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Sarayu Pani Profile picture
@sarayupani
Nov 28 • 27 tweets • 7 min read • Read on X
If you haven’t already please try to also follow non-journalist accounts in Gaza - there is so much suffering that perhaps does not rise to the level of news and so much resilience, patience and perspective on it.

A thread to start you off :
Omar Hammad - a tailor and a film critic, who is deeply generous with his time and also has an excellent analytical mind:
Mohammed finished his masters dissertation and defended it during the genocide and is dad to the adorable Emad and Adam:
Asma is an MLT specialist and she used to post about travel before the genocide:
Waseem is a physics student who used to dream of studying the universe:
Ibrahim is a writer and a teacher:
Ahmed is an accountant and a writer:
Mostafa is a pharmacist and is trying against all odds to keep providing medicines to his community amid the shortages and restrictions:
Ahmed is a lawyer and the father of twin babies:
Khaled is a nurse and has been working without pay for over a year now:
Dr Ali Tawil is a resident at Al Aqsa hospital:
(Ok I have pause but I have more people to add)
Samer is a civil engineer and also a writer:
(I’ll be back to add more later but please feel free to add the smaller accounts from Gaza that you admire in the replies)
Dr Mohammed Al Najjar - an ICU doctor
Moayed Harazen - a software engineer
Rami Hamad is a pharmacist and tries to provide health services and medicines to the community despite the shortages and blockade:
Ehab Hamad is a laboratory medicine student - he’s been forced to take a break from his studies to care for his father, grandmother and three deaf sisters in this genocide:
Yousef Hamed is a father who is battling both cancer and the genocide, as he tries to keep his family comfortable:
While I will keep trying to add people to this, please feel free to add the small accounts you follow and admire in Gaza.
Mustafa Batnain, a special education teacher and father to a beautiful baby girl born in this genocide.
Reham Meri is a disability rights activist and mom of a baby girl.
Majd Omar is a writer and translator:
Dr Ezzideen - he returned to Gaza a few days before the genocide started to visit his family and has been there since.

He’s a doctor in north Gaza and trying to provide care under terrible circumstances:
Sara Tahrawi, mum to two beautiful kids, is displaced with them in the south:
Tamer is another incredible young person who keeps trying to boost and help people around him before himself:
Aya is a teacher and a writer:

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The entire women’s safety discourse since 2012 has been highjacked by the right wing “love jihad” conspiracy theory- legislation, media attention and executive action has all focussed on targeting Muslim men in relationships with Hindu women.

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Even in violent crime and rape, the cases to receive maximum outrage in the media have been where the perpetrator is Muslim, thereby furthering the theory that majoritarian violence is a solution for women’s safety.

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Every participant in furthering the “love jihad” discourse - media, rw organisations and legislatures - all bear equal responsibility for the current state of affairs where sexual violence against women is normalised.
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Apr 29, 2022
I was travelling in Northern Ireland once and a taxi driver was explaining how English imposition for them meant that him and his wife never learnt to speak Gaelic. Which led to them feeling utterly alienated from their own culture, poetry and writing.

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He said he only felt better after his children went to university and learnt the language. For his mother, watching her grandchild give a commencement address in Gaelic was one of the proudest moments of her life.

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And it’s not just about conflict zones. I heard very similar stories in Wales about the loss of the Welsh language, Welsh stories and welsh folk tales.

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Jan 4, 2022
And 18 year old and a 21 year old got together to commit a hate crime against Muslim women. They must if guilty face the full consequences of their actions but we must also talk of a few glaring societal failures that have got us here.

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First, the insistence that Hindu radicalisation is something that only happens in some faraway rural areas to “poor” or “uneducated” people. That somehow “educated” people and their casual daily bigotry is something entirely different.

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Once and for all, it’s not. Whether you pick up a stick and lynch Muslims in a village or sit at a keyboard and code to hurt Muslims in your college, you are part of the same ecosystem.

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Jan 4, 2022
Actually no - see the British occupation of Kenya and their dealings with the Mau Mau uprising - as brutal as the Nazis.

The farmers have used this successfully more recently - mass non violent action can have power but the numbers required for success are huge.
This idea that non violent resistance equals politely asking is a curiously common misapprehension - it takes widespread long standing non cooperation on a scale that makes an area impossible to govern
The way to understand Gandhi for better or for worse is to ignore everything he said and look solely at what he does - the non cooperation movement and later the salt satyagraha were organised on massive scales - they paralysed British govt systems across multiple cities.

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Jan 4, 2022
When any young person becomes radicalised you have questions - how did it happen, did their behaviour suddenly change, who did they meet, where did they find these opinions, why did they do such a thing?

Upper class urban Hindus need to look around them and ask these questions
It may be family, friends, TV, online friends or a combination of factors but it’s a process - and we need to break down that process to understand it.
Remember that not everyone with bigotry in the family has to grow up to be bigoted - many people do overcome family prejudices and campaign against them.

But it takes an intervention and we need to start thinking of and designing those interventions
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Jan 4, 2022
Forms of Hinduism have endured for centuries in part because of its amorphous character - to identify as Hindu does not usually require rigid adherence to much - communities who eat beef in Kerala and “gau rakshaks” can (and do) both identify as Hindus.

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A part of the radicalisation agenda is anti other faiths but a part also focusses on centralising and streamlining the identity itself - central deities, central principles (anti beef) and one or two temples that are seen as more important than all others etc.

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This shedding of the amorphous identity in favour of specific commandments and tenets creates flash points and causes groups to question their sense of belonging and their initial self identification.

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