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[Sasha Ali | Miss Modular @missmodular_la]

Header photo: Camille Henrot, "Grosse Fatigue," 2013

[Progressive International @ProgIntl]

BREAKING (3/3) 🇵🇸🇬🇧 Unite has committed to worker-led boycotts on Israeli goods and divestment from Israeli companies documented by the Watermelon Index now, detailing 400 companies complicit in Israel's genocide — and the worker campaigns against them.
https://t.co/A3ivWdULKa

[Progressive International @ProgIntl]

BREAKING (2/3) 🇵🇸🇬🇧Unite's commitment or a full arms embargo and a ban on all trade that assists Israel's violation of international law was due to the grassroots pressure built from Unite members and workers.

Worker action for Palestine is growing.

[Progressive International @ProgIntl]

BREAKING (1/3) 🇵🇸🇬🇧 Unite the Union (@unitetheunion) — the UK's largest private sector union — has voted overwhelmingly for an arms embargo on Israel and to "support members to refuse to build, handle or transport weapons destined for Israel".

[Sasha Ali | Miss Modular @missmodular_la]

Israel is slaughtering starving Palestinians as they queue for aid. U.S. media must name what is happening: genocide. Anything less is shameful.

@AP

[Sim Kern @sim_kern]

Jewish author here, and for years I've used my social media to teach folks about the history of "antisemitism," but I will not be using that term anymore. And to fully explain why, we need to get clear on the history of the word. 1/🧵

[suhauna hussain @suhaunah]

attack on @dailybruin reporters & editors was targeted;

[Dr. Sabreena Ghaffar-Siddiqui @sabreenaGS]

I’m a researcher, so I spend more time asking questions and listening than speaking.
I have engaged with hundreds of Zionists in the last 10 years and most in the last 7 months.
Every single one of them were filled with vengeful rage after Oct 7 and most are now indicating an interesting level of satisfaction and softening.

The number of deaths seems to have satisfied a “lesson” taught to Palestinians. Hence, the softening and backtracking by many Zionists who are calling out the situation in Gaza “sickening, horrifying, unthinkable” now and disassociating from an “extremist government” that they apparently never supported. As though we don’t have receipts (lol).

Netanyahu was always meant to take the fall. In fact, his personality type of insatiable greed, toxic ego, and unhinged leadership is what Zionism needed, so it becomes easier to throw him under the bus at the right time.

Don’t be fooled by their newfound morality. Zionists will do anything to protect the Zionist project because colonizers are only loyal to the colony, not its people.

The likes of @amyschumer spent months fuelling the flames of “war” and genocidal revenge in the guise of “Israel has the right to defend itself.”
If it was about self defence, why change your stance now? Is there no longer a threat of “terrorism”?

Simple logic would suggest there’d be even more threat of Palestinians becoming “radicalized” after Israel murdered their children. But this was never about safety, it was always about power.

More worrisome is the fact that every Zionist I have ever spoken to has revealed a level of hatred towards Palestinians that I have never seen in ANY community (hate crimes is my area).

You see, Zionism has entire families, communities, a nation convinced of their racial religious superiority, even little old ladies doing interfaith work in 🇨🇦 are willing to defend the human rights of anyone, BUT Palestinians 😉.

The Zionists I have engaged with have never shown hatred towards me as a Muslim, just towards Palestinians. In fact, they have tried hard to convince me that they (🇵🇸) don’t deserve me, suggesting I am more like them (🇮🇱) - “civilized” and “better”.

This is NOT a religious war. This is NOT a war on terror. This is very simply a colonial land grab. And the only way they can convince themselves they have the right to eliminate those existing on that land before them is to treat them as sub-human and less deserving of life.

And what better way to convince the world to look away than to lean on the “war on terror” and make it about those “inherently violent Muslims” at a time when hating Muslims is the only acceptable hate entrenched in policy and discourse.

[Sasha Ali | Miss Modular @missmodular_la]

@UCLA how are you allowing your students in the encampment to be violently attacked? You are endangering the lives of these students!

[Raphael Mimoun @RaphMim]

Just came back from the UCLA campus. A few quick thoughts:

1. The encampment is not very disruptive. It occupies a tiny part of UCLA's massive campus. Though it's been there for days, I saw a lot of students discovering it for the first time and asking "what's going on?"

