"The ceasefire might have stopped the bombs, but we remain scattered, our lives paused, our futures uncertain." In Gaza’s brittle ceasefire, Palestinian writer Khaled Al-Qershali reflects on a life suspended between the memory of home and the fear of losing it again.

Election Day in New York City is here—and the world is watching. Here’s why, according to Bernie Sanders (@sanders.senate.gov):

“Billionaires like Bill Ackman and Ronald Lauder have poured millions of dollars into this race because they say that we pose an existential threat. I am here to admit something: They are right.” Great view of the big picture by @ismat.bsky.social www.analystnews.org/posts/what-z...

🧵Zohran Mamdani went from a no-name assemblyman polling at just 1% in February to being the front-runner for NYC mayor in a matter of months. I write for @analystnews.bsky.social on what his meteoric rise *and* the intense backlash to his campaign tell us about democracy in America.

Zohran Mamdani’s miraculous rise from obscurity to front-runner for mayor of New York City has forced a reckoning over what democracy really means — and who it’s designed to exclude. www.analystnews.org/posts/what-z...

Two years into Israel’s war on Gaza, childhood itself has been erased. In Gaza, there’s no “after” the trauma — only survival. Read the full story: analystnews.org/posts/the-complete-collapse-of-childhood-in-gaza

Meet the billionaires and corporate giants enabling and profiting from Trump’s deportation machine. From Jeff Bezos to Peter Thiel, their companies are tied to the apparatus that’s helped ICE deport nearly 200,000 people since January. Full link in next post.

“I lost peace and safety — and lost everything beautiful inside me.” In this first-hand account diary, Gaza teacher and journalist Ruwaida Amer recounts a life built from rubble, only to be shattered again by war. www.analystnews.org/posts/diary-...

Quebec’s proposed ban on public prayer is sparking national debate in Canada. Supporters call it social unity; critics say it targets Muslims and erodes religious freedom. How far can secularism go before it collides with rights? ⤵️ www.analystnews.org/posts/quebec...

“Leaders from student sit-ins to Martin Luther King realized the importance of attacking an overwhelming evil at its weakest point. That’s where you stand the best chance of winning—& winning is far more empowering than chronic losing.” @analystnews.bsky.social www.analystnews.org/posts/how-pe...

Far-right groups in the U.K. are plastering the streets with St. George’s Crosses, but their message is less about immigration and more about targeting Muslims. Read how patriotism is being weaponized as Islamophobia.⤵️ www.analystnews.org/posts/the-fa...

Squid Game was a brutal critique of capitalism. But its global success—from Netflix profits to McDonald’s collabs—shows how even art that resists the system gets consumed by it. Read: www.analystnews.org/posts/squid-...

California’s AB 715, backed by pro-Israel groups, would redefine antisemitism in schools and punish teachers for discussing Palestine. Educators say it’s a censorship bill that chills free speech and whitewashes history. Read by @robcamachosd.bsky.social www.analystnews.org/posts/califo...

Sudan’s humanitarian crisis is among the worst in the world: tens of thousands killed, 10 million displaced, USAID shut down. Sudanese families are turning to crowdfunding for food, medicine & evacuations—a fragile lifeline amid war. analystnews.org/posts/sudan-war-torn-crowdfunding-donations-usaid

Most Americans oppose Israel’s war on Gaza — and oppose sending weapons to Israel. Historian Rashid Khalidi says that means Americans must demand their elected officials actually represent their views. www.youtube.com/shorts/cs3hx...

“The Gaza famine is the world’s famine.” — @tomfletcherun.bsky.social

Ukraine and Gaza lay bare the collapse of the postwar international order. Political scientist C. J. Polychroniou says that international law is powerless, the U.N. irrelevant and Western powers morally bankrupt. Read: analystnews.org/posts/ukrain...

In an Aug. 5 interview with Drop Site News, historian Rashid Khalidi challenged the notion that the United States should support Israel because it’s “the only democracy in the Middle East.”

JUST IN: In a newly-released joint statement, more than 100 NGOs warn that Israel’s new rules could ban major international charities from operating in Gaza, blocking vital food and medicine and forcing aid groups to hand over sensitive data as famine deepens. www.youtube.com/shorts/5NlJc...

A new report from Doctors Without Borders accuses the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation of turning food distribution sites into “a laboratory of cruelty.” 🧵

“The dehumanization is so painful.” Ms. Rachel — beloved by millions of toddlers — has been outspoken for Palestinian children. She says she’s shocked by how deeply they’re dehumanized, and while the backlash has been painful, the support has been greater. www.youtube.com/shorts/_XjA4...

In a new analysis reported by Andrea Umbrello, the question is simple: How does Israel finance its ever‑expanding wars from Gaza to Lebanon to Yemen? Spoiler: the bombs don’t pay for themselves. 🧵

Gaza’s food system has been obliterated. A new U.N. report shows just how devastating—and deliberate—the destruction is. 🧵

80 years ago today, the United States dropped the first nuclear bomb on Hiroshima. Now, one of its last survivors wants the world to wake up to the growing nuclear threat. Read: analystnews.org/posts/one-of...

80 years ago today, the United States dropped the first nuclear bomb on Hiroshima. Now, one of its last survivors wants the world to wake up to the growing nuclear thread. Read: analystnews.org/posts/one-of...

Up to 300,000 Australians marched across the Sydney Harbour Bridge on Sunday, demanding an end to their government’s complicity in the Gaza genocide. Jewish Australian journalist Antony Loewenstein called for sanctions on Israel as the only way to end its impunity. www.youtube.com/shorts/cJuvR...

