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15 May, 6 tweets, 5 min read
I am getting this question a lot from different media outlets: What are Palestinians after, why are they protesting?

Let me try to simplify it in a way people around the world may be able to relate to.

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#Palestineunderattack
#GazzaUnderAttack
Palestinians want what @NelsonMandela and #SteveBeko wanted: #Freedom.

Palestinians want what #MalcolmX and #MLK fought for: #Dignity & #Equality

Palestinians are struggling for what #Gandhi & #FrantzFanon fought for: #EndingColonialism

Palestinians are struggling for… 2/
Palestinians are struggling for what Simone de Beauvoir & Sojourner Truth fought for: #EndingSubjugation

Palestinians are struggling for what George Washington and Simon Bolivar fought for: #PeoplesRule #EndingAuthoritarianism

3/7
Palestinians are struggling for what the #BlackLivesMatter movement is struggling for: #Justice.

Gaza being blockaded & besieged: that’s #subjugation, we want an end to that.

Settlers stealing our lands and burning our olive trees: that’s colonialism. We want an end to that.4/
Families being displaced in #SheikhJarrah and Jerusalem: that’s injustice — we want and end to that.

Palestinians in Israel facing two dozen discriminatory laws - that’s #inequality — we want an end to that. 5/
Millions of Palestinian lives being controlled by an authoritarian Israeli military general, with the vast majority of us are banned from voting for the government that puts him in place or even digging for water - that’s totalitarian rule, and we want an end to that, too.

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16 May
Palestinian youth, along with a broad range of civil society and other groups, are calling for a national strike on Tuesday across all of historical Palestine.

This is a significant development for multiple reasons. (Thread)

#GazaUnderAttack
#PalestineBleeding
1. It is breaking decades of political fragmentation where Palestinian actors in each subdivision (WB, #Gaza, 48 areas), acted individually.

The youth’s initiative to refuse to allow this fragmentation to continue, if it succeeds, further builds up unity not seen in decades. 2/
2. Whereas the last month’s developments mainly included young people, this allows a broader swath of society to engage. This is key at this moment, expanding agency to meet demographics. 3/
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16 May
Here’s one powerful thing the @AP can do in response to Israel’s destruction of its offices in #Gaza:

Mobilize the @APFactCheck team to start fact-checking statements made by the Israeli military & politicians. Almost none of Facebook’s US based fact-checking partners… (1/2)
….are engaging in fact-checking disinfo coming from the region, even though a majority of IL’s strat-comms revolves around maintaining a subset of Americans deeply misinformed about this conflict.

@APFactCheck, as a @Facebook partner, can ensure misinfo is.. (2/5)
….actually labeled and corrected on the platform.

You can even start with fact-checking misleading claims about how the @AP office in Gaza was a hub for terrorists.

P.S. @faresakram — you should push for this.

(3/4)
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15 May
IDF: Israeli Disinformation Forces? I am glad @halbfinger wrote about this, but he missed three key things in this article. (Thread) #Gaza_Under_Attack
1. First, the article makes it seem like it is rare for the Israeli military to disinform the foreign press. But in fact there are numerous examples of the foreign press taking false Israeli statements and narratives and spreading them without fact-checking. The FP MUST…. 2/
… fact-check every statement the Israeli military makes. Not fact-checking IDF statements, and I don’t just mean during war time, violates journalistic standards. Let’s make sure this mistake doesn’t happen again @nytimes 3/
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14 May
Members of #Congress need to see this — men from the Israeli lynch mobs attacking Palestinians appear to be brandishing similar “Punisher”symbols to those the Proud Boys & others who attacked the US Capitol wore. @AOC @RashidaTlaib @IlhanMN @CoriBush 1/3
The ideology of ethno-nationalism is a threat to democracy and human dignity everywhere. We need to understand the context of attacks on Palestinians as an extension of these dangerous beliefs. 2/
Many ethno-nationalists see #Israel as a model of the type of government they want to create in the US. I hope this allows members of Congress who came under attack 4 months ago to empathize with what Palestinians are facing today. 3/3

#PalestineUnderAttack
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14 May
It’s out of a movie: Israeli drone dropping tear gas canisters at protesters in El-Bireh, West Bank right now.

100s are in the streets protesting, but it is dystopian as we are besieged with modern weapon art.

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#GazaUnderFire #Palestineunderattack
These weapons will soon be sold to authoritarian regimes everywhere, as means to shut down popular protests. They experiment them on us. Another reason to impose sanctions on Israel: It’s not just about our freedom, it’s about making oppression unprofitable. #PalestineUnderAttack
P.S. These videos are from about an hour ago. Connection to 3G was being jammed and no tweets loaded — it was impossible to go live on any social media platform if you have a Palestinian cell phone. So a bunch of content is coming online now.

Sorry for confusion.
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14 May
It’s a dystopian movie: Israeli drone firing teargas canisters at protesters in El-Bireh in Palestine.

We’re besieged by walls and colonies trying to do our part in rising up for Jerusalem and Gaza.

It’s a brave act, but we are sitting ducks. (Thread) #PalestineUnderAttack
Soon these weapons will be sold to other authoritarian regimes across the world, to silence popular protests.

A reminder about why it’s key to sanction Israel, not just for Palestinian rights but to protect other vulnerable communities. 2/
Let’s remember Israel was a key exporter of weapons to the apartheid regime in South Africa and to the Myanmar military now.

The struggle for freedom is collective, just like those oppressing us cooperate — we must work together too. 3/
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