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Jessica Montell

@jmontell.bsky.social
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Human rights here in Israel-Palestine and beyond. Spreading signs of HOPE whenever I can. Also Executive Director of HaMoked.org ג'סיקה מונטל

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HaMoked: Center for the Defense of the Individual @hamoked.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
The surviving paramedic of the attack in Rafah, Asaad Nasasra is being held by Israeli authorities in an unnamed facility and denied access to a lawyer. HaMoked filed an urgent habeas corpus petition demanding on his behalf. www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
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After IDF withholds info on Gaza paramedic arrested in Rafah, family appeals to top court
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Jessica Montell @jmontell.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
Thousands tonight in Jerusalem: Yes to Peace Yes to a Deal to Bring All the Hostages Home And an effigy of Netanyahu in an orange prison jumpsuit
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Jessica Montell @jmontell.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
בבקשה תפיצו! Want to come work with me?? Seriously I think this is the best opportunity for an Israeli lawyer who wants to work in human rights. Please share
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Jessica Montell @jmontell.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
I don't make the rules
Street sign: ALL GODS MUST BE KEPT ON A LEASH
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Jessica Montell @jmontell.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
A father & his preschool daughter An elderly man A father and son These are some of the dozens of Palestinians @hamoked.bsky.social is working to locate - people missing after last being seen in the presence of Israeli soldiers in Gaza abcnews.go.com/Internationa...
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These Palestinians disappeared after encounters with Israeli troops in Gaza
Dozens of Palestinians are receiving help from an Israeli legal group in their search for family members who went missing after being separated by Israeli soldiers during raids and arrests in the Gaza...
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Josie Glausiusz @josiegz.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
In Syria, at least 300,000 people have been killed and 100,000 disappeared since 2011. Half the country – about 12 million people – have been displaced from their homes, with about 5.4 million seeking shelter abroad. www.theguardian.com/world/2024/d...
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Syrians celebrate fall of Bashar al-Assad after five decades of dynastic rule
Citizens dream of a better future but some are wary of Islamist groups claiming to represent them
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Jessica Montell @jmontell.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
"The fact that we cannot save everything does not mean we cannot save anything, and everything we can save is worth saving." Words to live by from @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social
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"The fact that we cannot save everything does not mean we cannot save anything, and everything we can save is worth saving"
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Jessica Montell @jmontell.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
Brand new account 👇 Follow HaMoked for news from their day to day work advocating for Palestinians' rights
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Jessica Montell @jmontell.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
אימה ומנהיגה Einav Zangauker is one of the most powerful leaders we have right now in israel AND a mother who has just learned her son is alive after 14 months in Hamas captivity
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Jessica Montell @jmontell.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
"History will judge those sacrificing Israeli hostages for settlements" says Einav Zangauker in Tel Aviv tonight at the protest demanding a ceasefire-hostage deal www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
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Jessica Montell @jmontell.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Love this. "I am on my way with the necessary equipment." It doesn't have to be complicated. Thanks @sbearbergman.bsky.social
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Jessica Montell @jmontell.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
This headline is incomprehensible in Israel: Minister TAKES RESPONSIBILITY and RESIGNS
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Just a little reminder that the South Korean president who just declared martial law was elected two years ago on a wave of anti-feminist backlash. Misogyny is routinely part of the authoritarian package. www.bbc.com/news/world-a...
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Why misogyny is at the heart of South Korea's presidential elections
Disgruntled young men who resent feminism are the focus of candidates vying to be president.
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Jessica Montell @jmontell.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
In 2019, when Hamas was sending "arson balloons" from Gaza into Israel, residents of an Israeli community called the police when they saw this balloon descending. But there was no bomb attached to it, only a note: "We, the children of Gaza, need medical care. Lift the siege".
Report in Israeli newspaper with a picture of a pink balloon
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T'ruah: The Rabbinic Call for Human Rights @truahrabbis.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
From @rabbijilljacobs.bsky.social "High level Israeli officials have testified Netanyahu has abandoned the hostages & torpedoed any attempt to free them. Instead he's continuing the war to advance his political survival & to allow for the reoccupation & resettlement of Gaza."
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For American Jews like me, supporting Israel now means telling the truth about its government - Jewish Telegraphic Agency
It's time to push back on Benjamin Netanyahu's dangerous agenda, writes the head a rabbis' group for human rights.
