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Look out for these protests!

"Anti-Hamas Protests in Gaza Set for Tomorrow, Wednesday.

Activists in Gaza have issued another call for mass protests across the Gaza Strip tomorrow, Wednesday, at 4:00 PM (Palestine time), to voice their rejection of the ongoing war and Hamas’s destructive rule.

Protest Locations:
1.Deir al-Balah Camp – Palm Roundabout
2.Jabalia Camp – al-Tarans area
3.Nuseirat – al-Zuhur area
4.Gaza City – al-Saraya
5.Al-Shati Camp – Palestine Square
6.Khan Younis – Jasser Building
7.Khan Younis – Bani Suhaila Roundabout
8.Al-Shuja’iya – al-Mawqif
9.Beit Lahia – the Roundabout"

April 2, 2025 at 1:13 AM

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The New York Times

@nytimes.com

People around the world are choosing not to buy American products to demonstrate their anger at President Trump’s policies. “We all feel that we are doing something,” said one boycotter. “We are acting on our frustration.”

Why Shoppers Abroad Are Boycotting U.S. Goods

A growing number of Europeans and citizens of other countries are choosing not to buy American products to demonstrate their anger at President Trump’s policies.

www.nytimes.com

March 21, 2025 at 6:30 PM

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The same people who have been attacking Muslims for being too illiberal are now supporting the right wing attempts to destroy democracy both in Israel and the US🙄

March 21, 2025 at 6:33 PM

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Mass protests against Trump are planned to happen on April 5th throughout America. I recommend attending one of them! Use the link below to find and register for one of them (the “map” on the website is very helpful) www.mobilize.us/handsoff/

Hands Off! Join the National Mobilization to Fight Back · Hands Off on Mobilize

Find events, petitions, volunteer opportunities, fundraisers and more with Hands Off.

www.mobilize.us

March 20, 2025 at 6:31 PM

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🪦 New Yorkers are in front of the New York Stock Exchange for a mass die-in to symbolize how these devastating cuts will destroy families & take lives.

Deep spending cuts to programs like healthcare, food assistance, and education is a matter of life & death for millions.

Congress: #StopTheCuts!

March 15, 2025 at 4:58 PM

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Hopefully this will stop the massacres in Syria! dailypost.ng/2025/03/09/s...

Syrian leader seeks peace amid deadliest violence in years

Syrian leader Ahmed Sharaa on Sunday called for peace after many people were killed in some of the deadliest violence in 13 years of civil war, pitting

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March 9, 2025 at 5:46 PM

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Click on the buttons in the link daily to donate to various organizations helping the Palestinians, children, environment, poverty, refugees, and women!
#Palestine #Charity #WomenRights #SaveTheChildren #Environmentalism #Refugees #Poverty #HumanRights #Politics #MiddleEast arab.org/click-to-hel...

Help Palestinian refugees with a Click

Please help deliver support to Palestinian families; all you have to do is to click once a day for free, every day!

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October 25, 2024 at 7:02 AM

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I really recommend everyone to watch this video! It really shows the opinions of many Gazans, and the destruction and despair Gazans are unfortunately facing. The people interviewed were picked randomly

None of the people interviewed wanted Hamas to solely rule the Strip! youtu.be/R85kR9DgH78?...

Palestinians in Gaza: Who should rule Gaza?

YouTube video by Corey Gil-Shuster

youtu.be

March 6, 2025 at 11:12 PM

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The response to the film from the Palestinians who are actually facing the settler attacks, unlike the Western pro-Hamas activists, was overwhelmingly positive. Honestly, fuck the @bdsmovement.bsky.social and every other "pro-Palestine activist" who supported their boycott against the movie

"I don’t know what the BDS people are talking about,” Jihad Al-Nawaja, head of the village council in Susiya, told +972. “What do they want from us? I want you to quote me word-for-word: I swear to you, after many years of struggle, confrontations, arrests, beatings, and demolitions, I know — not think, know — that without people like Yuval and Jewish activists from Israel and around the world, half of Masafer Yatta’s lands would have been confiscated and razed by now. Our steadfastness here is thanks to their help.

“As far as I’m concerned, Yuval is far more Palestinian than most of these online commentators attacking him — he is Palestinian to the core,” Al-Nawaja continued. “He is Jewish and Israeli, but he understands exactly what’s happening here just as I do, and he chose to stand with us. Yuval and dozens like him have lived with us, eaten with us, slept in our homes, and confronted soldiers and settlers alongside us every single day. I invite all the critics to turn off their air conditioners, get in a car, and come live here with us for just one week. Then let’s see if they still call on me to boycott the film.”