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[Columbia Students for Justice in Palestine @ColumbiaSJP]

BREAKING:
LEAKED DOCUMENT from Columbia University admin detailing:
1. Discriminatory Admissions policies for the Tel Aviv Dual Degree program
2. Disproportionate financial aid given to Tel Aviv Dual Degree Students
3. Bias from the Dean of General Studies
Thread 🧵

[Sasha Ali | Miss Modular @missmodular_la]

https://t.co/2Gjqc9yKzm

[Marc Lamont Hill @marclamonthill]

On Wednesday, I am scheduled to give the 2024 Mamie Phipps Clark and Kenneth B. Clark Distinguished Lecture at Columbia University. In light of the university’s current repression and criminalization of students, as well as the present academic boycott of the institution, I have canceled my appearance and will not accept the accompanying $10,000 award. I urge Columbia University to meet each of the principled and reasonable demands of the boycott. I encourage everyone, but especially my academic colleagues, to stand in solidarity with Columbia University students and their marvelous militancy by honoring the boycott. Let us find inspiration and leadership in this new generation of freedom fighters as they engage in this beautiful, righteous, courageous, and uncompromising struggle for global freedom and justice.

[Sasha Ali | Miss Modular @missmodular_la]

#FreeNadera @HebrewU

[Chandni Desai @4cdesai]

The indomitable Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian was arrested by Israeli police in the Old City of Jerusalem on the charge of incitement to violence. Shame on @HebrewU for persistently repressing her academic freedom, which led directly to today’s arrest.
#FreeNadera
#EndScholasticide

[Sasha Ali | Miss Modular @missmodular_la]

#EmbargoIsrael @RepJimmyGomez @SenAlexPadilla @Senlaphonza @SecBlinken @POTUS @VP

[Mariam Barghouti مريم البرغوثي @MariamBarghouti]

Israel tortured and detained at least 900 Palestinians in Shifa hospital, executed at least 300 of whom some they executed after tying their hands and legs & including the killing of kids.

The stories are horrifying. The photos are heartbreaking, and the trauma is generations in pain.

Meanwhile Israeli army just recruited 883 new soldiers from the USA, Russia and Ethiopia to participate in the ethnic cleansing.

🚨🚨🚨

[Mariam Barghouti مريم البرغوثي @MariamBarghouti]

Israel tortured and detained at least 900 Palestinians in Shifa hospital, executed at least 300 of whom some they executed after tying their hands and legs & including the killing of kids.

The stories are horrifying. The photos are heartbreaking, and the trauma is generations in pain.

Meanwhile Israeli army just recruited 883 new soldiers from the USA, Russia and Ethiopia to participate in the ethnic cleansing.

🚨🚨🚨

[Sasha Ali | Miss Modular @missmodular_la]

#EmbargoIsrael @RepJimmyGomez @SenAlexPadilla @Senlaphonza @SecBlinken @POTUS @VP

[Mariam Barghouti مريم البرغوثي @MariamBarghouti]

What the Israeli regime is committing is insanity, yes.

But it is important to understand that the Israeli regime is NOT insane. It is a very logical, pragmatic, strategic, and powerful regime of psychopathy.

To simply cast insanity on it is to ignore the fact that Israel is intentional, tactical, and explicit about its crimes. This is why accountability is necessary and urgent.

Arms embargo. Ceasefire. Justice.

[Rula Jebreal @rulajebreal]

Jared Kushner promoted to ethnically cleanse Palestinians & now Michigan’s Walberg joins 3 GOP Reps & Ben Gvir who endorse GENOCIDE.
“Gaza should be like Nagasaki & Hiroshima. Get it over quick”

Would our media ignore these genocidal calls if they were leveled against Israelis?

[Sasha Ali | Miss Modular @missmodular_la]

@JimmyGomezCA @SenAlexPadilla @Senlaphonza @SecBlinken @VP you must uphold the Leahy Amendment and enact an arms embargo on Israel NOW!

[Palestinianvoicestoday @palivoicestoday]

@POTUS @SecBlinken @SecDef @VP #Israel has committed an absolutely disgusting gross violation of human rights - raping, torturing & executing a pregnant mother in front of her young husband, children & strangers. Uphold #LEAHYLAW. #EMBARGOISRAEL. Every weapon you send is illegal

[USCPR #StopArmingIsrael @USCPR_]

‼️URGENT‼️ Last night Israel relentlessly bombed Rafah where over a million Palestinians are seeking refuge.

Call out the U.S. government's complicity. Email your members of Congress and demand a PERMANENT CEASEFIRE NOW.

TAKE ACTION: https://t.co/SfVGBHZMRX

[Noura Erakat @4noura]

The recent attack on @UNRWA was never about alleged security concerns. Israel & its allies have systematically targeted the agency for years in a bid to shrink and disappear 5.7 million Palestinian refugees demanding their right to return, rehabilitation, & compensation. #Thread