@selzero people who believe that the God they worship literally WAS a #Palestinian#refugee, who fled from Judea via #Gaza into Egypt to escape persecutors who were massacring children, and yet who look at the current #massacre of Palestinian children in Gaza and think "hell yes! Let's give #Israel more weapons."
@DrALJONES This points out Israeli Gov’s “methodology”.
Gee, guess we shouldn’t have supported #netanyahu
“If the agency no longer exists, argues Israel, then the #refugee issue must no longer exist, & the legitimate right for #palestinian refugees to return to their land will be unnecessary. #israel has denied that right of return since the late 1940s, even though its own membership of the #un was made conditional upon Palestinian refugees being allowed to return to their homes & land.”
"In Dnipro, we visited an apartment building where at least 64 people had died in an earlier #Russian missile strike. Eerily enough, we could still see clothes hanging in a top-floor closet — visible because the entire front wall of the building was gone. Other Russian missiles have struck #hospitals, #schools & shopping malls in the area. These are targets of no military value whose destruction amounts to #crimes against humanity" https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/02/12/ukraine-united-states-aid/
"European countries are providing far more aid overall than the #UnitedStates. But #Europe can’t meet Ukraine’s urgent military needs without #US help.
@glynmoody So a #refugee gets to NI, crosses the border to Eire, and applies for #asylum. Eire wants to push them back, but UK will send the refugee to Rwanda, which isn't safe. So now the refugee has a cast-iron case for claiming asylum in Eire.
This might decrease asylum claims in the UK, but it will do nothing to #stopTheBoats.
Ok, just became a #Mastodon#Refugee from #Mastodofi. Was wondering if I should even migrate somewhere else. The only other #Finnish is now Mastodontti, which is moderated to be Finnish language only. I'm multilingual. It's important for me to be on a #European server, with #GDPR another things being valid. Also being on a #Swedish server would be like being a foreigner on there.
So I looked around and saw this server is in #Germany and run by a foundation with a #Patreon
The #UnitedStates has allowed >40k #refugees into the country in the first 5 months of the fiscal yr after they passed a rigorous, often yearslong, #screening process that includes #security & #medical#vetting & interviews w/ American officers overseas.
The figure represents a significant expansion of the #refugee program, which is at the heart of #US#laws that provide desperate people from around the world w/ a #legal way to find #SafeHaven in the #UnitedStates.
The US has not granted refugee status to so many people in such a short period of time in >7 yrs. The #Biden admin is now on target to allow in 125k #refugees this yr.…
By comparison, ~64k refugees were admitted during the last 3 yrs of the #Trump admin.
Review on "When Stars are Scattered" by Victoria Jamieson, Omar Mohamed
Such an intense and moving book. No wonder it won many awards. Very real and practical. Finding it hard to write a review without giving away spoilers. If you have been living a life where you didn't have to worry if or not you will have another meal in the past 3-5 years then please read this book.
Every one of the contributing writers to The Uncaged Voice — Stories by Writers in Exile has escaped arrest and torture in countries where #FreedomOfThePress and expression is more aspirational than realized.
#Israel bombed the densely-populated #Jabalya#refugee camp in northern #Gaza for the 2nd time in 2 days Wednesday, prompting warnings of #WarCrimes by the UN #HumanRights Council (#OHCHR) & some nations took diplomatic measures & condemned Israel’s offensive in the besieged enclave.
In this article for @medium I write the history of the millions of displaced persons left in DP camps for years as they waited for a country to take them in because they were afraid to go home to a totalitarian regime.
For Ukraine’s entry in this year’s Venice Biennale, two artists asked refugees to help them create an ‘acceptable’ portrait of a woman ravaged by war. We meet the team behind an astonishing project
New instance, new #introduction: Hello! I'm Abdi 👋🏾 Software engineer/data scientist in NYC. Former #refugee. Lover of greenery/gardens, board games, #movies, #cycling, autumn, Japanese food, and #tea. Fortunate to have done a lot of #travel
Hello from New New Hong Kong!
Hello from Brisbane which is new new HONG KONG we have more HK refugees than any other place in the world! WELCOME HK TO BRISBANE KEEP EM COMIng!
Bloodied, despondent, clutching a toy: the Ukrainian artists savaging refugee portrait stereotypes (www.theguardian.com)
For Ukraine’s entry in this year’s Venice Biennale, two artists asked refugees to help them create an ‘acceptable’ portrait of a woman ravaged by war. We meet the team behind an astonishing project