Thawra Abukhdeir | ثورة

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[Thawra Abukhdeir | ثورة @rrevoolution]

I wrote this essay for @972mag about the bodily feeling of freedom of expression — what it meant to feel my identity celebrated abroad, two years into the genocide, after decades of repression and self-censorship.

[+972 Magazine @972mag]

For Palestinians in Israel, self-censorship has long been a survival mechanism, our silence the condition of our citizenship. But encountering solidarity abroad, I realized my body forgot what it feels like to speak freely.

By Thawra Abu Khdeir.

https://t.co/5G8p56xLDp

[Mohammad Alsaafin @malsaafin]

There was a point, 3 yrs ago, when Israel felt compelled to explain its attacks on hospitals. Then it realized Western govts aren’t fussed about such war crimes & Western media was happy to justify them. And so here we are: dozens of hospitals bombed in Gaza, Iran & Lebanon.

[Nimer Sultany @NimerSultany]

"Israel’s offensive in Lebanon has killed or injured 11 children a day on average in the last week"

[+972 Magazine @972mag]

Rats, raw sewage, skin diseases: Israel’s siege is ravaging Gaza’s displaced

As Israel continues to restrict aid, Gaza’s shattered health system is struggling to treat and contain illnesses spreading through overcrowded tent camps.

https://t.co/Wjgzi5xebW

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

🚨Israel’s PM Netanyahu says he has ordered the IDF to seize 70% of the Gaza Strip

Netanyahu: “At this point, we are fully in control of 60% of the territory of the Gaza Strip… and my directive is to get to… 70%”

Audience member: “100! 100!”

Netanyahu: “Wait, let’s go in order. First 70%. Let’s start with that.”

Israel had withdrawn to 53% of Gaza after the ceasefire brokered by the US last October, but has steadily expanded control to over 60%, maps show.

(Footage from Channel 12)

[Itay Epshtain @EpshtainItay]

Despite two years of @EUCouncil sanctions, an overseas asset freeze, and a travel ban, @ElishaYered publishes today a map of settlement outposts erected by him and his “Hilltop Youth” co-consirpartors across the occupied State of Palestine.

If anyone believes, even for a moment, that such a project could be sustained without the active support, protection and facilitation of the State of Israel, its central government, settlement regional and local councils, and one of the most heavily deployed military apparatuses on earth, then I have a bridge to sell you.

Settler violence is persistently framed as the acts of “extremists” operating at the margins. The reality is less convenient: sustained territorial acquisition and the forced displacement of Palestinians under the protection of State power.

[Nimer Sultany @NimerSultany]

“Women of the world, I call on you to stand with us. We’ve been deprived of the most basic human existence. We’ve lost our homes, our freedom and our privacy. Our lives.. have been destroyed”... It’s time for the world to end the genocide. We can’t wait any longer."

[Nimer Sultany @NimerSultany]

Palestinian citizens in Israel: "arrested for social media posts... persecuted in their workplaces & universities for expressing political opinions & held without charge in administrative detention" & "convicted for chanting political slogans" https://t.co/MbIq7UmTDZ

[Nimer Sultany @NimerSultany]

Moral Decay? This is the most Looting Army in History:

The had systematically looted in 1948 and 1967.

And they have looted in Gaza and Lebanon... 1/5

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

🎥 Professor Rashid Khalidi on the dangers of “purity politics” and why meaningful political change requires broad coalitions, strategic alliances, and building power beyond politics as “self-satisfaction.”

Khalidi says that if the goal is to stop arms sales, advance divestment, and shift policy, movements cannot remain trapped in a “tiny, ineffective minority.”

Source: Shu-Kaman (full interview below).

[Nimer Sultany @NimerSultany]

Ongoing genocide: Targeting food distribution centre, targeting the police, and moving the Yellow Line for the ninth time in recent months + the WCK reduces provision of hot meals -- Israel continues to kill and inflict genocidal conditions on survivors of genocide in Gaza

[Thawra Abukhdeir | ثورة @rrevoolution]

A Holocaust survivor and a Nakba survivor sit together recognising each other’s pain immediately. Meanwhile online propagandists (Nakba deniers) spend their days trying to litigate Palestinian memory out of existence because the word “Palestine” triggers existential panic in them

[The New Arab @The_NewArab]

They survived history’s darkest chapters, but in London they are not recounting the past — they are warning of the present, and the genocidal horrors still unfolding in Palestine ⬇️

https://t.co/CFvHQIElwd

[Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @NYCMayor]

Today marks Nakba Day, an annual day of remembrance to commemorate the expulsion of more than 700,000 Palestinians between 1947 and 1949 during the creation of the State of Israel and the year that followed.

