“We are unarmed. Why are they shooting tear gas and beating us? They are afraid because justice is on our side.” Israeli soldiers built a dirt barrier to cut off Palestinian farmers from their land.
https://t.co/2UnXJCgiPi
.@NBCNews@mtaibbi@Know_More_News Two years ago this month, two Palestinian boys, Luay & Amir, both 15-years-old, were bombed to death by Israeli an F-35 bomber jet. The media never reported it. Please share this video so Luay’s and Amir's deaths won't be forgotten. 1/
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Today marks the 25th anniversary of the Srebrenica genocide in which Serb forces systematically killed more than 8,000 Bosniak Muslim men and boys.
The Srebrenica genocide was the worst atrocity on European soil since the Holocaust.
Here’s what led to it 👇
#MuhammadMuhaymin
With multiple officers pinning him down, one with a knee to his neck like #GeorgeFloyd, he screams out “I can’t breathe.”
"Please Allah," he says next.
"Allah? He's not going to help you now," the officer says before murdering him.
https://t.co/55n6E7Cmks
Life is too short to be anything but happy: A Chinese single father took his 4-yr-old girl on a 4,139-km riding journey from south China's Guangdong to southwest China's Tibet and the pair finished the trip in 71 days. #fatherdaughter
Join July 4 virtual rally on the Global South response to Israel’s planned formal annexation of parts of the occupied West Bank.
Led by South Africa, this effort is endorsed by political and civil society leaders across Asia, Africa and Latin America.
https://t.co/I3V9eLIcXK
As Israel delayed its plans yesterday, tens of Palestinian civil society organizations reiterated their call for targeted international sanctions to respond to Israel’s ongoing annexation and apartheid. #StopAnnexation#SanctionsOnApartheid
Learn more: https://t.co/hIklDuJGf2
One theory is that by spending $740,000,000,000 on the most sophisticated weapons of mass destruction in world history, we'll be safer.
I'm not so sure.
Maybe what makes us safer is breaking down fear and hatred around the world, so that we can recognize our common humanity.
The House votes to make Washington, DC, a state, marking the first time either chamber of Congress has advanced a DC statehood measure. The Senate is unlikely to follow suit.
https://t.co/o2yoYw7pwW
‘Our policies today uphold the injustices that were enacted during slavery’ — Rep. @AOC explains why denying D.C. statehood denies the impact of slavery. The House voted today in favor of D.C. statehood; it now goes to the Senate.
Blaming the victim has always been a standard component of Israeli distortions and outright lies. Mainstream media have habitually & mindlessly repeated this manufactured hasbara. Thank you for calling them out on it!