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17 May, 5 tweets, 1 min read
Either your outrage and anguish are undulled whether it's your own people or any other people who are oppressed, crushed, and subjugated, or it's nothing but ego writ large
We didn't go through hell for generations to just make scapegoats of some other people, ignore their plight, blame them for their suffering, glorify their persecutors, or conveniently leave them behind
As a Palestinian I renew my commitment to stand with the persecuted wherever they are and whoever they are, and so stand against their persecutors wherever they are and whoever they are
I know that we do not have a monopoly on suffering in our region. From the Syrians to the Kurds to the Yezidis to the Yemenis to the Iraqis, there's no lack of pain and trauma. Commit to stand with *everyone*.
We're not free until we're all free, we're not safe until we're all safe. Nobody gets left behind.

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İyad el-Baghdadi | إياد البغدادي Profile picture
17 May
سؤال: هل نعتبر انفسنا من جيل التحرير أم من جيل الإنتظار؟ إن كنا نعتبر انفسنا من جيل التحرير يجب أن تكون لدينا رؤية متكاملة واستراتيجية طويلة المدى وإجابة على كل سؤال، ولا يسوغ لنا أن نجيب على أي سؤال بلغة التأجيل أو التسويف
أن نعتبر انفسنا من جيل التحرير، فهذا يعني اننا نحن ورفاقنا من سيقوم به، جيلنا هو الذي سيخطط وينفذ على جميع المحافل، إقتصادية وسياسية وإعلامية وميدانية وقانونية وتقنية وغيرها. صدقوني نهاية القضية لن تكون أن يخرج صلاح الدين من قبره ليحررنا، ولا أن يهبط ملك من السماء فيحررنا
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İyad el-Baghdadi | إياد البغدادي Profile picture
16 May
One reason why "it's different this time around" - during previous escalations of Israeli violence, the two-state paradigm wasn't yet officially dead. Palestinians were expected to "wait", since a solution is round the corner. Now*, it's just blinding pain with no end in sight.
*To us, it was always blinding pain with no end in sight, always. But while this was obvious to us, onlookers thought we were just being cynical or irrational. This time the truth was undeniable, especially after Trump & Kushner's "Deal of the Century" and "Abrahamic Accords".
For the record: the two-state solution is dead; also the two-state solution is still the official paradigm of the United States, the European Union, and pretty much the rest of the world. More in this thread:
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İyad el-Baghdadi | إياد البغدادي Profile picture
16 May
What goes unsaid in most conversations about Gaza that it's where the poor, outcast, and wretched of the land live - its per capita GDP is $800 (Israel's is $44,000). Martin Luther King said "a riot is the language of the unheard"; in Gaza, it's not riots, it's rockets.
MLK wasn't being pro-riot, instead he was pointing to the systemic inequality that drives it. You can't miss the subtext when sunbathers in Tel Aviv must vacate their beaches because the wretched, poor, nearly starving refugees in Gaza could hurl something back at them.
Note that MLK was not justifying or legitimizing riots when he said that, he was explaining what drives people to riot. Ask yourself, what drives a Palestinian in Gaza to join Hamas? Could it perhaps have anything to do with the lived reality imposed upon them by Israel?
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İyad el-Baghdadi | إياد البغدادي Profile picture
15 May
Grand narratives shift over years and decades, not weeks and months. When they shift, the entire political ecosystem shifts with them - politicians, party platforms, funders, etc. We are witnessing the beginning of something important on justice in Palestine.
There will be a time to talk about what shifted over the past 10-15 years to allow us to come to this point - what shifted globally, regionally, but also among the Palestinians, in Israel, and importantly, in the United States...
There will also be a time to talk about how, despite, the cyclical nature of Israeli violence, things have indeed shifted drastically in the region, decade to decade, in trajectory towards what I call "the long future"
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15 May
People upset because I said that white people as a group tend to be the most clueless about Palestine and happen to say the most hurtful and outright violent things to us. I do not apologize. This is fact. I'm not going to lower my voice for your comfort.
"But not all...", well obviously not all. But nearly every hurtful, ignorant comment, every attempt to deflect blame, every attempt to "both sides", every justification for Israeli violence, every denial of our rights, is coming from people who happen to be white.
I will say my truth whether you like it or not. Facts don't go away just because you don't like them. Maybe ask why pro Israel bias (and the dehumanization and dismissal of Palestinians) is so deeply enshrined into the psyche of so many white people.
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14 May
This is funny but this is kinda how the world decided that Palestine is to be "partitioned" between 1.2 million Palestinians and 600k Jews. The vast majority of these Jews were recent refugees from Europe (there were only 56k Jews in Palestine in 1918 vs 700k Palestinians)...
The world decided that recently arrived European Jewish refugees can get 58% of Palestine including the cities that were centers of Palestinian cultural life and nationalism such as Jaffa, Haifa, etc. No Palestinian was consulted. This is how the "two state solution" was born.
When Israelis tell Palestinians "you had a chance to build your own state but you blew it", this is what they mean - they mean that they could have let us have 43% of our own land and they keep most of it, but we refused, so we deserve to have none of our land.
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