Netanyahu says the war is not over My latest with comments from @ayoub.bsky.social @aburass.bsky.social & Rob Geist Pinfold www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/11...

An Israeli strike on the Ein el-Hilweh refugee camp near Sidon killed at least 13 people. Israel claimed it targeted Hamas members, but Lebanon condemned it as a violation of sovereignty, warning the attacks risk reigniting conflict along the border. #EinElHilweh

The LMU announces the cancellation of a seminar on the topic "the targeting of Palestinian academia". The cancellation announcement is titled "LMU as a place of pluralistic discourse". Couldn't make this up. www.lmu.de/en/about-lmu...

Good rant, @hankgreen.bsky.social youtu.be/9zi0ogvPfCA

This week's roundup of under-reported news from Palestine, Israel, and MENA. ridaaburass.com/z_ridaaburas...

An important report at @972mag.com, highlighting the consequences of state-backed, settler violence. projects.972mag.com/portraits-se...

Settler violence is spiraling out of control in the West Bank. www.arabnews.com/node/2622467...

A 14 year old, autistic teenager - a Palestinian citizen of Israel, who is accused of security-related offenses - was sexually assaulted by his cellmates. He was kept in the same cell with his attackers, even after complaining - only recently being transferred to solitary confinement.

Israel has destroyed more than 1,500 buildings in areas beyond the "yellow line" since the ceasefire started. Textbook ethnic cleansing.

“Iraqi leaders must address the issues of dwindling voter turnout, the persistence of ethno-sectarian campaigning [etc etc] ...Yet Iraq’s political elite have no incentive to reform a system that benefits them.” Marsin Alshamary and Hamzeh Hadad www.brookings.edu/articles/why...

Iraqis voted in parliamentary elections amid deep frustration with corruption, poor services, and political elites. Turnout remains uncertain as Iraq faces pressure to balance US and Iranian influence while addressing growing public anger over living conditions. #Iraq

A daily reality, over the past month or so.

כתבה לא קלה לקריאה של @aburass.bsky.social , על איך החברה שלנו נראית בעיני מישהו שפעם היה חלק ממנה, בצל המלחמה ורצח העם.

Turkey issues arrest warrants for 36 Israeli officials on charges of genocide. The list includes PM Netanyahu, Defense Minister Israel Katz, National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, and Chief of Staff Eyal Zamir.

Here's this week's roundup of under-reported news from Palestine, Israel, the Middle East and North Africa: ridaaburass.com/z_ridaaburas...

On returning to Jaffa, Rida Abu Rass, a Palestinian citizen of Israel, was surprised by “the subtle, counterintuitive ways in which Israelis and Palestinians have changed.” He reflects on the future of his native country, for @newlinesmag.bsky.social

On his first visit since Oct. 7, the author wonders whether there is still an Arab-Jewish future for his native country @aburass.bsky.social comforting some very painful realities A must read:

This summer, I returned home, to Jaffa - my first visit since October 7th. This is the story of my time there. newlinesmag.com/first-person...

NEW: On his first visit since Oct. 7, Palestinian citizen of Israel Rida Abu Rass wonders whether there is still an Arab-Jewish future for his native country. newlinesmag.com/first-person...

What does the future hold for Palestinian citizens of Israel after the Gaza genocide? @aburass.bsky.social, who grew up in Jaffa but left to study in Canada, wrote this searching, compelling first-person article after his first visit back since Oct. 7 newlinesmag.com/first-person...

This summer, I returned home, to Jaffa - my first visit since October 7th. This is the story of my time there. newlinesmag.com/first-person...

"The United States military is upgrading a long-abandoned former Cold War naval base in the Caribbean, a Reuters visual investigation has found, suggesting preparations for sustained operations that could help support possible actions inside Venezuela." www.reuters.com/graphics/USA...

A bill that would instate the death penalty for "nationalistically motivated murders" of Israeli citizens is being advanced in the Knesset. Backed by Netanyahu, the bill would not apply to Israelis who killed Palestinians.