For two years, Palestinians begged for food, water and medicine only to be met with silence, or worse, euphemisms. Now Western headlines say “famine” and “genocide.” But don’t mistake this shift for a newfound conscience, writes Ahmad Ibsais. Read: www.analystnews.org/posts/why-th...

“It’s not a complex issue. It’s super simple.” In one of his final appearances before his death in 2020, Jewish American commentator Michael Brooks called Israel-Palestine what it is: apartheid. WATCH: www.youtube.com/shorts/fA5dP...

Fast fashion is flooding the world with cheap clothes. Can thrift culture really counter the damage—or is it just a Band-Aid on a broken system? Read ⤵️ www.analystnews.org/posts/can-th...

🧵More than 70,000 Palestinians killed. An entire population facing starvation. Neighborhoods, hospitals and schools erased. This is the genocide in Gaza — by the numbers.

The Daily Show’s Jon Stewart, who is Jewish, says criticizing Israel’s ‘inhumane’ assault on Gaza isn’t antisemitic — but using antisemitism as a weapon to silence dissent is. youtube.com/shorts/5Rwdm...

“You can’t starve civilians to win a war. That’s a war crime.” In a powerful new interview with Analyst News, Luis Moreno Ocampo—the International Criminal Court’s first prosecutor—defends Karim Khan as he faces attacks for seeking Netanyahu’s arrest. www.analystnews.org/posts/foundi...

“A big lie.” Sen. Chris Van Hollen says Israel’s claim that Hamas steals U.N. aid is a fabrication—one used to justify starving 2 million people in Gaza. He says Israel should be held accountable for war crimes. youtube.com/shorts/Lu7Hr...

“Without question, I witnessed war crimes.” U.S. Army veteran Lt. Col. Anthony Aguilar says Israeli forces—and U.S. contractors—targeted starving Palestinians at Gaza aid sites. Hundreds have died. He quit in protest. Watch his chilling testimony: youtube.com/shorts/B3Uqu...

“The blood is on our hands as Americans. We are profoundly complicit and deeply responsible.”
 @peterbeinart.bsky.social says the U.S. is not just silent—it is actively enabling famine and genocide in Gaza with weapons, diplomatic cover and billions in aid. youtube.com/shorts/HT4uh...

"In the camp, I came to understand the true cruelty of this genocide: the suffocating overcrowding, the mass of refugees forced out of their homes, and the endless stories of hunger. " Must-read from @analystnews.bsky.social www.analystnews.org/posts/we-are...

International Crisis Group is a globally-respected NGO focused on conflict prevention. In a stark new statement, it says “Gaza is tipping from mass starvation toward mass death” and demands the immediate flow of aid and a ceasefire.

“We are starving.” In a painful first-hand account from Gaza, Ruwaida Amer reports on the daily reality of famine under Israel’s siege. The World Food Program says nearly one in three people in Gaza don’t eat for days at a stretch, and “thousands” are “on the verge of catastrophic hunger.”

@kennethroth.bsky.social doesn’t pull punches. The former Human Rights Watch chief explains why U.S. presidents have long failed to stop Israel’s war crimes—and why Trump, for all his flaws, might actually be the one with enough ego and power to do it. www.youtube.com/shorts/QVd5P...

In a new interview with Analyst News, former Human Rights Watch chief @kennethroth.bsky.social says Israel is deliberately targeting civilians in Israel.

🧵Donald Trump wants a Nobel Peace Prize. But “you don’t get one for aiding and abetting genocide and finally getting it to stop,” says Kenneth Roth. But if Trump ends the genocide on Gaza and creates a Palestinian state? He just might just have a chance.

Hunger in Gaza has reached famine levels—and it has been fully controlled and designed by Israel, says Alex de Waal, one of the world’s leading experts on hunger. youtube.com/shorts/4WCCv...

Is Superman anti-Israel—or just another piece of Hollywood propaganda? Cambridge doctoral candidate Iffat Mirza unpacks the film’s messaging in a searing new viewpoint: “Superman dodges the deeper critique: America’s complicity in global violence.”

“You don’t justify one genocide with another.” In a new interview with Analyst News, Kenneth Roth, former head of Human Rights Watch and son of a Jewish refugee, says Israel is weaponizing Holocaust memory to justify atrocities in Gaza. Full interview drops Wednesday. youtube.com/shorts/wGQFF...

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist @monachalabi.bsky.social accuses mainstream media of manufacturing consent for genocide in Gaza. Watch: youtube.com/shorts/LAtvw...

🧵“Our faith does not align with genocide.” That’s what rabbis, pastors and peace activists of other faiths told Christians United for Israel, the largest pro-Israel Christian lobby in the U.S., as they protested its influence on U.S. foreign policy fueling the war on Gaza.

🧵In Dec. 2023, Holocaust and genocide scholar Omer Barton told Analyst News: “I don’t think that right now we can argue for genocide [in Gaza]. We can certainly make arguments for crimes against humanity and war crimes.” Today, he says: Israel is committing genocide.

🚨 War in Iraq. 🔥 Regime change in Syria. ⚠️ Iran is next. This isn’t a series of accidents—it’s a pattern. Read our new viewpoint on how U.S. and Israeli strategy set the Middle East on fire: www.analystnews.org/posts/americ...

🧵The U.S. is sanctioning @franceskalbs.bsky.social for her devastating new report on the 
“economy of genocide”—how mass atrocity in Gaza is being monetized. 1/6

"Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon," Western leaders loudly proclaim whilst ignoring their own huge stockpiles of nuclear warheads, which could destroy the world in an instant.