“The genocide in Gaza was a rehearsal for abandoning the principles of law, humanity & respect…The experiment went well and is now being applied elsewhere, as in Venezuela, Greenland & the streets of Minneapolis” - EU official to me on what they see as the broader forces behind this week’s crisis.

Legal groups says Australia obliged to investigate Israel's President Herzog for his role in genocidal war on Gaza.

Important: "Are Western think tanks independent voices or do they operate as "hegemony factories"?" How did 7 major Western think tanks (Brookings, Heritage Foundation, CFR, Cato Institute, CSIS, ECFR, Chatham House) cover Israel and Palestine between Oct 7, 2023 – June 6, 2024 t.co/dXHfMqvdFk

Read this and you will think twice before visiting the US

Basel Adra, the co-director of Oscar-winning documentary “No Other Land,” says his intention with the film was “not the award itself but … to get to people’s hearts.” He wants the world to see what is happening in his community of Masafer Yatta in the West Bank.

Germany’s suppression of Palestinian activism is a “misunderstanding of the proper lessons of the Holocaust,” says Ken Roth, whose father fled Nazi Germany.

Mexico has issued a warning to its citizens advising them not to travel to Texas and seven other states in the U.S. due to measles outbreaks. The states of Alaska, California, Georgia, New Jersey, New York, New Mexico, Rhode Island and nine counties throughout Texas are cited in the…

Why? The Politico owner, German Media Giant Axel Springer, Makes Money on Israel’s Illegal Settlements theintercept.com/2024/02/05/axel-…

It is not only embarrassing. It is a lie to justify Israel's continuation of the genocide and in support of Israel's starvation policy - no different then the lies coming from the US administration.

The 9 days on which the UK has sent spy flights from Cyprus towards Gaza since the ceasefire have been on the same 9 days that Hamas has released hostages. 👉 Is the UK spying on Hamas for Israel? www.declassifieduk.org/is-the-uk-sp...

ACSA cancels Fall 2025 Journal of Architectural Education issue about Palestine and fires its interim executive editor archpaper.com/2025/02/acsa-can…

رأينا قبل أسابيع قليلة كيف خرج المعتقلون من سجون الأسد بعد رحيله. وأي إنسان سويّ لا يبكي فرحة لرفع الظلم، وحرية الناس وكرامتهم. بالعدل والرحمة واحترام حقوق الإنسان وحدهم يمكن لمصر أن تجد طرقاً شتى لمستقبل أفضل، والظُلم يُغلق كل طريق. ولنكن متسقين في رفض الظلم في كل مكان. وليس فقط حين يقع علينا.

ليلى سويف مثل آلاف الأمهات والزوجات والأباء والإخوة الذين احترقت قلوبهم ألما على سجن أحبائهم، ملف المعتقلين هو أكثر الملفات إلحاحا في مصر الآن. في علوم الاجتماع قالوا إن الظُلم مُؤذن بخراب العمران، وفي النسق الديني - ويُفترض أن رجال السلطة مؤمنون به فإن الله لا يُفلح عمل الظالمين. جربُوا العدل ولو مرة.

ليلى سويف، الأم، والإنسانة ذات الضمير والعلم، بين الحياة والموت في المشفى. إن كان للرئيس السيسي رغبة حقيقية في إصلاح سياسي، فإن ملف معتقلي الرأي والضمير هو واجب الوقت وطال أوانه. علاء سُجن نحو ١٠ سنوات، ولو كان في نظر السيسي اقترف جرما، أليس ذلك عقابا قاسيا؟ الرحمة www.amnesty.org.uk/press-releas...

Defense minister said the 40,000 people displaced from their homes in Jenin, Tulkarem and Nur a Shams camps will not be allowed to return to their homes in the next year. Sound familiar? www.reuters.com/world/middle...

Thread - I've been thinking a lot about Walter Lippmann’s Public Opinion lately, especially in the context of Musk’s role in dismantling the federal workforce through DOGE. It’s a perfect example of what Lippmann warned about over a century ago.

And here’s the crucial part: Trump and Musk aren’t outside this system, strategically exploiting it. They’re inside it, just like everyone else. They aren’t masterminds - they are products of the same information disorder that is warping public perception.

Lippmann warned that democracy only works if the public has access to accurate information. But today, people don’t just lack good information - they actively reject it in favour of what fits their worldview, because their entire information ecosystem reinforces those beliefs.

It was thirteen years ago today that my dear friend and colleague #MarieColvin was murdered by the Assad regime while on assignment in Syria. Myself, Edith Bouvier and Wa’el were all badly wounded. Remembering them and all the people of #Homs who looked after us and helped in our escape 🙏

#OtD 22 Feb 1943 three German White Rose activists, Christoph Probst, Hans and Sophie Scholl, were executed by guillotine for urging the overthrow of the Nazi government. As the blade fell, Hans called out "Let freedom live!" More on anti-Nazi youth: workingclasshistory.com/podcast/72-edelwe...

