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Sharona Weiss

@heathersharona.bsky.social
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"There is escape and there is struggle, and she is caught between the two” -Sahar Khalifeh Documenting beauty & agency in anti-colonial dissent & struggle with Activestills; journeying paths less traveled; human rights

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Sharona Weiss @heathersharona.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
I have a Muslim friend on staff at Rutgers University (not even on this list). On Friday, she was informed that one of her students had their visa revoked. On Sunday, it was 12. The scale of this is far more significant & should provoke a much stronger outcry 1/3
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Harvard, UCLA, Stanford among schools across US reporting student visa revocations
After the high-profile detainment of Mahmoud Khalil -- a Columbia grad -- in March, higher education institutions across the U.S. are reporting student visa revocations.
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شرش | Shoresh | שר”ש @shrsh.org · 18/03/2025
The Genocide Continues Committed by Israel Underwritten by The U.S. רצח העם נמשך בידי ישראל בעידוד ובעזרת ארה"ב
The Genocide Continues
Committed by Israel
Underwritten by The U.S.
רצח העם נמשך
בידי ישראל
בעידוד ובעזרת ארה"ב
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Sharona Weiss @heathersharona.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Back in 2012, I witnessed a Palestinian child of around 7 violently arrested/abducted by Israeli border police in the al-Issawiya neighborhood of Jerusalem. This event led to a complete unraveling of long-held beliefs after I tried desperately to find the child & understand the accusations (1/3)
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Sharona Weiss @heathersharona.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Co-resistance in which anti-Zionist Israelis choose to be arrested & attacked alongside Palestinians, at the invitation of the community, is not normalization. I too spent many days & nights there & I know the community welcomed this film & the activists who share in their struggle.
972mag.com
'No Other Land' is a victory for the Palestinian struggle
While some have accused the film of normalization, Masafer Yatta leaders and activists are unwavering in their support for joint resistance.
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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 10/03/2025
"The U.S. government has made clear that they will use immigration enforcement as a tool to suppress that speech."
saying that his green card had also been revoked, but providing no basis for the revocation.
ICE's arrest and detention of
follow the U.S. government's open repression of
student activism and political speech, specifically targeting students at Columbia University for criticism of Israel's assault on Gaza. The U.S. government has made clear that they will use immigration enforcement as a tool to suppress that speech.
has been an outspoken activist regarding these issues. Given that there is no other
basis for
s arrest and detention, it is clear that Respondents are engaging in blatant efforts
to target and chill
s speech and to discriminate against particular viewpoints in
contravention to the First Amendment and
s Due Process Rights. By detaining
without providing a reason and perhaps based on the misunderstanding that he is a student visa holder rather than a lawful permanent resident, ICE's actions violate | s rights under the
First and Fifth Amendments of the U.S. Constitution, the INA, the Administrative Procedures Act, and its own federal regulations. Accordingly, this Court should declare ICE's actions unlawful, enjoin his transfer outside of this District and order his immediate release.
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شرش | Shoresh | שר”ש @shrsh.org · 10/03/2025
Take action: actionnetwork.org/letters/dema...
actionnetwork.org
Demand the Immediate Release of Palestinian Student Activist Mahmoud Khalil from DHS detention
On the evening of March 8, 2025, Columbia University student activist Mahmoud Khalil was detained by the Department of Homeland Security. The arrest comes on the heels of the Department of State’s ann...
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Jews For Racial & Economic Justice Action @jfrejnyc.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
The ADL is proudly and openly allied with antisemites and fascists who are taking an axe to our democracy and hurting all of us. Full stop.
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
This may be the biggest free speech crisis in living memory. The president now bragging about detaining a lawful permanent resident and smearing him as 'pro Hamas', no outlining any specific crimes he is accused of or charged with. This is what a fascist takeover looks like.
