Just so you know how deprived and lacking of humanity some people are, please read this and report and block the accounts that are spreading these conspiracy theories about Gaza Verified and our friends and families in Gaza.
Israel’s genocide is not limited to the physical erasure of the Palestinian people in Gaza and the West Bank but aims to completely erase Palestinians from all aspects of life – both offline and online.
We may be helpless when it comes to what Israel’s military is doing on the ground but we have an opportunity here, together, to say “not on our watch” and not on the fediverse.
Just so you know how deprived and lacking of humanity some people are, please read this and report and block the accounts that are spreading these conspiracy theories about Gaza Verified and our friends and families in Gaza.
Israel’s genocide is not limited to the physical erasure of the Palestinian people in Gaza and the West Bank but aims to completely erase Palestinians from all aspects of life – both offline and online.
We may be helpless when it comes to what Israel’s military is doing on the ground but we have an opportunity here, together, to say “not on our watch” and not on the fediverse.
There are some anonymous conspiracy theory accounts popping up that allege that Gaza Verified is a scam and that everyone verified by us is a scammer.
Some of the outrageous claims made by these accounts include:
• They can’t be real because there is no Internet access in Gaza (there is, although it is unreliable and spotty).
• They can’t be real because everyone in Gaza is dead (seriously, one of them actually said this).
• And, showcasing just horrible and lacking of basic humanity these people are, there is a recent one that assets that Aseel – one of our team members (gaza-verified.org/team/) – is impersonating a Palestinian woman from Gaza who was murdered in Israel’s ongoing genocide of the Palestinian people. (This particularly nasty and personal conspiracy theory uses the image of a different Aseel – think “Mary” or “Jane” in the West – as its “proof”).
While we don’t post our verification videos to respect the privacy of our friends in Gaza, we did record the one we held Friday with @shahedgaza that Aseel was helping us run and, with her permission, are posting it here and pinning it to our account so you can see what our verification calls are actually like.
If you see posts by these conspiracy theorists (a few of them have “Linux” in their handles), please report and block them.
If you are running a Mastodon server and you allow such conspiracy theorists on your servers, you should be ashamed of yourselves. Please report servers that do not take action on such accounts after they are reported to them to the #fediblock tag so they can be blocked/defederated with on the server-level by servers run by decent human beings.
A recording (made and shared with Shahd’s permission) of Aseel Alturk and Aral Balkan’s verification call with Shahd (https://mastodon.social/@shahedgaza)…
After the European Broadcast Union (#EBU) decided not to put the participation of #Israel to #Eurovision 2026 to the votes, #BoycottEurovision is finally becoming a thing.
Boycotting countries so far:
Ireland
Spain
Netherlands
Slovenia
To be decided:
Belgium
Iceland
Eurovision took a brave stance to support the rights of LGBTQ+ minorities in times when they were still denied in their own home countries.
They also took a brave stance by excluding Russia from the festival after it attacked Ukraine.
But they’re failing to take a clear stance against this #genocide, proving their partisanship in the minorities that they decide to support and the aggressors they decide to condemn.
Hence it’s everybody’s duty to ensure that Eurovision 2026 will be about the Israeli music act alone, with no audiences to watch and cheer for them.
Germany, a major Eurovision backer, had signalled it would not take part if Israel was barred. Germany's culture minister Wolfram Weimer told the Bild newspaper he welcomed the decision."Israel belongs to the Eurovision Song Contest like Germany belongs to Europe," he said.
Flera länder har bojkottat nästa års Eurovision song contest i Wien efter EBU:s beslut att låta Israel delta. SVT har inte tagit beslut om att hoppa av tävlingen.
Fucking yes… finally! Thank you, Ireland, Spain, and Netherlands!
“Ireland will not participate in next year’s Eurovision Song Contest, and it will not be broadcast on RTÉ, after organiser the European Broadcasting Union confirmed today that Israel will be allowed to take part … Spain’s national broadcaster RTVE and the Netherlands’ AvroTros also announced that they would boycott the contest.”
Maybe we should rename it to the Genocidevision Song Contest?
Ireland will not participate in next year's Eurovision Song Contest, and it will not be broadcast on RTÉ, after organiser the European Broadcasting Union confirmed today that Israel will be allowed to take part.
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My sister and my friend Joy @joynewacc@mastodon.social helped me and bought all the study materials for medical school.
Below, you will see the memo I fell in love with, which has the phrase 'to save lives.
- Someone trying to help protect the voices of genocide survivors on the fediverse
- Someone denying the existence of genocide survivors and working to get them banned from Mastodon servers
Some Mastodon server admins: “We literally cannot see a difference between the two.”
You wanna know the difference? You already know who you would want with you when you’re faced with a fascist in a dark alley. Unless, of course, that’s the one character you identify with most in this post.
80 years after the Nazis were tried for war crimes, the documents are online for all to see The Nuremberg Trials Project is a free and searchable database from Harvard Law School cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/80-ye…
More than a month after a ceasefire was announced and all living Israeli hostages were released, Israeli authorities are still committing genocide against Palestinians in the occupied Gaza Strip, by continuing to deliberately inflict conditions of li…
Israel is using existing ceasefire agreements to establish new realities on the ground, projecting itself as the regional hegemon by launching attacks on Gaza, Lebanon, Syria, and the West Bank.
