My friend Khalil’s 18 yo sister died, just months after his father, due to a lack of medical attention in Gaza as she was making her way to safety. His mother is in a coma from the shock.

Khalil had told me how scared he was for them and their journey. There are no words left.

Hi all. Nerdy policy wonk who follows Congress closely weighing in with a thread on legislation (getting no media coverage) moving rapidly through Congress that targets US non-profit orgs, with the immediate & explicit target being orgs involved in Palestine protesting.

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I’m one of Shai Davidai’s business class students. He’s so busy talking about Israel that he hasn’t written “profit = revenue - costs” on the board in months. I’m afraid I’ll fail my degree if he doesn’t teach us that properly. Columbia University please fire this incompetent professor

This is the headline. Now watch the video.

So to review: a protester accidentally poked a right-wing provocateur in the face with the spherical tip of a small flagpole, resulting in no injury, and multiple media outlets reported it as a Jew being stabbed in the eye.

Meanwhile tens of thousands of Palestinians are dead.

More visceral coverage of an accidental poke in the eye than three Palestinian-American students who were literally shot— one of whom remains paralyzed.

Worth noting that AIPAC didn’t even bother to spend against Summer Lee — seeing clearly that she was in too strong a position for reelection today. A GOP super PAC did spend big though.

Despite millions from billionaire Jeff Yass, she’s well positioned to win

Today, Egyptian women gathered to participate in a feminist stand outside of the UN Women Arabic office in solidarity with the women of Sudan and Gaza.

In response, Egyptian authorities arrested a number of participants, including the author of this tweet, Lobna Darwish of المبادرة المصرية للحقوق الشخصية.

It increasingly feels like there is a contingent of pro-Israel journos & activists seeking to cynically stoke fears about Jewish safety in order to make inevitable & normalize eventual police/national guard violence against peaceful campus protesters for Palestinian rights.

Devastating piece in The New York Review of Books by Omar al-Najjar, a young doctor in Gaza. Omar and I have been in touch over the months, and I remain incapable of understanding the weight he bears. nybooks.com/online/2024/04…

Over the past few days, Israeli settlers have devastated Palestinian communities in the occupied West Bank. Anwar Saloudeh's house was totally destroyed. When I asked him how he felt seeing this, he said: no words. It would probably take 15 years to earn the money for rebuilding.

Shit, I think I missed DC

NYPD JUST ARRESTED EVERY COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY STUDENT AT THE GAZA TENT ENCLOSURE!!
JAIL SUPPORT NEEDED AT ONE POLICE PLAZA!! #cu4palestine

Feeling like this is even more relevant now that it’s confirmed what the NYT style sheet demands - complete disappearance of ‘Palestine’ and ‘Palestinians’.

I expect American literati, to, you know, be literate in things, but here’s one of the country’s leading fiction writers demonstrating an illiteracy so great that it can only be paralleled by the unbridled arrogance with which he expresses it.

There is literally no entity whose job it is to protect Palestinian civilians from Israeli terrorism. The PA can’t do it and the Israeli military/police won’t do it.

Will there be any professional reprucussions for somebody who openly advocates for the killing of 8 year old children? By Microsoft , @google , No. But kids who signed a petition in Harvard in support of Palestine had their job prospect snatched from them. No Tech For Apartheid