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1Oct 30, '23Israel claims that Gaza's Al-Shifa hospital serves as a command center for Hamas. Norwegian physician Mads Gilbert, who has worked at Al-Shifa for 16 years says there is "no eviden37.4×5.6M38k24k2.4k
2Nov 14, '23In their first broadcast interview since being forced out of @NYTmag for signing an open letter condemning Israel's siege on Gaza, award-winning writers @jazzedloon and @jamiekeile33.2×5M8.4k2.7k1.1k
3Jan 18, '24Marione Ingram is an 88-year-old Holocaust survivor and peace activist who has been demanding a ceasefire in Gaza. She just had a series of talks canceled in Germany, for which she29.6×4.4M16k6.5k1.5k
4Nov 2, '23“You can’t behold evil and then return and not speak on it.” Ta-Nehisi Coates speaks about how an experience in Palestine illuminated the connections between the African American a26.3×3.9M21k9.1k3.4k
5Sep 23, '25The Miami Herald is reporting that about two-thirds of the 1,800 immigrants who were held in the ICE jail in July have gone missing from ICE's online database, with their families 25.9×3.9M14k7.5k2k
6Apr 25, '24Gaza-based journalist Akram al-Satarri has just returned from Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, where Palestinians are still uncovering more bodies, many with evidence of torture or 25.8×3.9M9k6.5k1.2k
7Mar 29, '24In Gaza, "every person, the first thing they want to tell me in English or Arabic is 'We need food,’" says @UNICEF spokesperson @1james_elder. "They are saying that because their a22.5×3.4M8.1k4.6k431
8Oct 19, '23Veteran Haaretz journalist Amira Hass has reported from the Occupied Palestinian Territories for decades and says the Israeli public is "drunk with the will to take revenge" on Pal22.3×3.3M15k8k1.8k
9Oct 16, '23Israeli historian and genocide scholar Raz Segal says Israeli leaders' dehumanizing language about Palestinians in Gaza and the IDF's conduct are cause for alarm. "We're seeing the20.7×3.1M21k11k2.6k
10Nov 8, '23“I told my mother that if I lived, I would never, ever be quiet and I would become a peacemaker,” says 87-year old Holocaust survivor Marione Ingram, who has been protesting outsid19.2×2.9M32k14k1.9k
11Nov 3, '23State Department Official Resigns, Says Israel Is Using U.S. Arms to Massacre Civilians in Gaza18.1×2.7M6.7k2.8k548
12Oct 24, '23The U.N. reports at least 42% of Gaza's housing units are damaged or destroyed. One-point-four million Gazans — or more than half of the territory's population — have been displace17.1×2.6M5.6k3.9k380
13Aug 2, '24Amid rumors that Kamala Harris has selected Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro as her running-mate, @marclamonthill reminds us that neither Harris nor Shapiro can or should be seen16.4×2.5M5.5k1.4k803
14Oct 26, '23Philosopher & gender studies scholar Judith Butler calls to end Israel's assault in Gaza. "We should all be standing up and objecting and calling for an end to genocide," says 15.5×2.3M9.6k4.2k880
15Apr 25, '25Director Ryan Coogler questions why his contract for @SinnersMovie has generated so much media attention. “I'm not the first filmmaker to get any of these deals,” he says. “And War13.4×2M7.8k1k1.6k
16Oct 16, '23Israeli Holocaust scholar Raz Segal says Israel's war on Gaza constitutes "a textbook case of genocide."12.3×1.8M9.9k5.3k1.5k
17Sep 9, '24WATCH: Cindy and Craig Corrie are demanding independent investigations into the deaths of their daughter Rachel Corrie and of Aysenur Ezgi Eygi, both U.S. citizens killed by the Is10.1×1.5M20k6.7k1k
18Nov 22, '23On November 9th, Israeli police arrested history and civics teacher Meir Baruchin after he posted on Facebook about his opposition to the killing of innocent Palestinian civilians.9.8×1.5M5.4k3k611
19Mar 6, '24Susan Abulhawa is the author of the critically acclaimed novel "Mornings in Jenin" and has just returned from two weeks in Gaza, where "What’s happening to people isn’t just this d9.4×1.4M6.2k4k857