Someone kindly reached out to ask if I would consider speaking about Gaza Verified (gaza-verified.org/) at the Social Web Devroom being organised by the Social Web Foundation at FOSDEM.
My answer is no.
And I feel it’s important for those of us who care about such things to understand why:
• Social Web Foundation (socialwebfoundation.org) partners with, and thereby whitewashes and legitimises Meta
• FOSDEM (fosdem.org/2026) allows itself to be sponsored by, and thereby whitewashes and legitimises, Google and IBM (Red Hat)
Meta and Google are both surveillance capitalists with strong ties to the Trump regime that is arming and financing Israel’s genocide in Gaza. IBM, apart from having helped Nazi Germany carry out the Holocaust, is also singled out by name, alongside Google (Alphabet
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Someone kindly reached out to ask if I would consider speaking about Gaza Verified (gaza-verified.org/) at the Social Web Devroom being organised by the Social Web Foundation at FOSDEM.
My answer is no.
And I feel it’s important for those of us who care about such things to understand why:
• Social Web Foundation (socialwebfoundation.org) partners with, and thereby whitewashes and legitimises Meta
• FOSDEM (fosdem.org/2026) allows itself to be sponsored by, and thereby whitewashes and legitimises, Google and IBM (Red Hat)
Meta and Google are both surveillance capitalists with strong ties to the Trump regime that is arming and financing Israel’s genocide in Gaza. IBM, apart from having helped Nazi Germany carry out the Holocaust, is also singled out by name, alongside Google (Alphabet, Inc.), as complicit in Israel’s ongoing genocide of the Palestinian people (aljazeera.com/news/2025/7/1/un…).
It shouldn’t be hard for organisations that purport to be alternatives to toxic Big Tech to not be sponsored and affiliated with them. But apparently it is.
Personally, I have no trouble saying no to having my name and legitimacy being used to whitewash these corporations and I have been doing so since the beginning.
I will not stand – literally or metaphorically – in front of their banners and talk about an initiative that tries to help the very people victimised by these corporations in their sociopathic quest for profit at any cost.
I hope more people start doing the same if we are to have any chance of making these corporations with their toxic business models and their complicity in genocide socially unacceptable. If we cannot even meet that already-very-low bar – as long as those of us with legitimacy allow ourselves to be used to normalise them – nothing will change.
“Farage as a 13-year-old classmate would say ‘Hitler was right’ or ‘gas them’ to him … They could only identify us, because we had to go to this stupid Jewish service in the science labs school. I mean, none of us were remotely religious. They would hang out there. Farage would hang out with his minions. And then they would taunt us as we would leave … He was nasty, there was no question. [The song] Gas ’e
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Your daily reminder that antisemitism and support of the genocidal settler-colonial ideology of Zionism and of Israel are two very separate things.
Case in point, Nigel Farage (Zionist, friend of Israel, denies Israel’s committing genocide in Gaza):
“The level of disrespect, even abuse, that is now being shown to Israel is reaching astonishing proportions.” – Nigel Farage
“Farage as a 13-year-old classmate would say ‘Hitler was right’ or ‘gas them’ to him … They could only identify us, because we had to go to this stupid Jewish service in the science labs school. I mean, none of us were remotely religious. They would hang out there. Farage would hang out with his minions. And then they would taunt us as we would leave … He was nasty, there was no question. [The song] Gas ’em all, I heard him singing it…”
Hello there. Today we had a three-way meeting with @aral and my sister @joynewacc &me. "We were in the same room." I am very happy that I finally met Aral, whom my sister talks to me about very often . I also have a link to cover my registration fees for the first semester of medical school, which amounts to $2500. I am trying to secure a university tuition installment plan so I don't get delayed. If you would like to help me, this’s donation link.
Rain has begun pouring over the Gaza Strip, drenching the already crumbling makeshift tents of displaced families.
Within minutes, tents across the Strip were flooded, further worsening the dire living conditions of those enduring over two years of genocide and displacement.
People in Gaza are starving as israel doing everything in the power to restrict and block entry of high energy food into Gaza.
Even frozen chicken is destroyed because Israel blocking the shipment and forcing the trucks to turn off their freezer and then wait for hours before entering
Y’all know me❤️ These days, I’m extremely busy with my household responsibilities: "preparing food, lighting the fire, & tutoring my little brother." My mom is taking care of my grandmother, who recently suffered a fracture, & I am currently the stand-in soldierin here
If you would like to support me until I can be out & find a job to help my family, here’s the donation link. (The donations for the shelter rent, & the costs of food, drink, & clothes)
What life is like for Palestinians from Gaza on centralised, US-based, Big Tech networks like Bluesky (yes, it’s all those things… did something about them make you think otherwise?)
Hello everyone, I am sharing with you the books that my sister, @Nourfuturedr, spent two years studying in order to achieve her dream of becoming a doctor.
