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Joseph Willits 🍉 🦩🦚🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸🇱🇧

@josephwillits.bsky.social
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Head of Parliamentary Affairs at Caabu (Council for Arab-British Understanding). instagram.com/josephwillits linktr.ee/josephwillits Palestine, Lebanon, Parliament. From between Junction 12/13 of the M6. Not funny, but tweets my own.

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Joseph Willits 🍉 🦩🦚🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸🇱🇧 @josephwillits.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Hi Kris, this is an oversight. As I'm sure you can understand there's a lot going on. I've added some alt text to them below. I hope it's helpful. Will add to further posts.
Pie charts highlighting Caabu's polling on Israel-Palestine conducted by YouGov. The first pie chart indicates that 50% off the British public believe Israel is committing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza. A comment underneath says that only 17% think it isn't. The second pie states that 55% of the British public no longer consider Israel an ally. The third pie states that 62% of those people who voted for the Labour Party in 2024 support a ban on settlement trade, and adds that the total for the British public is 48%.Pie charts highlighting Caabu's polling on Israel-Palestine conducted by YouGov. The first pie chart indicates that 58% of the British public oppose Israel's actions in Gaza. The second pie states that 67% of Labour voters believe Israeli is committing genocide in Gaza. The third pie is that 72% of Labour voters support a ban on all arms sales to Israel. An added comment states that 57% of the British public do overall.
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Joseph Willits 🍉 🦩🦚🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸🇱🇧 @josephwillits.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
50% of British public think that Israel is committing a genocide against Palestinians in Gaza. Only 17% think they're not. 67% of Labour voters. 55% believe the UK should no longer consider Israel an ally. UK needs an overhaul of policy @andyburnham.bsky.social caabu.org/news/press-r...
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Joseph Willits 🍉 🦩🦚🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸🇱🇧 @josephwillits.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Join us at @caabu.bsky.social for this important briefing we're hosting with B'Tselem, to discuss their recent report on the systematic killings of Palestinian children and teenagers by Israel. Thursday 9 July, 4pm UK time (BST). More details and registration here: caabu.org/events/caabu...
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Joseph Willits 🍉 🦩🦚🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸🇱🇧 @josephwillits.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Do join us at @caabu.bsky.social for this important briefing we're hosting with B'Tselem, who will be discussing their recent report on the systematic killings of Palestinian children and teenagers by Israel. Thursday 9 July, 2pm UK time (BST). Details & registration here: caabu.org/events/caabu...
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Joseph Willits 🍉 🦩🦚🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸🇱🇧 @josephwillits.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Do join us for this @caabu.bsky.social online briefing on the ongoing wars in the Middle East on Wednesday 8 April at 6pm (UK time BST), with @drhahellyer.bsky.social, @yezidsayigh.bsky.social and Negin Shiraghaei. Register here: caabu.org/events/caabu...
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Joseph Willits 🍉 🦩🦚🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸🇱🇧 @josephwillits.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Over 1 million people have been forcibly displaced from their homes in Lebanon by Israel, that’s 20% of Lebanon’s population. The Gaza playbook used throughout its genocide against Palestinians is becoming ever more apparent in Lebanon. Please write to your MPs www.instagram.com/reel/DWUJgka...
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Joseph Willits 🍉 🦩🦚🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸🇱🇧 @josephwillits.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
To friends and loved ones of mine, and all those celebrating, a blessed and joyous Eid to you and your loved ones. Eid Mubarak! www.instagram.com/p/DWHN0GGjBh... #eidmubarak
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Joseph Willits 🍉 🦩🦚🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸🇱🇧 @josephwillits.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
"Or that settler violence will be deemed something minor and trivial. The UK Government has recently promised "concrete steps", but what are they? Palestinians and others, including Parliamentarians in the UK, have been waiting for decades to see what action will be taken."
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Joseph Willits 🍉 🦩🦚🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸🇱🇧 @josephwillits.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
My comments: "The ethnic cleansing of Palestinian communities across the occupied West Bank continues at pace, intensifying as Israel carries out its bombing of Iran & Lebanon, & continues its genocide in Gaza, in the hope that its total erasure of Palestinian communities will go unnoticed."
