Elisabeth Gade

A strong believer in principled humanitarian action. Tweets of love, war, books & the Horn.

[Naila @BrownNaila]

"I’m personally a Holocaust survivor as an infant, I barely survived. My grandparents were killed in Aushwitz and most of my extended family were killed. I became a Zionist; this dream of the Jewish people resurrected in their historical homeland and the barbed wire of Aushwitz being replaced by the boundaries of a Jewish state with a powerful army…and then I found out that it wasn’t exactly like that, that in order to make this Jewish dream a reality we had to visit a nightmare on the local population.

There’s no way you could have ever created a Jewish state without oppressing and expelling the local population. Jewish Israeli historians have shown without a doubt that the expulsion of Palestinians was persistent, pervasive, cruel, murderous and with deliberate intent - that’s what’s called the 'Nakba' in Arabic; the 'disaster' or the 'catastrophe'. There’s a law that you cannot deny the Holocaust, but in Israel you’re not allowed to mention the Nakba, even though it’s at the very basis of the foundation of Israel.

I visited the Occupied Territories (West Bank) during the first intifada. I cried every day for two weeks at what I saw; the brutality of the occupation, the petty harassment, the murderousness of it, the cutting down of Palestinian olive groves, the denial of water rights, the humiliations...and this went on, and now it’s much worse than it was then.

It’s the longest ethnic cleansing operation in the 20th and 21st century. I could land in Tel Aviv tomorrow and demand citizenship but my Palestinian friend in Vancouver, who was born in Jerusalem, can’t even visit!

So then you have these miserable people packed into this, horrible…people call it an 'outdoor prison', which is what it is. You don’t have to support Hamas policies to stand up for Palestinian rights, that’s a complete falsity. You think the worse thing you can say about Hamas, multiply it by a thousand times, and it still will not meet the Israeli repression and killing and dispossession of Palestinians.

And 'anybody who criticises Israel is an anti-Semite' is simply an egregious attempt to intimidate good non-Jews who are willing to stand up for what is true."

[Rashid Abdi @RAbdiAnalyst]

In 1988 a brave, conscientious Somali Air Force pilot refused to bomb Hargeisa. Instead, he flew his MiG and crash landed on a beach in Djibouti.

Story of Cpt Ahmed M. Hassan has never been told on radio.

BBC's history programme Witness tells story.

https://t.co/UjvHDhPinT

[Adam Matan OBE @adammatan]

Timely article for the humanitarian aid agencies working in SSC. https://t.co/G6GKwTCSI2.

[Per Kristian Sbertoli @pksbertoli]

- Gjør ditt beste hjemme, på arbeidsplassen, i borettslaget og i idrettslaget.
Men vit også dette: Det er ikke din jobb å løse klimakrisen alene. Din viktigste jobb er å kreve mer av dem som bestemmer.

https://t.co/0XBnAircrr

[Church Times @ChurchTimes]

A nurse-midwife who founded both a hospital and university in her home city of Hargeisa, Somaliland, Edna Adan has spent more than 40 years championing women’s health in East Africa, including campaigning for an end to the practice of female genital mut... https://t.co/Tm57lncp8S

[Afyare A. Elmi @afyare_elmi]

Find below the link for the 2023 Somali Studies Conference in Sweden. The theme of the conference is

“Diaspora, Development, and Strengthened Social and Political Stability in the Horn of Africa”

https://t.co/b9pS77haIq

[Jamila @j__osman]

wrote my first reported piece for @atlasobscura on how truck driving is like a traditional somali nomadic lifestyle & how we’re always finding home in the most unlikely
places: https://t.co/tMUjeJ1f5t

[Audun Molde @audunmolde]

Det er vanskelig å høre forsvarsminister Gram snakke om holdninger og seksuell trakassering, uten å tenke på at han var en av de seks trønderne på hyttetur hvor ingen (!) av dem sendte trakasserende sms til Navarsete. #nrkdebatt #debatten

[Ibrahim Hamidi ابراهيم حميدي @ibrahimhamidi]

Cars carrying the bodies of #Syrian refugees killed in the earthquake in southern #Turkey to be buried by their relatives in #Idlib

[Elisabeth Gade @eligade]

Vi har skrevet om lokalt ledet utvikling i bistanden. Les og kom på seminar da vel!😉 @noradno

[Sweden in Somalia @SwedeninSomalia]

Grateful to @IfrahFoundation for having given us this opportunity for a conversation- we look forward to further collaboration including on the @DearDaughterC. @AfricaSweMFA @SweMFA @Sida

[Kayd Somali Week Festival @SomaliWeekFest]

& that’s a wrap!!!

Over 30 events in 10 days we’ve had so much fun hosting you all!

If you’ve missed any events or want to rewatch - do check out our YouTube & Instagram @KaydSomaliArts

#swf2022

[Elisabeth Gade @eligade]

Tonight was the last evening of @SomaliWeekFest Thank you so much @Gobannimo Looking so much forward to next year😉💞🌸🙌

[Norges Røde Kors @rodekorsnorge]

Asylsøkere får utbetalt så lite penger at mange ikke har råd til å skaffe seg nok mat og varme klær. Det skal ikke være frivillighetens oppgave å sørge for at asylsøkere er varme og mette. @Regjeringen og @Stortinget må øke stønadene til asylsøkere! #statsbudsjettet

[Elisabeth Gade @eligade]

@havardmn @mskaiaa Det kan godt hende, men som historiker og praktiker vil jeg gjerne få minne om kontekst, kontekst og kontekst🙂

[Elisabeth Gade @eligade]

@havardmn @mskaiaa Joda, jeg tror vi er enig om mye her. Men RCT’er har også en viktig etisk side. Vi bør ikke tillate RCT’er i eks. Kenya og Etiopia, som vi ikke tillater i Norge. Ref. Korona og skolegang. Bistand gjør seg ikke nødvendigvis så godt i et forskningslaboratorium😉

[Elisabeth Gade @eligade]

@mskaiaa @havardmn Definitivt ikke så dumme. Analyser av utilsiktede negative konsekvenser for de fleste bistandstiltak er en god ting, spør du meg😅 #CashNotAlwaysKing

[Elisabeth Gade @eligade]

@havardmn @mskaiaa Nei. Er det noe 60 år med bistand har lært oss så er det jo at «One size does Not fit all» - Slik som på Urix igår; de barna som har penger til å gå på skole i Idlib i Syria, går på Al-Nusra skoler. Vil vi det?

[Marian Hussein @Hawatako]

Viste du at Somalia står midt en sultkatastrofe? Somalias spesialutsending @AAbdishakur er i Norge

[Elisabeth Gade @eligade]

I kveld er både @Hawatako @olaelvestuen og @AAbdishakur , representanter fra @ReddBarna og @rodekorsnorge og somalisk sivilsamfunn samlet for å diskutere den pågående tørken i Somalia og mobilisere ressurser.