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Ron Skolnik @ronskolnik.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
"Ethnic cleansing" is being attributed to Netanyahu's gov't - not by some anti-Israel activist, nor even by a leftist "peacenik", but by Netanyahu's former defense minister and former member of Likud, Moshe Ya'alon. www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_ent...
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Netanyahu’s former defense minister Ya’alon: Israeli leadership dragging country down path of ethnic cleansing in Gaza
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Mauricio Lapchik @mauriciolapchik.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
“So much for war, so little for peace.” Another Saturday night protest in TLV. For I don’t know how many months already, week after week, thousands have been calling for an end to this war of destruction and for a hostage deal. Enough.
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Jessica Montell @jmontell.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
TAKE THE DEAL STOP THE WAR Tonight in Jerusalem
Sign: TAKE THE DEAL
STOP THE WAR
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Jessica Montell @jmontell.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
This is my step-stool. I never knew my real stool 😂😂😂😂
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Jessica Montell @jmontell.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
WE MUST FINISH THIS WAR OR THIS WAR WILL FINISH US ALL Billboards around Tel Aviv, by Standing Together
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Peace Now @peacenowisrael.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
From the north to the south. From Gaza to Lebanon. Here, there, and everywhere. Now is the time to stop the war. Now is the time to bring our hostages back. Now is the time to oppose our government's plan to build settlements in Gaza...
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Eliav Lieblich @eliavl.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Nobody, absolutely nobody, could predict that the Netanyahu ICC warrant would become a leverage point in the ceasefire negotiations with Lebanon, and that it would be utilized in such a way. Just reenforces that we can never know the downstream effects of such warrants.
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Jessica Montell @jmontell.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
New poll on Israel's Channel 13 news: 66% of Israelis support ending the war in Gaza & pushing for a hostage deal. 27% support continuing the war. (But our government is controlled by that 27% minority 😭😠)
Screenshot of survey on Channel 13 news
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Eliav Lieblich @eliavl.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
This story says that France is changing its stance on immunity of 3rd party heads of state at the ICC, in return for its involvement in the Lebanon ceasefire deal, which Israel previously vetoed after France stated that it would respect the ICC warrants. www.ynet.co.il/news/article...
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שר החוץ הצרפתי על צו המעצר נגד נתניהו: "למנהיגים מסוימים יכולה להיות חסינות"
בצל הזעם בישראל על התנהלות צרפת במלחמה, שר החוץ הצרפתי נשאל ישירות אם יעצור את נתניהו אם יגיע למדינתו, והשיב כי החוק הבינלאומי "עוסק בשאלות של חסינות על מנהיגים מסוימים. זו בסופו של דבר החלטה של הרשות...
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Jessica Montell @jmontell.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Israel's Highest Moral Imperative Is to Stop the War in Gaza | Ha'aretz Lead Editorial Today www.haaretz.com/opinion/edit...
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Israel's highest moral imperative is to stop the war in Gaza too | Editorial
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Yonatan @yonatans.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
A nice starter pack that will do some work to recreate one of my favorite of @joshtpm.bsky.social 's Xitter lists. go.bsky.app/Q5fbShb
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Jessica Montell @jmontell.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
IT'S TIME To end the war To reach a deal To make peace December 4-9 The People's Peace March with events throughout Israel מסע שלום באמצע מלחמה. עכשיו, דווקא עכשיו. למרות הכל ובגלל הכל. סמנו ביומנים: מסע השלום העממי של הגיע הזמן 4-9.12.24
The people's peace march
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Jessica Montell @jmontell.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
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Jessica Montell @jmontell.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
Ha'aretz journalists have done an incredible job this past year, exposing the human toll of this war, the gov't crackdown on opponents & the extremists' agenda. That's why the Israeli gov't wants to shut them down. www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
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Israeli government imposes sanctions on Haaretz, cuts all ties and pulls advertising
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Jessica Montell @jmontell.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Ifat Kalderon, cousin of hostage Ofer Kalderon, holding his photo at protest in Tel Aviv for a ceasefire deal to release all of the hostages. Credit: Zohar Bar-Yehuda @allhostages.bsky.social
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Joe G @eastendjoe.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Street art perfection!
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Jessica Montell @jmontell.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
I always wanted to make a Starter Pack! 😂 Here are some recommended Israelis & Israel-related posters I've found here so far. Let me know who I'm missing go.bsky.app/Q5fbShb
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Mauricio Lapchik @mauriciolapchik.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Stop the bombings. Stop the war. Stop the massacre. Stop the bloodshed. Enough.
