Activist video shows alternative Gaza Super Bowl ad
The activist group Know Collective has produced an alternative Super Bowl advertisement showing the death and destruction that has occurred as a result of Israel’s war on Gaza.
The video was produced in response to the Israeli government buying a primetime slot at the US Super Bowl on Sunday to highlight the plight of captives being held in Gaza.
“To all the dads that have been killed by the [Israeli military] for over 120 days, we vow to bring you justice,” the Know Collective advertisement says.
Posting on X, Omar Suleiman, the president of the Yaqeen Institute for Islamic Research in the US, said: “Here is the #GazasuperBowlAd you should’ve seen”. —Israel’s war on Gaza live: Rafah bombarded as Israel plans ground assault, 03:40 GMT (Al Jazeera)
This time, the Nakba is being televised, and it has a stench of finality to it. What is happening in Palestine can no longer be described as genocide or even ethnic cleansing. It is beyond mass extermination – it is total erasure.
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Every single Palestinian alive today has had either the brutal experience of being rendered stateless and/or homeless, or waking up to the reality that the homeland of their parents is apparently fictional. I will never forget the experience as a young boy born and raised in Louisiana when my mom had to explain to me why my second-grade teacher said “Palestine doesn’t exist.” Suddenly all the maps, flags, pictures, culture, and even old coins from prior to 1948 that had “Palestine” written on them were supposedly a lie. This, even though my father is five years older than the state of Israel. Everything about us is supposedly non-existent.
It’s not just the Palestinian people or the name of the country that’s disappearing, but the word Palestine itself. Palestine is being deliberately erased from our consciousness and discourse, during war and even in peace.
Caption: ' I don’t feel like celebrating anything, or worthy of being honored for anything. This is merely a gift for our true heroes. I was granted the James Joyce Award by the Literary and Historical Society of University College Dublin in Ireland. It is the highest award that an Irish University society can give. I dedicated it to the Palestinian Journalists who have been murdered as well as those still alive giving voices and faces to the resilient people of Gaza. This is for you
@WaelDahdouh, @azaizamotaz9, Khalid Nabhan, @Hind_Gaza, @wizardbisan, @salehaljafarawi, Wissam Nasser, Lama Jamous, and countless others. All of their names have been attached to the award. ' - Dr Omar Suleiman
i’m always excited to watch new episode from Yaqeen Institute, especially the Ramadan Series– Qadar; Why Me? by Sheikh Omar Suleiman. but this episode is the hardest. 💔😭
“romance is like a rizq. it’s not something everyone is going to have in this dunya.”
“two people can seem like a perfect fit, have all the same passions, and want to do everything right, but for some reason Allah didn’t want it to happen in this dunya.”
it takes far more than being in love to be together. love is just a feeling. there are many factors which are required for a relationship to work out.
no matter how much you guys love each other.
no matter how much you and someone is similar.
if you are not destined to be together, then its not gonna happen. and vice versa.
we as muslim have to believe in Allah's qadr, and if two people can't be together then it is simply FATED.
may we be given the chance to find love and be blessed with righteous spouses one day inshaAllah.