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Abdullah Verachia retweeted
I've actually needed to mute the words "Muslim" and "Halaal" on this app because I don't know how people can have such an outcry over a non-issue purely to put their own Islamophobia on blast. It's sad. It's frustrating. This is not South Africa. There are outside forces at work.
Abdullah Verachia retweeted
This sponsored narrative from one, likely three, foreign governments seeking to sow religious discord in South Africa, cause destabilisation & spark violence. The Bell Pottinger Playbook: manufacture a controversy, amplify fear & turn communities against one another. A thread.
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Abdullah Verachia retweeted
I know you think you make the world a better place with your cat songs and hot takes on social media.
But you’re not fit to tie Dr Sooliman’s shoelaces.
@GiftoftheGivers saves lives everyday. Literally.
You’re the brainless sheep in this equation.
Nothing more & nothing less.
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Abdullah Verachia retweeted
I can appreciate the DA's clean governance and commitment to the constitution & SA while still critiquing their dismal internal transformation and diversity, and other issues.
I can appreciate the ANC'S enormous maturity and leadership in this moment, and that they offer the best president by a country mile, while holding them to account for corruption and poor service delivery.
I can commend the EFF's commitment to become more politically mature, and other things they get right, while not excusing what they've gotten wrong: violence, corruption, etc.
The ability to hold competing and difficult truths together is the hallmark of maturity.
But Twitter rewards us to devolve into simplistic black and white, hero and villain thinking, and to attack anyone who tries to see the nuance.
It's a pitiful state of affairs. And one I refuse to buy into.
Abdullah Verachia retweeted
Irish lawyer Blinne Ni Ghralaigh who is supporting South Africa's legal team at the ICJ, says the number of orphans caused by ‘Israel’s genocidal assault on the Palestinian population in Gaza’ has led to the need for a new acronym: WCNSF - wounded child, no surviving family.
Abdullah Verachia retweeted
Al Jazeera's Gaza bureau chief Wael Dahdouh is mourning his son, Hamza Dahdouh, who has been killed in an Israeli air strike that targeted his car in southern Gaza.
In October, Israeli forces killed Wael's wife, other son, daughter and grandson ⤵️
Abdullah Verachia retweeted
The aggressor pretending to be the victim….. while causing babies to rot in incubators…..with western media looking on.
Abdullah Verachia retweeted
Almost half of Gaza's population now in Rafah, an area of only 24sq miles. aje.io/unfg1h
Abdullah Verachia retweeted
Josh Paul resigned from the State Dept over sending arms to Israel. “I have heard from actually so many hundreds of colleagues at this point who support what I did,” he says. “They are finding what is happening both a moral disaster and a policy disaster for the United States.”
Abdullah Verachia retweeted
Our hearts are with you young brother. ❤️🤲🏽 God willing your prayers are answered.
Abdullah Verachia retweeted
Very strong statement by the Belgian and Spanish Prime Ministers, saving Europe from a complete moral and strategic collapse (this statement was given AFTER they met with Netanyahu):
- International law MUST be respected
- Killing of civilians MUST stop
- The destruction of Gaza is UNACCEPTABLE
- There is NO military solution to this conflict
- There is only a political solution.
- We need to stop settler violence in the West Bank
Abdullah Verachia retweeted
I grew up in a Zionist household, spent 12 years in a Zionist youth movement, lived 4 years in Israel, and have friends and family who served in the IDF.
When that is your world, it's hard to see apartheid when it's happening.
1/16
Abdullah Verachia retweeted
🇵🇸 Journalist’s final video before death:
“This may be my last video. I as well as others are staying home while everyone else has left. It is very terrifying, the scene is very horrific. What’s happening is very difficult. May god have mercy on us.”
Journalist Ayat Al Khaddour and her ENTIRE FAMILY were killed today in an Israeli airstrike that hit her house in Bet Lahya:
“This may be my last video. The Israelis dropped Phosphorus bombs and terrifying sound bombs. They dropped leaflets ordering us to evacuate”
“Nearly everyone left. People started running in the street like crazy.”
“No one knows what to do. We are divided”
If your heart doesn’t ache after watching this video, you have a problem.
Her entire family was also killed.
Abdullah Verachia retweeted
I'm one of 520 South African Jews who have signed an open letter "calling for an immediate ceasefire, an end to the occupation & the release of all hostages & detainees unjustly held both in Gaza & in Israeli prisons". 1/2 Read full letter & names here 👇
dailymaverick.co.za/article/…
Abdullah Verachia retweeted
"We have just witnessed over the last few weeks the largest displacement of Palestinians since 1948.
It's an exodus under our watch, a river of people being forced to flee their home."
- @UNRWA chief @UNLazzarini describes the scale of destruction and loss in #Gaza
Abdullah Verachia retweeted
Tragic news. Sisters, Rama,12 & Rasha, 8, nieces of old friend. Journalist, Mohammed Omer. Both killed, along with 10 family members, by the Israeli military, having sought safety in Rafah a couple of days ago. Rasha is still lost in the rubble. A ceasefire could have saved them.
Abdullah Verachia retweeted
🇵🇸 #Gaza: This statement by Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola’s daughter, Maria Guardiola has put a lot of politicians, celebrities, journalists and others with a platform to shame:
‘My God.
So is this really what we're going to do now? Just sit back and watch a genocide happen on the telly? Then decades from now, when it's in the history books, all look round at each other and ask, 'how did that happen?'
For the first time, I truly understand how mass atrocities have been able to occur throughout history - again, and again, and again. We never learn.
What does the death count need to be before someone finally speaks against this madness and urges restraint, not more arms? 10,000? 100,000?
A million? More? When have enough Palestinians died?
I get that lots of us are scared to speak up. I get we're afraid to say the "wrong thing. But I won't sit by in silence and live with the fact that I never spoke up when an atrocity on this scale was committed because of fear. We can express our complete condemnation for what the Israeli govt are doing and also assert our unwavering belief in the equal value of Palestinian lives, without inciting hatred against Jewish communities - another persecuted people. Indeed, many Jewish and Israeli people, in the midst of their deep grief and knowing the pain of persecution too well, have had the bravery and strength to be the very first to do so.
This is quite simple. We are watching an occupied, oppressed people face annihilation by a nuclear state with the full backing of the western world. This is not - and has never been - an 'equal fight'. Right now, it is a massacre on a scale I don't think I've ever seen in my life.
6,000 bombs dropped in 6 days already. On a strip of land just 25 miles long and 7.5 miles wide at its widest point. Whole neighbourhoods flattened. Families wiped out. Hospitals collapsing under the weight of the casualties. On a population of 2 million - half of them children. 70% of them refugees. And now, the forced movement of 1 million people. A choice of forced migration or death is ethnic cleansing. The fact that it is impossible for that many to leave in that time means that this is now a genocide.
We have gone way, way beyond wishy washy 'praying for peace', 'all life is precious' IG statements, posted to show you've done your bit of performative activism. Show you mean it. If you have any kind of platform right now, please use it. Speak. Because it's becoming glaringly obvious that the world is happy to walk into an unspeakable horror that we didn't even bother to try to prevent.’
#Palestine 🇵🇸
