1. I literally don’t even know who the @nytimes is for. Canceling my subscription, finally
If you want accurate coverage of Israel / Palestine + the Middle East at large, I recommend the following outlets:
1/ I’m an Israeli academic. My community is still too silent about the war in Gaza. Following my viral tweet last month, this is the updated & expanded version of how I see things based on >1000 articles and 1000s of videos/images of the war. 🧵of summary conclusions:
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“This is not a normal war. The war in Ukraine has killed 500 kids in two years and the war in Gaza has killed over 10,000 in less than five months. We have seen wars before but this is something that is a dark stain on our shared humanity.” -Dr. Fozia Alvi https://t.co/6kYj7ICWdP
🚨The Israeli army killed Dr. Abdulkarim Al-Rekeb, an obstetrician and gynecologist in Khan Younis - #Gaza Strip
Dr. Abdulkarim has been treating the wounded and fulfilling his duty to assist pregnant women amidst the difficult circumstances of the genocide war for 152 days.
As BHM comes to a close, I am sharing my website Teaching African Canadian History. There are many resources to support efforts to #teachblackhistoryeveryday
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The names of some of the 13,022 Palestinian children killed by Israel in Gaza since October 7th.
13,022 children. In just 111 days.
And the list here doesn’t even begin to cover it.
This is not war; it’s genocide.
In my lifetime I’ve witnessed American outrage over “the war on Christmas”, “keeping Christ in Christmas”, Starbucks for changing their Christmas cups to holiday cups, & then be completely silent over the bombing of the birthplace of Jesus Christ during Christmas season
This was Mousa Ahmad Mousa Khatib and he was 15 years old. Israeli forces shot him in the chest outside Jenin Governmental Hospital. Mousa managed to run inside to the ER before collapsing. He died ten minutes later. https://t.co/vq0o69DYKb
Brian Cox reads If I Must Die, by beloved Palestinian poet, teacher and martyr Refaat Alareer.
Refaat was killed on December 7th by an Israeli airstrike.
This was the last poem he published.