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Palestine Solidarity Working Group
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We are a revolutionary socialist, anti-Zionist, multiracial cadre organization! #FreePalestine https://palestineswg.org/
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Palestine Solidarity Working Group @palestineswg.bsky.social · Jul 15
🚨URGENT SUPPORT NEEDED FOR COLUMBIA STUDENTS FACING SANCTIONS🚨
THREAD with action items at the end!
Protest graphic with bold text on a peach-colored background: 'COLUMBIA CRIMINALIZES EDUCATION' at the top, and 'DROP THE CHARGES!' Image at the bottom of NYPD arresting a student. Text on a peach-colored background: "Columbia wants to expel 15 people and suspend dozens more. WHY? For creating the Basel al-Araj Popular University, a community teaching space in Columbia's largest library renamed after the revolutionary Palestinian intellectual and martyr."
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atheistjliz.bsky.social
“He made us like him.” So incredibly painful to hear those words.
lexialex.bsky.social الكسندرا ميراي @lexialex.bsky.social · Jul 26
Once you understand this you'll never believe in German guilt again. People who feel guilty about committing genocide don't arm and commit another genocide. But people who wanted Hitler to win do
July 26, 2025 at 12:19 PM
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remikanazi.bsky.social
There is no two sides

There’s occupier & occupied

Genocide enforcer & genocide victims

Only one side is mass starving refugees in concentration camps

Only one side is enforcing apartheid & blockade

Only one side is demolishing homes & torturing prisoners

That side is Israel
July 26, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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na4apartheid.bsky.social
Step up your solidarity game with some snack-sized activism. Join #NoAppetite4Apartheid to boycott common hummus brands that support apartheid. Instead choose to purchase Palestinian, Arab, or other apartheid-free hummus brands. It's delicious & a simple way to participate! #BDS #BoycottApartheid
Infographic, with a logo at the top (text reading NO APPETITE FOR APARTHEID centered with a PSWG logo on the left and an outline of historic Palestine in red and green on the right). Image of a fancy plate of hummus, with text that reads: "Hummus! Buy an apartheid-free alternative, Some alternative brands include Cedar’s, Trazza Foods (West Coast), Baba’s (Upper Midwest), and Al Wadi Al Akhdar, Make your own! Use apartheid-free ingredients at home, Buy local brands, Look into local Palestinian or Arab-owned alternative brands, Local Campaign Recommended Recipe: palestineinadish.com" No Appetite logo at the top, with text below that reads: "Join or start a local campaign!, Visit our website to find one near you! na4a.org If none, sign up here: pswg.link/NoAppetiteActionNetwork"
July 26, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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na4apartheid.bsky.social
Look closely 👀🔎 Is there apartheid on your plate?

Items in your fridge may support the Zionist occupation and genocide of Palestinians.

Join us as we declare: #NoAppetiteForApartheid!

