head of disease portfolio, data & computational sciences @VertexPharma, ex-faculty @harvardmed @BrighamWomens @broadinstitute @umcutrecht

Joined February 2012
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Jewish actor seth rogen says As a Jew I've been fed lies about Israel my whole life “They never told me that Palestinians lived there. Israel is ridiculous, illogical, and based on ethnic cleansing and genocide”
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Huge respect 👏
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BREAKING: Israeli settlers are burning Taybeh in occupied Palestine. A village that has stood for thousands of years. A place where Jesus once walked. Home to the oldest living Christian community in the world. And not a peep from Western mainstream media.
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Toen in Zuid Afrika apartheid was, boycotten we het land. Dat hielp. Nu zien we in Israël apartheid en etnische zuiveringen en we draaien ons hoofd af. Trek de rode lijn. Geen lege woorden meer. Stop met collaboreren. Actie.
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Israël volgens onderzoek schuldig aan etnische zuivering en apartheid op Westoever ift.tt/FWvUNHJ
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Entire Palestinian communities across Area C of the occupied West Bank are being erased from lands they have lived on for generations by Israel's accelerating policy of ethnic cleansing and annexation. Sign the petition and call on world leaders to halt Israel's ethnic cleansing of Palestinians in the occupied West Bank now and end its unlawful occupation: amn.st/6010B8Fk6Y #StopIsraelsEthnicCleansing
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Israel's destruction of life in Lebanon is an extension of its ongoing genocide in Gaza. The British government is shamefully complicit in both.
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This was HEARTBREAKING Dr. Tanya Haj-Hassan, who volunteered in Gaza, exposed Israel: "I held a lifeless child in my arms. There was no equipment to save him. This is not a war; it is a massacre of the innocent."

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Now that Gaza lies in ruins—shattered, like a beloved face after a long brutality—Israel moves with a terrible confidence to the next act: The act of leaving every soul there not merely wounded, but permanently disabled. Injured, sick, hungry, homeless, without work, without hope. This is not war’s collateral damage. This is design. As my friend Gideon Levy writes—and he knows, he knows—this is the prelude to expulsion. Think of it: a society without teachers, without doctors, without social workers, without engineers, without clerks. That is not a society. That is a holding pen. A slow erasure. And when nothing functions—no school, no hospital, no office, no heart—then it becomes ‘easy,’ they tell themselves, to scatter the people to the four corners of the earth. Like seeds from a broken pod, except no soil will take them. We must name this. Not with rage alone, though rage is honest. But with the cold, clear tears of recognition: they are making life impossible so that departure becomes the only ‘choice.’ And the world watches, adjusts its spectacles, and calls for restraint. Restraint! There is no restraint in a slow drowning.
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Belgische academici eisen stappen tegen Israël via @nrc
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Nobelprijswinnaar Krugman noemt Trump de meest openlijke corrupte leider. "We weten dat Putin zich met miljarden heeft verrijkt, dat haalde hij niet direct uit de schatkist. Er was altijd verhulling. Zelfs dictators uit derdewereldlanden proberen hun diefstal te verdoezelen."
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She's right!
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At least someone in power in Europe has the courage to speak the truth.
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خطاب قوي ممزوج بالدموع والبكاء على أطفال غزة! وزيرة خارجية أيسلندا تبكي متأثرة وتقول: "لقد عانى أطفال فلسطين ولا تزال سلامتهم الجسدية والنفسية تُنتهك بشكل غير مقبول. لا ينبغي أن يتعرض الأطفال لمعاملة لا إنسانية وإذا فشلنا أن نوقف معاناتهم فنحن فاشلون".
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I'm Jewish, British & 64 All my life, I wondered how the Holocaust could have happened. I understood that Hitler & other leaders were EVIL, but how did millions of ordinary people go along with it? NOW, seeing how so many in the West rationalise & defend the Gaza Genocide, I think I have my answer and it is profoundly disturbing
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De burgemeester, de onverschrokken Femke Halsema, heeft groot gelijk met deze ferme uitspraken over de voortdurende uitroeiingspolitiek van het Israëlische regiem. #Nakba
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Jews in large numbers demonstrating in London in support of Palestine to mark the 78th anniversary of Nakba.

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Kan Mark #Boumans morgen de nieuwe partijleider van de @VVD worden. Die man zegt waar het op staat en kapittelt zijn eigen partij en @rubenbrekelmans terecht en consequent over de voortdurende halfhartigheid rond de geldigheid van de #Spreidingswet. Chapeau! #Buitenhof
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NEW: 🇺🇸🇮🇱 Mark Ruffalo called out CBS for platforming Netanyahu: They brought a war criminal “They brought a war criminal on 60 Minutes. He would never have been on outside this regime. We're watching the degradation of journalism through political pressure”
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🚨 BREAKING American journalist Ana Kasparian: ​"Israel is a despicable country built on lies and lands drenched in blood." ​The whole world is aware of the truth...

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