Post videos from the ground and get shadowbanned for graphic content. Reshare an analytical article and nobody reads it. Write for a publication and get censored. Speak to a journalist and have your words butchered. Protest and get arrested. If you vocalize anger, you’re violent. If you’re depressed, you’re dramatic. If you tell your family’s story, you don’t have credibility. If you spit out statistics, it’s still questionable. Blame the bomber: you’re antisemitic. Blame the funder of the bombs: you’re un-American.

THREAD: Songs I associate with the Gaza Solidarity Encampment that @Columbia University cruelly destroyed, where I finally felt safe and surrounded by community on campus again for the first time in months🧵

#1: “Linger” by the Cranberries because it was stuck in my head as we were setting up the tents for the very first time at 4am on April 17th. I kept singing it that night and then a lot of people started sleeplessly humming it for hours