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I wrote this piece to highlight a persistent problem. technology claims to be inclusive, yet excludes people because of language. Accessibility isn’t just about tools, it’s about whose voices matter. Read my article, published by Dawn: lnkd.in/g_KXWejB

No, Pakistan is not the terror state here. India does NOT get to play victim after unprovoked bombing of innocent civilian targets for 3 days. Even now when Pakistan has been goaded into this war, our military has shown professionalism and restraint by restricting themselves to military targets. A state that bombs civilian targets in an unprovoked act of war is a terrorist state. And Pehelgam is no just cause because there is ZERO proof or footprint of Pakistan on it. Quite the opposite. It is India which is running away from a neutral investigation. Your government miscalculated our conventional deterrence capabilities. Now we are exercising our right to defence under the UN charter. We abide by international law.

India made false accusations, cut off water supply as an act of collective punishment, and targeted civilian sites in its airstrikes, resulting in multiple civilian casualties, including a child. Eerie similarities between the Indian and the Israeli playbook.

On-going reporting in Texas of the sexual abuse of Aafia Siddiqui & denial of @omarsuleiman's right to access to provide her with spiritual solace chron.com/culture/religi… @Aafiamovement @mariakari1414 @FowziaSiddiqui

This is Dr. Saeed Joudeh, the only orthopedic surgeon in northern Gaza. A few days ago, he held a sign pleading with the world to save them from the Israeli army. Today, the Israeli army shot him in the head, assassinating him.

today, the @OxfordUnion set the original version of my speech to private (see screenshot) and uploaded an edited version, one minute shorter, seemingly following zionist pressure. see their statement on the matter. such modification of my speech and censorship is unethical and contrary to the ideals they purport to uphold. this censorship and perversion of my remarks comes after the original YouTube video had garnered hundreds of thousands of views and thousands of comments in less than one week, which was apparently was bothersome to zionists. whereas the previous leadership of Ebrahim Osman-Mowafy withstood zionist bullying, his tenure ended in early December, when a new president took office. the usual zionist threats are working on him, it seems. as Palestinians struggle to make our voices heard in the midst of a genocide, it is particularly egregious for the @OxfordUnion to bow to the very same forces committing that genocide. it was bad enough to have been in the same room with genocide apologists and individuals who've actually murdered or caused the murder of people, but to find out that my speech has been edited to cater to them is intolerable. the @OxfordUnion has not seen fit to issue statements, retractions, or other forms of censorship in the case of some truly abhorrent individuals that they've hosted in the past, such as Tony Robinson or Tzipi Hotovely. Robinson was sent to prison for repeatedly inciting violence against refugees and Muslims, Hotovely made public calls to genocide against Palestinians. her remarks were so vile that it provoked calls for her expulsion from the UK. and yet it was my speech that they saw fit to edit. why? I demand the original speech be reinstated in its entirety as it was previously posted. for the record, thanks to web.archive.org, the originally posted version cannot be erased from the web: web.archive.org/web/2024121300…

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The killing of several protesters in Islamabad by security forces is highly condemnable; this government is highly condemnable, & most of all, the military that empowered them to do their bidding is the most condemnable, not only for this, but for creating this entire mess.

The problem with PTI supporters is that they can't see beyond their noses. They imagine the establishment is solely focused on bringing down their dear leader, that their party is the most brutalized, that their suffering is unprecedented. They are blind to structures & patterns.

@annalandre I think this is possible. Let me drop you a voice note.

@ disability Twitter, pls send advice! A wheelchair user from India is planning to study in the UK next year. She needs her Mom to come as her PCA/PA/carer. However, she’s been told that the UK won’t allow this (won’t give her Mom a visa for this purpose). Anyone know? Ideas?

@sabikashaban @QUGulfStudies @DIFI_Qatar Looking forward to it

Looking forward to presenting on the cost of childhood disability in Qatar at this @QUGulfStudies & @DIFI_Qatar conference with Dr. Hira Amin - unpacking specific financial burdens rooted in disability healthcare and education.

If you’re from #Pakistan and post +10 stories a day about #Palestine but haven’t said a word about a population the size of Gaza’s being deported within a timeframe of days as collective punishment then you need to introspect 1/

I am the only Palestinian American serving in Congress, and my perspective is needed here now more than ever. I will not be silenced and I will not let anyone distort my words. I’m from Detroit, where I learned to speak truth to power, even if my voice shakes.

Fouad Abu Sabha was shot dead in the West Bank. Channel 4 News was at the scene moments after he was killed. Using our exclusive footage from the day, CCTV and eyewitness testimony, we piece together a minute-by-minute account of Fouad’s last moments. @mattfrei reports.

As the UN General Assembly adopts the Gaza resolution, calling for an immediate & sustained humanitarian truce, we make an urgent call to protect the rights of persons with disabilities in Gaza. More ➡️bit.ly/urgent-call-fo… 🧵

My Jewish values don’t include slaughter, collective punishment, the intentional starving of people, ethnic cleansing, genocide. My Jewish values cry out, CEASEFIRE NOW!

Gaza tonight. When the skies are lit with terror. Never forget the “civilized nations” that claim to be “peacemakers” governed by “international law” that manufactured this genocide. Shame.

How the fuck was none of it enough. How the fuck was them showing the world pictures of their children's limbs in plastic bags not enough? How was a 200+ page long list of the dead not enough? How was them holding a press conference surrounded by dead bodies not enough?