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noralestermurad.bsky.social @noralestermurad.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Authoritarianism Leads Teachers to Self-Censor. Solidarity Lets Us Teach Truth. truthout.org/articles/aut... @jessehagopian.bsky.social @truthout.org @zinnedproject.bsky.social
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Authoritarianism Leads Teachers to Self-Censor. Solidarity Lets Us Teach Truth.
A Zinn Education Project survey reveals how collective struggle helps educators resist political intimidation.
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noralestermurad.bsky.social @noralestermurad.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
If you still doubt that Israel & the US are engaged in genocide, apartheid, ethnic cleansing, & colonization, then read this ONE from top to bottom & try to defend the the brutality using facts -- without lying or attacking the messenger. I dare you. electronicintifada.net/blogs/nora-b...
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Israel murders journalist, bombs passenger van in Gaza
Jewish settlers pour boiling water on elderly Palestinian man during pogrom attack in occupied West Bank.
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noralestermurad.bsky.social @noralestermurad.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Story picked up by @theguardian.com @literaryhub.bsky.social @lamag.bsky.social @publisherswkly.bsky.social and others. Will it be enough to send a message that censorship of Palestinians manufactures consent for genocide and will not be tolerated!
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noralestermurad.bsky.social @noralestermurad.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
laborforpalestine.net/2025/12/15/v... @seiuca.org
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Viewpoint: SEIU California Sits Out Fight Against Classroom Censorship (Labor Notes)
Viewpoint: SEIU California Sits Out Fight Against Classroom Censorship December 15, 2025 / Larry Bradshaw, Anne Wolf, and Noga Wizansky Members of SEIU Local 1021 and the California Faculty Associa…
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noralestermurad.bsky.social @noralestermurad.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
"77 delegations leave UN hall before Netanyahu speech, drawing widespread reaction" says @middleeastmonitor.bsky.social My question: Why only 77? www.middleeastmonitor.com/20260924-77-... #EndTheGenocide #FreePalestine #EqualityNotSupremacy
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77 delegations leave UN hall before Netanyahu speech, drawing widespread reaction
The mass departure of 77 delegations from the UN General Assembly hall shortly before Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech sparked widespread reaction on social media, with user…
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Emmaia Gelman @mishmoshk.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Looking critically at the ADL helps demystify so many strands of racial supremacism & repression. This table of contents is an absolute feast of rebel ideas.❤️‍🔥 @charlotteerosen.bsky.social @deanspade.bsky.social @stoplapdspying.bsky.social @noralestermurad.bsky.social @dylanrodriguez.bsky.social
Table of contents, full text here: https://www.plutobooks.com/product/the-anti-defamation-league/Table of contents 2Table of contents 3
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noralestermurad.bsky.social @noralestermurad.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
An absolutely remarkable #MustRead story by Qassam Muaddi in @mondoweiss.net
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noralestermurad.bsky.social @noralestermurad.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
An incredible & uplifting story of archiving & resistance to erasure. Respect to all the forward-thinking scholars & activists that made this happen & to Raja Shehadeh for sharing his amazing life. arablit.org/2026/09/10/u... @matthewteller.com @oliviasnaije.bsky.social @arablit.bsky.social
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University of Edinburgh Welcomes Raja Shehadeh Archive
Palestinian author and human rights lawyer Raja Shehadeh’s archive documenting more than six decades of life in Palestine has arrived for safekeeping at two universities in the United Kingdom
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noralestermurad.bsky.social @noralestermurad.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Documents Reveal Trail of Unreported Millions From Israeli Military to U.S. Universities open.substack.com/pub/dropsite... This is crazy!! @mazmhussain.bsky.social @dropsitenews.com
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Documents Reveal Trail of Unreported Millions From Israeli Military to U.S. Universities
Research funding by Israel’s Ministry of Defense and arms manufacturers often fails to appear in national databases intended to track foreign funding.
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TIM / Together for an Inclusive Massachusetts @inclusivemass.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Learn more about TIM and it's mission here: linktr.ee/TogetherForI...
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Together for an Inclusive Mass | Linktree
Include everyone by addressing antisemitism using an antiracist framework!
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noralestermurad.bsky.social @noralestermurad.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
truthout.org/articles/my-...
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My Favorite Teacher Survived the War on Gaza But Didn’t Survive the “Ceasefire”
Manar Lubbad changed many lives. She was among over 1,100 Palestinians who’ve been killed since the so-called ceasefire.
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noralestermurad.bsky.social @noralestermurad.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Apparently an investigation found that San Jose, CA public schools didn't discriminate against Jews by asking whether Hamas members are terrorists or freedom fighters. But how is it that no one thought to ask whether the question is racist against Palestinians? www.jns.org/news/u-s-new...
