“Everybody wants to see an end to the genocide and that’s why the PA and all the Arab countries lined up to support the deal. But on the other hand, it’s a whole package that gives Israel perpetual control of the Gaza Strip and an Israeli veto... Who will force them to pull out?" — Diana Buttu

DAWN demands answers from @americanprogress.bsky.social about why they appointed former Secretary of State Antony Blinken to their Board despite his documented role in aiding and abetting Israeli crimes in Gaza: dawnmena.org/dawn-calls-o...

New piece where I argue that shifts in the Italian position towards Israel are not enough. Italy also needs to vote in favour of a partial suspension of the EU Association Agreement with Israel. With VdL & right-wing EU countries voicing support for this, now the time is ripe for Italy to follow.

"Leading EU countries like Italy must seize the moment to advance deeper moves that materially hold Israel accountable for its crimes in Gaza and across the Occupied Palestinian Territories," writes @kellyp90.bsky.social.

“The Palestine student movement has absolutely reshaped the discourse on Israel in this country," says Mahmoud Khalil in an interview. "Words like divestment, like apartheid state, were a taboo in American institutions just a few years ago."

“The majority of the American people oppose the genocide, want [US] weapons to Israel to stop, believe that the U.S. has gone too far in supporting Israel... What the Trump administration is doing isn't in the interest of the American nation," @sarahleah1.bsky.social w/ @msnbc.com's Ayman Mohyeldin.

The Saudi government is using the Riyadh Comedy Festival 2025 from 9/26-10/9 to deflect attention from its brutal repression of free speech and other human rights violations. Festival dates include the 7th anniversary of the Saudi government's murder of DAWN founder Jamal Khashoggi.

“These Trustees, instead of engaging with students calling for accountability, calling for divestment… they chose to actually burn down the institution… If Columbia had the power to arrest me, they would have done so before ICE,” Mahmoud Khalil says in a DAWN interview: dawnmena.org/i-was-put-in...

"By targeting political appointees and civilian infrastructure, Israel has inflicted symbolic blows but not strategic ones, largely harming Yemeni civilians through collective punishment that worsens humanitarian metrics," writes @ahmadalgohbary.bsky.social.

"The two-state solution may well be the most realistic, best outcome, but it's no longer realistic because it hasn't been achieved," says Rob Malley in an interview on his new book with Hussein Agha, "Tomorrow is Yesterday." "It's become a dangerous gimmick."

"Magid reveals that most Jordanians—judging by their participation in elections—have largely broken free from Abdullah’s deceptive spell," writes Jamal al Tahat, reviewing Aaron Magid's new book "The Most American King: Abdullah of Jordan."

"That period [of negotiation] was an artifice—an illusion that is now gone—and we are back to where we were." Former U.S. negotiator Rob Malley discusses the Israel-Palestine peace process, and his new book with Hussein Agha "Tomorrow Is Yesterday."

“Just for the fact that I am an outspoken Palestinian, I was put in jail. My identity as Palestinian was criminalized… ICE tried to silence me, and in doing so, they amplified my voice,” Mahmoud Khalil tells DAWN in an interview: dawnmena.org/i-was-put-in...

In its strike on Hamas representatives in Qatar, a key mediator in the war in Gaza, "Israel further exposed itself as a rogue actor." "The message was chilling: Even neutral mediators are no longer off-limits," argues @giorgiocafiero.bsky.social.

"Even if completely displaced, Palestinians hold the only legitimate legal claim to the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, including East Jerusalem," writes Isabelle Hayslip. But Israel is creating facts on the ground, attempting to threaten those claims.

"I'm laying there in bed in the morning, and thinking, What can we do? What's left is Leahy Law... We have a mechanism to theoretically stop funding the Israel Defense Forces, which would significantly hamper Israel's ability to continue the genocide," Dr. Mark Brauner tells DAWN.

"As Hadhramaut's rival powers remain on a collision course, the absence of a political settlement is fueling a high-stakes standoff—potentially worsening open confrontation and greater instability." Sam Ali writes on the impacts of Saudi-UAE wrangling over Yemen's Hadhramaut governorate.

