Every liberation movement faces a choice: continue along the paths that feel familiar, or step into the uncertainty of what has not yet been tried. The difference between endurance and victory is whether we have the courage to break the cycle. If history teaches us anything, it is that power never concedes to persistence alone. It responds to disruption, to escalation, to forces that leave it no choice but to change. The greatest threat to oppressive systems is resistance that refuses to be predictable.

The demand for a ceasefire was always pathetic. From the start, it framed the issue as a need to “pause” genocide rather than stop the entire system of Zionist oppression. It was a betrayal of liberation then, and after 18 months of slaughter, it’s an even bigger betrayal now. A ceasefire doesn’t mean freedom. It doesn’t mean liberation. It doesn’t even mean an end to suffering. It just means a temporary halt in the most visible form of violence while the killing, displacement, and oppression continue in different ways.

Do people realize that the escalation of deporting people without due process puts citizens at risk too? If they can deport people without a trial, no one's safe from being disappeared.

It’s more flagrant under this admin, but due process has always been a farce in U.S. courts. This may shock some, but Muslims and Arabs have faced this for decades. After 9/11, the U.S. detained, deported, and disappeared countless Muslims without charges or fair trials.

The War on Terror shredded due process-now it's expanding. What starts with us never ends with us.

Mahmoud Khalil’s arrest is an escalation in U.S. repression against the Palestine movement. But the response to his case has exposed a dangerous trap—one that risks undermining the fight against repression rather than strengthening it. A thread: 🧵 Before I get to explaining this, it must be noted Gaza is being completely overshadowed.

For 11 days, Palestinians have been starved, denied food, water, and electricity during Ramadan. Dozens have been murdered in the last few days alone. But where is the same outrage?

🧵 ICE targeting Palestinians is nothing new — it adopted its tactics tested through israel’s oppression of Palestinians. From training with israeli occupation forces to deploying israeli surveillance tech, U.S. border violence is deeply tied to zionist colonialism. Here’s how ⬇️ After 9/11, the U.S. launched its so-called “War on Terror,” expanding surveillance, policing, and militarization. Agencies like ICE and DHS emerged with a clear target: immigrant communities. But their strategies & technologies were imported from israel.

Today, the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI) officially published a statement in Arabic, confirming that No Other Land violates anti-normalization standards. This vindicates what many of us have been saying. bdsmovement.net/ar/PACBI-NoOth… x.com/nerdeenkiswani… Palestinians are calling for a boycott of the film, recognizing that despite its portrayal of israeli crimes, it ultimately operates within a normalization framework that undermines our struggle.

Some people claim that supporting a “pragmatic” two-state solution isn’t Zionism. But let’s be clear: a two-state solution is, by definition, a Zionist position. Even if you justify it for “practicality,” you’re still upholding Zionism. Here’s why: 🧵 First, let’s reject the notion that rejecting a 2SS is delusional because israel already exists. The issue is treating its continued existence as a settler-colonial, apartheid state as inevitable. Just because something exists today doesn’t mean it has a right to exist as it is.

The idea that Palestinian and Jewish-israeli “safety and security is intertwined” is a dangerous narrative that continuously justifies Zionism. It is not about justice—it is about maintaining settler colonialism. 🧵 Zionism has always framed itself as a project for Jewish security. But this “security” was built on Palestinian dispossession, ethnic cleansing, and apartheid. Palestinians are not responsible for sustaining a system that oppresses them.

Sorry, but Ukraine is nothing like Palestine. Palestine is a people fighting against settler colonialism. If anything, Ukraine is more like israel—a Western-backed project propped up for geopolitical interests & sustained by empire. People need to stop forcing comparisons between Ukraine and Palestine. They are not the same struggle, not the same history, and not the same reality. These false parallels only distort the truth and erase the unique brutality of zionist settler colonialism.

“Liberal” Zionists call Kahanists extremists to distract from their own crimes. But the Nakba wasn’t carried out by Kahanists, it was Ben-Gurion’s army. The occupation wasn’t expanded by Betar, it was Labor Zionists. The whole project is built on the same violence. The ADL talks about Kanist groups like Betar as if it’s an extremist faction, but what’s particularly extreme about being honest? Jabotinsky just admitted what Ben Gurion did in practice. Zionism shares the same foundation, some just prefer euphemisms over blunt force.

