FARI

[tara houska ᔖᐳᐌᑴ @zhaabowekwe]

In a feed of Palestinian people screaming, dying, holding their blown apart children, digging thru rubble w/their hands — U.S. students’ fears of chants & protests receive mainstream coverage. The president of Islamic University of Gaza & his whole family was murdered 4 days ago.

[Shibley Telhami @ShibleyTelhami]

"Eighty-two percent of all U.S.-based respondents, including almost all assistant professors (98 percent), said that they self-censor when they speak professionally about the Israeli-Palestinian issue. Just over 81 percent of those self-censoring said they primarily held back their criticism of Israel, while 11 percent said they held back from criticizing Palestinians. Only 2 percent said criticizing U.S. policy was the biggest issue."

[Mohammad @MargBarAmerica]

nothing more emblematic of liberals’ uselessness than posting this empty bullshit with a sudanese flag

[FARI @imafari]

@thekurama9 Wo kriegen die solche Flaggen überhaupt her? Gibt wohl einen Markt für alles 🤦🏻‍♀️

[Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand]

There's something almost admirable about the consistency with which Germany always stands on the wrong side of history.

[איישע @protosemite]

Zionist holocaust denial did not arise out of a vacuum and the argument that Hamas is ‘worse’ than the Nazis because the Nazis ‘had remorse’ can only be understood as a product of a much larger colonial orientalist epistemology that both preceded and engendered Nazism

[FARI @imafari]

es machen sich ja viele im moment lächerlich aber deutschland ist auf einem ganz anderen level

[Paweł Wargan @pawelwargan]

Saying "stop the genocide" is now illegal in Berlin, Germany.

[Allegra Lab @allegra_lab]

"Beyond exposing our own politics, it is our responsibility as anthropologists of humanitarianism to ring the alarm when humanitarian language ceases to even accommodate the word “ceasefire.”" Hanna Berg #FramingGaza #CeasefireInGazaNOW
https://t.co/MYdxNBA1SO

[MoTaz @motazazaiza9]

Dear my people
I am very sorry for filming you in these circumstances and very sad for documenting this tragedy and showing you in your most difficult times.
I also want to tell you that when I saw you leaving the city behind, Gaza the city of love and war I wished to not be born to see this happening to us.
Thank you for the love you are showing to me and respect
I really hope to be a reason to stop this war

[hasanabi @hasanthehun]

my man said the real ones stand w israel when we’re killing 4,000+ children

[Heather Barr @heatherbarr1]

“Feminism is embedded in the culture and in the struggle of all women all over the world.”

[Saleem Javed | سلیم جاوید @mSaleemJaved]

Taliban have publicly and explicitly announced that there is no ISIS in Afghanistan. The fact that Hazaras are being killed right in the heart of Kabul also talks for Taliban’s direct involvement. Moreover, elevating Taliban to a government is nothing but whitewashing.

[Mohammad Alsaafin @malsaafin]

This isn’t new. Hamas made this offer two weeks ago. This was in the Washington Post. It’s clear neither the Israeli nor American govts care about the hostages more than they care about destroying Gaza.

[HamNCheddar @HamNCheddar]

In January of 2017, I snapped this photo. I don’t know why I snapped it at the time, but something in my brain told me to save this image. I stood there, looking at the view across a beautiful meadow at what my tour guides described as “the enemy”. I remember feeling confused. I was 24, fresh out of college. I had no enemies.

I had just spent 7 days going around Israel, all the way from Mount Hermon in the Golan Heights to a kibbutz in the Negev. I was introduced to loads of new friends, foods, and a culture that was so welcoming and familiar to me because of my upbringing as a Jew. I was on a “birthright” trip - a free trip to Israel that is entirely funded by donors and the government. I had a great and memorable time. I fell in love with Israel. I fell for it all.

Just a few days prior to this photo being taken, I sat in a classroom in Jerusalem where I was lectured for a few hours on the “conflict” with Palestinians. They went on about the first and second intifada. They showed us gruesome images of innocent Israelis murdered. They made it clear who they wanted us to hate.

I stood there overlooking that meadow with Gaza in the distance on January 18th, 2017. We stood at the Black Arrow monument - it stood there to commemorate the actions of the IDF and the memory of 8 Israelis killed in battle. But the details they gave us on that battle were foggy. Operation Black Arrow was carried out in Gaza in 1955 as a retaliation for one Israeli civilian being killed. For that one death, they killed 38 Egyptians and wounded countless more. It set the stage for Israel’s reputation for harsh and unbalanced responses.

I looked this info up on the bus on the way to a nearby town for dinner. I remember feeling this sinking feeling that I was only given one side of the story. Not just being in Israel for birthright, but growing up with a Jewish education going to Hebrew school. We were only ever taught one way of thinking. We were brainwashed from childhood to believe that we were the peacemakers and they were the attackers.

I knew in the back of my mind that the existence of Israel was inherently problematic, but I allowed it to be clouded by a culture and language that I grew to love for a good amount of time after birthright. But as my presence on the internet grew, so did my awareness of the perspectives of those who were on the other side of all of this. People having their homes taken from them, people displaced, people humiliated, and people killed in cold blood. Some bad people but overwhelmingly innocent people. The hardest pill to swallow for me is that I made Israel part of my identity since birthright, all to come to understand that Israel has always been the oppressor.

Over a year ago I made a twitlonger about taking down my Israeli flag in my apartment. I talked about it sending the wrong message on stream. I still heavily identify with being ethnically Jewish, but we have all hopefully come to understand that Zionism is not the same as Judaism. I hope we can also learn that Anti Zionism is not Anti Semitism. I don’t think I will ever go back to Israel. I may lose friends I made, and a small piece of me that I identified with for a long time, but I don’t think that I’m owed that piece of me as much as others are owed their land, lives, and peace of mind. My “birthright” is far less valuable than people’s rights to live peacefully.

If this message is for anyone, it’s for Jews that are so convinced that the world wants another Holocaust that they’re willing to turn a blind eye to one child being killed every 10 minutes. Yes, anti semitism exists, but supporting genocide and apartheid makes it worse. Open your minds, step out of your shoes for once. Also, I’m truly sorry for staying silent about this until now.

[Jews for Racial & Economic Justice Action @JFREJNYC]

While demanding freedom for Palestine isn’t antisemitic — in fact, it’s profoundly in line with Jewish values — this unequivocally is.

Don’t vandalize Jewish institutions. Don’t blame Jews for the actions of the Israeli government. This is completely unacceptable.

[FARI @imafari]

erschreckend wer sich in der Schweiz alles Journalist nennen kann

[Joëlle Weil @JoelleWeil]

Ich retweete keine Videos der Hamas, bei denen "Tote" sich plötzlich in ihren Leichensäcken bewegen und "Getroffene" in einer grossen Show reanimiert werden. Ich tweete sie nicht, weil das allen echten Opfern gegenüber respektlos wäre. Aber ich sehe die Bilder und bin sprachlos.