CNN reporters identified an 18yo high school student from Beverly Hills who beat UCLA students with a stick, who were encamped on their own university to protest the #genocide in #Gaza.
CNN approached his parents, "who expressed support for him & revealed that he will soon leave for Israel to join the Israeli occupation forces"
He should be awaiting charges in the US, not fleeing the country.
Query: what happened to Meir Kahane's cousin who tried to kill NYC students with his car?
Israeli historian Ilan Pappe was targeted by US CBP this week. They took his phone & asked him questions like did he believe Israel was committing genocide against Palestinians, &if he had any Palestinian friends.
My first reaction was that CBP doesn't know the first thing about Israeli historians, & likely Israel's govt told the US to target him. Turns out Pappe believes Israel's govt was involved.
The US shouldn't be using our vast border patrol - which Trump converted into his political instrument, a burgeoning SS, during his regime - to arrest Jewish historians for thought crimes.
All at the bidding of a right-wing authoritarian like Netanyahu.
Do you really want to live like this in the US? Everything must be done to halt this. The Biden Administration has not condemned the police attacks on peaceful protesters.
"A spokesperson for CBP did not comment on Pappe's specific claims, saying in a statement: "Respecting privacy rights of travelers, U.S. Customs & Border Protection (CBP) does not disclose specific details about individual encounters during inspections at a port of entry."
Pappe: "they took my phone and copied everything on it." #Privacy
"Over the decades, Arab American advocates in Michigan have raised concerns about being profiled at airports"
Among Kahane’s other visions were an ethnically-segregated education system [&] dismantling…democracy, calling for a state based on Jewish religious law…Israel outlawed Kach as a terror organization in 1994 (the U.S. followed a year later) [but] the core members of Jewish Power—Baruch Marzel, Itamar Ben-Gvir, Michael Ben-Ari, & Benzi Gopstein—are all disciples of Kahane…they have variously persecuted Palestinians, leftists, African asylum seekers, & the LGBTQ community" https://www.972mag.com/as-kahanists-return-israels-fascist-sideshow-takes-center-stage/
Immediately in the wake of Biden's call to #Netanyahu, raising the scary specter of the US actually complying with its own aid conditions meant to avoid arming war criminals, as many have begged for months, Israel announces it will open the Erez crossing for 1st time in 6 mos.
I predict it'll help some, but won't shift in Netanyahu's genocidal aims or plans to starve #Gaza. His govt will still do everything it's doing at other points, to thwart entry of food, water, & medicine to #Palestine.
So the question is, what will it take to rein in Netanyahu's #genocide that is being carried out by the IDF?
Because this phone call isn't going to be enough. The genocide has been underway for months. Genocide's soldiers, primed with Bibi's #Amalek speech & sent into the ground invasion, will not turn on a dime.
US citizens still want a #ceasefire, an end to war crimes, an end to starvation. The US will need to stop sending them weapons. So call your reps & tell them that.
As I recall from studying psychology, rewarding a behavior makes it more likely to reoccur. So whatever words come out of our President's mouth, if Israel under Netanyahu has killed 13,000 Palestinian children, and Pres. Biden still wants to give Israel 18 billion in aid, that works out to rewarding Israel 1,384,615 dollars for each child they've killed. That seems less of a way to dissuade Israel from murdering more innocent children, but rather a recipe for genocide. #Palestine
"israel has killed more aid workers in the tiny #gaza strip than have died in all of the countries in the rest of the world combined in any of the last 30 years"
Graph of Aid worker deaths showing more than 70% of all the aid worker deaths in 2023 were in #Gaza. Even more in 2024 - roughly 75-80%
All 161 deaths of Palestinian aid workers in 2023 were after Oct. 7
Data is as of April 1, 2024. The data from 2024 & some incidents from 2023 are provisional
Since POTUS loves tailoring policy & elections to listening to Republicans and MORNING JOE:
"Former Condoleezza Rice advisor & NSC spokesperson Elise Jordan erupts at President Biden’s unwillingness to condition weapons aid to #israel"
"Morning Joe guest Richard Haass calls for sanctions on Israel, criticizes Biden: "At some point, the words become empty...there has to be trade sanctions.”
the Palestinian American doctor who walked out of the WH meeting last night:
He understood "it would be the first time that the President would hear from people who were actually on the ground in Gaza, since Oct 7. [WOW].