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Joseph Willits 🍉 🦩🦚🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸🇱🇧 @josephwillits.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
119 UK Parliamentarians call for further sanctions on Israel & total ban on all trade & interaction with illegal Israeli settlements, in letter to Foreign Secretary @yvettecooper-mp.bsky.social following more illegal Israeli gov measures in occupied State of Palestine. www.caabu.org/news/news/11...
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Joseph Willits 🍉 🦩🦚🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸🇱🇧 @josephwillits.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
We've launched a Ramadan appeal at @caabu.bsky.social Your donation helps us maintain direct pressure on MPs & ministers, to continue to push UK govt to start to hold Israel accountable for the ongoing genocide & its regime of apartheid against Palestinians. Please donate caabu.org/news/news/ra...
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Joseph Willits 🍉 🦩🦚🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸🇱🇧 @josephwillits.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
On UK complicity in the historic and continued erasure of Palestinians. The Balfour Declaration (one that most of us educated in the UK were never taught about), is a document of historic shame. www.instagram.com/reel/DR0CDip... #Palestine #Gaza
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Joseph Willits 🍉 🦩🦚🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸🇱🇧 @josephwillits.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
Those opposing genocide against Palestinians (the majority of them seemingly pensioners and the elderly), outside the Royal Courts of Justice in London on Wednesday. More images here: www.instagram.com/p/DRh-Um8jIK... With arrests made, the absurdity of this law is yet again laid to bare.
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Joseph Willits 🍉 🦩🦚🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸🇱🇧 @josephwillits.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
80 Parliamentarians demand UK government act to stop Israel's settler violence and forced dispossession of Palestinians in communities like Umm al Khair. caabu.org/news/news/80...
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Joseph Willits 🍉 🦩🦚🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸🇱🇧 @josephwillits.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
There was, until a few minutes ago, a Banksy here on the Royal Courts of Justice www.instagram.com/p/DOVoHlVDMI...
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Joseph Willits 🍉 🦩🦚🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸🇱🇧 @josephwillits.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
Israeli apartheid against Palestinians in death as in life, as occupation forces are still holding the body of our friend, Awdah Hathaleen, preventing the community from burying him. Yet his murderer has freely returned to terrorise Umm al-Khair today www.instagram.com/p/DM7qPQYoW0...
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Joseph Willits 🍉 🦩🦚🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸🇱🇧 @josephwillits.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
My friend Awdah Hathaleen was murdered today by an Israeli settler, in his village, the Palestinian Bedouin community of Umm al Khair. I am heartbroken. Rest in power, Awdah. An Israeli settler (sanctioned by the UK) shot Awdah in the chest. www.instagram.com/p/DMqbmajswn...
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Joseph Willits 🍉 🦩🦚🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸🇱🇧 @josephwillits.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
A really excellent and important panel that we're organising at @caabu.bsky.social on war in the Middle East, with four really excellent speakers, Jasmine El-Gamal, Azadeh Moaveni, Dr H.A. Hellyer and Daniel Levy. Join us, and share among your networks. Registration here: caabu.org/events/caabu...
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Joseph Willits 🍉 🦩🦚🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸🇱🇧 @josephwillits.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Sanctioning two of Israel’s extremist ministers is welcome, but must go further. As many have highlighted, inc Parliamentarians in this letter, more needed to stop genocide in Gaza & pledged intentions to ethically cleanse Palestinians inc in the West Bank www.caabu.org/news/news/96...
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Joseph Willits 🍉 🦩🦚🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸🇱🇧 @josephwillits.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
"As Palestinians face violent erasure, inc Israeli imposed genocide, starvation & ethnic cleansing, the UK gov simply is not doing enough, & an increasing number of parliamentarians are also coming to this realisation." See parliamentarians letter to PM Keir Starmer caabu.org/news/news/96...
