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Saskia

@saskiacw

(she/her) talking human rights & fair labour. international law LLB, LLM | views & opinions my own.

 Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Joined April 2009
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Hind, we will forever remember you, smiling. To the Palestinians that we never had the honor and privilege to say your name because you departed this world without the world getting to know your story, we think about you as well, smiling. To the children under the rubble and the humans who were vaporized from the strength of their 2000 pound bombs, we think about you, smiling. Glory to our martyrs. Free Palestine.
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Palestinians respond to the nine @Eurovision contestants' statement.
PACBI, a founding member of the largest Palestinian coalition that is leading the global BDS movement, welcomes the refusal of nine Eurovision contestants to remain silent. However, by participating in Eurovision alongside apartheid Israel while it carries out its live-streamed genocide against 2.3 million Palestinians in Gaza, armed and enabled by many European governments, the contestants would be complicit in artwashing these crimes. Feigning symbolic gestures of support while dismissing the call of the oppressed reflects a patronising and colonial attitude on the part of the contestants that is familiar to Palestinians, and many oppressed communities globally. Israel is defying the World Court and the UN Security council. This means everyone has a responsibility to end complicity in supporting or covering up its crimes. We call on all Eurovision contestants to withdraw from the contest, as a meaningful gesture of solidarity and to fulfil this moral responsibility to do no harm

ALT PACBI, a founding member of the largest Palestinian coalition that is leading the global BDS movement, welcomes the refusal of nine Eurovision contestants to remain silent. However, by participating in Eurovision alongside apartheid Israel while it carries out its live-streamed genocide against 2.3 million Palestinians in Gaza, armed and enabled by many European governments, the contestants would be complicit in artwashing these crimes. Feigning symbolic gestures of support while dismissing the call of the oppressed reflects a patronising and colonial attitude on the part of the contestants that is familiar to Palestinians, and many oppressed communities globally. Israel is defying the World Court and the UN Security council. This means everyone has a responsibility to end complicity in supporting or covering up its crimes. We call on all Eurovision contestants to withdraw from the contest, as a meaningful gesture of solidarity and to fulfil this moral responsibility to do no harm

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This #InternationalWomensDay we celebrate female resistance fighters all over the world. Whether they resist with arms, words or love... Down with Israeli colonialism, apartheid and patriarchy! Power to the women of #Palestine ✊🏽✊🏽 #IWD2024
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I’m an Indigenous woman of Anishinaabe territory, being sued for $4M, facing 1 yr jail for locking to a CAT machine at Mountain Valley Pipeline, which would serve Elbit Systems. Our peoples will *never* die. We are the land, the land is us. We stand with you, relatives ✊🏽❤️ #IWD
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Dr. Mustafa Elmasri (@Gaza_Psych) profile pictureDr. Mustafa Elmasri@Gaza_Psych8 Mar 2024
On the occasion of the international women's day, what message do you have for the women of Gaza. P.S. Please indicate where you come from, and Please do not apologize for being helpless, that would devastate them even more...
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Unbelievably the British Home Office has denied visas to the 47 young afghan musicians due to fly tomorrow from Portugal for their 4 city Breaking the Silence tour to raise awareness of the plight of Afghan women and girls thetimes.co.uk/article/each-…
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We call for the boycott of #Eurovision2024. We urge all participating broadcasters, national competitors, finalists, production crews, and viewers to boycott the contest following the refusal of the organisers @EBU_HQ to ban genocidal Israel. #BoycottEurovision2024
Boycott Eurovision Artwashing Israel's #GazaGenocide

