A couple years ago, I heavily advocated for the lifting of draconian sanctions against Syria. I was attacked for it & defamed as pro-Bashar by many Syrians. Now, the same people celebrate because sanctions are ending under direct US/Israeli rule. 1/ Palestine was once part of Greater Syria. How did we let Europe divide us like this? How could fellow Arabs have the heart to celebrate the lifting of sanctions at the expense of their kin being mercilessly starved, besieged & bombarded across the border? 2/

After Israel managed to control the latest massive forest fire in Jerusalem, I made a highly condensed thread on its causes and implications as an expert in green colonialism. 1/ Several large Israeli forest fires erupted in the last several years (2010, 2016, & 2021 in Jerusalem). Israel regularly jumps to accuse the Indigenous inhabitants (Palestinians) of terr*rism, when they're usually sparked by negligence & climate change. 2/

I used to keep my head low. I thought is kept me safe. In undergrad, I sank in my seat as my White history professor explained that Palestinians "may have been expelled or left on their own accord," whitewashing Zionism. My heart raced and silence ate me from the inside. 1/

https://twitter.com/sasa_ghada/status/1917325647094960509

And I thought never again will I betray my people or Islam which commanded us to always defend the truth. So as a Master's student, I mentioned in class how the readings greenwashed Israel's theft of 🇵🇸 water by celebrating the settler colony as a pioneer in drip-irrigation. 2/

Imagine if Nazi Germany launched a global atrocity propaganda tour to victimize itself & rally support for the Holocaust. This is the strategy Israel deployed last year by launching the Nova Music Festival Exhibition, which is coming to Toronto from April 23 to June 8. 1/ The Lincoln Center for Human Rights, which operates under the name Lawfare Project Canada, is bringing this exhibition to Canada that manufactures consent for the genocide of Palestinians. The group was founded by Canadian Zionist attorney Brooke Goldstein. 2/

In case you missed it, Canada's supposed most left-leaning party @NDP dropped a campaigner last week for rightfully comparing the ongoing genocide against Palestine to the Holocaust. They smeared her name & emboldened media to denigrate her for sex work. 1/ Notice that the NDP did not defame Jessica Wetz as an anti-Semite in classic Zionist fashion, but as "disrespectful" for comparing the Nakba to the Holocaust, speaking to the extent that respectability politics are weaponized to shut down anti-oppressive critiques in "Canada". 2/

Dear fellow Muslims, when you are sick, do you just pray and make duaa? No, you take medication, follow doctors' orders, and do everything you can to heal — in addition to prayer. It's obvious. So how do you claim prayer is sufficient in the face of genocide with a straight face? How do you have so much confidence that Allah SWT will excuse your inaction because of XYZ? When the Quran commands us multiple times to aid the oppressed? When our kin in Gaza have clarified the way we can help the most is by protesting & sacrificing to halt the massacres?

🚨 A large Zionist organization at @YorkUniversity is hosting Israeli soldiers who genocided Palestinians in Gaza this year and teaching Israeli military combat tactics to students. 🚨 1/ On September 22, Hillel York hosted THREE Israeli soldiers, boasting in a now-deleted Instagram post about how two of them served in the 'elite' units Ezog (terrorizing Palestinians in Gaza & the West Bank) & Duvdevan (imitating Arabs to monitor & kill Palestinians). 2/

Yesterday on a panel hosted by @SURJto & @JewsSayNo, Ghassan Najjar, a Palestinian based in Burin, explained that Israel destroyed over 16,000 olive trees in this one village, just in the last 20 years. And Israeli settlers have a new method of poisoning land. 1/ Ghassan added that Israeli settlers destroyed over 1000 olive trees in Burin, which is located in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, just in the last month. Normally, Palestinians can replant olive trees in 3 years. But now settlers are poisoning our land to drive us away. 2/

I can't tell you how devastating it is for me as a Palestinian to run into people who vaguely express sadness over the killing of kids & "war", center Israeli "progressive" voices, & regurgitate Zionist points like "Israel is surrounded by threatening Muslim countries". 1/ Almost 11 months into a genocide perpetrated by Israel against a colonized, occupied, and besieged population, killing over 200,000 Palestinians, and people still perpetuate Israel's racist and deceptive narrative. It's demoralizing and soul crushing. 2/

🚨 Yesterday, about 100 of us protested against a Filipino church in "Scarborough" for hosting an event celebrating Israel & its ongoing genocide against Palestine, sponsored by the Israeli Consulate. The police brutalized & arrested three of us anti-colonial protestors.🚨 1/5 We chanted across the Zionist church. Outside it stood Hindu supremacist Ron Banerjee (who openly advocated for the killing of Muslims and Sikhs), former head of the FBI-listed terrorist group JDL, Meir Weinstein, and other bigots. God-loving church? 2/5

HUGE HUGE victory for Palestine today! The Jewish National Fund (JNF) is the most Zionist organization in the world and is the precursor to the settler colony of Israel. It is the focus of my doctoral research and it just had its charitable status revoked by Canada! 1/

https://twitter.com/CDN_Dimension/status/1816629856420995388

JNF was founded by the World Zionist Congress in 1901 Switzerland explicitly to buy Palestinian land for European Jewish colonization. It used deceptive tactics to purchase from Lebanese/Syrian landowners resulting in the first ever expulsions of Palestinians. 2/