20Nov 1, '23Until recently, @CraigMokhiber was a top U.N. official working on human rights. He just left his post with a scathing resignation letter blasting U.N. and Western complicity in Isr9.1×1.4M9.6k5.7k1.1k
21Jan 2, '24South Africa has filed a case at the International Court of Justice in the Hague, accusing Israel of committing genocide in Gaza. International law expert Francis Boyle, who has ar8.8×1.3M12k6.2k1.1k
22Nov 3, '23Josh Paul was a veteran official in the State Department who resigned over the Biden administration’s unconditional support for Israeli forces bombing Gaza without debate, saying t8.5×1.3M6.1k3.4k634
23Dec 26, '23Reverend @MuntherIsaac, the pastor at the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Bethlehem, delivered a powerful Christmas sermon on the war in Gaza and why the world must stand with Pales8.1×1.2M5.3k2.4k504
24Mar 1, '24A new exposé by @theintercept has found major discrediting flaws in The New York Times’ December investigation claiming that Hamas committed systemic rape on October 7. We speak to5.9×888k4k1.8k727
25Sep 18, '24Human Rights Watch researcher @kaiss_ramzi says the Israeli pager attack in Lebanon that killed at least 12 and injured thousands more was an "indiscriminate attack" and "unlawful 5.7×852k4.1k1.6k268
26Oct 30, '23Celebrated Hunter College professor Rosalind Petchesky was arrested at a sit-in organized by Jewish American activists from @jvplive in New York City. "I am older than the state of5.3×795k12k5.7k443
27Dec 2, '24"My brother slowed down the ethnic cleansing of north Gaza, and that's why he was taken out." We mourn Mahmoud Almadhoun, who co-founded and helped run the Gaza Soup Kitchen, feedi5.2×778k5.4k2.6k399
28Apr 25, '25Elon Musk's artificial intelligence company xAI is running a massive data center in Memphis, Tennessee. The facility neighbors historically Black neighborhoods and is powered by 355.0×754k5.4k2.9k890
29Feb 7, '24According to @theintercept’s @jeremyscahill, only one infant was killed in the October 7 attacks on Israel, despite widespread stories of beheaded babies shared by top Israeli and 4.9×735k5.1k3k957
30Apr 8, '20Noam Chomsky on Bernie Sanders: "It's common to say now that the Sanders campaign failed. I think that's a mistake. I think it was an extraordinary success, completely shifted the 4.8×023k6.1k508
31Jul 29, '25U.S. military veteran Anthony Aguilar, who worked as a security contractor at Gaza Humanitarian Foundation sites, says he was horrified by war crimes being carried out against star4.4×659k8.3k4.7k1.3k
32Mar 7, '25"I would do it again." Texas Congressmember @RepAlGreen responds after he was censured by the House of Representatives for disrupting President Donald Trump's joint address to Cong4.0×592k6k870170
33May 17, '24Amira Hass, the only Jewish Israeli reporter to have spent 30 years living in the West Bank and Gaza, delivered the 2024 graduation speech at Columbia Journalism School and encoura3.7×555k4.1k1.8k587
34Nov 23, '23State Department Official Resigns, Says Israel Is Using U.S. Arms to Massacre Civilians in Gaza3.6×544k9.9k4.6k470
35Oct 27, '23NYU law student Ryna Workman was ousted as president of the school's Student Bar Association and lost a job offer after they wrote a newsletter expressing solidarity with Palestini3.5×524k5.8k2.8k337
36Nov 6, '23Palestinian scholar Noura Erakat @4noura addressed crowds at Saturday's massive Washington, D.C., rally for a ceasefire in Gaza. "Palestine reveals the naked hypocrisy of Western u3.5×523k10k4.9k515
37Oct 8, '24Ta-Nehisi Coates discusses his recent appearance on CBS Mornings to promote his new book “The Message,” where he was questioned by co-anchor Tony Dokoupil about Israel and Palestin3.4×506k6.4k1.8k1.6k
38May 21, '24“We are seeing important processes that are leading to the collapse of the Zionist project,” says Israeli historian Ilan Pappé. “I’m really hopeful there will be a different kind o3.2×480k6k2.7k609
39Nov 20, '19BREAKING: A Tucson jury has found Scott Warren of @NoMoreDeaths not guilty of all charges for providing food, water and aid to undocumented migrants in the Sonoran Desert.3.1×016k3.3k44
