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Regardless of which war criminal becomes prime minister, Palestinians living under Israeli apartheid will continue to face genocide, land theft, and erasure. We cannot accept lies, excuses, or half-measures from our leaders. We must impose a full arms embargo and sanctions until Palestine is free.
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My late colleague and brilliant co U.S. Science Envoy with me in the Obama Admin the @Caltech Nobel Laureate in Chemistry Ahmed Zewail would disagree. God rest his soul he didn’t have to endure this, and of course RFK Jr forgets that it was the Arab scientists of the Middle Ages who kept Aristotle, Hippocrates, Galen alive to hand it down in the Renaissance. My favorite books on this topic attached
RFK: "There's five hundred million Arabs in the world. And yet they don't produce science. They don't win the Novel Prize. They don't win the Fields Prize. They don't win the Wolf Prize. They don't produce literature."
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Muhammad ibn Zakariya al-Razi (860–932) published 'The Book of Smallpox and Measles' and clearly recognized that measles was highly problematic. More than 1000 years ago, that guy was already much smarter than some contemporary politicians.
RFK: "There's five hundred million Arabs in the world. And yet they don't produce science. They don't win the Novel Prize. They don't win the Fields Prize. They don't win the Wolf Prize. They don't produce literature."
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I felt every word of this. Lubna speaks for how we are all feeling.
Watch this. Lubna Speitan, author of the Greens4Palestine motion “Zionism is racism”, spells out the central obscenity of our age – the grotesque inversion whereby the victims of ethnic cleansing, Apartheid and genocide must constantly fend off accusations from their tormentors that it is they who are the racists. “We as Palestinians are being silenced and gaslit and vilified [as we] witness the annihilation, the cold-blooded murder of our families, of our people… our children burnt with phosphorus, having to endure amputations with no anaesthetic, having their limbs torn and shredded, their bodies burnt by phosphorus, being starved to death … And to have to sit here … and try to bury my feelings so I can eloquently and diplomatically shield my anger, my rage, my anguish that every Palestinian is feeling, is an insult.” /1
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‘The appointment of Nusseibeh, who has been the face of the UAE’s Sudan strategy, would be a slap in the face to the millions of people suffering the horrors of war, and a dereliction of duty towards those thousands who have already been killed.’ theguardian.com/commentisfre…
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Uzma Khan retweeted
Elon Musk found us here. We’re indigenous to this land.
If people dislike Elon Musk so much, why do they still use the platform he owns?
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Basic education piece: Not all Jewish people are Zionists. Lots of Zionists aren't Jews. The Board of Deputies largely self identity as Zionists. The Media often report the Board of Deputies as the opinion of Jewish people. Yet many Jewish people say #NotInOurName
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Repeat after him: there is NO majoritarian ethnonationalist project that is not racist. None.
"Zionism is racism, like slavery there is no good version of the project" - Ta-Nehisi Coates
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Uzma Khan retweeted
Workers in Pakistan are fainting from extreme heat while making clothes for global fashion brands. Despite safety pledges, heat-stress protocols under the International Accord remain under review.
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Twelve soldiers + police showed up in Taybeh olive field to stop a single Palestinian olive farmer from harvesting a single tree. After harassing him for 30+ minutes, a car full of some sort of special police officers stormed in and violently arrested the journalist/activist @the_andrey_x. One of the arresting officers shoved me, then showed me his bloody elbow and said I did it to him. (So if they take me next, that’s probably their pretense.) Second and third videos are other angle of the shove (including it here to be safe). Fourth video is from just before—the major military operation to stop a farmer from picking olives. Fascist state.
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Hart, I was a Zionist for nearly all my life. I actually went to live in Israel and was there for some years. So, you don't need to instruct me about that. Seeing the reality that, in order to exist, Israel requires the oppression, dispossession and expulsion of Palestinians took me decades. Now that I see it, I can't unsee it.
Replying to @RabbiMivasair
You could not understand his answer because you don't know what the word Zionist means. Unless or until you have a common understanding of what it means to be a Zionist, you can ne Er understand the why.
