This is the reality for Palestinians living in Gaza.
We can’t take away the pain, but we can ease some of the burden. Supporting Leena and her family financially through her fiancé, @mohanad22’s, campaign can ease a small part of their struggle right now.
Hello, everyone. I’m Casey York and I live in the U.S.. I have created this fundraiser on behalf of my close friend, Muhannad, as he is in Gaza and unable to create one for himself because Chuffed does not support direct withdrawals to Gaza.
"In between those two cited atrocities (genocide in Gaza and school bombings in #Iran), Trump has doubled down on U.S. arms transfers to Israel and acquiesced in its mass starvation and ethnic cleansing policies. Trump continues to participate in the #Gaza #Genocide by sending arms to Netanyahu and his IDF. Under the complicity provision of the Genocide Convention, both Trump and Biden could find themselves subject to arrest and trial at the Hague." #USpol #WarCrimes
Condemning genocidists isn’t discrimination. Israel’s apartheid regime is discrimination.
Israelis are settler colonialists. That’s not a slur, it’s a fact.
No one is committing genocide against Israelis. The only people committing genocide are the Israelis.
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(Please report and block this pro-genocide Israeli hasbara bot that spams posts and blocks – this is one of three copies of the same reply I got – and has been banned from countless servers but evades bans by creating new accounts: @gentlebreeze)
In the wake of a shattered home, I wake each day beside my wife and children, spread across what remains of our former life. Our roof collapsed, taking with it both shelter and the steady rhythm of daily work.
#Palestinian films to show instead of Eurovision in Slovenia
#Slovenia has vowed to show Palestinian films instead of #Eurovision as it joined a host of other countries planning to #boycott Eurovision this year over the participation of #Israel
The competition, featuring 35 nations, is scheduled to take place in Vienna from May 12 until 16, but this year, it has the lowest number of sign-ups since 2003
The low level of participation comes as a reaction to Eurovision’s decision to allow Israel to compete; Slovenia, #Ireland, #Spain, the #Netherlands, #Iceland have already expressed their intention to boycott the event.
Yes… what's happening in Lebanon, we saw and experienced in Gaza, the same pain and the same methods, and perhaps the most brutal genocide is being repeated before the eyes of the world 🌎 💔
Almost as if there’s a pattern here or something: liars lie, murderers murder, thieves stealing people’s land and homes steal people’s land and homes, monsters committing genocide commit genocide…
Almost as if this is who they are.
And they’re shouting it in our faces.
While the donkeys leading us piss in our ears and tell us it’s raining.
The Israeli army carried out airstrikes and artillery shelling across southern Lebanon early Friday despite a recently announced extension of a ceasefire, Lebanon’s National News Agency reported.
Despite rampant human rights violations, European elites refuse to break pact giving Israelis access to #business and over a billion euros through 2027.“
shame on my employer, the University of Toronto. UofT is sponsoring this year’s CANSEC, a Canadian security and defense conference, to the tune of TEN THOUSAND THREE HUNDRED DOLLARS 😡
We live here, world. All that's left for us between the sea and the yellow line is a few meters and some tents. chuffed.org/project/172129-ple… 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸❤️
#techbros are a malthusian death cult. instead of letting go of their billions to end poverty, they want to exterminate most of us because we are an “overpopulation” problem.
no, it doesn't make sense for these people to accelerate the #GlobalWarming environmental collapse scientists been warning for decades. it will affect them too.
