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Goodbye X. I refuse to be present on a fascist-owned platform.

Then Jesus said unto the sick, “you better have insurance.” Then Jesus said unto the stranger, “are you here legally?” Then Jesus said unto the hungry, “my taxes better not be paying for these loaves and fishes.” Then Jesus said unto the poor, “this is your own fault.”

This week: 19 people killed & scores injured in a strike in a “humanitarian zone” in Gaza. An American shot in the head in the West Bank. Now, another school bombed, killing 14 people, including 6 UN aid workers. Enough is enough. No more money for Netanyahu's war machine.

@kkdumez I have so many concepts. The best concepts.

This is a great tribute to the late Dr Bert de Vries, his Calvin College colleagues and many Jordanian archaeologists who managed the excavations & restorations there. This one's for you, Bert. Jordan’s Umm al-Jimal site added to UNESCO heritage list aje.io/xx3a4r

I feel stupid and ashamed. In May, an expose came out on CNN detailing the abuses in Sde Taiman. Then, the NYT released their own article on it. Both were backed up with Israeli sources, crossed with Palestinian ones. I dismissed them because my government sources and Israeli media denied them. My whole life I was told that the international media was out to get Israel. That they were all antisemites. But today, I realized how much I was lied to. By my country. By my friends. By my media. Today, many of the people I talked to who denied these allegations admitted they were true. And the worst part? None of this is coming to light because the IDF and government have changed their hearts about it. Its coming out because the pressure from the UK, ICC and ICJ was getting too great to ignore. This would get Netanyahu, Gallant and the Chief of Staff in serious trouble. So they finally said the truth. That Israel is routinely torturing inmates. That sexual abuse is fairly common there. That people have been tortured to death. Worst of all, many of the people in this facility were innocent. Rounded up by accident. But there was no real verification process before they were subjected to this hell on earth. This can't go on.

Arrests are beginning as over 400 American Jews refuse to leave Congress, but we won’t leave until our government STOPS ARMING ISRAEL and ENDS THE GENOCIDE of Palestinians in Gaza!

History books will record that the US Congress hosted a war criminal and gave him and outrageous number of standing ovations.

How Netanyahu has systematically foiled talks to release hostages from Hamas captivity / @HauserTov haaretz.com/israel-news/20…

For the good of the country, Donald Trump should drop out of the presidential race.

Heartbreaking

A new law under discussion in Israel: If you are Palestinian in Israel, you can be imprisoned forever w/out being charged w anything ("administrative detention") If you are a Jew in Israel, you cant. Not so complicated after all. it's called apartheid. haaretz.com/opinion/editor…

Just back from a Gaza-focused trip to Egypt/Jordan/Israel. Key takeaways 🧵: - Aid push in March/April made progress against famine - Rafah offensive then wiped out much of that progress - Huge obstacles remain on access & last-mile distro - Little progress on aid worker safety

From the Instagram of UNICEF spokesman James Elder:

The report contains many quotes from senior members of the Israeli government, which it claims prove that Israel deliberately targeted civilians in Gaza and that it is aspiring to commit genocide there haaretz.com/israel-news/20…

In a development that should surprise nobody, there is now a campaign to destroy the teaching career of a Prof Raz Segal, the Jewish-Israeli genocide expert who dared to speak the truth and call out the genocide that Israel is carrying out in Gaza: jewishinsider.com/2024/06/univer…

The Southern Baptist Convention’s annual meeting in June proposes a resolution on “justice and peace in the aftermath of the October 7 attack on Israel” that mentions nothing, and I mean NOTHING, about the thousands of Palestinians killed in Gaza, including 15,000 children. They say nothing about the 2 million displaced. I am appalled by their apathy and lack of passion. The only explanation is that they do not see Palestinians as humans. This is racism at its worst. Shame on the SBC @SBCMeeting @SBCExecComm mbcpathway.com/2024/06/03/res…

Israeli authorities are responsible for war crimes and crimes against humanity in Gaza, UN independent commission of inquiry finds. The investigation also concludes that Palestinian armed groups are responsible for war crimes committed in Israel. ohchr.org/en/press-relea…

The destruction in #Gaza is indescribable. More than half of all buildings have been destroyed, according to @UNOSAT. Clearing the rubble will take years. Healing from the psychological trauma of this war will take even longer. This suffering must come to an end. #CeasefireNow