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This is the problem. So many people still operate under the assumption that Israel is virtuous and good at its core, that this chapter in Israeli history is just an ugly deviation. But torture, ethnic cleansing, & genocide are written into Israel’s DNA. Nothing about this is new.

🚨🚨🚨🚨 This is a photo from a few minutes ago in Tulkarem in the West Bank. Today, Israel abducted over 1,500 Palestinians in the West Bank, the largest number since 2001.

This is the guy you all tripped over yourselves to crown. How many times do you need to be warned about celebrities that jump on the bandwagon and have zero principles?

What I’m about to share will make you sick. I know there is insatiable evil in this world, but this right here is unfathomable. On September 3, 2025, Dr. Gideon Polya and Professor Richard Hil calculated the total death toll for Gaza since October 7. My fingers are shaking as I’m writing this. Based on all the data collected, the death toll in Gaza is at least 680,000. But even worse, 380,000 are infants under five years of age, 99,000 children five or older, 63,000 women and 138,000 men. OH MY GOD!!! PLEASE END THIS SUFFERING!

⚡️JUST IN: Since noon, Israeli forces have carried out a mass arrest campaign in Tulkarm, detaining over 1,500 people during raids on homes, shops, factories, and even passersby.

about ‘The Boy and his Asafeer in the Square’: In the midst of the Egyptian Revolution and its square, a young boy and his sparrows promise the dreams of Egyptian protesters to come true, until one dream becomes bigger than the boy himself.

a reading of my ten-minute play “The Boy and his Asafeer in the Square” will be apart of acts of resistance lfundraise for Gaza. tickets for the fundraiser: linktr.ee/actsofresistan…. all proceeds are being distributed to UNRWA USA and Gaza Soup Kitchen.

gaza is being starved and gaza is starving. this horrific reality has been built ourselves. the *least* we can do is try to redistribute the resources we have historically and consistently stolen.

In an interview, Kamala stated that the greatest threat to the United States is Iran. Lol.

This morning, on my way to the clinic, though even calling it that feels absurd now, it is more graveyard than refuge; I saw a girl. She was sixteen, no older. She was thin, with the kind of tiredness around her eyes that children should never know. In her hands, she carried a pot, a blackened metal container, steaming faintly. Inside was a thin, soupy liquid. It was mostly water, with a few pale white beans floating like little wrecks in an ocean of absence. Behind her, her father moved through the crowd with a soldier’s gaze. It was not the gaze of one trained for war, but of one forced to survive it. He was scanning faces, perhaps for danger, perhaps for hope, or perhaps for something in between. The girl looked back once, then again. When she saw him turn away, she seized that brief moment of freedom. She dipped her fingers into the pot, scooped a few beans, and stuffed them into her mouth with the speed of guilt. Her eyes darted around as she chewed, terrified that he might see her, that he might scold her. Not because he was cruel, but because that pitiful soup was meant to feed not one child, but an entire family. Perhaps five. Perhaps ten. We no longer count mouths. Only spoons. There was a kitchen once, a charity. They cooked for over a thousand families every day. They did it not for profit, and not for recognition, but because their souls could not do otherwise. That kitchen shut down three days ago. Not because people stopped being hungry, but because the shelves became empty. The rice, the oil, the flour — everything ran out. And now the people go to the American aid centers. Yes, of course. "Humanitarian corridors." What a beautiful phrase. How clean, how sterile, how bureaucratically elegant. It sounds like "collateral damage" or "operation." The Americans built them. The Israelis secured them. And forty people die at their gates every day. Crushed. Shot. Starved. They come seeking bread and leave as corpses. Everyone knows this. Absolutely everyone. And yet they still go. Hunger will drive a man to walk toward his own execution if there is even a shadow of rice behind the gun. Yesterday, my friend Al-Aloul went. He is not a fighter. He is a software engineer, a quiet man. He came back stabbed, in the neck. Six stitches. Blood soaked through his shirt. But he smiled. "I got the box," he said. "They did not take it." What kind of world is this? What kind of man smiles through blood because he has a box of flour? This is not the war of tanks and planes. Those have become irrelevant. This is the war of hunger, the war of slow death. Mothers fast for days, not in spiritual devotion, but because their sons must eat first. Children stand in line for aid, not knowing if they will return alive. Girls eat in secret, and fathers carry shame heavier than bread. This is genocide by exhaustion, by silence, by paperwork, and by averted eyes. Do you want to know what the modern age has made of evil? It has made it bureaucratic. Digitised. Professionalised. A genocide in which the world debates definitions while children chew air. The child who ate those beans is more real than your opinions. My friend who smiled through blood has more dignity than your excuses. Gaza is not a headline. It is a mirror. And when you look at it, what you see is the measure of your own humanity. You want God to speak? Perhaps he already has. He speaks through the silence of that girl. Through the blood on that box. Through the words I now write with shaking hands. Gaza is not dying. It is being crucified. And we are the crowd at Golgotha. Watching. #GazaGenocide‌

Another reminder that Palestine is the canary in the coal mine of authoritarianism and repression. The bombs they drop in Palestine won't stay there. The laws that target Palestine won't stop there. The tech tools they abuse won't be limited to there.

A detained US greencard holder's lawyers don't know where he is. They were told he was being held in one facility, yet when his wife went, she was told he was not there. (h/t @prem_thakker). When reporting these facts in other contexts globally, we call this disappearance.

ICE disappeared #MahmoudKhalil, a legal permanent resident, without a judicially authorized warrant on allegations he supported Hamas based mostly on social media posts he did not post. Add your name to 518K signatories demanding his release huffpost.com/entry/ice-arre… #Palestinian

This banner was raised yesterday in the southern suburbs of Beirut. It reads: “We shall not abandon Palestine”.

im going to complain about her every week if i have to. until black people can get the same opportunities while existing within the criminal justice system i don’t want to hear anything about this being “camp” this is white privilege. stop using our slang to justify this nonsense

Greta understood quite quickly it was cringe to proclaim the impending end of the world from a place of global north middle classness without recognizing the world has already ended for many peoples and is currently ending for others

I’m sorry this deserves much much more urgent attention. Not enough people know this is happening.

BREAKING: St. Louis County Circuit Court Judge Bruce Hilton has denied the motion to vacate #MarcellusWilliams’ conviction. Marcellus is set to be executed on Sept. 24 for a crime he did not commit. innocenceproject.org/court-denies-p…