Good reporting on the South Shore raid from South Side weekly here. Confirms one thing I was told but didn't put in my own piece because I didn't have a second source and it seemed too insane: border agents segregated arrested residents by race southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...

BREAKING: Israel has intercepted Global Sumud Flotilla vessels Alma and Sirius, according to activists onboard. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/356qba

Italy and Spain intervene to ensure Gaza flotilla’s safety in the Mediterranean after drones drop ‘flashbang’ devices.

Statement in Solidarity with the Intern. Assoc. of Genocide Scholars by the Genocide & Holocaust Studies Crisis Network: We condemn attacks on the IAGS Gaza genocide resolution & abhor the denialism & bad faith that persist among some in the fields of Holocaust & Genocide Studies.

Since ppl love campus anecdotes so much, here's one: I have colleagues who give students they know to be MAGA an A (in one case I'm aware of overlooking clear AI use), because the colleague is on a Green Card or H1B, and they know: one complaint like at Texas A&M, and they're on a flight home. (1/3)

IDF sniper from Chicago who says he killed Gazan teenager just for trying to retrieve his brother's corpse: “They’re thinking, ‘Oh I don’t think [I’ll get shot] because I’m wearing civilian clothes and I am not carrying a weapon' and all that, but they were wrong. That’s what you have snipers for.”

"We make beer, but it's not just beer — it's a story." For @reuters.com's latest Culture Current, I spoke with Palestinian brewmaster Madees Khoury about the evolution of beer-making in the region, rising settler violence, and brewing as a form of soft power. www.reuters.com/lifestyle/ma...

Where is Scott Straus? He wrote a whole textbook on preventing genocide for the US Holocaust Memorial Museum, but I haven't heard a peep from him in the last two years.

Fuck these Nazi pigs.

Shorter NPR: the Biden administration made a conscious decision to abet instead of stopping Israel's genocide: 'We didn't do enough': How U.S. policy failed Palestinians in Gaza www.npr.org/2025/08/28/n...

In 1982, right after the Sabra and Shatila massacre, the Israelis first claimed that they didn't know anything about it, then that they had intervened to physically stop it. Over 40 years later, and the NYT still gives them the benefit of the doubt, printing their lies.

Unlike Palestinian academics, Joel has real skin in the game!

Remember when we were told that it was a "blood libel" to suggest that Israel would ever bomb a hospital?

Israel bombed Nasser Hospital in Gaza, killing at least 21 Palestinians, including journalists and medics, in an air attack that sparked widespread global condemnation aje.io/a6snwb

Imagine saying you can't condemn Hutu Pawa in the spring of 1994 because for some small number of Hutus abroad the ideology is about anti-Mwami liberatory politics, not necessarily genocidal hatred of Tutsis.

Obviously one can't really condemn actually existing Zionism, the ideology driving the genocide, because of the ghost of Martin Buber or whatever. Simple!

How have Mexicans not already made helado de piñón an international sensation?

Note how there's only scoffing, and zero engagement with the point that, for example, Michael Barnett has also made: ucigcc.org/blog/the-res...

Palestinian activist and participant in the Oscar-winning film, No Other Land, Odeh Hadalin was shot in the chest and killed by an Israeli settler in the Occupied West Bank. The shooter, Yinon Levi, has been under sanctions by both the EU and the US.

"Airdrops will not reverse the deepening starvation," UNRWA chief Philippe Lazzarini wrote on X on Saturday. "They are expensive, inefficient & can even kill starving civilians. It is a distraction & screensmoke." www.cbsnews.com/news/israel-...

Israel’s food points are not just death traps – they’re an alibi for the starvation of Gaza | Alex de Waal

@hrw.org release on al-Suweida violence: www.hrw.org/news/2025/07...

Some more than others...

BREAKING: An Israeli airstrike on a school-turned-shelter has killed at least 25 Palestinians, mostly women and children, Gaza's Health Ministry said. The school was hit three times while people slept, setting their belongings ablaze, they added.

Israel kills two Red Cross workers and 11-year-old influencer Yaqeen Hammad after seizing 77 percent of Gaza’s land.

BREAKING: At least five Palestinians have been killed and 50 wounded by an Israeli attack that targeted people gathering around a truck carrying flour in al-Mawasi, southern Gaza. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/q62k5i

So 3 in 4 have nothing to say about the government arresting and trying to deport people for anti-genocide speech.

Western academia is willing to self destruct in the service of defending Israeli genocide.

A senior security official says the “transfer” of Palestinians out of Gaza is a key goal of Israel’s upcoming operation, reports Haaretz’s Yaniv Kubovich. @haaretzcom.bsky.social www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

It was clear to nearly everyone that Israel's totally unprovoked land grabs in Syria were a prelude to things to come, but folks like Fishman insisted it was just temporary. Now Israel is taking more & more land while bombing the south.

It's shocking to me how many US liberals refuse to believe that Israeli genocide & ethnic cleansing has bipartisan support in the US. It was Biden's plan before it was Trump's.

Segments of the field of genocide studies are not only showing that the field isn't up to the task when it comes to Gaza but also that they themselves are willing to abet genocide so long as it's committed by Israel.

Today, the White House welcomed Yoav Gallant, charged by the ICC with the war crimes of starvation as a method of warfare and intentionally directing an attack against the civilian population, as well as the crimes against humanity of murder, persecution, and other inhumane acts. What a disgrace.

A mammoth investigation by Declan Walsh into the gold rush fueling Sudan's civil war. The paramilitary RSF has extracted $860m worth from mines it seized in Darfur this year alone. Who's profiting? The UAE. Gift link and 🧵 of some visual reporting. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/11/w...

NEW: Human rights organization Amnesty International has released a 296-page report concluding that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza. The group joins Holocaust historians, United Nations experts, and a growing number of nations worldwide in doing so.

There's a whole broad literature on genocide denial that one could look into if one were so inclined: www.genocide-watch.com/genocide/ten...

@reuters.com’s Maya Gebeily on the Lebanese army and why, realistically, an enhanced deployment in south Lebanon per UNSCR 1701 will require Hizbullah’s consent: www.reuters.com/world/middle...

Jeffrey Goldberg finally found a Palestinian to say how being imprisoned by Israelis as a child taught him that Palestinians' top political priority should be Israeli security and how one of Palestinians' biggest problems is anti-genocide protests on US campuses.

A reminder that this is the current Biden administration with no electoral constraints: press.un.org/en/2024/gash...

On revolution and counterrevolution in Sudan: "The suffering is epic because the world’s ethical and material failure to provide relief for those inside Sudan and fleeing across its borders has also been epic." hammerandhope.org/article/suda...

From 1970:

Annelle Sheline: “Unable to serve an administration that enables such atrocities, I have decided to resign from my position at the Department of State. Whatever credibility the United States had as an advocate for human rights has almost entirely vanished.” www.cnn.com/2024/03/27/o...

What kind of munitions would Jesus sign?

This will be the defense: the genocidal rhetoric has mostly been from those not carrying out the war and for those carrying it out, there didn't really mean it.

@washingtonpost.com's Miriam Berger and Hajar Harb on how the Israeli military is detaining and disappearing Gazan civilians: www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/1...

Genocide, like apartheid, is always just around the corner but never quite here. It's Zeno's paradox as political analysis.

This is really peculiar coming from someone who has spent so much time and energy publicly insisting on the label of genocide in Ukraine. The rhetorical move of brushing the description aside as emotional language from the ignorant is particularly telling.