Writer from occupied Jerusalem. Palestine Correspondent at The Nation. Culture Editor at @Mondoweiss. Author of RIFQA (poems, Haymarket). Working on a new book.
May 15, 2023 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
🧵: Today is the 75th commemoration of the Nakba—a term used to denote the catastrophic creation of the Israeli state, when Zionist militias ethnically cleansed Palestine & rendered us refugees outside of the borders of our homeland. It should be a household name, but it's not.
I'm tempted to riddle the next tweets w/facts & figures detailing the Nakba's cruelties: the names of the terrorist militias that formed the Israeli military that terrorizes us today; the massacres, refugees, and stolen lands; the pregnant bellies split open in Deir Yassin...
Mar 30, 2023 • 10 tweets • 2 min read
THREAD: Liberal Zionists are protesting to save the Supreme Court, which they consider a ‘beacon of democracy.’
But is it?
You can find the Supreme Court’s fingerprints on virtually all of the Israeli government’s settler-colonial enterprises & apartheid regime. 🧵
📌 It ruled that the Nation-State Law, which enshrines “Jewish settlement” as a “national value..to encourage,” doesn’t negate the state’s “democratic” character.
📌It repeatedly supported the legality of a law preventing the unification of thousands of Palestinian couples.
