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[Mark Slapinski @mark_slapinski]

It is okay to be Jewish.

It is okay to attend your local synagogue.

It is okay to celebrate Hannukah.

It is not okay to use white phosphorus on civilians in Gaza and Lebanon.

[Assal Rad @AssalRad]

They tried to convince you for years that Iran is a threat to Israel, when it’s Israel that’s an expansionist state with nuclear weapons, committing genocide, and starting wars.

Iran is a threat to Israel’s hegemony because it can actually fight back, so they want to destroy it.

[Chris Hedges @ChrisLynnHedges]

An audience member at a Q&A recently asked me why I'm so apocalyptic. The genocide in Gaza, beyond being a tragedy, marks an irreversible shift in the global world order. Before the genocide, the imperialist ambitions of the Western oligarchic class were partially constrained by the utopian ideal of the rules-based order. Now that ideal is gone, and unrestrained barbarity will characterize the methodology of the war-making ruling class. In other words — our future is an apocalyptic one.

[Arlene Harris @ArleneHarris11]

In today's @Independent_ie I spoke to several retirees about the joy of having the time and the means to travel and explore the world at their own pace.
https://t.co/qvM5Uri6qQ

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

To claim that dismantling a state, a governing structure, means murdering the people who live there is beyond absurd. Apartheid South Africa was dismantled. The white people there were not mass-murdered. The state simply became a state for all its citizens, with equal rights.

[J Street @jstreetdotorg]

This is abhorrent.

Our Jewish values demand that we speak up and speak out against this kind of dehumanization of Palestinians and annexation of their land.

[Barry Andrews MEP @BarryAndrewsMEP]

Good small step 👇

It's symbolic but symbolism is also important.

Germany 🇩🇪 and others must stop blocking EU trade sanctions on Israel 🇮🇱.

[Middle Eastern Affairs @OpsHQs]

The Israeli ambassador to Europe is protesting the spread of this image. Let it spread all over the world. 🌍🔥"

[Professor Ahmed Hankir @ahmedhankir]

It hurts to witness from afar my homeland of Lebanon being destroyed by the Israeli military. My parents live in Saida. They say they can hear the daily explosions. I used to visit Tyre (Sour) regularly when I lived in Lebanon as a teenager. The bloodshed & destruction must end.

[Mohamad Safa @mhdksafa]

“The war in Gaza” is actually “the Genocide in Gaza”

“The war in Lebanon” is actually “the Genocide in Lebanon”

“Collateral damage and human shields” is actually “murder children and innocent civilians”

The media uses euphemisms to control the narrative. The media is complicit

[Hazel | Travel Writer @joyofhazel]

RIP Tomi Reichental.

[NewstalkFM @NewstalkFM]

Irish Holocaust survivor Tomi Reichental has died at the age of 90.

As a young boy, Mr Reichental was imprisoned in Bergen Belsen concentration camp and 35 of his relatives were murdered by the Nazis.

As a pensioner in Ireland, he educated thousands of children about the terrible things he witnessed and the evils of antisemitism.

“After all the horror, I am doing my best to keep the memory of those lost ones alive," he said.

"We – you, me, your children, and my children – must never forget.”

You can learn more about Mr Reichental's incredible story of survival in Newstalk's award nominated documentary In The Swastika's Shadow: Ireland and the Holocaust:

https://t.co/ujcSiaVrJz

Ar dheis Dé go raibh a anam dílis. May his memory be a blessing.

[Ahmed Shihab-Eldin @aseisfree]

Wanna know why Basque police beat @gbsumudflotilla torture survivors?

These are the same cops who've taken €1.6M in Israeli security contracts, trained by former Mossad agents, and equipped with Israeli surveillance tech.

READ MY LATEST: https://t.co/zm8CTWkEQP

[Al Jazeera English @AJEnglish]

THREAD 🧵

An Al Jazeera investigation has found that military goods from at least 51 countries were sent to Israel, even after the ICJ warned in January 2024 of a plausible risk of genocide in Gaza and ordered states to help prevent it.

🔗: https://t.co/GF2bUMOLOQ | #Infograph

[Sunny Singh @ProfSunnySingh]

They put zip ties on babies before killing them. How is anyone with a conscience supposed to process this horror?

[Sarah Wilkinson @swilkinsonbc]

Harrowing testimony of Australian filmmaker Juliet Lamont, kidnapped by the israelis on the @gbsumudflotilla, battered & sexually assaulted

[Abier @abierkhatib]

“As a mother and a doctor and an Irish citizen, this barbaric cruel regime must be disbanded”

Margaret Connolly

[Martin Konečný @MartinKonecny]

The Dutch government has just approved import ban on goods from illegal Israeli settlements.

Third EU government after Spain and Slovenia. Some more underway.

The ICJ made clear this is a legal obligation for all states under international law.
https://t.co/EmeJX8dRjK

[Assal Rad @AssalRad]

Israel can bomb hospitals in Lebanon without a peep from Western media.

[Tom London @TomLondon6]

I'm Jewish, British & 64

All my life, I wondered how the Holocaust could have happened. I understood that Hitler & other leaders were EVIL, but how did millions of ordinary people go along with it?

NOW, seeing how so many in the West rationalise & defend the Gaza Genocide, I think I have my answer and it is profoundly disturbing

[The Saviour @TheSaviour]

🚨🇮🇹🇮🇱An Italian journalist and Flotilla member:

"As soon as you entered the entry
container they beat you up; they kicked me on the legs and punched me in the face, broke some people’s arms and ribs, while assaulting detainees and saying “Welcome to Israel.”"