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Apr 9 10 tweets 4 min read
Imposing US sanctions on Israel, once taboo, is finally mainstreaming. Calls for trade sanctions, canceling arms shipments, or conditioning military sales are now rising even among dozens of Congress members & former senior White House officials.

loom.ly/FFaqw0A For 6 months, the US has been arming, funding and diplomatically shielding Israel’s #GazaGenocide against 2.3 million Palestinians in occupied & besieged Gaza. Polls show that at least 52% of Americans now support stopping all arms shipments to Israel.

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Mar 5 6 tweets 3 min read
US VP Kamala Harris said: “People in Gaza are starving. The conditions are inhumane & our common humanity compels us to act.” Affirming starving Palestinians in Gaza were met with Israeli gunfire, Harris said Israel must allow more aid in, “no excuses.”

loom.ly/DWf0k-Q What is the “excuse” then for the US government partnering in Israel’s #GazaGenocide, excluding itself from any “common humanity.”

It arms, funds and defends Israel’s genocide, preventing a ceasefire and any form of accountability to international law. Image
Feb 10 7 tweets 2 min read
For the first time in its history, Israel’s credit rating has been downgraded by Moody’s. Its rating outlook was also changed to “negative,” reflecting its growing debt, budget deficit, and structural economic woes.
archive.fo/DXEXX This is a major blow to Israel's economy as it continues its genocidal war on the 2.3 million Palestinians in the occupied and besieged Gaza Strip. More than ever, Israel is looking like a #ShutDownNation.
Dec 29, 2023 7 tweets 1 min read
🧵 Israel's genocidal war on 2.3 million Palestinians in Gaza has killed over 20,000 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. Image 9,000 Palestinians among them have succumbed to their wounds due to lack of medical care amid the collapse of the healthcare sector.

1,000 Palestinian children have undergone the unimaginable trauma of having their limbs amputated without anaesthesia.
Dec 21, 2023 7 tweets 2 min read
Following @IntlCrimCourt’s years long failure to prosecute Israeli war criminals and @KarimKhanQC’s recent op-ed further exposing his utter hypocrisy in favor of apartheid Israel & its Western patrons, we call on ICC state parties to push for firing him.

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Image @IntlCrimCourt @KarimKhanQC From his Brimingham jail, Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. said, “Justice too long delayed is justice denied.” The ICC has since 2014 failed to act on the many war crimes complaints meticulously researched and presented to it by Palestinian human rights orgs and other parties.
Dec 18, 2023 13 tweets 5 min read
REVEALED: “Everything is intentional” – Israel’s “factory” of mass murder in Gaza.

Since Oct 7, Israel’s relentless bombing in Gaza has murdered over 7,100 Palestinian children and a total of at least 20,000 Palestinians, including those missing under the rubble.

#GazaGenocide Image Disturbing revelations from Israeli intelligence and military officers given to Israeli media outlet +972 expose the deadly decision-making system behind the ongoing #GazaGenocide.

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Dec 4, 2023 9 tweets 3 min read
Assembly of States Parties (ASP) of @IntlCrimCourt must side with victims and in favor of justice. Pressure the ICC to stop the #GazaGenocide and hold @KarimKhanQC accountable for his double standards & failure to fulfill his obligations. #FireKarimKhan

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Image The ICC has failed the Palestinian people for years. Now it’s failing to stop Israel’s #GazaGenocide against 2.3M Palestinians in Gaza, undermining the court’s legitimacy. Karim Khan’s biased, Israeli-sponsored visit to the occupied Palestinian territory compounds this failure. Image
Dec 4, 2023 11 tweets 4 min read
Targeting complicit companies can help stop Israel’s #GazaGenocide.

#BDS calls for a boycott of Israeli and international companies that are complicit in Israel's genocide in Gaza, apartheid and other violations of Palestinian human rights.

#BoycottIsraeliApartheid Image We welcome all boycotts of companies complicit in Israeli apartheid & in Israel’s genocide of Palestinians in Gaza. However, we specifically ask you to follow & amplify the call to boycott @PUMA, @AXA, @HP, @Siemens, @CarrefourGroup, #Sodastream, #Ahava & Israeli produce.
Nov 12, 2023 7 tweets 2 min read
Following @IntlCrimCourt’s years long failure to prosecute Israeli war criminals and @KarimKhanQC’s recent op-ed further exposing his utter hypocrisy in favor of apartheid Israel & its Western patrons, we call on ICC state parties to push for firing him.

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Image @IntlCrimCourt @KarimKhanQC From his Brimingham jail, Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. said, “Justice too long delayed is justice denied.” The ICC has since 2014 failed to act on the many war crimes complaints meticulously researched and presented to it by Palestinian human rights orgs and other parties.
Oct 23, 2023 7 tweets 2 min read
Many companies are complicit in Israel’s genocidal war against 2.3 million Palestinians in Gaza. All peaceful popular efforts, including boycott and divestment, to hold these entities accountable for their support of Israel’s crimes against Palestinians are justified.

