Shamima

User Experience (UX) Specialist. Writer. Thai food lover.

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1. Sonya Massey - "I rebuke you in the name of Jesus."
2. George Floyd - "I can't breathe."
3. Eric Garner - "I can't breathe."
4. Michael Brown - "I don't have a gun. Stop shooting."
5. Philando Castile - "I wasn't reaching for it."
6. Breonna Taylor - "Why did you shoot me?"
7. Freddie Gray - "I need a doctor."
8. Tamir Rice - "It's not real."
9. Oscar Grant - "You shot me! I got a four-year-old daughter!"
10. Laquan McDonald - No audible last words; shot while walking away.
11. Elijah McClain - "I can't breathe. I can't breathe. I can't breathe. I'm just different. I'm just different, that's all. I'm so sorry. I have no gun. I don't do that stuff. I don't do any fighting. Why are you attacking me?"
12. Alton Sterling - "What did I do?"
13. Walter Scott - "I’m just going home."
14. Botham Jean - "Why did you shoot me?"
15. Stephon Clark - "Grandma, call the police."
16. Atatiana Jefferson - "I’m here."
17. Sandra Bland - "Why am I being apprehended?"
18. Tony McDade - "I'm not armed."
19. Daniel Prude - "Give me your gun, I need it."
20. John Crawford III - "It's not real."
21. Manuel Ellis - "I can't breathe, sir."
22. Amadou Diallo - "Mom, I'm going to college."
23. Aiyana Stanley-Jones - No audible last words; shot while sleeping.
24. Terrence Crutcher - "I'm not doing anything."
25. Sean Bell - No audible last words; shot multiple times.
26. Jonathan Ferrell - No audible last words; shot while seeking help after a car crash.
27. Ezell Ford - "It's me, it’s me."
28. John Crawford III - "It's not real."
29. Renisha McBride - No audible last words; shot while seeking help after a car accident.
30. Kenneth Chamberlain Sr. - "Why are you doing this to me?"
31. Tamir Rice - "It's not real."
32. Eric Harris - "I'm losing my breath."
33. Jamar Clark - "Please don’t let me die."
34. Rayshard Brooks - "I don't want to hurt you."
35. Alfred Olango - "Please don’t shoot."
36. Shantel Davis - "What did I do?"
37. Kendra James - "Please don’t kill me."
38. Akai Gurley - No audible last words; shot in a dark stairwell.
39. Miriam Carey - No audible last words; shot in her car.
40. Timothy Russell - No audible last words; shot during a car chase.
41. Malissa Williams - No audible last words; shot during a car chase.
42. Jordan Edwards - No audible last words; shot while leaving a party.
43. Yvette Smith - "I'm coming out."
44. Jordan Davis - No audible last words; shot at a gas station.
45. Victor White III - No audible last words; died in police custody.
46. Dontre Hamilton - No audible last words; shot in a park.
47. Eric Reason - No audible last words; shot during a dispute.
48. Emantic "EJ" Bradford Jr. - No audible last words; shot in a mall.
49. Oscar Grant - "You shot me! I got a four-year-old daughter!"
50. Clinton Allen - No audible last words; shot during an encounter.
51. Ronnell Foster - No audible last words; shot during a foot chase.
52. Tony Robinson - No audible last words; shot during an altercation.
53. Charly Keunang - No audible last words; shot during an altercation.
54. Samuel DuBose - "I didn’t even do nothing."
55. Quintonio LeGrier - "I’m sorry."
56. Bettie Jones - "I've been shot."
57. India Kager - No audible last words; shot in a car.
58. Keith Lamont Scott - "Don't shoot him. He has no weapon."
59. Jordan Baker - No audible last words; shot during a confrontation.
60. Christian Taylor - No audible last words; shot during a confrontation.
61. Michael Dean - No audible last words; shot during a traffic stop.
62. Rumain Brisbon - No audible last words; shot during an altercation.
63. Gregory Gunn - No audible last words; shot during an encounter.
64. Yuvette Henderson - No audible last words; shot during a confrontation.
65. David Joseph - No audible last words; shot during a confrontation.
66. Calvin Reid - No audible last words; died in police custody.
67. Antonio Zambrano-Montes - No audible last words; shot during an encounter.
68. Zachary Hammond - "Why did you shoot me?"