Greenhouse gases from data center boom could outpace entire nations Plants from OpenAI, Meta, xAI, and Microsoft could emit more than 129M tons annually. arstechnica.com/ai/2026/04/gre…
Israeli-born Holocaust historian Omer Bartov (author of numerous books on the subject, and the famous 2025 essay in the New York Times "I'm a Genocide Scholar. I Know It When I See It") recently published "What went wrong in Israel?" theguardian.com/world/2026/apr… « a detailed account of how Israel was transformed from a hopeful nation that in its founding document promised "complete equality of social and political rights to all its citizens irrespective of religion, race or sex" into one intent on what he bluntly terms "settler colonialism and ethno-nationalism". […] western imperial powers unleashed a settler-colonial project that aimed from its inception to "eliminate, uproot, murder the Palestinians" […] the charge of antisemitism has grown hollow, Bartov said, due to its flagrant "weaponization" as "a tool to shut people up" as the state wreaks destruction on its neighbors. "Having claimed t
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Israeli-born Holocaust historian Omer Bartov (author of numerous books on the subject, and the famous 2025 essay in the New York Times "I'm a Genocide Scholar. I Know It When I See It") recently published "What went wrong in Israel?" theguardian.com/world/2026/apr… « a detailed account of how Israel was transformed from a hopeful nation that in its founding document promised "complete equality of social and political rights to all its citizens irrespective of religion, race or sex" into one intent on what he bluntly terms "settler colonialism and ethno-nationalism". […] western imperial powers unleashed a settler-colonial project that aimed from its inception to "eliminate, uproot, murder the Palestinians" […] the charge of antisemitism has grown hollow, Bartov said, due to its flagrant "weaponization" as "a tool to shut people up" as the state wreaks destruction on its neighbors. "Having claimed to be the definitive answer to antisemitism," he writes in What Went Wrong?, "Israel is now the best excuse for antisemites everywhere, a nation whose addiction to violence and oppression, reliance on great powers and financial clout, and constant harping on the horrors of the Holocaust as an excuse for untethered violence against Palestinians are making even some of its erstwhile supporters shrink from it in discomfort, or horror and disgust." […] Bartov's new book is coming out in "nine or 10" languages, he said, but Hebrew is not among them. Though he offered to translate it himself, he says even left-leaning Israeli publishers took a pass. »
In his new book, Omer Bartov tracks how a liberatory strand of Zionism transformed into an extremist ideology that he sees as responsible for genocide in Gaza
What most of our children are experiencing is nothing but painful, harsh, and beyond their years. A reality filled with indescribable and unimaginable suffering 🥺💔 I wish I could find myself and my children in a day when we were well.
The EU is all about human rights. Not so much that they’ll stop trading with people commiting genocide but still… they’re big fans of the concept in theory.
It was never going to be so easy…
#Germany and #Italy blocked an #EU effort to suspend a trade pact with #Israel, despite calls from #Ireland, #Slovenia, and #Spain to do so over human rights violations in #Gaza and the West Bank.
https://www.
It was never going to be so easy…
#Germany and #Italy blocked an #EU effort to suspend a trade pact with #Israel, despite calls from #Ireland, #Slovenia, and #Spain to do so over human rights violations in #Gaza and the West Bank.
https://www.
with all due respect, but “Palantir touts its human rights policy” is way off the mark after they spent the weekend posting on Xitter their #eugenics and #genocide manifesto.
i know these posts are decided in advance, but honestly @eff, *I* can do better than this.
Palantir touts its human rights policy. But its tools help ICE run dragnet raids, detain people with no criminal record, and retaliate against protesters. Legal boilerplate is not human rights due diligence. eff.org/deeplinks/2026/04/pala…
Let’s put this #Palantir #NHS issue a different way:
the founder sells himself as the #Antichrist who will urge in the #techbros #apocalypse ―for the right price and the betterment of his kind of mankind.
meanwhile, the CEO wrote a book-long #eugenics manifesto and defense of #war and #genocide to cull the unwashed masses.
and they hired a Mosley, the grandson of the leader of the fascist party, to manage said NHS business
WHY ENTRUST #UK HEALTH CARE TO PEOPLE WHO WANT TO KILL YOU?
Watching ministers talk about NHS data strategy is like watching someone confidently rewire a house with no understanding of electricity. The language sounds polished, the reassurances are endless, but the substance just isn’t there.
No, actually, I do have something against the people of Israel.
I have something against the people of Israel in the IDF who are committing genocide.
I have something against the people of Israel who are violently displacing Palestinians from their homes in illegal settlements.
