Today, @Meta—parent company of Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp—is hosting its Annual General Meeting (AGM), and we must ensure that Meta shareholders hear us loud and clear: we cannot be silent while they systematically censor Palestinians and those standing up for Palestinian rights on social media as the Israeli government wages genocide and occupation. 🧵 Palestinians are facing the daily violence of genocide, theft of their homes and land, military occupation, and a brutal apartheid system of racial segregation — and a mainstream media that is hostile, biased, and dishonest about what they are enduring.

ALL EYES ON RAFAH.

The Israeli military has just carried out a massacre in Rafah. They bombed displaced families huddled in tents, killing over 35 people with more trapped in the flaming debris. The death toll is still rising.

We will never forget the images emerging from Rafah tonight. Human beings, including babies, were burned alive and torn apart. This genocide must end, it must end now. In nearly eight months, half of the 2.3 million people in Gaza have been forcibly displaced to Rafah as the Israeli military carried out indiscriminate bombardments across the Gaza Strip.

It might come as a surprise that Neo-Nazis and the far right, who have a long record of stoking antisemitism, are joining anti-Palestinian demonstrations, but for those familiar with the long-standing alliance between Zionists and antisemites, this is disturbingly predictable. 🧵 Remember, Zionism is the ideology that the Israeli government rests upon. It claims Jewish safety requires a Jewish-only nation-state. Zionists use the strategy of violent ethnic cleansing to ensure their goal of “maximum land, minimum Palestinians.”

The ADL peacocks as an organization whose purpose is to keep Jews safe. Instead, they use their political power, along with Zionist rhetoric, as a forceful tool against any organization or person that does not support the state of Israel. 🧵 Do not let them fool you, the ADL’s main priority isn’t anyone’s safety, it’s defending the apartheid state of Israel at any cost.

As Palestinians across the world prepared to commemorate 76 years of the ongoing Nakba this week, news broke that the Biden administration approved another $1 billion in weapons to the Israeli military. 🧵 Previously, President Biden claimed that the Israeli government’s promise of a genocidal ground invasion in Rafah would be a “red line.”

Yesterday, the Israeli government ended its yearly cycle of state holidays that sequentially commemorates the Holocaust, Israeli militarism, and the creation of the state of Israel.

The sequencing of these holidays was intentionally designed to conclude and obscure May 15, the day Palestinians mark the ongoing Nakba. 🧵 Much of this year’s commemorations have been especially depraved, as they celebrate the now genocidal violence required to maintain the Israeli government’s apartheid regime.

All Eyes on Rafah.

Israeli tanks are opening fire on Palestinian in Rafah, and the Israeli military has sealed off all crossings into Gaza. Palestinians are completely cut off from aid or fuel. Over 600,000 children in Rafah are at risk of starvation. Drinking water could run out in Rafah in days. 🧵 Israeli military tanks have surrounded the eastern part of Rafah and are already firing in neighborhoods where Palestinians are sheltering. The road between the eastern and western sections of Rafah is blocked.

Following an Israeli court ruling that defended the ethnic cleansing of the village, Israeli police and military-grade bulldozers destroyed 47 homes belonging to the same family. 🧵 Palestinian residents of the region, many of them citizens of Israel, have been defending it from the Israeli military’s attacks since the 1990s.

Early this morning, while the Israeli military indiscriminately bombed Khan Younis, the Israeli government dropped “evacuation” orders from airplanes pledging imminent use of extreme force against Palestinian families in eastern Rafah. 🧵 The Israeli military demanded that eastern Rafah be “evacuated.” This is no evacuation — this is forced displacement and ethnic cleansing.

Yom HaShoah, Holocaust remembrance Day, marks the Holocaust and honors the 17 million people murdered during Nazi Germany’s genocide, including 6 million Jews.

We know our remembrance is hollow if we cannot apply the lessons of our past to the present day. 🧵 This year, this day of remembrance falls on the day the Israeli military ordered the over 100,000 Palestinians sheltering in east Rafah to flee, but with nowhere to go. The decision to assault Rafah on this day is grotesque.