Inea is a New Yorker and a Nakba survivor. She shared her story with us — one of home, tradition and memory over generations.

[Thawra Abukhdeir | ثورة @rrevoolution]

@arash_tehran @delhicode Sure.. the urgency of voting out the current IL gov’t is pushing reunification efforts between major Pal parties, including Abbas’s & renewed mobilization among Pal citizens ahead of the elections. As you can tell by now Pals have 99 demands and national service isn’t one.

[Thawra Abukhdeir | ثورة @rrevoolution]

@arash_tehran @delhicode On behalf of many many Palestinian citizens of Israel, we say no thank you @arash_tehran. I’m afraid you must learn the basics too before supporting such a demand.

[Thawra Abukhdeir | ثورة @rrevoolution]

Hebrew media sometimes settles matters more effectively than any debate in English. While English-language online discourse labours to dismiss allegations of abuse as antisemitic fabrications, a clip resurfaces from Israeli national television parading one of the accused r*pists.

[שי גולדשטיין @theshelterradio]

לוחם כוח מאה מאיר בן שיטרית שנחקר בחשד לאונס נוחבה, לא פחות, מגיע הערב לפתוח הכל על פרשת שדה תימן..
שתפובואו

[Muhammad Shehada @muhammadshehad2]

"Opinion": comprehensive investigation citing dozens of rape survivors, UN & medical reports, top Israeli human rights orgs...etc.

Front Page News: written by a genocide supporter & ex-IDF soldier; ZERO survivor testimony or forensic evidence; citing an IDF soldier, a mercenary, a self-described propagandist, a "beheaded babies" hoaxer, & a corrupt NGO whose chief was himself charged with mass rape!

[Thawra Abukhdeir | ثورة @rrevoolution]

I grew up hearing family members describe horrifying experiences in Israeli prisons — sexual violence, dogs, emotional blackmail— from this century & the last. Reminder this is not a shocking revelation, but part of a reality carried across generations &resisted for just as long.

[Nicholas Kristof @NickKristof]

This is a hard article to read, but I hope you'll do so. I've spent some time reporting on widespread rape and other sexual violence of Palestinian male and female prisoners by Israeli authorities, and the article is now published. The assault victims were warned not to give speak of what they endured -- they were sometimes told they would be killed or raped if they gave interviews -- but they found the courage to do so. One man described being raped three times in a single day in Israeli prison, the third time after he tried to protest. A young woman said the guards would come in at the beginning of each shift and strip her naked and abuse her. Another reported that she was shown photos of herself being raped and warned they would be released unless she cooperated with Israeli intelligence. Even three children who had been detained told me they had been sexually abused. Look, whatever our position on the Middle East, we should be able to agree on being anti-rape. Sexual assaults were horrific when Israeli women were targeted on Oct. 7, and they're equally horrific when Israeli authorities use them against Palestinians day after day after day. We should be able to find common ground in opposing rape. Here's a gift link to the article: https://t.co/aMMHId49OO

[Lina Abu Akleh @LinaAbuAkleh]

Today marks four years since my aunt, Shireen Abu Akleh, was killed by an Israeli sniper in Jenin.
An iconic journalist, and one of the most empathetic and sweetest people. This is who they killed. She loved life, but they stole hers from her.

[Thawra Abukhdeir | ثورة @rrevoolution]

@arash_tehran The question is rarely asked as a genuine invitation to discuss intl law or coexistence. So the answer to it never really matters. It’s a litmus test imposed almost exclusively on Palestinians and their supporters to shift the conversation away from occupation&Palestinian rights.

[Thawra Abukhdeir | ثورة @rrevoolution]

@sally_abed berated for speaking Arabic in the Haifa City Council. Palestinians make up 20% of Israel’s population, yet their existence is tied to their silence. I wrote about this dimension of the Palestinian experience & the attempts to erase it here: https://t.co/9msZalH16u

[Sally Abed סאלי עבד سالي عبد🟣 @sally_abed]

هذا اللي صار امبارح بمجلس بلدية حيفا. أعضاء من ائتلاف يانا ياهف تهجّموا بتصريحات عنصرية وخطيرة بعد جملتين بالعربي. هاي صورة مش بس لتطبيع سياسة فاشية من الحكومة، بس كمان لسياسة بلدية بتستهدف المنصات العربية، الفنانين العرب، بتجفف ميزانيات التعليم العربي، وبتهمش الأحياء العربية.