Jennifer Bing

@ezzingaza Your work and words will never leave our breaking hearts. Thank you. Your words fuel our activism and commitment to end the genocide.

Today I saw the face of what we’ve become: and it was buried in trash. It was after the hospital. My hands still smelled of blood and iodine, as if I had just pulled death out of someone’s lungs. I stepped into the street not as a man walks, but as a shadow stumbles: worn, faceless, erased. And then I saw them. In the middle of the road. Six souls. A family. Huddled together, not at the edge where the damned usually die, but in the heart of the road; as if they had taken position at the altar of some invisible God who no longer answers. I should have turned away. But curiosity is a wicked thing. It’s not wonder; it’s hunger. And sometimes, it eats you alive. I walked toward them. They were quiet. Too quiet. A circle of bones and breath. And there it was. A meal. Or what I thought was a meal. A miracle, maybe, for a second. But no. It wasn’t food. It was garbage. A pile of trash. Stinking. Festering. A graveyard of wrappers and waste. And from that grave, they had scraped a few strands of spaghetti: cold, sticky, clinging to dirt as if ashamed to be eaten. And then I saw him. The father. With hands no longer hands, but trembling instruments of despair. He reached into the trash and lifted the food: not to eat, no, but to feed. He fed it to his daughter. A little girl. Her eyes were too large for her face. Her lips, cracked. Her dress, torn like she had fallen through history itself. And he fed her garbage, with love. With tenderness. As if it were soup. As if it were gold. He held it delicately. Lifted it to her lips like a holy offering. And she took it. She chewed slowly. She smiled. And I… I shattered. Because in that moment, the universe reversed. The sacred became foul. The foul became sacred. And I was no longer a witness; I was a criminal. How dare I exist? How dare I walk upright while that child eats from the mouth of death? I did nothing. I stood there, paralyzed by the weight of my own uselessness. I, who have words, hands, and breath, did nothing. And worse: I walked away. But no, that’s a lie. I never left. I am still there. #GazaGenocide

🧵 Let’s talk about the lie that “the aid is there, but the UN won’t distribute it.” Here’s what’s actually happening at the Gaza border — and why Palestinians are still starving.

@Pontifex Join us for a day of fasting on World Hunger Day, afsc.org/action/pledge-… Thank you for your prayers for Gaza.

The situation in the Gaza Strip is increasingly worrying and painful. I renew my heartfelt appeal to allow the entry of dignified humanitarian aid and to bring an end to the hostilities, whose heart-rending price is borne by children, the elderly, and the sick.

@SenDuckworth If you really cared about saving billions of taxpayer money you would have voted to halt yet another $8BILLION in bombs to Israel last week. Shame on you. Stop taking AIPAC funds. Support a ceasefire and end U.S. complicity in this horrific slaughter in Gaza.

Make no mistake: Republicans are coming after the Social Security that YOU pay into your entire life. They want to pay for tax cuts for billionaires by making it harder for YOU to get access to YOUR money. It’s wrong on so many levels.

I just signed a @theactionnet petition: Demand Swarthmore College Reverse the Suspension of a Peaceful Protestor. Sign here: actionnetwork.org/petitions/dema…

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@SenDuckworth And the right not to be massacred by US bombs provided to apartheid states engaged in ethnic cleansing… stop the weapons flow to Israel, Senator. All women and their families deserve to live in safety on Valentine’s Day and every day.

Women deserve more than flowers and candy for Valentine’s Day. We deserve the right to make our own healthcare decisions, no matter what state we live in.

Today Israeli undercover forces raided both branches of the Educational Bookshop, a well-respected Palestinian institution in Jerusalem. After an hour search, they confiscated English and Arabic books, and detained the owners Ahmad Muna and Mahmoud Muna.

Look at what our government spent our tax dollars on. Not a single person asked “how will we pay for it?”

Sam Husseini forcibly removed from the briefing room after interrupting Blinken’s final press conference. @TheNationalNews

No filmmaker, writer or artist should ever have to tell the story of their own extermination. Yet 22 courageous Palestinian filmmakers found a way to film their story this past year in Gaza using whatever tools they could pull from the rubble of their homes and cities. The extraordinary film FROM GROUND ZERO — for which I am proud to be an Executive Producer — is the collection of these short films, told all together in under 2 hours. The fact that this film exists at all is a human and cinematic miracle. Go see FROM GROUND ZERO — in theaters now!

The American Historical Association overwhelmingly approved a resolution at its annual meeting on Sunday to oppose "scholasticide" in Gaza, condemning Israel's systematic targeting and destruction of the Palestinian education system and Palestinian educators.

@WendellPierce Given the shameful complicity & support of Israeli war crimes/genocide in Gaza and billions of U.S. weapons sent by Pres. Biden killing Palestinian dreams for freedom for more than 45,000 people in Gaza, I wish the great Denzel Washington had used the moment to refuse this honor.

One of the great artist of our generation.

Thanks for listening to your IL constituents @SenatorDurbin and voting to stop at least one foreign military sale to the Israeli government . We continue to demand a permanent ceasefire and a military embargo, ending US complicity in genocide. congress.gov/bill/118th-con…

@POTUS You accomplished being an enabler of genocide, @POTUS, that is your administration’s legacy. Don’t worry, we won’t forget.

To our incredible staff, supporters, Cabinet members, and people who’ve been hanging out with me for the last four years – thank you. I know it’s a difficult time. I hear you. I see you. But don’t forget all that we’ve accomplished.

Those soccer fans - or, more accurately, hooligans - were attacking people, ripping down Palestinian flags, and chanting happily that there are no kids left alive in Gaza. Oh, and it’s you and your administration that helped kill 16,000 Palestinian kids. That’ll be your legacy.

From a 91 year old man in #Gaza: “The policy of the occupation aimed at killing us and displacing us must stop. We are the Indigenous people of the land, and we will never leave our land, no matter what happens.” Full story here: progressive.org/latest/displac…

Is incredibly difficult to move around inside Gaza and to reach those in need here. Getting aid into and around Gaza is a vast, bureaucratic & logistical challenge. We must have a ceasefire, and we must have access, so that we can reach those in truly desperate need.

Hello America! Your “Israel has the right to defend itself” has divided north Gaza into three parts and I lost communication with my whole family now. We will not forget that.

This girl is named, Hanan. Two months ago, her mother was killed in an air strike while she lost her two legs. She cries, “I need my mother.” That’s all we need, a world that feels us, that stands with us.