Israel appears troubled by the flood of content on social media-at least enough to prompt Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz to meet with top Facebook lobbyists and many TikTok executives over Zoom last week to discuss misinformation and violent threats on the platforms, according to POLITICO. Snapchat users globally could see for themselves on the app’s mapping function how Israelis in Tel Aviv were living in a different reality to Palestinians in Gaza. Infographics and quick explainers on social media platforms like Facebook-owned Instagram and Tiktok, have garnered thousands of likes, designed to demystify the language and history of occupation, apartheid, settler colonialism and ethnic cleansing in relation to Israel. Had it not been for the Black Lives Matter movement’s resurgence after George Floyd’s death, “we wouldn’t be here today in terms of the global public shift in opinion regarding Palestine,” El-Kurd said during the event. On Wednesday, he participated in a livestreamed Zoom panel on Black and Palestinian solidarity, which also included activist Angela Davis. “ hello I am fine & unintimidated” he wrote on May 12 the post got more than 44,000 likes.
When Israeli forces arrested him in a video circulating last week, his Twitter followers collectively panicked until he confirmed that he was in fact safe. His Twitter account, with 144,000 followers, is like a diary-a window into the life of a Palestinian living under occupation.
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Mohammed El-Kurd, a young Palestinian writer whose family faces possible removal by Israel from the homes where they have lived for years in Sheikh Jarrah, gained international attention and soon became a constant presence on social media and also on cable TV news. When East Jerusalemites took to the streets in protest, they documented it with the hashtag #FreeSheikhJarrah, which trended globally. Read More: Israel-Palestine is a State of Permanent Conflict Punctuated by Periodic Carnage. reported on Tuesday that more than 52,000 Palestinians had been forced to flee their homes as a result of the latest Israeli air strikes. While the Israeli Foreign Ministry has referred to the Sheikh Jarrah issue as a “real estate dispute,” the United Nations human rights office has said their displacement could constitute a “ war crime.” Noura Erakat, a Palestinian human rights attorney, says their possible removal is simply a continuation of the “ ongoing Nakba-the process of removal of native Palestinians with the intent of replacing them with Jewish Zionist settlers.” Hundreds of thousands of Palestinians were displaced from their homes as the result of the 1948 war that led to the founding of Israel. The latest surge of violence began after protests in East Jerusalem over the potential forced removal of Palestinian families from their homes in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood and the subsequent storming of al-Aqsa Mosque by Israeli forces in early May.
“Israel attacking Palestinians just hours after the ceasefire shows this was never about defense but about domination,” tweeted Ahmad Abuznaid, executive director of the U.S. CNN reported that “dozens of Israeli officers hit journalists with batons and tried to point rifles at them, calling them “liars” when they showed them their press cards.” Once again, these visuals flooded social media and Palestinians and those in solidarity with them appear to be even more fired up. Palestine is here,” she says.Īlthough Hamas militants in Gaza and Israel reached a ceasefire agreement Thursday, tensions quickly reemerged on Friday as Israeli forces again used stun grenades and tear gas against Palestinians at the al-Aqsa Mosque compound. “Palestinians have been doing amazing grassroots organizing for many decades-but certainly in the last 10 years-to make sure that people understand that Palestine is not just thousands and thousands of miles away. to spend their tax dollars on furthering Palestinian suffering. That is not to discount the influence of Palestinians on the ground-who staged a historic, unified general strike on Wednesday-as well as years-long work of the vocal Palestinian diaspora, she adds, many of whom are barred from returning to their family’s homes by Israel and don’t want the U.S.
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