Tel Aviv’s club scene is often framed as a ‘beacon of light’—progressive, diverse, and full of life. But in reality, it plays a central role in whitewashing Zionism, making apartheid look like a party. This is precisely why cultural boycott are even more important. Israeli nightlife markets itself as an escape—carefree raves, queer parties, and techno festivals. But escape from what? The occupation? The fact that Palestinians can’t even enter Tel Aviv without a permit? That these clubs are built on stolen land?

The U.S. is escalating its war on Palestine. On Jan 31, two bills were introduced in Congress:

• H.R. 902 (Rep. Tenney) for U.S. agencies to call the West Bank Judea & Samaria
• H.R. 867 (Rep. Lawler) expands anti-boycott laws to punish int’l orgs boycotting israel These bills are part of a coordinated effort to:
• Erase Palestinian identity from U.S. policy.
• Shield Israel from accountability by punishing international organizations.
• Suppress free speech & criminalize support for Palestine.

Thread: @Betar_USA suddenly denies sexual predator Ross Glick’s Role in the organization on the same account where they referred to him as their director. This contradiction is now coming to light just one day since my two previous threads exposed them.
After I exposed Betar’s dubious claims of using AI to compile deportation lists targeting pro-Palestine activists and highlighted Glick’s role within the organization, the widespread attention they received has evidently pressured Betar into a defensive position.

https://twitter.com/nerdeenkiswani/status/1884851575224467687

So @Betar_USA raised their price back up to $1,800 to incite people to harass me/threaten me with violence. Wonder where this money is coming from since they are tax exempt. Are tax exempt orgs allowed to threaten people this way, using their funds in particular?
Both of these tweets are from today. Betar’s threats involving beepers reference the terrorist beeper attacks in Lebanon in Sept 2024. Those attacks used electronic devices to trigger explosions, killing 42 people & injuring 4,000, including many children. This isn’t a joke.

Ross Glick, the Executive Director of @Betar_USA is running a Zionist surveillance campaign to track and blacklist pro-Palestine students and offering people $1,800 if they can hand me a beeper. But who is he? A millionaire with a history of revenge porn charges. 🧵 In 2019, Glick was arrested in NYC for a revenge porn case involving his ex-girlfriend. The NYPD charged him after he allegedly spread explicit photos as part of a harassment campaign. A predator, not an “activist.” nypost.com/2019/02/25/the…

We should be so honored to witness and utter the words Al-Aqsa flood. We cannot celebrate the freedom of prisoners or advocate for Palestinian liberation if we hide from it.

Embrace it and others will catch on, these headlines are exactly why every protest was titled flood NYC🧵 Earlier today, Yahoo News covered the @WOLPalestine protest yesterday echoing flood in their headline.

The BDS denouncement of resistance is nothing new, they have slandered and undermined orgs that don’t fit into their liberal mold for over a decade. They attacked WOL (fka NYCSJP) in 2015 because we wrote a statement saying the student movement needs to go past the BDS ceiling. Read our original statement here. It wasn’t a rebuke of BDS or the BNC, it was simply a call that we needed to do more beyond symbolic divestment and boycotting. It called for student movements to serve the Palestinian communities they were fighting for.

nycsjp.wordpress.com/2015/10/04/the…

Today on the 3rd day of Eid the NYPD brutalized and arrested me and ripped of my hijab; with no warning. For protesting the genocide in Gaza. They refused to allow me to put my hijab back on. Please don’t post photos of me without my hijab on even if you try to block my hair. My wrists are bruised my entire upper body is in severe pain. This is the second time they rip off my hijab while arresting me. When I asked to put it back on they covered my face with it and I couldn’t see anything while they yanked my arms and yelled at me to get up.

Disgusted at the set up by @piersmorgan who has allowed this racist sports journalist to call me a terrorist and say I support 9/11 on TV. I can handle my own, but I’m not even able to get in a sentence without being spoken over. Shame on you both for using our tragedy for clout. You keep mentioning dialogue, which is impossible with those who can watch 20,000 of my people, 8,000 children murdered and justify it. You know that’s why I’m not interested in allowing it, that’s why you won’t let me get in a word. My perspective is too real for your bosses.