Representative Ayanna Pressley is emerging as a potential alternative to Hakeem Jeffries for Speaker as House Democrats are being bombarded by phone calls from constituents begging for new leadership.
No. I do not support Black political power that supports Zionist Genocide.
In fact, that shit should be opposed like the plague.
Any Black person directly or tacitly supporting that shit is an enemy of their Blackness and their humanity.
@MBTA We saw the locked out car Southbound while heading Northbound. It doesn't take 25 minutes to transfer passengers and lock out ONE CAR!! Got the "C-" team on this weekend!! 😠 😡
Hakeem Jeffries stands for Israel more than Black America and plenty of us don't want him.
But thanks for weaponizing Black identity on behalf of interests OTHER than Black folk, white woman.
Ms Rachel asking @jamestalarico to advocate for Palestinian children.
“diabetic children in Gaza are forced to use expired, unrefrigerated insulin because of Israel blocking it.”
Indigenous Americans, who constitute a *larger* percentage of a population than Jews, & who were *actually genocided* on American soil by this government, have never gotten this much media attention. Nor have Black Americans -- a group which is demographically & electorally relevant-- even after we just won Dems back congress.
Today marked the 70th anniversary of the Khan Yunis Massacre.
On November 3, 1956, during the Tripartite Aggression against Egypt, Israeli forces killed hundreds of Palestinians in Khan Yunis. According to figures documented by UNRWA, 275 Palestinians were killed, including 140 refugees and 135 local residents. Just nine days later, another 111 people were reported killed in Rafah, bringing the combined reported death toll to 386.
Palestinian survivors described horrifying acts of brutality: Israeli soldiers raiding homes, dragging men into the streets, separating fathers and sons from their families, lining up unarmed civilians against walls, and opening fire with machine guns. Witnesses also described bodies lying in the streets and grieving families unable to bury their loved ones because of military curfews.
Palestinian historian Salman Abu Sitta recounts how Israeli soldiers rounded up men from Khan Yunis, including teachers, shopkeepers, farmers, and other ordinary civilians, and marched them toward the historic Barquq Castle. According to his account, soldiers lined the men against a wall near a school, ordered them to jump across a ditch, and opened fire with machine guns, turning the ditch into a grave.
Palestinian historian Ihsan Khalil al-Agha documented a higher death toll, estimating approximately 520 victims of executions and other killings during the broader assault and occupation. Survivor testimonies also describe women being left to collect the bodies of their husbands, sons, and brothers and bury them in mass graves.
The attached image shows some of the victims.
Congratulations to Dr @AbdulElSayed and to all US candidates who have defeated pro-aparheid lobby’s effort to elect politicians that support Israel’s ethnic cleansing and atrocity crimes in Palestine.
May this be the beginning of the end of the rule of lawlessness brought upon us