MBS gets his White House invite, now let’s see the price tag www.wsj.com/world/middle...

The cozy alliance between Washington and Silicon Valley is creating an unprecedented concentration of power. In this new landscape, Europe’s bid for digital sovereignty is a bid for democracy itself, writes Open Market Institute's Courtney C. Radsch.

There shouldn't have to be an apology because this never should have happened. Far-right agitator Tommy Robinson should never have been invited to Israel by Diaspora Affairs Minister Amichai Chikli, who, ironically enough, has a habit of antagonizing and mocking Jewish communities abroad.

Jewish figures across the globe call on UN and world leaders to sanction Israel: In an open letter, Israeli ex-officials, artists and intellectuals say ‘unconscionable’ actions in Gaza amount to genocide www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

After South Africa filed case with ICJ accusing Israel of genocide, Israeli ministers regularly used the term "voluntary transfer" of Palestinians, likely on advice of lawyers as it became clear that case depended on intent. ICJ made clear that leaving because one has no choice is still "forcible."

'The court finds that the local population has been inadequately supplied and that Israel has obligation to provide humanitarian provisions. The court notes that there is no evidence that UNRWA has breached the principle of impartiality'

Israel has violated ceasefire 47 times and killed 38 Palestinians, says Gaza media office Authorities urge UN to intervene ‘to protect unarmed civilian populations’ after attack on bus that killed 11 www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Hasan: Donald Trump, the man who uses Palestinian as a pejorative, as a slur, has no plan for Palestinian freedom, no plan for Palestinian statehood…

Giant copy of the Constitution being carried down Pennsylvania Avenue.

Hasan: My name is Mehdi Hasan. I am a journalist. I am an immigrant, and I am a Muslim. I am everything Donald Trump loves.

NYC: impressive images of #NoKings

Harrisburg, PA — there are so many older women in banana suits at the Capitol holding antifa signs and none of that sentence would have made sense to me 10 years ago

#NoKings Miami!

I wrote about the reasons for the durability of authoritarianism in the Middle East with @joosthiltermann.bsky.social. Spoiler alert: we don't think it's Islam or "culture." cihrs-rowaq.org/views-the-we...

Performative white feminism in 3 images. Imagine suffering the horrific crime of rape, then throwing 13 survivors under the bus because you decided sexual assault is still better than voting for a brown Muslim guy who wants to make life more affordable. SMH

The leader of Britain's growing far-right movement spent Thursday on the Gaza border, where he heard from Israelis who fought in the war. On Saturday night, he will deliver a talk at a Tel Aviv gathering www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

More here: abuaardvarkghost.ghost.io/echoes-of-ir...

Gaza has around 20,000 unexploded Israeli bombs amid up to 70 million tonnes of rubble, posing a massive threat to Palestinians, as removal is blocked by Israel’s ban on heavy equipment, according to the Government Media Office. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/m73gl0

"I announced, in case some camera somewhere was rolling, “I’m a journalist, I’m press.” The woman to my left hissed, 'We don’t give a fuck,' and the other dug her nails into my scalp and pulled me by my hair across the port." jewishcurrents.org/forty-eight-...

Palestine’s most popular leader, Marwan Barghouti, was beaten unconscious and has his ribs broken by Israeli prison guards and his family fears for his life, his son has said, citing evidence given by former Palestinian detainees released this week as part of the ceasefire deal.

The Abu Dhabi investor that's funding AI while trying to save TikTok — with help from Trump

Greta Thunberg: “Israeli soldiers hit, kicked, starved, and tortured me” • They placed a flag next to me, and anytime the flag touched me, they kicked me • Whenever I raised my head to look at Ben-Gvir, I was kicked • She was filmed while stripped naked Aftonbladet: tinyurl.com/a33vxatc

Hani Mahmoud reports on the struggle people in Gaza have just to get water.

The Trump Plan will more likely stall than crash

My expectations were low but Jesus Christ...

“No one in the Middle East and likely beyond will ever forget the Israeli slaughter, nor the U.S. weaponry that facilitated it, nor the U.S. mercenaries of the "Gaza Humanitarian Foundation" who murdered starving people seeking aid.”

