One of Orwell's nightmares materialised would be this: potential war criminals and arm manufacturers implicated in a genocide allowed to roam and operate freely, while citizens get arrested for opposing a genocide.
I appeal to European leaders: it is never too late to do the right thing. Stopping trade with and arms transfers to Israel, in light of the illegal occupation and associated crimes, is your obligation. What else must Israel do for you to suspend this agreement?
One of the most gentle souls the genocide has brought into my life is Ahmed ShihabEldin, journalist of rare strength, integrity & compassion. US-born Kuwaiti citizen, Ahmed has been imprisoned by Kuwaiti authorities for his work since 3 March. Journalism is not a crime #FreeAhmed
The difference between the two photos is that the Vogue cover is an editorial, meaning the photographer made the conscious choice to curate a racist caricature of a black man, whereas the Israeli settler simply Just Looks Like That.
This whole controversy around the L’Espresso cover is reminding me how much I held my tongue as a teenager, afraid that I would sound crazy if I repeated what I saw settlers doing. For example, one of the Jewish settlers who lived in the stolen half (yes, half) of our house in Jerusalem would repeatedly do unspeakable, perverted things to a German Shepherd they kept in the house. Whenever international activists came to visit, I'd tell them that the settlers beat the dog, which was true, but I often omitted the part about the sexual abuse--something about naming it outright made me feel dirty, as if complicit (I was also very young) until one day the settler did it while two European activists were present. He most likely wanted to be watched. A couple days later, there was a graffiti on our wall that said something like "settlers are very, very strange people."
The way Israeli settlers are depicted in the media is, in fact, very often understated. I assume people worry about coming across as conspiratorial or bigoted, so they often hesitate to report the full extent of such depravity. But at the end of the day, it is really not our problem that many Jewish settlers are quite frankly caricatures of themselves.
Prime Minister @MarkJCarney's pick for Chief of Staff is one of the only Liberal MPs who is actually opposed to a ceasefire in Gaza, and who has amplified far-right anti-Palestinian extremists. Join us in urging Carney to drop @marcomendicino: https://t.co/8pbTBC5rs5
You'd expect @satyanadella, as a father who raised a child with disabilities, to care that 2M people, half of them children, have been bombed, maimed, and murdered for the last 16 months. Instead, he facilitates the war criminals who are inflicting these horrors. Sociopathic
can someone with a legal background explain to me like i’m five why this woman is being held on $100,000 bond for threatening *checks notes* a corporation
If the phrase "Delay, Deny, Depose" can get individuals criminally charged given it was used by a shooter who killed one person, you may wonder how the phrase ought to be considered when used as *systematic policy* that harms thousands of people
“It’s an incredible realm of untapped opportunities for justice.”
@FranceskAlbs calls out the sale of illegal settlements in Canada and points to🇨🇦pensions, charities & banks, that will be part of her next report.