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The scorching violence against the people of Gaza has been unprecedented. And so have its reverberations online. Palestinians documenting and speaking up against Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza have faced relentless censorship and repression, accompanied by an explosion of state-sponsored disinformation, hate speech and calls to violence on social media.
Following Hamas’s attack on Israel on October 7, Big Tech set to eliminate content on the war that they claimed violated their rules. TikTok removed more than 925,000 videos from the Middle East between October 7 and 31.
This has nothing to do with whether people are interested in the content. This is the rate at which the twitter algos [algorithms] are placing this post in other people's feeds.
X / Twitter not only throttling substack links. X or Twitter throttling engagement for any tweets that include a link to substack [like mine, got shadowbanned in twitter, although try to translate (the late) Refaat Alareer’ poem with other twitter / X user].
As of November 14, X, formerly known as Twitter, had taken action on over 350,000 posts. Meta, for its part, removed or marked as disturbing more than 795,000 posts in the first three days of the attack.
This elimination frenzy, run by ill-trained algorithms and further fuelled by pressure from the EU and Israel, has resulted in the disproportionate censorship of critical Palestinian voices, including content creators, journalists, and activists reporting from the ground in Gaza.
While being accused of promoting pro-Palestinian content, TikTok actually arbitrarily and repeatedly censored content on Palestine. For example, on October 9, United States-based media outlet Mondoweiss reported that its TikTok account had been permanently banned. It was reinstated only to be suspended again a few days later. The company did not provide any explanation.
X has also been accused of suppressing pro-Palestinian voices. For example, the account of the US branch of Palestine Action group was not able to gain any new followers; the issue was only resolved after public pressure mounted.
Meta, of all companies, holds the lion’s share in this digital repression campaign. It has arbitrarily removed Palestine-related content, disrupted live streaming, restricted comments, and suspended accounts.
After stunning 32.2 million views of her birthday video, Plestia got shadowbanned and just got 0 about Plestia - Zein Rahma live-stories instagram, a Meta product. I can show that other live-stories interview by another 2 persons will get 12k - 14k views, and when Plestia ‘live’ with Zein Rahma, at least 17k instagram user also watching. But, again, like the picture, notification views is 0.
Algorithm crap. With throttling you never see a preview of the article of substack. Having an email list is fantastic but when X or Twitter is your biggest source of eyeballs, it kills readership.
Gazans grandma killed by Israel bombing
Listening to Plestia Alaqad and Rana Ayyub's interview is so heartwarming and heartbreaking.
Among those who have been targeted is Palestinian photojournalist Motaz Azaiza, who had gained over 15 million followers on Instagram for documenting the Israeli atrocities in Gaza; his account was later reinstated. The Facebook page of Quds News Network, one of the largest Palestinian news networks with over 10 million followers, was also permanently banned.
On Instagram, people posting about Palestine have experienced shadowbanning – a stealth form of censorship where an individual is rendered invisible on the platform without being notified. Meta also reduced the threshold of certainty required for automated filters to hide hostile comments from 80 percent to 25 percent for content originating from Palestine. We have documented cases where Instagram hid comments containing the Palestinian flag emoji for being “potentially offensive”.
Tiger Team” of specialists to the Pentagon to accelerate weapons shipments to Israel. That’s how Josh Paul resigned from US State Department. Via Ken Klippenstein ‘Kennie’ Ken Klippenstein from The Intercept
Meta’s content moderation has never been forgiving of Palestinian speech, especially in times of crisis. The company’s rules, developed in the aftermath of the US-led “war on terror”, have disproportionately disfavoured and silenced Arabic-language political speech. For example, an overwhelming majority of individuals and organisations on its secret “terrorist” blacklist are from the Middle East and South Asia – a reflection of the US foreign policy posture.
Algorithmic technology rarely serves Palestine, but it can, if Palestinians have sovereignty over their data, language, models, land, and lives. For the last 75 years, since the creation of the State of Israel and the Nakba, Palestine has lacked sovereignty over all its basic living conditions.
Currently, most algorithmic technology serves Israel’s occupation and surveillance of every sphere of Palestinian existence. Even, legendary IT, legendary Silicon Valley, Paul Graham to be victim of surveillance just because his voice to support Palestine. Brit investor Paul Graham ‘hit’ by surveillance measure just because he’s vocal to defend Palestine. If renowned IT like Paul Graham facing surveillance, imagine ordinary people with very ‘few’ knowledge about IT.
