Dr. Anna Lim 🍉 retweeted
Israel is carpet bombing Tyre. I don’t think people unfamiliar with this city understand what does this mean. Tyre is over 4,700 year-old & one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world. It is included as a whole in the UNESCO World Heritage. My heart is aching😭
Every time I hear people justifying their support for "Israel," I hear them justifying why (brown) children should be killed.
Dr. Anna Lim 🍉 retweeted
In this life we have a choice of bringing positivity into the world, or negativity. It’s important to remember that your actions have real-world consequences. Bullying and harassment can ruin or even end lives. Choose to make someone’s day, not ruin it 🖤
Dr. Anna Lim 🍉 retweeted
Being an outspoken woman, especially from a minority ethnic background, can often bring out the worst in people. Add in jealousy and internalised misogyny and it’s a toxic mix. We always need to be vigilant of this and call it out when we see it.
I shouldn’t be too surprised that the university I work at has a Center on Forced Displacement but no scholarship/research on Palestine.
The fact that so many decades-old interviews and articles about "Israel" and their occupation of Palestine + dehumanization of Palestinians still being relevant today should tell you something about the violence and willfull ignorance of Western governments.
Dr. Anna Lim 🍉 retweeted
So yes at the time that ppl were being abandoned in NOLA to die, or were being rounded up into athletic stadiums, the US was paying a million dollars to each settler family for leaving their illegal homes in Gaza & going to new homes already
Dr. Anna Lim 🍉 retweeted
They were like “but my cousin/whatever who lives in Michigan is married to a Black person” & I had to tell them that this only became legal in the previous 40 years or so in much of the U.S., they were stunned.
Dr. Anna Lim 🍉 retweeted
& I actually had to explain the plot because it went right over their heads, they didn’t get what the big deal was if the maid & her employer fell in love & I had to tell them that in most of the US at that time it would have been illegal for them to get married or even date. >
Dr. Anna Lim 🍉 retweeted
The U.S. does a decent job of hiding how truly racist they are in what they export overseas. I remember once I was watching a movie with the family I lived with for a while in Palestine, it was a movie with Whoopi Goldberg playing a maid in like the 50s for a white widower >