I have something against 47% of the people in Israel who answered yes to whether Israel should kill everyone in Gaza*, 64% of the people of Israel that agree with the statement “there are no innocent people in Gaza”**, and the 82% of Jewish Israelis who back expelling Gazans from Gaza.
If you think it’s just Netanyahu or a handful of people committing ethnic cleansing and genocide and perpetuating an apartheid state, you’re deluded.
None of this would be possible without “the people of Israel” who are actively involved in commiting these crimes against humanity on a daily basis.
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“We have nothing against the people of Israel…”
No, actually, I do have something against the people of Israel.
I have something against the people of Israel in the IDF who are committing genocide.
I have something against the people of Israel who are violently displacing Palestinians from their homes in illegal settlements.
I have something against 47% of the people in Israel who answered yes to whether Israel should kill everyone in Gaza*, 64% of the people of Israel that agree with the statement “there are no innocent people in Gaza”**, and the 82% of Jewish Israelis who back expelling Gazans from Gaza.
If you think it’s just Netanyahu or a handful of people committing ethnic cleansing and genocide and perpetuating an apartheid state, you’re deluded.
None of this would be possible without “the people of Israel” who are actively involved in commiting these crimes against humanity on a daily basis.
❝ The rich can no longer be tamed. They are way too far gone in their own worlds, too entitled, too convinced they've "earned" (and therefore *deserve* their wealth) & would rather burn the entire planet & kill off 5 billion people than give up that wealth. We need to realize this. ❞
Big news from "the only democracy in the Middle East", the one and only country with very many "special relationships" with USA and several European countries. "The only democracy" that is still allowed to kill paramedics, children, women and gets away with it all over again. Economy first, money talks. 🤬
👉"Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg is the world’s second most dangerous antisemite, several spots ahead of white nationalist Nick Fuentes, according to a new report from the Israeli government. ,,, As evidence of Thunberg’s antisemitism, the Israeli government pointed to her use of “terms such as ‘genocide,’ ‘siege’ and ‘mass starvation’ in reference to Israel’s actions in Gaza.”👈
Big news from "the only democracy in the Middle East", the one and only country with very many "special relationships" with USA and several European countries. "The only democracy" that is still allowed to kill paramedics, children, women and gets away with it all over again. Economy first, money talks. 🤬
👉"Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg is the world’s second most dangerous antisemite, several spots ahead of white nationalist Nick Fuentes, according to a new report from the Israeli government. ,,, As evidence of Thunberg’s antisemitism, the Israeli government pointed to her use of “terms such as ‘genocide,’ ‘siege’ and ‘mass starvation’ in reference to Israel’s actions in Gaza.”👈
"Israel🚨🚨🚨carried out a “triple tap,” killing 3 medical workers & wounding 6, outside of Nabatieh today.
Paramedics were trying to rescue wounded from an airstrike, when they were struck. Another ambulance came to rescue the medical workers & was struck.🚨A 3rd rescue attempt was made & that amb was struck too.💔A paramedic remains missing.
#Israel🚨has killed >90 HC workers in #Lebanon in about 6 weeks.
Pictured:💔One of the slain med wkrs, Fadel Sarhan." -W Christou #Genocide #IranWar #USPol
TELL DEATH WE DO ART 🖼️ I am trying to do some art while I wait for salvation from this place that restricts my wings forever.
PS:
I focus intently on choosing my hashtags so that I don't add "actors" instead of "artists." For fear that this might cost me the deletion of this post, as you know
Yes, read that again: the post of a Palestinian, suffering through genocide in Gaza and trying to share her experience – someone who is, moreover, a founding team member of Gaza Verified (gaza-verified.org/team/) – was *deleted* for a stupid hashtag that some white Karen in the West got distressed about.
This is so fucking wrong in so many ways that I don
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So, Karen, just so you understand the consequences of your actions:
Yes, read that again: the post of a Palestinian, suffering through genocide in Gaza and trying to share her experience – someone who is, moreover, a founding team member of Gaza Verified (gaza-verified.org/team/) – was *deleted* for a stupid hashtag that some white Karen in the West got distressed about.