The company’s policy on Dangerous Organizations and Individuals (DOI) Policy, which prohibits the praise, support and representation of these individuals and groups, is the catalyst behind the company’s heavy-handed censorship and discrimination against Palestinians.
Back in 2021, this policy was responsible for silencing pro-Palestinian individuals when they took to the streets and to social media to protest Israel’s attempt to forcefully expel Palestinian families from their homes in the occupied East Jerusalem neighbourhood of Sheikh Jarrah.
In the context of the ongoing Israeli war on Gaza, Meta stated they apply their policies equally around the world and refuted claims that they were “deliberately suppressing voice”. Evidence, however, suggests otherwise.
Two weeks into Russia’s war on Ukraine, Meta bent its rules to allow Ukrainians to express themselves freely. It allowed, for instance, calls for violence against Russian invaders. It even delisted the neo-Nazi group, the Azov Battalion, designated under its DOI policy, to allow for their praise.
In defence of these exceptions, the company’s President of Global Affairs Nick Clegg wrote: “If we applied our standard content policies without any adjustments we would now be removing content from ordinary Ukrainians expressing their resistance and fury at the invading military forces, which would rightly be viewed as unacceptable.”
Have any adjustments been made to ordinary Palestinians “expressing their resistance and fury at the invading military forces”? Quite the opposite. In a blog post that was last updated on December 5, Meta stated that it has disabled hashtags, restricted live streaming, and removed seven times as many pieces of content as it did in the two months prior to October for violating its DOI policy.
Even on the humanitarian front, double standards are on full display. Meta went to great lengths to coordinate humanitarian relief for Ukrainians, including enabling a feature that helps them stay informed, locate their family members and loved ones, and access emergency services, mental health support, housing assistance and refugee aid among others.
No such support has been afforded to Palestinians in Gaza who face communications blackouts and a humanitarian catastrophe of unspeakable scale.
This discrimination transcends to how Meta dedicates its resources and enforces their policies. Arabic language content is heavily over-moderated, while Hebrew content remains under-moderated. Up until September 2023, Meta didn’t have classifiers to automatically detect and remove hate speech in Hebrew even though its platforms were used by Israelis to explicitly call for violence and to organise pogroms against Palestinians. A recent internal memo revealed they were unable to use the newly built Hebrew classifier on Instagram comments due to insufficient training data.
This is deeply worrying in light of the fact that Meta significantly relies on automated content moderation tools. Some 98 percent of Instagram’s content moderation decisions are automated and almost 94 percent are automated on Facebook. These tools have repeatedly been revealed as poorly trained in Arabic and its various dialects.
According to one internal memo leaked in the 2021 Facebook papers, Meta’s automated tools to detect terrorist content incorrectly deleted nonviolent Arabic content 77 percent of the time.
This partially explains the egregious impact we are seeing on people’s ability to exercise their rights and document human rights abuses and war crimes. It also explains some unjustifiable system glitches, including labelling Al-Aqsa Mosque, the third holiest mosque in Islam, as a terrorist organisation in 2021; translating the bios of Instagram users with a Palestinian flag to “Praise be to God, Palestinian terrorists are fighting for their freedom”; and deleting footage of dead bodies from the al-Ahli Hospital bombing for violating its policy on adult nudity and sexual activity, no less.
Meanwhile, Meta is allowing verified state accounts that belong to the Israeli government – including politicians, the Israeli army and its spokespeople – to disseminate war propaganda and disinformation that justifies war crimes and crimes against humanity including attacks on hospitals and ambulances, filmed confessions of Palestinian detainees, and almost daily “evacuation” orders for Palestinian civilians.
Instead of protecting Palestinians in Gaza as they are facing what 36 UN human rights experts and other genocide scholars have warned amounts to genocide, Meta has approved paid ads that explicitly called for a “holocaust for the Palestinians” and wiping out “Gazan women and children and the elderly”.
Such disturbing calls for violence have made their way to other platforms as well. In fact, X seems to be leading other platforms on the amount of hate speech and incitement to violence targeting Palestinians. According to Palestinian digital rights organisation 7amleh, there have been more than two million such posts on the platform since October 7.
Telegram also hosts a number of Israeli channels which openly call for genocide and celebrate the collective punishment of the Palestinian people. In one group, named “Nazi Hunters 2023”, moderators post pictures of Palestinian public figures with crosshair marks on their faces as well as their home addresses and call for their elimination.
So far, social media companies do not seem to comprehend the gravity of the situation at hand. Meta, in particular, seems to have learned very little from its role in Myanmar’s genocide of the Rohingya in 2017.
