Peabody Award-winning Senior Presenter @ajplus | Coauthor of They Called Me A Lioness: A Palestinian Girl’s Fight For Freedom out now! bit.ly/3wu5klM
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Hisham Awartani is a Palestinian American junior at Brown University, described as a math genius. He was shot by a white man yesterday in Vermont along with his friends Kinnan Abdalhamid and Tahseen Ahmed. The 3 students were wearing kuffiyehs.
There are fears Hisham may not walk
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UPDATE: Ahed Tamimi is being held at Damon Prison in Israel and was beaten, according to her mother. Her mom received a call from a lawyer who was visiting another female Palestinian prisoner. That prisoner informed her lawyer of Ahed's status & to notify her family (continued)
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A genocidal American thought this was an ok sign to put in her window in Manhattan’s Upper East Side neighborhood.
It’s appalling, until you realize it’s not too far off from what we’ve observed U.S. policy to be.
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I'm deeply disturbed by the lack of outrage from Western journalists & the US government re: Israel's killing of Shireen Abu Akleh.
It reinforces what we as Palestinians have long felt: that there is little regard for our humanity.
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Shireen Abu Akleh’s colleague & eyewitness who was standing right by her described how an Israeli sniper directly targeted her.
They were both wearing press jackets & helmets. Shireen was shot near her ear, where the helmet didn’t cover. This was a shot of extreme precision.
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Update- protestors have shut down the entire international terminal at San Francisco international airport demanding a cease fire. Both major security gates are blocked
HAPPENING NOW: Pro Palestine protesters have shut down a security gate at San Francisco International Airport demanding a ceasefire now
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AHED TAMIMI UPDATE: Yesterday Israel's military court extended Ahed's detention another 6 days. The military prosecution requested time to issue an administrative detention order. This means they've failed to bring actual charges and will hold her without charge or trial.
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Palestinian journalist Momin Qreka lost his legs during Israel’s 2008 war on Gaza, and yet he continues to work
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This was so painful. Imagine having to explain to your kids how they might likely die and reassuring them that an air strike is just one hit, “whoosh,” that they won’t feel.
This is Gaza.
“Do we feel the pain or do we just die at once?” Al Jazeera correspondent @YoumnaElSayed17 tells @Dena how she’s having to speak to her children about death as Israel’s bombardment of Gaza continues.
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This Palestinian teenage boy who was just released from Israeli prison described how Israeli prison officials broke his arm and fingers. He didn't get treatment for over a week, until just now when the Red Cross saw him. His mom is crying beside him because she had no idea
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Ahed Tamimi revealed that her Israeli captors told her “we have your father in prison and if you speak, we’ll kill him” upon her release. I’m deeply disturbed by how visibly traumatized and worn down she appears coming out of Israeli prison, where we know she was beaten.
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I’m inside the US federal court where Palestinian plaintiffs are suing Biden, Blinken & Austin for failure to prevent -& complicity in - Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza
It’s unprecedented that the case made it this far. Palestinians w family in Gaza will testify soon @ajplus
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Bassem Tamimi, father of Ahed Tamimi, is still in Israeli prison after serving 6 months under administrative detention.
He was supposed to be released yesterday, but an Israeli military court extended his detention another 6 months. He hasn't been charged with anything.
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Meta flagged many of @azaizamotaz9’s images of dead and injured children in Gaza as “pornographic.”
When a Palestinian-American engineer at Meta tried to address it, he was fired.
He spoke to exclusively
This Meta engineer was fired after trying to fix the flagging of Gaza images as “pornographic.” @Dena reports
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Israeli forces just arrested Ahed Tamimi in the village of Nabi Saleh in the occupied West Bank.
Over a week ago they arrested her father, Bassem Tamimi while he was trying to make his way to Jordan.
The family still has no idea where he’s being held.
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Ahed’s family has had no way to contact her and is largely in the dark about her status.
International law prohibits an occupying power (Israel) from transferring prisoners outside occupied territory (West Bank). But Israel routinely imprisons Palestinians like Ahed inside Israel
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This @CNN internal memo directs staff to say “Hamas-run Gaza Ministry of Health” when reporting casualty numbers. It was sent by the Jerusalem bureau chief.
This is a page straight out of Israel’s playbook. It serves to justify the attack on civilians & medical facilities
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Protesters are blocking all entrances to this Lockheed Martin site in Sunnyvale, California, preventing workers from getting in. Lockheed Martin is the world’s largest weapons manufacturer and has been supplying Israel with F-35s, F-16s, Hellfire missiles and more. @ajplus
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My colleague Wael Dahdouh had moved his family to the south of Gaza, where Israel said it would be safer. His wife, son, daughter and grandson were killed while he was reporting for Al Jazeera.