40Aug 20, '24The Democratic National Convention held its first-ever panel on Palestinian rights Monday, including harrowing testimony from Dr. Tanya Haj-Hassan, who volunteered at a hospital in2.9×430k5.7k3.2k667
41Jan 19, '2418-year-old Israeli Tal Mitnick, who refused mandatory military service last month in objection to Israel's war on Gaza, describes his time so far in Israeli military prison and th2.8×416k3.8k1.5k521
42Dec 22, '23The city of Bethlehem in the occupied West Bank, the birthplace of Jesus Christ, has announced the cancellation of traditional Christmas festivities in “mourning and honor” of Pale2.7×408k5.1k2.9k355
43Oct 17, '23“I’m Israeli Jewish, American as well. My partner is Palestinian. And I can do things that he can’t do.” @saribashi describes how Israel’s apartheid system affects everyday life in2.7×401k5.4k2.9k430
44May 3, '24Hala Rharrit is the first American diplomat to publicly resign over U.S. policy in Gaza. In an exclusive televised interview, she explains to Democracy Now! why she could no longer2.5×367k5k2.5k626
45Aug 4, '22BREAKING: Ex-Black Panther Albert Woodfox has died at age 75 from complications related to COVID-19. He survived 43 years in solitary confinement, believed to be the longest such p2.4×08.3k3.9k573
46Feb 5, '2419 students at Brown University have entered their fourth day on hunger strike to urge Brown to divest from weapons manufacturers who are arming Israel. The group, which includes f2.4×353k3.8k1.8k118
47Jun 12, '20"Defunding the police is not simply about withdrawing funding for law enforcement and doing nothing else," says Angela Davis, who says Joe Biden has accepted this "superficial unde2.3×09k3.9k406
48Nov 15, '23“If I could choose today between hell and Shifa, I would choose hell.” @DrMadsGilbert shares reports from colleagues in Gaza about what he calls the “systematic man-made slaughteri2.3×343k4.5k3.2k267
49Jan 9, '24Joe Biden is “really trying to fend off criticism that he is racist, that he is sponsoring a genocide. And that criticism is completely well-founded, because…genocide is the most e2.2×333k5.4k2k274
50Aug 19, '24"We have spent ten months watching our people die every day," says Palestinian American sociologist @emanabdelhadi, who is in Chicago protesting against Israel's assault on Gaza.2.2×332k4.7k1.9k156
51Sep 1, '25"I want my taxes to help children, not kill them."2.2×329k21k2.9k255
52Aug 5, '25Chris Smalls (@Shut_downAmazon) says he was abused by Israeli prison guards after his arrest aboard the Handala. “They said some very racist remarks. They kept me isolated from the2.2×323k16k5.7k888
53Jul 24, '24"We, as American Jews, think it is absolutely shameful that congressional leadership has invited a war criminal who is currently leading a genocide of Palestinians in Gaza to addre2.1×318k8.6k3.9k273
54Feb 1, '21The Assassination of Fred Hampton: New Documents Reveal Involvement of FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover2.0×06.3k2.8k521
55Jun 18, '24Holocaust scholar Raz Segal, who has characterized Israel's war on Gaza as "a textbook case of genocide," has just had a job offer rescinded by the University of Minnesota because 2.0×305k5.3k3.2k564
56Dec 26, '23A growing number of U.S. unions are calling for a ceasefire in Gaza, driven by their members. This is a break from decades of U.S. labor officials vocally supporting Israel, says h2.0×297k4.6k2.1k193
57Feb 11, '25"I came home from school and half of our house was gone. There was a settler inside it. A settler from Long Island." Writer @m7mdkurd, whose new book "Perfect Victims" is out today2.0×296k7.2k3.3k847
58Feb 12, '24“This is not a legitimate war. This is a genocidal campaign of extermination,” says Palestinian human rights attorney @4noura as Israel prepares to invade Rafah where millions of d2.0×293k6.2k3.6k258
59Jun 14, '21BREAKING: An attorney for Reality Winner says the former NSA translator is out of prison for good behavior. She had been serving a sentence of more than five years for passing clas1.9×08.8k2.4k89
