Harvard Medical School graduate Leen Ezzeddine discussed the contradictions of learning about ‘health equity’ at a university that urged students to remain silent as Israel wages war on Palestine and Lebanon.
I began writing this book in detention and finished it fighting a deportation order. I wrote it because testimony is one of the few things that can make injustice visible before it becomes inevitable. My hope is that anyone who reads it understands: Palestine is not the exception, it is the warning. The rights we are losing were never only ours to lose. Thank you @HenryHolt
"There is no white genocide in South Africa. There is, however, a global machinery that continues to normalize imperial wars, occupation, and the suffering of Black and Brown people. And what we are seeing is that whiteness is being recast as endangered, while Palestinians and Syrians and Sudanese and Congolese and other people who are facing massive violences and displacement and dispossession are denied equal global sympathy."
"President Trump and the Trump administration have made it very clear that they are very unhappy with [South Africa's] stand at the ICJ ... and trying to then weaponize the stand that countries like South Africa have taken against the genocide, the real genocide that's taking place in Palestine."
The UN General Assembly has adopted a Ghana-led resolution recognising transatlantic slavery as the “gravest crime against humanity,” passing despite opposition from the US, Israel, Argentina, and European countries.
🚨 BREAKING: Palestinian political prisoner LEQAA KORDIA has been released from the ICE dungeons of Prairieland, and on Laylatul Qadr no less! Her case is far from over, but for now -ALHAMDULILLAH! God is great! She will be able to celebrate Eid at home with her family!!
“Iran posed no imminent threat to our nation, and it's clear that we started this war due to pressure from Israel.”
US National Counterterrorism Centre director, Joe Kent, resigns over war on Iran.
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