Boycott Israeli dates, wines, produce, and other goods as you make your kitchen an Apartheid-Free Zone! #BDS
Infographic, with a logo at the top (white text reading NO APPETITE FOR APARTHEID centered over an outline of historic Palestine in red and green). Image of a plate of hummus with text that reads: “Is there apartheid on your plate? Show solidarity with Palestine by bringing the boycott, divest, and sanction movement to your dining table. It’s time to turn up the heat on the occupation regime and take apartheid off the menu!” No Appetite logo at the top, with text that reads: Why a targeted boycott? The everyday choices of U.S. consumers contributed to the downfall of apartheid in South Africa. Since 2005, Palestinians have called on the international community to engage in consumer boycotts. No Appetite logo at the top, with text that reads: “Why a targeted boycott? More than a way to reduce individual economic complicity in apartheid. Exercise collective power against strategically-selected targets. Proven and effective tactic." No Appetite logo at the top, with text that reads: "Why a food boycott? By targeting Israeli food production companies, we: * Divest from food grown on stolen land * Decrease funding for the apartheid regime * Reduce economic support of occupation military forces Anyone who purchases grocery items can participate!"
July 23, 2025 at 4:22 PM
palestineswg.bsky.social
In a historic first, Columbia has suspended nearly 80 students for participating in a teach-in honoring Basel al-Araj. The announcement comes just ahead of the University's deal with the Trump administration and the Anti-Defamation League.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE JULY 22, 2025 PRESS INQUIRIES: cupopuni@proton.me Columbia Suspends Nearly 80 Students for Pro-Palestine Protest Ahead of Deal with Trump Administration and Anti-Defamation League While the US and Israel starve 2.1 million Gazans to death, Columbia has worked diligently with Trump's Deputy Chief of Staff, Stephen Miller, to suspend dozens of students for pro-Palestine activism. HARLEM, NEW YORK - On the afternoon of July 21, Columbia informed nearly 80 students that they had been suspended for one to three years or expelled for joining a May 2025 teach-in about Palestine in honor of the writer and freedom fighter Basel al-Araj, who Israel murdered in an extrajudicial assasination in 2017. The sanctions are believed to be part of a federal deal Columbia is about to announce that includes a formal partnership with the zionist Anti-Defamation League and an agreement to use the IHRA's definition of antisemitism, which equates criticism of Israel with discrimination against Jews. Once Barnard joins Columbia in announcing charges, these will be the most suspensions for a single political protest in Columbia campus history and hugely exceed sentencing precedent for teach-ins or non-Palestine-related building occupations. In collaboration with the Trump administration, Columbia's Acting President and Board of Trustees Co-Chair, Claire Shipman, illegally restructured the University Judicial Board (UJB) and removed student members and faculty oversight to pursue exceptionally harsh sanctions against its own students. The UJB's Rules Administrator, akin to a prosecutor, filed charges after protestors flooded Columbia's largest library to share a syllabus and readings about al-Araj and demand Columbia divest from the Israeli war machine. Columbia responded to the teach-in by illegally kettling and body slamming protestors who asked to leave, resulting in hospitalization of four students with concussions. (ALT TEXT continued below in third image) occupied Hind's Hall. Hind's Hall was renamed to memorialize Hind Rajab, the six-year-old who Israeli terrorists sprayed with bullets after killing her family while she begged for help. Students remain committed to ending US- and Columbia-backed Israeli genocide regardless of the school's sanctions. Testimony from students' July disciplinary hearings underscored they had nothing to apologize for: "Every university in Gaza has been destroyed. Hundreds of academics have been killed. Books and archives have been incinerated. Entire families have been erased from the civil registry. This is not a war. It is a campaign of erasure," explained one student quoted in a Columbia University Apartheid Divest blog post. "Knowledge divorced from struggle is betrayal," said another. The disciplinary letters demand suspended students submit apologies in order to return to campus in one to three years, which some students have stated they will refuse. If those protestors hold their ground by refusing to apologize, the suspensions will convert into de facto expulsions and the number of permanent sanctions will skyrocket. While Columbia likes to position itself as opposed to government overreach, the record demonstrates active collusion, not reluctant concessions. Columbia's legal team for the Miller talks is headed by right-wing ideologues Jay Lefkowitz, a Zionist with deep ties to Israel who served in the George W. Bush administration, and Matt Owen, a former law clerk for Antonin Scalia and Neil Gorsuch. In addition to AlPAC speaker Claire Shipman, Columbia's trustees include Jeh Johnson, who is on the Board of Directors for Lockheed Martin, Andrew Barth, a retired Chairman of Capital Guardian Trust Company - one of the largest shareholders in BlackRock - Dean Dakolias, a member of the pro-Israel lobby with Johnson on the Council on Foreign Relations, and Abigail Elbaum, who is on the board of the New York City Police Foundation. ALT TEXT continued in IMAGE 4 below cont Columbia then called the NYPD for Columbia's third mass arrest since last year. Soon after, the University emailed nearly 80 students to announce that it would introduce sanctions through the illegally restructured Judicial Board. Barnard charges followed. Meanwhile, President Shipman has cracked down on pro-Palestine organizing in partnership with White House Deputy Chief of Staff, Stephen Miller, who devised Trump's policy of family separation and the Muslim travel ban. Monday afternoon's suspension and expulsion of nearly 80 students is presumed part of the near-final agreement Shipman negotiated with Miller - similar to the deal Columbia struck with the White House to expel students who allegedly IMAGE: Image of Palestinian Basel Al-Araj who was shot dead by Israeli forces on 6 March 2017 [Abeer-Almasri/Twitter] https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20170307-palestinian-basel-al-arajs-will/ IMAGE 4 cont The trustees use the Trump administration as cover to escalate their Zionist agenda. In an editorial dictated from ICE detention in April, Mahmoud Khalil accused Columbia of "laying] the groundwork for [his] abduction" by handing over thousands of pages of student records. Two weeks ago, an ICE official testified in court that the Trump administration uses lists compiled by Canary Mission to identify and, if possible, deport pro-Palestine activists on campus. Much of this has been coordinated through group chats like "Columbia Alumni for Israel," which includes Columbia faculty and an associate dean who have not been disciplined and whom it is widely believed act as a conduit between Columbia, Canary Mission, and ICE. That chat also includes alumni like Victor Muslin, who is said to help run Canary Mission and has echoed Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant's genocidal comparison of Palestinians to "human animals" by advocating for "the powers that be to squash [pro-Palestine students] like roaches." "We will not be deterred. We are committed to the struggle for Palestinian liberation," say the students. IMAGE: https://www.palestine-studies.org/en/node/1652721 Mural of Basel al-Araj in Nazareth by the Palestinian Nazarene Movement. Photo credit: Palestinian Nazarene Movement.
July 22, 2025 at 8:50 PM
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palestinelegal.bsky.social
As part of these efforts on "combating antisemitism," Columbia announced a policy of refusing to meet with some of its own students — a coalition of pro-Palestinian students, known as Columbia University Apartheid Divest (CUAD) — who advocate for Columbia to divest from Israel's genocide.
July 17, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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palestinelegal.bsky.social
THREAD: Columbia University continues to bend the knee to Trump, announcing Tuesday it would further repress pro-Palestinian student activism by adopting the distorted IHRA definition of antisemitism and partnering with the ADL, a widely discredited Israel lobby group.
July 17, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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remikanazi.bsky.social
Don't let Zionists word police you in this moment. There's nothing wrong with "Death to the IDF", "Globalize the Intifada," or "From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free."

