Faisal Hakki

Early stage FinTech investor on weekdays, still a Motorhead on weekends!

[Macklemore @macklemore]

HIND’S HALL. Once it’s up on streaming all proceeds to UNRWA.

[Husam Zomlot @hzomlot]

This is 7 year old Sidra, the cousin of my wife. The impact of the Israeli missile was so powerful it flung her out, leaving her mutilated body dangling from the ruins of the destroyed building in Rafah 48 hours ago. My wife’s aunt Suzan, her husband Fouzy Hassouna, two of their sons, Muhammad and Karam, Karam's wife Amouna and her three children (7-year-old twins Sidra and Suzan, and 15-month-old Malik) were all killed. The family had been displaced from the north of Gaza and took shelter in Rafah. We will be relentless until those responsible brought to justice.

[Paul Biggar 🇵🇸🇮🇪 @paulbiggar]

I wrote about the genocide in Palestine, and how tech has been silent and complicit.

https://t.co/XjZHKMJqiX

[Jeremy McLellan @JeremyMcLellan]

10 Ways To Support Israel 🇮🇱

[KG @vvssatu]

@JeremyMcLellan The 11th way:

[Faisal Hakki @faisalhakki]

@piersmorgan حكى بدري

[António Guterres @antonioguterres]

I repeat my call for a humanitarian ceasefire in the Middle East, the unconditional release of all hostages, and the delivery of life-saving supplies at the scale needed.

Everyone must assume their responsibilities.

This is a moment of truth.

History will judge us all.

[Jackson Hinkle 🇺🇸 @jacksonhinkle]

🇵🇸 I SUPPORT #StarLinkForGaza — do you?

[Faisal Hakki @faisalhakki]

Truth needs to be told … always ✌️

[Ricardo Karam ريكاردو كرم @RicardoRKaram]

Sharing a powerful and moving post from my friend and best-selling author, Raymond Kamal Khoury. Don't miss out on this thought-provoking read – a testament to Ray's incredible insight, wisdom and love for Justice.
Truth needs to be told … always ✌️🫶

« This is my grandfather's house in Haifa, which he built in 1934. His name was John Hanna Asfour, a Christian Palestinian. Our family tree records there go back over two centuries. That's him at his wedding.

A prominent, successful lawyer, he hired a Jewish architect, Moshe Gerstel, to design his home. Gerstel was an immigrant from Europe who had just arrived in Palestine, and my grandfather generously gave him his first job there.

In 1948, after my grandfather's assistant was murdered and his dead body was dumped outside the house, he sent his wife and five children (including my mom, who was 13 at the time) to safety in Egypt. He had to follow them a few weeks later.

They never returned.

His house eventually became an officers' club of the Israeli army (sorry, "defence force"--such brilliant marketing). Today it is an architecturally preserved site. He and his family were never offered any restitution. They lost everything.

They were among the lucky ones.

They never had to live in refugee camps, eat scraps, have no travel documents, or suffer humiliation and brutality on a daily basis.

A dehumanising narrative has been promoted since then that Palestine before 1948 was a barren desert, ripe for a miraculous upgrade. It wasn't. Its people were not bedouins or primitive savages. It was a thriving, well educated, sophisticated twentieth century society. But its people lost a battle for their land. And as we know, history is written by the victors.

What happened two weeks ago was tragic, abhorrent, barbaric. But when an entire people is brutalised for decades under a vicious apartheid occupation that has no comparable in this 21st century, and the media and governments who could make things right like the US and UK don't just consistently turn a blind eye to that ongoing tragedy but support it with weapon supplies, perhaps it shouldn't come as such a shock that hopelessness can lead to extreme rage and, sadly, bloodshed...

It never ceases to amaze me how the victims of a horrific genocide could so quickly and heartlessly turn around and bulldoze through another people, like the victims of child abuse who turn into abusers. And be totally oblivious to the parallel.

Empathy is tragically selective. The world cheered the Sioux in Dances with Wolves, the Na'vi in Avatar, the rebels fighting the empire in Star Wars. Hell, we're now even cheering the AI robots in The Creator (see it). But in real life, the stormtroopers are winning.

But I see a faint glimmer of hope, that if not the governments of the US and UK, but at least the people, a lot of people, are now waking up to this tragedy, seeing and starting to understand what's been happening for decades, thanks to social media and despite the odious censorship and more insidious shadow blocking being done ».

#Palestine #jaffa #storytelling #TruthMatters #FactsMatter

[Faisal Hakki @faisalhakki]

Thank you @Forbes_MENA_and @Layan_Aboshkier for the coverage. One typo spotted; it’s Arab Bank plc. https://t.co/Fze7y6NqhS

[Faisal Hakki @faisalhakki]

@BasharHawamdeh وَردٌ إِذا وَرَدَ البُحَيرَةَ شارِباً 
وَرَدَ الفُراتَ زَئيرُهُ وَالنيلا

[Faisal Hakki @faisalhakki]

يصادف اليوم الذكرى السنوية الأولى لرحيل الصديق العزيز إميل قبيسي.

في ذكرى رحيله، ستقوم مجموعة من المرشدين والموجهين بتقديم المشورة والمساعدة خلال شهر كانون الثاني عن طريق الموقع الإلكتروني الذي تم إطلاقه خصيصا لهذه الغاية https://t.co/6lOtUAwXmO

[Faisal Hakki @faisalhakki]

@ojsati جاك زلمة غانم

[Faisal Hakki @faisalhakki]

Escapism Squared

[Faisal Hakki @faisalhakki]

@UPSHelp_UK @UPS @UPS_UK By a very, very far margin, the worst courrier service I’ve ever dealt with. Avoid at all costs; I would choose crawling to get a package delivered over UPS. Agonising experience is an understatement! #customerservice #customerexperience

[Faisal Hakki @faisalhakki]

@harrismonkey Watching it right now!

[Faisal Hakki @faisalhakki]

@NidalBitar @ecubeisy @BasharHawamdeh @lumafawaz @marwansjuma @reem_goussous1 @jidasunna @intajICTJO @r_dababneh @UmYazan @tareqbbitar الله يرحمك يا إميل.

[Ali Al Hussein @AliBinAlHussein]

ملعب الجبل https://t.co/hdHZ1tagrW via @YouTube

[Thierry Marigny @thierrymarigny]

We congratulate season 7 of @BIGByOrange 5 outstanding startups: FittiCoin, @FATEesports, Sager drones, @ViaViiTravel & Rozme W Nabte. Proud of your growth during the program and we trust you further amazing achievements!