When I started my PhD at @Columbia Israel had bombed Gaza multiple times. That’s the Palestine I knew. Once, in class, I asked a respected scholar: Why can the West debate migration laws endlessly, but colonized peoples can’t ask European settlers to return to their homelands? I told him the West build their entire political campaigns on building walls and sending home migrants that where born and raised, one generation after the other, in the West. They win based on how much pain they want to inflict on migrants and it’s called “politics”.

. @clarissaward latest theatrical production is not just a performance—it is a harrowing demonstration of why many of us have so little left to say. When lies are crafted with such calculated simplicity to dehumanize millions, words begin to fail us.

https://twitter.com/clarissaward/status/1868785858863939982

In October 2023, Clarissa was among the first to propagate Israeli fabrications, weaving a narrative that eradicated Palestinians. She returns with another act, this time in Syria. These theatrics, framed as journalism or art, obscure the obscene violence that underpins them.

Teaching yesterday, I couldn’t access my phone. Coming out of the lecture hall, I saw my liberal colleague almost in tears & figured Trump had won. These are the ppl, based in the Middle East, an hour away from a genocide, who saw children burned alive by Israel & didn’t flinch Needless to add that I am referring to my liberal, democrats-voting American colleagues, whom I had told to void their votes or go Green just a few weeks ago, to give us a chance to life. But, like Kamala, “We tried to tell her.. but she was speaking”.

1/ Israel’s new invasion of Al-Shifa hospital is linked to its systemic attempts to empty Gaza & its northern regions. Al-Shifa, like a thorn in their side, resumed partial operations after its destruction, defying those intentions. Moreso, the hospital served as a meeting point

https://twitter.com/eyeonpalestine/status/1769661652113179124

2/ Recently a meeting of Gaza’s notables & mukhtars was held there, resulting in a collective statement of full REJECTION of cooperation with the occupation. Israel, the US & the EU & the PA were hoping to build an alternative collective for Gaza’s rule but came out disappointed.

Trucks entered Gaza, however, not to extract the wounded & martyrs from under the rubble. No, Families are left to unbury their dead barehanded.

This machinery is mean to implement America’s sea corridor and impose an American-Israeli military base. 🧵 America’s goal in establishing a seaport is primarily military & political, not humanitarian:
- Gain control over Gaza’s gas resources
- Establish US-Israel military presence
- Dismantle UNRWA & have aid distributed through local militias.
- Isolate Gaza from the Palestinian body

Nothing is left of us. Nothing. I asked a friend professor whose opinion I value "Where do you think this is going" & with an empty stare, he replied: I can't think, I can't analyze, I haven't been able to breathe for weeks. My other friend was flying to a business conference 1/ 2/ in London. When he landed, he opened his phone to find out about the flour massacre. He walked into the conference tears rolling. His European & American colleagues were talking, but he couldn't hear them. He kept crying until he boarded his flight back home that same evening.

There is nothing exceptional in what Israel is doing. French Colonization in Algeria lasted from 1830 to 1962. The French knew that, if they were to rule over Algeria, they had to do away with powerful local patrimonial networks and destroy them as centers of political loyalty. Comte de Raousset-Boulbon, a violent French settler in Algeria, expressed this view in 1847, stating: “If one wanted to prepare the tribes for assimilation with France instead of reconstituting the government of Arabs by Arabs, would it not be wise to disorganize them [ … ]?”

Who told you that the 1.5 million displaced Palestinians sheltering in Rafah have nowhere left to go? My family, now in Rafah, has a home in Jaffa, from which we were expelled by a fascist German family. The majority of our people in Gaza have homes to go to, all over Palestine. The fact that at least 1 million Israeli Jews hold EU & US nationality should impel the US & European countries to invite their citizens back to their motherlands so they can make room for the indigenous Palestinians of Gaza whom their colonization had displaced in the 1st place.

Reports from Gaza state that Israel has been harvesting organs from the bodies of Palestinians, after receiving dozens of slain Palestinians from the Israeli forces that were missing livers, kidneys & corneas. Is it just sadistic mutulation since u can’t benefit from dead organs? Lots of unclarity of what Israel has been doing with dead Palestinian bodies. Doctors at Al Shifa have testified that Israeli forces abducted the bodies of 10s of Palestinians that were at the courtyard of the hospital. Other reports came out of removal of bodies at several sites

Israeli media: Hamas demands release of 3 top Palestinian leaders in any hostage deal.

If you know who these 3 men are, u’ll grasp how Hamas is strategically working towards the unification of the Palestinian liberation front, bypassing US engineering regime change in Palestine The men are the leaders of the three main Palestinian political factions: Fatah, Hamas, and the Popular Front. This means a major, radical change in the composition and reshuffling of the factions and the PLO. Considering them a threat, Israel put them behind bars decades ago -

As a scholar of settler-colonialism, I’ve read 1000s of pages on the violent means through which European settlers engaged in dispossessing Natives in the Americas. I was flabbergasted by so much evil with each page turn, until Gaza’s live-streamed genocide gave those acts a face At times, I would pause and reflect whether so much genuine evil was even possible, humanly possible, as it would require the erosion of any moral constraints. I used to have the same astonishment reading about the slave trade and the slave economy in general in the U.S.

Want to know the extent of Israeli settler-colonial vindictiveness? Did you know that Israel passed a law to ban and criminalize Palestinians from harvesting za'atar (hyssop), akoub (gundelia) & sage (maramiya)– wild herbs used in traditional Palestinian cuisine for centuries?🧵

Israel classified these herbs as “protected natural species”, and applied criminal charges against collecting them. Palestinian @AdalahEnglish submitted a request to the Israeli Ministry of Environmental Protection and to the Israeli Nature and Parks Authority to reverse the ban.

Zionists created a cookbook to teach “fresh-off-the-boat” Western settlers how to use local produce and spices unfamiliar to them. “How to Cook in Palestine” is the European or American housewife’s bible on cooking in their new land of Israel according to its author, Erna Meyer. The book includes full chapters on cooking with vegetable oil in place of butter, how to navigate exotic local spices and how to properly cook with electricity. Once the housewife understood the necessary changes needed in her cooking would she get to the book’s recipe section.