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“Reflections on a Trip to Palestine,” UUJME organizer Jolly Hollamon March 25 6:30pm Pacific/9:30pm Eastern RSVP: bit.ly/UU-Pal-Ed Experience photos and reflections about the January UUJME delegation of 13 UU religious professionals and seminarians to Palestine. #UUTwitter

BREAKING: Israeli settlers are planning another pogrom today, threatening the entire West Bank, after yesterday’s pogrom left dozens of homes and cars burned, and many people injured.

HORRIFIC night in the West Bank. Israeli settlers are attacking more than nine Palestinian villages and cities now, including Bethlehem, setting cars and homes on fire and attempting to burn families alive.

The @LemkinInstitute vociferously condemns Israel’s refusal to allow Palestinian Muslims access to al-Aqsa Mosque on Eid al-Fitr. Israel’s ongoing genocide, and its comprehensive efforts to humiliate Palestinians and desecrate their faith and identity, must be stopped. What will it take for the world powers to see and understand - and to respond appropriately to -- the crimes that have been committed right under their noses for over two and a half years?

Since 2021, when the @IntlCrimCourt affirmed it could exercise jurisdiction in the State of Palestine, Israeli repression of #Palestinian human rights has consistently deepened & escalated. Our timeline provides an overview of key developments before ICC. alhaq.org/advocacy/27424…

Same people who spent years screaming about Hamas crimes and sexual violence on Oct 7th, some of which were later debunked, have nothing, nothing whatsoever, to say about stuff like this. A reminder that they don’t actually have any principles or consistent morals:

"Now more than ever it is clear that freeing Palestine means freeing the world." buff.ly/97gYTpa

Israeli forces shot and killed 16-year-old Salim Sami Salmi Fuquha last night in an attack that also wounded Fathi Ali Fathi Al-Sahouri, 15. Soldiers prevented paramedics from reaching the injured boys for over two hours then confiscated Salim's body. dci-palestine.org/israeli_forces…

This is our 1939 moment. The Israeli extermination machine, even as it carries out genocide in Palestine and murderous aggression in Iran, is rampaging through Lebanon, leaving death and destruction across a large swath of the country. Whole neighborhoods have been destroyed, villages ethnically cleansed, hundreds murdered, many more wounded and maimed, and a million Lebanese displaced. The outside world, states and international institutions, some out of fear and others in open complicity, are not coming to help. Appeasement has failed. Diplomacy has failed. Appeals to law have failed. The Lebanese people, who were praying for peace, now have no choice but to fight this monstrous regime, before it is too late, and others in the region must support them, if only in their own self interest. The alternative is death, destruction, and subjugation. And all free people must work in solidarity with the Lebanese, Palestinian, and Iranian people. Israeli regime lawlessness and impunity are existential threats to all who live in the region, to international peace and security, and to the very idea of international law itself. The machine must be defeated.

With Leqaa’s permission, @gazamom has set up this campaign to help offset the costs of her ongoing legal battle to fight deportation, and to help with her living and health care expenses. Donate, amplify and share widely! launchgood.com/v4/campaign/yo… In the words of Leqaa’s cousin Hamzah Abushaban following her release yesterday, “Today, we celebrate Leqaa’s return home. Tomorrow, we continue the fight for justice.”

The first time I met Leqaa Kordia in prison, she said her first stop when she’s free will be the masjid. She came straight to it and spent pretty much the entire night here. May Allah keep her free and free all those who remain behind bars. Ameen youtube.com/watch?v=eDUQ_h…

Three landmark films. Three fearless directors. A new era of Palestinian cinema has arrived ❤️ The Voice of Hind Rajab, All That’s Left of You and Palestine'36.

The leading Israeli scholars of the Holocaust and of genocide - Omer Bartov, Daniel Blatman, Amos Goldberg - all agree that Gaza is a genocide. So do Israel’s top human rights groups Btselem and Physicians for Human Rights-Israel. Give it up with the antisemitism smear.

This weekend, settlers in the West Bank committed one of the most horrific attacks imaginable on the West Bank community of Khirbet Humsa. Here is what happened: * A man was sexually assaulted in front of his bound family and the human rights activists present. His pants were pulled down, he was doused with water, and beaten brutally with clubs while curled on the ground * Women had their headscarves torn off and clothing ripped. Girls, including very young ones, were dragged outside and beaten * One settler threatened in Arabic to return, burn the houses, kill the children, and rape the women, saying this directly in front of women and children * A settler grabbed a 14-year-old girl and began slapping her while her mother watched, bound and unable to help * A settler threatened to take a woman's daughters to live with the settlers * The 74-year-old family elder was beaten in the head, hands and stomach by three settlers while a fourth destroyed security cameras, the router, and lights. He briefly lost consciousness and had water thrown on him to revive him * The two activists (American and Portuguese) were beaten with fists and clubs, handcuffed at hands and feet, and had their rings forcibly removed under threat of having their fingers broken. * The American activist's jacket was cut open with a knife and a settler began handling her belt buckle, leading her to believe she was about to be raped. The Portuguese activist was dragged by her ankles because she couldn't walk with her leg restraints. These people are absolute Nazis, given freedom to run rampant by the Israeli government. This is a policy to terrorize Palestinians into leaving their homes so settlers can take them.

We are raising funds to help our heroine Leqaa as she continues her fight for her freedom. Any amount helps! You Were Never Alone: Standing With Leqaa Kordia | LaunchGood | LaunchGood launchgood.com/v4/campaign/yo…

Asked about the words of Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, who during a briefing went so far as to quote Psalm 144 to invoke a divine blessing on the ongoing attack, Cardinal Pizzaballa replied that “as believers we must do everything possible not to leave the discourse to them. We need to say that no, there are no new crusades. If God is present in this war, He is among those who are dying, who are suffering, who are in pain, who are oppressed in various ways”— Amen!! asianews.it/news-en/Cardin…

🚨CAIR asks support to free a person unjustly detained by 🧊 for pro-Palestine speech and activism. ⛓️‍💥Leqaa Kordia was released! But Yaakub Ira Vijandre still detained - arrested, DACA revoked. -UUJME Shreveport #UUTwitter #Islamophobia #1stamendment #ProjectEsther

Israel has utterly normalized the most utterly heinous crime, killing people saving lives.

🚨 A judge has just called for Leqaa Kordia’s release on bond a THIRD time, one year after her abduction by ICE. @DHSgov has yet to comply. Leqaa wrote these words from confinement at Prairieland Detention. Say her name. Take action. Free her NOW! AJPAction.org/FreeLeqaa

My name is Sameerah Munshi. I am a Presidential appointee serving as advisor to the White House Religious Liberty Commission. Today, I am resigning over the injustice and atrocities of this administration at home and abroad. Full statement below ⬇️ Also here: open.substack.com/pub/sameerahmu…