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Surgical PA. Gazan/Alexandrian. Wife & mama. 👨‍👩‍👧 Free Palestine.✌🏼
Nov 30, 2024 4 tweets 1 min read
As a Palestinian from Gaza currently living in North America, here are my views on Syria & Lebanon in 4 posts. I think it's important for the sake of unity, fairness & justice that I make my position clear. 1/4 Image 2/4 Image
Sep 14, 2024 5 tweets 1 min read
@nemahsis' new album, Verbathim, is out now! I met Nemah thru friends as a teenager & I remember thinking, "This girl is crazy & her energy is contagious"😅. She'd run ahead of us singing in her angelic voice & choreographing dances to a rhythm only she could hear in her head. 1/ I knew she was going places. Nemah has been thru a LOT as a Palestinian artist. From censorship to being dropped by her album to smears, yet here she is today rising above & releasing her viral album, Verbathim, as an unapologetic, strong, empowered Palestinian artist. 2/
Aug 14, 2024 4 tweets 2 min read
For months, we've been calling out the @CBC for its erasure of Palestine. Yesterday, their editor-in-chief published a piece defending CBC's "impartiality". In the piece, the word "Israel" appears several times. The word "Palestine"? ZERO TIMES. Thank you for proving your bias!1/ Here's the disgusting piece by @brodiefenlon... take a look for yourself. Paragraphs of word gibberish to prove that the CBC is in fact enabling the dehumanization, erasure & genocide of the people of Palestine. Shame on @CBC! 2/2

cbc.ca/news/editorsbl…
Jun 22, 2024 8 tweets 3 min read
Since people love home improvement videos, here's a thread on how to restore your home in case you find yourself in the unfortunate position of being bombed by an occupying regime that has invaded your city & destroyed civilian areas.
Step 1: shovel concrete & debris. 1/ Step 2: pick up debris by hand and start rinsing off large items & furniture. It may help boost your morale if you prioritize restoring your house plants. Everyone loves house plants. 🪴💚 2/
Jun 17, 2024 11 tweets 4 min read
This post is dedicated to the wonderful students at the Halifax @DalhousieU, now AlZeitoun University, Palestine encampment. I visited the site recently to show my gratitude both as a university educator & a citizen who lost family in Gaza. Here's what Dal admin needs to know: 1/ Image The students' demands are simple:

1. Tell them where their tuition $ is being invested
2. Stop investing in companies that prop up Israel's genocide in Gaza (including white phosphorus manufacturers you're actively supporting!)
3. Reinvest their $ into more ethical companies. 2/ Image
May 25, 2024 6 tweets 2 min read
I'm seeing the criticism of McMaster students' decision to end the encampment & accept the University's deal. While I agree that the terms are not as ideal as many of us had hoped, I understand, empathize with & respect the decision of students & @mcmastersphr to take the deal.1/ I am someone who has lost family in Gaza and continues to see the suffering of the remainder of my family and millions of civilians trapped in Gaza. Trust me... I get the pain... I get the rage... I have not had a day of peace for the past 8 months. I want this evil to end now.2/
Apr 7, 2024 16 tweets 4 min read
Let me tell you why Canada’s major academic research bodies are RACIST.

Canada has 3 main sources for federal research funding- @CIHR_IRSC, @NSERC_CRSNG and @SSHRC_CRSH. Together, they form “The Tri-Agency”.

Everyone in research & academia has heard of the Tri-Agency. 1/ The 3 arms of the Tri-Agency have significant power & influence over policy & social change in the areas of Science & Engineering, Healthcare & the Humanities.

They are funded by the Government of Canada & EACH have an annual budget of OVER ONE BILLION DOLLARS. 2/
Mar 31, 2024 9 tweets 4 min read
I was at the massive Toronto protest today. We marched peacefully for over 3 hours. Families, grandparents, kids, youth...good folks of all races from all walks of life. There was ZERO violence or harm to anyone...but @TorontoPolice had no intention of keeping it that way! 1/ Image At the beginning of the protest, @TorontoPolice wouldn't let us march & claimed they needed to inspect the protest truck. The organizers cooperated & allowed a full inspection. TPS claimed the speakers weren't safe. Organizers showed they were secured & fastened. We marched. 2/
Feb 7, 2024 4 tweets 1 min read
People who are saying, "We don't want these terrorists in Canada!" ...... you're talking about my family..... 😔

My family has never harmed a soul.

They are beautiful humans.

My family deserves to live. 💔 I gave everything to this country for 30 years...in the end I'm told I can't help my family survive a genocide by giving them temporary safety in Canada. But less than 2 years ago we had capacity to take in a million Ukrainians. I'm not stupid. You hate us cuz we're not white...
Jan 10, 2024 13 tweets 3 min read
I asked my cousin to tell me how they spend their days during the genocide. Here's what she said:

At 4 am, her brother, 19, gets up to join the line for drinking water. They get 1 gallon of water/ day/ household. They have 11 people in theirs. This line takes several hours. 1/ Next, her brother joins a second long line. This time for regular use water (salted). This is used for washing, bathing, dishes & everything else.

At dawn, the rest of the family gets up. They pray Fajr (the dawn prayer), read Quran & make Duaa (supplications) together. 2/
Nov 7, 2023 6 tweets 2 min read
An American doctor posted that 'women in Palestine have no rights'

Huh? Women in Palestine have one of the highest education rates in the world. They're pioneers in emerging fields like solar energy.

But you're not wrong...Israel has stolen women's rights by murdering them... "Palestinians have long had a reputation as high-performing graduates, often proficient in at least two languages, and frequently going on to pursue successful careers[...] At the same time, the Palestinians are the world’s largest refugee population". cupblog.org/2023/08/23/why…
Nov 1, 2023 29 tweets 6 min read
My family's history:

75 years ago, my grandma, who was around 10 years old at the time, lived with her family in the mid-Northern part of Palestine. They owned a multigenerational home, where they had lived peacefully for many years.

One day, migrants arrived from Europe.

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They initially started setting up tents near the shore.

Then, they started moving into the towns.

They were accompanied by British & Israeli soldiers, instructed to create The State of Israel in the middle of Palestine.

These soldiers began harassing & terrorizing natives.

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