They are all liberation slogans. And no one needs liberation more than a people facing genocide
July 22, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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shabana.bsky.social
THIS WHOLE THREAD about Gaza fundraisers
lexialex.bsky.social الكسندرا ميراي @lexialex.bsky.social · Jul 22
against you, as long as you don't dehumanize them. Most of all, I beg you to not let Israel win. Don't let them ruin your relationship with people from Gaza, no matter how uncomfortable it gets. Because FUCK ISRAEL and FREE PALESTINE
July 22, 2025 at 6:24 AM
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lexialex.bsky.social
...in this thread. This fundraiser/begging situation is about YOU more than it is about Palestinians in Gaza. It was created to make you exhausted and annoyed and snuff out the direct relationships you have developed with people in Gaza. DO NOT GIVE IN. Even if you have nothing to give, or you can't
July 22, 2025 at 5:56 AM
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lexialex.bsky.social
...could create it: Forbid all official aid organizations to continue working in Gaza, pay mercenaries to steal the aid and make it only available to the people who lost everything and can't make a living for outrageously inflated black market prices. Allow (for the first time in decades)...
July 22, 2025 at 5:56 AM
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katespeace.bsky.social
Please, PLEASE read this thread by Lexi. It's important, and she is very clear on the stakes and the importance of being there for Palestinians in Gaza.
lexialex.bsky.social الكسندرا ميراي @lexialex.bsky.social · Jul 22
Many of you still don't get how these Gaza fundraisers came about & that they are more about you than about Palestinians in Gaza. I keep explaining this in every podcast I've been on lately...but let me write a thread as well: These fundraisers exist to snuff out your relationship with Palestinians
July 22, 2025 at 6:04 AM
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elivalley.bsky.social
Jews in New Jersey are speaking out against the antisemitism-generator IHRA — pushed by apartheid activists in the NJ Assembly this week to change the very meaning of antisemitism in order to criminalize opposition to genocide:
July 22, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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lexialex.bsky.social
The U.S. doesn't have an opposition party and Americans are still in denial about it
July 22, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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mondoweiss.net
“Save Gaza before everyone dies,” says Dr. Atef al-Ghoul, Director of Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Younis. “Eight billion people in the world cannot deliver a piece of bread to the hungry in Gaza.”