“The Palestine student movement has absolutely reshaped the discourse on Israel in this country. Words like divestment, like apartheid state, were a taboo in American institutions just a few years ago. Now, these words became mainstream,” said Mahmoud Khalil, in an interview with DAWN.

The U.S. State Department’s new 2024 Human Rights Report for Israel, the West Bank and Gaza whitewashes Israel’s war crimes. Watch as DAWN's Charles Blaha explains why this matters. See our joint analysis with A New Policy on the State Department report to learn more: dawnmena.org/united-state...

Starting now with panelists Aaron Magid, @seanyom.bsky.social, and Jamal al Tahat. Register and join at the link below.

"The U.S. was on the wrong side of history back then, and they are on the wrong side of history now. The establishment…is profiting off the genocide,” says Mahmoud Khalil in a DAWN interview. "ICE tried to silence me," but "they amplified my voice.”

"Think about when Russia bombed a hospital in Ukraine, a maternity hospital. It was headlines everywhere. It was termed 'war crime.' This has happened in Gaza so many times I've lost count already," says Dr. Mimi Syed, who served as an emergency physician in Gaza.

Don't miss our online event today, Sept. 17, 2 PM ET: How Washington Empowers King Abdullah’s Repression: A discussion of Aaron Magid's new book "The Most American King: Abdullah of Jordan" With: Aaron Magid, @seanyom.bsky.social, and Jamal al Tahat Register here: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Israel's strike on Hamas officials in Qatar "was about more than eliminating Hamas negotiators." "The broader objective appears to have been the dismantling of diplomacy itself," argues @giorgiocafiero.bsky.social.

"Columbia, when faced with student demands and with popular demands...defaulted to repression," says Mahmoud Khalil in an interview with DAWN. Still, he says, "The Palestine student movement has...reshaped the discourse on Israel in this country."

“I urge every government, leader and citizen to ask: What will we say when our children and grandchildren ask what we did while Gaza was burned to the ground? Every act of genocide is a test of the humanity that binds us. The prevention of genocide is... a legal and moral obligation.” — Navi Pillay

Join DAWN online Wednesday, Sept. 17, 2 PM ET for: How Washington Empowers King Abdullah’s Repression: A discussion of Aaron Magid's new book "The Most American King: Abdullah of Jordan" With Aaron Magid, @seanyom.bsky.social, and Jamal al Tahat Register here: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Join DAWN online Wednesday, Sept. 17, 2 PM ET for: How Washington Empowers King Abdullah’s Repression: A discussion of Aaron Magid's new book "The Most American King: Abdullah of Jordan" With Aaron Magid, @seanyom.bsky.social, and Jamal al Tahat Register here: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

“These are human beings. They have stories… They wanted to just live a life like you and I. But they have been dehumanized for so long that we just turn a blind eye,” Adil Husain, an emergency physician who served in Gaza, told DAWN in an online event with other U.S. doctors.

“To make Gaza unliveable, Israel is destroying homes, mosques, churches, schools, hospitals, universities, water and sewage plants, shops, offices, farms – everything that makes community life possible. These are not the by-products of war. This is genocide.” — Michael Lynk

"Even if completely displaced, Palestinians hold the only legitimate legal claim to the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, including East Jerusalem," writes Isabelle Hayslip in DAWN's Democracy in Exile. Still Israel is creating facts on the ground in an attempt to threaten those claims today.

"Imperial culture does not announce itself with banners. It moves through euphemism... It requests deference in the name of complexity, and it rewards those who provide it with access." @ysl.bsky.social writes on Empire, language and Gaza, in DAWN's Democracy in Exile.

"Why is our grief mistrusted? Why must we condemn ourselves to be heard? Why is Palestinian life translated into numbers—not names," writes @ysl.bsky.social in DAWN's Democracy in Exile. That is because "Empires do not only hold territory; they hold vocabulary."

"Support journalists who center Palestinian testimony with patience and respect. Hold editors to their standards. Resist euphemism when it appears on your screen. Share stories that restore names and faces." @ysl.bsky.social writes on the language of Empire, and Gaza, in DAWN's Democracy in Exile.