The silencing of Palestinians, while promoting disinformation and violence against them, may have been the modus operandi for social media platforms in the absence of any meaningful accountability. But this round is different. Meta is risking being implicated again in genocide and it must correct course before it is too late. The responsibility to protect users and uphold freedom of expression applies to other social media platforms, too.
Marwa Fatafta is MENA Policy Manager at Access Now.
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I know a lot of high-ranking media, such as New York Times, Guardian, Anadolu, BILD, Spiegel, Financial Times, Strait Times, Washington Post etc subscribed my substack. Plestia ‘Bosbos’ Alaqad ready to be your Stringer or Keynote Speaker or Source about [everything related] Gaza, as Global Opinionator the Washington Post Rana Ayyub Rana Ayyub doing around 84 hours ago, or 22 hours ago interview with Egyptian activist Zein Rahma, please contact Plestiaa2011@gmail.com or collab@plestiaalaqad.com
Rana Ayyubis the first Indian to be an honorary member of the US National Press Club. Interview with Plestia maybe around [Dec 11] 1pm New Delhi and 8pm Melbourne [Plestia] —— 1 day after Plestia’s birthday. Plestia evacuated to Melbourne after eyewitnessing horror [at least] until 49 days of war in Gaza. As of now 13/12 [Dec 12], is Day 68 of war
Toddler with Plestia, before war, living in Northern Gaza and they evacuated to Southern Gaza. Since Friday, Oct 13, when Israel announced to every Gazans from northern move to southern, more than 5,000 killed in southern, not counting barbaric bombing in northern Gaza. Northern Gaza is being depopulated, while even residents in the south are ordered to evacuate as the israelis implement their ethnic cleansing. Refugee literally fulfilled Israel warning, and still killed with barbaric bombing by Israel. Documentation by Plestia Alaqad
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110+ languages of poem Refaat al Areer ‘IF I MUST DIE’
link YouTube Brian Denis Cox CBE [Logan Roy “SUCCESSION”] reads ‘IF I MUST DIE’
English —- original post by Professor Refaat Al Areer
Arabic / Arab, Refaat’s mother tongue ===== twitter [at]tameeolivefern
Ottoman Turkish (لِسانِ عُثمانى, Lisân-ı Osmânî, Osmanlı Türkçesi, or عثمانليجه Osmanlıca) === twitter [at]IsmailogluF
Yiddish [German dialect which uses many Hebrew words but with a very distinctive Ashkenazic pronunciation — not Hebrew] === twitter [at]antimaskilic
Hebrew ==== twitter [at]nookyelur
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Gaeilge / Gaeilge na hÉireann / Irish [2nd version] === twit [at]RoscCatha
Kalenjin languages, family of a dozen Southern Nilotic languages spoken in Kenya, eastern Uganda and northern Tanzania === twitter [at]emmanuel_tunen
Bislama / bichelamar / English-based creole language in Vanuatu === twitter [at]specificisland
Haitian Creole / kreyòl ayisyen / créole haïtien, commonly referred to as simply Creole, or Kreyòl in the Creole language in Haiti ==== twitter [at]DangImole
Seychellois Creole ==== twitter [at]elia_damasy
Somali [1st version] ==== twitter [at]sefkheta
Somali [2nd version] ==== twitter [at]hausofriya
Tamachek / Tamashek / Tamasheq language, variety of Tuareg, a Berber macro-language widely spoken by nomadic tribes across North Africa in Algeria, Mali, Niger, and Burkina Faso ==== twitter [at]Amajagh
Quebec Ojibwe (/oʊˈdʒɪbweɪ/ oh-JIB-way) also known as Ojibwa (/oʊˈdʒɪbwə/ oh-JIB-wə) Ojibway / Otchipwe / Ojibwemowin / Anishinaabemowin, an indigenous language of North America of the Algonquian language family. The language is characterized by a series of dialects of Ojibwemowin are spoken in Canada, from southwestern Quebec, through Ontario, Manitoba and parts of Saskatchewan ==== twitter [at]greatlakesqueer