The is dictator talk. How have we gotten to a place where the U.S. president is praising and siding with dictators and autocratic strongmen? How the US has fallen😢

“The crossings were closed yesterday for the return of the hostages and the prisoners (sic)… and it is closed today because of religious holidays in Israel”.

Absolutely horrible news - Saleh was killed today www.middleeasteye.net/news/saleh-a...

The beloved Saleh Al-Jafarawi has been murdered. We are absolutely devastated. For 2 years he reported on the genocide of his people, just for him to be murdered during the ‘ceasefire’

Again, and forever, if Trump -- with the leverage he has now -- can't compel the release of Marwan Barghouti, then he is content with only another pause in the century of bloodshed in The Levant. Barghouti marginalizes and affronts extremists on both sides and means real negotiations and two states.

What an absolute treasure Diane Keaton was. Her wit never tired, nor did her style.

‘I deserve to heal’: freed British-Egyptian activist Alaa Abd el-Fattah on his prison ordeal and next steps

Given his opposition to the Venezuelan dictatorship, this is impossible for Trump to argue against - genius from Nobel - an element of subtle trolling that hammers home the committee’s pro-Democracy message twice over with just one decision.

"Palestinians have very long experience not only of Israel breaking ceasefires but also of using phased agreements to entrench their expansionist agenda" Aimee Shalan from the @britpalcommitt.bsky.social giving a history lesson on Sky News

Norway braces for Trump’s reaction if he does not win Nobel peace prize

👇🏽 May the peace hold. May the hostages return. May all eyes remain on what happens next in Gaza (+ the West Bank) — and on who profits from it.

I’ll fucking sign Trumps Nobel Peace Prize myself if it ends the genocide, starts aid, prevents Israeli annexation and stops the expulsion of Palestinians from Gaza. We are a long way from that. Still better than Biden’s crew of super-geniuses managed. abuaardvarkghost.ghost.io/gazas-tomorr...

🚨1/ Has your church been targeted by millions of dollars of propaganda paid for by the Israeli government? Use this tool to find out! I have created a dashboard with a map of all churches that are potential targets of this campaign. public.tableau.com/views/Toolto... #gazagenocide

Daniel Levy: "Netanyahu has reneged on these deals in the past & may well be looking for the first opportunity to be able to resume hostilities when he can in Gaza. In the meantime one should expect the destruction, displacement, killing in the West Bank will continue"

This would be very welcome, especially if it includes full ceasefire and flood of badly needed Gaza aid. But so much remains unclear, even about first phase, including point of Israeli withdrawal. Key will be measures agreed to assure that first phase doesn't become last phase.

“The United States is using AI infrastructure — data centers, cloud controls, and compute access — as a tool of power projection in the Arabian Gulf.” Somehow managed to find something worse than oil.

Daniel Levy making the point that the fault line in Israeli society isn't about the genocide in Gaza but centres around the govt deprioritising the return of the hostages.

🥤 Coca-Cola: Sales -1% in Q2 2025, -3% in Asia 🥤 PepsiCo: Revenue -0.3% in 2025 🧴 Unilever: Turnover -3.2% in Q2 2025 🍫 Nestlé: Profit -10.3% in 2025 👟 Puma: Sales -2% in Q2 2025 🛍️ Inditex: Sales -2% in 2025, -3.8% in Americas 🏃 Nike: Sales -12% in Q2 2025, profit -86% in Q2 2025 (Ryan Rozbiani)

Report: Israel to spend over half a billion shekels turning ChatGPT into public diplomacy tool www.ynetnews.com/tech-and-dig...

New CBS owner David Ellison met with top Israeli general in scheme to spy on Americans open.substack.com/pub/thegrayz... The new owner of Paramount, David Ellison, participated in an Israeli government-led plot to surveil and suppress pro-Palestine activists in the US

#poetry #gaza #palestine

Summary of some of the government of Israel's $8 million spend in the US in the past few months to serve propaganda to gen Z, manipulate AI, co-copt influencers, and flood the zone with bots open.substack.com/pub/marcowen...

"According to the central bureau of statistics, Israel experienced negative net migration in 2024, the third time this has happened since its founding in 1948"