Nada Elbasha

Intersectional feminist; abolitionist; Palestinian.

[Nada Elbasha @nadoon_]

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[Alex Kane @alexbkane]

NEWS: A George Washington University office offered trauma support services to Palestinian students dealing with Israel's attack on Gaza. Then university administrators got involved, curtailed the office's work and threatened to shut the office down. https://t.co/TxzzalIcrQ

[Nora Barrows-Friedman @norabf]

All this for the putrid settler death state, the tip of the US empirical-colonial spear, the entity of rot

[Nada Elbasha @nadoon_]

just fed my cat suhoor even though he’s not fasting 😤 easily manipulated, I guess…….

[Jairo I. Fúnez-Flores @Jairo_I_Funez]

I shall not go to the polls. I have not registered. I believe that democracy has so far disappeared in the United States that no “two evils” exist. There is but one evil party with two names, and it will be elected despite all I can do or say.

—W.E.B. Du Bois

[David Milner @DaveMilbo]

Every country with an American military base should be able to vote

[CASSAVA🌟 @CA22AVA]

im too r*dical for election day & thats all i have to contribute to the conversation

[awake at 3:54am @AWAKE_AT_354_AM]

Click on this image. Please.

[سماح | 🧚🏾‍♀️samah @samah_fadil]

a list of people to follow that are not shaun king:

@Hind_Gaza
@wizardbisan
@MuhammadSmiry
@AliAbunimah
@DrHananAshrawi
@MariamBarghouti
@OmarBaddar
@LoWM
@4noura
@Omar_Gaza
@MosabAbuToha
@jennineak
@fahad_s_ali
@rashaabdulhadi
@SoniaSulaiman
@samah_fadil (👋🏾)
@marclamonthill

[Sera Koulabdara @SeraKoulabdara]

YES

[Jehad Abusalim @JehadAbusalim]

The Nakba in photographs: a thread.

[Fadi Quran @fadiquran]

Here’s a personal story about Palestinian child prisoners:

- In 2012, I was arrested in Hebron while participating in a march to open Shuhada street, which was a main market street for Palestinians until the Israeli military shut it down, and made it for Israeli settlers only. It’s part of the area @JamaalBowmanNY visited.

- Handcuffed and blinded by pepper spray, and thrown in the back of an Israeli humvee after my head was slammed against it, the soldiers drive off. They suddenly stop, run out, and all I hear is a child screaming and crying.

- This child is then thrown on top of me, and is handcuffed. I ask him his age, he said 13. I asked him what happened, he says he was walking to his sister’s house and they just stopped and picked him up. He’s in panic mode crying “my sister cooked lunch for me, she’ll be terrified if I’m lost”. I tell him not to worry, we’ll make it out and give him the basic tips: You have a right to remain silent, don’t say anything without a lawyer…etc.

- We get to the Israeli military outpost, we’re dragged out of the humvee. The kid’s terrified, telling them not to blind him (He thought I was blinded because of the pepper spray, I couldn’t open my eyes).

- The smack the kid around and tell him to shut up.

- We wait a bit, then kid is called in for interrogation.

- The Israeli military interrogator literally tells him: I’ll let you go home, you just need to confirm the guy with you led the protest and told you to throw the stones at us.

- Kid says I want to call my family/lawyer. Interrogator says ok: Picks up mobile and gives it to kid. Kid puts in his mother’s number. Soldier snatches mobile. The mother answers. Soldier says: Your son is going to go to jail and if he doesn’t talk I’ll come and arrest you too. Puts it on speaker, mother is panicking. Kid starts to panic. Soldier hangs up in her face.

- Soldier tells kid: I can make your family’s life hell. But if you say what I told you to say, everything will be ok.

- Kid starts sobbing and says: But I don’t know this guy I just met him in the humvee when you picked me up. Sitting outside the room, I yell: Kid, stay strong, say your truth and don’t fall into his lies.

- They come and take me away. Thirty minutes later kid comes out of interrogation shaken. He says the soldier told him he’d shoot his mother. The poor child told me not to worry though, he only said the truth 🥺.

- The case brought against this poor kid was stone throwing, with two soldiers “testifying” they saw him throw a stone.

- He spent 3 months in prison as court hearings kept getting delayed, eventually he was advised by his lawyer to “admit” to stone throwing because that way he’d spend less time in prison because the lawyer could be able to negotiate his release in 4 months, while waiting for a ruling from Israel’s military courts could take a year.

- In short, working on this issue in Palestine for 12 years, I can tell you the majority of child arrests in Palestine follow this exact pattern:

- Israel wants to teach a Palestinian community a lesson, deterring people from protesting its oppression.

- It targets the kids, arresting dozens - up to 700 a year.

- Majority of kids get abused and interrogated.

- Lawyers and kids know it’s better to “confess” even if they didn’t do the crime, as waiting for a ruling and being in uncertainty/limbo is hell. That’s why you have a 95% conviction rate.

- Then the Israeli government, when challenged for the systematic abuse, comes out and says: “These kids are terrorists - they attacked our soldiers and admitted to it.”

- And because the lives of Palestinian children don’t matter, the world turns a blind eye again and again and again and again.

[yasmin🇵🇸 @_yassssmin]

It’s crazy how people were posting “I stand with Israel” soon after oct 7 and then the more time went on and the more Palestinians were being murdered, the more silent they became bc they realized they’re on the wrong side so instead of backtracking, they chose to just be silent

[Joe Catron @jncatron]

Two crucial realizations about those who keep telling the most ridiculous, easily-debunked lies you can possibly imagine, and those who keep believing them every time a new one comes out, courtesy of @EmCohen_ and @iyad_elbaghdadi.

[Eman Abdelhadi @emanabdelhadi]

People in Gaza want a ceasefire and are not getting our humanitarian relief. If your capacity right now is only for donating, I suggest one of the following: 🧵

[Yara Eid 🇵🇸 يارا عيد @yaraeid_]

PLEASE ACT NOW!!!!! Go to the streets now so anything please please my people are being massacred

#Gaza_Genocide #GazaUnderAttack #FreePalaestine

[Nada Elbasha @nadoon_]

@Rybread2640 Really unsafe and unfair for you to send an enraged and potentially violent person to a specific location where other people are working and hanging out- I work in the Wonderland family but even if I didn’t, it’s disheartening you would carelessly endanger the staff like that

[Domo Julio @DapperDomo]

Something I found out after I started making more money is that my “bad” spending habits weren’t actually bad or really even spending habits. They were decisions I was forced to make due to my circumstances. Tweets like this aren’t centered in reality or math for that point.

[Nada Elbasha @nadoon_]

Walking around Union Market and someone is blasting the Mulan soundtrack from their car. 10/10, no notes. @OverheardWDC

[Emily Mayer 🌸 @emilyfmayer]

This would qualify as BDS under anti-BDS legislation passed in multiple US states.

Wild times.