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SCOOP: District says San Jose public school didn’t discriminate in assignment asking if Hamas members are terrorists or freedom fighters
“Disagreement with instructional judgment alone does not establish discrimination or harassment,” the Campbell Union High School District found.
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noralestermurad.bsky.social @noralestermurad.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
In other words, #Maine rabbis urge politicians to stop telling the truth. #shame "Maine rabbis call for peace, urge politicians to stop calling Gaza war a ‘genocide’" forward.com/fast-forward...
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Maine rabbis call for peace, urge politicians to stop calling Gaza war a ‘genocide’
The statement comes after a number of candidates in Maine’s Democratic Senate primary adopted the term
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noralestermurad.bsky.social @noralestermurad.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
"Who Rebuilds Gaza? Indigenous Reconstruction and Resistance" by Nour Joudah and Dena Qaddumi @alshabaka.bsky.social al-shabaka.org/roundtables/...
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Who Rebuilds Gaza? Indigenous Reconstruction and Resistance | Al-Shabaka
Nour Joudah and Dena Qaddumi explore how Indigenous frameworks reshape prevailing understandings of urbanism, reconstruction, and governance
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noralestermurad.bsky.social @noralestermurad.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
#education #teachers #students Palestinians study through the genocide www.palestinedeepdive.com/p/the-studen... @palestinedeepdive.bsky.social by Ahmed Dremly
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The Students Who Walk Through War to Learn
Across Gaza, students walk for hours through bombed streets, risking hunger and Israeli airstrikes to reach classrooms, find an internet connection and hold on to the possibility of a future.
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noralestermurad.bsky.social @noralestermurad.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
#poem www.vashtimedia.com/the-caravan-... #FreePalestine @vashtimedia.bsky.social
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The Caravan Never Arrives Alone
A poem from Masafer Yatta.
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noralestermurad.bsky.social @noralestermurad.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
THIS is what we must teach and learn on the "Fourth of July" and every damn day. truthout.org/articles/the...
truthout.org
The Anti-Indigenous Slur in the Declaration of Independence Speaks Volumes
The US Declaration of Independence frames Indigenous resistance as aggression and colonial violence as self-defense.
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noralestermurad.bsky.social @noralestermurad.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
A moving tribute to Dr Marwan Al Sultan. substack.com/@alaadmeida/... How many lifetimes will it take to grieve all the people murdered by Israel in Gaza? How many generations will it take to recreate the brilliance and beauty that Israel destroys with its wanton violence?
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Dr. Marwan Al-Sultan’s Life Was Devoted to Gaza. His Legacy Still Guides Us
He chose Gaza when the world offered him prestige, and he served his people until his final breath. One year after his assassination, Dr. Marwan Al-Sultan’s legacy remains impossible to erase.
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noralestermurad.bsky.social @noralestermurad.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
"Gaza's Children Put the International Legal Order on Trial" by @vijayprashad.bsky.social @laprogressive.bsky.social www.laprogressive.com/foreign-poli... #EndTheGenocide #FreePalestine
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Gaza’s Children Put the International Legal Order on Trial
If tens of thousands of children can be killed while global institutions continue largely as normal, the promises of the Genocide Convention and Geneva Conventions may be losing their meaning.
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noralestermurad.bsky.social @noralestermurad.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
www.dropsitenews.com/p/israel-bom...
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Israel Bombs Palestinians in Beach Tents in Gaza
“This area is made up of tents sheltering civilians—displaced people, people who lived through oppression, humiliation, famine, war and siege. And the whole place was bombed.”
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noralestermurad.bsky.social @noralestermurad.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Genocide isn't only labor camps. It can look like this: truthout.org/articles/isr...
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Israel Has Engineered a Deadly Shortage of Medications and Health Care in Gaza
A Palestinian doctor in Gaza says the territory is facing its worst medication shortage since Israel began the genocide.
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noralestermurad.bsky.social @noralestermurad.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
While the world watches FIFA, open.substack.com/pub/deepdive...
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The Quiet Killer in Gaza
As hospitals collapse and hunger spreads, a respiratory outbreak exposes Gaza's deepening health catastrophe.
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noralestermurad.bsky.social @noralestermurad.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
#MediaComplicity www.vashtimedia.com/centre-left-... by @hamzayusuf.bsky.social in @vashtimedia.bsky.social #EndTheGenocide
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How the centre-left media legitimised a genocide
An interview with journalist and media analyst Adam H. Johnson.
