In other words: how dare the Irish people care about the Palestinians and see them as human! Unbelievable!!!! Lecturing us about empathy!

السلطة المطلقة لقيس سعيد عادت بتونس إلى أيام حكم البايات

The brilliant Rashid Khalidi on the fate of the Palestinians. jacobin.com/2024/05/rashid…

ومن المثير للدهشة أن نلاحظ أن النظام المغربي يفتخر بالدفاع عن الحدود الإسبانية في سبتة ضد الآلاف من الشباب المغاربة المذهولين الذين يريدون عبورها، في حين أن هذا النظام نفسه يعتبر رسميا هذه الحدود ثمرة الاستعمار.

Attacks against critical race theory, Black history, LGBTQ history and other diverse perspectives in education are inherently “anti-democratic,” says Jason Stanley, the author of "Erasing History: How Fascists Rewrite the Past to Control the Future.”

U.N. Experts Accuse Israel of “Starvation Campaign” in Gaza & Demand End to Western Complicity democracynow.org/2024/9/17/gaza…

Amid the Hezbollah pager incident, I’m reminded of what a Pentagon official told me not long ago: “We have let Israel face 0 consequences for crossing all our red lines in Gaza so they are emboldened & know they face no consequences for going into Lebanon” huffpost.com/entry/israel-l…

“For Washington, Israeli-Saudi normalization may seem to offer a way to advance a two-state solution while blocking the growing influence of China in the Middle East. But upon inspection, normalization would achieve neither of these aims.” foreignaffairs.com/middle-east/ca…

IF IHL applies & IF pagers' owners are liable to status-based targeting, there are significant concerns about incidental civilian harm here, possibly discrimination.

Remote targeted killings... 2750 injured, 200 of them critical. Intentionally directing attacks against individual civilians not taking direct part in hostilities + in the knowledge they will cause clearly excessive incidental civilian harm

This was an act of terror, not to mention a gross violation of international humanitarian law, carried out by Israel.

In Senate hearing on hate, Sen John Kennedy says Arab American Institute ED Maya Berry (only Muslim witness) supports Hamas, Hezbollah. "You should hide your head in a bag." Hearing strayed far from beginning which acknowledged Tree of Life victims & 6-year-old Wadea al-Fayoume.

🇳🇴 in #UNGA on Israel in the Occupied Palestinian Territory: -The #ICJ ruling is an unequivocal message which Israel must comply with without delay -The Palestinian people have a right to self-determination as reaffirmed by ICJ Statement➡️norway.no/en/missions/un…

THREAD: Israel's unprecedented and highly sophisticated security operation today in which almost 3000 people have been injured so far, is by all means a massive blow to Hizbullah. This is all more so the case given that Hizbullah has always credited its performance in the July

Just to be clear about what happened today, explosive devices were detonated remotely by Israel in a wide range of Lebanese civilian spaces including, groceries, shops, busy city streets, medical facilities, etc. Israel is proud of this and the US is calling it legitimate.

UK: Prosecutors drop charges against SOAS students over Palestine protest middleeasteye.net/news/uk-prosec…

‘The very fact that open proposals to starve and exterminate hundreds of thousands of people are up for debate demonstrates precisely where Israeli society stands today,’ writes meron rapoport. שיחה מקומית 972mag.com/northern-gaza-…

I once wrote that everything about this war involves disrupting old precedents and creating new ones, and that it will reshape the world in ways few people can fathom. This is just the prologue for how oppressors and colonizers will confront and eliminate ‘surplus populations.’

Just a reminder

"There is some leverage we've had and used": U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris acknowledged on Tuesday that the Biden administration has used military assistance to Israel as leverage to influence its conduct in the Gaza war / Ben Samuels haaretz.com/us-news/2024-0…