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Jan 19 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
This is a crisis moment. We have been watching the ongoing Nakba unfold in Sheikh Jarrah, for months, for years, for decades and now as ever, we need to be listening and be led by Palestinian voices and uplift their resistance.

#SaveSheikhJarrah

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As we recover, we recommit to dismantling antisemitism in all its forms. And we recommit to resisting any version of safety reliant on Islamophobia or the presence of police. Freedom and safety for any of us relies on freedom and safety for all.
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Jan 14
Fixed it.

Omar Asad's death was not spontaneous or natural, but the direct result of brutal abuse and neglect by Israeli soldiers.

The US should demand accountability for the Israeli state violence against this Palestinian American man — not merely call for an “investigation."
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Jan 6
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Jan 3
Time is running out to save Hisham, who is barely responsive and suffering from severe kidney failure after 140 days (4.5 months) of hunger strike.

We demand the immediate release of Hisham as well as all Palestinian political prisoners in Israeli jails.
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Dec 28, 2021
Naftali Bennett announced yesterday that he plans to double the number of Israeli settlements in the Golan Heights this year.

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Still to this day, many Golan residents live as refugees in Syria.
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The move was condemned by the U.N. and the Golan was not recognized as Israeli by any country.
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Dec 9, 2021
Like many other settler-colonies, Israeli society has a long legacy of co-opting native culture and downplaying or disavowing foreign — in this case, diaspora Jewish — culture. This simultaneous cultural theft and disavowal is an attempt to “self-indigenize.”

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Through cultural appropriation and "self-indigenization," settlers make themselves (and the rest of the world) believe they belong on the land that birthed the indigenous culture, even as they ethnically cleanse the actual indigenous people from it.
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