Read more here: mondoweiss.net/2025/07/when...
July 22, 2025 at 6:48 PM
palestineswg.bsky.social
🚨URGENT SUPPORT NEEDED FOR COLUMBIA STUDENTS FACING SANCTIONS🚨
THREAD with action items at the end!
Protest graphic with bold text on a peach-colored background: 'COLUMBIA CRIMINALIZES EDUCATION' at the top, and 'DROP THE CHARGES!' Image at the bottom of NYPD arresting a student. Text on a peach-colored background: "Columbia wants to expel 15 people and suspend dozens more. WHY? For creating the Basel al-Araj Popular University, a community teaching space in Columbia's largest library renamed after the revolutionary Palestinian intellectual and martyr."
July 15, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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lexialex.bsky.social
They don't care. They will kill anybody. The only thing that will stop them is military power
July 15, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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lexialex.bsky.social
Gaza screams
June 5, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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mondoweiss.net
In the face of genocide and global inaction, the Tribunal recognizes that the challenge of justice falls to people, to legitimate resistance, to acts of solidarity, to civil society, to social movements, and to people of conscience everywhere.

mondoweiss.net/2025/06/the-...

#Palestine #Israel
The People vs. The Abyss: The Sarajevo Declaration of the Gaza Tribunal
In the face of genocide and global inaction, the Tribunal recognizes that the challenge of justice falls to people, to legitimate resistance, to acts of solidarity, to civil society, to social movements,...
mondoweiss.net
June 5, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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hebagowayed.bsky.social
Happy Eid to all who celebrate! I was invited to a Eid get together in my neighborhood with other likeminded Muslims and I’m super geeked. I’ve been looking for this sort of community ❤️
June 5, 2025 at 9:48 PM
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hebagowayed.bsky.social
For me the most important histories in the world are those of Haiti & Palestine. If you understand them, you understand it all.
olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · Jun 3
some trade history:

"When news of the [Haitian] slave revolt reached the United States, the first impulse of the Federalist administration was to aid the white planters....George Washington's government advanced French whites...$726,000 drawn against America's revolutionary war debt to France..."
June 4, 2025 at 9:35 PM
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ipsc.bsky.social
Macklemore in Dublin tonight giving a massive shout out to Irish solidarity with Palestine and railing against apartheid Israel's genocide and its enablers. #FreePalestine #SolidarityIsAVerb 🇵🇸
June 4, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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mondoweiss.net
The Israeli army has killed over 100 Palestinians at the U.S.-run aid distribution centers in Gaza in under two weeks. By now, it follows a predictable script, either denying the massacre or claiming soldiers fired on “suspicious” individuals.

mondoweiss.net/2025/06/ther...

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There’s a familiar script Israel uses every time it commits an aid massacre in Gaza
The Israeli army has killed over 100 Palestinians at the U.S.-run aid distribution centers in Gaza in under two weeks. By now, it follows a predictable script, either denying the massacre or claiming...
mondoweiss.net
June 4, 2025 at 10:02 PM
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lexialex.bsky.social
This is why I moved here 🥹
joenoonan.bsky.social Joe Noonan @joenoonan.bsky.social · Jun 1
Ireland has opinions
June 1, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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lexialex.bsky.social
If I was on your podcast during the last month and haven't posted about it, please throw a shoe at me so I can fix that mistake immediately. The entire last month feels like a weird Twilight Zone trip and this here 👇🏼 is still true
June 1, 2025 at 3:02 PM