Gaza is being annihilated in front of our eyes. Thousands of children buried alive. Entire families erased. And yet so many of you treat it like a backdrop for content, something to weave into your aesthetics instead of a mandate to shut the world down. If you’re not doing everything in your power to refuse genocide, you’ve chosen complicity. Neutrality, lukewarm solidarity, dressing up genocide for your brand is complicity. What risks you are willing to take to make the world stop and face what is happening.?

There’s a white Jewish man who’s managed to wedge himself into pro-Palestine spaces, building a personal brand off of genocide. And every time I vaguely mention him, without even naming him, someone new messages me with another horrifying story. This man was a failed OnlyFans creator before rebranding as a “Palestine supporter.” Since then, he’s taken sponsorship deals, asked for donations nonstop, and monetized every angle of his supposed activism.

Israel must be completely dismantled because its very existence depends on the starvation, torture, and mass murder of Palestinian babies. There is no reforming that. No coming back. Supporting it in any way means aligning with genocide in perpetuity. Anyone who supports Israel — financially, diplomatically, ideologically — is supporting the starvation, torture, and mass murder of children.

Not abstractly. Not hypothetically.
Actually. Literally. Right now.

And it can never be undone.

Chris Smalls — the only Black person aboard the Handala Flotilla — was also the only one confirmed to be severely beaten by Israeli forces so far. There were 17 people on that boat. That’s not a coincidence. The flotilla was a peaceful attempt to bring aid to Gaza. It was attacked by Israel. Now, 14 people remain imprisoned, on hunger strike in solidarity with Palestinians who are starving under Israeli siege. Meanwhile, 3 of the people who self deported and are now free are Jewish.

A thread debunking the idea that “equal rights in an Israeli state” is a pro-Palestinian position. Spoiler: it’s not. It’s a liberal Zionist fantasy that preserves settler-colonial rule under a civil rights framework. 🧵 Equal rights within an Israeli state assumes the continued existence of the state of Israel—a settler-colonial project founded on the genocide of Palestinians and the Nakba. That’s not justice. That’s reforming colonialism, not ending it.

People keep saying “the tide is turning” on Palestine. But from where I stand, it’s not. What’s happening is the mass normalization of genocide. Palestinians are being starved, bombed, dismembered, erased — and the world is watching it happen in real time. Famine. Dehydration. Shredded bodies. Children without limbs. Families obliterated. We’re witnessing the full-scale annihilation of our people. Not in secret. Not in silence. Out in the open with global surveillance, media, and outrage and yet it continues.

The encampments/occupations taking root across the country are courageous. They show that people refuse to be silent while Gaza is being massacred. That matters.

But courage alone isn’t a strategy. And without one, it risks turning momentum into a moment. The risk is following a trend instead of building a plan. A tent is not a tactic. And BDS is not a strategy, it’s a framework. To win it, you need a strategy that makes your institution pay a price for supporting Zionist violence, politically, financially, and reputationally.

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.

We’re approaching the U.S. deadline for ByteDance to divest from TikTok over “national security concerns” about data privacy. While israeli spyware firms like NSO Group actually hacked U.S. officials’ phones, there’s no push to divest—only laws criminalizing boycotts of Israel🧵 NSO Group, an Israeli company, created Pegasus spyware, which can remotely hack phones, access messages, calls, and cameras. The U.S. blacklisted NSO in 2021 after Pegasus was found on U.S. diplomats’ phones. But where’s the call to ban or divest from Israeli spyware?

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.

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