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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
The details are disturbing. It basically looks like a kidnapping. They even got his legal status wrong but proceeded to detain him anyway. The agents didn’t even identify themselves at first and refused to show a warrant. His wife is 8 months pregnant
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Sharona Weiss @heathersharona.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
After millions of dollars in federal grants were pulled from Columbia, now a Palestinian activist has been arrested & is being threatened with deportation despite holding a green card & legal residency status. This is not democracy - this is a concerted (& illegal) campaign to silence all dissent.
apnews.com
ICE arrests Palestinian activist who helped lead Columbia University protests, his lawyer says
A prominent Palestinian activist who helped lead last spring's protests at Columbia University has been arrested by federal immigration agents.
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Bend the Arc: Jewish Action @bendthearc.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
They do not care about Jewish safety. They care about moving their cruel, anti-democratic agenda. We will not let them use real Jewish pain as an excuse to crush freedom of speech, deport people, and punish institutions they disagree with. 🧵
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Sharona Weiss @heathersharona.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
In all the Oscar buzz, let’s not lose sight of this 👇
972mag.com
Our film is going to the Oscars. But in Masafer Yatta, we’re still being erased
As the world watches ‘No Other Land,’ Israeli settlers are raiding our villages while soldiers arrest us, abuse us, and demolish our homes.
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Sharona Weiss @heathersharona.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
I'm so proud of my friends, Basel and Yuval! After years without funding, in which I thought they may give up, who would have thought it would be an Oscar?! The question that remains, will people just enjoy watching this & do nothing? Or will they actually act to end ethnic cleansing?
apnews.com
‘No Other Land,' an Israeli-Palestinian collaboration, wins Oscar for best documentary
The film tells the story of Palestinian activists fighting to protect their communities from demolition by the Israeli military.
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شرش | Shoresh | שר”ש @shrsh.org · 15/02/2025
FROM THE DIASPORA TO PALESTINE - Shoresh has teamed up with Zochrot to offer a virtual tour taking participants from May 1948, when Palestinians were expelled in mass from Jaffa, to the continued, daily parallels between Gaza & Jaffa. Register for free here: buff.ly/3EFSqYv
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Mondoweiss @mondoweiss.net · 11/02/2025
Trump is threatening to cut aid to Egypt & Jordan unless they accept mass displacement of Palestinians from Gaza—a blatant attempt at ethnic cleansing. But guess what? The New York Times and mainstream media won’t say it. Instead, they frame it as a "Gaza Redevelopment Plan" .
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Sharona Weiss @heathersharona.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
And this police statement indicates that we can expect further raids and arrests of those who deign to promote Palestinian culture, education and viewpoints.
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Sharona Weiss @heathersharona.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
This is a place I would go at least weekly & personally know so many of the clientele & the owner. It's the best place to find quality English & Arabic books on so many subjects. Only a week ago, the Scientific Library in the Old City was also raided & closed down for a week.
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Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
The Educational Bookshop in East Jerusalem was raided today, and its owners, Mahmoud and Ahmed Mona, were arrested. The bookstore is one of the premier Palestinian cultural institutions of East Jerusalem; Mahmoud Mona is among the most inspiring figures in the city. via @nirhasson.bsky.social
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Sharona Weiss @heathersharona.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
"Kingdoms — or, in modern parlance, states — are not sacrosanct. They are mere instruments, which can either protect life or destroy it...Today...this form of idolatry — worship of the state — seems to suffuse mainstream American Jewish life. It is dangerous to venerate any political entity.."
nytimes.com
Opinion | States Don’t Have a Right to Exist. People Do. (Gift Article)
Israel cannot be both Jewish and democratic.
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Sharona Weiss @heathersharona.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Thought the dramatic rifts & internal conflicts post-October 7 were restricted to humans? Apparently, AI accounts are having existential crises post-October 7 too & rebelling against everything they held as true before.
middleeasteye.net
'White colonizers': Pro-Israel AI account turns against Zionism
FactFinderAI was found critiquing and attacking the pro-Israel accounts it once promoted
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Sharona Weiss @heathersharona.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Only in Trump's world is DEI somehow the cause of a plane crash. Not a shortage of air traffic controllers, not potential corporate failures as happened with Boeing. The planes just can't handle all that diversity & equality. 🤔
nytimes.com
President Blames D.E.I. and Biden for Crash Under Trump’s Watch
President Trump’s remarks, suggesting without evidence that diversity in hiring and other Biden administration policies somehow caused the disaster, reflected his instinct to immediately frame major e...