Quote from Joseph Willits, Head of Parliamentary Affairs at Caabu (Council for Arab-British Understanding), who says: 

"This letter shows that there is increasing parliamentary support for the UK to take tougher action against Israel. As Palestinians face violent erasure, including Israeli imposed genocide, starvation and ethnic cleansing, the UK government simply is not doing enough, and an increasing number of parliamentarians are also coming to this realisation.

Successive governments cannot claim to not know how communities across the West Bank are being violently dispossessed and forcibly transferred, which many of the signatories have visited. 

What will it take for UK government action to match up with the horrifying situation and systemic violence on the ground, and to act on what parliamentarians, the British public, and most importantly, Palestinians have long been saying? Palestinians deserve an end to these horrors, leading to proper justice and accountability."Letter from 96 UK Parliamentarians who have demanded sanctions on Israel for war crimes against Palestinians and systematic violations of international law, including imposing targeted sanctions, a ban on trade with illegal settlements, and a suspension of the existing UK-Israel trade agreement. Letter from 96 UK Parliamentarians who have demanded sanctions on Israel for war crimes against Palestinians and systematic violations of international law, including imposing targeted sanctions, a ban on trade with illegal settlements, and a suspension of the existing UK-Israel trade agreement. Letter from 96 UK Parliamentarians who have demanded sanctions on Israel for war crimes against Palestinians and systematic violations of international law, including imposing targeted sanctions, a ban on trade with illegal settlements, and a suspension of the existing UK-Israel trade agreement.
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Joseph Willits 🍉 🦩🦚🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸🇱🇧 @josephwillits.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
A privilege to see Application 39, written by @ahmedmasoud02.bsky.social about Gaza as Palestinians continue to endure Israel’s genocide, starvation, atrocity and siege. Lovely that Gary Lineker came and saw this brilliant play, showing his support and solidarity www.instagram.com/p/DKMbUeNid1...
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Joseph Willits 🍉 🦩🦚🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸🇱🇧 @josephwillits.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
At @caabu.bsky.social we've taken 161 British parliamentarians to Palestine since 1997 incl current Cabinet members & ministers, party leaders & chairs of select committees. Such delegations are vital, so little wonder at attempts to deny them meeting Palestinians www.instagram.com/p/DIRIyMSCqv...
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Joseph Willits 🍉 🦩🦚🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸🇱🇧 @josephwillits.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
58% of the UK public are in favour of the UK ending arms sales to Israel, & ending complicity with Israel’s genocide against Palestinians in Gaza. Only 18% opposed. This from a @caabu.bsky.social & @medicalaidpal.bsky.social poll conducted by @yougov.co.uk in August 2024 caabu.org/news/press-r...
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Joseph Willits 🍉 🦩🦚🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸🇱🇧 @josephwillits.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Governments, inc UK, must end complicity in Israel's genocide against Palestinians, & stop producing F35 jets & all arms responsible for so much death & destruction in Gaza & Lebanon. Important letter org by @caatuk.bsky.social that @caabu.bsky.social is a signatory to caabu.org/news/news/ov...
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Joseph Willits 🍉 🦩🦚🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸🇱🇧 @josephwillits.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
These are just some of the reasons why I've added my name. The contempt & hatred for Palestinian learning, education and culture, & the fear of Palestinians holding this in such esteem is stark. This attack cannot be set aside from scholasticide in Gaza. www.caabu.org/news/news/ov...
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Joseph Willits 🍉 🦩🦚🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸🇱🇧 @josephwillits.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Among over 440 people to have signed this, outraged at Israel's arrests of Palestinian booksellers Mahmoud & Ahmad Muna & the attack on the Educational Bookshop in occupied East Jerusalem & the continued campaign of erasure of Palestinians, incl genocidal violence. www.caabu.org/news/news/ov...
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Joseph Willits 🍉 🦩🦚🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸🇱🇧 @josephwillits.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
British-Egyptian writer, Alaa Abd el Fattah is still unjustly imprisoned in Egypt. Alaa’s mother Laila is on day 137 of her hunger strike. Time is running out. Keir Starmer & David Lammy must secure his release. A privilege for us at @caabu.bsky.social to join her protest at Downing St.
