imtiaz mulla @mulla64

This picture means something to an entire generation of Dutch people. I'm one of them. My parents came to Holland as Moroccan immigrants. I was born there. Dutch passport. Dutch better than my Arabic. The first 18 years of my life, Holland fed me, schooled me, raised me. The Moroccans helped rebuild Holland. Holland gave them roads, schools, a future in return. Fair trade. But we never really integrated. That's not on one side. That's on everyone. We learned to speak for our grandparents, because they never got to learn the language. We brought our food. We brought our culture. Mosques. Books and humor. We had fun. We hung out. We went to each other's weddings and loved the mix of it. And still. We never really became one. The politicians made sure to categorize us. They needed us to be outsiders, while we were busy acting like insiders. So a wall went up between neighbors. Then yesterday a silly game with a ball put two teams on the same grass. Two continents. Two cultures. Except they're not two teams. They're teams stitched together by the same life. The Dutch know the Moroccans. Intimately. The Moroccans know the Dutch. Intimately. The Moroccans in Morocco spend every summer selling to the Moroccans from Holland. The Dutch spend every day next to Moroccans. In School. At The local butcher. The streets. The Moroccan team is full of Moroccans carrying Dutch passports. The Dutch team is full of their actual friends, neighbors, and colleagues. Such a simple game. Such a complicated story. When I look at this image I don't see football. I see high school. I see pride. I see distance. I don't see compassion. I see resentment. And that's exactly how we lived in beautiful Holland. Together. Happily. And quietly, unconsciously, apart. I left when I was 18. I went back to Morocco. I resented Holland. For years it was me vs them. Now I understand what I actually have. I can read two cultures from the inside. And I get to choose. What I carry with me. What I leave behind. Because every culture has its gold. And every culture has its rot. The trick is knowing which is which. Love. Be kind to each other.

I am horrified that a car has been deliberately set alight outside the home of the family of Salma Yaqoob, a wonderful prominent anti-racist and peace campaigner in Birmingham. I hope the police take this shocking incident seriously. Sending my solidarity to Salma & her family.

They're really doing Whitey's on the Moon while children get bitten by rats in Gaza. They're doing the Gil Scott-Heron poem

just three british reverts revealing their years of being muslims since reverting...🇬🇧🤌

Storm Isha 🌪️

I’ve been crying since morning nonstop till I saw this message from Alexei Sayle, a British Jewish comedian. He restored me. The best #Christmas message you will hear in these dark days #Gaza

@amulla From the river to the sea

My god, she is ferocious and brilliant. @ClareDalyMEP

wow I just learned that Palestinians were not allowed to fly their flag for 26 years so they used watermelons, which have all the same colors of the flag. Everything I learn makes me love & empathize w the Palestinian people more. They are so resilient 🇵🇸🍉

Remi Kanazi @Remroum

3 years ago

One of the best signs of the protest

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The fact that Malcom X gave this speech in the 60's is amazing , but it's even more amazing that it’s still so relevant today. Listen up #Gaza #Israel

In 2015, Labour's prospective parliamentary candidate for Holborn & St Pancras spoke on a Palestine Solidarity Campaign platform, in front of a placard that read 'Gaza: End the siege'

Standing ovation for Pakistan’s ambassador to the UN. Using diplomatic language, he essentially told Canada’s UN ambassador Bob Rae that he is an anti-Palestinian bigot. And that’s exactly what Rae is. That’s what Rae has always been. A shameless bigot.

Martin Konečný @MartinKonecny

3 years ago

Worth a watch: Pakistan’s ambassador to the UN criticising Canada's amendment to the UNGA resolution on Gaza, solely condemning Hamas. All Western states voted for the amendment that nevertheless failed to pass.

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Again When Native Americans fought for their land, they were savages, Europeans were the victims When African slaves revolted, they weren't even human When Black South Africans fought for Freedom, they were terrorists When Palestinians fight for their Freedom, they're animals

It’s A Little Bit Bomby In Gaza Today It’s a little bit bomby in Gaza today, at least that’s what the news men say. Israel’s victims were “murdered” and “killed” and all mourn the innocent blood that was spilled, but in Gaza explosives just fall from the air and nobody mentions who launched them, from where. They talk about “blasts” and how buildings were “hit”. Who blasted and hit them? Eh, who gives a shit. It’s a little bit bomby outside, that’s the weather. Put up your umbrellas, dudes. Get it together.

🇷🇺🇵🇸 UFC fighter, @KChimaev’s post-fight speech in Russian translated to English.

🎙️ Eric Cantona: “Defending Palestinian human rights does not mean you are pro-Hamas. Saying “Free Palestine” does not mean that we are anti-Semitic or that we want the disappearance of all Jews. “Free Palestine” means freeing Palestinians from the Israeli occupation that has deprived them of their basic human rights for 75 years. “Free Palestine” means stopping locking up 2.3 million Palestinians in the world’s largest open-air prison, half of whom are children. “Free Palestine” means ending apartheid imposed by the Israeli government. “Free Palestine” means giving Palestinians control of their country’s major infrastructure." 🇵🇸

@LadyVelvet_HFQ Shouldn’t the UAE do the same

Whilst you behave like this during an attempted genocide, and have a leader like Keir, we aren’t voting for @UKLabour again. Do one.