This is such a perfect reflection of why #KamalaHarris was such a terrible candidate. Even now, she still doesn't get it. People in #Gaza did not need her or #Biden's sympathy. They needed action to stop the genocide, something neither of them even CONSIDERED giving them.

A real loss to the world and, especially to journalism on the Middle East. #RIP David Hirst. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

This is barbaric and a blatantly illegal act, #Israel. You don't get to shoot at, bomb, or drop chemicals on ships in international waters because you don't like them or because you think they might try to break your illegal blockade protecting your genocidal operation.

The incredible thing is how many Americans are actually proud seeing the president of the United States humiliate his own country before the entire world.

Keep in mind when you watch #JimmyKimmel tonight that while he's back for now (without Sinclair and Nexstar his ratings will decline enough to cancel him later) there is a legion of people who lost their jobs who aren't famous, wouldn't have been personally OK anyway, and won't get their jobs back.

Today is Rosh Hashanah, the beginning of a period of ten days of atonement. Whatever sins I may have committed in the past year, having now sat through Trump's entire, hour-long spewing of insane, rambling nonsense at the UNGA, I have paid for them with interest.

It is always a treat these days when I get to report some good news, and this is very good news! Alaa Abdel Fattah, the Egyptian blogger who has been in prison since 2019 for, you know, blogging, has finally been released! www.bbc.com/news/article...

#Israeli journalist Nir Hasson gathers the large and diverse body of evidence showing that the overwhelming majority of those killed by #Israel in #Gaza have been civilians. www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

Many of the most callous supporters of #Israel’s genocide in #Gaza like to say that this is what happens in war. Here's some perspective for those heartless people.

This is just sick. Leiter equates #Palestinians - not Hamas, not militants, but ALL Palestinians - with Nazis. Then he pumps out a racist, Islamophobic version of the Great Replacement Theory by claiming that Starmer is worried about an "Islamist takeover." Muslims are 6.5% of the British population

#Trump and Rubio's ignorance of the Mideast might allow them to be snookered into pressing #Egypt into pulling its forces away from the border with #Gaza. More likely they may be on the same page as #Israel in the effort to ethnically cleanse Gaza. Either way it must be opposed youtu.be/WTglfHbghnw

Israel claims to have security concerns about Egypt in the Sinai, but what it's really trying to do is facilitate its ethnic cleansing of Gaza Israel Wants Trump To Press Egypt to Open Sinai to Fleeing Gazans Watch on Substack: open.substack.com/pub/mitchell... Or on YouTube: youtu.be/WTglfHbghnw

Benjamin #Netanyahu walked back claims about Israel's international isolation after causing a stock market dip, but he was right - the #Gaza genocide has severely hurt #Israel's standing. It's never been a better time for divestment and sanctions. mondoweiss.net/2025/09/as-i...

So grateful for Colin Kaepernick. This is needed. Too many questions have been raised, and no reasonable person can trust the Mississippi authorities to answer them truthfully. Colin Kaepernick shows himself a true hero again, to the eternal shame of the NFL. www.localmemphis.com/article/news...

Over 100 American Jews--prominent rabbis, activists, academics, and other public figures--come together to denounce the cynical weaponization of antisemitism to advance authoritarianism open.substack.com/pub/mitchell...

Isn't it awesome that #Trump was able to make peace between Aberbayjohn and Albania? I mean, did Obama or Biden or even Reagan make peace between one country that doesn't exist and one that's not at war? No, they didn't. What a great leader with the sharpest brain.

Like #Israel, the US has no interest in a ceasefire, so this is no surprise. But, this was a veto of the unconditional release of the #Israeli hostages, something else the US and Israel have no interest in. Remind Israel's supporters of that every chance you get. share.google/0n2znWzB7f2b...

The monstrous scale of this kind of racism is impossible to quantify. There is literally a genocide happening, two million people are being starved to death, blown up, shot, tortured. But they're #Palestinian so they don't matter to him. aje.io/mozjix

The complicity of some influential Arab dictatorships is a key component both the genocide in #Gaza, but of the oppression and dispossesion for decades of #Palestinians more broadly. UAE won’t cut Israel ties if West Bank annexed, despite ‘red line’ warning www.timesofisrael.com/uae-wont-cut...

There is no organization called ANTIFA. It's an idea, opposition to fascism. Hence the name. But that makes this worse. Trump can call anyone and any group he disagrees with "ANTIFA," and we can be certain he will. That activates a legion of draconian anti-Terrorism laws. This is no small thing.

This is an unmitigated, and illegal, outrage. The purported "reasons" are both unconstitutional and absurd. www.politico.com/news/2025/09...

Today, ABC furthered their complicity with the creation of an American dictatorship and Trump's assault on the First Amendment by suspending Jimmy Kimmel's show. Below is what Trump sent out two months ago. Coincidence? I think not!

Report From Independent International Commission of Inquiry on Palestine is backed by irrefutable evidence and clear legal foundations. There's no room for argument: Israel is committing genocide. Watch on Substack: open.substack.com/pub/mitchell... Or on YouTube: youtu.be/HxA5Q-ZQTnk

Report From Independent International Commission of Inquiry on Palestine is backed by irrefutable evidence and clear legal foundations. There's no room for argument: Israel is committing genocide. Watch on Substack: open.substack.com/pub/mitchell... Or on YouTube: youtu.be/HxA5Q-ZQTnk

Another chapter in the #GazaGenocide‌ The mass slaughter of civilians in Gaza City is now fully underway. aje.io/bdkjml

The @washingtonpost.com fired @karenattiah.bsky.social because she posted this: "Part of what keeps America so violent is the insistence that people perform care, empty goodness and absolution for white men who espoused hatred and violence." Her only direct reference to Charlie Kirk was this:

Myself, I think @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social's politics are great. But even if you disagree, how can you possibly prefer such examples of the absolute worst in politics as Cuomo or Adams to him?