Québécois French ===== twitter [at]politicxt
Canadian French (French: français canadien) === twitter [at]rosas_chismosas
French ==== twitter [at]tearfulparadise
Chinese / Mandarin [1st version] ==== twitter [at]blkpaws ===== she / he started initiative across globally to translating Refaat Alareer’s poem
Chinese / Mandarin [2nd version] === twitter [at]weiyuanottawa
Chinese / Mandarin [3rd version], Cantonese / 廣東話 / 广东话; Jyutping: Gwong2 dung1 waa2; Cantonese Yale: Gwóngdūng wá) part of Chinese Sinitic branch ==== twitter [at]palestine_zh
Chinese / Mandarin [4th version], Simplified Mandarin ===== twitter [at]chenchenzh
Mongolian [ˈmɔɴ.ɢəɮ xiɮ] language === twitter [at]naiad_R
Western Apache (Nḏéé biyáti’) ===== a Southern Athabaskan language spoken among the 14,000 Western Apaches in Mexico in the states of Sonora and Chihuahua and in east-central Arizona. ==== twitter [at]ShoSheepy
Shona / chiShona / Central Shonic varieties (comprising Zezuru, Manyika, Korekore and Karanga) or specifically Standard Shona in Zimbabwe ==== twitter [at]assata_burner
Wolof / Wolof làkk / وࣷلࣷفْ لࣵکّ language of Senegal, Mauritania, and the Gambia, and the native language of the Wolof people == twitter [at]drlandislife
Coptic (Bohairic Coptic: ϯⲙⲉⲧⲣⲉⲙⲛ̀ⲭⲏⲙⲓ, timetremǹnkhēmi), in detail Sahidic Coptic / Saidic Coptic ==== twitter [at]pterandydon
Ndebele / isiNdebele saseNyakatho / specific Zimbabwean Ndebele [because another language ‘South Africa Ndebele] / North Ndebele, associated with the term Matabele ==== twitter [at]NcubeBokang
Yoruba / Èdè Yorùbá / عِدعِ يوْرُبا language spoken in West Africa, primarily in Southwestern and Central Nigeria === twitter [at]ayoTweetz
Ogadēn / Somali Ogaadeen / ውጋዴ/ውጋዴን / Ogaden Language === twitter [at]FarhiaFarah
Kurdish language === twitter [at]stfuerdogan
Carribean Spanish [the translator from Cuba] twitter [at]midnucas
Puerto Rican Spanish / Español puertorriqueño —- twitter [at]mojitodeparcha
Latin America Spanish / Mexican Spanish / Español Mexicano === the translator from Mexico, twitter [at]aleximenez
Latin America Spanish / Mexican Spanish / Español Mexicano === the translator from Mexico, twitter [at]Adrialg212
South American Spanish / Chilean Spanish / castellano chileno / español chileno === the translator from Chile, twitter [at]alexbaez
Castilian Spanish ==== twitter [at]adrianaperezgr2
Catalan === twitter [at]DeeVee53657246
Valencian language / Valencian Catalan language (llengua valenciana) ==== twitter [at]davidsegarra
Basque / Euskara ==== twitter [at]leiredeitzenaiz
Danish language / dansk sprog ==== twitter [at]TakingMyZzzs
Macedonian / македонски јазик, makedonski jazik. ==== twitter [at]lofidelica
Italian [1st version] ==== twitter [at]namilait
Italian [2nd version] ==== twitter [at]TarsieroRosanna [detail: Liguria / Tuscany, or if you use wikipedia, Ligurian (/lɪˈɡjʊəriən) or Genoese (/ˌdʒɛnoʊˈiːz) (locally called zeneise or zeneize)
Italian [3rd version] ==== twitter [at]danielukes
Italian [4th version] / L’alfabet furlan / Eastern Friulano language === twitter [at]GioFassetta
Latin (lingua Latina [ˈlɪŋɡʷa ɫaˈtiːna] or Latinum [ɫaˈtiːnʊ̃]), classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages, originally spoken in Latium (now known as Lazio), the lower Tiber area around Rome ==== twitter [at]arielwroteit
Georgian / Kartvelian / ქართული ენა / kartuli ena ==== twitter [at]avtoism
Circassian (/sɜːrˈkæʃən/ sur-KASH-ən), also known as Cherkess === twitter [at]art_emissss
Eastern Armenian Language / Արևելահայերեն === romanized: Arevelahayeren
twitter [at]Karmir_Kovkas
Western Armenian Language Արեւմտահայերէն, romanized: Arevmdahayeren === twitter [at]komitas1_5
