Tagged: twitterstorm

Alaa Hammad

Twitterstorms are back! Alaa Hammad, political prisoner in Israeli jail

Unfortunately, Twitterstorms for Palestinian political prisoners do not go out of fashion. The reason for this is that the racist Zionist state continues to violate the human rights of Palestinian political prisoners, even including those who do not fall under their false and illegitimate ‘jurisdiction’.   Campaigning is now on for Alaa Hammad, Palestinian Jerusalemite with a Jordanian citizenship, who...

Samer Issawi

Twitterstorms continue: an end to misunderstandings about time zones

Yesterday, the Twitter actions initiated by the Free Samer Issawi Campaign met with some unforeseen confusion. In the USA, the clock was turned back to summer time, so the Campaign which is based in the United States went online to tweet one hour earlier in comparison to other time zones.   To avoid a repeat of this confusion, it has...

#PalestinianHeroes trending on February 16

Why Twitter actions for hunger strikers should be supported

It has been roughly a month since concerned citizens of the world have been gathering on Twitter every day at 3pm EST/7 pm GMT/ 9pm Palestine time, (ed. March 11: please check this website for updates about timing!) to tweet for the cause of Palestinian prisoners in administrative detention. These trending actions are initiated and maintained by activists of the...