The US murdered three more people in an illegal strike in international waters, which it excused with unsubstantiated claims - claims that STILL wouldn't excuse the strike. Trump himself said fishermen should be afraid to try to earn their living. A clear threat to innocent people. aje.io/m6jmb5

Yeah, Donnie, using human shields certainly is a "human atrocity." Does it bother you that #Israel is the party that does it? Nah, didn't think so.

Always good to have confirmation. I noted this was very likely the case last week in @mondoweiss.net See my piece here: mondoweiss.net/2025/09/unde... www.axios.com/2025/09/15/t...

"A prayer for peace and tolerance In the way of Charlie Kirk." "On the Temple Mount" "Led by former Knesset Member Rabbi Yehuda Glick" Glick is an extreme radical whose life's work has been to build the third Temple on the ruins of the al-Aqsa Mosque Prayers for peace and tolerance, right?

I'm old enough to remember when Trump essentially greenlit the Saudi blockade of Qatar. The memory hole is a magical place.

While some have trumpeted this obscure report claiming as many as 680,000 dead in Gaza, the numbers simply don't add up. We need much better data. New Report on Fatalities in Gaza Makes No Sense open.substack.com/pub/mitchell...

From Israeli journalist Yuval Abraham: Happening now: Israeli army raiding the house of Oscar winner Basel Adra after Israeli settlers attacked his village earlier and beat up his family member. Soldiers could try to abduct Basel into one of Israel's prisons which are effectively torture sites

Disgusted with my alma mater, UC Berkeley, for cooperating with this witch hunt, worse than McCarthyism This will not only shatter free speech and education in the US, if unchecked, it will also lead to a tidal wave of #antisemitism. History makes that clear www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

No one calling themselves progressive or left should celebrate killing. That must be clear. But neither should we tolerate whitewashing Charlie Kirk as key Democratic figures like Ezra Klein and Gavin Newsom are doing. youtu.be/hyxewoMxt0o

This so perfectly sums up the response of the right to Charlie Kirk's murder. The eagerness to use it as an excuse to advance their agenda of hate is incredibly thick. So is the hypocrisy. H/t @szunes.bsky.social

Herzl Halevi was IDF COS until March. He confirms that 10% of #Gaza's population have been killed or injured, more than 200 K people, just the same count as the #Palestinian Health Ministry's. So cut the bullshit about Palestinians inflating the numbers. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

Israel's political system offers no hope for change but its aggression has exposed major vulnerabilities in its economy that can be exploited. Divestment & Sanctions have never been more important Israel is Not Collapsing, But There Are Clear Openings for Pressure open.substack.com/pub/mitchell...

Israel has sent a message that its impunity extends even to attacks on states that have close relations with Washington. They need only cry “HAMAS” and any act is acceptable. Understanding Israel’s attack on Qatar, and what it means for the region mondoweiss.net/2025/09/unde...

It's worth remembering that the reason the #Hamas leadership is stationed in #Qatar is because the United States asked Doha to host them 13 years ago. Netanyahu tells Qatar to expel Hamas leaders or bring them to justice: 'If you don't, we will' www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_ent...

This sounds good, but little if any of this will be enacted. Most of these measures won't get the majorities required from the EU membership. Western institutional structures were intentionally built to prevent action on major issues. And that is not an accident. www.euronews.com/my-europe/20...

Numerous #Russian drones apparently flew into #Poland, several shot down. Just saw another report of another drone sighted. Little doubt this is Putin testing European, but especially American/Trumpian resolve in defending a #NATO ally.

When Rashida Tlaib said it, she was censured. When an Israeli minister says it, and says he means genocide, we hear the crickets chirp. #Israeli Minister calls for “Jewish State from the River to the Sea” Watch on Substack: open.substack.com/pub/mitchell... Or on YouTube: youtu.be/kz6iUPymChU

This wasn't the only goal of Israel's attack, or of Trump's green light for it. But it was a big one.

Just this week, #Israel has bombed #Gaza, #Lebanon, #Syria, #Tunisia, #Yemen, and now #Qatar. Of those, only Gaza and Yemen even took a potshot at Israel and they were completely ineffectual. That's not self-defense. It's murderous lunacy.

Not surprising, but this is a big deal, as it magnifies the destruction of any sort of normal or legal restraint on the unprovoked use of deadly military force. Trump said to give Israel green light for strike on Hamas leadership in Qatar www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_ent...

Add #Qatar to the list of countries illegally attacked unprovoked by #Israel. The US and Israel have completely destroyed the need for any justification before committing acts of war.

When Rashida Tlaib said it, she was censured. When an Israeli minister says it, and says he means genocide, we hear the crickets chirp. Israeli Minister calls for “Jewish State from the River to the Sea” Watch on Substack: open.substack.com/pub/mitchell... Or on YouTube: youtu.be/kz6iUPymChU