THREAD 🧵 There are three things in the photo that virtually nobody else sees but me.

THREAD 🧵 There are three things in the photo that virtually nobody else sees but me.

A few might notice the keffiyeh beneath my right leg. It’s from my dad who was driven out of the Galilee in Palestine in 1948 as a child. I told part of his story here:

Sam Husseini@samhusseini · May 15, 2023

🧵 - #Nakba #Nakba75 75 Years of Israel and Zionism's Continuing Ethnic Cleansing of Palestinians Zionist forces drove out hundreds of thousands of Palestinians 75 years ago to create their state. Here's my father's story.

Then there’s the pens and the Expo marker, in memory of the poet Refaat Alareer who was assassinated by imperial Israel on Dec. 6, 2023. See his remarks to @intifada in the video below to understand THE PEN IS MIGHTIER THAN THE SWORD

Electronic Intifada@intifada · Dec 8, 2023

"I'm an academic," Refaat Alareer said on day 3 of Israel’s genocide. "The toughest thing I have at home is an Expo marker. But if the Israelis invade ... I'm going to use that marker to throw it at the Israeli soldiers, even if that is the last thing that I would be able to do."

Finally, there’s my laptops. You see the back of the new one. The old one that you see the screen of has a husseini.org bumper sticker on the back. If I’d planned this out, the bumper sticker would be in the shot...

After I put the bumper sticker on the old laptop, the camera at the State Dept sometimes deliberately avoided showing it in frame, even if it meant zooming in weirdly close to another reporter (and of course there were refusing to call on me).

Decensored News@decensorednews · Jul 17, 2024

Let's help the State Dept out: husseini.org husseini.org husseini.org