Suspend all trade agreements with Israel till the end of the genocide, occupation and apartheid.
5. Investigate and prosecute individuals and orgs that have committed crimes in the oPt.

Together we can, and we will.

[Haaretz.com @haaretzcom]

Israel ignored months of expert warnings, causing what famine expert Alex de Waal calls the most "carefully planned and controlled" famine since WWII, devastating Gaza's children | @nirhasson
https://t.co/yBMVp39yRC

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

I have never felt so shaken.

Children are dying of hunger. Falling one after another, like petals of a dying flower. Under our watch.

How do you sleep, Presidents, Foreign Ministers, political leaders, diplomats, civil servants - doing nothing to stop Israel’s starvation campaign?

PS: Talking politics while dodging genocide perfectly meets the definition of doing nothing.

[Jacques Renardiere @JRenardiere]

Gabriel Zucman : « La France est un paradis fiscal pour milliardaires. » Si demain les 500 fortunes françaises partaient aux Îles Caïmans…
Les recettes fiscales de la France baisseraient à peine (de 0,03% !).

[Dominique de Villepin @Villepin]

« Les médias français sont tenus par 10 milliardaires : nous revendiquons notre droit au pluralisme et à la liberté ! »

Entretien du 06.07.25 chez @LCI

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

This is not business as usual.
My new UN report, From Economy of Occupation to Economy of Genocide, is out today.
It shows how corporations have fueled and legitimised the destruction of Palestine.
Genocide, it would seem, is profitable. This cannot continue, accountability must follow.

https://t.co/PV5wgeLpr2

#EconomyofOccupation #EconomyofGenocide