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[liam cunningham @liamcunningham1]

If you find yourself asking why isn’t the world doing something to stop the genocide in Gaza and you have not spoken up, they are taking your silence as approval. Whether you’ve 2 or 2 million followers speak up FFS!
Silence is complicity.

[MUSAFIR @MusafirNafar]

Hamas handed Israel 66 boxes each one containing the skull of a hostage

They then returned the bodies of female hostages cut open with their organs removed

Wait that was actually the IDF not Hamas

Let me know if you still feel as sick and enraged as you did 10 seconds ago

[Ricky Zaccaglino @RickyTheGuido]

Stop calling them Israeli settlers,
They’re terrorists.

[Rafeef @prafeef]

#Pallichattambi could have been made into a good movie. DJ Antony thinks about the reception of his movie long before its story. That’s why he keeps failing to deliver a good movie.

[Mohamad Safa @mhdksafa]

Israel is the only country in the world that can bomb 9 countries and invade 3 neighboring countries in one year; kill 100,000 people—including 25,000 children—in 1,000 days; displace nearly 6 million people in 3 countries; starve 2 million people in Gaza; violate Geneva and Vienna Conventions, international law, human rights, and state sovereignty; kidnap, rape and torture children and women; shoot, imprison and murdering; and still be perceived as the victim.

[Jarshad NK @jarshadnk]

Sachin Tendulkar has finally spoken on the student protests, and I had to read his note twice: once as a fan and once as an editor. The fan was disappointed, but the editor realised that this was a textbook specimen of the kind of writing that George Orwell warned about in his essay “Politics and the English Language”.

The essay was written in 1946, but it might well have been written yesterday about this very statement. Orwell’s point was that when people want to hide something, they stop using plain words and reach instead for the passive voice, for fog, for phrases that sound like they mean something while meaning nothing at all.

Consider the line, where students are disappointed that “their hard work hasn’t been rewarded”. Rewarded by whom, and denied by whom? There was a paper leak, which means somebody leaked it, some institution failed to prevent it, and an official presides over that institution. Yet none of them appears in the statement, and neither does the leak itself. A crime with identifiable custodians has been turned into something that simply happened to lakhs of children through nobody's fault.

Then comes the list of those who must set things right: parents, teachers, friends, relatives, schools and administrators. If you read that list again slowly, you will notice it covers everyone in India except the people the students are actually protesting against, which is to say the NTA, the education ministry and the government. When everyone is responsible, nobody is, and that is not an accident of drafting. It was engineered to deflect blame.

There is also a quiet sentence buried in the middle. “A society which prioritises outcomes over effort will seek shortcuts over meritocracy” is a line about those who take shortcuts, meaning the cheat. So a note on protests around paper leaks ends up gently lecturing the leaked-upon about honesty. His father’s lovely lesson—that failure is okay but cheating is not—is again aimed squarely at individuals, while the scandal and protests right now are about institutions that failed them.

The rest of the statement is what Orwell called ready-made strips of words, glued together. Full of dreams and energy, fuel to our success, safeguard their aspirations. Nobody can disagree with any of it, which is precisely the point, for this is prose engineered so that no one in power will find a single sentence to object to.

What an actual position would have looked like is a single sentence in the active voice: The government must find and punish those who leaked the paper, and fix the system that allowed it. He wrote 160+ words to avoid writing that one.

Here’s Orwell’s full essay for those interested:
https://t.co/VlPoJdOcDG

[Rafeef @prafeef]

This was clear from the beginning that Muslims are going to bear the brunt of this.

[Darab Farooqui @darab_farooqui]

Dear fellow Indians,

The news coming in is very disturbing and I am hoping it's wrong.

Mohd Junaid, our hero, who has been selflessly serving food and water to the protestors at Jantar Mantar is being harrassed by Sanghis.

UP Police has raided Junaid’s house and taken his father and minor brother into custody.

Please raise your voice. We can't let this happen.

This is pure Sanghi vileness and desperation.

[Sanjay Sipahimalani @SanSip]

“Don’t make it political,” says the party that has turned movies, music, social media, petrol, employment, education, and the value of the rupee into a political battleground.

[Korah Abraham @thekorahabraham]

Not an inch back.

[Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @NYCMayor]

Benjamin Netanyahu is a war criminal.

[Rafeef @prafeef]

Supreme Court and Delhi High Court’s disregard to the petitions seeking investigation on police officers for allegedly attacking students is so insane!!!
#Jantarmantar

[Mammootty @mammukka]

The youth are the true treasure of our nation. Listen to their voices. Protect them. Empower them.

[Rafeef @prafeef]

ദുഃഖമാണെങ്കിലും നിന്നെക്കുറിച്ചുള്ള
ദുഃഖമെന്താനന്ദമാണെനിക്കോമനേ...
എന്നെന്നുമെന്‍ പാനപാത്രം നിറ��്ക്കട്ടെ,
നിന്നസാന്നിദ്ധ്യം പകരുന്ന വേദന..

#Lionelmessi

[Assal Rad @AssalRad]

If you left an empty seat for each person you’ve killed in Gaza, the stadium would be empty.

[Rafeef @prafeef]

Who said this match is MEANINGLESS???
#EnglandvsFrance

[Assal Rad @AssalRad]

I just saw the body of a little girl, her skin grayed and covered in ash, being wrapped in a sheet. Her torn leg was laid next to her.

The decline in reporting isn’t because the daily horrors in Gaza are over, Israel is killing Palestinians every day.

[A. Lukman @Islam435]

Muslims are the most bombed people in modern history. Yet somehow the most blamed for violence.

[liam cunningham @liamcunningham1]

Israel bombed a funeral yesterday in Gaza. At least 8 dead and 20 injured.
A funeral.
Still silent?

[UNICEF @UNICEF]

Yes, those photos you’ve seen are real.

More than 18 years ago, a baby named Lamine Yamal and his mom Sheila met Lionel Messi at a UNICEF fundraising photoshoot.

Today, their achievements on the pitch inspire millions. Off the pitch, both Messi and Lamine Yamal use their voices and platforms as UNICEF Goodwill Ambassadors to support and advocate for children around the world.

The goal? That every child survives, thrives, and fulfils their potential.

We are proud to have them on our team.

Credit: Joan Monfort

[Rafeef @prafeef]

@mehdirhasan should just stick to his job and stay out of sports. What’s the point of taking a split-second moment from the field and calling it part of a bigger controversy??

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

I’m so mad about this and all the other shit Argentina got away with