A new joint analysis by DAWN and A New Policy finds that the U.S. State Department’s 2024 Human Rights Report on Israel, the West Bank, and Gaza was slashed by nearly 90% compared to last year, omitting evidence of genocide, starvation, sexual violence, and attacks on civilians.

"Neither military force nor diplomacy has led them [the Houthis] to a change in their behavior. American sanctions fail to weaken them, but unquestionably harm millions of Yemeni civilians" writes Karim al-Yemani in DAWN's Democracy in Exile. .

"Those starving must also endure displacement, confinement, bombardment, chaos and disease in a place that we once called home, but that now feels like a dystopian, post-apocalyptic wasteland brutalized by an Israel-induced famine,” Yahya al-Masri writes from Gaza, in DAWN's Democracy in Exile.

“When US citizens are killed by anyone else, the US mobilises every diplomatic, economic and military tool...to demand justice. But when Israel kills Americans, the US accepts Israeli ‘investigations’, sends more weapons and shields Israel from international accountability,” says DAWN's Raed Jarrar.

"Although the crime of starvation is criminalized in the Geneva Conventions and international customary law, in approximately 20 cases, there's never been an instance of a successful international prosecution." Mia Swart on prosecuting the crime of starvation in Gaza, in DAWN's Democracy in Exile.

“Israel’s destruction of Gaza’s remaining high-rise apartments appears to be part of its efforts to render Gaza unlivable as a prelude to ‘humanitarian’ mass forced deportation... Unproven claims of Hamas activity in the vicinity do not justify the enormously disproportionate effect,” Kenneth Roth.

Egypt, under Sisi, has not been "interested in building or rebuilding a tailored Arab, Islamic or Pharaonic identity," Ahmed Abdelhalim writes in DAWN's Democracy in Exile. Rather, he has "invoked each of them on different occasions" to bolster his regime's rule.

“The relentless assault on Gaza, the deliberate destruction of homes, and enforced famine reflect its systematic brutality. This is not self-defense—it is the erasure of a people. Refusing to call it by its name is nothing but genocide denial,” Assal Rad told DAWN.

"The islands became a bargaining chip not only between Cairo and Riyadh, but in the larger puzzle of Middle East peace, alliances and strategic balancing." New details on Egypt's handover of the islands of Tiran and Sanafir to Saudi Arabia, from Hisham Sabry, in DAWN's Democracy in Exile.

"Reducing Gaza’s high-rises to rubble while denying food to its people is a violation of the laws of war and a betrayal of human decency. States must end the impunity and take urgent action to uphold international law," @janinedigi.bsky.social, exec. director of @trpforjustice.bsky.social, told DAWN

"Starvation has re-emerged as a significant feature in modern wars. Apart from Gaza, man-made starvation continues to constitute a crisis in Sudan, South Sudan, Yemen and Syria. Almost all instances of starvation today can be described as man-made," writes Mia Swart in DAWN's Democracy in Exile. .

"The handover of Tiran and Sanafir underscores how authoritarian governance and regional deal-making trumped domestic accountability in Egypt." Hisham Sabry shares new revelations on Egypt's transfer of two strategic islands to Saudi Arabia, in DAWN's Democracy in Exile.

"Hardly surprising to those tracking the conflict, Israel-induced starvation has reared its head amid the catastrophic humanitarian conditions in Gaza. But what does that mean for accountability efforts?" Mia Swart on challenges of prosecuting the crime of starvation, in DAWN's Democracy in Exile.

"The [Abraham] accords set a precedent that annexation—whether of the West Bank or Western Sahara—can be normalized as a fait accompli when aligned with U.S. or Israeli interests." William N. Robinson explains new efforts to expand the Abraham Accords, in DAWN's Democracy in Exile.

Philanthropist and independent frontline humanitarian Amed Khan spoke with @dropsitenews.com about getting aid to Gaza: “Governments have been an absolute disaster... an embarrassment." The US “an absolute disaster." Leaders worldwide “can’t look... in the mirror and say, I did the right thing.”

War Crimes Prosecutor on Israel’s assault on Gaza City. @reedbrody.bsky.social