All the global grief for Dr. Refaat Alareer this weekend while his body is still unretrievable under the rubble with his sister and her family... a really stark image of the limits of our solidarity
Palestinian students being shot and Palestinian kids being stabbed to death in the US is considered less violent than freedom slogans and kuffiyehs at protests
Words are treated more harmful than bullets and knives.
theres something so insidious about the way yt americans especially reduce everything to "just political opinions" or "culture discourse" like it's some insignificant little thing and not people's lives we're talking about
Refaat Alareer (@itranslate123), his brother Salah, his sister Asmaa, and Asmaa’s four young daughters have been under the rubble since Israel killed them on December 7. Their bodies have not been recovered due to a lack of heavy equipment and fuel.
There's no need to conflate the historical project of the United States with humanity. It's fine to lose faith in America, many people in the world do not have any.
Be good if a proper Arabic speaker subtitled this. The gist 👇🧵
"Snipers aimed at my head. A female soldier signaled to me what to do. They told me to take off my clothes. I was in my underwear... [cut] I told him 'I don't know' and he hit me...
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https://t.co/qGej2XZmZZ
Palestinian medical student from the West Bank, who got a permit to do her internship in an Israeli hospital, was arrested for allegedly blocking Jewish co-workers on Facebook (and she didn't even do that, but just deactivated her account). Her entry permit was revoked by Israel.