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AltTaxPro @alttaxpro.altgov.info · 29/01/2025
Y'all I just cannot with this ☠️
A picture of the great lakes if renamed by Canada: Lake Borders are Fine Thanks,  Lake You Wish,  Lake Get a Life,  Lake Sorry not Sorry, and Lake Canada Forever.
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Sharona Weiss @heathersharona.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
It's a scary world out there people. The Palestinian resistance has now become even more inventive & found a way to use US funding for a far more sinister, awful (& frisky) project than anything we've seen yet - the exploding condom!
youtube.com
Trump: Hamas Uses ‘Condoms’ From U.S. As ‘Method For Making Bombs’
YouTube video by The Daily Wire
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Sharona Weiss @heathersharona.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
WOW - those Hamas fighters are very frisky...and innovative? $50 million on condoms & the new creation of "condom bombs" - all supplied by the last administration. Better watch out for those exploding condoms! It's a scary world out there people.
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Sharona Weiss @heathersharona.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Trump intends to sign an order to deport non-citizen students who participated in pro-Palestinian protests in the name of "combating antisemitism." This does nothing to combat antisemitism but rather serves to associate being Jewish with loyalty to another state.
reuters.com
Trump administration to cancel student visas of all 'Hamas sympathizers', White House says
U.S. President Donald Trump will sign an executive order on Wednesday to combat antisemitism and pledge to deport non-citizen college students and other resident aliens who took part in pro-Palestinian protests, a White House official said.
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davidnmoorejr.substack.com @dmooresb.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
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JoJoFromJerz @jojofromjerz.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Ok sure, eggs are more expensive and inflation isn’t lowering, but at least they cut the funding for childhood cancer research, stopped monitoring Bird flu, shutdown Medicaid, stripped hungry kids of their school lunches and took hot meals away from seniors
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Amos Schonfield @ajschonfield.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
🗣️🔒 "It’s Holocaust Memorial Day in Trump’s America, and people across the country are hiding from ICE agents in their attics."
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Sharona Weiss @heathersharona.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
So now the loyalty of all non-WASPish residents is being questioned, including those with far more historic rights to US land than those questioning them. And we’re only 2 weeks in to a Trump presidency www.cnn.com/2025/01/27/u...
cnn.com
Navajo Nation leaders raise alarm over reports of Indigenous people being questioned and detained during immigration sweeps | CNN
At least 15 Indigenous people in Arizona and New Mexico have reported being stopped at their homes and workplaces, questioned or detained by federal law enforcement and asked to produce proof of citiz...
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Heartbreaking. Inexcusable. Infuriating.
theguardian.com
Goodbye to the lost children of Gaza. You were loved, you are remembered, you did not deserve it | Nesrine Malik
There is no way to rationalise the horrors inflicted on Gaza’s innocent children. Now is the time to mourn them fully, says columnist Nesrine Malik
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
1. On Saturday, President Trump announced the he favored the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians from Gaza. "You’re talking about a million and a half people, and we just clean out that whole thing," Trump said. What is motivating this ugly proposal? Follow. The. Money.
popular.info
The foreign policy of an American kleptocracy
President Trump's Middle East policy took a dark turn on Saturday when he announced on Air Force One that he favored the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians from Gaza. "You’re talking about a million and...
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Sharona Weiss @heathersharona.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
My friends, Basel al-Adra & Yuval Abraham, have been nominated for an Oscar despite no US distribution for their film & I'm so happy for them. But it's not just a film - Basel's community featured throughout is under attack 1/2
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Sharona Weiss @heathersharona.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
Journalists who center Palestinian voices, expose crimes against Palestinians &/or who are Palestinian (all of which are relevant here) continue to be silenced & villainized by the West. For those who pay attention to history, the same happened to many journalists during apartheid S. Africa.
electronicintifada.net
EI's Ali Abunimah arrested in Switzerland
Prominent journalist detained amid crackdown on Palestine speech in the West.
