New story in The Grind. Amjad Ramadan, a 52-year-old Palestinian-Canadian, is suing his former employer for wrongful dismissal after he was abruptly terminated for speaking out for Palestine. "There is a campaign to silence us," he told me. @thegrindto.bsky.social

What cities around the world have really interesting, dynamic intellectual “scenes”? Want to tell the story/paint a portrait of such a “scene” — especially in the Global South — for @newlinesmag.bsky.social’s Global Thought series? Pitch me: [email protected] newlinesmag.com/topic/global...

From the @newlinesmag.bsky.social  archives: The virtual reality “House of Memory” created by the artist Basil Al-Rawi allows viewers to explore Iraq’s past, and the diaspora to share personal stories and reclaim their cultural heritage, writes @chriselkholy.bsky.social 

“An arduous verification process of the recent deaths is crucial not only for the sake of accountability, but also to expose the media manipulation that is once again preparing the ground for a unilateral US-led act of aggression in the Middle East.” www.aljazeera.com/opinions/202...

Carney has spent the past year subtweeting Trump. At a certain point, these words mean nothing if he won't actually come out and say what he's criticizing.

NEW: Far-right Zionist group Betar US will disband following an investigation by NY State Attorney General Letitia James into the group's "violence against and harassment of Muslim, Arab, Palestinian, and Jewish activists" and failure to register as a charity in NY despite soliciting donations.

Joined Al Jazeera’s The Take to discuss the latest developments in Gaza, why the peace plan has stalled, and what's coming next. Tune in for a listen here - or wherever you get your podcasts! omny.fm/shows/the-ta...

Remembering today that having your heart broken is a necessary step on the path to becoming fully human. Whichever heartbreak is your first, it’s probably critical that a state break your heart so that you can develop a political imagination. If this is your first, I’m sorry and also welcome.

Another one down in the books! thank you for all the sweet birthday wishes and gestures 🎈

"international law must be followed" is european for "thoughts and prayers"

Calls to strip pro-democracy activist Alaa Abd el-Fattah of his British citizenship pile torment on top of torture. New piece by me on a dangerous and manufactured storm: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

NEW: Across the Middle East, graffiti artists are claiming space and painting themselves back into the landscape, writes Ibrahim Absar for @newlinesmag.bsky.social newlinesmag.com/essays/the-c...

gn :)

@kxraja.bsky.social: “Immigrant journalists face the double threat of trying to stay safe while running headlong into unsafe situations in order to do their jobs.” www.niemanlab.org/2025/12/prot...

Shame will haunt New York Times leadership » @gabemschneider.bsky.social for @niemanlab.org www.niemanlab.org/2025/12/sham...

NEW: A year after Assad’s prisons collapsed, three Syrians are still struggling to reclaim lives hollowed out by experiences of torture, reports Paloma de Dinechin, with photos by Alexandra Henry. newlinesmag.com/spotlight/th...

‘They’re trying to get rich off it’: US contractors vie to rebuild Gaza, with ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ team in the lead

happy anniversary!

The goal of the Trump administration is an ethnic cleansing that is actively being enacted, and that promises to destroy the diversity & freedoms that were ever the strength of this imperfect nation. My latest in @theguardian.com. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

thinking about how cool brussels was…

“The anger and grief that had sustained the rebellion did not vanish with the fall of city after city.” The energy of past revolts against the Assads now shapes the new Syrian regime’s resilience and paranoia, writes @hhassan.bsky.social in @newlinesmag.bsky.social

I recently heard someone refer to Furbies as some of the earliest AI our generation had and I can’t stop thinking this

A 70-year-old woman and her son were hunted down and killed by an Israeli quadcopter drone for crossing the unmarked “yellow line” in Gaza City. They were “left to bleed to death” as the drone hovered overhead, preventing anyone from reaching them.

this shattered me…

“The situation today remains volatile, with no guarantees that Syria will survive.” Yassin al-Haj Saleh looks back at the 20th century and the unruly history weighing on the “new” Syria, for @newlinesmag.bsky.social

A horrifying CNN investigation reveals how Israel buried hundreds of starving Palestinians some of them alive using bulldozers and unmarked graves.

thinking about that time i briefly interned at @thetyee.ca

Listen to this episode and subscribe because we need more of what Scott’s doing:

This is crazy actually

Canadian-made weapons, mining interests, and restrictive refugee policies have contributed to the current atrocities in North Darfur. Excellent report from @breachmedia.ca : breachmedia.ca/in-the-genoc...