This is so fucking wrong in so many ways that I don’t know where to begin.
I want to know:
1. Is it mastodon.social policy to just go ahead and delete the posts of its members or was this a moderator acting out of spite against a Palestinian? (Or is everyone on mastodon.social at risk of having their posts deleted if moderators don’t agree with the hashtags they use?)
2. If this is not mastodon.social policy, I’d like to know what action will be taken regarding this moderation action and the moderator responsible and what will change internally to ensure that something like this doesn’t happen again.
Israel is already doing their best to erase Palestinians. The least we can do is to not help them by literally deleting the posts of Palestinians on the fediverse. Thank goodness hashtags weren’t a thing in the days of Anne Frank because clearly some of you would have burned her diary had she used the wrong one by mistake.
3. Can we all, please, have some fucking basic decency and maintain perspective when dealing with people suffering through genocide, ethnic cleansing, and apartheid? It’s a pretty low bar for humanity.
IBM folds to Trump anti-DEI push, admits no misconduct but pays $17M penalty IBM is first firm to pay penalty under Trump's "Civil Rights Fraud Initiative." arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20…
“AA: There is also a way to argue, on the flipside, that the project of Israel is essentially a project of assimilation into the Western world order—that there’s nothing inherently Jewish about what Israel is doing, and that it actually represents assimilation into a colonial framework. But then, of course, there’s a way to read this that’s very direct: This is what Jews are doing in the world. Secular Jews, religious Jews, cultural Jews, all kinds of Jews.
EL: You’re absolutely right. That was the strategy we on the Jewish left used for a long time, to say Judaism was colonized and the Zionists are Jewish antisemites, in that they reject what the antisemites reject—the diasporic, exilic, “parasite” Jew—and want instead to become real Europeans. But when so many people who call themselves Jewish are doing things that we have a problem with and calling it “Jewish,” we cannot just dismiss it, or claim that it’s not real Judaism. If you look at statistics, at least in Israel, the support for Netanyahu
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“AA: There is also a way to argue, on the flipside, that the project of Israel is essentially a project of assimilation into the Western world order—that there’s nothing inherently Jewish about what Israel is doing, and that it actually represents assimilation into a colonial framework. But then, of course, there’s a way to read this that’s very direct: This is what Jews are doing in the world. Secular Jews, religious Jews, cultural Jews, all kinds of Jews.
EL: You’re absolutely right. That was the strategy we on the Jewish left used for a long time, to say Judaism was colonized and the Zionists are Jewish antisemites, in that they reject what the antisemites reject—the diasporic, exilic, “parasite” Jew—and want instead to become real Europeans. But when so many people who call themselves Jewish are doing things that we have a problem with and calling it “Jewish,” we cannot just dismiss it, or claim that it’s not real Judaism. If you look at statistics, at least in Israel, the support for Netanyahu and the Gaza war, including the most racist genocidal statements, is correlated to how religious people are—the more religious, the more supportive. There were times when you could expect the Haredi communities not to go to the army, not to celebrate Yom Ha’atzmaut, Independence Day, not even to speak Hebrew. And that’s changed.”
‘Substantial evidence’ of double-tap strike in killing of Gaza’s Hind Rajab
Campaign group Avaaz analyses the timeline of events to conclude that violations show Israel systematically kills first responders.
"American Christians can’t pretend we haven’t seen what our leaders have done this spring. Ours is no longer a government interested in haggling over the finer points of just war theory, a Scripture-shaped standard of ethical conduct in warfare, to defend a military intervention."
A 9-year-old Palestinian girl was killed after being shot by Israeli forces while attending class in a tent set up for education at Abu Ubayda bin Jarrah School in northern Gaza, Anadolu reports.
“an Israeli soldier … stopped my interview did this with a Palestinian peace activist Issa Amro in #Hebron. I can't stop thinking how dehumanizing the occupation is on the young soldiers charged with enforcing it” #Palestine #israel #warcrimes #genocide #military