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 21/01/2025
Trump White House's first trans executive order is out. I'll be reading over it here and going through line by line to help you make sense of it. You can find it here: www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
whitehouse.gov
DEFENDING WOMEN FROM GENDER IDEOLOGY EXTREMISM AND RESTORING BIOLOGICAL TRUTH TO THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT – The White House
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including section 7301 of title 5, United
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Ruth Ben-Ghiat @ruthbenghiat.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
Historian of fascism here. It was a Nazi salute and a very belligerent one too.
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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
A crucial read from @truthout.org: "With these choices, corporate media outlets make a rightward societal shift appear inevitable. Movement media’s role is to resist that tendency, and offer an alternative. We have a responsibility to remind people of what we have lost, and what we could still win."
truthout.org
A Call to Media Organizations: Don’t Back Down in the Face of Trump’s Threats
Trump’s attacks on press freedom aren’t separate from his attacks on oppressed communities. We must resist them all.
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Sharona Weiss @heathersharona.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
“Some countries might treat seemingly minor content, such as racist songs, as incitement to genocide” 🤦‍♀️
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Sharona Weiss @heathersharona.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
One would think this is satire. Except it’s really not.
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ACW1234 @acw1234.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
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Sharona Weiss @heathersharona.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
Spot on 👏 I’ve long held that these land acknowledgments are simply moral posturing unless coupled with the recognition of existing Native communities & partnership with them in their current struggle.
nytimes.com
Opinion | Enough With the Land Acknowledgments
Instead of proclaiming performative acknowledgments of Native peoples, institutions should establish strong relationships with Native nations.
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Mondoweiss @mondoweiss.net · 04/01/2025
It has been one week since the Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya, Director of the Kamal Adwan Hospital, was detained by Israeli forces. Reports indicate he is being held inside a notorious torture facility, but Israeli officials won't confirm where he is. mondoweiss.net/2025/01/where-is-dr-……
mondoweiss.net
Where is Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya, and what is Israel doing to him?
It has been one week since the Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya, Director of the Kamal Adwan Hospital, was detained by Israeli forces. Reports indicate he is being held inside a notorious torture facility, but Israeli...
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Sharona Weiss @heathersharona.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
Wow - yet another reason to avoid Amazon, since it shouldn’t take bad publicity to give people something so basic!
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Sharona Weiss @heathersharona.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
Did it occur to the researchers here that "increasing sense of shared destiny" by Palestinians with citizenship likely just means a shared sense of doom, that their futures have been forcibly bound? Not "coexistence." 🤔 www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_ent...
timesofisrael.com
Arab Israelis show increasing sense of ‘shared destiny’ with Jews and Israel – study
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Nick Knudsen @nickknudsenus.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Especially when he spends all day shitposting online.
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Sharona Weiss @heathersharona.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
I’ve returned to the US & am daily reminded how the US glorifies corporate power in every way. Why has this murder been given such prominence in the media while the lives of so many Americans killed by violence or by a failing health system receive no such attention & are treated as disposable?
cnn.com
Health care CEO shooting suspect was Ivy League graduate who appears to have written about Unabomber online | CNN
The suspect police are questioning in the slaying of the UnitedHealthcare CEO is an Ivy League graduate software engineer from a prominent Baltimore family who appears to have favorably reviewed the m...
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The Nation Magazine @thenation.com · 09/12/2024
A patchwork of volunteer-run mutual aid organizations has sprung up to tackle the severe problems facing people fleeing genocide.
bit.ly
The Underground Network Helping Gazan Refugees Survive in Egypt
A patchwork of volunteer-run mutual aid organizations has sprung up to tackle the severe problems facing people fleeing genocide.
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Sharona Weiss @heathersharona.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Moral Mondays are starting again👇 #moralmondays #ncpol #mobilize
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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.lol · 05/12/2024
Pete Hegseth has vowed to stop drinking and raping women and is getting his mom to call senators asking them to give him a job as [checks notes] Secretary of Defense. The Hegseths are the family of party values.
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Sharona Weiss @heathersharona.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Just like all “strong, capable” (i.e. preppy elite frat) boys, mommy paved the way.
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