Tariq Hathaleen, an activist from the village of Umm Al-Khair, explained: “Everything we stand for here is in real danger. We have been under daily attacks from settlers. On the same evening that the whole world was talking about [“No Other Land”] winning the Oscar, the settlers organized themselves and came to take revenge. To all those scrutinizing the legitimacy of our struggle, I say: take your statements, turn them into juice, drink it, and calm down.

“I have personally been active in this struggle for more than two decades,” Hathaleen continued. “After much thought and discussion, we decided back then that we would welcome all supporters who identify with us on the ground. Twenty years ago, groups from Israel and abroad came, and I accompanied them. For me, they are a force I cannot afford to give up on. All these years, we have heard the accusations from the boycott movement against us — we expected it.”

Hathaleen believes that the overwhelming majority of residents in the area still stand behind this decision to welcome Israeli activists into co-resistance, especially now when the community feels more vulnerable than ever. He also thinks the BDS movement’s denunciation has a class element and is part of a struggle over narrative ownership.

“Palestinians in the diaspora, although they are the third generation to the Nakba, live with the privileges that Western countries grant them,” Hathaleen said. “They are educated and multilingual. Alongside them are wealthy intellectuals in the major cities of the West Bank who believe they know what the Palestinian struggle needs. And then, with this film, suddenly a group of simple people — farmers and shepherds, students and workers — managed to reach the world’s stage with a single documentary film. Believe me, if one of them had initiated the film and worked on it, we wouldn’t have heard these voices [calling to boycott it], and we would be celebrating its screening in Ramallah.”

For Nidal Younis, the head of the Masafer Yatta village council, the success of “No Other Land” at the Oscars should not only be celebrated, but used “as a lever to shed more light on what is happening in Masafer Yatta and all of Palestine. In the current reality, with settler violence and daily attacks on our communities, alongside the moral decline in Israeli society, this film is a very loud cry against oppression and injustice. No film can bring about historical justice to our people, but it is one of the available means in our struggle, and must be used in our international efforts.”

A Palestinian activist and teacher whose home Israel has demolished multiple times, and who requested anonymity, said: “Honestly, I’m tired of all the criticism from people who don’t know who we are or how we survive here, yet lecture us on what to do and how to tell our story. I am incredibly proud of Basel and Yuval for making this film.

“Our struggle has been going on for [decades]. We are forgotten here in caves, and no one cares. Without this film, who would even know where Umm Al-Khair or Susiya are, or what their story is? I’m about to cook an Iftar meal for all the Jewish, Christian, and Muslim activists who live here with us. I invite anyone to spend just one night here in the freezing cold with them. Maybe the settlers will attack us before dawn, and we’ll need their help.”

Another activist from a different village who also requested anonymity, added: “I am ashamed of all these critics and attackers. Instead of supporting Yuval and Basel and contributing to our struggle, even just with words online, this is what they choose to do? Preach to us and tell us what the Palestinian struggle should be? This film has shed light on our reality in a way that no Palestinian politician in a suit, speaking multiple languages, has ever dared to. I don’t know a single person in Masafer Yatta who doesn’t support it.

“There is a difference between a Zionist and a Jew, between a settler and an Israeli leftist who opposes the occupation. I simply cannot put them all in the same category. And if people criticize Basel for making a film with an Israeli, I invite any Palestinian who wants to make a film — even just a TikTok video, not an Oscar-winning movie — to come here. We will help them. The most important thing is to keep raising our voice.”

March 8, 2025 at 1:58 AM

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I really recommend everyone to watch this video! It really shows the opinions of many Gazans, and the destruction and despair Gazans are unfortunately facing. The people interviewed were picked randomly

None of the people interviewed wanted Hamas to solely rule the Strip! youtu.be/R85kR9DgH78?...

Palestinians in Gaza: Who should rule Gaza?

YouTube video by Corey Gil-Shuster

youtu.be

March 6, 2025 at 11:12 PM

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Netanyahu is now mass starving Palestinians on the month of Ramadan to try and push Hamas to accept a ceasefire extension (instead of just following the ceasefire agreement they've already agreed to). This immoral act will only hurt the hostages and Palestinian civilians www.upi.com/Top_News/Wor...

