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Julia Bacha
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Julia Bacha
@juliabacha
Filmmaker and Creative Director at @JustVisionMedia. Guggenheim Fellow and Peabody Award winner. Most recently, @TheBoycottFilm (streaming now).
Joined June 2009
- Breaking news: The Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled today that boycotts are not protected by the First Amendment. @ACLU has confirmed it'll take the case to the Supreme Court, with huge implications for free speech in America.🧵
- This is why students are willing to risk their professional careers. In the future, everyone will claim they supported them.An NBC News investigation into seven deadly airstrikes has found Palestinians were killed in areas of southern Gaza that the Israeli military had explicitly designated as safe zones. @HalaGorani reports from Israel.
00:00 - My interview today on @GloboNews in Brazil: “We are talking about a desperate context, because the context now is one in which the lives of two million people inside the Gaza Strip are in the hands of an openly racist government, with the full support of the American government.”“Estamos falando de um contexto desesperador, porque o contexto agora é um em que a vida de dois milhões de pessoas dentro da Faixa de Gaza está nas mãos de um governo abertamente racista, com apoio completo do governo americano”, diz Júlia Bacha, documentarista e especialista em
00:00 - The Israeli army just dropped a bomb in one of the most densely populated neighborhoods in the world and you come to this platform to congratulate yourself for asking for more bombs.Testified before the Senate Appropriations Committee on critical national security funding needs for the 2024 fiscal year. To advance America’s national security, our defense, diplomacy and development must work hand-in-hand and we must continue to lead from a source of strength.
- The @nytimes managed to run a massive editorial allegedly dissecting free speech issues ailing our country and completely missed Americans actually losing their livelihoods over political speech that the governments doesn't like, i.e. advocating for Palestinian human rights.
- Jewish Israelis set the UNRWA headquarters in East Jerusalem on fire, but there will be no criminal investigation because it was done by "minors." In the meantime, hundreds of Palestinian children are prosecuted in Israeli military courts every year. That's called Apartheid.
- Replying to @juliabachaThe case centers around a law that requires public contractors to sign a pledge promising that they do not boycott Israel. If you refuse to sign the pro-Israel pledge, you are fired from your job. Versions of this law now exist in 33 states.
- Replying to @IDFYou want credit for not murdering 5 kids playing soccer?
- The United States has just vetoed a Brazilian resolution at the Security Council calling for a humanitarian pause to Israel's relentless bombing of 2 million Palestinians, half of whom are children, trapped in Gaza without water, gas and electricity. The resolution includes a
- The @nytimes explains why American students are more likely to protest the war than their peers abroad without mentioning the simple fact that we are paying for this war. Most American journalists have completely lost the plot.
- What an enormous price Palestinians must pay for morality and logic to start kicking in.Democrats in Senate, House discuss conditioning military aid to Israel ow.ly/HNOO1052qjB
- Replying to @juliabachafrom this nation’s longstanding traditions. It ignores the fact that this country was founded on a boycott of British goods and that boycotts have been a fundamental part of American political discourse ever since. We hope and expect that the Supreme Court will set things right
