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Joined February 2010
This pro-Palestine church in Middle America is one of the stops on the Freedom Convoy. @YusufOmarSA is road-tripping along Route 66 with a group of activists, discovering that the U.S. isn’t all black and white. A lot of people actually live in the gray.
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Palestinian children in Gaza raised the Brazilian flag in support of President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, who won reelection – dealing a blow to rising pro-Israel leadership across Latin America.
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This pro-Palestine Colombian rapper stomped on the Israeli flag during her performance at the Hip Hop Al Parque 2026 festival in Bogotá, Colombia.
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This is how Brazilians overcame barriers to vote President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva to victory.
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Albania is tearing up its own streets to try and fend off student protestors, after more than 130 days of mass uprisings in the country.
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“Serbia is free.” Serbian students toppled the authoritarian government of President Aleksandar Vučić, as students and youth activists protest corruption around the globe.
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“I wish I had slept between you … so I would have been killed with you.” Dima Yassin is now one of over 60,000 children who’ve lost one or both parents during Israel’s genocide in Gaza.
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Iranian Jewish Israeli activist, Orly Noy, wants Netanyahu out. But Israel is shutting out voices like hers. #Israel #IsraeliGovernment #Elections #IsraeliOccupation #Netanyahu #BenGvir #Palestinians
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AJ+ spoke to political activist @NoyOrly, who is running for parliament in Israel’s elections.
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This Albanian protester stood in front of a water cannon to protect her fellow demonstrators. Students have flooded the streets of Albania’s capital to condemn the high costs of education, corruption, environmental threats and more.
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Can a 3,500-mile trip change U.S. Zionists’ minds? @yusufomarsa is reporting from the Freedom Convoy 2026 as it travels from LA to DC.
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French police are inflicting “war-like” injuries on young protesters – causing severe injuries to students protesting for better conditions in schools.
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What if moral rules help your brain save energy? Psychologist Jordan Theriault-Brown argues they make other people’s behavior easier to predict – which may help explain why we react so strongly when someone breaks them.
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Why is the U.S. right so obsessed with Hasan Piker?! @denatakruri asked Hasan Piker – and he had A LOT to say.
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This is what collective punishment looks like: Israeli forces are putting Hebron on lockdown – displacing families, levelling homes and cutting families off from the rest of the occupied West Bank. It comes after 2 Palestinians fired at a military checkpoint in the occupied West Bank, killing 2 Israeli soldiers. #WestBank #IsraeliOccupation #Palestinians #Palestine #IsraeliForces
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Content creators are following a social media trend to improve the lives of people in their communities. These young men in Jordan rented and stocked a store for one year to help a blind shopkeeper.
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Rock band Turnstile hosted a massive free benefit concert around the corner from the White House to raise money for humanitarian aid for Sudan, Lebanon and Palestine. An estimated 60,000 people showed up. #Palestine #USA #Israel #TurnStile #Concert #DC
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This year’s olive harvest in the occupied West Bank coincides with Israeli elections – and it has been one of the most violent on record, with up to 200 settler attacks since September alone.
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The “aura battle” challenge has swept social media platforms in recent months, and now, protest squares in France. Hundreds and thousands are protesting in France against their poor schooling conditions and cost of living.
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Palestinian child content creator Nisreen Skaik, whose videos document her childhood during a genocide in Gaza, qualified for the finals in the youth category of the 2026 Digital Content Creators Awards.
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