Another despicable death. Another brilliant light taken away. Dr. Adnan Bursh, the head of orthopedic surgery at al-Shifa hospital in Gaza was kidnaped four months ago by the Israeli military. Dr. Bursh was detained at Ofer prison, and has now been reported dead while imprisoned. Killed at the hands of the Israeli military who tortured him to death while in custody. The Palestinian Ministry of Health announced that Bursh's death brings the total number of medical sector workers killed by the Israeli military since October 7 to 496. The Ministry added that the Israeli military wounded 1,500 others and arrested 309 Palestinian medical workers.

Jewish Voice for Peace condemns NYPD assaults on students at Columbia and CCNY 🧵 JVP condemns the NYPD’s arrests and assaults of over 50 Columbia and Barnard students peacefully occupying Hind’s Hall (formerly Hamilton Hall, renamed by students in honor of a 6-year-old Palestinian girl killed by the Israeli military), as well as dozens of protesting students at the City College of New York.

Palestinians uncovered a second mass grave in Gaza with over 300 bodies, the majority Palestinian children and the elderly. The Israeli military killed and discarded them during its assault on the Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis.

This is a pattern. This is what a well-funded genocide looks like. 🧵 The Israeli military is able to systematize its ethnic cleansing of Palestinians in Gaza because of US funds.

This is a deeply disturbing response from the Biden administration to historic student anti-war protests.

https://twitter.com/JoshuaPHilll/status/1782145419642126822

Statements like these encourage draconian crackdowns and censorship of student protestors - including Palestinian, Jewish, Arab, and Muslim students - who are calling for an end to Israel's genocide of Palestinians.

Last night at Columbia University, hundreds of Jewish students and their classmates gathered at the Gaza solidarity encampment and celebrated the beginning of Shabbat with song and prayer. Directly after, Muslim students held Jummah prayer, the Friday prayer offered in community. 🧵

jvp.org/emailcolumbia These brave students are demonstrating their commitment to the world they are building, grounded in community and justice for all.

Columbia students launched the Gaza solidarity encampment on April 18th. Since then, students have faced mass arrest, over 50 have been suspended, and the administration continues attempts to shut them down.

As we mark the 81st anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, we are collectively watching the world’s first “livestreamed genocide.” 🧵 For so many of us, the images are unavoidable. Our social media feeds are full of Palestinian death and dehumanization by the Israeli military: children left as the sole caregivers of their siblings after their parents are killed, Palestinian prisoners stripped naked and handcuffed, amputations and c-sections with no anesthesia, survivors of the Nakba traumatized again and again, adults and children lined up and numbered, the bodies of Palestinians discarded after execution by Israeli soldiers.

More testimony continues to surface detailing US-backed Israeli war crimes. Last week, an anonymous Israeli doctor released a devastating letter detailing the conditions at Sde Teiman, an Israeli concentration camp currently holding over 800 Palestinians from Gaza. 🧵 The conditions are inhumane: Palestinians are handcuffed 24 hours-a-day, which causes such extreme injury that amputation “is a routine event.”

As famine takes over in Gaza, the Israeli military is purposefully targeting humanitarian aid operations to cause a maximum of harm to Palestinians. 🧵 On Monday, Israeli warplanes repeatedly bombed a World Central Kitchen aid convoy as they drove away from distributing food in central Gaza, killing seven aid workers.

Journalists described how the Israeli military targeted the aid convoy "systematically, car by car."

The Israeli military has relentlessly bombed farmland in Gaza and killed Palestinian farmers and agricultural workers. This is intentional. This is ecocide. This is creating conditions of long-term famine. 🧵 The Israeli military is targeting Palestinians during peak planting season crops that are meant to feed Palestinians for the coming year.

Let us be clear: The atrocities committed by the Israeli military in al-Shifa hospital are the direct result of the US government’s continued support. 🧵 Today, the Israeli military ended its two-week siege on Gaza City’s al-Shifa Medical Complex, the largest hospital in all of Palestine, leaving it in ruins.

Land Day falls during the Israeli government’s genocide of Palestinians. With immense grief and rage at the horrors the Israeli military is committing in Gaza right now, we recognize Palestinians’ deep roots in their land as we support the struggle for Palestinian freedom. 🧵 We honor the steadfastness and resilience of those who have resisted land theft by the Zionist movement and the Israeli government, military, and settlers. This day commemorates Palestinian land defenders from every era: