Jihan Thomas

#teamhumanity

[Jihan Thomas @jihanthomas]

@GrantThoma43072 @hippyygoat Bot

[Earth Hippy 🌎🕊️💚 @hippyygoat]

"Wall of Tears," a 100-foot-long outdoor mural honoring 18,457 children killed by Israel in Gaza since Oct. 7, 2023.

WELL DONE DEARBORN THE FIRST CITY IN AMERICA TO DO THIS.

[Assal Rad @AssalRad]

They say “Israel tells residents to leave” because FORCED DISPLACEMENT is a war crime. This is how they launder it.

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

It's a war on the human conscience. Sentencing anti-genocide activists as terrorists. Working to deport Trita Parsi for criticizing the war on Iran. They're actually punishing people for not acting like sociopaths.

It's the same war on the conscience that saw the empire persecute Julian Assange, crush pro-Palestine demonstrations on university campuses, investigate peace activists for bringing aid to Cuba, and dramatically ramp up the suppression of free speech to silence criticism of Israel.

In a healthy society, a person of conscience would thrive while a sociopath would be shunned and marginalized. In western society it's the exact opposite: people of conscience are sent to prison, and sociopaths are made president of the United States.

That's what you get when you live under an empire established on and driven by sociopathic values. The agenda to dominate and control the entire human population is evil, because it can only be accomplished through nonstop war, militarism, propaganda, deception, and tyranny.

That's why the truth-tellers are branded traitors, the anti-genocide demonstrators are branded anti-semites, and the peace activists are branded terrorists. We live in a backward dystopia with backward values, so the good are beaten down while the wicked rule the world.

[Jedi @dhe3g]

Seven hours. All children.

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

She is lying. Brazenly. Israel has forced over a million people (a million!) from their homes, razed entire neighborhoods to the ground, told Christian villagers to not let Shia villagers stay in their villages, and killed multiple first-responders in double tap strikes.

[Stanley Cohen @StanleyCohenLaw]

Israel has murdered more children... more women... more elderly... more frail.. more ill... more disabled ... more physicians .... more medical staff .... more journalists
... more rescue workers... more professors .... more pregnant women ... than any other these past 50 years

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

The year is 1949.

The Nobel Prize in Medicine has just gone to the man who invented the lobotomy. Your doctor suggests one for your sister, who has not been herself since the baby came. It is the most celebrated advance in psychiatry of the age, and he is simply current. By the time the prize curdles into an embarrassment, close to twenty thousand Americans have had the operation, and proportionally more here in Britain.

The year is 1956.

Lay the baby down on his front, the doctor says. So does the most trusted childcare book ever written, the one on every new mother's shelf. On his back he might choke, the reasoning goes. Millions obey. The advice holds for nearly thirty years, long after the evidence has quietly turned, and a generation of cot deaths is counted before anyone thinks to roll the babies over.

The year is 1966.

A bestselling book informs your wife that menopause is a disease, that she is, in the author's word, a castrate, and that a small daily pill will keep her youthful and tolerable to live with. Her doctor agrees. The drug becomes one of the most prescribed in the country. Nobody mentions that the author sat on the payroll of the company that made it. That detail surfaces decades later, in the same year the landmark trial is halted early for raising rates of breast cancer, stroke and clots.

The year is 1979.

Your ulcer is caused by stress and sharp food, the doctor explains. Calm down, drink milk, take the antacid that happens to be the best-selling medicine on earth. Two Australians are about to prove that most ulcers are caused by a bacterium and cured by a fortnight of antibiotics. The profession laughs. One of them eventually drinks a beaker of the stuff to settle the matter. The establishment takes the better part of twenty years to stop laughing. The Nobel lands in 2005.

The year is 1985.

Butter is dangerous, the doctor says. Switch to margarine, it is modern, it is heart-healthy, the experts are united. The spread he nudges you toward is loaded with trans fats, which the next decade will identify as the genuinely dangerous one, and which will eventually be banned outright. The butter goes quietly back in the fridge. No correction is ever printed at the volume of the original warning.

The year is 1992.

There is a pyramid on the surgery wall, and the very same one in your grandchild's classroom. Bread, cereal, rice and pasta form the broad virtuous base, up to eleven servings a day. Fat is exiled to the tiny tip. The chart was reportedly held back a year while the relevant industries had their say. It is wrong at the bottom and wrong at the top.

Now it is today.

Your doctor has new guidelines, new studies, a fresh consensus, delivered with precisely the steady confidence of every guideline above. He believes it, and he has good reason to. So did every doctor in this thread. None of them were villains. Each was sincere, most were kind, and all were certain, reading from a map that somebody else had drawn and handed them. That is the part worth sitting with.

So when the man in the white coat tells you what to eat, what to fear, and what to swallow every morning for the rest of your life, you are allowed to ask. Who paid for the study. What the evidence says beneath the headline. What he was just as certain about thirty years ago, and where that advice sits now.

Then make up your own mind. Call it scepticism, or call it whatever your grandmother called it when she ignored the advert, kept the butter where it was, and lived to ninety-one.

It has outlasted every consensus on this list. It will outlast this one too.

[Assal Rad @AssalRad]

“Palestinian anger” is such a weird way to frame ethnic cleansing.

[Lazzyyyyyy @em_Lazzy]

FIFA rejecting Haiti’s jersey’s for being “too political” while allowing Israel to play, & the US to host World Cup (while denying visas, restricting entrance, banning Iranian players from staying in country) is a selective, targeted invocation of their “neutrality” policies.

[Sarah Wilkinson @swilkinsonbc]

The israeli genocide is in 4K on your telly, so you can’t say you didn’t know, you can only say you didn’t care | Irish actor Liam Cunningham

[Daniel Mayakovski @DaniMayakovski]

No se habla lo suficiente de que "Israel" está borrando la ciudad de Tiro, uno de los asentamientos humanos más antiguos del mundo, con orígenes que datan de 2750 AC, literalmente están destruyendo patrimonio de toda la humanidad.

En 3 meses "Israel" ha asesinado a más de 3.700 libaneses pero al mundo no parece importarle.

[Paolo Mossetti @paolomossetti]

Israeli historian @bartov_omer speaking on prime-time TV in Italy:

“[Israel is] a country that is unwilling to face the truth, and that brings us to the issue of genocide... When genocide occurs, the entire society of the country perpetrating it becomes complicit in that genocide.

Therefore, we must ask ourselves: in the case of Israel, where there is a conscript army made up of the sons and daughters of most Israeli citizens, what does it mean for a country to be involved in these activities? It means that everyone becomes part of this event: those who carry it out, those who deny it, and those who do nothing to stop it...

In the case of Israel, this is a country going through a profound phase of denial...

When people say that criticism of Israel, criticism of Zionism, or even the rejection of Zionism is antisemitism, frankly, that is nonsense. It concerns the rejection of a specific ideology that is no longer sustainable.”

(Via @fattoquotidiano) :::

[Zachary Foster @_ZachFoster]

If Hezbollah had killed 15 Israelis in the past 24 hours, including a rescue worker, it would be deemed a barbaric terrorist attack.

But because Israel killed 15 Lebanese, instead it’s called a ceasefire.

[Jonathan Cook @Jonathan_K_Cook]

A soldier troubled by Israel's 1967 shoot-to-kill policy recalled a conversation with his commander: “I asked the officer: And if I hear babies crying, should I shoot them too? The answer I received was: Don’t be a girl.”

There is nothing unusual about Israeli soldiers murdering babies.

Israel is known to have killed more than 1,000 babies in Gaza under the age of one since 7 October 2023, not all of them anonymously in strikes from the air.

The Israeli military allowed a group of five premature babies in al-Nasser hospital to die and decompose in their incubators after its soldiers took over the building in late 2023.

Israeli commanders also knew that the first to die from a blockade of aid would be the most vulnerable. Babies froze or starved to death as the population was deprived of shelter, baby formula and food, with their mothers lacking sufficient nutrition to produce milk.

