Just want to remind everyone that 40,000+ human beings being murdered in less half a year is actually not normal and we shouldn’t function as if it is.

Did you notice how the media went from 'Israel must not invade Rafah' to simply not talking about Rafah once the invasion had clearly started?

“What job do I have if the students don’t have a future?”

Everybody in academia should be asking themselves this question.

I wanted to shake his hand. But my tax dollars were used to blow off his arms.

I wanted to burst into tears when I met him, but his resilient smile wouldn’t let me.

He asks me if his murdered mother and siblings are in paradise, and if people in America really hate Palestinians

I saw this pic on my phone, while rushing about, and without my glasses and was convinced this was a pic of book spines (old age lol!).
Thank you for this a lovely pic of some of #JhalakPrize24 shortlistees, judges and team

Ghada Karmi, a Nakba survivor, describes how Zionist snipers forced her and her family out of Jerusalem in 1948, adding that the atrocities occurring today in Gaza are 'far worse.'

“At every turn of our bloodied history, we have been brutalized, bereaved, dispossessed, exiled, starved, slaughtered and imprisoned, but we have, to the world’s dismay, refused to submit.” mondoweiss.net/2024/05/rain-i…

The UK government has revoked the student visa of Dana Abuqamar, a Palestinian law student and leader of the Friends of Palestine Society at the University of Manchester, following her speech in a university demonstration. Abuqamar said that her visa was revoked on the grounds of

Nakba and her sisters

It's the 76 anniversary of the Nakba today, when we, Palestinians, were ethnically cleansed from our homeland & a racist apartheid state was created called Israel. My grandfather lost his home & became a refugee in Gaza where I grew up. It was Nakba then and it is still Nakba now

#GiveawayAlert : to win a copy of the powerful and moving #SafiyyahsWar by Hiba Noor Khan, shortlisted for the Jhalak C&YA Prize 2024, RT + reply to this tweet by noon tomorrow (UK only).

#jhalakprize24 #giveaway #JhalakShowcase

'Despite significant policy initiatives and industry commitments to tackle equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI) problems, the latest data shows inequality persists in areas including workforce demographics, audience engagement and participation'

Latinized names of scholars who worked within Islamic culture and wrote mostly in Arabic.

Some are amongst the greatest minds in human history.

A thread…

Children under the rubble

Displacement after displacement..
#Gaza

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Rescue teams pull out the dead bodies of multiple children from under the rubble of homes destroyed by Israeli airstrikes last night in Nusseirat refugee camp

An average olive tree lives 500 years. Some have lived as long as 1500 years. Indigenous people are too attached to their land to do this, this is the work of settler colonialists.

⚡️ West Bank :

Young man from Beit Awwa takes down an Israeli drone with a rock

🚨Breaking: Hashem Ghazal and his wife, spiritual pillars and role models for the deaf community in #Gaza , were killed today due to the ruthless aggression by the Israeli army.

Their home was bombed by the Israeli army, resulting in the killing of their entire deaf family !

A week or so ago I posted about a phenomenon I called Colonizer Homelessness, my theory, or explanation as to why colonizers are always afraid and violent (because they are never home).

I want to expand and explore that concept a little further, and talk about identity, or more