Egyptian authorities announced the presidential pardon of prominent activist Alaa Abd el-Fattah after six years in prison, according to his lawyer Khaled Ali and an announcement by state TV.

Brazil, invoking Article 63 of the ICJ Statute, filed a declaration of intervention in the case SouthAfrica v. Israel.

A Libyan vessel named after the anti-colonial hero Omar al-Mukhtar is being converted into a floating emergency clinic to join the Gaza-bound Sumud flotilla after activists reported "surveillance drones shadowing" ⬇️

Israel is waging a holocaust in Gaza. Denazification is our only remedy The deadly ethno-supremacy inherent to Israeli society runs deeper than Netanyahu, Ben Gvir, and Smotrich. It must be confronted at its root. By Orly Noy. www.972mag.com/israel-holoc...

A reminder: Israel has mandatory military service. Conscripts from foreign nations are volunteers. There are people from your countries who volunteer to go to Palestine on behalf of Israel to shoot toddlers in the head. Ask yourselves why. Ask yourselves what kind of people do that. I’ll wait.

Saudi Arabia and Pakistan ink a mutual defense pact, signalling to the US and Israel that the kingdom is willing to diversify its security alliances as it looks to bolster its deterrence.

I had the opportunity to review Elham Fakhro's excellent and highly timely book on the Abraham Accords. It sheds light on Israel, the UAE, Bahrain, the GCC, and the US at this current moment. merip.org/2025/09/the-...

Not holding my breath.

Targeting archaeological heritage is a war crime and a significant facet of genocide. It is a clear attempt to deny Palestinian identity and right to their deep connections to place. Solidarity to those in the ground trying to protect Palestinian heritage.

Boycotting immoral academic institutions and academics who frequently dispute expert opinion on genocide is the bare minimum. Imagine engaging with individuals devoid of human values but thinking they’d uphold research ethics. Even worse, knowing they’ve served in the IDF at one point.

The only good thing about the ongoing disintegration of the US is that it's been happening slowly enough for other countries to adjust economically and politically.

There's a weird level of racialization that happens here too sometimes, this idea that Qatar or the UAE are secretly super happy with Israel running roughshod. Perfidy etc. These are evil countries but they're also countries with their own interests. They are just not that good at advancing them.

The broadcaster did not immediately give any further details on the attack.

Herzog has been a consistent cheerleader for Israel's campaign in Gaza. His assertion that there are no innocent civilians in Gaza is key evidence in the genocide case being heard at the ICJ. Basic facts in the biggest news story in the world, of which Balls displays blithe, swaggering ignorance.

Many of us believe the US is very much in control and approving of Israeli conduct. It is essentially a US violation behind an Israeli mask — a reminder to Gulf states that their raison d'etre is to protect US interests even at the expense of their own survival and welfare.

The firm backed by US & ISRAEL guarding sites where aid is distributed in Gaza has been using members of a US biker gang with a history of hostility to Islam to run its armed security, a BBC investigation has found. This is beginning to look like Muslim persecution. www.bbc.com/news/article...

No Arab state is sovereign until it severs from the US-Israeli regional architecture

Some rare very good news: Elizabeth Tsurkov, a Russian-Israeli graduate student at Princeton and top researcher who was kidnapped in Iraq in 2023 by the Iran-backed group Kataib Hezbollah, has been released www.nytimes.com/2025/09/09/w...

Another one just hit the Flotilla! God have mercy.

"Raab... says he shot Salem simply because he tried to retrieve the body of his beloved older brother Mohammed. “It’s hard for me to understand why he [did that] and it also doesn’t really interest me,” Raab says in a video interview posted on X. “I mean, what was so important about that corpse?”"

This piece of shit lives among you

Agree with Michael. The GCC as a whole has been unsettled with some recalibration on regional policy since the Iran attack on Al Udeid, but has largely felt despite the ceiling of Iranian rapprochement being met ,it can contain spillover from Gaza. This, completely changes their threat perception.

There’s a good chance Qatari officials arranged for Palestinian negotiators to attend an impromptu majlis or meeting without alerting them to US/Israeli plans. Why would they allow for a successful assassination to happen on their soil? The negotiators survived. Trust in the US didn’t.

I’m not so sure this time. The Gulf countries are genuinely stunned, particularly as they see Israel as operating without any constraints. That is unnerving and creates real concern about their security relationship with the U.S.