As the testimony from a soldier in 1967 noted, Israeli military doctrine encourages troops to stop seeing Palestinians, even Palestinian babies, as “human”. Their lives are considered worthless.

Israeli soldiers murdered another Palestinian baby last week in the West Bank, after they ambushed a car driven by a lecturer from Bethlehem university, Fahd Abu Haikal, in the Palestinian city of Hebron, which is under particularly brutal occupation.

One of the soldiers fired into the car, as it was slowing to a halt, from only a few metres away – from where he must have been able to see the passengers inside. The bullet killed Abu Haikal’s seventh-month-old baby, Sam, and wounded his wife, who was holding the infant. Abu Haikal’s 11-year-old son, also in the car, watched his baby brother bleed to death.

Israeli soldiers have been murdering Palestinian babies for decades. Yet none of it has roused an ounce of the outrage uniformly expressed by western media and politicians at Israel’s entirely fabricated claim that Hamas killed 40 babies on 7 October 2023.

This is an extract from my latest article How Israel planned the Gaza genocide decades ago. Find a link to the rest in the reply post ⬇️

[Alpha100 @100_alpha]

“We are the only people in history expected to witness our own genocide—and then censor ourselves so we don’t hurt the feelings of those responsible.” — #SusanAbulhawa
The world is watching. History is being written in real time.
#Gaza #HumanRights
#DontStopTalkingAboutPalestine

[Palestina En Español 🎒 @PalestinaVence]

🇵🇸🇮🇱 Esto es la “democracia” israelí

En un tribunal de Jerusalén ocupada, el Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya (pediatra y director de hospital en Gaza) apareció por videollamada.

En cuanto intentó hablar con su abogado, las autoridades israelíes apagaron la pantalla y cortaron la transmisión.

Ni el abogado ni los periodistas pudieron ver ni oír nada.

El Dr. Abu Safiya ha sido sometido a hambre, torturas y abusos sistemáticos durante su detención.

Esto no es un juicio. Es un teatro de represión donde ni siquiera se permite que el detenido sea visto o escuchado.

Israel no es una democracia.

Es un régimen que secuestra, tortura y silencia a quienes salvan vidas.

[Jonathan Cook @Jonathan_K_Cook]

Israeli lawyer Ben Marmarelli says Palestinian prisoners he represents beg him not to visit because they're raped each time he is due to meet them.

This is a scene from Al Jazeera's shocking new documentary on Israel's systematic use of rape.

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

Hasbara is so gross because it's just Zionists throwing walls of language at you to convince you you're not seeing what you're seeing.

You see raw video footage of the most horrifying thing imaginable in Gaza, and then you see them in the replies going "This is actually fine and normal because words words words words words words words."

You see a news report about Israel doing something astonishingly evil in Lebanon, and there they are underneath it going "There's actually a lot more to the story because words words words words words words words."

You see some far right Israeli minister spouting nakedly genocidal rhetoric, and they're swarming all over it saying "Well this isn't actually what it looks like because words words words words words words words."

You see every major human rights group on earth saying Israel is guilty of genocide and apartheid, and they're running around frantically telling you it's a giant conspiracy to frame Israel and the truth is that words words words words words words words.

You see more and more mainstream news institutions reporting on the mountains of evidence of widespread rape and torture in Israeli prisons, and they saturate the airwaves claiming it's an antisemitic blood libel because words words words words words words words.

The idea is to just pound your intellect with a firehose of verbiage until your inner sensemaker has been shredded and you're too confused to form a coherent picture of what's actually going on. It's a disgusting, abusive, and profoundly unethical thing to do to people.

But the good news is it's not working anymore. Language is immensely powerful, but its power has its limits. Israel's behavior has become so transparently unacceptable that no amount of word magic can manipulate people into seeing anything other than what's happening in front of their face.

[Sarah Wilkinson @swilkinsonbc]

Harrowing footage of israeli troops abducting Palestinian school girls in Beitunia town; they scream because they may never be released.. intact