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[Bangladeshi Amer for Political Progress (BAPP) @BAPPnyc]

Dear Elected Officials who have NOT called for a ceasefire,

Bangladeshi-Americans for Political Progress would like to thank you for your wishes to the Muslim communities who will celebrate and commemorate Eid this week. Many of you will visit many masjids, parks, and other places where Eid celebrations will take place.

[ReportingLivefromQUEENS @RokNYC]

NYC Earthquake: 4.8
NYC Eclipse: 1.8
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#Eclipse #nyc #Queens

[ReportingLivefromQUEENS @RokNYC]

@JCColtin Rajkumar:

[Bangladeshi Amer for Political Progress (BAPP) @BAPPnyc]

Read our latest statement on Assembly Member Jenifer Rajkumar's visit to Jamaica Muslim Center on her "Ramadan Iftar Tour"

[Jasleen @Jasleenks]

I’ve noticed I’m having very different conversations with my white friends to the ones I’m having with my non white friends about #Gaza.

I can’t do thought experiments and academic debates on Gaza anymore.

Notice that when you talk to your Black, Brown and non white friends, they may be struggling to talk about Palestine in the same way that we might talk about other political issues.

It is because we are in pain. It’s because what’s happening has reminded all of us that everything we’ve been taught about equality and justice for all - all of it is a lie.. we aren’t equally human in the eyes of the people that rule us. We never were.

In the UK, we grew up with the myth that there was some acknowledgement of the crimes of colonialism in the world, some repentance - but the state and power structures around us cannot possibly have any shame for the crimes of the past when they continue to commit them in the present day in real time, to the extent of a live streamed genocide.

What is happening in Palestine has opened up generational colonial wounds. Many of us are as close to the ethnic cleansing, murder of half our families, and mass displacement of our people - as a Jewish person to the Holocaust, and Palestinian to the Nakba (that has never ended). Colonialism ripped our parents, and grandparents worlds apart and we grew up with the scars.

Colonialism never ended.

We are all Palestinian right now.. it’s deeply personal and painful - and I cannot imagine the suffering of Palestinian friends and colleagues to carry not only the weight of history, but of love and loss with no justice in sight.

These dispassionate debates are painful to me, I can only imagine what it must be like for my Palestinian friends to have the existence of your people discussed so coldly, as collective governments gaslight, lie and profit from genocide…

Remember it is - or should be - personal to us all.

#freegaza #EndTheGenocide #ceasefirenow

[TIMES OF GAZA @Timesofgaza]

Al-Jazeera reporter: Israeli bulldozers shot and ran over pregnant women in labour. They were carrying white flags and attempting to reach a hospital in Tal Al Zaatar, Gaza.

[STOP KILLING US ✊🏽 @EventsbyMarva]

Greg Meeks on Brian Lehrer today stuttering🙄It is unconscionable that a black man be the instrument for white imperialism in Colombia. Meeks, who’s been the protector of foreclosers, is now the protector of paramilitaristic murderers. When will the harm that this man causes end?

[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: 🧵

[Nick Estes @nickwestes]

At this point, Congress is just an arms dealer. No education. No access to healthcare. No housing. No clean drinking water. But we’ll finance your war.

[BBC News Africa @BBCAfrica]

The UN says nearly seven million people are now internally displaced within the Democratic Republic of Congo due to escalating violence.
According to the UN, the DRC is facing one of the world's biggest displacement and humanitarian crises. https://t.co/kvR4jg7itm

[Abed A. Ayoub @aayoub]

This rhetoric is irresponsible and outright dangerous. For @PressSec to equate Pro-Palestine marchers to the Charlottesville marchers is outrageous.

To do it days before a large national march is putting our people in harms way.

Very irresponsible, and another example of this Administration furthering hate against Arabs and Palestinians in the US.

[𓁹انجي𓁹 @levantinewitch]

multiple analysts have said that this campaign will likely be the end of Gaza's Christian population. they are wiping out bloodlines that literally date back to the time of christ.

[İyad el-Baghdadi | إياد البغدادي @iyad_elbaghdadi]

Here's a thread outlining the geopolitical situation around the Israel-Gaza war its possibilities, impossibilities, and possible outcomes. Heads up, it's my longest thread yet. It's also raw, unedited, and unevenly paced. Sorry, none of us are well but at least we're trying

[Lowkey @Lowkey0nline]

Anglican Archbishop Hosam Naoum says the Baptist Hospital in Gaza was called by the Israeli military three days in a row on Saturday, Sunday, and Monday, warning them that the hospital would be hit by Israel.

It was then bombed on Tuesday.

[Norman Finkelstein @normfinkelstein]

THREAD:

The Truth behind Biden's Visit, the Hospital Massacre, and Biden's Lie:

1. Hezbollah and Iran stated that unless Israeli attacks on civilians ceased, they would intervene;

[sarah @sahouraxo]

BREAKING: Israel is heavily bombing South Lebanon right now, dropping white phosphorus bombs on residential homes.

This is the 10th day in a row that Israel drops white phosphorus on civilian areas in Gaza and Lebanon.

And not a peep from the “free and civilized” Western world.

[Shahana Hanif @ShahanaFromBK]

.@NYCMayor has yet to say ANYTHING about how @InnaVernikov threatened students at my alma mater with a gun, but it looks like his advisor had time for tea with this gun-toting extremist. The lack of solidarity this Mayor has shown with our Muslim community is shameful.

[Jewish Voice for Peace NYC @jvpliveNY]

HAPPENING NOW: Thousands of Jewish New Yorkers are flooding the entrance to @SenSchumer's home protesting genocide of Palestinians in Gaza.

50+ are blocking the entrance to his home, including rabbis, elders, youth, and NY state electeds @ZohranKMamdani and @MarcelaForNY.

[Eman Abdelhadi @emanabdelhadi]

CUNY Jewish Law Students’ Statement on Palestine is unflinching. Inspiring. https://t.co/1XeUR2mNZq

[Jeena Shah @jeenashahesq]

Members of CUNY Law faculty respond to the Chancellor’s dehumanizing erasure of the Palestinian members of our CUNY community & false equation of solidarity with Palestinians as “celebrations” of violence