Haniffa

[Haniffa @wanderlu3t]

#StopNorasEviction by Israel forces by signing and sharing https://t.co/swDx47Yggq

[Ali Abunimah @AliAbunimah]

I’m free! I wrote this on the plane and I’m posting it just after landing at Istanbul. On Monday evening I was brought to Zurich airport in handcuffs, in a small metal cage inside a windowless prison van and led all the way to the plane by police. This is after three days and two nights in a Swiss prison cut off from communication with the outside world, in a cell 24 hours a day with one cell mate, not even permitted to contact my family. On Saturday in a police interview in the presence of my lawyer they accused me of “offending against Swiss law” without ever telling me what crime I had committed in Switzerland or listing any charges. As far as I know I have not been charged with any crime whatsoever and I was held in “administrative detention.” On Sunday morning, they took me from my cell for questioning by Swiss defense ministry intelligence agents without the presence of my lawyer, and they again refused to allow me to contact her or my family. I refused to talk to them without my lawyer and told them take me back to my cell. During my imprisonment I refused every meal and every cup of coffee or tea they offered me except the last meal, after I knew I would be going home. I accepted only water, which is the right of every human being. All of this was after I was abducted off the street around 1:30pm on Saturday while on my way to the Palestine teach-in by undercover agents, handcuffed, forced into an unmarked car and sped straight to the prison. My “crime”? Being a journalist who speaks up for Palestine and against Israel’s genocide and settler-colonial savagery and those who aid and abet it. I came to Switzerland at the invitation of Swiss citizens to talk about justice for Palestine, to talk about accountability for a genocide in which Switzerland too is complicit. But while I was hauled off to prison like a dangerous criminal before I even had a chance to say a word, the Israeli president Isaac Herzog, who declared at the start of the genocide that there are no civilians in Gaza, no innocents, received a red carpet welcome in Davos, a carpet soaked in the blood of the more than 47,000 known victims of the genocide and the thousands more still under the rubble, or who died of deliberately inflicted starvation and denial of medical care. And on this very day Netanyahu freely travels to Poland to make a mockery of the Auschwitz commemoration despite an outstanding ICC arrest warrant. That is the perverse, unjust world we live in. This ordeal lasted three days but that taste of prison was more than enough to leave me in even greater awe of the Palestinian heroes who endure months and years in the prisons of the genocidal oppressor. More than ever I know that the debt we owe them is one we can never repay and all of them must be free and they must remain our focus. The police gave me my phone back only at the gate of the plane so I’m only seeing now the extent of the overwhelming support and solidarity from all over the world. I’m deeply grateful to each and every person who stood up for me. I’m especially grateful to my lawyer Dina Raewel and her team, to our friends in Zurich who I learned afterwards demonstrated outside the prison, to my family and my colleagues at EI and so many others. I honestly had no idea what was happening outside that concrete room! Thank you from the bottom of my heart. I want to tell the whole story of what happened, perhaps in an @intifada livestream in the next day or two, because I think it’s important for people to know the depths to which their Western so-called “democracies” have sunk in the abject service of genocidal Zionism. Right now I’m glad to be on my way home. I’m looking forward to hugging my mom and dad, taking a shower and sleeping in my own bed. Journalism is not a crime! Speaking out for Palestine is not a crime! Standing against racist genocidal Zionism is not a crime! Say it with me:

From the River to the Sea Palestine Will Be Free! ❤️🇵🇸✌️

[Jewish Council of Australia @jewishcouncilAU]

MEDIA RELEASE: The Jewish Council of Australia strongly rejects claims that student protests on university campuses in solidarity with Palestinians are a threat to Jewish students and staff.

"We should be proud of all of the students, many of whom are Jewish, who are speaking out against this unfolding genocide."

- Dr Elizabeth Strakosch, Executive Officer, Jewish Council of Australia

https://t.co/qli1WNNBIC

[TIMES OF GAZA @Timesofgaza]

A mother went out to find bread in order to feed her starving family.

Instead, they will find her lifeless body and cold blood soaking the ground.

[Abier @abierkhatib]

Zionists are too high on their racism & superiority as u can see. That’s the kind people Palestinians have been dealing with for the past 75 years

#Israel

[Muhammad Shehada @muhammadshehad2]

I can NOT find the International Court of Justice hearing on CNN, BBC, Channel 4, Fox News, MSNBC, CNBC, CBS, NBC, I24, DW, Sky News, or any mainstream US/EU TV channel...

Only Aljazeera English, so far!

What explains this unprecedented campaign of disinformation by omission?

