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21 May, 4 tweets, 2 min read
Support artists in #Gaza defying the odds to create beauty. This work by Muhammad al-Huwaijri is striking; find him on @instagram @huwajriart
@instagram More about Mohamad and his work here @DAWNmenaorg

dawnmena.org/art-as-respons…
This beauty:
Cc: @MAlhawajri on twitter too!

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22 May
طيار إسرائيلي: نسف أبراج غزة كان طريقا
للتنفيس عن إحباطنا | القدس العربي alquds.co.uk/?p=2704517
“An Israeli pilot revealed that the destruction of residential towers in #Gaza Strip was "a way to vent the army's frustration"

in an interview w Israeli Channel (12) with pilots who participated in blowing up 9 residential towers in Gaza, inc one that housed media offices.
For more testimonies from @IDF soldiers about their war crimes against #Palestinians see the brave and honorable work of @BtSIsrael

The Israeli govt has tried to silence them, harass them and sue them but still they persist.

breakingthesilence.org.il
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20 May
Yet again people of color and #BLM leading all of America to wake up about racism and oppression at home -- and also in #Palestine -- based on a shared understanding of what a boot to the neck actually feels like aje.io/ejfpq via @AJEnglish
As @saharazizlaw explains "a 21st-century anti-racism movement is schooling Americans on how powerful manipulate media, politics, & economics to oppress entire groups of people, while blaming those same people for their hardships."
"As these lessons are increasingly applied to #Palestine, the question is when, not whether, US foreign policy will finally come to value Palestinian life."
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18 May
My latest for @TheProspect -

#Israel-#Palestine Narrative Has Evolved prospect.org/world/israel-p…
“The strictly controlled public narrative, handled in the United States not only by Israeli government spokespersons but the lobbying group @AIPAC, @AJCGlobal American Jewish Committee, and @adl Anti-Defamation League cheerleaders in America, has snowballed out of their control.”
What is new and qualitatively different is the vigorous and unapologetic analytic criticism of Israel—and U.S. policy that has provided it with billions in annual, unconditional military support for the past several decades—that has seeped into mainstream discourse.
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17 May
How is the US complicit in Israeli war crimes, above and beyond the annual $3.8 billion in bombs?

Like this: ⬇️
When the US provides military & diplomatic support to an abusive, apartheid govt that is committing crimes against humanity, the US is breaching its own human rights obligations not to contribute to human rights abuses. It is also breaching US law that prohibits aid to abusers.
This is what impunity looks like. It means enforcing a system to ensure an abusive actor cannot be held accountable, or even be forced to stop at least some of its bad acts.

The US *enforces* Israeli impunity at the UNSC. It always has.
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16 May
Where were you @RepJeffries? Have not heard your voice in support of human rights and justice for #Palestinians. Your constituents in #Brooklyn and #Queens - including me - would like you to speak out.
Your colleague @RepPressley has been loud and clear:
Congresswoman @RashidaTlaib and @CoriBush have a clear moral compass and callin the ugly reality in Israel Palestine what it is - apartheid - and so not a democracy.

Why are you silent Hakeem @RepJeffries?
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12 May
(1) You'll see a lot of these hoary claims of "human shields" in Gaza to justify Israel's deliberate and indiscriminate bombardment of civilians. They used the same line in the 2006 Lebanon war and multiple wars in Gaza. Don't fall for it.
In 2006, Israel repeated this lie to justify killing 900 Lebanese civilians, basically treating all of South Lebanon as "shielded" by Hezbollah and so fair game:

hrw.org/news/2007/09/0…
(3) "Human shielding" is a specific crime: it refers to purposefully using civilians to render military forces immune from attack. Taking over a family's home and not permitting the family to leave to deter the enemy from attacking is a simple example of using "human shields."
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