Hamas says Israel's “failure to comply with the release of the seventh batch of prisoners in the exchange deal at the agreed-upon time constitutes a blatant violation” of the Gaza ceasefire agreement. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/dwcxlp

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US President Donald Trump has fired Air Force General CQ Brown as chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff as part of a wider shake-up of top military leadership aje.io/hbzxqy

The border czar wants the FBI to arrest AOC. A Fox News contributor is calling journalist Mehdi Hasan a terrorist. Elon Musk said everyone at 60 Minutes should go to prison. You all see how quickly we’re descending into madness, right? It’s not subtle, slow, or anything but a premeditated scheme.

JD Vance is so nauseatingly unlikeable that he’s literally dragging down the AfD’s approval rating

Hamas has proposed to release all captives remaining in the Gaza Strip in “one go” in exchange for a lasting truce and a complete Israeli army withdrawal from the besieged enclave. 🔗: aje.io/fbb4w5

Everyone from the last administration should disappear into the woods or something for a long period of self-reflection. Instead we get Harris on the speaking circuit and Blinken writing a memoir as if they could possibly have anything of value to offer the party or the country right now

Senior security official accuses Netanyahu of working to avoid hostage deal 2nd phase

The Israeli government is using US tax dollars to carry out a mass ethnic cleansing campaign across the occupied West Bank. Since signing the ceasefire agreement in Gaza, Israeli forces have displaced almost 40,000 Palestinians from their homes.

NEW: A 14-year-old Palestinian boy, Salem Alaa Saud, was killed today in Gaza’s Nuseirat refugee camp after a leftover explosive device detonated.

This Palestinian girl from the Nur Shams camp in Tulkarem refused to leave her cat behind after being forcibly displaced by Israeli raids in the occupied West Bank.

#Sinai #Egypt: Military trials of fishermen an affront to justice www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...

AFSCME member @repcasar.bsky.social is speaking the truth. DOGE has ZERO interest in investigating the billions in taxpayer $$ going to Elon Musk. Instead, it is targeting workers, seniors, children & people with disabilities. That's because DOGE doesn't work for us – it works for billionaires.

Berlin bans Arabic and ends a protest claiming that chants, speeches and musical performances in Arabic pose an immediate threat to public safety. weskandar.substack.com/p/berlin-pol...

Hamas delays captive release 'until further notice' accusing Israel of violating terms - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/hamas-delays-captive-release-until-further-notice

🇪🇸 Spanish foreign minister, José Manuel Albares: “I want to be very clear on this: Gaza is the land of Gazan Palestinians and they must stay in Gaza. Gaza is part of the future Palestinian state Spain supports, and has to coexist guaranteeing the Israeli state’s prosperity and safety.”

Not a word from the Egyptian Foreign Ministry or Presidency till now

"We see the sanctions against the International Criminal Court as ... not an attack on the Court or the officials of the Court ... it's actually an attack on the sovereign nations that have decided to be Parties to the Rome Statute."

Five of six remaining Thai captives freed from Gaza, ending 15 month ordeal - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/five-thai-workers-released-gaza-fifteen-months-captivity

Palestinian captives released from Israeli torture camps.

🔴 Intelligence artificielle : la France ouvre la voie à la surveillance de masse en Europe Révélations @investigate-eu.bsky.social avec @disclosengo.bsky.social sur l’obsession sécuritaire de la France, document confidentiels des négociations sur l’AI Act à l'appui disclose.ngo/fr/article/i...

Hamas: “The Participation of PA Forces in the Occupation’s Attack on Jenin Camp is a Crime Against Our People and a Betrayal of the Martyrs’ Blood”

Egypt still detains 129 pro-Palestine protesters despite mediating Gaza ceasefire - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/egypt-sisi-urged-release-pro-palestine-protesters-after-gaza-ceasefire

Smotrich, now: Netanyahu accepted our demands and promised to gradually take over the entire Gaza Strip and implement full Israeli control. Gaza will remain unliveable. (Haaretz)

🚨The leader of the Houthis in Yemen says they will respect the Gaza ceasefire, but adds, "If the Israeli enemy continues its genocidal massacres & escalation," Houthis will strike Israel "in support of the Palestinian people." Shuaib Almosawa reports from Yemen 🔽 www.dropsitenews.com/p/yemen-hout...

Israel will achieve this, primarily because the world, the region, will do nothing to stop it. Tacitly or explicitly, the US will continue to fund it. Whether it continues through a genocide or a slow, ongoing displacement policy, this is now the guiding policy of Israel vis a vis the Palestinians.