THREAD: We told the @nytimes that we would be happy to participate in a piece that centers Palestinian queers and the movement we have built. Instead the NYT chose to erase Palestinian queer orgs and interview zionist Israeli gay organization “The Aguda.”
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Adam Rasgon
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Joined June 2014
- 1/2 Israel's occupation of the West Bank is now more than 53 years old and it has no clear end in sight. We spoke to six ordinary Palestinians about how they have experienced the occupation and its day-to-day indignities Here's our story:
- A little personal news: I recently left @TimesofIsrael after nearly two years. I'll temporarily be working for @nytimes covering Israel and the Palestinian Territories
- The past 1.5 years reporting for the @nytimes has been a tremendous experience, but my time at the paper has come to a close I'm very grateful for the bureau chiefs, editors & colleagues who supported my work @halbfinger, @PatrickKingsley, @herbertnyt, @meslackman & @IKershner
- 🧵1/7 Since late October, Kamal al-Mashharawi, a twenty-four-year-old resident of Gaza City, has sent me texts, voice notes, and videos, chronicling his family’s journey around the Gaza Strip in search of safety.
- After seven amazing years in Israel and the Palestinian territories, I recently started as a fact checker at @NewYorker. I’ll miss regularly reporting about Palestinians and Israelis but I’m excited for this next chapter
- Why did Hamas undertake last Saturday's assault, for so little tangible gain and with such a foreseeably grave cost to Palestinian civilians? In a phone interview, @ddk_nyc and I asked this question of Mousa Abu Marzouk, one of Hamas's most senior leaders
- Severe and critical cases of Covid-19 have hit record highs this week in the blockaded Gaza Strip, a development that health experts attributed to the proliferation of the highly transmissible coronavirus variant first identified in Britain
- Replying to @adamrasgon7/7 Here's the full story of Kamal's journey. (It's an interactive.) It was a team effort to put this piece together. It wouldn't have been possible without @ByDanielAGross, @samwolson and @david_kofahl
- Great to be back at the Times!We’re happy to announce that we’ve added three top-notch, experienced journalists to the Middle East team. nytco.com/press/internat…
- PA government spox Ibrahim Milhem to Palestine TV last night: “We established a joint command center with the Israelis to deal with this contagion”
- Egypt set to reopen Alexandria synagogue Friday after extensive renovation timesofisrael.com/egypt-set-to-r… via @timesofisrael
- 🧵 1/7 A year ago, I was standing at the checkout line of a coconut-themed restaurant in Malibu when @aboxerman1 & I first chatted abt profiling Hussein al-Sheikh, one of P.A. Pres Abbas’s closest advisers who Israeli power brokers admire & US officials turn to during tense times
- Senior PLO official Saeb Erakat six days agoExchanged views with Bahrain’s 🇧🇭 Foreign Minister Abdul Latif al Zayani. Fully committed to the API , end the occupation , Peace happens when Palestine 🇵🇸 with East Jerusalem as its capital on 1967 borders happens




