Leena Barakat

CEO @WomenDonors | Board Director @DonorsofColor | A proud فلسطينية building a more just, joyful and liberated future for all ⚖️ l tweets mine.

[Sony Thăng @nxt888]

Empires don’t collapse when they lose battles.

They collapse when the lie no longer works.

When the oppressed stop apologizing.

When the colonized stop asking for permission.

When the slogans unravel and the crimes are finally named.

That moment is approaching.

Not just for Israel.

But for every empire that mistook power for virtue,

And silence for consent.

Because Palestine is not the end.

It’s the beginning.

The beginning of memory returning.

The beginning of justice waking.

The beginning of a world that no longer confuses occupation with order,

Or resistance with terrorism.

This shift isn’t loud—not yet.

But it’s deep.

It’s global.

It’s irreversible.

Because once the veil lifts, it never falls the same way again.

And when that day comes,

It won’t be empire that writes history.

It will be the people who survived it.

[Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones]

We must not delude ourselves in this moment. Multiracial democracy in the United States is less than 60 years old. It has always been contested, often violently so. It has always been fragile. Since this nation's inception large swaths of white Americans -- including white women -- have claimed a belief in democracy while actually enforcing a white ethnocracy. In the face of shifting demographics where white Americans will lose their numeric majority, we see a growing embrace of autocracy to keep the "legitimate" rulers of this country in power. History teaches us that we are in a perilous moment.

[Karen Attiah @KarenAttiah]

I understand the sadness and frustration readers have right now.

Cancelling Washington Post subscriptions hurts journalists, editors and staffers, not our owner.

WaPo is more than our owner and management.

Please don’t give up on us. Many of us aren’t giving up on you all.

[Nina Turner @ninaturner]

Arrest Benjamin Netanyahu. Arms embargo now.

[Leena Barakat @leenabarakat]

@ZombiePanther2 Agreed.

[Motasem A Dalloul @AbujomaaGaza]

A mother from #Jabalia says:

“They took all the children from their mothers and put them inside what resembled a pit or a hole. The tank came to circle around them repeatedly until their bones cracked under the pressure of dust and sand, amidst the screams of children and the wailing of mothers.

“After that, the soldiers came and started throwing the children towards the mothers, and whoever caught a child was ordered to carry him and move away quickly, with no guarantee that the child would be their own.

“Many mothers carried children who were not their own, and were forced to leave with them, leaving their own children in the hands of other mothers. This marked the beginning of a new chapter of suffering, with mothers searching for their children in the arms of other women, trying to calm the children they held until they found their real mothers.“

[Leena Barakat @leenabarakat]

@Joseph_Fasano_ Well, you’ve gained a new follower in me. You’ll never regret standing for humanity. Thank you for your clarity, courage and love for all humanity.

[Jehad Abusalim @JehadAbusalim]

Israel is committing extermination in Jabalia—massacre after massacre. I have nothing more to add. I’ve been writing, talking, and screaming, but there are no words left, not in the way the cliché suggests, but literally. Entire families are being wiped out. Shame on all of us.

[Leena Barakat @leenabarakat]

@ZombiePanther2 You raised a really good one. Thank you for that gift of her (and you) to the world.

[Leena Barakat @leenabarakat]

@Joseph_Fasano_ 💔 again.

[Leena Barakat @leenabarakat]

@Joseph_Fasano_ Or worse, that it’s normal and to be accepted.

[Joseph Fasano @Joseph_Fasano_]

The Academy of American Poets has published this poem, and that is a very, very good thing.

[Leena Barakat @leenabarakat]

@Joseph_Fasano_ @POETSorg @boaeditions This made me cry. I often think about the conversations they have with their children amidst airstrikes, genocide, siege and bombing.
Thank you for writing this.

[Netroots Nation @Netroots_Nation]

Palestinians don't want your sympathy we want your courage. There is no social justice issue that has ever been popular in the moment of its own time. - @leenabarakat of @WomenDonors #NN224

[Netroots Nation @Netroots_Nation]

TOMORROW @ #NN24
Thursday Night Opening Keynote
11 July ✨5:15PM ET✨HALL A
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ft. @MayorBMScott @RepRashida @repdeliaramirez @RepCasar @_AshDashLee_ of @HighlanderCtr
@leenabarakat of @WomenDonors
@mondalerobinson of @BMVProject

[Noura Erakat @4noura]

I am trying to pull on anger but I am grief stricken. My stomach turns when I try to speak. How do I explain that burning children alive in tents is bad? Who does not know that? What is this system we’ve built that has normalized advanced tech barbarism & dares to lecture us?

[Daily Bruin @dailybruin]

Editorial: UCLA has failed its students in not taking action to prevent violence between protesters and counter-protesters at the pro-Palestine encampment. https://t.co/p7ylW1hzXF

[Cori Bush @CoriBush]

The police violence inflicted upon my friend Steve Tamari for standing against Netanyahu’s genocide is indicative of the brutality communities face around the world when they dare to demand peace & justice, from St. Louis to Gaza. We need peace, diplomacy and a #CeasefireNow!