Writer, photographer. Essays on food, media and politics at my website, Eating an Island. Montreal/Cairo.
Montréal, Québec
Joined January 2024
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My writing on Palestine, a 🧵
I’ve been writing on this since the fall – in fact, it’s been hard to focus on anything else.
“What We Talk about When We Talk about Food Security” – on Gaza, poverty and neoliberal "moves to innocence".
eatinganisland.com/p/what-we… – at St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador
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November - we hope to make a big push this month & next to finish out the year close to where we were in 2025 - We'll have a study session for patrons at the $5 & up level on November 14th at 12 PM EDT. Details on that will come out tomorrow. patreon.com/millennialsareki…
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The genocide is only excellerating. There was an airstrike on a vehicle this morning. A drone targeted people in tents. These past 2 days the attacks have increased.
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Looking back on some predictions about Carney from 2025.
I think I did well, sadly.
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URGENT ‼️ i am now $147 away from the goal and late on rent. i’m dealing with health issues. i’m asking people to help however they can and send to people who can help please paypal.me/DahliaAttoui
URGENT ‼️ i am $297 away from the goal and late on rent. i’ve been beyond sick from the stress this is causing me. i’m still actively applying for jobs that keep ignoring me. i’m begging people to help however they can and send to people who can help paypal.me/DahliaAttoui
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Humanitarian framing is genocide framing.
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NEW: 100+ 🇨🇦 companies are manufacturing critical components for Lockheed Martin’s F-35 fighter jets. These warplanes are being used by the Israeli Air Force to bomb residential neighbourhoods, hospitals, and refugee camps in Gaza and southern Lebanon. canadiandimension.com/articl…
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Nuclear blackmail doesn't work on Iran and its vast counterstrike capacity. It would however be a green light to eradicate every imperialist asset and vassal state. The entire Gulf money printing apparatus dies instantly. Same goes for Tel aviv, Amman, and Syria.
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please donate
Dear friends, we pay $100 monthly for rent, in addition to food, water, milk, firewood, cleaning supplies, and other essentials. Every contribution makes a big difference to our family. Thank you for your continued support. We truly appreciate it. 🤍🙏
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Matt Gurney tried this last week on his Substack and ignored countless people replying "I'm Jewish and I voted for Chow".
Now @JohnLorinc does the same in the Toronto Star. Deeply unserious.
#topoli ICYMI, new from me in @TorontoStar: @MayorOliviaChow needs to find ways to build bridges to Jewish Torontonians who have felt anxious and harassed in recent years, but council leaders like @PasternakTO have to join her in re-establishing trust. thestar.com/opinion/contribu…
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In our latest episode of The Call, Kerry Sinanan @kerry_sinanan talks about racial capitalism and white supremacy, their patterns and impacts, and the things it requires — including Black death, and now Palestinian death as well. Who is human and who isn't?thecall1948.substack.com/p/e…
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Some things aren't "shocking" in need of a million explanations when the core principle is supremacy. An order invested in claiming innocence for its reproduction will forever construct entire academic, media, political, institutional and social apparatus full of explanations.
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I was never one to ask for help, and it wasn't easy for me to get to this point. But when you're responsible for five children, you overlook a lot of things that wound your pride, you swallow your feelings of helplessness, and you knock on doors you never imagined you'd have to knock on, just because you can't give up while they're looking at you, waiting for you to do something. teapaw.org/EssaMasri1993/status/2…
I am Shaimaa, a mother of four children. I used to live beautiful days with my husband and dream of a safe future for my children, but the war destroyed our home, our lives, and our dreams.
My husband was injured, we lost our home and our beautiful town, and now we live in a fragile tent made of torn cloth. Winter is approaching, and my children are suffering from hunger.
My youngest daughter, Tahiya, is sick with a bladder infection and urgently needs treatment costing $500. I cannot afford it.
Please don't leave us alone. Help us with whatever you can. Even a small donation could help Tahiya get the treatment she needs and ease my children's suffering. 🙏chuffed.org/project/177116-i…
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"NAZA is the product of people who still think of Israel as their home, as a place worthy of that status, not an illegitimate entity built on genocide."
This is a must-read. The author offers a clear-eyed reading of not only the film, but the society that made it happen.
I watched NAZA and reviewed it for @themarkazreview
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Plz donate!
💔, Don’t Forget the Children in Gaza’s Remote Camps.
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A little child holding a piece of paper, asking for help for the remote camps. Such small hands, yet a message that carries so much pain and hope.
Behind this message are children and families waiting for clean water and fresh bread, waiting for someone to reach them and remind them that they are not forgotten.
At Hearts for Gaza, we keep reaching these distant camps, but the journey is costly, and donations are desperately needed.
❤️ Please stand with these families. Your support could help bring water, bread, and hope to a child still waiting.
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Help us reach the remote camps. Don’t let us stop.
Hearts for Gaza 🇵🇸
@Louis_Allday @drhuri__ye
@atsyjp @fbhutto
Monday morning. Wondering how Zionists will try to get control of the news cycle this week. Bit of disarray last week
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Amnesty identified Chinese guided bombs and howitzers in Sudan that it says were almost certainly supplied by the UAE.
The UAE denies arming the RSF. A denial does not make bomb fragments disappear.
Stop the weapons. Stop enabling these butchers.
A clip showing the divide btw what Zionists say in and to the West and what they say to each other – as @AliAbunimah once noted on EI, they treat Hebrew like a secret language that nobody can translate.
This is what I mean when I say Western Zionists are just playing a game
