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Whether it was Emma Lazarus, Fanny Lou Hamer or Maya Angelou, they were all right when they said
"Nobody's free until Everybody's free" ✊🏽🕎
Challah At Ya Boi retweeted
This is disgusting. Absolutely disgusting. “Local people”. Those local people are some of the best journalists in the world. But Palestinians can’t be trusted. Also the implication that the BBC journalists would somehow be superior. Do they hear themselves?
Leaders of our communal institutions have stood firm in their support for ISR&IDF as never before. Silent as Jews for Palestinian self-determination have been disowned&forced from their shuls. Even from them a single word for Palestine is intollerable. Let this be a wake up call
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Challah At Ya Boi retweeted
As a tribute to the six Al Jazeera journalists killed in Gaza, here's the poem I wrote a few months ago:
Challah At Ya Boi retweeted
I’d like to commend BBC presenter @StephenNolan for reading out just now on @bbc5live Aljazeera journalist @AnasAlSharif0’s last words.
That was so refreshing and heartwarming at this difficult time for humanity.
Challah At Ya Boi retweeted
The @guardian is 18 months late to this story, which is a national scandal.
It neglects to mention @declassifiedUK and @kennardmatt have been reporting it throughout and @jeremycorbyn has regularly asked questions in parliament.
theguardian.com/politics/202…
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I often wonder what happened to Keir Starmer the human rights lawyer.
He’s facilitated a genocide, demonised refugees, and proscribed a non violent direct action protest group.
He’s like a firefighter turned pyromaniac.
Challah At Ya Boi retweeted
Israel is not a liberal democracy.
It is an occupying genocidal apartheid regime.
It is impossible for such a state to hold itself to account.
It must be held to account.
Israel’s war no longer has a strategy and fighting on is no longer just. If it is to remain a liberal democracy, it must hold itself to account for the crimes committed in Gaza econ.st/41qOYJx
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.@SOAS has now expelled Haya Adam, one of its brightest students and a tireless activist against the genocide in Gaza
Absolutely disgraceful decision
The university’s reputation will never recover
This cannot stand. Mobilise to get Haya reinstated
Challah At Ya Boi retweeted
Life long activists who would’ve fought for the housing security of each and every resident in their community, were blocked from standing for Parliament up and down the country.
But apparently “The highest possible quality candidates” includes rip off landlords.
Labour homelessness minister Rushanara Ali threw four tenants out of her east London townhouse before relisting the property for £700 a month more in rent, The i Paper can reveal trib.al/MrjEOpf
The majority of the world believes Palestinians who have spent 22 months reporting on the death &destruction of their people. It's Western Europe & North America elitism that treats Palestinians as liars & insists on casting themselves as saviours. Peak colonial exceptionalism
The world needs honest, unbiased eyewitness reporting to help people make up their minds about the major issues of our time. This has so far been impossible in Gaza. Journalists around the world should support calls for reporters to be allowed into Gaza now.
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Challah At Ya Boi retweeted
BBC interviews Avi Shlaim, Britain's leading historian of Israel, on his new book "Genocide in Gaza". A big moment. Since October 7th BBC has hosted plenty of pro-Israel loudmouths but never Professor Shlaim. Well done William Crawley of Radio Ulster:
bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m002gg…
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“What is Israel’s plan for after the war?” is the wrong question. Israel expands through forever war. The West Bank has been at war, under military occupation, since 1967. War is the plan. There’s nothing that comes after. Cuz that would mean giving Palestinians equal rights
Challah At Ya Boi retweeted
Israel's allies have reportedly been directly threatening British lawyers working for the international court with what sounds like physical harm.
Is @DavidLammy going to do anything about this? Is the @attorneygeneral?
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And this is nothing short of obscene. Using a colossal shattering of a country to sneer at ‘campus leftists’ shows that not only do you not care about Sudan, you are exploiting its people’s pain.
"It is about the child under rubble, and the silence above it."
I felt that.
🚨 Palestine is a test.
A test of law: Can international rules survive the might of Western exceptionalism?
A test of memory: How easily do we forget that the Nakba was not a moment, but a method?
A test of media: What happens when language itself is weaponised, where colonisers “defend” and the colonised “terrorise”?
A test of liberalism: Will your principles hold when the victims are not white, not powerful, not silent?
A test of resistance: Can a people denied land, air, and water still hold the moral high ground?
A test of truth: when we see the horrors of WWII level crimes repeat, will we call them out or be cowered into silence?
A test of honour: will people put their own financial and political interests before the protection of children from murder at Israel’s hands?
Palestine is about whether human rights are universal or conditional.
It is about the child under rubble, and the silence above it.
And in the end, it is about us.
What we did.
What we ignored.
What we chose to forget.
And what justice, if any, will mean when the dust finally clears.
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