There is no safe place in Gaza.
I'm so sorry Wael, our hearts are shattered.
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Protesters at the Port of Oakland have stopped a military vessel they heard was ultimately headed to Israel with American weapons.
The ship was about to leave when dozens ran towards it and grabbed its ropes.
Three ppl have been clinging to the ship’s ladder for over 5 hours
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Kinnan Abdalhamid is one of the 3 Palestinian American students who were shot in Vermont. He's pre-med at Haverford College. His mom says biology is his favorite subject, but is gifted in all sciences.
Kinnan is also a recently certified EMT and loves helping people.
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AHED TAMIMI UPDATE- Israel’s military court extended her remand another 6 days. This means she’s been held since Nov 6 without being charged.
A lawyer saw her yesterday. Ahed described still having bruises on her body from being beat in Israeli detention 2 weeks ago.
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Bombing children with cancer.
As our pediatric cancer department in Rantisi Hospital in #Gaza is being destroyed, we look back on some of the lives we’ve saved, like Jana, 8, from Khan Yunis, who was successfully treated last summer for cancer. 🇵🇸✌️☮️
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You have no moral high ground when you bomb a country and then ban its refugees. #Syria
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Ahed Tamimi is on the list of Palestinian prisoners to be released today by Israel.
She was arrested by Israeli forces on Nov 6 during a night raid of her home in the occupied West Bank and has been held without charge in an Israeli prison since.
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Remember when a Muslim American immigrant was crowned Miss USA in a pageant Donald Trump owned?
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Shireen Abu Akleh was also an American citizen.
Let’s see how the Biden administration reacts to her murder at the hands of Israel’s military, which gets $3.8 billion annually from the U.S.
I’m reeling from the news of the death of my friend and colleague Shireen Abu Akleh, a veteran Al Jazeera correspondent. Israeli forces shot her in the head while she reporting in Jenin while clearly wearing a press vest.
This is absolutely horrifying
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You let an IDF soldier on your show get away with saying the war is against “all the civilians” and that it’s a war “between good and evil” without challenging him at all.
Dehumanizing narratives, which your interview helped spread and amplify, are also “awful and sickening”
“Chicago-area landlord charged with hate crimes after fatally stabbing 6-year-old and wounding his mom because they were Muslim, authorities say.”
Awful and sickening: cnn.com/2023/10/15/us/chicag…
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Shame on the the @nytimes for running this ad.
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Raise your hand if you (or your ancestors) have been personally victimized by the British monarchy
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Palestinian female prisoners are subject to cruel and inhuman treatment from the very first instances of their arrest, according to @Addameer.
They released this info on Damon Prison in Israel.
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The Palestinian boys coming out of prison are describing insane physical abuse and torment by Israeli prison authorities. Harsh beatings, deprivation of food, water, blankets and medical treatment.
This is how so-called “democratic” Israel treats Palestinian children. Inhumane.
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Imagine killing journalists and children with impunity and still getting unconditional U.S. aid and arms to kill more journalists and children with impunity
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“How can we make 2.5 million Palestinians in the West Bank feel that they cannot lift their head up? We will make them understand that we control their lives.”
Former Israeli soldier @origivati told me what most haunts him from the time he served in Israel’s army. @BtSIsrael
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Hundreds of Muslim Americans came out to Oakland’s City Hall for Friday prayer and protest against racism and police brutality
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Bassem Tamimi, Ahed’s father, was arrested by Israeli forces on Oct 29 while traveling to Amman. The family only learned today he’s being held in Ofer Prison under administrative detention for 6 months, meaning no charge or trial.
Israel can extend his detention after 6 months.
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Throwback to when Debbie Wasserman Schultz told me it’s a conspiracy theory to say the DNC wanted Hillary Clinton
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AHED TAMIMI UPDATE- She’s still in Damon Prison in Israel and hasn’t met w/ her lawyer or family.
Today she had her 2nd military court hearing, appearing on video from prison, w/o her lawyer beside her.
Prosecution asked for 8 more days to prepare charges. Judge gave them 6.
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Ahed's arrest comes amid a widespread crackdown by Israel. More than 2,200 Palestinians have been arrested since Oct. 7.
@Amnesty reports 'horrifying cases of torture and degrading treatment of Palestinian detainees amid spike in arbitrary arrests'
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I spoke to Ahed Tamimi in her first sit-down interview out of Israeli prison. She talked about why she slapped the soldier, the night of her arrest and interrogation, life behind bars, and her dreams for the future. My most memorable interview to date
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Apartheid. Plain and simple.
This is what modern-day apartheid looks like in the occupied West Bank.
(with @Dena)
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Ahed Tamimi's arrest also comes amid a spike in Israeli settler violence and across the occupied West Bank.
