Iran used Chinese spy satellite to target US bases www.ft.com/content/1fdd...

Israel’s Road to Nowhere - on my new article on the failure of Israel’s post October 7 regional strategy, plus our podcast with Ezra. abuaardvarkghost.ghost.io/israels-road...

With new limits on federal lending because of Trump's big policy bill, many students will need private loans and some could be shut out. See the data, program by program. (Gift link) www.nytimes.com/2026/04/15/u...

#polisky share far and wide: @apsa.bsky.social Statement on the Proposed Elimination of the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences Directorate at the National Science Foundation apsanet.org/wp-content/u...

“only 41,714 aid and commercial trucks have entered Gaza over the past six months.. a mere 37% of the 110,400 trucks stipulated under the ceasefire agreement. The fuel situation is even more critical, with only 1,366 fuel trucks entering out of a promised 9,200 – an abysmal 14% compliance rate.”

Now is the time to read America’s Middle East: The Ruination of a Region, a book which NYT’s David Kirkpatrick called written with “passion, precision, honesty and courage. Essential reading on how American myopia, bias and hypocrisy have led to Gaza." #booksky www.amazon.com/Americas-Mid...

What Sudanese people have endured in multiple civil wars is heartbreaking interactive.aljazeera.com/aje/2026/sud...

Yes, Iran has options, despite the U.S. blockade. Here’s why economic coercion is tough to implement – and could spur further escalation. Read the latest from @claryc.bsky.social: goodauthority.org/news/yes-ira...

Breaking WaPo: The Pentagon is sending thousands of additional troops into the Middle East in the coming days. The forces moving into the region include about 6,000 troops aboard the aircraft carrier USS George H.W. Bush and several warships escorting it. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Israel’s Road to Nowhere - on my new article on the failure of Israel’s post October 7 regional strategy, plus our podcast with Ezra. abuaardvarkghost.ghost.io/israels-road...

"The first academic study comparing the experience of Jewish students on college campuses to that of other minority groups found that Jews and other marginalized populations, including Black and Muslim students, face comparable levels of discrimination." forward.com/news/818719/...

Children killed in Lebanon as Israeli strikes hit homes far from front lines of war with Hezbollah We profiled three of the 168 children killed in Lebanon to date and their families. With heartbreaking video by Malak Harb: apnews.com/article/leba...

The war in Sudan has now created 9 million refugees while 19 million face hunger. The death toll has climbed to 59,000 people and another 11,000 are missing.

I turned to the friend beside me and asked, “Should we urge people to protest and try to break into the square, or will they let us down?” If the movement failed, we would be the ones thrown back into prison. Read my recent article with L'Orient Le-Jour in English, French and Arabic

In @thepublicsource.bsky.social: @ziadaburish.bsky.social on how "sovereigntist" demands for a state monopoly on force ignore how the Lebanese army has developed, historically, as an internal security force, effectively delegating territorial defense to Hizbullah: thepublicsource.org/lebanese-arm...

I've just finished reading this. It should be a bestseller. It's an excellent and very timely critique of USA policies and dominance in the Middle East. #booksky

If Bluesky had the juice, America’s Middle East would be a bestseller by now. And yet. www.amazon.com/dp/B0FWRVH66...

Harvard should know about how effective UAE influence strategies are. www.belfercenter.org/research-ana...

So I was very happy that this discussion focussed on reality rather than hypothetical "solutions". bsky.app/profile/abua...

DNI Tulsi Gabbard: we have uncovered evidence of a plot to fire me, so here’s something extremely stupid that POTUS will like don’t fire me now please. www.dni.gov/index.php/ne...

This is a terrific idea

Ezra's own shift since October, 2023 underlines this larger story, and one that we can see in every poll over the past few years. Nor do I think this is limited to the United States. True as well, to greater and lesser degrees, in all the countries that used to have lockstep support for Israel.

Please don’t let the lesson of Trump’s stupid Iran war be that we need to spend more money on weapons 🙏

Well rounded discussion.

Ok ok hit me with your favorite Dylan and Beatles biographies/books. Summer’s coming.

This looks terrific. It will fit well at the bottom of my bottomless reading list!!

