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Antisemitism is not only a threat to Jews but also a visible symptom of the rise of anti-democratic politics & fascism. #Zionist https://t.co/llU2Eqrh7k
Feb 10 35 tweets 7 min read
Muslim Brotherhood, Muslim Brethren or The Society of the Muslim Brothers (Arabic: جمعية الأخوان المسلمون Jamiat al-Ikhwan al-muslimun) has a political approach to Islam, founded in Egypt 1928 by cleric Hassan al-Banna after collapse of Ottoman Empire, promotes Islamic terrorism. According to founder al-Banna, “It is the nature of Islam to dominate, not to be dominated, to impose its law on all nations and to extend its power to the entire planet.” bit.ly/brothermus
Feb 9 58 tweets 8 min read
Hungary's Miklós Horthy passed anti-Jewish measures in emulation of Germany's Nuremberg Laws. First Jewish Law; May 29, 1938 Jews restricted to 20% of commercial enterprise, press, physicians, engineers & lawyers. Second Jewish Law: May 5, 1939 defined Jews racially: 2,3, 4 Jewish-born grandparents. Third Jewish Law: August 8, 1941 prohibited intermarriage & penalized sexual intercourse between Jews & non-Jews. Fourth Jewish Law: September 6, 1942 banned Jews from owning or purchasing land
Feb 7 26 tweets 4 min read
When the Jews of Medina refused to convert and rejected Muhammad, two of the major Jewish tribes were expelled; in 627, Muhammad's followers killed between 600 and 900 of the men, and divided the surviving Jewish women and children amongst themselves. jewishvirtuallibrary.org/the-treatment-… Muslim attitude toward Jews is reflected throughout the Koran, the holy book of the Islamic faith. “They [the Children of Israel] were consigned to humiliation & wretchedness. They brought the wrath of God upon themselves, because they disobeyed & were transgressors” (Sura 2:61).
Oct 27, 2022 16 tweets 3 min read
A Propaganda Model: media serve the ends of a dominant elite. The expansion of the free market was accompanied by an "industrialization of the press." by Noam Chomsky bit.ly/3sDpIOs "advertisers thus acquired a de facto licensing authority since, without their support, newspapers ceased to be economically viable."
Oct 26, 2022 5 tweets 1 min read
Jury nullification - knowing & deliberate rejection of the evidence/ refusal to apply law to send message about social issue larger than case itself or result dictated by law is contrary to jury's sense of justice, morality, or fairness law.cornell.edu/wex/jury_nulli… jury nullification, the jury returns a “not guilty” verdict even if jurors believe beyond a reasonable doubt that the defendant broke the law. This can occur because a not guilty verdict cannot be overturned and jurors are protected regardless of their verdicts.
Oct 26, 2022 5 tweets 1 min read
jury nullification - when jury returns Not Guilty verdict although jurors believe beyond reasonable doubt defendant broke the law. Because Not Guilty verdict can't be overturned, jurors can't be punished for verdict fija.org/library-and-re… There is no requirement that jurors must come to a unanimous verdict. If the jury cannot unanimously agree on a verdict of either Guilty or Not Guilty, this is known as a hung jury.
Oct 26, 2022 4 tweets 1 min read
The Changing Global Religious Landscape pewrsr.ch/2o9QApo Christians largest religious group worldwide: a third (31%) of Earth’s 7.3 billion people. Muslims 1.8 billion people: 24% of global population, religious “nones” (16%), Hindus (15%) and Buddhists (7%). Jews are 0.1%
Mar 20, 2022 19 tweets 4 min read
The Holocaust in Ukraine represents the first phase of the Holocaust in which an estimated 1.5 million Jews were shot to death at close range in ravines, open fields, and forests. nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/u… By present-day borders, 1 of 4 Jews murdered in Holocaust was killed in Ukraine. Nazi killing units, which had begun shooting all adult male Jews during the invasion of the Soviet Union, expanded to include a genocide targeting women, children, and entire Jewish communities.
Feb 25, 2022 11 tweets 2 min read
Statement by Scholars of Genocide, Nazism and World War II: Since February 24, 2022, the armed forces of the Russian Federation have been engaged in an unprovoked military aggression against Ukraine. docs.google.com/document/d/1Lg… The attack is a continuation of Russia’s annexation of the Crimean peninsula in 2014 and its heavy involvement in the armed conflict in the Donbas region.
Feb 25, 2022 5 tweets 1 min read
Palestine Vaincra is part of the Samidoun network, which issued a truly Orwellian press release complaining about how their support and incitement for murdering Jews is a human right. elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2022/02/france… We've seen this sort of argument before, that advocating for killing Jews is a human right. It only makes sense if the "human rights activists" do not regard Jews as being human and deserving of rights to begin with.
Jun 18, 2021 7 tweets 2 min read
Palestinian Authority Article 4, “any person who…has abused any information technology…shall be liable to either imprisonment, a fine between two hundred and one thousand Jordanian dinars, or a combination of the two.” addameer.org/publications/b… Article 4 continues to state that, if the abuse or access in question affects governmental data, the sentence shall be “a minimum of five years of temporary hard labour and…a fine of no less than five thousand Jordanian dinars"
Dec 4, 2020 14 tweets 3 min read
refuse the assumption that risk & harm associated w data practices can be bounded to mean same thing for everyone, everywhere, at every time; acknowledge how historical & systemic patterns of violence & exploitation produce differential vulnerabilities manifestno.com refuse to be disciplined by data, devices & practices that seek to shape & normalize racialized, gendered & differently-abled bodies that track, monitor & surveil; commit to taking back control over the ways we behave, live, and engage with data and its technologies.