ALT Boycott Eurovision Artwashing Israel's #GazaGenocide

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The aid sector and HR mechanisms failed the people of #Palestine. They are not designed to face #colonialism. #EndTheOccupation #FreePalesitne 🇵🇸🇵🇸✌🏽
Omar Gaza 🇵🇸 (@Omar_Gaza) profile pictureOmar Gaza 🇵🇸@Omar_Gaza1 Mar 2024
Humanity failed. #INGOs failed. Human rights orgs failed. Those in power failed & most are complicit anyway. Neighboring countries failed. Arabs failed. #IHL failed (until now but its been already 5 effing months), all Intl. humanitarian standards/laws/resolutions failed. #Gaza
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First they starve people, then they shoot at them when they desperately run towards food.
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We're horrified by today’s news from Gaza City. An immediate and sustained ceasefire is the only way to stop the loss of more lives and increase the flow of humanitarian assistance. Our statement: doctorswithoutborders.org/la…
Gaza: MSF statement on deadly incident that killed over 100 Palestinians seeking aid

Gaza: MSF statement on deadly incident that killed over 100 Palestinians seeking aid

An immediate and sustained ceasefire is the only way to stop the loss of more lives and increase the flow of humanitarian assistance.

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Israel has massacred starved Palestinians waiting for flour. Are there no limits to the crimes and savagery of the Zionist entity? #Gaza #EndTheGenocide
Al Jazeera English (@AJEnglish) profile pictureAl Jazeera English
@AJEnglish29 Feb 2024
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Palestinian Health Ministry has updated the death toll of Palestinians killed while waiting for food aid to 77. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/ifmorn
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1- what is your government going to do to force Israel to let aid pass? 2- how about a #CeasefireNOW rather than a 🩹? #EndTheGenocide #Gaza
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Under our leadership a progressive majority in the European Parliament just adopted a strong call for an immediate and permanent ceasefire in Gaza to stop the bloodshed of innocent civilians. @PedroMarquesMEP
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Israel is required to submit its response to the ICJ outlining the measures it has taken since January 26 to prevent genocide. Here is what they actually did. A 🧵
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Imagine as a parent having to fight to get food for your child who is dying of hunger: total collapse of civil order. That’s the situation that Israel has created in Gaza. Shame on all of us for allowing this betrayal of humanity. bbc.com/news/world-middle-ea…
Israel-Gaza war: World Food Programme stops deliveries to northern Gaza

Israel-Gaza war: World Food Programme stops deliveries to northern Gaza

The agency says lorries faced gunfire and looting. The UN has warned of looming famine in the north.

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An Israeli tank fired on a house sheltering MSF colleagues and their families. "Targeting a building knowing it is full of humanitarian workers and their families is unconscionable." The attack killed the daughter-in-law and wife of an MSF staff member.
Doctors w/o Borders (@MSF_USA) profile pictureDoctors w/o Borders
@MSF_USA21 Feb 2024
Tonight Israeli forces conducted an operation in Al Mawasi, Khan Younis, Gaza, where a shelter hosting MSF staff and their families was shelled.
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Israel has made any humanitarian response in #Gaza impossible. It either kills Palestinians in an airstrike or starves them to death. #Genocide wfp.org/news/un-food-agency-…
UN Food Agency pauses deliveries to the North of Gaza | World Food Programme

UN Food Agency pauses deliveries to the North of Gaza | World Food Programme

ROME – The UN World Food Programme (WFP) is pausing deliveries of life-saving food aid to northern Gaza until conditions are in place that allow for safe distributions.

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I just signed a @theactionnet petition: Stop the EU support for fossil gas in the East Mediterranean !. Sign here: actionnetwork.org/petitions/…
Stop the EU support for fossil gas in the East Mediterranean !

Stop the EU support for fossil gas in the East Mediterranean !

The Eastmed gas pipeline is a disaster for communities and the climate, and is wildly incompatible with the Paris climate goals, European Green New Deal, and European Convention on Human rights....

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Tonight Israeli forces conducted an operation in Al Mawasi, Khan Younis, Gaza, where a shelter hosting MSF staff and their families was shelled.
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@ Non-Palestinian allies, we, Palestinians, are the driving force behind our own liberation movement. being defeatist is insensitive and counterproductive to our movement, it’s imperative for you all to energize and amplify our voices, as comrades, who are leading the struggle
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