#the platform keeps proving itself to be an irreplaceable community network no matter what the muskrat does

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I really hope people are actually following Motaz Azaiza, Bisan Owda, Saleh Aljafarawi, Plestia Alaqad, Ismail Jood etc. They're on Twitter, TikTok and IG.

Boosting this with some personal recommendations (feel free to tell me if there's a problem with any of them). Twitter is the real information super highway for me, and there's a general mix of accounts I've been following for a while now that leads me to Palestnian and pro-Palestinian commentators. I recommend Mondoweiss, Intercept, Novara Media, the Nation, MintPress news, Middle East Eye (Mouin Rabbani's twitter threads are amazing), War Monitor and Al-Jazeera. Quds News Network is affiliated with Hamas, so I expect some amount of resistance propaganda, but they're invaluable for live coverage and platforming activists. I follow Haaretz with some caution because it's Israeli, but they are the newspaper that supported Gideon Levy's career and they're doing a lot to challenge Israel's narratives internally, especially about Oct 7th, and giving material for pro-Palestinian leftists and convincing liberal audiences.

Palestinians Twitter accounts: Sally Abed, Hebh Jamal, Ihab Hassan, Ghada Sasa, Taleed El Sabawi, Lexi Alex, Yara Eid, Bisan Owda, Hind Khaudary, Omar El Farez (@3lfares), Mariam Barghouti

General activist/ analyst accounts: Mouin Rabbani, Kiran Kaur Grewal, Sana Saeed, Shailja Patel, Imani Barbarin, Mis Leading (@FaatiTheStreet), Nora Erakat, Chardine Taylor Stone, Ash Sarkar, Amanda Gelender, Muhammed Shehada, Alana Lentin, Jairo I. Fúnez-Flores. @bloglikeanegyptian on Tumblr also does excellent Palestine advocacy.

It's been pretty exhausting because there's a large contingent of vocal pro-Palestine accounts who are also pro-Russia and pro-China. I can only assume that their main problem with imperialism and genocide is that it's the wrong flavour. Amplifying these people is silencing their victims, and liberation can never be built on the bodies of other oppressed people. Zionists are going to learn this the hard way. I'm not going to follow in their footsteps.

In Palestine tag an OP was sneering at a tweet that warned that alt-right groups and other bad faith actors were now jumping on the pro-Palestine movement. Two posts below that someone had uploaded a video of ANDREW TATE advocating for Palestine against Piers Morgan. A pedophile sex trafficker is exploiting the trauma of a people being genocided to amass his following of Muslim incels. I want to throw up. We need to warn people to be more careful about who they're amplifying.

Oh my gosh I fucking hate him can he shut the fuck up.

I think a lot of Palestinians, though, kinda are annoyed with the idea that all the information on the side of Palestinians *is* "disinformation" or "bad actors" because a lot of the time the idea is weaponized against PALESTINIANS who are trying to provide as accurate information as possible.

I do agree, watch who you retweet/reblog. Andrew Tate is. Not a good guy. But to say that its a problem unique to information about Palestine is inaccurate and dismisses the journalism and information networks of Palestinians themselves. Which is another reason why I say to try and center Palestinians — we do try to be as accurate as possible or point you to sources we know value accuracy.

So yes! Please do look to Palestinians for information. Many of us try to either only reblog/retweet things we've heard actual information about or know to be reputable sources. Our sources are on the ground, and we know the way the Israeli army works against Palestinians from past aggressions.

Here are some Palestinians I recommend checking out on tumblr:

I might make a post about who I look to for information on twitter if people want though.