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noralestermurad.bsky.social @noralestermurad.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Congratulations to @rethinkingschools.bsky.social for winning a well-deserved education award from the Independent Book Publishers Association for the groundbreaking book, "Teaching Palestine: Lessons, Stories, Voices." www.ibpabookaward.org/winners-educ... #Hurray
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Winners: Education | IBPA Book Award
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noralestermurad.bsky.social @noralestermurad.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
#California law AB 715 is a disaster for #education explains Dr. Tricia Gallahgher-Guersten of the University of California #EthnicStudies Council ethnicstudiescouncilatuc.substack.com/p/the-end-of... #FreedomToTeach #RightToLearn
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The End of Education is Here
The Disaster that is California's AB 715
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noralestermurad.bsky.social @noralestermurad.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
CA bill (715) chills teaching and speech, just as we feared. www.counterpunch.org/2026/05/20/c... by Marcy Winograd @counterpunchmedia.bsky.social @codepink.bsky.social
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Censorship Rocks Los Angeles School District--"Teachers Told to Remove Palestine & BLM Flags"
Censorship Rocks Los Angeles School District--"Teachers Told to Remove Palestine & BLM Flags" The second largest school district in the country has
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noralestermurad.bsky.social @noralestermurad.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
The far-reaching impacts of these strategic dispossession actions cannot be overstated. “US and Israel 'actively working' to strip Jordan of Al-Aqsa custodianship, sources say” www.middleeasteye.net/news/palesti...
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Exclusive: US and Israel 'actively working' to strip Jordan of Al-Aqsa custodianship, sources say
The plan has sparked fears that Jordan's role in Jerusalem could be sidelined in favour of a new arrangement aligned with Israeli interests
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Author Padma Venkatraman @padmatv.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
Thank you @noralestermurad.bsky.social for putting together this anthology and sending all the proceeds to suffering citizens of 🇵🇸
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noralestermurad.bsky.social @noralestermurad.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Anti-Zionist Jewish Students and Faculty Threaten Legal Action at NYU - CounterPunch.org www.counterpunch.org/2026/05/06/a... @counterpunchmedia.bsky.social @palestinelegal.bsky.social @nyufsjp.bsky.social
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noralestermurad.bsky.social @noralestermurad.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
"Muzzling" at US campuses. What a word. electronicintifada.net/blogs/michae... by Michael F. Brown @intifada.bsky.social
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noralestermurad.bsky.social @noralestermurad.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
Taleb Dweik's A Thousand Moons of Jerusalem #art in Jerusalem Story. Delicious. www.jerusalemstory.com/en/photo-alb...
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A Thousand Moons of Jerusalem
Where is Jerusalem?
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noralestermurad.bsky.social @noralestermurad.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Remember Gaza? “The Occupation’s Conditions”: Trump’s Board of Peace Demands that Hamas Surrender to Netanyahu’s Gaza Agenda" @dropsitenews.com @jeremyscahill.com and Jawa Ahmad open.substack.com/pub/dropsite...
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“The Occupation’s Conditions”: Trump’s Board of Peace Demands that Hamas Surrender to Netanyahu’s Gaza Agenda
As Israel threatens to resume full-scale genocide in Gaza, Palestinian resistance leaders spoke to Drop Site about deceptive negotiations and the push to disarm.
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noralestermurad.bsky.social @noralestermurad.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
@arnorosenfeld.bsky.social Your newsletter about swastikas left me with two questions:
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noralestermurad.bsky.social @noralestermurad.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Demand action from your government! #HoldIsraelAccountable freedomflotilla.org/2026/05/18/i... @freedomflotilla.bsky.social
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Israel Illegally Attacked and Boarded FFC Boats in International Waters - Freedom Flotilla
The largest civilian flotilla in the history of support for Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank was illegally attacked and boarded by Israeli navy forces, beginning at 10:30am Türkiye time, Monday,...
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noralestermurad.bsky.social @noralestermurad.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
The profound internal contradiction that could spell doom for Hillel forward.com/opinion/8254...
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The profound internal contradiction that could spell doom for Hillel
Students don't want campus Jewish life to come with a strictly enforced political agenda
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noralestermurad.bsky.social @noralestermurad.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Fantastic reporting about the Anti-Defamation League's (ADL) "grading" of @calpolyslo.bsky.social by @sadiedittenber.bsky.social. www.sanluisobispo.com/news/local/e...
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ADL raised Cal Poly’s failing antisemitism grade. Jewish students say it’s still unfair
The Anti-Defamation League has boosted the university’s grade from an F to C, but several Jewish students and community members still say it doesn’t reflect their campus experience.
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noralestermurad.bsky.social @noralestermurad.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Stunning and devastating. Haya Abu Shammala's #mustread gift to the world about being outside of Gaza during the genocide. arablit.org/2026/05/12/t... Like I said, it's a #mustread. @arablit.bsky.social
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The Loneliness of the Spared
“I am a walking dissonance, a transmission without a terminal.”