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Joseph Willits 🍉 🦩🦚🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸🇱🇧 @josephwillits.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
A Palestinian family of 6 in Gaza, scapegoated & demonised by our political leaders after being given refuge in the UK after enduring Israel’s genocide. UK complicity in this genocide with its arms supplies & apologies, worsened by cruel dehumanisation. I'm ashamed and appalled.
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Joseph Willits 🍉 🦩🦚🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸🇱🇧 @josephwillits.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Palestinian booksellers detained in handcuffs by Israel, Mahmoud & Ahmed Muna of The Educational Bookshop in occupied Jerusalem. This can't be set aside from Israel's scholasticide, destruction of libraries, schools, universities in Gaza. The relentless assault to erase Palestinian life & learning
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Joseph Willits 🍉 🦩🦚🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸🇱🇧 @josephwillits.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
The relentless brutality and cruelty of Israeli apartheid and occupation continues, with the forcible displacement and ethnic cleansing of Palestinians and demolition of their homes, communities and livelihoods in Khalet al-Daba, Masafer Yatta. Palestinians endure this day in day out.
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Joseph Willits 🍉 🦩🦚🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸🇱🇧 @josephwillits.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
If you’re in the UK, demand your MPs take a stand and act to stop Trump’s Palestinian land grab and Israel’s ethnic cleansing of Palestinians through this @medicalaidpal.bsky.social campaign: www.map.org.uk/campaigns/st...
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Joseph Willits 🍉 🦩🦚🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸🇱🇧 @josephwillits.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Appalling response from the Middle East Minister, Hamish Falconer MP.
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Joseph Willits 🍉 🦩🦚🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸🇱🇧 @josephwillits.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
“Isn’t he ashamed that millions of people in this country and around the world believe that there is an inherent racism at the heart of British foreign policy in this regard that says that Palestinian lives matter much less than any other lives, or indeed than Israeli lives? Asks Kit Malthouse MP.
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Joseph Willits 🍉 🦩🦚🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸🇱🇧 @josephwillits.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
A powerful intervention from Kit Malthouse MP on the political failures to end the genocide, ethnic cleansing and horrors for Palestinians in Gaza, and the anti-Palestinian racism so rife, that such horror isn't enough to compel political leaders to act. Shame is all around. (First part of q)
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Joseph Willits 🍉 🦩🦚🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸🇱🇧 @josephwillits.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
Currently exploring legal options against Dr Sara Yael Hirschhorn given her false, defamatory & libellous accusation against me. It’s nonsensical, meaningless guff. There should be a retraction, an apology and it should be deleted, but I doubt it will be issued. www.instagram.com/p/DD2Lvwgiyg...
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Joseph Willits 🍉 🦩🦚🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸🇱🇧 @josephwillits.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
The UK must demand Israel end its unlawful use of force and attacks against Syria, withdraw all armed forces, and end its unlawful presence. All direct & indirect arm transfers to Israel, used against Palestinians, Syrians & Lebanese must be suspended. www.caabu.org/news/news/uk...
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Joseph Willits 🍉 🦩🦚🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸🇱🇧 @josephwillits.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
107 UK Parliamentarians write to Foreign Secretary David Lammy demanding the UK secure the release of British national Alaa Abd el-Fattah from prison in Egypt. His mother Laila Soueif continues her hunger strike. Letter sent by @stellacreasy.bsky.social #FreeAlaa www.caabu.org/news/news/jo...
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Joseph Willits 🍉 🦩🦚🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸🇱🇧 @josephwillits.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
Someone I often think about is Enas al-Sawaf. I worked in the same school as Enas in 2010 in Homs for the short period I lived in Syria. Enas was killed by a regime sniper in her car on 4 November 2011 in Baba Amr, Homs,aged 49. I've written something here: www.linkedin.com/posts/joseph...
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Joseph Willits 🍉 🦩🦚🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸🇱🇧 @josephwillits.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Israel forcibly displaced Syrians from many villages after it occupied the Golan, refusing return. The history of places such as the mainly Alawite villages of ‘Ayn Fit & Za’ura (where pics below are taken) is erased, labelled as "Syrian abandoned town" on Google golan-marsad.org/forcible-tra...
