Tweets by Jason Hickel

We are a depressed, lonely and alienated society because we live in an economic system that is organized around artificial scarcity, exploitation and extraction. It breaks us every day. (October 3, 2021)

Crazy how the punishment is a fine and not the immediate liquidation of the company and disbursement of all its assets as reparations to the workers and communities. (June 12, 2024)

 

 

 

We are at a point where Israelis can slaughter civilians in Gaza and the West Bank with total impunity. This is worse than what we saw in apartheid South Africa and Rhodesia. The closest analogue is the European colonization of the Americas, where killing was done for sport and resistance was annihilated. (July 16, 2024)

 

 

 

In 1890, the US military massacred 300 Lakota people at Wounded Knee, in an attempt to crush their resistance to ethnic cleansing. It was one of the biggest massacres of the American genocide. Israeli forces have massacred, on average, almost as many people every other day for the past 9 months. (July 17, 2024) 

The correct response to an apartheid regime is to ban weapons sales, remove from the olympics and FIFA, end institutional ties, boycott, divest, and sanctions. (July 20, 2024)

 

 

 

The images that I see coming out of Gaza each day—of shredded children, piles of twisted corpses, dehumanisation in torture camps, people being burned alive—are morally indistinguishable from the images I have seen in Holocaust museums. Pure evil on a horrifying scale. (October 14, 2024)

 

 

 

The problem with liberalism is that it rests on a fundamental contradiction that cannot be resolved. It will always fail, it will always collapse, and this explains everything about our current moment. (November 11, 2024)

 

 

 

Zionism is an explicitly fascist ideology, and an explicitly colonial project, and it is sickening to watch legacy liberal media institutions falling over themselves to legitimise it and provide cover for its crimes. (December 29, 2024)

 

 

 

Palestinian babies are not spontaneously freezing to death. They are being deliberately subjected to conditions calculated to terminate life. In other words, they are being murdered. The cause of death is not the cold, but the genocide being perpetrated by Israel and the US. (January 3, 2025)

 

 

 

Eight members of the Israeli Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee have called to destroy all sources of water, food and energy in northern Gaza. This is genocidal in the purest sense. Outright, explicitly genocidal. The Zionist project must be stopped and dismantled. (January 3, 2025)

 

 

 

 

Environment (2nd Quarter, 2024)

New study reveals that more than a third of the entire great ape population in Africa, or nearly 180 thousand individuals, could be directly or indirectly threatened by mining now and in the near future. (April 3, 2024)

As the lakes that flamingos inhabit expand, the birds’ food supplies are rapidly shrinking (April 12, 2024)

Biodiversity loss is biggest driver of infectious disease outbreaks, says study (May 9, 2024)

Half of world’s mangrove forests are at risk due to human behaviour – study (May 23, 2024)

The surge in hydroelectric dams is driving massive biodiversity loss (May 24, 2024)

A renewable energy transition that doesn’t harm nature? It’s not just possible, it’s essential (June 7, 2024)

Climate Change (2nd Quarter, 2024)

Record-breaking increase in CO2 levels in world’s atmosphere (May 9, 2024)

Hurricanes, heatwaves and rising seas: The impacts of record ocean heat (May 9, 2024)

Weather tracker: global average temperature highest ever for April (May 10, 2024)

Researchers have found that 2023 was the hottest summer in the Northern Hemisphere in the past two thousand years, almost four degrees warmer than the coldest summer during the same period. (May 14, 2024)

Groundwater is heating up, threatening life below and above the surface (June 4, 2024)

During a year of extremes, carbon dioxide levels surge faster than ever (June 6, 2024)

There is more carbon dioxide than ever in the atmosphere. That’s bad for the climate. (June 7, 2024)

Heat Wave Threatens More Than 100 Million With Dangerously High Temperatures Next Week—Here’s Where (June 14, 2024)