Yes, Israel violated Qatari sovereignty, and the Yemen’s, and Iran’s too. But it also violated the sovereignty of Western capitals. What sovereignty does the UK have when Israel gets to dictate what constitutes terrorism, and what forms of protests and against whose interests becomes proscribed.

Israel killed a Qatari citizen. “According to preliminary information, the attack resulted in the martyrdom of Corporal Bader Saad Mohammed Al-Humaidi Al-Dosari, a member of the Internal Security Force (Lekhwiya).”

The US may have given Qatari officials advance notice but the strikes terrorised citizens and residents, who were obviously unaware their day would be interrupted by casual Israeli transnational violence. They truly see everyone as collateral in their carnage.

المتغطي بالأمريكان عريان. يا ليت قومي يعلمون.

Qatar is a Major Non-NATO ally that has played a critical mediating role for the US in a bunch of different situations. Wtf is even the point of that if US security assurances aren't worth the shitstained toilet paper they're scribbled on

US doctrine is that nobody but Israel is sovereign in MENA.

Gulf states should do more than simply condemn this terrorist attack on Qatar. Israel is a metastasising cancer that is threatening the security of the entire region, including its normalising allies. Anything short of recalling ambassadors would be embarrassing.

Spanish PM Pedro Sánchez says Israel is ‘exterminating a defenceless people’ Spain announces raft of measures designed to increase pressure on Benjamin Netanyahu to end Gaza war www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

2023 tweet; still valid. Global North academics repeat after me: Since I did not raise objections to the genocide, I shall not teach courses on decolonisation, decoloniality, post-genocide literatures from Palestine or other cognate ‘radical’ courses that advance my career & help me procure grants.

"The simple fact is that Moh Ahmed’s demands carry more weight than nearly every legal scholar combined. That’s the potential power of an athletic boycott." Rebecca O'Keeffe and I argue we need to work with athletes to ban Israel from all international sports now, before it's too late.

Amused by the change in UAE’s domestic propaganda. Nothing tells me enthusiasm for the Abraham Accords have waned like the podcast episodes they keep churning out. Host: Describe the Jewish character. Usama al-Shadhili: It is one of perpetual victimhood, and perpetual whining.

When people tell you that Israel is a democracy, they are also telling you that they don't view Israel's treatment of the Palestinians as disqualifying it from that classification. In other words, they are effectively telling you that they view Palestinians as sub-human.

Wrote about Tom Barrack's proposal for an 'economic zone' in southern Lebanon and why it's a silly idea www.aljazeera.com/features/202...

“Annexation would be a red line for my government, and that means there can be no lasting peace. It would foreclose the idea of regional integration and be the death knell of the two-state solution,” Emirati special envoy Lana Nusseibah told The Times of Israel.

How do move on from some of the ME scholars we know on here and (used to) follow, who tried to tone-police us, defer judgment on the term genocide, insisting it was hyperbole for more than a year into the genocide. They backpedal now because the global consensus rips away the shield of arrogance.

Egypt has reportedly begun training hundreds of Palestinians to be part of a force of up to 10,000 to provide security for the Gaza Strip, as Arab countries rally around a vision of postwar Gaza without Hamas, Arab officials told the WSJ www.wsj.com/world/middle...

Tom Barrack called journalists in Beirut animalistic to their face, saying they must act civilised. The US’ protectorate Israel has murdered more journalists than most countries in the past century combined - in 2 years. The US is mask off. Our colonial overlords don’t bother hiding it anymore. 🧵

#GAZA: Multiple journalists killed by Israeli strikes on Nasser Hospital, including a freelance journalist who worked for @apnews.com. At least 8 people were killed in a double-tap strike on the 4th floor, Gaza's Health Ministry said, the second attack came as rescue crews arrived.

Last month @theatlantic.com published an often problematic piece about the war in #Sudan called “the war about nothing”. This week @thecontinent.org swings back, reminding us that what is “nothing” to you is “everything” to someone else. The Continent is a free publication, subscribe to read.

CNN chopped the segment they published of Prince Turki Al Faisal’s talk with Christiane Amanpour yesterday. In the omitted part, he says, “How can anybody expect Saudi Arabia to normalise with such a criminal or genocidal maniac?” He also talks about the biblical fantasies of ‘Greater Israel’.

As Israel rained death on Iran, Iranians mobilized mutual aid and grassroots solidarity. I wrote about practices of hope under the bombs: "Mutual aid offers a way to act collectively and politically, under the radar, and is a practice of imagination." thepublicsource.org/tehran-solid...

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