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@SanaSaeed
Mar 27, 2019 • 5 tweets • 3 min read • Read on X
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It’s funny hearing people say that ‘Palestine does not exist” or “there never was a “Palestine”” - forgetting how even the Zionist movement itself, from the earliest days, referred to that land as Palestine in its propaganda, brochures, ideological essays...


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The Jerusalem Post (renamed in 1950) was originally founded in 1932 by Gershon Agron under what name again? Image
United Palestine Appeal - today known as United Israel Appeal.


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That beautiful “Visit Palestine” poster? The one that’s now a symbol of Palestinian resistance in its own way? It was designed by Frank Krausz in 1936 to encourage Jewish immigration and tourism to Palestine. #PalestineExists Image
The Balfour Declaration that paved the way for the colonial destruction of Palestine and the creation of the State of Israel referred to the land as..? #PalestineExists Image

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Apr 11
this narrative of ‘low intensity’ or ‘scaling back’ the war (see: genocide) has been around for months while we have continued to see increased horrific slaughter & war crimes



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no genocide in recent history has had this incredible of PR management, kudos
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Apr 6
I don’t care for the protests in Israel. I never have and never will. I don’t care about the political aspirations and grievances of people who are - by definition - violent settlers. Even those born there are settlers in the context of on-going land theft & occupation.

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If this strikes you as harsh, then I suppose you also would’ve found it harsh when people said they did not care about the political aspirations & grievances of white southerners during Jim Crow or whites in apartheid South Africa.
There’s no obligation, certainly not political or moral, to ever care for the aspirations and grievances of those who exist with the power that they have solely because their boots crush the necks of others.
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Mar 18
For the last six months, there’s been a common refrain that pops up even among those sympathetic to the Palestinians:

‘What else did Hamas expect?’

Not only does this framing justify genocide as a logical response but it also erases US/Israeli culpability & history.

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From everything we know there was a simple plan & expectation for Oct 7: grab hostages & exchange them for imprisoned Palestinians. One hostage mentioned that a fighter told her she’d be back home on Tuesday - expectation was that Israel would want its civilians back.
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No need to rehash everything re: the Oct 7th plan & what ostensibly went wrong, but it’s clear that Palestinian resistance groups - and it was a coaliton, not just Hamas - didn’t expect the mess of an Israeli response that we all saw.
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Mar 15
‘91-‘92, >40k Haitian asylum seekers fled after a US/France-backed coup of Haiti’s first democratically-elected leader. HW Bush turned them away & the coast guard rerouted them to Gitmo.

Gitmo then became a concentration camp for Haitians w/HIV, later ruled unconstitutional. /1



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The conditions in the camp were horrific: Haitians faced violence from US military, forced medical procedures, rotten food & no sanitation. It was pure filth and squalor because of how the US treated them. Almost 300 Haitians were kept in Gitmo bc they had HIV, per a 1987 US law.
(more than half of the refugees were deemed economic immigrants and repatriated back to Haiti, where they faced political persecution from the US-backed military, and the rest were allowed into the US, but had to undergo HIV testing)
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Mar 2
The other night I went to Aaron Bushnell’s memorial, outside the Israeli embassy at the spot where he gave his last protest, to pay my respects.

It hit the spirit in a way I don’t have words for.

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I’ve been thinking about Aaron everyday since his protest; several times a day. I keep thinking about how he chose to protest -what do we think a bomb does to a body? - and I keep thinking about how he kept screaming “Free Palestine” until the flames completely had engulfed him.
Demanding the liberation of Palestinians was his last wish. The last words to leave his lips were demanding justice for a besieged, starved, bombed, slaughtered, incarcerated population; a population whose genocide his government is overseeing.
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Feb 10
Just heard handpicked Muslim ‘leaders’ were invited to an event w/ DC-based ElHibri foundation & Emgage to discuss the 2024 election. Was informed that attendees include Wajahat Ali, Dalia Mogahed, Hamza Yusuf. Seems it may be an attempt to rescue the Muslim vote for Biden.
From what I’ve been told, doesn’t seem as though anyone from Abandon Biden campaign was invited. Instead, it seems it’s a very particular group of people invited by DC gatekeepers who have a vested interest in maintaining relationships with the Democratic Party.
If you have any further information on this, reach out. We don’t have full details ofc about what was discussed but if this was meant to discuss the election & members from a powerful Muslim-led campaign against Joe Biden weren’t invited, it’s clear what the point is.
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