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"Are you a Palestinian?"
"Yes"
"Goodbye"
Apartheid in Israel.
I wonder where else certain racial groups were treated as 2nd class citizens?
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Remains of an entire Palestinian family, including an infant found in his tiny rocking cradle, have been discovered in Gaza after they were killed by Israel during its genocidal war.
The baby was asleep in his cot when an Israeli strike hit his family’s home, killing his mother, father and the rest of the family.
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Hey @grok, if you were born in Austin, Texas, but are Jewish, can you go to Israel as an Israeli citizen?
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Israel's Central Elections Committee has banned all majority Arab parties from next month's elections. The panel is made up of politicians representing factions in Israel's parliament, the Knesset.
It voted to disqualify the Joint List slate and the Ra'am party under a law which prohibits parties from expressing support for armed struggle.
The decision must be approved by the Supreme Court, which is expected to strike down the bans next week.
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Charlotte Church sang From the River to the Sea at a fundraising event for Palestinians and now all the usual people are screaming antisemitism and trying to cancel her.
RT if you stand with Charlotte Church and Palestine.
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Powerful and utterly upsetting.
Today in the Irish Examiner.
800 items NOT allowed into Gaza and it's only half the actual list.
4 standout for me:
- Toys
- Crutches
- Babies nappies
- Cancer medication
Israel PREVENTS the very basics of life
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Amb. Mike Huckabee is still pushing the "Hamas beheaded babies" and "baked babies in ovens" hoaxes (among others) nearly three years after the stories were debunked.
"Now, if anybody says, well, that stuff didn't really happen, well, we know it did… Hamas taped themselves doing it," he claims. "We have it on video."
This is a straight blood libel. I guess he skipped the part of the Bible against bearing false witness.
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I have never seen such a blatant double standard in my life.
In 2018, when 12 young Thai football players and their coach were trapped in a cave in Thailand, the world did not say, “They are not our citizens.” Britain sent some of its best cave divers. Australia sent doctors and rescue experts. The United States sent more than 40 military personnel and equipment. Countries came together and worked with the Thai authorities to get those children out.
And they did as clear in the video below. They saved all 13 of them.
Tonight, in Gaza, people woke up to the screams and cries of children, women, and elderly people after a six-story building known as the “Al-Saada” building collapsed. Nearly 100 people were sheltering inside. Dozens of tents surrounded the building. Many of those trapped under the rubble are children.
They are still under the rubble. So where are the international rescue teams?
Why aren't neighboring Arab countries sending rescue teams? Why aren't Western countries sending specialized teams to save whoever can still be saved?
My heart aches for my people in Gaza :(
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I’m here to sound the alarm again today as I’ve been doing since 2016.
We are in a dire situation when a performer is pulled from a tour for simply calling out genocide in Gaza.
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Ben Gvir doesn't represent Israel, Smotrich doesn't represent Israel, Netanyahu doesn't represent Israel, the Israeli cabinet doesn't represent Israel, a million settlers in the West Bank don't represent Israel, 81% of the genocidal Israeli population don't represent Israel,
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I’ve repeatedly called for sanctions on Israel over its war crimes and ethnic cleansing, including by providing evidence to the International Criminal Court.
The decision by the Israeli government to sanction me today will not intimidate me into silence. I will continue to do what is right, speak out in defence of international law and stand up for justice for the Palestinian people.
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My statement on Israel's decision to ban me and 10 other British MPs from entry.
"I have visited all parts of Palestine on several occasions, where I have witnessed the horrors of occupation, as well as the resilience and humanity of the Palestinian people.
They are the ones who suffer from Israel's apartheid. It is their freedom which is egregiously curtailed, alongside thousands of Palestinian refugees who are denied the right of return.
As the world wakes up to the genocide in Gaza, it is shocking that Israel continues to deny entry to UN investigators and international journalists. Israel doesn't want the world to see what it is doing - but we can never give up in our attempts to expose the truth.
That is the real scandal. Israel’s genocide cannot go unpunished - and I will keep speaking up for peace, freedom and justice for the Palestinian people."
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The Gaza Strip never existed as a thing until Israel made it into the dumping ground for hundreds of thousands of Palestinians driven by murderous violence from their homes in 1948-49 and then cut it out of the territory that Israel claimed.
It was a way to get rid of Palestinians, like colonists in North America establishing native reserves or like Oklahoma becoming "Indian Territory" for the Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Creek, and Seminole nations even though other people were already living there -- and then, like Israel, deciding they wanted it too.
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this is a valuable lesson in never caving to these vicious sharks who will make the most insane comparisons and act as though abdul courted an antisemite's audience when every reasonable person knows thats not the case. unfortunately mainstream media is riddled with cynical pro israel elites who will slander as easily as they breathe
Emily Maitlis equates @hasanthehun with former Grand Wizard of the KKK David Duke
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Today, like every other day, Israel is murdering children simply because they are Palestinians.
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Fucking hell. Must be tiring blowing the shit out of kids and stealing land.
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Keir Starmer's only function was to drive out the left and make Labour safe again for the establishment.
He achieved it by lying shamelessly, with the whole media cheering him on.
He responded to the Gaza genocide with the same sense of dishonour.
Good riddance.
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Israeli snipers shot a little boy and his mother and shot at anyone trying to save them.
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This is not Andy Burnham's call to make. No British Prime Minister has any right to rule out a unity referendum.
The Good Friday Agreement is clear: the people of the island of Ireland alone must determine their own future.
Prime Minister Andy Burnham has ruled out calling a referendum on Irish unification, describing a border poll as "off the table".
He was speaking during his first official visit to Northern Ireland as prime minister.
Read more here: bbc.in/45ML13X
