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Sophia Ponders

@sophiaponders.bsky.social
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I am an artist, writer and singer. Pro-Sanity, Pro-Earth, Anti-Capitalist, Anti-war, Covid is not over, Interfaith, Human Rights, Free Alaa, & Free Palestine!! 🤍❤️🖤💚

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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
I will never regret being part of the movement to free Alaa Abd el-Fattah, or writing the foreword to his extraordinary book, You Have Not Yet Been Defeated. Read his honest and heartfelt response to those playing politics with his hard-won freedom. #FreeAlaa Always. freealaa.net/alaa-response
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Statement in response to historic tweets
I am shaken that, just as I am being reunited with my family for the first time in 12 years, several historic tweets of mine have been republished and used to question and attack my integrity and valu...
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Jewish Voice for Peace @jvp.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
“We’re beginning to glimpse what fascism looks like amid the wreckage of history, with all its ironies and absurdities. But an urgent question remains unanswered: what, in that same wreckage, might antifascism look like?”
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damniel spookradski @self.agency · 10/05/2025
The righteous know the suffering of the poor; the wicked do not have such concerns. —Mishlei 29:7
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Sophia Ponders @sophiaponders.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
Oliver Elias - cousin of Anne Frank- speaks out for #Gaza. No to #GazaGenocide #NeverAgainIsNow
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Sophia Ponders @sophiaponders.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
The things I've been seeing in Gaza since the genocide resumed are horrific. Dead babies every day again now. Whole families killed. In Eid clothes. Murdered Red Cross workers in a mass grave. Ppl having to evacuate Rafah again. Also, all bread kitchens are going to run out of flour in a few days 😔💔
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Sophia Ponders @sophiaponders.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
9 more people were killed in Gaza today. They were journalists and aid workers. Now the state is targeting people in Rafah.
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Sophia Ponders @sophiaponders.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
I hate this world.
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Sophia Ponders @sophiaponders.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
🚨They just abducted and incarcerated another student from Columbia University that was at the protests last year. The second student is also Palestinian.
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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 14/03/2025
"Never Again for Anyone": 100 Jewish Activists Arrested at Trump Tower Protesting Mahmoud Khalil Arrest
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“Never Again for Anyone”: Jewish Activists Arrested at Trump Tower Protesting Mahmoud Khalil Arrest
Over 300 protesters with the group Jewish Voice for Peace flooded the lobby of Trump Tower in New York on Thursday wearing red shirts saying “Not in Our Name.” They demanded the immediate release...
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Maryam Aldossari @maryamaldossari.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Since @ajenglish.bsky.social won’t explain why my article was removed, I’ve uploaded it on Substack. Published on March 8, gone by March 9—without a word. Read it here: open.substack.com/pub/maryamal...
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International Women’s Day is for the few, not the many
Today, there will be an attempt to erase Palestinian women once again because their plight is politically inconvenient for Western feminism
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Sophia Ponders @sophiaponders.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Katherine Franke (@ProfKFranke) , a retired member of the Columbia Law Faculty: 🚨This is very important. Today #ColumbiaUniversity was given a ransom note by the Trump administration. A ransom note. The ransom note itself is here: drive.google.com/file/d/12ogIcv…youtu.be/rrXAmszIoEs?..
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Columbia is given a ransom note
Columbia University was given a ransom note from the Trump administration.
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Sophia Ponders @sophiaponders.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
This is dangerous&threatening talk. What does she have to hide?!? She's 8 mos pregnant for Gods sake&the President put a target&smear on her husband's back&whole family for peaceably assembling&1A. Loomer and a whole group chat of Z's on Xitter want to track/doxx Khalil's wife now!!
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
NEW from Columbia: the school has issued multi-year suspensions, “temporary” degree revocations, and expulsions related to the student occupation of Hamilton Hall (Hind’s Hall). The school often invokes its history of student demonstration—including the 1968 occupation of the same hall.
Columbia email announcing punishment of students occupying Hamilton Hall (Hind’s Hall)
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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 13/03/2025
Mahmoud Khalil’s views on antisemitism recorded in a CNN interview. Here’s what he said to Wolf Blitzer on April 29, 2024:
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Sophia Ponders @sophiaponders.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
200% tariffs on French wine and champagne. Drink it while you can. "Get in loser, we're going back to 1798."
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Sophia Ponders @sophiaponders.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
While Trump was signing Alien invasion act of 1798- the NYPD were simultaneously arresting all of the Jews protesting against Khalil's forced disappearance, calling for ceasefire& a call for being against N.zis, not antiwar activists. I'm sure this coincidence should not be alarming at all either.
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Sophia Ponders @sophiaponders.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
The Alien Enemies Act of 1798? *Checks history* Are we in WW11 again? Is he going to lock up or deport Japanese, German, and Italian nationals and citizens that don't agree with this? Or maybe we are in 1798 on the brink of war with France? WTH. 😵‍💫
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talia jane @taliajane.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
“We will not comply. Mahmoud, we are on your side!” hundreds of Jews and allies chant inside Trump Tower in midtown Manhattan in protest against the ICE detention of Mahmoud Khalil.
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Sophia Ponders @sophiaponders.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
BREAKING: Hundreds of Jews and allies have taken over Trump Tower chanting “We want justice, you say how. Bring Mahmoud home now!” and “Fight Nazis, not students.” The civil disobedience is spawned by the ICE arrest of Palestinian student Mahmoud Khalil.
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Sophia Ponders @sophiaponders.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
It's already been tested and is happening. Yale Law student Helyeh Doutaghi was just Suspended for Pro-Palestine Speech by AI: Her Statement on Yale Law School’s Embrace of AI-Generated Smears 1/3
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damniel spookradski @self.agency · 13/03/2025
israel says the things we all watched them do on tiktok and telegram are blood libels, including the bombing below
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‘Blood libel’: Israel slams UN report claiming it committed ‘genocidal acts’ in Gaza
Israeli officials, women's groups accuse UN panel of bias and antisemitism for alleging Israeli forces 'intentionally destroyed' fertility center and perpetrated sexual violence
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Sophia Ponders @sophiaponders.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Seriously, what in the hell is going on in Elno's head. 😵‍💫
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Sophia Ponders @sophiaponders.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
FYI- if anyone is wondering what the leaders of Saudi Arabia have been doing during Ramadan while Palestinians starve and minorities in Syria are getting killed by 'HTS'- last night NBC Nightly News reported they are in Ukraine. 🤨🫠
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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Silence will not save you. Your silence will NOT save you. I am always infuriated by the American incapacity for collective action but if y'all don't wake up there's really going to be nothing left for anyone.
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Jesse Myerson @jessemyerson.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
This is who they want to portray as an agent of Hamas.
"As a Palestinian student, I believe that the liberation of the Palestinian people and the Jewish people are intertwined and go hand-by-hand and you cannot achieve one without the other," he told CNN last spring when he was one of the negotiators representing student demonstrators during talks with Columbia University's administration.