She and her family have also been targeted on Israeli Telegram channels w/ their photos, names and home location displayed in crosshairs, inciting violence against them
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Thousands of pro-Palestine activists shut down the ENTIRE Port of Oakland all day to protest the U.S. continuing to send weapons to Israel
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I’m reeling from the news of the death of my friend and colleague Shireen Abu Akleh, a veteran Al Jazeera correspondent. Israeli forces shot her in the head while she reporting in Jenin while clearly wearing a press vest.
This is absolutely horrifying
aje.io/n2ffyz
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Israeli soldiers just threw a sound bomb at us - a team of journalists- as we were trying to film around the Atara Checkpoint near Birzeit. This is the 5th time soldiers stop us today
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A Tribe Called Quest just blasted 'President Agent Orange' and his Muslim ban and literally broke a wall on stage at the #GRAMMYs 🙌🏾
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“I missed going out with my friends, I missed seeing the sky, I missed seeing the stars, I missed a lot of things in prison.”- Ahed Tamimi
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Meta told its Muslim employees they weren’t allowed to serve watermelon cupcakes at a companywide fair and suggested “traditional Muslim sweets” instead.
Watermelons are a symbol for Palestine. This is just one of many examples of how Meta suppresses 🇵🇸 internally + externally
No watermelons allowed: Former Meta employees tell @Dena about Palestine censorship inside one of the most powerful social media companies in the world.
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Al Awda Hospital in north Gaza is under siege by Israeli forces. Snipers are killing people who dare to move, including a woman who was accompanying her pregnant sister in law trying to get to the hospital to deliver. They’ve even bombed water tanks.
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As Palestine fades from the headlines in the next days, remember this:
When Palestinians resist occupation violently, they are punished by Israel.
When Palestinians resist occupation nonviolently like through Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions, they are punished by Israel.
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If you're trying to justify a cop shooting #AltonSterling point blank in the head like that, your humanity is in serious question. Just stop
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HAPPENING NOW: Pro Palestine protesters have shut down a security gate at San Francisco International Airport demanding a ceasefire now
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As you watch Israel yet again pummel Gaza with bombs, know that the 2 million Palestinians living there have no bomb shelters. Nowhere to escape. They can't leave Gaza bc Israel has blockaded the tiny strip of land by air, land and sea since 2007.
This is collective punishment.
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To all the journalists who are primed to believe everything Israeli officials say: Just know that they've been proven to deliberately lie and mislead you to shape the coverage.
You fell for for it when they said Shireen Abu Akleh was killed by Palestinians. Don't fall for more.
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Israeli soldiers raided Ahed Tamimi’s home, turned everything upside down and held her mother in another room, preventing her from being with her daughter.
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Congresswoman @RashidaTlaib is wearing a traditional embroidered Palestinian thobe as she’s sworn into office today on Thomas Jefferson’s Quran. A proud and historic moment. #tweetyourthobe
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Real talk. The only other time in my life that I’ve been under curfew, seen peaceful protesters brutalized, and journalists teargassed has been as a Palestinian at the mercy of Israel’s army.
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I asked @SenSanders about Palestine, the BDS movement targeting Israel, and whether he supports a one state solution
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These protesters literally put their bodies on the line in the pouring rain to block the entrances to Lockheed Martin in Sunnyvale, California.
Lockheed Martin manufactures fighter jets and weapons that Israel is using in its genocidal war against Palestinians in Gaza
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While serving her first prison sentence in 2017, Ahed addressed the military courtroom saying, “There is no justice under occupation and we are in an illegal court.”
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To punish someone who didn't CHOOSE to be brought to the US as a kid but has lived here as the only country they know is beyond cruel. #DACA
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This was the most personal and emotionally difficult thing I have filmed to date.
I retraced my father's footsteps in the old city of Hebron, a part of his beloved Palestinian hometown that has since been destroyed by Israeli apartheid.
Watch piped.video/watch?v=aEdGcej-…
Segregated streets. Settler violence. Military harassment.
@Dena spends a day in Hebron in the occupied West Bank, the city her father once called home.
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I just received copies of my first book!
They Called Me A Lioness: A Palestinian Girl’s Fight For Freedom is out Sept 6.
It’s the memoir of the inspiring activist Ahed Tamimi, jailed by Israel at 16. And it’s the story of Palestine
Order your copy here
penguinrandomhouse.com/books…
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I have prayed inside Al Aqsa mosque many times throughout my life. Its significance to Palestinians and to Muslims the world over can’t be overstated. Seeing Israeli forces attack it so ruthlessly is beyond distressing and must be condemned in the strongest terms.