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Uzma Khan retweeted
Video of masked Israeli settlers striking European diplomats and elected officials near Taybeh, a Christian village in Palestine. The 78-year-old French mayor Bernard Baudoux was thrown to the ground and beaten with iron bars. Make no mistake: If the Israeli government wanted to put an end to this, they could within minutes. They don't. Just like Biden pretended that he wanted a ceasefire, but in reality worked tirelessly to enable Israel's genocide. They are playing the same trick on us again.
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Replying to @IDF
I was a combat soldier in an elite IDF unit. I served in the West Bank and witnessed firsthand how settlers could do whatever they wanted with impunity. Today I’m the Executive Director of ״Breaking the Silence״ an organization that has collected thousands of testimonies from Israeli soldiers over the past two decades. And I can say with certainty that this statement by IDF spokesperson is a lie. The IDF is not trying to stop Jewish terrorism in the occupied territories. In fact, it protects Jewish terrorists and arms them with US-made M16 rifles. If the IDF genuinely wanted to stop Jewish terrorism, the Chief of Staff could simply order the 30,000 soldiers stationed in the West Bank to carry out arrests. It’s that simple.
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“I don’t know how parents can raise such monsters,” Washington Post journalist Heidi Levine says of the Jewish settlers who attacked her in the West Bank today. How can our governments support this monstrous Israeli state?
Heidi Levine in the hospital recounts the settler attack this morning
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To be clear, the only reason I was able to reach Heidi was because young Palestinians provided cover with rocks against machine-gun- and tear-gas-wielding settlers and soldiers. It’s those kids, not the settler terrorists, who the IDF was hunting after the attack.
This is @infinite_jaz rushing to help Heidi under fire from Israeli settlers slings
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Religion is a great marketing tool for many companies. Stick 'sharia compliant' on a product that is nothing of the sort and watch the faithful pour money into it
HSBC sold Muslims a “Shariah-compliant” fund. Then, per a Middle East Eye analysis, that fund put over $100 million into five Israeli military-linked firms. Hyphen reported the same fund bought $38 million of Palantir. Read that again. Your zakat-conscious, riba-avoiding, halal-screened savings have been funding weapons. Big banks don’t build Islamic finance for us. They build it to extract from us. Slap “Shariah” on an index tracker, add a two-scholar committee, collect the fees, and never ask what the money actually does. 2 billion Muslims. Trillions in savings. And we keep handing it to institutions that see our faith as a marketing segment. Enough. We can’t keep outsourcing our deen to banks that don’t share it. We can’t keep trusting a label when the portfolio says otherwise. That’s why we’re building @purefiapp. - Interest-free yield - Low-cost remittance to family back home, live in 100 countries - Built by Muslims who care where every dollar goes If your bank can quietly fund arms makers under a halal label, it was never your bank. Support our own. Build our own. Own our own.
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Journalist Hind Khoudary has sent the Gaza Municipality appeal (fundraising link) to several celebrities with millions of followers. They ignored her. This is what Gaza actually means to many "celebrities": a hunt for fame and money. I am calling on you, alongside her, to share this appeal: gaza-city.org/campaign/6
اسمعوا، بعتت لناس عندهم ملايين المتابعين يشاركوا حملة بلدية غزة «ما قبل الشتاء»، حملة تمويل عشان البلدية تقدر تفتح المجاري وتسلّكها، ونحاول نمنع ميّة المطر من إنها تغرق خيام الناس.. طنشوني 😬 يمكن عشان الحملة تطوعية، وما في مصاري مقابل نشر ستوري، مع إنه كل دولار فيها حق للناس اللي بدنا نحميهم من الغرق والشتا. بتعرفوا حد ممكن يساعد في النشر بدون مقابل؟ رابط الحملة: gaza-city.org/campaign/6
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This is an important thread about the film Naza. And not the perspective you’d expect to hear from a Palestinian.