Swahili / Kiswahili [1st version] ==== twitter [at]DoktorYakub
Swahili / Kiswahili [2nd version] ==== twitter [at]catherine_amayi
Igbo / Ásụ̀sụ́ Ìgbò language ====== twitter [at]Ani_Kayode
Moroccan Darija / al-ʻArabiyyah al-Maghribiyyah ad-Dārija / Maghrebi Arabic / العربية المغربية الدارجة ==== twitter [at]alsahrawiya
Berber languages /Amazigh languages / Tamazight / تَمَزِيغت / Tamaziɣt === twitter [at]HamidOuyachi
Nkore / Nkole / Nyankore / Nyankole / Orunyankore / Orunyankole / Runyankore / Runyankole, Bantu language spoken by the Nkore ("Banyankore") of south-western Uganda in former province of Ankole, as well as in Tanzania, the DR Congo, Rwanda and Burundi ==== twitter [at]CKyobutungi
Harshen / Halshen Hausa / هَرْشٜن هَوْسَ, Chadic language spoken by the Hausa people in the northern parts of Nigeria, Niger, Ghana, Cameroon, Benin and Togo, and the southern parts of Niger, Chad and Sudan, with significant minorities in Ivory Coast ==== twitter [at]HausaTranslator
Welsh / Cymraeg / y Gymraeg === twitter [at]bradwres95
Kernewek / Kernowek / Cornish === twitter [at]NiwlenSter
Bengali / Bangla / বাংলা === twitter [at]joonknowles
Kannada / ಕನ್ನಡ / Canarese / Karnataka language [India] ==== twitter [at]faintlamps
Telugu / తెలుగు / language in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana India === twitter [at]abhignarigala
Pushto / Pashto / Pashtun / پښتو, Pəx̌tó ====twitter [at]miguel3o2
Punjabi / Panjabi presenting in shahmukhi and roman === twitter [at] MeeMmarvel
Maldivian also known by its endonym Dhivehi / Divehi / ދިވެހި, ==== twitter [at]ishahr
Marathi (/məˈrɑːti/;] मराठी, pronounced [məˈɾaːʈʰiː] / Maharashtrian / Maharashtra India === twitter [at]chamelea22
Galician === twitter [at]desdeoturonio
Albanian (shqip [ʃcip] or gjuha shqipe [ˈɟuha ˈʃcipɛ]) === twitter [at]Gentanishku
Czech / Czechia / čeština / Bohemia / lingua Bohemica ===== twitter [at]marundersea
Hungarian / magyar nyelv ==== twitter [at]Sz_Giulia
Azerbaijani / Azərbaycan dili / آذربایجان دیلی / Азәрбајҹан дили === twitter [at]NAmeetsCaucasia
Maori New Zealand / te reo Māori ===== twitter [at]aotearoalib / Haimana Hirini
Amharic / አማርኛ / Amarəñña / Ethiopian Semitic language === twitter [at]flipkoin2
Chewa / Nyanja / Chichewa / Chinyanja (spelled Cinianja in Portuguese) === twitter [at]ElizaMbamba
Fanti / Fantse / Mfantse, one of the four principal members of the Akan dialect continuum. principally spoken in the central and southern regions of Ghana as well as in settlements in other regions in western Ghana, Ivory Coast, as well as in Liberia, Gambia and Angola. ==== twitter [at]DaughterApraku
Tswana / Setswana, and previously spelled Sechuana, a Bantu language spoken in Southern Africa ==== twitter [at]kgmgobozi
Polish ==== twitter [at]kamilmozel
Serbian ==== twitter [at]weird__sister
سِنڌِي / सिन्ध [sɪndʱiː] / Sindhi language === twitter [at]DeTrop_
Bangla [1st version] ==== twitter [at]luv_dkz
Bangla [2nd version] ==== twitter [at]brotigupta
Hindi / Devanagari / मानक हिन्दी / Mānak Hindī ==== twitter [at]moonchildbichen
മലയാളം / Malayāḷam language === twitter [at]vinayaravind
Gujarati / ગુજરાતી, romanized: Gujarātī ===== twitter [at]imrevelationist
नेपाली / Nepali language ==== twitter [at]timothyaryal
Sinhala / සිංහල / Siṁhala / Sinhalese === twitter [at]_vajra
Telugu language / తెలుగు ===== twitter [at]abhignarigala
Romanize Telugu language / తెలుగు ===== twitter [at]abhignarigala
Saraiki ( سرائیکی Sarā'īkī; also spelt Siraiki, or Seraiki) / Multani, is a Western Punjabi Language ==== twitter [at]TanveerMohana
Tagalog Filipino / Philippines ==== twitter [at]horchoffee
Cebuano / Visayan / Bisaya, Southern Philippines language ===== twitter [at]maglawod
Hiligaynon / Ilonggo / Binisaya / Bisaya nga Hiniligaynon / Inilonggo, an Austronesian regional language spoken in the Philippines === twitter [at]mooIahz
