Alia Morsi

They told you it was about Hamas. We told you it was ethnic cleansing. They told you it was about the hostages. We told you it was genocide. Now Israel openly says it won’t stop until Gaza is emptied. Will you still not call it what it is? Ethnic cleansing and genocide?

My niece Layan, 14, was displaced for over a year, living in tents during the genocide. Whenever I asked, “Where is Lolo?”, the answer was always: “She’s off to work!” Lolo… and work?! Layan gathered children from nearby tents and started a classroom, becoming “Miss Layan”, the beloved teacher amidst the ruins. Israel killed Layan

🚨Qatar's Prime Minister reveals the Gaza deal Israel just signed has been on the table for 13 MONTHS, since Dec 2023 "13 months of a waste, of negotiating details that [have] no meaning and aren't worth any single life that we lost in Gaza, or any single life of those hostages"

A brief history of Israel's violation of ceasefire agreements. 🧵

When Israeli officials (Netanyahu & Smotritch) openly declare their intention to impose Israeli sovereignty over all the West Bank, they’re just articulating what they’ve been doing gradually over decades with American officials disingenuously denying that this is Israeli policy. Annexation, land theft, ethnic cleansing, & erasure of Palestine are the genocidal intent of Israel. Observe carefully.

A timeline of ceasefire obstruction November 22: A four-day ceasefire begins with Hamas releasing 50 Israeli captives in exchange for 150 Palestinian prisoners. Israel agrees to extend the truce with more releases. December 2: The ceasefire extends to a week, but collapses over disagreements on releasing women soldiers and all Palestinian prisoners. December 10: The US vetoes a UNSC proposal to stop the war. February 20: The US vetoes a UNSC ceasefire resolution for the third time, with Netanyahu welcoming the veto. March 26: The US abstains from voting on a UNSC ceasefire proposal, which passes but is later called "nonbinding" by the US. May 7: Hamas accepts a ceasefire proposal from Qatar and Egypt, which includes a three-phase framework for peace. May 31: Hamas welcomes President Biden’s ceasefire proposal announcement. US claims Israel has agreed to the conditions. June 10: Adoption of UN Security Council Resolution 2735. UNSC announces the terms of the resolution were accepted by Israel. Hamas welcomes the resolution. July 2: Hamas agrees to U.S.-backed plan with minor changes. July 31: Assassination of main negotiator, Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran. Iranian and US officials believe Israel is responsible. August 11: Hamas announces they will not send representatives to ceasefire talks in Doha called for by the US, Egypt and Qatar. Instead, Hamas urges mediators to enforce the terms of the July 2, 2024 agreement. August 15: Israel presents new conditions to the July 2 agreement, largely deviating from what has been proposed. - Rejection of a permanent ceasefire - Refusal to fully withdraw from the Gaza Strip - Continuation of the occupation of Netzarim Junction, Rafah Crossing, and Philadelphia Route August 18: Hamas rejects the new conditions, as they completely deviate from US, UNSC proposal they agreed to on July 2.

it really is astonishingly absurd to see real time photos and videos of Palestinian babies, children and women being massacred, their bodies ripped apart, and then read a NYT and BBC piece on the same event going: "Israel says they only killed Hamas. We can't verify anything."

@zei_squirrel Just like they did in Shirin Abu Akleh’s murder also.. maybe we should make a thread with all these ridiculous deflections.

whenever Israel has a PR crisis because people can see them mass murdering babies and children, beheading them, burning them alive, Zionist propagandists come up with a deranged patently absurd deflection, the point of which is to get you to stop talking about them mass killing and maiming and beheading babies. "THEY BOMBED THEMSELVES! IT WAS A MISFIRED HAMAS ROCKET! IT WAS A WEAPONS AMMO DEPOSIT IN A JEEP! LOOK AT THIS CGI VIDEO! LOOK AT THIS FAKE SUBTITLE! LOOK AT THIS CGI OF A ROCKET MISFIRING! LOOK AT THIS AUDIO PHONE CALL THE IDF RELEASED!" The Western media class then dutifully obeys and defuses the PR crisis by giving more attention to the deranged propaganda deflection and treating it as a legitimate reasonable perfectly normal justification for the mass killing, burning and beheading of babies. Then weeks later they quietly admit the deflection was a bullshit propaganda PR spin, but by then it has already served its purpose and defused the PR crisis they were dealing with. Rinse and repeat, over and over and over again. They have done this now consistently for over 7 months, actually for nearly a century, and the bodies of the dead keep piling up ever higher as they pat themselves on the back each time for a job well done at the New York Times, BBC, Guardian, Reuters, AP.

May 15th is Nakba Day. 76 yrs ago, Zionist forces ethnically cleansed 750,000 Palestinians from their homes. A key tactic to incentivize flight was mass murder. Here is a summary of 5 of the most gruesome massacres during the Nakba (via @Srjassi). A 🧵 jacobin.com/2024/05/ethnic…

The audio-to-audio feature in @stableaudio opens up new workflows for rapid sonic exploration in audiovisual production. I love voice controls because allow for a direct and expressive way to communicate what I'm thinking.

@petitegeek @roserbatlleroca @zawazaw @ISMIRConf Yes! 😊 repositori.upf.edu/handle/10230/5…

@MorsiAlia @roserbatlleroca @zawazaw @ISMIRConf Is there a preprint available?

I was lucky to spend last winter at Yamaha working on this project with @zawazaw, and I’m really excited to share it at @ISMIRConf next week! Performance assessment enthusiasts, please come to the poster!!

The Ministry of Health just published the names of 7028 Palestinians, including 2913 children killed in #Gaza. Scrolling over this is so painful. The first 88 names are from the same family! The next 72 from one family! And the undescribable pain goes on. No words.

For anyone still “standing with Israel” or trying to inject false nuance into the Israeli genocide of Palestine, this thread is for you. These are the things you won’t be shown on the western news. Look at them now. It’s not too late to adjust your perspective.

Thanks @DeepIndabaX_MZ 🇲🇿 for the invitation, and thanks @umpedronosapato for presenting your exciting work!

Este miércoles haré un seminario online sobre algoritmos de recomendación de música, para todos los públicos, sin necesidad de conocimientos previos. Si te interesa el tema apúntate aquí, es gratis eventbrite.es/e/entradas-mas… #algoritmo #algoritmos

We're getting closer to having a CC-licensed music-text dataset collected through Song Describer, but we're still looking for contributions: song-describer.streamlit.app. From today, there will be new prizes for top contributors each week, so one more reason to get annotating ✏️🎹

🚨Signups for the New-to-ISMIR paper mentoring program (2023) are now open. For more details, see ismir2023.ismir.net/diversity/ment… [Apply by Mar 2, 2023] #wimir #mentoring #ismir2023