Yesterday, I watched Naza. I did not go to learn what had happened in Gaza. I am from there. I am one of the victims of this war, one of its witnesses, and one of those who have paid a price that will not end when the war does. I did not need a film to tell me how entire neighborhoods were wiped away, how residential buildings were bombed with the people still inside them, or how families were forced to leave their homes without knowing where they were supposed to go. Nor did I need anyone to tell me about the famine. I lived through it twice, with all its humiliations, down to the smallest detail. Or about the starving people who were killed while trying to reach what were so absurdly called “food distribution centers.” I know all of this. I was there. Read the whole Thread below : #Naza @yuval_abraham
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Uzma Khan retweeted
A family in Karachi committed collective suicide out of poverty. For those outside the top 10% of earners, life is endless financial anxiety. Those in the bottom half cant even afford proper meals xitter.cf/AzazSyed/status/210986…
کراچی کے گلشنِ حدید میں ایک خاندان کی موت کا واقعہ ہمارے معاشرے کے لیے ایک دردناک سوال چھوڑ گیا ہے۔ مبینہ آخری خط میں مدد کے لیے رشتے داروں کے دروازے کھٹکھٹانے، انکار اور تنہائی کا ذکر ہے۔ ہم شاید کسی کی مالی مدد نہ کر سکیں، مگر اسے ذلیل کرنے کے بجائے حوصلہ تو دے سکتے ہیں۔ کسی کا حال پوچھنے کے لیے پیسے نہیں، احساس چاہیے۔اپنے آس پاس نظر رکھیں، ممکن ہے کوئی خاموشی سے ٹوٹ رہا ہو۔ کبھی آپ کا ایک فون، ایک جملہ یا تھوڑی سی مدد کسی کی امید بن جائے۔۔۔ یہ رویے شرمندگی اور دکھ کی حد سے بھی آگے ہیں ۔۔۔ 💔 ہمارے پاس روز گار نہیں ، پیٹ نہیں بھرتا ، پچھلے 6 ماہ سے رشتے داروں سے مدد مانگ رہے ہیں ،کبھی راشن کے لئے ، کبھی بچوں کے دودھ کے لئے، کبھی سیلنڈر میں گیس بھروانے کے لئے ہمِں پیسے دے دو۔۔۔ ہماری خالاوں ، چاچوں اور کزنز نے ہمیں ذلیل کر کے بلاک کر دیا کہ ہم سے پیسے مت مانگو ہہارا تمہارے ساتھ تعلق نہیں ۔۔مزید یہ بھی لکھا کہ اس ملک کے قانون سے کوئی امید تو نہیں ہے ۔۔۔ میت پر پانی ا ور کھانا کھانے والے لوگ آتے ہیں ۔۔کوئی کسی کی مدد نہیں کرتا،روڈ پر پڑی لاش کو کوئی بچانے کی کوشش نہیں کرتا ۔۔۔۔ یہ سب لکھا ہے کہ ان میاں بیوی نے اپنے آخری خط میں جسکے بعد انہوں نے بچوں کو زہر دے کرخود کشی کر لی۔ اپنے آس پاس نظر رکھیں کہ آپ کا اپنا مشکل میں تو نہیں ۔۔۔ کم از کم اچھے رویوں کے لئے تو پیسے نہیں چاہیئے ہوتے ۔۔۔ کراچی کے علاقے گلشن حدید میں نجی سوسائٹی کے گھر سے ایک ہی خاندان کے 5 افراد میاں، بیوی، 2 بچیوں اور ایک خاتون کی لاشیں ملی ہیں۔ ریسکیو حکام کہتے ہیں کہ گھر سے 40 سال کےشاہ زیب،40 سالہ اہلیہ صباء، 5 سالہ بیٹی ایزل اور 4 سالہ بیٹی آریہ کی لاشیں ملی ہیں ۔پانچویں لاش 18 سالہ شمائلہ کی ہے جو شاہ زیب کی بہن ہے۔۔۔۔۔ گھر کے سربراہ متوفی شاہزیب کا خودکشی سے قبل لکھا گیا ۔۔۔۔
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