Israel halts humanitarian aid; 116 killed in Gaza since ceasefire - UPI.com

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday that Israel would not allow any further humanitarian aid into Gaza.

www.upi.com

March 2, 2025 at 11:47 PM

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The IDF murdered a 12-year-old child, didn't even care to check on him, and then taunted his father about the murder

This is unbelievably sick and just one of many acts of barbarity against children committed by the IDF in this vengeful West Bank ethnic cleansing
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

Gunshots and a surge of panic: footage shows last moments of boy, 12, killed in the West Bank

Two children a week are killed in the West Bank. Two cameras recorded the circumstances of one such death

www.theguardian.com

March 1, 2025 at 7:22 AM

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If you like Pokémon and hate cancer, boy do we have a charity Twitch stream for you!

www.twitch.tv/bulbagarden

Freddie Mercury speaks to the crowd: 'This post is only dedicated to beautiful Pokémon - it means all of them'

February 15, 2025 at 3:23 PM

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg

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Proud to be one of the 350 rabbis signing this statement — an ad in the NYT today and a declaration of our values.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

For more—and to sign— go to

saynotoethniccleansing.org

Jewish people say NO to ethnic cleansing

February 13, 2025 at 2:12 PM

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There should be an extension or feature here that allows the user the option for AI to create alt text for the pictures on their posts. It would make the process more efficient, and the website be more accessible to people with disabilities!

February 2, 2025 at 3:04 PM

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Contact @itstransamerican.bsky.social if interested!

User @TransAndMerican (@itstransamerican on Blue Sky) saying "Something that should be done: Get like a ton of passing trans men and women; Go into the capital and into the bathrooms of natal sex and completely swarm them; Have the crowd there every day and night with a sign saying, 'do we belong here?' Easy and effective activism"

My Twitter account replies telling her that she should set it up

@TransAndMerican (@itstransamerican on Blue Sky) and I continue to have a conversation about her setting up the DC protest, she eventually considers it

@TransAndMerican (@itstransamerican on Blue Sky) asking for trans people, who passes as cis, to contact her

February 2, 2025 at 3:01 PM

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Jewish concerns about the surge of Jew-Hatred for the past year isn't just "Zionist propaganda." Many of the protesters weren't even in support of Israel's war, like Lior Tibet. We, pro-Palestinians, should recognize this reality! Jew-Hatred only hurts the movement www.youtube.com/watch?v=BCSa...

How am I as a Jew being kicked out of my own event?

YouTube video by Ronan McGreevy

www.youtube.com

January 31, 2025 at 9:31 AM

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Make sure to show support!

"Next Saturday, February 1, 2025, a protest will take place in Deir al-Balah, Gaza, rejecting displacement plans to relocate Gazans to Egypt and Jordan and supporting Egypt’s stance against the plans."

January 31, 2025 at 9:27 AM

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Another bribe.

January 31, 2025 at 1:43 AM

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Make sure y'all email your senators and tell them to not vote in Pete Hegeth right away! He's a white nationalist that supports the Crusaders, slavery, and criminalizing homosexuality. He's also, allegedly, a drunk, has a history of sexual misconduct, and was abusive towards his ex-wife

January 22, 2025 at 11:42 PM

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There's a new documentary on the Colleyville Synagogue attack. Would love to watch it! I just can't find somewhere close by that's screening it😅 www.foxnews.com/us/new-docum...

New documentary reveals antisemitic hostage siege captured on camera at Texas synagogue

Unseen security footage from the 11-hour Colleyville synagogue hostage crisis, capturing terror and resilience, is shown for the first time in a new documentary.

www.foxnews.com

January 16, 2025 at 5:31 AM

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A top US aid admitted that Netanyahu disrupted hostage negotiations on multiple occasions by adding bullshit conditions that are not in the recent ceasefire deal. He did it probably to cater to the far-right members in his coalition www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_ent...

In first, US acknowledges that Netanyahu added conditions that hampered hostage talks in July

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www.timesofisrael.com

January 16, 2025 at 5:08 AM

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Modi, India's Prime Minister, recently forced Mark Zuckerberg to apologize for simply saying that his party lost support after the pandemic because they lost trust. I wish Modi showed nearly as much care for the mass rapes committed by his supporters www.independent.co.uk/asia/india/m...