“The fact that these people are working in state-sanctioned and supported roles, that they are, for most part, not extreme figures but on the contrary, see Islam as part of a wider world of scholarship and debate, make their interventions on this question of legitimate violence far more serious.”

“So why aren’t you going to the US anytime soon?” Well:

“For those of us who do not live in Copenhagen: in order to encourage bike travel, they synchronised traffic lights on several key roads so that a rush-hour cyclist travelling at about 20km/h (12.4mph) could catch green lights all the way.”

This also counts for the Dutch government, @ministerbz.bsky.social, who’s prime minister, Dick Schoof, yesterday said, “No” when asked by AJ on whether the Israeli apartheidregime was committing genocide in Gaza or not because he wanted the “ICJ to decide” that first.

A lot of crocodile tears from former Biden officials but they deserve absolute zero sympathy because they weren’t as powerless as they claim. McGurk, in particular, should be held accountable with his shenanigans that go even beyond the genocide in Gaza. Yet, he’s still regularly invited by CNN.

The house of Ghada Rabah, a teacher in Gaza, was hit by an Israeli airstrike four days ago. After the strike, she had been trapped under the rubble and spent the last hours of her life calling everyone, begging for help, before a second missile fell. Geolocation: 31.5103, 34.4358.

They’ve finally gone there: South Park lets rip at Benjamin Netanyahu

we used four decades of Landsat imagery, from 1985-2025, to identify newly developed areas in the West Bank. our analysis shows that since Oct. 7, Israeli controlled areas have grown 5 times faster compared to the past two decades. read more 🎁: www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

It is a nightmare that when the US does something idiotic, the rest of the world has to frantically move to reassure their nationals

Oh god, no. Sounds like the Coalition Provisional Authority from Iraq all over again. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

They should’ve suspended them earlier, as was rightly done in a short time range with Putinist Russia. It’s long overdue. There is no difference. But I guess it’s better late then never to now put maximum pressure on the Israeli regime.

Israeli airstrike on at least two buildings, killing members of the Zaqout and Hamad famillies, geolocated in Sheikh Radwan neighbourhood in Gaza City, 31.538561, 34.464917.

Israeli airstrike on the Abu Dahrouj family home, geolocated in Az-Zawayda, south of Nuseirat, 31.437553, 34.378450. Credit for the image: Eyad Baba/AFP.

Microsoft has terminated the Israeli army’s access to technology it was using to store vast troves of intelligence on Palestinian civilians in the West Bank and Gaza, the tech giant informed Israel’s MoD. The decision followed an exposé last month by +972 Magazine, Local Call, and the Guardian.

“Even at the height of his power, Trump can’t resist being an insecure businessman who whines about losing a construction contract more than 20 years ago” — my latest for @theguardian.com on Trump's unhinged UN speech

Mind you, this is London, not Cornwall or some distant suburban village

Jana Ayyad (8 yo) passed away one week ago. She followed her sister Joury (2 yo) who was also starved to death recently. Like around 16.000 other #Gazan children, Jana was on the evacuation list, but wasn't cleared by Cogat/#Israel. RIP, Jana and Joury 🕊️🤍 www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

NEW: Ten years after the Islamic State group executed Khaled al-Asaad, the “father of Palmyra,” his family recalls the man who gave his life to protect Syria’s greatest archaeological treasure. Cian Ward reports for @newlinesmag.bsky.social. newlinesmag.com/spotlight/sy...

Research conducted by Forensic Architecture, a research agency based at Goldsmiths, University of London, using satellite analysis and images shared by SFHR from the site, confirmed that a minimum of 36 skulls could be identified. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

New report from me and @isaacarroyov.bsky.social taking a closer look at the circumstances behind Israel's killings of journalists in Gaza. Read here @TheNationalNews www.thenationalnews.com/news/mena/20...

A powerful speech by Ahmed al-Sharaa that reminded us that the oppressed and tormented Syrian people, after years of suffering under the Assad regime, whose barrel bombs were no different from the 2,000-pound bombs dropped by Israel on the neighborhoods and refugee camps in Gaza, have finally won.

I've worked to explain to people that in Israel the left-right dichotomy does not map onto the question of Palestine much at all because both the Zionist left and Zionist right agree on the overriding principle of Jewish supremacism from River to Sea, so I am grateful to Gantz for saying it himself.

It shouldn’t be a surprise that Benny Gantz says that there is a national consensus about the denial of Palestinian self-determination and basic rights. But for people who still try to romanticize the regime saying it’s just a “Netanyahu problem” it might be good to hear it out of the horse’s mouth.

So what was one of the main motivators behind the far-right violence in The Hague last weekend? A fake antifa page that’s thought to be linked to the far right that claimed there’d be a counterdemo that no Dutch antifascists actually knew about archive.ph/2025.09.24-0...