Just published this Instragram post, expanding on a Twitter thread I wrote last year on LGBTQ+ rights from an Islamic perspective. 1/

It's no surprise that Hezbollah rocket fire is igniting huge forest fires in "Israel" bc Zionists converted Palestine into a tinderbox. They claim to have planted over 250 million trees since 1948, but the vast majority of them are invasive pines. Let's discuss Birya Forest. 1/ As Israeli scholar Ilan Pappe writes in "The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine", Birya Forest is Israel's biggest man-made forest, strategically planted over the ruins of the 6 🇵🇸 villages of Dishon, Alma, Qaddita, Amqa, Ayn al-Zaytun and Biriyya to hide them. 2/

In 2021, this Zionist activist on campus filed a SLANDEROUS complaint against me with the Equity Office of McMaster, accusing me of harassment & discrimination. After the university hired a private law firm to investigate me for a YEAR, all his complaints were dismissed.
1/ I never mentioned this story before because I felt unsafe, but clearly my "progressive" Zionist harasser Max Lightstone wants to shine light 🤭 on this story in 2024 to drag my name in the mud again, so let's talk about it. 2/

https://x.com/LighthouseMax/status/1752036845167259807?t=Irs_U2zUF553iIDHjW1tMg&s=19

When the British colonized Egypt, they specifically began designing villages to have mosques on the outskirts rather than center, not just bc they hate Islam, but bc mosques were places where Natives could freely gather & plan around resistance. Similarly, encampments... are being heavily policed & suppressed not only bc unis hate 🇵🇸
but bc they're anti-democratic. Camps are accessible places for progressive students, faculty & staff to connect and exchange ideas to mobilize for change, threatening the uni/state's oppressive status quo. 2/

As someone who was elected into my university's Board of Governors in 2020, I cannot stress this enough to all the beautiful Palestine solidarity student movements rising: Do NOT trust your administration. They will lie, manipulate, gaslight, and hurt you. 1/ I served less than half my term as BOG Graduate Student Representative bc I suffered a panic attack after realizing how corrupt & heartless our administrators are. They're no better than politicians. They are often White male CEOs who will happily kick you while you are down. 2/

On Tuesday, @CBCNews @CBCQueensPark journalist witnessed the Parliament blocking my entry because I wore a keffiyeh. He asked if he could interview & take pictures of me. I agreed. He then decided not to even mention me or any other Palestinian in his article. 1/





He chose a White female politician as the cover photo who's anti-🇵🇸 herself. He whitewashes the genocide as "the Israel-Hamas war". Instead of quoting any Palestinian, he cites the Canadian Muslim Lawyers Association, perpetuating our erasure as Palestinians. 2/

We have TWO videos, showing how Ontario's Parliament enforced its racist keffiyeh ban against us this week. Even after I explained how the scarf is a key part of Palestinian heritage, we were asked to remove it unless it was worn as a hijab. We WILL be launching a lawsuit. 1/ This video shows the bigotry & absurdity of the keffiyeh ban. Muslim🇵🇸 & female bodies are policed to decide if a keffiyeh constitutes a hijab & can actually enter parliament. Queen's Park effectively constitutes an apartheid checkpoint now. 2/

Today, I walked into the Ontario Parliament as an unapologetic 🇵🇸 woman, wearing my keffiyeh, even after the Legislature banned it. My beautiful comrades & I managed to enter with a bit of creativity, wearing it as a hijab, colourful shawl & scrunchie. 1/



The keffiyeh is not only a symbol of 🇵🇸 resistance but a heritage piece. Yet, when police at the Parliament saw me with my keffiyeh, they barred me entrance. It wasn't until I said I was wearing it as a hijab that they spoke to management & allowed me to walk in the building. 2/

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Last night at the @YorkUniversity Alumni Show in Toronto, Indigenous Judge Harry LaForme gave a speech calling Zionists Indigenous, demonizing 🇵🇸 anti-colonial resistance, erasing the ongoing genocide, & asserting the moral superiority of Indigenous people here. 1/ Here are quotes from his speech, provided by another Indigenous traitor whom he cited @karenrestoule: “As an Anishinaabe, I am troubled by the hatred, the hatred against Jews, and the disappointing ignorance, fueled by misinformation emanating out of university campuses."
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A highly trusted source tells me that the journalist brother of the woman who reported seeing other 🇵🇸 women raped by the Israeli army in al-Shifa Hospital was pressured to later recant & claim she was exaggerating. 1/ I want to remind folks of the brilliant analysis of female scholar Dr @el_sabawi from Gaza. Local political (including 🇵🇸) leaders likely feared loss of morale & uprisings in solidarity with 🇵🇸 women if news broke of Israeli rape against women. 2/

https://twitter.com/el_sabawi/status/1772261775892750455?t=NZ-KG5FvVobRCGw0yLxaTg&s=19