Worth reflecting on how fast public discourse on this has changed. When we published “The One State Reality” in @foreignaffairs.com in 2023, three influential participants in a forum the next issue called as antisemites (in kinda embarrassing and lazy pieces).

conservative free speech is when they speak and you listen or suffer the consequences

UPDATE: Lebanon- Israel talks • > 2 hrs • Rubio chaired, ambassadors level • No handshake, no joint statement • No ceasefire reached • “Constructive” • $58.8M aid to Lebanon • US emphasized Lebanon separate track from Iran; direct negotiations next www.al-monitor.com/originals/20...

All they will find is sand Eyal Weizman on the demolition of Gaza www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

My god. Essential, horrifying reporting here.

"while Hormuz is grabbing headlines—and for good reason—Lebanon cannot be left out of any peace treaty if it’s going to be worth the paper it’s written on." Read @matthewdownhour.bsky.social today www.liberalcurrents.com/a-peace-wort...

Horrible news that journalist Ahmed Shihab-Eldin has been arrested in Kuwait. Journalism is not a crime! www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

As someone with close family in Lebanon, this really does feel like a good read on the situation and I appreciated this whole discussion.

Worth reflecting on how fast public discourse on this has changed. When we published “The One State Reality” in @foreignaffairs.com in 2023, three influential participants in a forum the next issue called as antisemites (in kinda embarrassing and lazy pieces).

Extremely pleased that @stelhami.bsky.social was able to explain the one-state reality to Ezra Klein

Ezra Klein now agrees with the One State Reality thesis: “that might have been a controversial claim when it was made. But what has happened since Oct. 7 has made it an undeniable reality.” Enjoy our podcast. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/14/opinion/ezra-klein-podcast-lynch-telhami.html

I published this yesterday. www.eff.org/deeplinks/20... Today I learned that my friend Ahmed Shihab Eldin is among those detained. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

Trump’s blockade is getting an immediate test. A Chinese tanker has cleared the Strait of Hormuz. Will the US seize it? If the US does, is that an act of war? If it doesn’t, does the blockade collapse? This is a scary moment. www.newsweek.com/first-chines...

“That might have been a controversial claim when it was made. But what has happened since Oct. 7 has made it an undeniable reality.” www.nytimes.com/2026/04/14/o...

Reckoning with Israel’s One State Reality— @stelhami.bsky.social and I joined @ezraklein.bsky.social podcast. It was good. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/14/o...

Italy suspends its defense agreement with Israel Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni says that given the 'current situation,' Rome has decided to suspend the automatic renewal of the defense agreement www.ynetnews.com/article/hjg6...

Ahmed's arrest and prosecution are happening against a renewed drive of mass denaturalisation, temporarily paused because of the Iranian strikes on Kuwait. Over 50,000 Kuwaitis have been denaturalised, rendering them not only stateless but incapable of cross-border movement. 1/

HRW: Israeli attacks on four oil depots around Tehran on March 7 may cause long-term health and environmental harm for civilians. Strikes on primarily civilian infrastructure causing foreseeable civilian harm are violations of IHL and likely war crimes www.hrw.org/news/2026/04...

My friend Ahmed Shihab-Eldin has been detained in Kuwait. He's a veteran journalist who spent many years at Al Jazeera English; he's also a US citizen. This is absolutely intolerable and he must be released immediately. #FreeAhmed #JournalismIsNotACrime

@apnews.com's @sewella.bsky.social talks to Hizbullah's Wafiq Safa: apnews.com/article/hezb...

When the UN special rapporteur Francesca Albanese published her report Anatomy of a Genocide in March 2024, she was lionised by some and demonised by the Trump government. She describes what happened next www.theguardian.com/law/2026/apr...

Visas for international students were down 40% last summer, thanks to a slew of policies designed to throttle visa issuances and scare off students. Students from 40 countries are now outright banned.

This is an existential crisis for American higher education, & it remains maddening, if not sadly predictable that there continues to be <exactly> no loud, collective public action by university chancellors & presidents to speak out against & try to reverse these policies (Olson 1965, Akerlof 1970).