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Afif Aqrabawi
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Afif Aqrabawi
@AjAqrabawi
An anomaly | Neuroscientist trained @MIT & @UofT | Palestinian-Canadian | مُسْلِم | The brain, chaos, politics, art, finance | اطلبوا العلم ولو بالصين
Joined November 2019
- This passport belonged to a 6 year old child from Gaza. Look at the date of the tweet — 2014. Israel’s genocide did not begin on Oct 7.Most Gazans don't have passports as the siege and poverty makes traveling unlikely. But when they do it's like this!
- They don’t want their hostages.JUST IN: 🇮🇱 Israel rejects ceasefire agreement proposed by Egypt and Qatar. This is the same agreement Hamas accepted.
- Tel Aviv getting bombedWhat massively improved your mental health
- He’s already in Israel by nowUPDATE: Shooter who killed Charlie Kirk remains at large
- Zionists rely on their media influence, wealth, and connections to discredit, smear, and intimidate anyone who dares to challenge their worldview. In the past 12 hours alone, my phone has been inundated with death threats, attacks on my livelihood, and calls for my
- I speak against the 75-year brutal occupation of my people, the inhumane system of Apartheid, the ongoing genocide in Gaza, our ethnic cleansing from historic Palestine, and our collective punishment all over the world. I will not be intimidated by baseless accusations ofMIT Post Doctoral Student Afif Aqrabawi - imagine being Jewish student and having this raging antisemite as your TA. And to add insult to injury, you make a complaint to your DEI office and you’re ignored, all while paying approximately $82,000 a year in total tuition.
00:12You won't be prepared for how she says hummus.- Please consider that snipers are weapons intended for accuracy.Israeli army snipers kill a child in Gaza.
00:00 - By Netanyahu’s logic, the Holocaust never happened, because millions of Jews survived and it took six years.⚡️🇮🇱JUST IN: Israeli PM Netanyahu: "If we had wanted starvation, if that had been our policy, then two million Gazans wouldn't be alive today..Same thing as genocide - If we wanted to commit genocide, it would've taken exactly one afternoon."
- A soldier shot this 2-year old in the chest today. She didn’t lose her life in an airstrike—she wasn’t “collateral damage” in the fight against Hamas—but the victim of an Israeli who aimed his gun at her tiny heart and pulled the trigger. Excuse my antisemitism.The Israeli occupation killed this innocent child Nour Morsi in northern Gaza.
- Thieves, shamelessly proclaiming their theft, secure in the knowledge that the law dares not apply to them.Mount Hermon no longer belongs to Syria. It belongs to Israel.
- Yesterday during a lab meeting, my mentor informed me that I may no longer progress in my career due to my so-called 'infamy.' I was told that I was to blame for the challenges I've been facing in publishing my work—that my 'negative' political activism might be provoking the
- Seems like a good time to remind everyone what Israel’s Mossad openly admitted just six months ago: ‘We create a pretend world. We are a global production company. We write the screenplay. We’re the directors. We’re the producers. We’re the main actors. The world is our stage.’
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