It's been 100 days since Israeli forces killed Al Jazeera journalist #ShireenAbuAkleh.
There has been no accountability for her killing.
She was shot in the head while doing her job and wearing a "Press" vest on May 11. 🧵
Israeli snipers killed journalist #ShireenAbuAkleh as she was covering Israeli raids in the occupied West Bank.
Israel initially tried to blame Palestinians for the killing. The UN disproved this claim, finding "no evidence" for it.
Israel has changed its story multiple times.
Israel has refused to open a criminal investigation on the killing of journalist #ShireenAbuAkleh.
This impunity for its violence against journalists is not new:
▪️ Israel killed at least 45 journalists since 2000
▪️ 0 Israeli soldiers have been convicted for killing them
Israel does not punish soldiers for killing journalists, but often punishes journalists for doing their jobs.
Since 2020, Israel arrested at least 26 Palestinian journalists, reports @theintercept, claiming their reports on Israeli abuses against Palestinians is "incitement."
The U.S. cleared Israel of intentionally killing #ShireenAbuAkleh — without investigating.
Her family has kept pushing for accountability — for Shireen and other families.
"Our family's grief is not unique. Shireen wasn't even the first U.S. citizen killed by Israel this year."
UN investigators confirmed Israeli snipers killed #ShireenAbuAkleh with "seemingly well-aimed bullets."
CNN, New York Times and Washington Post had similar findings.
The U.S. refused to condemn Israel, calling the killing an unintentional "result of tragic circumstances."
Biden refused to meet #ShireenAbuAkleh's family when he visited Israel.
Instead, he invited them to DC for a meeting with lower-ranking officials, which he did not attend.
Her niece said, "We're still waiting to see if [he] will meaningfully answer our calls for justice."
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Student loans are often called "good debt" — but in practice they only strengthen systemic wealth inequality.
The typical Black student loan borrower still owes 95% of their balance 20 years after they started college.
The typical white borrower owes just 6%. 🧵
Black students are more likely to need loans due to systemic inequality in income/generational wealth.
The average white family is 10x wealthier than the average Black family.
49% of Black students' parents make less than $35K a year, compared to 13% of white students' parents.
"Slavery and Jim Crow prohibited Black people from accumulating the wealth ultimately converted into income for tuition," @BrookingsInst's @andreperryedu told AJ+.
Housing discrimination is just 1 example of barriers to Black wealth that now force many families to take on loans.
New York banned incarcerated people from getting packages from home and may soon ban letters on paper.
Food packages are a major source of healthy food in prison. Families can now only use 3rd-party vendors, which are prohibitively expensive, costing hundreds of dollars.
People incarcerated in New York’s prisons can only access food from:
▪️ Mess halls: where food is packed with sodium, sugar, carbs
▪️ Commissary: where 2 in 3 people cannot afford healthier items
▪️ Food packages: which are already a huge financial burden for most families
Most states spend less than $4/day to feed each person in prison.
Prison meals lack vital nutrients, forcing people to buy nutritious food from commissary.
▪️ Most incarcerated people need $175/month to cover basic needs
▪️ Avg. prison labor salary: $31/month
Today marks 75 years since the partition of India — a direct result of 200 years of British "divide and rule" colonization.
Up to 18 million people were displaced, with widespread killings, sexual violence and looting.
An estimated 2 million people were killed. 🧵
The British divided India into 2 states — Hindu-majority India and Muslim-majority Pakistan.
Borders were drawn by British lawyer Cyril Radcliffe, who had never been to India.
He drew arbitrary lines through areas with no clear majority, causing mass bloodshed during partition.
The British drew the borders of India and Pakistan in secret, not announcing them until 2 days after partition.
Millions of Hindus and Muslims were left in panic — fearing persecution if left on the “wrong” side. Many had only hours to pack belongings and abandon their homes.
Journalist #ShireenAbuAkleh's family is in DC to demand justice after Israeli forces killed the Palestinian American journalist on May 11.
It's been 78 days:
◾️U.S. govt blamed killing on "tragic circumstances"
◾️Biden declined meeting family during Jerusalem visit
Nearly 20 years before #ShireenAbuAkleh was killed, an Israeli solider killed U.S. citizen Rachel Corrie while she was protesting the demolition of a Palestinian family's home.
The soldier killed her using a U.S.-made bulldozer. The U.S. still hasn't held Israel accountable.
Israeli forces have killed over 10K Palestinians since 2000 — over 2K of them were children, @btselem reports.
The families of these U.S. citizens are still waiting for justice too:
◾️Furkan Dogan, 18
◾️Mahmoud Shaalan, 16
◾️Omar Assad, 78
Palestinians are commemorating the #Nakba, a program of ethnic cleansing that saw 750,000 Palestinians forcibly displaced from their homes during Israel's creation.
Between 1947-49, Zionist forces killed 15,000 Palestinians and destroyed 500+ Palestinian villages and cities.
No Palestinians displaced by the #Nakba were allowed to return home.
Today, there are over 5 million Palestinian refugees.
1/3 live in camps, some in the occupied West Bank and Gaza, in what groups call "abysmal" conditions without regular access to water, food or electricity.
74 years after the #Nakba, Palestinians are still being forcibly displaced.
▪️ Since 2020, Israel demolished homes of over 2,500 Palestinians.
▪️ Israel has over 200 illegal settlements in the occupied West Bank, cutting Palestinians off from vital services and their own land.
Israeli forces killed a Palestinian American Al Jazeera journalist who was wearing a press vest in the occupied West Bank.
Shireen Abu Akleh was 51.
Israeli soldiers shot her in the head during raids in Jenin, say other journalists: "They killed her in cold blood."
Israel says it is investigating the killing of Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, who was shot by Israeli troops in the occupied West Bank.
Israel claims journalists were "armed with cameras."
Other journalists say soldiers "did not stop firing even after she collapsed."
Up to 50 Palestinian journalists have been killed in the occupied West Bank and Gaza since 2000, say media watchdogs.
Groups accuse Israel of targeting journalists with impunity. The UN found evidence Israeli snipers "shot journalists intentionally" at Gaza protests in 2018.