"A genocide in our time with this level of mass killing, destruction, pain and suffering shows how fragile the rule of law is. The facts are there, the law is there. No one can claim they didn’t know. As a society, we cannot allow international law to die in Gaza by allowing Israel’s impunity."

It would have perhaps been wise to say that during the campaign instead of sending Bill Clinton, who justified mass killings of Palestinians, alongside Richie Torres, who never misses an opportunity to blame Palestinians for their own suffering, to Michigan.

A group of bullies was bullied by another bully and now they are upset.

“There really are no choices: this is coercion and oppression,” Gaabary stressed. “Even if you leave, you don’t know whether you’ll live or die, whether you’ll be able to move on or be turned back — you have no idea what will happen to you.” www.madamasr.com/en/2025/09/1...

Apropos of nothing theonion.com/left-wing-gr...

"Environmental activists have long sounded the alarm about the impacts of mass tourism on the island, saying stricter controls to prevent land conversion would reduce the risks from flooding and other natural disasters." www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

There’s only one destination for Duterte and that’s to rot in his prison cell. Many should’ve faced the same faith such as Suharto who led the New Order regime in Indonesia. However, let this be a step in the direction that no criminal will get away with murder anymore. www.bbc.com/news/article...

The occupation of southern Lebanon also appears to be an issue that has been chosen to be looked away from by the international community, media, and as a result, also largely by the public, despite the fact that it’s become detrimental and has many risks coming with it.

New from me: There's a lot of misinformation around the reasons I was fired from WaPo. Here's the official termination letter I got sent by Washington Post. Read and judge for yourself. open.substack.com/pub/karenatt...

PVV-hooligans vallen letterlijk hoofdkantoor D66 aan, maar van deze onnozele boekhouder moet je dat niet politiek maken.

From remigration plastered on the banners of the AfD in Germany, deportation plans of 600,000 by Reform in the UK, to fascist salutes, as well as antisemitic slurs, in the Netherlands, the real threat for these governments is the man standing with a cardboard sign that asks to stop the genocide.

My argument for the left in the Netherlands to seize this as an opportunity for the upcoming elections to address the right’s lack of responsibility and accountability, especially for the larger problems that have been festering and perhaps take a more hardliner approach.

Far right commentators, alongside sympathetic politicians, have been actively contributing to the type of violence and abhorrent behavior shown yesterday. In the aftermath, there’s this reflex to take their hands from it and not take any responsibility despite the fact they provided the fuel.

Dutch government is one laughing stock, to be honest. Like the butler that the country has always been, it followed the dictator Trump’s ridiculous ban of “antifa.” As many have said, this could then be seen as an embrace of fascism. And guess what? It actually emboldened the far right.

I don't understand how any decent human can protest against immigration. You stayed put when your countries advocated for, participated in, and abetted wars and armed conflicts; you don't get to disagree with the outcome, now

“Western values.”

Just days after a far-right majority in the Dutch parliament asked the government to designate “Antifa” as a “terrorist organization”, far-right “protesters” shows yet again that they are the real threat to public order in the Netherlands.

The E1 plan cements the old Zionist adage: “maximum land, minimum Arabs.” Europe's looming recognition of Palestine is rhetoric, it's their complicity that has enabled the unchecked expansion of settlements for the past decades. mondoweiss.net/2025/09/if-i...

The weapon deliveries were approved with full awareness that the weapons were enabling crimes against the Palestinian people. They are in no position to claim they “did not know.” elsc.support/the-time-for...

Germany is aiding and abetting genocide in Gaza, even now, after Merz declared a stop to military exports used there. His government feigns helplessness, but it could easily stop these deliveries, as it has in the past, as @yossibartal.bsky.social shows in this breaking investigation.

Loudspeaker vans with with pre-recorded “horror sounds” like wails and mouns of women plus references towards the Deir Yassin massacre were used in Jaffa during the 1948 Nakba. Today in Gaza, this is the quadcopter drone who’s terrorizing and installing fear in the people.

The fact that settler colonialism has always been regime policy is most evident and visible in occupied al-Khalil.

Lmfao

This might be impressive gene-editing but it’s nonsense as “de-extinction”. They’re not the same and they can’t be. At the end of this piece, the company basically admits that it’s just a flashy claim to drive money into their company. This is not conservation, & it diverts money from work that is.

I wouldn’t be surprised if the fugitive war criminal actually says this at any moment.

William Dalrymple has begun the Empire podcast series on the history of Gaza, the coastal enclave that once rivaled Alexandria in philosophy, and hosted festivals of love and poetry. Listen here: open.spotify.com/episode/6eJY...