"To be balanced doesn't mean finding the centre of wherever others happen to be. To be balanced is to measure the true weight of right and wrong in your perspective. And to stick with values... wherever the wind may blow" @karunanundy
A record number of Democrats voted to stop sending more aid to Israel.
This didn't happen by accident. It happened because millions of people spoke out, organized, and refused to stay silent.
Our movement is making a difference. Keep organizing. Keep building power.
Israel is maniacally bombing Palestinians in tattered tents again tonight. Every. Single. Day. Not a single shot from Hamas for more than 10 months & Israel has killed more than a thousand Palestinians since — including more than 200 children.
What Ro Khanna knows, but cannot say:
Palestinians have a right - in international law - to armed resistance against Isra*li occupation.
Palestinians have a moral RESPONSIBILITY to resist their occupation- period.
Democrats are imperialists. And yes, that includes DSA.
I searched a Gaza war crimes archive for my family.
I quickly realized I wasn’t using it the way most people would. I wasn’t browsing it as an activist, researcher or journalist.
I was looking for my family.
My heart sank as I filtered the archive by the dates we lost them and searched for someone I loved.
I found footage I hadn’t seen before of the bombing of the Church of St. Porphyrius, where my cousin Soliman was killed.
I searched for the day my great aunt Elham was murdered, and the day Nahida and Samar Anton were killed by Israeli snipers at the Holy Family Catholic Church.
Eyewitnesses told us Elham was crushed by an Israeli tank. I have graphic photographs of her body that were sent to me by church workers in Gaza, but I found no footage of what happened.
It made me wonder how many people died without leaving behind any visual record.
The realization stayed with me.
Here was a digital graveyard where pieces of my own family history are preserved for journalists, historians, truth seekers and, undoubtedly, those seeking to exploit or consume human suffering.
I know I won’t be the only person to experience this. Other Palestinians searching for loved ones almost certainly will too. But it struck me that this is a form of grief that could scarcely have existed before our time.
It’s a form of grief I never imagined could exist.
Palestinian homes in Kafr Manda targeted by an Israeli gunman.
They specifially target the civilian areas as part of their ethnic cleansing campaign backed by the IDF. The masked guy on the video is likely an IDF soldier off duty.
عودة قصف المنازل في #غزة، هذا هو المنزل الثاني خلال ساعات في دير البلح يقصفه الجيش الصهيوني..
حرب إبادة وحصار وتجويع تتعرض له غزة وأهلها وسط غياب شبه تام للحراك السياسي أو الدول الوسيطة وحتى الحضور الإعلامي ..
Though my amendment to strike $3.3 billion in aid to Israel from the State Dept Approps bill did not pass, 104 House Members voted in favor of it. The tide is changing.
Americans want their tax dollars to be spent improving things here at home, not waging war and genocide.
💥zionist jewish settlers burn crops of Palestinian farmers in the village of Susya in Masafer Yatta, south of the occupied West Bank city of Al Khaleel