Phasa Thai / Bahasa Thai / Thai language / ภาษาไทย === twitter [at]bangtanT4NNI3
Slovenian ==== twitter [at]gaiius_iunius
Greek / Ελληνικά, romanized: Elliniká === twitter [at]waitingfor2day
Korean / Hangul / 한글 ==== twitter [at]goroswe
Japanese / 日本語, Nihongo with HIRAGANA and ROMANIZE version === twitter [at]marevevivace
Japanese [2nd version] without Romanize version ==== twitter [at]NaokiQYamamoto
български език / bŭlgarski ezik / Bulgarian === twitter [at]idkonst
Romanian === twitter [at]elliebotoman
German / Deutsch === twitter [at]merlinonasunday
Basel German / Baseldytsch (Standard German: Baseldeutsch) === twitter [at]Burgi323
Russian / современный русский литературный язык – "sovremenny russky literaturny yazyk ==== twitter [at]fictionalizer
Ukrainian language / українська мова / ukrainska mova ==== twitter [at]tweegf
Icelandic language / íslenska === twitter [at]BragiPall
Afrikaans / Afrikaansch ==== twitter [at]jacksondayton_
Dutch ==== twitter [at]grafbanga
Turkish === [at]Karpuzcevirdegi
Farsi / Persian / (فارسی, Fārsī) ==== twitter [at]littlezab
Urdu / (Nastaliq: اردو; /ˈʊərduː/; ALA-LC: Urdū) ==== twitter [at]EeshaalU
Urdu but Romanize version ==== twitter [at]umkalra
Brazilian Portuguese === twitter [at]ribslyrics
European Portuguese === twitter [at]MargemSultejano
Norwegian / Norsk === twitter [at]andreas_ved
Swedish / (svenska [ˈsvɛ̂nːska]) === twitter [at]Nieszkas
Finnish / (ssuomen kieli / suomi) === twitter [at]mimisadore
Bosnian === twitter [at]namik_klaric
Slovak / slovenčina [ˈslɔʋentʂina] or slovenský jazyk [ˈslɔʋenskiː ˈjazik]) ==== twitter [at]taejinmono
hrvatski / Croatian language ==== twitter [at]simpforsurrera
Vietnamese / tiếng Việt === twitter [at]croissantmusain
Bahasa Indonesia / Indonesian language === twitter [at]SER0T0JIN
Bahasa Melayu / Malay language ==== twitter [at]sluffick
Jawi Alphabet / Jawi (جاوي; Acehnese: Jawoë; Kelantan-Pattani: Yawi; Malay pronunciation: [d͡ʒä.wi], Arabic Malay) ==== combination by twitter [at]_Ereshkigal666 for text version and twitter [at]carroteuk for brush version
Tamil / தமிழ் / Dravidian === twitter [at]ra9hu1
lingua de planeta, an international auxiliary language ==== twitter [at]st00perduck
Esperanto === twit [at]sintooth
I dont know this is essentials or not, but, Victoria Secret / VS Angel posted in her stories hours ago, which, she already on glamorous lifestyle, and then finally posted like this, imagine if you didn’t speak up for Palestine. For Gaza.
Ramy Abdu from EUROMEDHR
Statement Genocidal Netanyahu for International Crime Court
Gernika / Guernica, Spain
Plestia Alaqad in Gaza. Anne Frank in Germany
Plestia Alaqad
This is all concerning enough. But politicians, seizing on some evidence of antisemitic displays at pro-Palestinian protests to link Muslims and migrants with antisemitism, have taken the opportunity to advance an anti-migrant agenda.
In America, 82% of all U.S.-based respondents, incl. almost all assistant professors (98 %), said they self-censor when they speak professionally about the Israeli-Palestinian issue. 81 % of those said they primarily held back their criticism of Israel vs 11% of Palestinians. Can't possibly imagine why 98% of assistant Profs feel the need to do this.
motaz azaiza
2 Symbol of Gaza. Plestia Bosbos Alaqad and Motaz Azaiza. Both [even[ westernized. Motaz part of UNRWA USA. Plestia is Albert Schweitzer Scholars. As of minute-time, 1.57am Melbourne [Plestia] and 4.57pm Gaza [Motaz]
original Plestia’s pict used by Guardian, and poet Rupi Kaur. Rupi Kaur refused Divali invitation by Biden, most of reason, because [I believe] Plestia feed
Refaat Alareer after acknowledge that Rupi Kaur refused Divali’s White House party by Biden.