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Jessica Montell @jmontell.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
😂😂😂
Mice in a maze after consulting a "Buddha mouse": he said the true maze is inside us. So, not super helpful
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Jessica Montell @jmontell.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Yay, look who I found here! We all need to watch jellies sometimes
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John Lyndon @johnlyndon.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Congratulations to Rula and May of ALLMEP member A Land for All, for winning inaugural Vivian Silver Impact Award. And thank you Yonatan and Chen. For carrying forward your Mum’s extraordinary legacy and vision. And for being such incredible leaders over the last year, amid such unimaginable loss ❤️💔
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 21/11/2024
ICC issues arrest warrant for Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu
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ICC issues arrest warrant for Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu
Move by international criminal court puts Netanyahu at risk of detention if he travels to certain other countries The international criminal court has issued arrest warrants for the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, the county’s former defence…
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Jessica Montell @jmontell.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
One of so many stories: Mrs al-Faqawi turned to HaMoked to find her husband & son arrested in Gaza in March. Israeli military told us they had no record of the mens' arrest. We petitioned Court & THEN the military said in fact the two men had died in Israeli custody www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
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Gazan father and son died in Israeli custody, family learns after petitioning top court
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Debra Shushan @drshushan.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
BIG NEWS: Biden Admin announces sanctions against AMANA, the development arm of the settlement movement. Amana which has been involved in establishing the majority of West Bank settlements, while providing loans and building infrastructure for new illegal outposts. home.treasury.gov/news/press-r...
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Jessica Montell @jmontell.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
US Treasury sanctions Amana, the most mainstream Israeli settlement organization sanctioned so far.
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Jessica Montell @jmontell.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
The war in Gaza continues with no end in sight. The sense of hopelessness can be overwhelming. But some Israelis are stepping up and speaking out. Here is a thread of just some of the protests against the war happening in Israel this week... 🧵
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Jessica Montell @jmontell.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Tomorrow in Israel's High Court of Justice: Hearing on HaMoked's petition against law revoking residench status of East Jerusalem Palestinians for "Breach of Allegiance to the State of Israel" More on our petition, pending now for 5 years: hamoked.org/document.php...
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Center for the Defence of the Individual - HaMoked petitions the HCJ against Law to revoke status of East Jerusalem Palestinians for “breach of allegiance”: “This is an extreme, unconstitutional law… ...
In March 2018, an amendment to the Entry into Israel Law (Section 11a) entered into effect, authorizing the Minister of Interior to revoke the permanent residency of East Jerusalem Palestinians and ev...
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
NEW: The great Trump-Musk crackdown is coming. And it will hit hard & fast. Journalists will be first. But everyone else is next. I urge you to read my 20 lessons in How to Survive the Broligarchy, inspired by & featuring the great @timothysnyder.bsky.social 1/ www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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How to survive the broligarchy: 20 lessons for the post-truth world | Carole Cadwalladr
In the wake of Trump’s unnerving appointees, the investigative journalist and veteran of the libel court offers pointers on coping in an age of surveillance
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Jessica Montell @jmontell.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
😂😂😂
How would you describe yourself?
Verbally, but I've also prepared an interpretive dance
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Jessica Montell @jmontell.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
TAKE THE DEAL STOP THE WAR GET OUT OF GAZA Protests around Israel tonight, as every Saturday night, to stop this fucking war
Standing Together poster of demonstrations
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Jessica Montell @jmontell.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
An oasis of tranquility in Jerusalem: learning to paint Armenian pottery from the master Hagop Karakashian
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Jessica Montell @jmontell.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
On Twitter no one ever encourages me to post jokes 😂
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Jessica Montell @jmontell.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
What could/should a lame duck Biden do on Israel-Palestine? Plenty, as laid out by Dahlia Scheindlin here (gift link) What WILL he do? I fear nothing 😭 www.haaretz.com/us-news/2024...
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What 'lame duck' Biden can do to stop the Gaza war
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Jessica Montell @jmontell.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
Strong statement of German Foreign Minister on humanitarian situation in Gaza" "At no time in past 12 months has so little help reached Gaza as now. A large proportion of the population is suffering from acute malnutrition, living in unimaginable conditions.." www.auswaertiges-amt.de/en/newsroom/...
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Foreign Minister Baerbock on the humanitarian situation in Gaza
Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock issued the following statement today (10 November) on the humanitarian situation in Gaza: At no time in the past 12 months has so little help reached the Gaza Stri...
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