I started pushing her campaign after my mother and I made the decision to save significantly on our food and drink expenses. This is so we can afford to cover her registration fees for the first semester of medical school.
The only flavour of decentralisation there’s no room for at FOSDEM is the kind that won’t speak at a conference that allows itself to be sponsored by, and thereby whitewashes, a surveillance capitalist like Google that is complicit in Israel’s ongoing genocide of the Palestinian people.
On Saturday, over 350 cops made over 50 arrests in #TavistockSquare. The #terrorists arrested were yet again committing the deadly atrocity of holding paper signs opposing #genocide in #Gaza, and supporting #PalestineAction.
These grey-haired, elderly terrorists face lengthy prison sentences if convicted. #Starmer's govt stands firm against the #terroristThreat.
Something happened to me recently, and I don't mean to be dramatic, but it's truly a shameful thing. Two days ago, I joined the writing platform #substack & even though @aral & @fabio told me it wasn't a good platform for me, being Palestinian, I decided to interact on it and post my poems there. I was subjected to awful abuse in all verbal forms by Zionists there. But I preferred to remain silent instead of arguing with any fools. Today, the platform’s banned me!
“Since the 1960s, Labour and Conservative governments have supported or acquiesced in several cases of genocide across Africa, the Middle East and Asia”
Since the 1960s, Labour and Conservative governments have supported or acquiesced in several cases of genocide across Africa, the Middle East and Asia.
In case you were wondering whether you should cancel your Paramount+ subscription…
“Ellison’s [spawn of the Oracle billionaire] goal is to turn Paramount into a MAGA-friendly environment, with content in the TV and movie divisions expected to be more ‘America-centric’ and geared toward ‘the middle of the country.’”
It sure looks like the likes of Javier Bardem, Joaquin Phoenix, Emma Stone, and Mark Ruffalo won’t be making movies for Paramount in the foreseeable future.
keep telling anybody who will hear me: #nyc is blessed with the largest concentration of antizionist Jewish communities in the world.
Mandami won the Jewish vote thanks to Joe Biden’s mendacity. the way he treated students protesting #Gaza #genocide unified them against the leadership of the Democratic Party.
i still remember when zionism was considered extremist. even back in the 1990s it was vulgar in nyc to call someone a zionist.
Report: "Jewish groups condemn ADL's 'Mamdani Monitor' as blatant Islamophobia"
A coalition of Jewish groups have criticised the Anti-Defamation League & vowed to work with Mamdani:
"NYC Jewish communities repudiate the ADL's blatant Islamophobia: …
“Israeli soldiers have described a free-for-all in Gaza and a breakdown in norms and legal constraints, with civilians killed at the whim of individual officers, according to testimony in a TV documentary.
“If you want to shoot without restraint, you can,” Daniel, the commander of an Israel Defense Forces (IDF) tank unit, says in Breaking Ranks: Inside Israel’s War, due to be broadcast in the UK on ITV on Monday evening.
Some of the IDF soldiers who talked to the programme requested anonymity while others spoke on the record. All pointed to the evaporation of the official code of conduct concerning civilians.
The soldiers who agreed to talk confirmed the IDF’s routine use of human shields, contradicting official denials, and gave details of Israeli troops opening fire unprovoked on civilians racing to reach food handouts at the militarised distribution points set up by the US- and Israeli-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF).”
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“Israeli soldiers have described a free-for-all in Gaza and a breakdown in norms and legal constraints, with civilians killed at the whim of individual officers, according to testimony in a TV documentary.
“If you want to shoot without restraint, you can,” Daniel, the commander of an Israel Defense Forces (IDF) tank unit, says in Breaking Ranks: Inside Israel’s War, due to be broadcast in the UK on ITV on Monday evening.
Some of the IDF soldiers who talked to the programme requested anonymity while others spoke on the record. All pointed to the evaporation of the official code of conduct concerning civilians.
The soldiers who agreed to talk confirmed the IDF’s routine use of human shields, contradicting official denials, and gave details of Israeli troops opening fire unprovoked on civilians racing to reach food handouts at the militarised distribution points set up by the US- and Israeli-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF).”
The New York Times is the paper of record and has played a key role in enabling the Gaza genocide. To hold the newspaper accountable, we must sever our ties —not only as subscribers or advertisers, but also as writers who lend the paper legitimacy.
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[+] Well...
#Eurovision was fun while it lasted.
What a mess.
Imagine destroying your legacy while forcing a fake image of United by
Music.
Huge support to those countries standing by their word and dropping
out.
Eurofans, we will support each other through this. They can't kill our
community and heart.
Q =13 Q 57 a & --](https://friendica.hellquist.eu/photo/preview/640/5324533 "MrAdamR @mradamr.bsky.social - 3h
[+] Well...
#Eurovision was fun while it lasted.
What a mess.
Imagine destroying your legacy while forcing a fake image of United by
Music.
Huge support to those countries standing by their word and dropping
out.
Eurofans, we will support each other through this. They can't kill our
community and heart.
Q =13 Q 57 a & --")