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I sat down with Ahed Tamimi in one of the first interviews after her release. Though physically exhausted, she spoke with such passion, eloquence and bravery. This girl is a force. Coming soon to @ajplus
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Video of Israeli forces arresting Ahed Tamimi in a pre-dawn raid of her home in Nabi Saleh, occupied West Bank
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This IDF spokesman had the nerve to blame a man in Gaza who lost all his family by Israel’s SECOND air strike on Jabaliya refugee camp, saying he should have heeded the warning to flee.
Flee where? To the south where Israel also bombs nonstop?
Flee how? In a car with no fuel?
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Hoax, Karma, There Is A God, and hydroxychloroquine are all trending on Twitter right now following news that Trump tested positive for covid.
What a time to be alive.
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A 20 foot tall statue of Nelson Mandela stands in Ramallah, sent as a gift from the people of South Africa. Mandela once said, “We know too well that our freedom is incomplete without the freedom of the Palestinians.” There’s also a street here called South Africa Street
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Man chants "not my president" from his D.C. condo and protesters echo it back #Inauguration
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Today Ahed Tamimi & her mom Nariman will be released from prison. I’m with her family on their way to pick them up from a checkpoint they’ll get dropped off at by israel. They headed to one checkpoint only to be told it’ll be at another, then switched again. Deliberate confusion
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MSNBC won’t even give Steve Kornacki a break during commercials. They a live cam on him like it’s the Panda Cam at the DC Zoo
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“Two years ago I was ready to jump off a bridge...I got a new start. I have hope now.” Careem went from having marijuana misdemeanors to now starting his own business. This is thanks to a new Oakland law seeking to correct the racist war on drugs.
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Israel just bombed Al Ahli Hospital in Gaza where hundreds of people had been sheltering.
A HOSPITAL!!!
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Facebook has locked me out of my own page for the first time. I’m sure it has absolutely nothing to do with the fact that I’m posting about Palestine...
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Shoutout to all my fellow immigrants and children of immigrants from shithole countries
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Your legacy is genocide.
May the tens of thousands of innocent Palestinians killed on your watch by your weapons forever haunt you.
Following the ceasefire, hostages are starting to be released.
Three Israeli women held for 470 days.
Four more women in seven days.
And three hostages every seven days thereafter including at least two Americans in this first phase.
We pray for their long recovery ahead.
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I can’t go to Israel even though I’m a US born citizen. That’s because I’m also Palestinian, from the West Bank. You got a plan B for me?
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SFO protesters celebrate no more families detained. Band playing & ppl singing "MOVE Trump, get out the way!" #NoBanNoWall
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The way so many media outlets have dismissed EYEWITNESS ACCOUNTS of how Shireen got killed reveals how Palestinians aren't seen or trusted as reliable narrators of their own experiences. But Israel's army is trusted/given equal weight.
There's some deeply engrained racism there
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On the first morning home, Ahed Tamimi’s friends brought her a cake that says “Palestine’s icon”
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Ahed Tamimi’s younger brother Abu Yazan has been up all night awaiting the release of his sister and mother. This pic was taken at 4 am at his home in Nabi Saleh.
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I’m very excited to announce my forthcoming book They Called Me A Lioness: A Palestinian Girl’s Fight for Freedom, written with Ahed Tamimi.
The book is being published by @OneWorldLit on September 6, but you can preorder now: bit.ly/3wu5klM
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Ahed Tamimi told me this in a 2022 interview.
Relevant considering the unprecedented pro-Palestinian activism across US universities today
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We know what @BernieSanders thinks of Wall Street, but what does Wall St think of him? I was surprised #nyprimary
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Here’s why some Bernie fans are saying ‘Jill Not Hil’ and plan to vote for @DrJillStein of the Green Party
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Shireen’s killing hits home on so many levels. I too am a female journalist with Al Jazeera. I’m also Palestinian-American. And I’ve reported from the West Bank in a press vest & helmet.
This how the US govt would react if I was killed by Israel? Palestinian lives don’t matter
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Flint 4 years after water crisis began:
✅ no clean water
✅ highest water bills in country
✅ shut offs if you can’t pay bills
✅ entire school for kids poisoned by lead
✅ rampant poverty
✅ no accountability for guilty officials
Watch my latest
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The US is not an honest broker and never has been. Just look at the billions of dollars in military aid we annually give Israel, which regularly violates international law and human rights of Palestinians. Just look at the fact that Kushner helped fund illegal Israel settlements
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My new doc from Palestine is out. I was haunted my what I saw and heard in Nabi Saleh, home to Palestinian teen icon Ahed Tamimi. Night raids, child arrests & open fire from Israeli forces are just the tip of the iceberg of this military occupation. WATCH piped.video/9FlrrcAjBr4
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