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Joseph Willits 🍉 🦩🦚🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸🇱🇧 @josephwillits.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
I was last in Syria in 2023 in Majdal Shams & other areas of illegally occupied Golan Heights. I saw Jabal al-Shaykh (Mount Hermon) & other areas of Syria & Lebanon. I tasted the best molokhiyya made by Syrian Druze living under Israeli occupation.   This will never be Israel.
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Joseph Willits 🍉 🦩🦚🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸🇱🇧 @josephwillits.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
“Imagine what it’s like to drill into someone’s brain when there are no saws”. Countless haunting testimonies from UK doctors, volunteers in Gaza with @medicalaidpal.bsky.social , Mahim Qureshi, Professor Nizam Mamode, James Smith & Yassar Qureshi on Israeli horrors inflicted on Palestinians.
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Joseph Willits 🍉 🦩🦚🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸🇱🇧 @josephwillits.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
The apologists for war crimes and mass atrocities are being trotted out. More context in this thread on how they tried to whitewash such horrors against Syrians, incl by inviting ex MP Daniel Kawczynski on LBC. To platform them is an affront to the Syrians they brutalised. x.com/josephwillit...
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Joseph Willits 🍉 🦩🦚🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸🇱🇧 @josephwillits.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
As Palestinian journalists in Gaza have targets on their back & are executed by Israel, Jerusalem Pos "journalist" Michael Starr openly confesses to his part in Israel's genocide, murdering a young man in civilian clothes carrying food. Could also be a child. Absolutely horrific. archive.is/5FLzr
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Joseph Willits 🍉 🦩🦚🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸🇱🇧 @josephwillits.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
All the doors of the Assad regime’s human slaughterhouse haven’t yet been opened, & fortress Europe (inc the UK) is already closing theirs to Syrians in dehumanising, racist moves. Plans to deport them in Austria. Hostility to refugees part of our social fabric. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Joseph Willits 🍉 🦩🦚🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸🇱🇧 @josephwillits.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
A hopeful list of survivors of Sednaya prison, Assad’s regime’s elaborate place of torture, a human slaughter house, as people desperately trying to free prisoners from. Updated frequently for Syrians painfully trying to discover loved ones still alive raghadee.github.io/sugeen.githu...
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Joseph Willits 🍉 🦩🦚🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸🇱🇧 @josephwillits.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
It doesn't take long for the racists to come out, telling Syrians in places like the UK & Germany to "go back home" as they celebrate the fall of Assad. Such predictable hatred, incl from those who fake concern & care for Syria & what happens. Something they've done for years.
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Joseph Willits 🍉 🦩🦚🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸🇱🇧 @josephwillits.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
Impossible to not be moved by the scenes of freedom from Homs. This incredible city has endured intense horror & suffering. Thinking of many friends in & from Homs & across Syria, for whom the hope of justice, accountability & return becomes more possible. www.instagram.com/p/DDR6sa9CEV...
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Joseph Willits 🍉 🦩🦚🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸🇱🇧 @josephwillits.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Thinking especially now of those in & from the wonderful city of Homs (a place defining for me since 2010) & across Syria. To those we have lost, have been disappeared or displaced, unable to return home, currently dealing with hope, fear, uncertainty & perhaps return. 📸 taken in 2010.
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Joseph Willits 🍉 🦩🦚🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸🇱🇧 @josephwillits.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Horrifying image of death from Kamal Adwan hospital in northern Gaza after Israeli strikes, the bodies of doctors among those killed. Remember when people said Israel would never bomb a hospital? Israel has systematically dismantled Palestinian healthcare in Gaza, waged a war on healthcare workers
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Joseph Willits 🍉 🦩🦚🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸🇱🇧 @josephwillits.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
My reply to the BBC's unsatisfactory reply back to the complaint about it's erasure & deliberate omission of Jasleen Kaur's personal conviction in solidarity with Palestinians, & very public statements against ongoing genocide in Gaza. & why ignore questions on Melanie Phillips?
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