[Alan MacLeod @AlanRMacLeod]

The @NYTimes will go to unbelievable lengths to avoid saying Israel killed this American kid.

[🇮🇪Ireland4Palestine🇵🇸 @HensonJames11]

@BBC @CNN @SkyNews thought it important to televise the court cases of Johnny Depp, or Gwyneth Paltrow where she was bumped in to on a ski slope. (I'm not joking)

Yet a charge of Genocide in the International Court of Justice apparently isn't news worthy.
https://t.co/cVTBnbCWXG

[Sana Saeed @SanaSaeed]

This is horrific.

And from the London Review of Books today:

[Nimer Sultany @NimerSultany]

A re minder how western media talks about Ukraine vs Palestine

[TIMES OF GAZA @Timesofgaza]

A doctor's chilling testimony from Al-Aqsa Hospital

[Richard Medhurst @richimedhurst]

Jews, or anyone else, who leave their country to go join the Israeli occupation forces and slaughter people in Gaza are no different than foreign fighters who go to join ISIS.

If they were Muslim, none would hesitate to prosecute them for war crimes or imprison them on return.

[Dimitri Lascaris @dimitrilascaris]

Sixty-three countries now support South Africa’s genocide claim against Israel.

Apart from Israel, only two countries deny the genocide claim: the U.S. and Britain.

The fact that so few Western states have rejected South Africa’s claim is a raging indictment of Israel.

[Dr. Anastasia Maria Loupis @DrLoupis]

Remember the names of these child killers🚨🇮🇱🇺🇸🇪🇺🇬🇧🇨🇦

[Dan Cohen @dancohen3000]

It’s hard to pick the single most insane clip from my new investigation, but if I had to choose, it would be this.

[Paul O’Connell @pmpoc]

Worth remembering that every newspaper and news station in Britain ran with the (now thoroughly discredited) line that "Hamas beheaded 50 babies", but not a single British media platform has given serious attention to today's ICJ hearing - a deafening and telling silence

[Fatima 𓂆 فاطمة 🇵🇸 @fatimasal82]

This is how you justify Genocide.

CBC says killing of Palestinians doesn’t merit terms ‘murderous,’ ‘brutal’ ⋆ The Breach https://t.co/5lm86VFfhl

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

CNN And Washington Post Busted For Pro-Israel Propaganda Shenanigans

Both CNN and The Washington Post have been caught engaging in some pretty shady journalistic malpractice with their Israel reporting in recent days.

In a new article titled “CNN Runs Gaza Coverage Past Jerusalem Team Operating Under Shadow of IDF Censor,” The Intercept reports that all of CNN’s reporting on Israel and Palestine is funneled through a bureau in Jerusalem which slants reporting to benefit Israeli information interests and is subject to regulation by Israeli military censors. The Intercept also reports that last year CNN “hired a former soldier from the IDF’s Military Spokesperson Unit to serve as a reporter” at the onset of the war on Gaza.

Unnamed CNN staff told The Intercept that CNN’s iron-fisted protocols for regulating information related to the Israel-Palestine issue have had a “demonstrable impact on coverage of the Gaza war”.

“‘War-crime’ and ‘genocide’ are taboo words,” the anonymous CNN staff member said. “Israeli bombings in Gaza will be reported as ‘blasts’ attributed to nobody, until the Israeli military weighs in to either accept or deny responsibility. Quotes and information provided by Israeli army and government officials tend to be approved quickly, while those from Palestinians tend to be heavily scrutinized and slowly processed.”

The Intercept reports that the former IDF spinmeister has been bylined in dozens of CNN stories since the attack on Gaza began, with one report being “little more than a direct statement released from the IDF.”

Kind of makes you wonder why CNN doesn’t just cut out the middleman and run all its reporting directly through IDF headquarters in Tel Aviv. Seems like it would be a bit more efficient, and certainly a lot more honest.

Meanwhile The Washington Post has been caught assigning a reporter with a history of anti-Palestinian bias to write a smear piece on independent media outlets Electronic Intifada and The Grayzone for their critical reporting on Israel’s ongoing massacre in Gaza.