"It was a few members from the Muslim American community, people who had also been on the ground in Gaza, ready to give their firsthand, eyewitness testimony. [I was] the only Palestinian-American." [DOUBLE F*CKING WOW]
"[I understood] that it was going to be some sort of working dinner" re "the humanitarian catastrophe in #Gaza"
"The President walks in…he just says: 'This is a listening session, we're here to hear you guys out…we're working very hard on it.' There's no mention of Gaza, or Palestine, or #WorldCentralKitchen, people who have been killed, the starvation or the famine in the north, or the looming invasion in Rafah, which we're all very concerned about & trying to communicate a sense of urgency"
[Contrast this to Biden's famous empathy for & personalized outreach to grieving people.
There is none of that here. None of it.
He knew the ER doctor was Palestinian American and had just been serving in a hospital in Khan Yunis & must have seen absolute horrors. He didn't ask if he'd lost anyone.
The reception sounds cold AF.
I think you can compare it yourself to other receptions Biden has given to other Americans - or even his embrace in the Oval Office of an Italian fascist.]
Heartbreaking post from Chef Andrès this morning addressed to his friend Zomi, a #WCK aid worker assassinated by the Israeli government while in #Gaza to feed starving #Palestinians.
"I’m sorry my friend…I wish I never founded @WCKitchen
..you would be alive somewhere today, smiling & making somebody somewhere feel like they were the most beloved person in the world…That how I always felt with you…"
How heartbroken & guilt-ridden do you think this man has to be to feel such regret, when he and the vast team that has built #WCK have fed billions of meals all across the globe to people in need?
How much good are you willing to destroy, to satisfy the Amalek genocide revenge fantasies of the Israeli right-wing @potus?
You are treating these aid workers like their lives mean nothing. After you've spent 6 months treating Palestinians like their suffering & deaths mean nothing.
Again, we owe it to these 7 #WCK volunteers to watch The #Gatekeepers, a documentary by an Israeli filmmaker who managed to interview 6 former directors of #ShinBet.
It is overwhelming. Everyone has to take care of themselves & calibrate how much is safe to do.
I do feel incredibly burnt out. It's hard to dredge up enough energy. I think of what the children, moms, dads, sisters & brothers of Palestine are being put through right now & let that move me.
The inhumanity sometimes knocks me flat. I try to keep coming back. If we don't protect them, it's our own backs we're stabbing. The more we allow this inhumanity, the more it will be inflicted
@ World Central Kitchen @WCKitchen We are aware of reports that members of the World Central Kitchen team have been killed in an IDF attack while working to support our humanitarian food delivery efforts in Gaza. This is a tragedy. Humanitarian aid workers and civilians should NEVER be a target. EVER. 418 PM - Apr 1,2024 - 1.8M Views
reminder that if Netanyahu & the US gets away with this in #Gaza — targeting journalists, targeting hospitals and schools and refugee camps, starving millions of children, mass murder on the scale of tens of thousands, shutting down press, internet and information, killing humanitarian workers, preventing crucial aid convoy, firing on people receiving aid, and planning resettlement of regions based on ethnic identity — these methods will be normalized & advanced by other western nations & govts
IDF "executed tens of people point blank, including one of our colleagues, Dr. Ahmed al-Maqadmeh…& his mother, who's also a physician…to say that this is a strategic targeting of Hamas, is an insult to our intellect & our humanity."
"This is a direct targeting of health care workers…when they leave the hospital, civilians give them civilian clothing, b/c wearing scrubs is sticking a target…on their back. That is how systematically health care has been targeted" #alShifa https://twitter.com/tparsi/status/1774893057374052558
This was so obviously a response from #IDF to World Central Kitchen humanitarian agency filing a complaint about the IDF shooting at their aid workers on Saturday.
This is the IDF immediately turning around & assassinating 7 of their volunteers - saying "shut up, don't complain, or we'll kill all of you"
Look at their deeds, not words.
As we've seen today from Netanyahu & Biden, & spokesmen like Kirby & Miller - lies come cheap. Deeds, not words.