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noralestermurad.bsky.social @noralestermurad.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Did anyone NOT see this coming? forward.com/news/antisem... @arnorosenfeld.bsky.social
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The great antisemitism rug pull
Just as major Jewish leaders started working with the conservative movement — and burning bridges with liberals — MAGA has decided that Jews may not belong in their coalition after all
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noralestermurad.bsky.social @noralestermurad.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Hmm. Doesn't sound like a just a "re-brand" to me! "Middlebury College Hillel votes to rebrand, distancing from parent group on Israel" forward.com/news/824410/...
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Middlebury College Hillel votes to rebrand, distancing from parent group on Israel
Hillel International said it is reviewing its affiliation with the Vermont liberal arts college in response
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noralestermurad.bsky.social @noralestermurad.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
The National Endowment for the Humanities has ghosted me for months about my FOIA request. theintercept.com/2026/05/09/d... @laurenharkawik.bsky.social
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Dodging FOIA Could Now Mean Arrest and Strip Search, Depending on Who’s Asking
The Justice Department is now treating evading a records request as a crime, a stunning act of hypocrisy from the Trump administration.
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noralestermurad.bsky.social @noralestermurad.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Important article, though it overstates the relevance court rulings. Courts are slow & political. If evidence proves wrongdoing (Israeli settler violence), don’t facilitate financial transactions. Where’s Trump’s evidence against SPLC? theintercept.com/2026/05/08/s...
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Big Finance Might Be Dooming the SPLC — Even Before Its Day in Court
Fidelity, Charles Schwab, and Vanguard are tamping down on the Southern Poverty Law Center’s donations, acting as the government’s de facto censors.
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noralestermurad.bsky.social @noralestermurad.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
stonybrookworker.com/issues/nygw-...
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Interview with Michael Letwin from Labor for Palestine | New York Graduate Worker
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noralestermurad.bsky.social @noralestermurad.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Christian Zionism + Jewish Zionism = Right Wing Zionism! www.dropsitenews.com/p/christian-...
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Prominent Christian Zionist Group Is Lobbying U.S. Lawmakers on Israel—Without Revealing It's Funded by Israel
This week, Eagles’ Wings is spearheading a push on Capitol Hill against Israel’s public relations crisis. They don’t disclose their $700,000 Israeli check.
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noralestermurad.bsky.social @noralestermurad.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Massafer Yatta. Repression far beyond what the media reports. www.vashtimedia.com/our-children... @vashtimedia.bsky.social by Hanady Hathaleen
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Our children are carrying far more than just their backpacks
For over two weeks, the Israeli occupation has denied the children of Umm al-Khair access to their school.
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noralestermurad.bsky.social @noralestermurad.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Zionist Doxxing Campaigns Upended Their Lives. Now They’re Suing for Damages. Go CAIR! truthout.org/articles/zio... @mariannedhe.bsky.social @truthout.org
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Zionist Doxxing Campaigns Upended Their Lives. Now They’re Suing for Damages.
Canary Mission faces a class-action lawsuit under a new Illinois anti-doxxing law.
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noralestermurad.bsky.social @noralestermurad.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
We used to say “Have a nice day.” Now we say, “Stay safe.”
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noralestermurad.bsky.social @noralestermurad.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
Two and half years without proper education. Gazans are not giving up, but kids are suffering. www.palestinedeepdive.com/p/education-... @palestinedeepdive.bsky.social
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Education Under Fire in Gaza
As Gaza’s schools collapse, children struggle to learn while new, controversial alternatives emerge
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noralestermurad.bsky.social @noralestermurad.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
#censorship by @lapubliclibrary.bsky.social www.laprogressive.com/civil-libert... @laprogressive.bsky.social @jenanmatari.bsky.social
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Inside the Los Angeles Public Library’s Cancelation of a Palestinian Event
A canceled author event reveals how modern censorship works—not through bans, but through quiet decisions about who gets to speak in public space.
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noralestermurad.bsky.social @noralestermurad.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Israel's genocidal strategy has always included divide & conquer, incl funding & enabling Palestinian violence against Palestinians. It effectively breaks down community solidarity & resilience & weakens people's ability to protect another alive. open.substack.com/pub/dropsite... @dropsitenews.com
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Israeli-Backed Militia Launches Deadly Attack on Gaza Refugee Camp Under Cover of Airstrikes
“We were shocked when [they] entered the neighborhood and began firing at people’s homes and at the children inside those homes.”
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noralestermurad.bsky.social @noralestermurad.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Palestinian "Land Day" by Adalah mailchi.mp/adalah/news-...
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50th Anniversary of Land Day: Israel is Reshaping Land Realities for Palestinians
Today, 30 March 2026, Palestinians mark the 50th anniversary of Land Day, commemorating the violent and deadly suppression of protests in 1976 that followed Israel’s confiscation of thousands of dunam...
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