Both Electronic Intifada and The Grayzone received emails from a Washington Post reporter named Elizabeth Dwoskin, who said she’s writing a piece on “efforts to minimize or misdirect information about the Oct. 7 Hamas attacks on Israel” and interrogating them about their articles casting doubt on the official narrative about what exactly happened that day.

As Electronic Intifada’s Ali Abunimah highlighted on Twitter, when Dwoskin was at Columbia University twenty years ago she was authoring Nakba denialist claims that Palestine never existed and that prior to Israel’s formation the land was inhabited only by “desert Bedouins without a sense of national identity as we know it today.”

It’s bad enough for The Washington Post to be attacking independent media for asking the critical questions and doing the real journalism the Post itself should also be doing, but to assign someone with a public history of egregiously anti-Palestinian rhetoric to the task is especially lacking in journalistic integrity.

“If I’m following, a reporter that has denied the fact that Palestinians existed before the state of Israel is allowed to cover Israel/Palestine and write about ‘misinformation’ for Washington Post?” tweeted award-winning journalist Laila Al-Arian of Abunimah’s revelation.

Neither of these instances will come as a surprise to anyone who has been paying critical attention to the amazingly awful reporting the western mass media have been churning out about the Gaza assault these last three months, but they do offer some rare insight behind the curtain into how the sausage gets made.

The biggest misconception about propaganda is that it is something that happens to other people, and is done by other countries. Westerners like to think of themselves as free-thinking people whose worldviews are formed by facts and truth, contrasting themselves with nations like North Korea and China where populations are viewed as being subjected to conformity-enforcing propaganda. They believe that if propaganda does occur in the west, it comes here from nations like Russia trying to corrupt our minds and weaken our trust in our institutions, or if the propaganda is domestic in origin it only affects people in other political parties.

In reality the typical western mind has been marinating in domestic propaganda throughout its entire life, and its worldview has been manufactured for it by powerful manipulators who benefit from its intellectual compliance with their interests. The indoctrination into the mainstream western worldview began in school, and it continues throughout adulthood with the help of mainstream media outlets like CNN and The Washington Post.

If we’re ever to have a healthy civilization, we’re going to have to wake up from the propaganda-induced coma we’ve been placed in so we can begin pushing against the cage walls we’ve been indoctrinated our whole lives into ignoring and start using the power of our numbers to force real change in the systems which govern our world. Luckily the atrocities that have been taking place in Gaza have been rapidly waking people up, because it turns out there’s only so much propaganda spin you can put on the murder of thousands of children.

The more people become aware that our civilization is built on deception and everything we’ve been told about the world is a lie, the closer we get to living in a truth-based society where nothing like the Gaza massacre would ever be permitted to occur.

[Dr. Omar Suleiman @omarsuleiman]

This was the plan all along. Everyone who said this was about Hamas is accountable for propelling a vile lie.

Netanyahu told you it was ethnic cleansing. We told you it was a genocide. Now be haunted by the people you erased. We will keep fighting for the ones holding on.

[Jonathan Cook @Jonathan_K_Cook]

Research shows broadcasters like the BBC are skewing the public's understanding of what is happening in Gaza – and the fact a 'textbook case of genocide' is unfolding – to prevent popular and political pressure building to stop the killing: https://t.co/fWd9CBJbZp

[Jonathan Cook @Jonathan_K_Cook]

Israel eases up on bombing parts of Gaza, but only as famine and disease take their hold. An unusually vivid and frank account by the London Times of how Israel is imposing a genocide by stealth in Gaza: https://t.co/eLvoLGdWue

[Jonathan Cook @Jonathan_K_Cook]

‘Are we the baddies?’ Western support for genocide in Gaza means the answer is yes.

My latest article here: https://t.co/0VLiaFCgKD

[JamieSW @jsternweiner]

If anyone doubts Israel is waging a genocidal war in Gaza, just have a read through South Africa’s 84-page application to the World Court.

I’ve followed events closely, but even so, it was shocking to see it set out in one place the dimensions of what Israel has already done.

[Laila Al-Arian @LailaAlarian]

Looks like western media is able to clearly name a perpetrator with no caveats or disclaimers after all.