"Our movement is a movement for social justice and freedom and equality for everyone," he said.
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Sophia Ponders @sophiaponders.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
Please sign this petition: Release Palestinian journalist Ali Abunimah from Swiss detention #freealiabunimah www.change.org/p/release-pa...
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Sign the Petition
Release Palestinian journalist Ali Abunimah from Swiss detention
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Sophia Ponders @sophiaponders.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
Pls donate to help my dear friend Mohmd in Gaza. His wife is 8 mos pregnant- & due to minimized amniotic fluid she needs to have an emergency C-section ASAP. The family needs proper food, clothing&medical treatment to deal with this &welcome their new baby. SHARE🤲🙏 gogetfunding.com/urgent-%e2%8...
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‼️URGENT- HELP MY COUSIN, HIS WIFE AND KIDS SURVIVE IN GAZA
I am Lamees Samhan, help me to help my cousin Mohammad Samhan and his family in Gaza to survive this war. His daughter Sham, 4 years old and his daughter Yasmina 1 year old , are in desperate need for...
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SUPPORTING PALESTINE @apirus.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Western leaders turning a blind eye to Israel’s criminality should all be ousted, never to return again! Thousands of Gazans’ are suffering a hell on earth like this poor woman. Where is humanity?
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Sophia Ponders @sophiaponders.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
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Sophia Ponders @sophiaponders.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
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Naseer Shamma with Master Musicians in Berlin نصير شمه في حفل برلين مع مجموعة من أجمل موسيقيي العالم
YouTube video by Naseer Shamma نصير شمّه
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Sophia Ponders @sophiaponders.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
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I Will Be Your Home (feat. Hassan Al Zoubi)
YouTube video by Audrey Assad - Topic
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Sophia Ponders @sophiaponders.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
Thank God there is a ceasefire starting on Sunday - but as usual the lunatic state is currently trying to kill as many people as they can in Gaza before it goes into effect. My timeline is a mixture of joy and mourning at the same time. May this really end on Sunday. 😩🙏❣️🇵🇸
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Sophia Ponders @sophiaponders.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
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Portishead - Wandering Stars (+ Lyrics)
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Vpol (VocalPolitics) @vocalpolitics.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
In 2024, an average of 41 #Palestinian children per day were killed by #Israel in #Gaza, as its ongoing genocide nears its 16-months mark.
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tamrys.bsky.social @tamrys.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
Gaza is 25miles by 3.7 to 7.5miles. In 15 months, Israel dropped the equivalent of 6 HIROSHIMA NUCLEAR BOMBS on them. That exceeds the ENTIRE combined bombing of Dresden,Hamburg,London & Tokyo in WWII. Tell me again how it's not genocide?? History will be unforgiving #FreePalestine #GazaGenocide
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Sophia Ponders @sophiaponders.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
Just in case we needed more proof that Biden does not have one ounce of morality concerning Palestinians- or regional stability - or international law- he just gave Izrazel 8 BILLION MORE DOLLARS today. 🤬
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Al Quds News Network @alqudsnewsnet.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
A Palestinian child was injured following an Israeli airstrike that targeted a house in the Nuseirat camp in the central Gaza Strip. #Gaza
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Sophia Ponders @sophiaponders.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
Update: So now after denying they are holding him, after already saying they were holding him- they have admitted today that they are holding him again. #WhereIsDrHussam #FreeDrHussamAbuSafiya 🤔😵‍💫 www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Israel confirms it is holding Gaza hospital chief Abu Safiya - BBC News
The IDF had earlier told a local NGO it was unaware of his case, sparking concern.
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Peter Wening @peterwening.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
Palestinian Prisoners' Society #PPS: "The dangers and risks to the fate of Dr. Hussam Abu Saffiyah are only multiplying with time, and particularly after the occupation army denied there being a record of his arrest." #Palestine #Gaza
Danger to fate of Dr. Hussam Abu Saffiyah multiplies after occupation denies arrest