Rising sea levels will disrupt millions of Americans’ lives by 2050, study finds (June 25, 2024)

Scientists identify new Antarctic ice sheet ‘tipping point,’ warning future sea level rise may be underestimated (June 25, 2024)

Earth’s Temperature Could Increase by 7-14 Degrees Celsius: Startling New Research Reveals That CO2 Has More Impact Than Previously Thought (June 24, 2024)

 

 

 

 

Consorting With Israel (1st Quarter, 2024)

Two Students Arrested at Pro-Palestine Demonstration at Princeton (April 25, 2024)

Gen Z

Gen Z will spend $18,000 more on rent before they turn 30 than millennials did, study says (March 29, 2024)

 

 

The boomer generation hit the economic jackpot. Young people will inherit their massive debts. (September 26, 2024)

 

 

 

Tweets by Bernie Sanders on Israeli Terrorism

Congress must not provide any more U.S. funding for Netanyahu’s illegal, immoral, and brutal war that is destroying the lives of innocent men, women, and children in Gaza. (January 5, 2024)

There is a horrific humanitarian disaster in Gaza. The U.S. should not provide another nickel to the Netanyahu government unless there is a fundamental change in military policy and their response to the humanitarian crisis. (January 19, 2024)

Netanyahu’s right-wing government is starving the Palestinian people. On top of its indiscriminate bombardment, Israel is imposing onerous restrictions to block the delivery of essential humanitarian aid. The U.S. must use all of its leverage to end this horrific war. (January 26, 2024)

The United States has got to say loudly and clearly to Netanyahu and his right-wing government: You are not getting another nickel of U.S. taxpayer money to murder women and children in Gaza. (March 1, 2024)

The United States of America cannot allow the wholesale slaughter of the Palestinian people. (March 3, 2024)

The American people are increasingly disgusted by the destruction of Gaza and the unbelievable misery that is befalling the Palestinian people. This must end. No more taxpayer dollars to fund Netanyahu’s war machine. (March 11, 2024)

Last week, 7 courageous aid workers with @WCKitchen were killed by an Israeli airstrike in Gaza while trying to feed starving people. (April 8, 2024)

Why would we give $10 billion to a government that is deliberately starving children? (April 18, 2024)

Right now tens of thousands of children in Gaza are facing starvation, malnutrition, and famine. And Congressional leadership thinks it’s okay to invite war criminal Netanyahu to address Congress? No. Unacceptable. (June 4, 2024)

The American people do not want to see starvation used as a tool of war, which is what the Netanyahu government is doing right now. (June 19, 2024)

 

 

No, Netanyahu should not be welcomed into the U.S. Congress. On the contrary, his policies in Gaza and the West Bank and his refusal to support a two-state solution should be roundly condemned. As I stated last month, I will not be attending his address. (July 23, 2024)

 

 

Netanyahu is a war criminal. We must do everything in our power to end the war in Gaza, and provide immediate humanitarian relief to the people who are suffering there. (July 24, 2024)

 

 

Since the war in Gaza began, at least 39,000 Palestinians have been killed and 89,000 injured. Netanyahu is a war criminal. He should not be addressing Congress. (July 24, 2024)

Netanyahu is not only a war criminal. He is a liar. (July 25, 2024)

 

 

 

Tweets by Bernie Sanders in 2019-2020

If there is going to be class warfare in this country, it's about time the working class won that war. (August 21, 2019)

Grocery store workers deserve hazard pay and the protective gear they need. (August 14, 2020)

During the worst economic crisis in modern history, it is shameful that Mitch McConnell and Senate Republicans think they can take a vacation while Americans face eviction and hunger. (August 14, 2020)

The Postmaster General must resign immediately. (August 15, 2020)

We must end U.S. support for the unauthorized, unconstitutional, and disastrous Saudi-led war in Yemen. (November 10, 2020)

112 co-sponsors of Medicare for All were on the ballot. All of them won. (November 10, 2020)