The Hind Rajab Foundation has submitted names of 24 Israeli soldiers to the ICC for the killing of Hind Rajab and others. They include dual nationals from Europe, Latin America and North America. It will be interesting to see if any are from Canada. www.hindrajabfoundation.org/posts/her-na...

Gaza death toll rises to 70,103 - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/gaza-death-toll-rises-70103

Department of War Crimes

I keep forgetting to use this

LIVING WITH DRONES is an interactive live journalism show that my friends & I @stitchedstudio.bsky.social have been sharing. It confronts the devastating impact of Israel's use of drones in the besieged Gaza Strip. We’ve got a show coming up next week in Ottawa: www.eventbrite.ca/e/living-wit...

2 🧵Mustafa Tafesh, 21, the youngest player on Palestine’s National Baseball Team, was killed last month in an Israeli airstrike in Gaza. @chriselkholy.bsky.social shares his story, in the words of his teammates: newlinesmag.com/spotlight/am...

It’s an incredible honor to share the story of Mustafa Tafesh, a bright young athlete who was killed in Israel’s genocidal assault on life & land in Gaza. Mustafa isn’t just a number, and he should still be here today. But Team Palestine’s dreams live on. newlinesmag.com/spotlight/am...

NEW: Before he was killed by an Israeli airstrike at the age of 21, Mustafa Tafesh was a founding member of the Palestinian National Baseball Team. @chriselkholy.bsky.social shares his story, in the words of his teammates, for @newlinesmag.bsky.social. newlinesmag.com/spotlight/am...

stitched! studio presents new dates for LIVING WITH DRONES at Camden People’s Theatre, London, U.K. 🗓️ Performance Dates: Thursday, Oct 16 – 7 PM Friday, Oct 17 – 7 PM Saturday, Oct 18 – 3 PM & 7 PM 🎟️ Tickets available now via the link in our bio or at cptheatre.co.uk

NEW: Subsidizing The Occupation is a major project from The Maple explaining how you and other Canadians have helped fund Israeli violence. www.subsidizingtheoccupation.ca

“an end to the hostilities” is a pathetic way to describe the scale of utter destruction of life and land Israel continues to commit in its genocide against the Palestinians @cmadocs.bsky.social

Gaza has reached IPC Phase 5, which is the worst level of food insecurity & is associated with high amounts of death & permanent disability. For people experiencing this level of malnutrition, even if it ended today, many of the consequences (eg personal outcomes like disabilities) are irreversible.

This week, @sarahsamuel.bsky.social joins The North State to discuss her piece “Canadian Mainstream Media’s Orientalist Stance Towards Palestinians” in the Al Jazeera Journalism Review. We talk the Toronto Star, Hasbara and the mental health crisis facing journalists of conscience. #cdnpoli #cdnnews

1.🧵"Role Reversals: A Palestinian in the Jewish Museum of Berlin" featuring @danaelkurd.bsky.social’s first-person essay was shortlisted in the Best Journalism-based Online Video category at this year’s Future of Media Awards by @pressgazette.co.uk pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/d...

Everybody: the NYT is effed up NYT editors:

The United States is removing Tahrir al-Sham and the Nusra Front, still treated as two aliases for the same entity, from its list of foreign terrorist organizations. @reuters.com: www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/us-ends-foreign-terrorist-designation-syrias-hts-2025-07-07/

it’s kind of nice to be back on here from the disorienting spiral of twitter

This @newlinesmag.bsky.social episode with @faisalalyafai.bsky.social, Christin El-Kholy, @dannypostel.bsky.social, and @surbhigupta.bsky.social captured so well why Mamdani resonated with folks in the diaspora like me:

wrote about how Toronto can learn a thing or two from supporting *actually* progressive politicians like @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social :