2/1/2025

Palestinian Prisoners' Society (PPS), Ramallah: The dangers and risks to the fate of Dr. Hussam Abu Saffiyah are only multiplying with time, and particularly after the occupation army denied there being a record of his arrest. 

Despite the existence of clear evidence, including videos and testimonies, of Dr. Abu Saffiyah’s arrest on December 27, 2024, the occupation is denying that the doctor is in their custody. 

On January 2, Physicians for Human Rights submitted a request for a lawyer's visit to Dr.  Abu Saffiyah on behalf of his family. The occupation army responded, claiming that “a review found no indication of the arrest of the individual.” Physicians for Human Rights in turn submitted an urgent petition for information about the doctor. 
Three detained doctors from Gaza have been killed by the occupation army since the genocide began in October 2023: Iyad al-Rantisi, Adnan al-Bursh, and Ziad al-Dalu.

Dr. Abu Saffiyah is one of thousands of cases of detainees who were residing in Gaza and were subject to enforced disappearance. He is also one of at least 320 medical personnel who have been arrested by the occupation. The arrests of doctors and the destruction of hospitals are one of the key aspects of the genocide. 

In this context, the PPS holds the occupation fully responsible for the fate of Dr. Abu Saffiyah. The international human rights system must save what remains of its claimed purpose in the face of genocide. Despite the recent decisions by the International Court of Justice and the International Criminal Court, which served as a glimmer of hope, the genocide continues unabated, with crimes of torture against prisoners being one of its main features.
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
Brutal thread
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