Dear fellow humans,

My name is Issa and I am Palestinian. I am a human rights defender and won last year’s “Alternative Nobel Prize” (the Right Livelihood Award). I woke up today and I opened my phone and saw that the PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES had posted the most disrespectful video about Gaza that I have ever seen. Trump presented a bizarre imperial “vision” for Gaza, turning a year of genocide into a callous joke.

While Palestinian mothers are still lying in bed every night mourning their dead children, burying their loved ones and ripping out their hair in despair… while whole families have been eradicated with the financial and political support of the US… Trump has the audacity to make fun of us, the people of Palestine, and to make fun of our dead.

How dare you, Mr. President.

It is clear that the “leader of the free world” has thrown away any pretense of diplomacy. I ask the global community to send a strong rebuttal and shout back at Trump that GAZA IS NOT YOUR PLAYGROUND - please sign this pledge. We need world leaders to seek real accountability and to work with us for an end to the genocide, apartheid and occupation.

The reason this offensive video has gone viral is that the US President shared it on his official Instagram account to his 32 million followers. Instagram is owned by Meta, so I am calling on Meta to take down the video — if it recognizes the people of Gaza as humans.

We need real peace, and Gaza is #notrumpgaza