#BDS Image #BDS focuses on a specific number of the most complicit targets in order to maximize our impact. We call for boycotts & divestment against @CarrefourGroup, @Siemens, @PUMA & others, due to their proven complicity in Israel’s violations of Palestinian human rights. Image
Oct 14, 2023 13 tweets 5 min read
As apartheid Israel wages a genocidal war against 2.3 Palestinians in Gaza. Here are 12 reasons why an immediate #MilitaryEmbargo against Israel is more URGENT than ever!



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Image Israeli forces are testing their weapons on defenseless Palestinian civilians. Later, the images of bombing residential buildings, hospitals, schools, etc. will be used to market these weapons.



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Oct 6, 2023 6 tweets 2 min read
Last night, Israeli settlers launched another pogrom in the occupied Palestinian town of Huwara, damaging homes and businesses and firing live rounds of ammunition.

Labib Mohammad Dumedi, 19, was murdered when Israeli settlers shot him in the chest.

#SanctionsOnApartheid In Feb, settler gangs, far-right militias acting in coordination with the Israeli state with full military protection, launched pogroms against Palestinians across the West Bank.

1 Palestinian was murdered & 400+ were injured. 100+ cars, homes, & businesses were set on fire.
Apr 3, 2023 7 tweets 2 min read
A few weeks ago, former Israeli PM Ehud Olmert called for an international “boycott” of the current Israeli PM Netanyahu. Former Israeli PM Olmert called on the “international community,” particularly Israel’s “friends,” to “speak out in full force against the Israeli government” because it is “anti Israel.” He hoped the US and UK would “reevaluate their relationship with the government of Israel.”
Dec 20, 2022 6 tweets 4 min read
Palestinian political prisoner Nasser Abu Hmeid died in an apartheid Israeli jail earlier today as a result of systemic medical negligence.

Read our full statement: loom.ly/Aeh_n5Y According to @PpsmoMedia, the Palestinian Prisoners Society: “This is part of a systematic [Israeli] policy of medical negligence and delays in providing treatment, which all the [Palestinian] prisoners are exposed to, not just Nasser.”

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Dec 5, 2022 4 tweets 4 min read
The French retailer @Carrefour announced a new partnership with the Israeli company @Electra Consumer Products and its subsidiary @Yenot Bitan which operates in illegal settlements in the occupied Palestinian territory. This deal indicates Carrefour’s complete disregard for its responsibilities under international law, opting to enhance business profits from stolen land and human rights violations.
Dec 5, 2022 4 tweets 3 min read
.@VolvoCEGlobal machinery is used by Israeli occupation forces to demolish Pal homes and pillage of natural resources which Palestinians are systematically prevented access to, including water and land. Since May 2022, Volvo’s heavy machinery has been used to carry out the demolition of Palestinian communities homes, most recently in Al-Fakheet and Al-Markez villages, in Masafer Yatta.
Dec 5, 2022 6 tweets 3 min read
The top 5 creditors to companies actively involved in the Israeli settlement enterprise are @BNPParibas, @HSBC, @SG_etvous, @DeutscheBank and @Barclays. They provided $171.4 billion in loans and underwritings. Image Government Pension Fund Global (Norway), @CreditAgricole (France), @GroupeBPCE (France), @DeutscheBank (Germany) and @LegalandGeneral (UK) are the top 5 investors in these companies’ shares and bond holdings worth $ 44.73 billion.
Nov 18, 2022 10 tweets 9 min read
Greenwashing is a marketing spin that is used by countries and corporations deceptively promoting themselves as climate friendly to cover up the substantial climate harm that their policies and practices cause.

Read more: loom.ly/RgIBHqE Image Greenwashing exacerbates the climate emergency as well as social and ecological injustices. Israel uses greenwashing to promote a climate-friendly image to cover up its decades-old regime of military occupation, settler-colonialism and apartheid.

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Nov 3, 2022 6 tweets 4 min read
Yesterday marked the 105th anniversary of the #BalfourDeclaration, a fateful, colonial statement by the British government that paved the way for establishing a Jewish supremacist settler-colony in Palestine. Image The Balfour Declaration laid the foundation for the 1948 #Nakba, the #EthnicCleansing of between 750,000 and 1,000,000 Indigenous Palestinians at the hands of Zionist militias, and subsequently Israeli forces. Image
Oct 20, 2022 7 tweets 4 min read
🧵 New report just out: “Farms, arms and Israel's agro-diplomacy” from @GRAIN_org pulls back the curtain on the destructive role of apartheid Israel’s agro-military complex around the world.

#GreenwashingApartheid

grain.org/e/6878 Rooted in Israel's colonization of Palestine and the dispossession of its Indigenous people, apartheid Israel’s agri-buisness has become a major tool for exporting exploitation and injustice around the world.

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Oct 13, 2022 7 tweets 3 min read
The Palestinian-led global Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement for Palestinian rights, and particularly its affiliate in France, @Campagnebds, warmly congratulate French author Annie Ernaux for winning the prestigious Nobel Prize for Literature 2022. Image We join many in celebrating this distinguished recognition of Ernaux’s literary creativity and prowess also because of her principled commitment to fighting oppression globally, including her support for the nonviolent struggle for Palestinian freedom, justice and equality. Image