60Oct 31, '23Israeli historian Ilan Pappé says Netanyahu is using Holocaust rhetoric to make the Hamas operation on October 7 seem like an existential threat to Israel while ignoring the occupa1.9×289k4.5k2.6k346
61Oct 19, '23"I have never seen anything like this in my history of Jewish anti-Zionist activism." Author and activist @NaomiAKlein addressed demonstrators Wednesday in Washington who are calli1.9×284k3.8k1.7k139
62Jan 5, '24"There is no need for any one of us to serve in the IDF. The IDF should not exist. The state of Israel should not exist,” says former IDF soldier and now anti-Zionist organizer Mei1.9×281k8.2k4.4k1k
63Dec 16, '24Leaked documents from inside UnitedHealth obtained by ProPublica show "the company has engaged in a secret internal cost-cutting strategy that is essentially trying to limit the ca1.8×277k5.2k2.5k544
64Jan 30, '17Happening now: Medical students stage die-in outside @FoxNews in NYC protesting the repeal of the Affordable Care Act1.8×05.9k3.7k0
65Jul 25, '24The most disturbing part of Netanyahu’s speech to Congress was to watch “U.S. Congress jubilantly cheer on — scramble over one another in order to cheer — for what is essentially a1.8×265k6.5k3.2k312
66Feb 5, '24Dr. Tariq Haddad rejected an invitation to meet with Secretary of State Antony Blinken last week after losing some 100 relatives in Israel's assault on Gaza. “I just kept looking f1.8×264k4k2.1k308
67Aug 14, '17Dr. @CornelWest says anti-fascist and anarchist protesters protected clergy from white nationalists Friday night: "They saved our lives"1.8×05.7k3.5k30
68Dec 3, '24BREAKING — Hundreds of Canadian Jews are currently occupying a parliamentary building in Ottawa to protest the war on Gaza. "Canada needs to stop arming Israel and implement an imm1.7×262k6.4k2.4k296
69Apr 22, '24After more than 100 students from Barnard College and Columbia University were arrested at an encampment calling for the school to divest from Israel amid the country's deadly assa1.7×261k4.1k1.8k227
70Nov 13, '23Dr. Hammam Alloh, a physician who refused to leave his patients at al-Shifa hospital in Gaza, was killed Saturday in an Israeli airstrike. His colleagues @BenNephrology and @Tanyaa1.7×260k4.5k2.7k173
71Oct 10, '22Noam Chomsky says the U.S. must stop undermining possibilities of negotiations with Russia to end the war in Ukraine and "drop the official position that the war must go on to weak1.6×05.9k1.9k220
72Apr 30, '24Israeli scholar of the Holocaust @bartov_omer argues that accusations of antisemitism levied at campus protests against Israel's occupation of Palestine are disingenuous. “There’s 1.6×237k4.9k2.5k587
73Apr 11, '25Take a burner phone, or keep your phone turned off, when traveling through the U.S. border, recommends attorney Amir Makled. Makled, who represents pro-Palestine student protesters1.6×233k4.1k1.3k834
74Feb 18, '25BREAKING: Indigenous activist Leonard Peltier is released from prison after nearly 50 years. For decades, Peltier, who is 80 years old, has maintained his innocence over the 1975 k1.5×220k6.2k1.5k187
75Feb 19, '24Chicago doctor blasts the American Medical Association for speaking out against Russian attacks on hospitals in Ukraine but staying silent on Israeli attacks on medical facilities 1.5×220k6.1k3.1k218
76Aug 23, '24Democrats' support of Israel's military assault on Gaza, "which is nothing less than a genocide, suggests to me the need to break out of the two-party system," says historian and p1.4×214k6.2k2.4k377
77May 10, '21Palestinian writer Mohammed El-Kurd says Israel is "doing everything it can to terrorize Palestinians" while Jewish settlers "can just walk around our neighborhoods, steal our home1.4×04.7k2.8k187
78Feb 16, '21Ecuador's presidential front-runner @ecuarauz, who faces a runoff election in April, says the country is facing a “double crisis” of COVID-19 and austerity. “We’re facing what we c1.4×05.2k2.3k37
