Mohammed Ghalayini

@twotwofficial The Martians did nothing wrong ... the boy doth protest #TheEveOfTheWar

@twotwofficial Free Earth from The Martians! Also Free Palestine! Great show and great set design .. woooooo ... #TheEveOfTheWar

I did this interview with the Warrior Nation @ForcesWatch podcast a while back

@LexiAlex This tiny organisation is literally feeding people in northern Gaza - where barely anybody else is operating, working when they are hungry themselves, and risking their lives yet has only managed to raise $1020. Make it make sense. chuffed.org/project/109688…

Our message to the British Government and a crowd of 25,000 at Reading Festival just now. 🇵🇸

🍉 We are thrilled to welcome the incredible @JackieKayPoet to Gaza Nights Manchester! 🍉 Next Friday, join us to hear award-winning poet and author Jackie Kay read her own works on the stage ✨ Tickets are still available - link in the bio 🇵🇸 @amplify_gaza #GM4Palestine

Gaza nights fundraiser in Manchester for @amplify_gaza. First line-up reveal @Julie-yara Atz :)

🍉🇵🇸 Join us for Gaza Nights Cabaret - Manchester Edition 🍉🇵🇸 🌍 An evening of music, comedy, theatre, poetry, all in aid of @amplify_gaza . 📅 Friday, 30 August 2024 🕕 Doors Open: 6.30 PM | Showtime: 7.30 PM 📍 Location: The Nia Centre, Hulme Register now at the link!

@Gaylussite @faizashaheen @KeithRoberts49 Your response is a demonstration of the hubris inherent in all blind adherence to political parties. Why not ask the question of the Labour Party?

A few people have been in touch asking how IDS still got 17k+ voters in CWG. Have to remember he’s been here a long time so has a history with many people, plus good at taking credit for local community wins. However, one extra thing was using the Labour candidate’s record to scare possible Labour and Reform switchers into sticking with the Tories. Here’s an example ad run locally. The threat of overdevelopment has been a long time strategy of the Tories here, Labour walked straight into it by not doing their research

Stoked and honoured to be part of this panel of awe inspiring Palestinians highlighting the injustices of the Occupation and looking forward to environmental justice through liberation for Palestine and beyond! Book and join if you're in London or online if not :)

For those unaware... 🚨Heart-wrenching scenes are happening in #Gaza right now. Thousands of people are in the streets with nowhere to go, surrounded by constant Israeli explosions and shelling. Gaza is in severe distress.

Apparently, attacking innocent children is depraved only when they are white.

@SOASICOP @AJEnglish @SOAS Really looking forward to taking part in this alongside awesome co-panellists!

How Israel destroyed Gaza’s ability to feed itself aje.io/3r9k8z via @AJEnglish Join our expert panel @SOAS for : Land, Water and Destruction: Israel's Ecocide in #Palestine Book here: eventbrite.co.uk/e/land-water-a…

"They stepped on my head, and four of them peed on me while insulting me" A testimony of a Gazan detainee released from Israeli detention centers to @EuroMedHR in a new report documenting 42 forms of torture and inhumane treatment. @DrAliceJEdwards ➡️euromedmonitor.org/en/article/6342

Hornets have entered the chat

The only way to end Israeli Apartheid is to stop their arms supply and to put pressure on every single activity linked to that rogue state worldwide

In light of Israel’s decision to ban Al Jazeera I am sharing AJ’s film on October 7 as a gesture of solidarity, and to encourage others to do so. Please watch and share youtu.be/_0atzea-mPY?fe…

@TerryCox7 @afalkhatib Oh habibi, I can't even imagine what your thoughts are on the blanket sanctions on the apartheid Zionist state of Israel.

@afalkhatib If by ‘highly targeted sanctions’ you mean what I think you mean, you’re just another thug.

