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[Arshak Makichyan @MakichyanA]

Hertie School asked us not to protest at our graduation. And here we are.

We learned our lesson: silence is complicity.

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

Calling the Gaza genocide a "war" is like seeing a man beating a toddler to death and calling it a "fight".

So much evil hides behind calling this thing a war. If you accept that it's a war then you have to take seriously arguments like "It's a war, civilians die in war," or "Hamas shouldn't have started a war they can't win." If it's a war then it has two sides who share comparable levels of responsibility for any bad things that happen during that time.

But it's not a war, it's a naked ethnic cleansing operation being carried out by a highly sophisticated military with the backing of the most powerful empire that has ever existed. It's a globe-spanning power structure openly purging a Palestinian territory of Palestinian life using a full siege and the systematic destruction of all healthcare and civilian infrastructure, being resisted by a few thousand guys with homemade rockets and dwindling supplies. That's not a "war". It's not even a "conflict". It's a slaughter. It's a holocaust.

If the Gaza holocaust is a "war", then shooting fish in a barrel is "hunting". Beating up a quadriplegic is a "street brawl". A SWAT team shooting an unarmed civilian is a "gun fight". No conflicts are perfectly equal, but past a certain level of one-sidedness the language of conflict becomes absurd. The daily massacres we are seeing in Gaza are far beyond that point.

They are raining military explosives on top of a giant concentration camp packed full of children while deliberately starving the entire civilian population to death. They have complete control over the enclave, and they are using that control to eradicate the presence of Palestinians in Gaza. That is not war. That is genocide.

[Al Jazeera Breaking News @AJENews]

BREAKING: Italy's largest union announces general strike over flotilla handling

🔴 LIVE updates: https://t.co/5vWKh5O0aC

[Assal Rad @AssalRad]

Unbelievable. The Holocaust museum LA *apologized* for sharing a general anti-genocide post, because it might be “misinterpreted” to include Palestinians.

Palestinians are so dehumanized that they’re excluded from “never again,” apparently their genocide is the exception.

[Brandon Stanton @humansofny]

“When I entered Gaza the Israeli military had a rule: I was only allowed to bring in three kilos of food. As I was weighing out protein bars, trying to get under the limit, I said to my husband: ‘How sinister is this?’ I’m a humanitarian aid worker. Why would there even be a limit on food? I’ve worked in many places with extreme hunger, but what’s so jarring in this context is how cruel it is, how deliberate. I was in Gaza for two months; there’s no way to describe the horror of what’s happening. And I say this as a pediatric ICU doctor who sees children die as part of my work. Among our own staff we have doctors and nurses who are trying to treat patients while hungry, exhausted. They’re living in tents. Some of them have lost fifteen, twenty members of their families. In the hospital there are kids maimed by airstrikes: missing arms, missing legs, third degree burns. Often there’s not enough pain medication. But the children are not screaming about the pain, they’re screaming: ‘I’m hungry! I’m hungry!” I hate to only focus on the kids, because nobody should be starving. But the kids, it just haunts you in a different way. When my two months were finished, I didn’t want to leave. It’s a feeling I haven’t experienced in nearly twenty years of humanitarian assignments. But I felt ashamed. Ashamed to leave my Palestinian colleagues, who were some of the most beautiful and compassionate people that I’ve ever met. I was ashamed as an American, as a human being, that we’ve been unable to stop something that is so clearly a genocide. I remember when our bus pulled out of the buffer zone. Out the window on one side I could see Rafah, which was nothing but rubble. On the other side was lush, green Israel. When we exited the gate, the first thing I saw was a group of Israeli soldiers, sitting at a table, eating lunch. I’ve never felt so nauseous seeing a table full of food.”

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Aqsa Durrani is a pediatric doctor and board member of Doctors Without Borders USA, with nearly twenty years of experience in humanitarian projects. During our interview Aqsa repeatedly expressed a desire to center the voices of her Palestinian colleagues. To this end I’ve spent the past week collecting stories from the Palestinian staff of Doctors Without Borders in Gaza. I will be sharing these stories over the next several days. I’m so grateful for the time that these people gave me; they were sleepless, hungry, traumatized, and often working 24-hour shifts. Because of the unreliable internet connection their images are sometimes grainy. Their words, however, will be crystal clear.

[Tom Dale @tom_d_]

I'm in Parliament Square, London, UK, where police have begun to arrest hundreds of people holding signs saying "I oppose genocide, I support Palestine Action" . Thread with updates >

[Hebh Jamal @hebh_jamal]

Israel publishing footage of them feeding the Gaza flotilla activists in an attempt to thwart their crime of kidnapping humanitarians and pushing propaganda that they’re a beacon of peace. Make sure you stay informed about what happens to them .

And most importantly, Gaza is starving. Israel is funding these disgusting gangs that loot and terrorise the Palestinian people forbidding them from actually receiving aid . Terror cult. Don’t fall for their antics.

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

BREAKING!!! - 11:18PM UK time; I am with the flotilla online. They have just been reached by the Israel speedboats - 5 vessels circling the flotilla. The captain is instructing the team to stay calm and seated, with their passports and life jackets on. I hear them speaking with Israeli soldiers as I type... telling they are carrying humanitarian aid and go in peace. For the time being they are just circled. I am with them, recording everything.

[Neil Renic @NC_Renic]

The left wing impulse to read books and think

[Inês Colaço @inescrf]

gentle reminder about Miyazaki's thoughts on this bullshit you're all posting

[Yuval Abraham יובל אברהם @yuval_abraham]

A group of settlers just lynched Hamdan Ballal, co director of our film no other land. They beat him and he has injuries in his head and stomach, bleeding. Soldiers invaded the ambulance he called, and took him. No sign of him since.

[Maia @maiamindel]

It's kinda funny how every European government at this point is either Bankers For Austerity or Lesbian Hitler

[Fr Dylan Schrader @FrDylanSchrader]

Opening my @Crayola year-2000 time capsule. 🧵

[DEACTIVATED @thrasherxy]

“humanitarian of the year”

[Yuval Abraham יובל אברהם @yuval_abraham]

Berlin's official city portal just wrote our film No Other Land has "antisemitic tendencies". A film that won the Berlinale and was recently invited to a special screening in the German embassy in Israel. It pains me to see how, after murdering most of my family in the holocaust, you empty the word antisemitism of meaning to silence critics of Israel's occupation in the West Bank (the topic of our film) and legitimize violence against Palestinians. I feel unsafe and unwelcome in Berlin of 2024 as a left-wing Israeli and will take legal action.

[Oumaima | أميمة @OumaimaDerfoufi]

I know we realized a long time ago just how insignificant we are to the West. It’s not news. But days like today, the weight of it bears down so hard I just want to scream. Days like today, I deeply regret moving to Europe. You've made it clear that-

[Dr Prital Patel 🍉 Prital.Bsky.social @prital_]

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[Nicole Lampert @nicolelampert]

Diane Abbott on her ‘romance’ with Jeremy Corbyn is hysterical.

[Jackie English 🦊😺🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇺🇦 @Jackie_Buddie]

It’s with great sadness that my Auntie Cathy (Rutherford) has very suddenly passed away this week. Born in Glasgow my Auntie Cathy was a trade unionist to the core and remained politically active her whole life. This famous clip shows you exactly where she stood.

[Catarina Martins @catarina_mart]

É possível estar à segunda à noite em Lisboa e no resto da semana em Bruxelas? É possível ser eurodeputada e manter ligação com o país? É possível comentar e não receber? Sim, é. Já outros o fizeram? Duvido. Eu sou bruxa e a vassoura é um meio de transporte extraordinário.