[Jake Shields @jakeshieldsajj]

Yemen hasn’t killed anyone they are simply making it hard for Israel to get war supplies

With out supplies its difficult to continue their genocide

Yemen is being attacked for trying to stop a genocide

[MoTaz @motazazaiza9]

Israel just killed 4 of my colleagues in the Palestine Red Crescent while they was doing their job by bombing the ambulance they were riding

[Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn]

Today's ICJ hearing was devastating. Horror after horror, laid out in plain sight for all to see.

South Africa spoke for millions around the world desperate for this massacre to end — and put the UK & US government to shame for their deplorable silence, cowardice and complicity.

[Mnar Adley @MnarMuh]

My brother and our cousins, who are Palestinian-American, were pulled off the airplane and held by airport security & police at the Minneapolis, MN (MSP) airport last night on their way home from a wedding and were not allowed to leave after questioning because a White woman (pictured below) on board "felt scared" and told the airline my brother and his friends were suspicious for taking turns using the bathroom and claimed they made a bomb threat directly to her.

My brother and cousins were speaking in Arabic and English and wearing Palestine necklaces. They are all in their early 20s.

In addition, security took several other Arabic speaking & Muslim passengers off the plane for questioning and held them preventing them from leaving as well. They were all racially profiled and treated as suspect.

After about an hour, security and police realized there was no basis to the woman's claims and they she was lying and so they sent everyone home. They refused to give my brother the name of the woman and refused to allow him to file a false police report against the woman.

The police told my brother to just go home and there is nothing to report on, "it's a she said, he said situation".

But this woman put my brother, our cousins and Arabic speaking passengers in danger. Anyone on the plane could've reacted to her allegation and became violent, even pulled out a gun on them or caused panick.

He, our cousins and the other Arabic speaking passengers were treated as suspect because they are Palestinian-American and this is without a doubt the result of mainstream corporate media dehumanization of Palestinian victims in Gaza that are being targeted by incessant Israeli bombs. Since October 7th the media has helped manufacture consent for Israel's genocide in Gaza that has killed over 20,000 Palestinians using US supplied bombs by parroting Israeli talking points that portray all Palestinians as subhuman.

We still don't know this woman's name and would like help identifying her.

[Noura Erakat @4noura]

How can folks see the bodies of 1000s of lifeless babies, children & say anything besides #ceasefirenow?

May I have the courage & integrity to speak agaist a #genocide regardless of who is perpetrator & victim.

May I never be like these shameful many who stay silent.

#Gaza

[Noura Erakat @4noura]

Gracias Bolivia.

#Gaza #Genocide #Nakba #Palestinian #Freedom

[Younis Tirawi | يونس @ytirawi]

Cc: Hague

As the Hague session approaches, additional IOF documentation reveals Israeli soldiers forcing semi-naked Palestinian civilians, incl 3 children, to chant against Hamas in a desperate plea for their lives. The soldiers also accuse them of voting for Hamas 17 years ago

[Robert Martin 🇵🇸 @Robert_Martin72]

People keep asking how and why I got involved with Palestine. Here's why.

[Sarah Wilkinson @swilkinsonbc]

They are coming to destroy our homes wept Palestinian children as israeli jeeps & bulldozers enter Khirbet Humsah village, & they did https://t.co/F2KtcUuaTb

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

"The treatment of @nhannahjones has been despicable," @CornelWest tells me, before laying out the “lethal mixture of commodification, market drivenness” on college campuses & “inability of diversity to come to terms with what is most important.”

Watch:

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

Tonight, I asked @CornelWest about his scorching resignation letter to Harvard, his claim that they didn't give him tenure because of his pro-Palestinian activism, and the accusations of antisemitism against him from his critics.

Watch his responses:

[Denny Cormier @santafeez]

Gaza’s bereaved civilians fear justice will never come; 22 members of family among the slain

https://t.co/aBNqylTLqv

#SaveGaza

[Denny Cormier @santafeez]

During the latest Israeli aggression on Gaza, Israeli air raids destroyed the al-Shorouq tower, which housed media organizations. Its ruins covered the streets of Remal, the busiest shopping street in Gaza City.

#SaveGaza

https://t.co/acf52xa2yW

[Denny Cormier @santafeez]

The Palestinian martyrs of the 2014 aggression are not numbers. Every martyr had dreams that the Israeli occupation stole.

#SaveGaza

[Denny Cormier @santafeez]

Euro-Med Monitor documented the suffering of the two most vulnerable groups in the besieged Strip; women and children. #SaveGaza

https://t.co/7haJDKNg4x