Palestinians give Ferguson tear gas advice

Palestinian Twitter users give advice to protesters in Ferguson, Missouri on how to cope with tear gas and its effects, while others draw parallels between the St. Louis suburbs and the Gaza Strip.

“I remember when I used to get teargassed, I used to just remind myself this pain will pass as to not collapse. It helps,” tweets @MariamBarghouti, a Palestinian woman from Ramallah who studies at Birzeit University. “Always make sure to run against the wind/to keep calm when you’re teargassed, the pain will pass, don’t rub your eyes!”

It feels so weird using my experience from #Palestine and Israeli oppression to give advice to #Ferguson. Much love and solidarity!

— Mariam Barghouti مريم البرغوثي (@MariamBarghouti) August 14, 2014

“And of course DON’T wash your eyes with water,” adds @Rajaiabukhalil, a doctor from East Jerusalem who co-founded Physicians for Palestine.

Protests in Ferguson, rocked by racial unrest since a white police officer shot an unarmed black teenager to death, turned violent yesterday, with some people lobbing Molotov cocktails and other objects at police who responded with smoke bombs and tear gas to disperse the crowd — evoking the riot dispersal methods used by Israeli security forces.

http://twitter.com/OccupyOakland/status/499758619470987266/

To people of Ferguson and Gaza, this how you stop tear gas https://t.co/7ulu0WLemH

— ♟ rodney ⚔️ (@CountOnRodney) August 14, 2014

 — The Associated Press contributed to this report.