GRWM Storytime! Why I got arrested and fired from Google These retaliatory actions are meant to scare us, and stop our movement, but workers WILL NOT stop fighting until Project Nimbus, the company’s $1.2 billion contract with Isl, is dropped.TAKE ACTION
I want to die in Gaza. I'm not very interested in my life, but please don't let me see my sisters die in front of me. Please help us evacuate them from Gaza. There isn't much money left to evacuate them. Please donate and share the campaign
"Thank you. Thanks for each one of you, because you've made us, me and my people, feel that we're free, we're heard, and we're going back to our homes and land."
"I've spent the whole night thinking about every video I see- you're shouting for Palestine, you are protesting for Palestine, you are dancing, singing for Palestine. I feel it here, in my head. I'm going back, and I'm free. And one day we will celebrate it in real, in Gaza, together."
"Keep going. And we will too."
Bisan Owda, journalist in Gaza , in a message to student activists, April 26, 2024
saw a sign that said "honor aaron bushnell, free palestine" and man. why don't we honor the 40,000+ palestinians martyred in the last 200+ days. why don't we honor the palestinians who israel has maassacred in the last 75+ years. why don't we honor the palestinian villages wiped off the map. why don't we honor the entire lineages whom israel murdered. idk maybe yall need to think about why it took a white man self immolating for you to care about palestine!
@wizard_bisan1 and AJ+ have been nominated for a Peabody Award for her coverage of Gaza.
For over 6 months, Bisan Owda has shown the world how life in Gaza has been through her eyes. She has told the story of Palestinian survival in the face of the Israeli genocide.
Before Oct. 7, Bisan was making films about cultural life in her native Gaza for her own YouTube channel.
In 2023, AJ+’s @denatakruri won a Peabody Award for her story “One Day in Hebron,” which gave a firsthand account of the Israeli occupation in Hebron, in the occupied West Bank.
Queer history fact: Salim Halali moved to Paris shortly before Nazi Germany invaded, and subsequently, when Germany took power, authorities harassed him for being gay and Jewish.
The founder of the Great Mosque of Paris, Si Kaddour Benghabrit, had encountered Halali before and admired his music. When he saw what was happening not only to Halali but to many other Jewish people in Paris, he stepped in. He procured fake papers and hid Jewish people in the mosque when necessary. Because Halali was so well-known, this wouldn't do. Instead, he placed a fake grave for Halali's grandfather in the mosque's cemetery to prove Halali was Muslim, thus defending him from the officers.
Benghabrit would go on to assist many other Jewish people in Paris; historians estimate around 100 were helped, but some of the first reports claimed thousands were assisted by the mosque throughout the war.
It is largely because of this that Halali made it through the war, continuing with his music career.
Later, Halali had the opportunity to perform in Israel, though he was an anti-Zionist. During a performance in Jerusalem in the 1960s, he yelled in Arabic, "Long live the Arab nation." He had things thrown at him and never returned to Israel.
Forgive me if it's too personal but we're both your parents originally from Gaza? I read that many from all over Palestine were forced to flee their hometown during the Nakba and wondered if that was the case for your family.
My dad originally from A village called Beit Girgia