79Jun 6, '24"As a Jewish infant under Nazi occupation...how could I not relate to the experience" of Palestinians living under Israeli occupation? @DrGaborMate, a Hungarian-born Holocaust surv1.4×205k5.7k2.6k419
80Aug 13, '25Ms. Rachel has a message for children in Gaza and around the world.1.3×201k15k3k602
81Oct 28, '24"We want to see a ceasefire now. As people who have survived the American genocide, we want to stop the genocide of the Palestinian people," says @NickTilsen, an Indigenous activis1.3×200k8.9k3.1k357
82Oct 31, '24Israel's war on Gaza is a genocide, says U.N. rights expert @franceskalbs, who has just released a new report titled "Genocide as Colonial Erasure." There has not only been a failu1.3×200k5.1k2.5k597
83Jul 26, '20RIP Regis Philbin.1.3×07.3k948259
84Jan 21, '17Angela Davis: "Women's rights are human rights all over the planet, and that is why we say freedom and justice for Palestine"1.2×04k2.6k0
85Mar 31, '24Just back from Gaza, Dr. Tanya Haj-Hassan says the horrors she witnessed have made her "feel ashamed to be an American citizen."1.2×184k4.2k2.4k233
86Jun 8, '18After Trip to Gaza, Anthony Bourdain Accused World of Robbing Palestinians of Their Basic Humanity1.2×04.8k2k33
87Aug 23, '22Tariq Ali: Terrorism Charges Against Pakistan’s Former PM Imran Khan Are “Truly Grotesque”1.1×04.5k2.1k21
88Oct 8, '24"We are going around the world propping ourselves up as the font of democracy. We are going around the world propping Israel up as the only democracy in the Middle East. This is a 1.1×169k4.6k1.7k781
89Jan 17, '24Israel bombed two Al Jazeera journalists then prevented medical workers from reaching cameraman Samer Abu Daqqa for about five hours as he bled to death. "The world should be outra1.1×160k4.5k2.9k182
90Oct 14, '24“Most people died. Some days, the most you could do was hold people’s hand and watch them die.” Hear from an American doctor about volunteering at hospitals in northern Gaza, which1.0×157k4.7k2.8k422
91Jun 17, '20BREAKING: Garrett Rolfe, the former Atlanta police officer who killed Rayshard Brooks in a Wendy's parking lot, is charged with felony murder and aggravated assault. Rolfe’s collea1.0×04.9k1.4k19
92Jan 4, '24"I cannot stay silent as this administration turns a blind eye to the atrocities committed against innocent Palestinian lives." Palestinian American Tariq Habash, a Biden political1.0×150k4.2k1.4k78
93Nov 5, '25Zohran Mamdani's win is "proof of concept of how to fight fascism," says @naomiaklein. "Fascists want everybody to be the same. They celebrate conformity, uniformity, sameness, hie0.9×141k4.6k1.1k266
94Mar 3, '25Basel Adra co-directed "No Other Land," which documents how the Israeli military and Israeli settlers attempt to expel Palestinians from their homes in the West Bank. “The world ke0.9×134k6.3k2.7k313
95Jul 18, '25Teresa Helm, who was groomed by Ghislaine Maxwell and sexually abused by Jeffrey Epstein in the early 2000s, demands the release of all Epstein files. "It's degrading our society t0.9×131k4.6k2.1k177
96Feb 10, '20"We tell stories and truths that are uncomfortable," says @AOC in a rare joint interview with the Squad. "We've been elected on a mandate to tell this truth and that creates a reac0.8×04k85670
97Mar 3, '25Basel Adra, the co-director of Oscar-winning documentary “No Other Land,” says his intention with the film was “not the award itself but … to get to people’s hearts.” He wants the 0.8×121k6.2k1.9k279
98Dec 8, '21Noam Chomsky turned 93 years old today. What's his secret? "The only thing I know is what's sometimes called the bicycle theory: If you keep going fast, you don't fall off." Watch 0.8×03.9k702107
99Apr 1, '22BREAKING: Amazon workers have successfully unionized the company's JFK8 warehouse in Staten Island, New York, forming the first U.S. union at the company. @amazonlabor's organizing0.7×03.7k83124
100Nov 7, '18Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@ocasio2018), in her victory speech: "They will always call the ambitious naive… because we are engaging in the change of the balance of power in this cou0.7×03.9k7407

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