Before Oct 23 Israel made a considerable effort to argue that its legal system investigates alleged war crimes seriously - thus enjoys "complementarity״ protection from intl proceedings. Now Israel no longer even tries to pretend that this is the case. 2/2

Another Palestinian has died in an Israeli jail. There have been 81 such cases since Oct 7 Muhamed Husein Awadra, a resident of the Jenin region was arrested on August 6 2024. He died on 11.2.25.

This week's under-reported news: ridaaburass.com/z_ridaaburas...

Israeli forces raided Silwad, near Ramallah last night, and killed a 15-year old Palestinian teenager.

Systematic execution of hundreds in a hospital in Darfur, as RSF/Janjaweed take over the city of El Fasher (population ~250k) in Darfur. That adds to an estimated 150,000+ death toll from fighting, plus many more from famine. But Sudan is one of those places the outside world cares little about.

In the Darfurian city of al-Fashir, captured by the genocidal UAE-backed RSF, satellite imagery is observing tens of thousands of corpses that have appeared in the streets in the last 48 hours. They aren't letting anyone leave the city and communications with the outside world have been cut off.

19 doctors from Gaza are still held in Israeli prisons, without any charges against them. They were abducted from hospitals in the Strip many months ago, and are held in inhumane conditions.

Opposition leader (!) Yair Lapid says he wants to tie voting rights to military service. To disenfranchise Haredi and Palestinian citizens of Israel. 🫠

My weekly roundup of under-reported news from Palestine, Israel, and MENA. ridaaburass.com/z_ridaaburas...

JD Vance: "The West Bank is not going to be annexed by Israel". Smotrich: "We'll make sure there will never be a Palestinian state ... If Saudi Arabia wants a Palestinian state in exchange for normalization, no thanks, they can go ride a camel".

It’s truly funny if anyone in the White House thought Netanyahu was invested in their ceasefire and wouldn’t try to to derail it at the first opportunity www.nytimes.com/2025/10/20/u...

Who could have predicted? “Several Trump officials..said there is concern within the administration that Mr. Netanyahu may vacate the deal. The strategy now, the officials say, is for Mr. Vance, Mr. Witkoff and Mr. Kushner to try to keep Mr. Netanyahu fr resuming an all-out assault against Hamas”

After violating the ceasefire yesterday, Israel was restrained, under US pressure. The Israeli leadership has made it clear that it wants to continue the ethnic cleansing of Gaza. The deal's fate hangs on the US' willingness to continue restraining Israel, and I am not sure that it will.

My beautiful life partner wrote an article on accessible design, crafting, modding, and hacking. Check it out: catalystjournal.org/index.php/ca...

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Israeli settlers - backed by soldiers - continue to disrupt the annual Palestinian olive harvest, stealing crops, cutting down trees, and attacking olive-pickers. Every single day.

A super informative interview about the growing Gen Z 212 movement in Morocco: he.crimethinc.com/2025/10/13/m...

This is incredible. The contrast between the Chilean consul and the Swedes is incredible. The audacity of the Israelis is incredible. I have no words

Israel is keeping the Rafah crossing closed, limiting aid into Gaza, after Hamas failed to deliver the remaining hostages' bodies. Israel could use this as pretext for the genocide's resumption. All depends on Trump's willingness to apply long-term pressure.

Israeli forces killed at least seven Palestinians across the Gaza Strip today, in violation of the ceasefire agreement. www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-...

Worth a read: newlinesmag.com/essays/haile...

Israeli forces detained 14 Palestinians in the West Bank town of Deir Istiya early this morning, the day of the Israel-Hamas hostage-detainee swap.

Baffling, considering Canada's acute shortage of (around 23,000) family doctors. www.thestar.com/news/ontario...

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October marks the start of the olive harvest in Palestine, a culturally significant and, usually, joyous occasion. Israeli settlers - backed by soldiers - have stolen crops, cut down trees, attacked, and in some cases severely injured, Palestinian olive-pickers - *every day* this week.