‘Come out, you animals’: how the massacre at al-Shifa Hospital happened -- the IDF shot patients in their beds & doctors who refused to abandon the sick, separated people with differently-colored bracelets, executed 100s of civil govt employees.

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1/ The assassination by Israel of the three sons and three grandsons of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh delivers a lesson in the disastrous mechanics of dehumanization. More than everything, it demonstrates how dehumanization functions as a double-edged sword. --->

“The Israel-Hamas conflict is unique in that there are thousands of U.S. citizens caught up in it on both sides - hundreds, at least, in Gaza, and some 23,000 currently serving in the Israeli military.”

😳 npr.org/2024/04/01/124…

On this week's On the Nose pod, I talk with Peter Beinart, Mari Cohen, & Daniel May about the spate of articles (esp in The Atlantic) that have made campus antisemitism national news. How are these narratives told & what do they leave out of frame? 1/2
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“Biden is saying, “Just call it a state, man,” and Bibi is saying, “I can’t do that right now.” But both know that “it” is not a state in any meaningful sense; it’s a Bantustan.” ⁦⁦Tony Karon⁩ and Daniel Levy thenation.com/article/world/…

That Israel is committing genocide is now the majority opinion in the US.

'Biden vows 'ironclad' support for Israel amid Iran attack fears,' after Israeli escalatory bombing of Iranian consulate in Damascus. It's like inviting Netanyahu to draw the US into a war with Iran that Biden does not want and the US cannot afford.
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Everyone is at an impasse in Gaza. Ceasefire talks are stuck on the same issues that have bedeviled them for months. The fighting is neither ending nor advancing. And Biden is angry with Israel but unwilling to change course. economist.com/middle-east-an…

A belated Eid Mubarak

Idrees Ahmad | idreesahmad.bsky.social Robin Yassin-Kassab Yassin Al-Haj Saleh ياسين الحاج صالح Danny Postel

“I think our policy has got to be very clear: not another nickel for Netanyahu’s right wing extremist government while hundreds of thousands of people in Gaza face starvation,” argues Bernie Sanders. “That we… are continuing to supply 2000lb bombs… is unacceptable.”

Unicef asking that its aid trucks not be hit with live ammunition again.

Did you really think they’d stop with UNRWA and World Central Kitchen?

I've written a few paragraphs on a book that everyone should read before pontificating about Syria. qunfuz.com/2024/04/11/syr…

It's a pleasure to write for the pioneering Tunisian news site Nawaat on the crisis facing the Islamist movement Ennahda. Many of the party's leaders who I've been meeting for years are now in jail because of their political views. What comes next?