What being pro-Palestine means to me / my platform: I'm passionately, unequivocally, and without hesitation, a proponent of the Palestinian people’s just and urgent aspirations for self-determination, liberation, sovereignty, and safety. I grew up in Gaza, where I experienced Israeli violence and bombardment, including one incident that almost killed me and caused me permanent hearing impairment; my family is still in Gaza and has suffered dozens of deaths during this latest war; my grandparents were expelled from their ancestral homelands in 1948 and fled to the Gaza Strip; and my parents were raised in a refugee camp in Rafah during the 1950s. This background informs and influences me and speaks to why I care about the Palestinian issue and consider myself pro-Palestine. I am motivated by a sincere desire to see my people obtain their legitimate and undeniable rights, which they have not had for decades. Yet I, and many others, especially those who are silent or are forced to be quiet, struggle with finding a political home in today’s pro-Palestine movement. Increasingly, it feels as if pro-Palestine activism is dominated by maximalists (wanting all of historic Palestine and other zero-sum positions and approaches), slogan-driven voices, and narratives. There is a lack of pragmatic and humanistic ability to hold multiple truths at once and to advocate nuanced and color-rich positions and views that are not black-and-white depictions and understandings of the Israel and Palestine conflict. Here’s what, to me, an effective and meaningful pro-Palestine platform entails: 1. Supporting the right of Palestinians to a sovereign and independent state living in peace side by side with Israel. 2. Condemning Israeli government actions, policies, priorities, and decisions that kill, harm, undermine, or oppress the Palestinian people. 3. Criticizing and decrying the conduct of the war in Gaza, the military occupation in the West Bank, and the Israeli government’s disregard for Palestinian civilian lives, and the destruction of property and cities. 4. Rejecting, denouncing, and exposing the theft of Palestinian lands in the West Bank and the sprawling settlement enterprise and settler violence. 5. Supporting highly targeted, specific, and effective sanctions against individuals, groups, and entities that are enabling the unjust and illegal occupation of the West Bank and harming Palestinian civilians. 6. Denouncing and combating the dehumanization of the Palestinian people or the denial of their existence as people with the right to live on the land they called home for generations. 7. Acknowledging the tragedy experienced by hundreds of thousands of displaced Palestinians from 1948 and giving them/their descendants the right to return to the lands of a future Palestinian state in the West Bank and in the Gaza Strip. 8. Understanding past and contemporary mistakes that have set the Palestinian people back by decades and made them pawns in ideologies and geopolitical programs, agendas, and designs. 9. Developing a pragmatic and realistic framework for recognizing Israel’s existence, right to exist, and the inevitability of its continued existence, all of which should inform how a solution is approached. 10. Dispensing with delusional and destructive elements of the Palestinian narrative and acknowledging that there will not be a full liberation of all of Palestine, there will not be a right of return to what is now mainland Israel, and that Israel cannot and should not be confronted militarily or through any form of violence. 11. Promoting a cultural shift away from revolutionary rhetoric, martyrdom, and armed resistance, and instead, rebranding coexistence and peace as a courageous and necessary evolution to preserve Palestinian lives, lands, and heritage and foster a new generation of nation-builders who are focused on doing the most with what the Palestinians currently have and can have in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. 12. Denouncing and rejecting antisemitism while also acknowledging that Zionists and Israelis are a diverse group/people and that the Palestinians have to work with all of these segments to have sustainable coexistence and peace. 13. Understanding how violent/hateful rhetoric, actions, and mistakes are detrimental because they empower right-wing and extremist forces in Israel who are opposed to Palestinian rights and that persistent mistakes and incendiary rhetoric and proclamations erode support for the Palestinian people and cause. 14. Recognizing Palestinian agency, responsibility, and accountability when taking actions that have negative consequences and outcomes and acknowledging that, while there’s an asymmetry of power dynamics, Palestinian leaders, political groups, and prominent figures should make rational and responsible choices to optimize for better prospects. 15. Accepting that even with East Jerusalem as the capital of a future Palestinian state, access to holy sites must always be shared and open to all. 16. Realizing how nefarious regional players like the Islamic Republic of Iran and its proxies are not sincere or helpful allies to the Palestinian people and have done so much damage to the entire region and the Palestinian cause. 17. Developing the capacity to hear Jewish perspectives and grievances, historical and contemporary, to understand why pro-Israel supporters believe what they do and why Israel means so much to so many, even if one disagrees with those opinions and views. 18. Understanding that Hamas recklessly endangered Palestinian lives and placed the people of Gaza in significant harm and that the group relies on Palestinian suffering as part of its strategy to delegitimize Israel globally while perpetuating the conflict without any meaningful resolution. 19. Registering the dangers of Islamist rhetoric and ideology that seeks to Islamize Palestinian society and to turn the Palestinian national project into a religious one in pursuit of an Islamic state that, by default, will be exclusionary and incapable of accommodating diverse residents in a future Palestinian country. I am compelled to share the aforementioned because, for far too many people, pro-Palestine activism has been reduced to incendiary language that fails to capture the multiple moving parts of what is needed to advance the just and urgent Palestinian aspirations for freedom and independence. While many students, activists, advocates, academics, and analysts have their hearts in the right place, many cannot present viable and pragmatic ideas that are not mere rhetorical statements and empty slogans. I know that many strongly disagree with my views and opinions, and that’s entirely fine. Still, many more are eager to see a recalibration of pro-Palestine activism to actually help the Palestinians achieve statehood instead of inflaming division and fostering hostility towards supporters of Israel and the Jewish community. Many in Palestine are aware of the need to be pragmatic and don’t think that angry protests, BDS, antisemitism, endless academic lectures, social media activism, or “feel good” slogans will actually make a difference. It’s time for a rejuvenated pro-Palestine movement that serves as a big tent to encompass multiple views and opinions and to invite and promote broad alliances, especially with mainstream Jewish and Israeli communities, to work towards a just and sustainable resolution of the conflict once and for all. This is entirely attainable and achievable with humility, civility, patience, compassion and kindness, perseverance and determination, a willingness to accept reasonable compromises and accommodations, and, most importantly, the recognition of both sides’ undeniable and mutual humanity.

@AndyPeers @JewishMCR @HOME_mcr @MCRCityofLit Oh no! The deep state is here

@mohdgh @JewishMCR @HOME_mcr @MCRCityofLit YOU voted for Hamas in a landslide after of them murdering civilians, so YOU are the cause. Act like a man and own your decisions.

We have today written to @HOME_mcr and @MCRCityofLit in relation to their "Voices of Resilience" event scheduled to be held on April 22. This event must be cancelled. The event features the work of Atef Abu Saif, the Palestinian Authority Minister of Culture, who has engaged in shocking and antisemitic Holocaust denial and whose views have no place in Manchester and risk increasing antisemitism against the Jewish community. We have also written to Manchester City Council, the GMCA, Manchester Metropolitan University and Manchester University who are the partners of Manchester City of Literature. @bevcraig @greatermcr @OfficialUoM @ManMetUni @ManCityCouncil @JewishTelegraph @MENnewsdesk